| Modest Mouse – Little Motel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I wouldn't call this hopeful, but embodying longing and melancholy. This song shows less callous than most Modest Mouse songs which are usually bitingly disarming. The fact that this one stands out as it does, ever insightful but softer, makes it equally disarming, utilizing an opposite effect within the context of the album and their regular material. | |
| The Shins – Sleeping Lessons Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Ha. I didn't see your post lovetherock45, right on. Though I don't believe it's condemning using the metaphorical guillotine. The song explicitly speaks of spilling blood to leave the old guard, or to move on....To enlist the blood instead of just moving on. | |
| The Shins – Sleeping Lessons Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't agree that it is an Alice and Wonderland thing. It's more like a Reign of Terror French revolt thing. At that point the people put their trust in a monarchy, where a lot of the trust goes into one person and their committee. The revolts and slaughters that resulted escalated to use of the guillotine that was a powerful symbol at the time, considering all the monarchs and officials who were getting offed by the method. Off with their heads refers back to the days of revolution. I think it's just a loose allusion, but it works well when you think it through. At the time, in the 18th century, there had been a string of serf, commoner, and peasant revolts around Europe, though they all had their causes and timings. There's also plenty of military imagery used here in an ironic sense. I think it's about a coup of social thinking. In times that are on the verge of revolution or the cusp of new eras (in all areas, art, politics, etc), there is always some need for something different and new...when this has to do with religion or political status or circumstance, the need builds, which is what he talks about in the first stanza. The idea of calling someone a low animal for it is like saying, look what's happening, and you're waiting? You're waiting till it hurts so bad you can't do something? As if it were inhumane, making that person a monster of sorts. By saying that, it urges the audience to /not/ be that. |
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| PJ Harvey – The River Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I don't agree as the birds actually being the vultures. That would make the two phrases an inversion and typically experienced song writers and poets stay away from inversions. Also, two birds who are silent suggests pain...silent birds, two innocent things who can't sing anymore. It's sad, not predatory. The circled by suggests they are circled by their own pain, their own loss of innocence. It seems like they followed the path to it's natural conclusion, and they are still following it. I agree that vultures are associated with death and the circling, but I just don't think those are the silent birds. There is the possibility of a double meaning though. | |
| Goldfrapp – Hairy Trees Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| And...Hairy trees...well...I don't mean to be the pervert here, but come on. | |
| Goldfrapp – Hairy Trees Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ha. Maybe. But I also this one is about making love. "Touch my garden?" Garden is often a metaphor for...well. Then the phrase "Give me this love" sung over and over again? "Ride my Pony Ride him Slowly Smiling All day long" I think the lyrics scream blissful sex. |
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| Laura Veirs – Where Gravity Is Dead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think a lyric correction is in order. I believe it is "You've got it in your head" instead of "You've got I'm in your head" |
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| Andrew Bird – Measuring Cups Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Relapser....what he's saying about the stories is that we've cloistered our kids. We think they are fragile, society has painted them that way and now even these stories have been stripped down. Stories for children these days are also rather tame if you look at the trend, and people refrain from telling their children anything that might scare them, as a consequence, this also means they don't experience it. This last part might be a leap, but after reading your thoughts on it I think also it is about the development of imagination. Kids aren't encouraged to develop their imaginations or engage them in an unbounded way...or even at all sometimes. | |
| Andrew Bird – Measuring Cups Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is definitely what themunkel and bobwronski are talking about all the way. I don't know where all you people get everything else, but way to try and think out of the box. I just think it is pretty obvious if you think about the song as a whole and then check it up against the individual lines. It seethes with references to the quintessential experience of a person with ADD or some other learning disability. | |
| Placebo – Post Blue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The reason why I said menstrual cycle is if it was, that would reinforce her difficulty in getting pregnant along with all the other things killing her unborn babies (lifestyle). The other alternative interpretation would reinforce the rest of the song as well. | |
| Placebo – Post Blue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The reason why I said menstrual cycle is if it was, that would reinforce her difficulty in getting pregnant along with all the other things killing her unborn babies (lifestyle). The other alternative interpretation would reinforce the rest of the song as well. | |
| Placebo – Post Blue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Actually KendoKai, I believe that it would be more accurate the line, "It's in your frequency" as referring to the woman's menstrual cycle. Either that or the rhythm of her body, like her essence of existing and the pattern she is in. This could mean that she is going really fast in a reference to burning brightly and dying quickly or she is slowing down...he doesn't specify. But those two interpretations make a lot more sense to me. | |
| The National – Secret Meeting Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sounds like it is accompanied jibberish Butterfly. XD...I would do that in my head if I wanted to ignore the person I was involved with....like humming and plugging my ears. | |
| The National – The Geese of Beverly Road Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is about being in love and the foolish giddiness of it, feeling like you can take on the world. As freejoe put it, you're invincible. The previous interpretations of setting off the geese are correct. However, I didn't find anyone giving a satisfactory interpretation of the line, "serve me the sky with a big slice of lemon", nor "we are the heirs to the glimmering world." A simple song, but the forementioned line about serving the sky is one of the most ellusive portions of imagery in this song. Here's my interpretation. Clearly, all is beautiful when you are young, or maybe just in love and feeling young. It glimmers, but so does the night sky, which I directly connect with the gleeful night time activities with a devious bent that this song promotes. When you are in love you feel like you are kings and queens and so the choice to tie it into inheritance. Serving the sky is like saying you are serving the stars to someone, especially since this song specifies the night sky by saying, "tonight." Lemons are bitter. Perhaps there is a desire for a bittersweet ending. Many a bittersweet ending has been idealized by youths, such as in "Romeo and Juliet." This last part about the lemon is purely speculation though. |
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