Lyric Discussion Thread

[Efstathios]

Post your interpretations of Rasputina lyrics or just discuss the lyrics, ask other members their ideas on what the lyrics mean, etc.

What do you all make of The New Zero? I'm not really sure what to think of the lyrics, I like them, but I have no idea of what they might mean.


*Attempts to get people posting*  

[Sakura Hylian]

Sometimes, I honestly think she's singing about a walrus. gonk  

[ClioMouse]

That's an interesting idea, Sakura...never thought of it that way...

Melora has said during her little introductions at recitals that the song is the story of her affair with an abominable snowman, and the ice hotel in which they stayed. Take that as you will...

What seems a little more solid is that she seems to have seen the articles about actual ice hotels in places like Alaska. Also, she was apparently in contact with Billy Corgan at the time, and thought she would "write her own zero song."

No, I have no real references, but it does put some things together...except the battery line...  

[Efstathios]

A battery powered abominable snowman?

That's why he was speaking strange, his battery was leaking.

Eh, I write stuff that makes no sense, maybe it's metaphorical, well obviously it is at least partially...I love lyrics that make no sense, hence my love of Rasputina and Nirvana.
So much fun to try to make sense of them.  

[Sakura Hylian]

An abominable snowman, eh? I guess that explains the 'claws on your fingers' part, seeing as how walruses don't really have fingers XD But then again there's the part where she mentions the fins... I guess it's her own interpretation of what an abominable snowman would look like?  

[fauney]

Hm. I never really thought about it...

Personally, 'The Mayor' gives me mixed ideas. A little of the obvious and a little of other things..Thought, it inspired a story of mine. n_n  

[Sakura Hylian]

'The Mayor' reminds me of an ex of mine. mad But I've never put too much thought into the lyrics. :/  

[Yoen]

The Mayor is about one of her mentally ill friends...
and Momma was an Opium Smoker is about her mother's drug habits that she had to live through as a child and teen... maybe?
or could be about her drug habits... xd

I really like Trenchmouth and the idea of her elder brother and her living in the deep south he being a f** and she being left behind as he escaped persecution xd that is how i see it anyways... any other ideas??? ninja


Trenchmouth
Yeah, he was a big landowner

He was a bad mouth breather

But you can see his station wagon stand alone

Woulda, coulda, we shoulda known

He was a failed cropduster

I am his little sister

He was a whistleblower for the f.d.a.

Maybe was them sent him away

He was a football player

He didn't have alot to say

That guy's a lousy actor

He was a hard-core cracker

He wore a trenchcoat, and waved a dixie flag

But he's my brother so i brag

Don't be no dark naysayer

So they all said he was a f**

He had a really big trenchmouth

When we were living way down south

He had a really big trenchmouth

It's on the edge of nowhere

No way for them to go there

I know i'm not much help

But here is where i'll stay

I'm hoping they'll find him someday

I should put up some flyers

Can you think of another way?

He had a really big trenchmouth

When we were living way down south

Then he up and disappeared

He just left his car up here

He had a really big trenchmouth

When we were living way down south

He had a really big trenchmouth

Nobody seems to know why he

Would disappear just leaving me here

On a dirty hill for all time

Me and the pinetree i satnd behind

He had a really big trenchmouth

When we were living way down south

He had a really big trenchmouth



Melora is indeed God!!!! 3nodding heart