| Dirty Projectors – Two Doves Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Yes, it's always sung by Angel Doodorian. Lots of live YouTubes out there. | |
| Dirty Projectors – Two Doves Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Nice catch, obviously a reference. | |
| Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I was looking forward to reading the comments on these wonderful, semi-ambiguous lyrics, sung to a whimsical tune. I am happy to conclude that there is no one true interpretation, and as Andrew has said in interviews, he is not always clear himself as to the exact meaning. So I am left to project my meaning, like everyone, and have some fun doing so: I think the whole whistling motif creates a lightness and whimsy under which a drama takes place: the miracle of birth despite myriad obstacles, a plane crash, drug addiction/ or an accident. Maybe I luck at the cup half full, but that i DID NOT die, despite all accounts, is a wonderful privilege. I should be grateful for each day alive and put it to good use. |
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| Andrew Bird – Masterfade Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Just want to add that I feel that although I like the deep existential interpretations here, and agree with them, I also feel there is room for the lyrics to be more simple. Leading someone's hand to me is sexual, and I heard Kewpie Doll as feminine sexuality and "papillon parade" as "pappy on parade", male sexuality. I have fun listening to the song and projecting onto it. | |
| Andrew Bird – Masterfade Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Nice comments everyone, have pointed out much of what I would have said. Digital vs Mysterious vs Impermanence. 2 points: 1) A "master fader" is the most powerful audio fader, it can fade out everything and seems to symbolize the ending of the relationship, one that was like a music recording in progress which he can play along with. But here he Andrew plays with the word and spells it "masterfade" making it more poetic, a metaphor for fading out reality, or fading from digital perception and digital music to analog perception and inexact vague feeling. 2) John Lennon comes to my mind, lots of free associations, plays with words and the sounds of words (like rhyming along with Mahjong). Thanks to Lewis Carol and Lennon for paving the way fro great lyrics like this. Sometimes it doesn't even mater to me the correct lyric. I was hearing "choco lemonade" not "Chalky" it it felt right to me. The feel and vibe of the song is almost universal. |
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| Steely Dan – Aja Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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'Up on the hill' is intentionally vague, could be any hill where one can be above it all. This song is a celebration of music, each verse refers to music. 'Throw out the hardware' refers to playing acoustic music, like the Chinese banjo, which is doing it the right way, the natural way. The song refers also to getting away from the material world, dime dancing (work) and returning to the mytho-poetic land of Aja. It's not Asia in particular, it's an impression of that feeling. Then they stop singing, play, and Wayne Shorter and Steve Gaddis do their legendary work. |
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| Steely Dan – Aja Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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'Up on the hill' is intentionally vague, could be any hill where one can be above it all. This song is a celebration of music, each verse refers to music. 'Throw out the hardware' refers to playing acoustic music, like the Chinese banjo, which is doing it the right way, the natural way. The song refers also to getting away from the material world, dime dancing (work) and returning to the mytho-poetic land of Aja. It's not Asia in particular, it's an impression of that feeling. Then they stop singing, play, and Wayne Shorter and Steve Gaddis do their legendary work. |
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