i can not even begin to describe how much i love bright eyes. I havent ever gone to a bright eyes concert, yes, i know it is a crime! i want to go SO bad, because i think they are better then phenominal. this song is so charged with emotions, and beautiful writing. i agree with luckymonkey..and somoene who wrote about the garden of eden, that makes total sence, to me.
Poison Oak some boyhood bravery.
when the telephone was a tin can on a string.
and I fell asleep with you still talking to me.
you said you weren't afraid to die.
(I Think that is about him reminiscing about his childhood, and then later he referrs to the future..perhaps?)
In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes.
were you made ashamed whyd you lock them in the drawer.
(Again, i believe that this is a sexually puzzled COUSIN. He was dressing in womens clothes, because he was insecure..or just curious, i dont know, and he hid them in a drawer, because his parents (who were christians) were ashamed of being sexually confused, or maybe...afraid of same gender marraige, so he hid them and locked them in a drawer)
And I don't think that I ever loved you more.
Than when you turned away.
When you slammed the door.
When you stole the car drove towards Mexico.
And you wrote bad checks just to fill your arm.
(Obviously, the cousin was ashamed of his decisions, and he wanted to get away from every thing, all of the stress, and his parents...and so he stole the car and drove towards mexico, duh..and later he shot up heroin in his arm.. the line" he wrote bad checks.." reffers to he couldnt AFFORD the heroin, so he just wrote bad checks..)
I was young then I still believed in war.
But let the poets cry themselves to sleep.
(Ironic, no)
and all their tearful words could turn back into steam.
me Im a single cell on a serpants tongue.
and theres a muddy field where a garden was
(All of their tearful words, maybe refferrs to the sexually confused parents, and they said tearful words, and hurt the boy. Maybe the cousin wasnt christian, and so he was just a single cell on a serpants tongue, because there are millions, again i agree with whoever said sin and that there wouldnt be any without the serpent.. Maybe the muddy field where a garden was..refers to either a cemetary? that is not kept up..or it symbolizes how something was so beautiful, and amazing, and then it just turned so ugly, like dirt...)
and I'm glad you got away.
but I'm still stuck out here.
my clothes are soaking wet from your brothers tears.
(conor is glad that a friend...(someone elses cousin) died, because he didnt deserve to suffer. of course that he isnt GLAD that he died, but maybe he thought it was better then suffereing. conor is still stuck in life, and the brothers tears, i think has to do with colin and ian, that the conor was the FRIEND and his friends cousin commited suicide, so his BROTHER was crying on conors shoulder, and so thats how conor got tears soaked by YOUR brothers tears(the song is to the passed away friend)
And I never thought this life was possible.
You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.
The end of paralysis I was a statuette
(I never thought this life was possible, I never thought that I would end up here, or be doing the things i am(i.e. heroin) Your the yellow bird Ive been waiting for....you are the freedom, and the REASON for living, and not committing suicide, you are the yellow bird, i.e. the reason for living (canaries..) I was just stuck here, and i want to leave(statuette)
Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench,
And when I press the keys it all gets reversed.
The sound of lonliness makes me happier.
(When i write this music is so beautiful. it reverses all of my pain towards you, and the sound of lonliess makes me happeier. after all who doesnt want to be alone once in a while. all of this is an opionon, no proven fact. it is so amazing how all of his songs are like a diary entry, and expresses everything, without everything seeing so obvious. it makes you think so much, and maybe that is why we all love conor oberst. this was the most AMAZING. song i have ever heard in my LIFE. it is so well written, phenominal..abosolutely breath taking and heart breaking.
i can not even begin to describe how much i love bright eyes. I havent ever gone to a bright eyes concert, yes, i know it is a crime! i want to go SO bad, because i think they are better then phenominal. this song is so charged with emotions, and beautiful writing. i agree with luckymonkey..and somoene who wrote about the garden of eden, that makes total sence, to me.
Poison Oak some boyhood bravery. when the telephone was a tin can on a string. and I fell asleep with you still talking to me. you said you weren't afraid to die.
(I Think that is about him reminiscing about his childhood, and then later he referrs to the future..perhaps?)
In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes. were you made ashamed whyd you lock them in the drawer.
(Again, i believe that this is a sexually puzzled COUSIN. He was dressing in womens clothes, because he was insecure..or just curious, i dont know, and he hid them in a drawer, because his parents (who were christians) were ashamed of being sexually confused, or maybe...afraid of same gender marraige, so he hid them and locked them in a drawer)
And I don't think that I ever loved you more. Than when you turned away. When you slammed the door. When you stole the car drove towards Mexico. And you wrote bad checks just to fill your arm. (Obviously, the cousin was ashamed of his decisions, and he wanted to get away from every thing, all of the stress, and his parents...and so he stole the car and drove towards mexico, duh..and later he shot up heroin in his arm.. the line" he wrote bad checks.." reffers to he couldnt AFFORD the heroin, so he just wrote bad checks..)
I was young then I still believed in war. But let the poets cry themselves to sleep.
(Ironic, no)
and all their tearful words could turn back into steam. me Im a single cell on a serpants tongue. and theres a muddy field where a garden was
(All of their tearful words, maybe refferrs to the sexually confused parents, and they said tearful words, and hurt the boy. Maybe the cousin wasnt christian, and so he was just a single cell on a serpants tongue, because there are millions, again i agree with whoever said sin and that there wouldnt be any without the serpent.. Maybe the muddy field where a garden was..refers to either a cemetary? that is not kept up..or it symbolizes how something was so beautiful, and amazing, and then it just turned so ugly, like dirt...)
and I'm glad you got away. but I'm still stuck out here. my clothes are soaking wet from your brothers tears.
(conor is glad that a friend...(someone elses cousin) died, because he didnt deserve to suffer. of course that he isnt GLAD that he died, but maybe he thought it was better then suffereing. conor is still stuck in life, and the brothers tears, i think has to do with colin and ian, that the conor was the FRIEND and his friends cousin commited suicide, so his BROTHER was crying on conors shoulder, and so thats how conor got tears soaked by YOUR brothers tears(the song is to the passed away friend)
And I never thought this life was possible. You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. The end of paralysis I was a statuette
(I never thought this life was possible, I never thought that I would end up here, or be doing the things i am(i.e. heroin) Your the yellow bird Ive been waiting for....you are the freedom, and the REASON for living, and not committing suicide, you are the yellow bird, i.e. the reason for living (canaries..) I was just stuck here, and i want to leave(statuette)
Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench, And when I press the keys it all gets reversed. The sound of lonliness makes me happier.
(When i write this music is so beautiful. it reverses all of my pain towards you, and the sound of lonliess makes me happeier. after all who doesnt want to be alone once in a while. all of this is an opionon, no proven fact. it is so amazing how all of his songs are like a diary entry, and expresses everything, without everything seeing so obvious. it makes you think so much, and maybe that is why we all love conor oberst. this was the most AMAZING. song i have ever heard in my LIFE. it is so well written, phenominal..abosolutely breath taking and heart breaking.