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Souverian Lyrics
Though bells will ring
Church steeples were catchin fire If you promise spring Then I'll know you are a liar Cause in the spring Tender grasses won't burn easily Tough thrushes sing Still my lover won't return to me Wild parsnips they still scald my lungs While thistles will burn my feet And if you join our chorus You will never fear anymore So here it comes the chorus We will meet on a fatal shore Souverian Souverian the elder Souverian Souverian was free Souverian Souverian we feld her So very young so very young were we Birds will sing Still my lover won't return to me You promise spring Still my lover won't return to me Wild parsnips scald my lungs And thistles are burning my feet So here it comes the chorus You'll never fear anymore If you join a chorus We will meet on a fatal shore Under the elders The older get younger The younger get over Over their elders Under the elders Pretend that you're older now Under the elders The older get younger The younger get over Over the elders Under the elders Bending your branches down We who are so very young Still my lover won't return to me Thrushes sing Still my lover won't return to me Wild parsnips they still scald my lungs While thistles still burn my feet
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12-17-2008
Perhaps Andrew Bird is spinning a story around a real but mostly unknown figure?
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12-18-2008
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01-03-2009
01-03-2009
the older get younger
the younger get over
over the elders
and under the elders
pretend that you're older now."
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"If the Greeks were pessimists and had the will to tragedy precisely when they were surrounded by the riches of youth, if, to quote Plato, it was precisely madness which brought the greatest blessings to Hellas, and if, on the other hand and conversely, it was precisely during their period of dissolution and weakness that the Greeks became ever more optimistic, more superficial, more actorly, but also filled with a greater lust for logic and for making the world logical, which is to say more 'cheerful' and more 'scientific' could it then perhaps be the case, despite all 'modern ideas' and the prejudices of democratic taste, that the victory of optimism, the predominance of reasonableness, practical and theoretical utilitarianism, like its contemporary, democracy, that all this is symptomatic of a decline in strength, of approaching old age, of physiological exhaustion? And that pessimism is precisely not a symptom of these things? Was Epicurus an optimist-- precisely because he was suffering?"
-The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche
I don't know, those lines just reminded me of that passage from the Birth of Tragedy. I may be completely off. But just another way to look at the song, I guess.
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01-05-2009
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01-11-2009
Etymology:From Old French soverain
Souverain= french used as noun or adjective = sovereign= Exceptional in quality.
Of course...he just could have made up the word because it sounded right too. (smirk)
01-14-2009
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02-02-2009
i can already see a similar discussion unfolding on this page that seems to be following the whole "what does the word sovay come from" discussion on the sovay page
sovay=sauvee=sophie=etc, etc....
he could have just carried it out more and created souverian
i hope someone is following me here, afterall i am pretty deHIGHdrated
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02-06-2009
Host: I don't know if I'm saying this right, Sou-
Bird: "Souverian," yeah. It's French.
Host: Oh, what's it mean?
Bird: I do not know.
You know him, he'll use random words even if they don't add to the theme or message.
BTW, for the curious, "souverian" means being powerful or having control.
03-15-2009
03-16-2009
Or it could about acts of Hubris, the river Styx, and bending the branches down could be about Tantalus being stuck in Hades being unable to reach the fruit and water...
BTW--he seems to have morphed the lyrics from the 1st stanza lately into:
"The church steeples pushing higher" instead of the printed lyrics of catching fire.
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05-08-2009
"So here it comes the chorus
You'll never fear anymore
If you join a chorus
We will meet on a fatal shore"
Obviously you think it's going to break into the chorus... and then... silence... and the song just keeps going. It's cruel, in a beautiful Andrew Bird type way. I'm not exactly sure what he means by it, but when I first heard this song that part hit me really hard.
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06-15-2009
Andrew Bird tends to move away from complete and explainable meaning in order to allow the listener to come to their own conclusions, or just enjoy the sound of the words. But, as he's mentioned in interviews, much of this album was written after a breakup. The lines in the verses seem to say that he can see that everything around him is supposed to be fine, but there's just a deep feeling that it will never go away.
"Thrushes sing
Still my lover won't return to me..."
10-09-2009
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10-09-2009
12-31-2009
I love how Mr. Bird is a master of phonics and word play. Honestly, I have no idea what 90% of his songs actually mean - the beauty is in the sonics..
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11-24-2009
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01-23-2010
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01-28-2010
Like a souvenir but souverian, like the state of being a souvenir. HAHHA.
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