i'll start with bon iver's wisconsin. Again, both of these songs are both beautiful and haunting, so i suggest listening to them HIGHLY.
First of all, the song Wisconsin is special because it's probably the most beautiful and retro song on "for emma, forever ago" even though you can't actually get it on the album unless you buy it from iTunes, get the torrent, and they don't perform it live. The song repeatedly uses the lines love is loves _____" and each word represents something else. This line is especially meaningful to me because of a certain given situation i have experienced. basically, i didn't believe in love fully, but because of it i understood a little more about what love was and although at this age i don't completely believe in it, i have seen a glimpse of it, and know that the emotion itself although varying is in fact very real and very personal. so, without further ado.
You ride in the park and you're peaking
Piss pools in your seat
Shes standing inside but you surely repeat
Oh God dont leave me here
I will freeze till the end
Love is loves reprieve
now, JV like i said in my pier 39 interp. uses a FUCKTON of symbolism and simile/metaphor. This song is also special because it refrains a little from that and just uses honestly and strangely revealing truths. This to me though has a little bit contained within. I think basically JV is using a typical Wisconsin winter as a comparison for a relationship ending. the first line is that the relationship is going smooth and possibly peaking at some point of remorse or anger, piss "pools" being a verb rather than a noun. Maybe he's insecure, and she's standing inside and warm and he's happy that she is, but he's begging her not to leave him in the cold he is in because he knows he will freeze. The first love is loves ____ line explains why it shows what love really is. Reprieve is of course a relief from harm or discomfort, sometimes temporary, sometimes not. But to love someone is not to give them reprieve, but to give their love reprieve, even though it will only be temporary.
Winter is coming and you're stuck here
Oh and so is she
Now when the wind blows you cover your teeth
I told you to shed away and trade in your blues
Love is loves sad news
this goes on to say that he knows that it's over and that the he's going to feel the cold pain. the second lines makes me think it's something unexpected that someone didn't know. "oh and so is she" is suggesting "oh, she is too. she knows she's going to feel the pain." and so perhaps, she is still the "wind" blowing, and so he covers his teeth because he doesn't want to hurt her. And the fourth line is just saying "i told you not to be upset, don't be like me, shed and trade in your sadness, be happy." and then, this to himself is "sad news", but it is because he loves her.
That was Wisconsin that was yesterday
Now I have nothing that I can keep
Cause every place I go I take another place with me
Love is loves mystique
and these refrains kind of show his hidden feelings. JV lived in wisconsin, so he's basically saying, that was just temporarily my home, that was the past. He now has nothing that he can keep because when you care about someone enough, everything you know and do becomes a reminder of them to you in someone, and you can't keep it because you're trying to heal. And he knows in his heart every place he goes, every person that he goes to, he's going to carry her in his heart and he won't ever feel the same comfort from anyone, described as places, like his home, (wisconsin.) And then he goes on to say, love is loves mystique, because love itself is actually the magic in love. it is a mysterious compelling feeling. but it is the core, surrounded by other feelings of joy and happiness.
Youre up on the bar and your shaking
With every grimy word
Who will love
Whats love when you've hurt
You wonder as you see the snow kissed the curb
Love is loves return
this line might get a little confusing. i think this is saying you try to find happiness in bars and dancing, in grimy filthy untrue words. Moreso, it's basically saying now you're trying to find anyone who will alleviate it. The 3rd and fourth lines trick me up, because i'm not sure if "you've hurt" is saying that you yourself have felt hurt, or you have hurt someone else. I'm not really sure, but either way, these lines to me are saying who will ever truly love that? what is "love" when you have hurt yourself so much? And then winter finally arrives painfully as the first snow "kisses the curb", so the cold pain happens, but it's not a blizzard, it's just kissing. And he bitterly says the last line which sounds to me like "if you truly love someone, you won't just let them go, you will return it to them, share it."
That was Wisconsin that was yesterday
Now I have nothing that I can keep
Cause every place I go I take another place with me
Love is loves critique
again, the same as the first refrain, but this time it is a little more confused, a little more captive, but he always go back to say "it'll never be the same." love is loves critique because if you love something, you won't destroy their love, you will critique it, you will find it perfect in someone way or another you will fix it. i'm probably terribly wrong with all this but, just my take.
MOVING ON!
i heard the song eyes on the LG vortex commercial, and the meaning hit me pretty broadside when i first read the lyrics. i actually just heard the song and looked it up for the song alone, and looked up the lyrics for yucks and kinda got bitchslapped, hahaha. anyways. This song is actually pretty beautiful and joyous, melancholy honestly. check it outttttt. i'm going to do each line in this individually. i'm interpretting the song based on the entire thing, not a single line.
Missed the last train home
i missed my last chance to save "us", to come home.
Birds pass by to tell me that I'm not alone
pun possibly intended, either saying
a) (no pun) my friends come and go like birds to tell me i'm not alone, i'll survive
b) (pun) there is someone else to comfort you, i'm not alone in your mind.
Well, I'm pushing myself to finish this part
i have maybe contemplated self harm and find it hard, but i'm determined to get through this.
I can handle a lot
i can do this, like i said. i'll be okay, i'll survive...
But one thing I'm missing is in your eyes
but i'll never be complete, i left part of me in you. i won't really be alive.
In your eyes...
Have you seen this film?
this has happened before... have you felt it?
It reminds me of walking through the avenues
i remember how i walked endlessly through a maze in the city of my mind
Washing my hands of attachments, yeah
trying to get through this and live my life, just being myself without attachments, being happy
I can land on the ground
i will survive, i will be fine. like i said, i can get through this.
But one thing I'm missing is in your eyes
but i'll never be complete, i won't ever be "alive."
'Cause I find love
i won't be complete without what i left in your eyes.
In your eyes...
wow, my interpretations suck dick today. i think i'll just leave before i embarass myself any farther xD
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