| These United States – First Sight Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I can't believe there aren't more comments for this song. The entire song is a metaphor for sex. All of it. |
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| Los Campesinos! – The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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well, to me- this song represents depression, repression which leads to anger and escapism... Depression because the world doesn't want to see a beautiful girl in a dilapidated state, they won't allow her to mourn. There is a constant pressure to appear perfect and pretty when inside she feels irreparably torn and damaged. And she's screaming ***WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? She takes pills to numb the pain but they only intensify the it. She diets too much to control something, anything. Escapism because the sea represents timelessness- She thinks of a place where her mind could be calm (suicide) and thinks about her ashes spread about the sea when one dies. ***The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future -her future being the life at the bottom of the sea, ie- her ashes. ***And all you can hear is the sound of your own heart - this is about the sounds you hear under water when you hold your breath. ***And all you can feel is your lungs flood and the blood course - ...obviously drowning. ***A thousand years in perfect symmetry - in the sea she would remain perfect forever. ***and the weather here is overcast and the sea is the same shade of grey, so the landscape before you looks just like the edge of the world, but to the left side and the right side, either way is a crazy golf course. -she feels doomed because the depression has muddled her thoughts and distorted her thinking...the only solution she sees is the serenity of the sea. I think it's about teetering on the edge of something very scary, contemplating suicide...general helplessness. Though I could be wrong, it's just what it means to me. |
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