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drug double entendres | Reviewer: Jeff | 2/3/09
The drug references are double entendres. The "smoke" is dope OR just breath in the cold air. The "white lines" are lines of coke OR the white lines on a highway. And the "nice clean cut" - presumably the separation between him and the girl - is only "like" a bag of drugs divided evenly. The drug references are there, but have been overinterpreted by earlier reviewers.
Correction | Reviewer: Liz | 10/20/08
To the poster Rhonk:
"Let's have a nice clean cut, like a bag we buy and divy up..." isn't about getting a bunch of people together to split the cost or cutting it with other substances.
When you buy coke and people throw down money, you have to evenly cut the coke into lines and divy it up evenly.
My thoughts | Reviewer: Rhonk | 10/9/08
Don Delilo was an author.
From Wikipedia "Many of DeLillo's books (notably White Noise) satirize academia and explore postmodern themes of rampant consumerism, novelty intellectualism, underground conspiracies, the disintegration and re-integration of the family, and the promise of rebirth through violence."
Pretty much a lot of things that are wrong with society. Remember how Bright Eyes song Lime Tree is rather symbolic of Abortion? You can really see Conor's emotions toward society in his other band Desaparecidos.
"Just a turntable to watch. Only smoke came out our mouths" is clearly a reference to smoking pot and how it can make random things like watching a turntable amusing or interesting.
"We were a gold mine, they gutted us" is a reference to how expensive drugs can be and how profitable they can be to sell. But like a real gold mine it only lasts so long (death).
"And from the sidelines you'd see me run. Until I'm out of breath." refers to the toll drugs take on your body. Healthy people turning into lethargic, withered souls.
"Living the good life, I left for dead" refers to how life was already good but the addiction led to the death of what you once had.
Sorrowful midwest is just a reference to where he came from.
"Let's have a nice clean cut." is a reference to how some drugs are cut with other non-drug substances to add weight. You can attempt to "clean" drugs and purify them too.
"Like a bag we buy and divy up." is a reference to getting friends together to buy a bigger amount of drugs for cheaper and then splitting them.
"And all those white lines that sped us up." of course is referring to snorting coke.
"We hurried to our death. Well I lagged behind...So you got ahead" means he ended his drug addiction but others weren't as lucky as him.
it may just be me | Reviewer: katelyn | 10/5/08
so please dont tell me how dumb i am for this posting this cause everyone feels different
i think this song is about a relationship. most of lyrics will relate if you put yourself in that sort of mind set. and i just had a really bad break up and this song relates!!
gah. | Reviewer: r | 2/28/08
lol.
Robert from the Cure Can't be replaced by Conor Oberst.
Just because this songs melody sounds similar to some of the Cure's songs, They're both recognized as two completely different artists.
If you had to relate Conor to any artist it would be Bob Dylan. Though Conor isn't becoming "the next bob dylan". Conor has his own ideas. He's the one and ONLY.
You can't argue with that.
Drugs and Gold Mines. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/25/07
The song is obviously about drugs, but its not optomistic.
The forboding sense of it all is established in the last stanza, which makes a breif reference to cocaine.
'And all those white lines that sped us up
We hurried to our death
Well I lagged behind...
So you got ahead'
Obviously, the two were doing it together. The protagonist of the song (wether it is meant to be Conor O'berst or not) probably gets clean, while the other, in my opinion, heads for an overdose. It's all in the lyrics. As with every Bright Eyes song, look at every word and dont take everything so literally. He's genius.
yes it's "whiskey me." | Reviewer: kristen | 11/21/07
this is a great song, why people bother to analyse the lyrics is beyond me. who gives a shit about drugs or whiskey, it is just great.
Idc | Reviewer: Kyle | 11/15/07
I really don't care what this song means. It's just a beautiful song, and as far as the first verse goes, it is whiskey neat, but I don't think about this song as drugs...i just take it as a beautifully written song...=]]]
smoke | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/14/07
he's obviously speaking about the cold in reference to the smoke coming out of his mouth. his depression is stemmed from the awful midwest where he lives, i can totally relate this place is dark
hellllooo are you all clueless? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/4/07
it IS "whiskey neat," which is the same thing as "whiskey straight up." also, "only smoke came out of our mouths on all those hooded sweatshirt walks" refers to smoking pot and not getting caught, the same as people taking "drives" so the smoke doesn't fill up a room and get noticed
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