I think song lyrics are about the most popular form of poetry out there right now, and while no replacement, I am curious as to what lyrics have most moved you. Whether to tears or laughter, a coherent summation of what you believe is true or maybe you just think they're cool, I want to know what your favourite lyrics are. They don't have to full songs, even just a few lines will suffice. You don't have to interpret them if you don't want to, but that would be cool too I think, as you are all very smart people and I would love to hear what you think about them
Try to keep it to one song per post, so that we don't get too tied up with one person.
For instance, one of my favourite set of lyrics is:
Spoiler for A Winner Needs A Wand, by Sufjan Stevens :
There's still nothing I can say to change It's only an excerpt. But I think the capitalized "You" throughout suggest that the speaker is referring to God, and the first lines I quoted particularly suggest to me that ths speaker is a person thinking he's called to be a priest and rejecting it, and his guilt over that rejection comes through there too. I think that interpretation is reinforced by "to emulate an epicene", where epicene is an adjective for the loss of gender distinction that a priest would experience (in some denominations). I'm not really sure what to make of "winner needs a wand", but I read somewhere once that it could be a phallic image, and so it's a reflection of perhaps a patriarchal society, or even simply an oversexualized society. In both cases, a priest's denial of his masculinity essentially marks him an outcast from that society. So, to me, this song represents that dilemma in a profound way, and the lamentations of the life that's shut on him if he were to become a priest speaks to a conflict in the speaker between the religious and the societal expectations of him. in that way, I think the song also speaks to the greater conflict within society between social norms and religion.
IDK, I think there's a lot in there, but mostly I just love the way he sings it. It's enchanting
So, kind of like songmeanings.net, except you guys are intelligent.
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