He did bury nails and string and hair and an old tooth from a bear. Views Read Edit View history. Keeton Going off of your take of the song, which I definitely agree with the most,I just want to offer a more simplistic interpretation of the lines you mentioned: Retrieved March 19, It's A Wonderful Life". Eyepennies I will return here one day and dig up my bones from the clay I buried nails and strings and hair and that old tooth I believe was a bear's I held my hand in the fire it burned me down to the wires blood suckers hide beneath my bed And black fumes of skin so gently bled I slept with a cat on my breast slowing my heart stealing my breath at sunrise the monkeys will fly and leave me with pennies in my eyes I will return here one day and dig up my bones from the clay I buried nails and string and hair and that old tooth I believe was a bear's at sunrise the monkeys will fly and leave me with pennies in my eyes.
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I think you're off sparklehhorse. General Comment to me, the song is the figurative death of an aspect or a particular persona of the narrator.
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And if you'd taken the time to notice, might've alarmed you. AllMusic called it Sparklehorse's "most open and direct work yet" and "a noticeably more focused effort.
Archived from the original on August 4, General Comment First off, Sparklehorse is one of those bands that I suspect don't offer lyrics open to holistic analysis I realize I should be speaking in the singular - it's basically just Mark Linkous - but whatever. To suck, suffocate, the life out of babes. Chest Full of Dying Hawks.
Retrieved March 19, Mixtapes Forums Lyrics Artists add Journals. He was so good, very under appreciated.
The monkeys leaving pennies in his eyes is about the old tradition of putting coins in dead people's eyes - this is based on the idea that the dead need to pay the boatman a fee to cross I think the river Styx into the afterlife. Though it lacks Good Morning Spider 's sprawling brilliance, it's possibly Linkous' most effective, and affecting, collection of songs.
Voltarei aqui um dia e desenterrar os meus ossos do barro Enterrei pregos e cordas e cabelos e que de dentes velha eu acredito ter sido o de um urso. The black fumes being eepennies bled is how slowly your time ticks away. Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain That is the question!
Blood suckers and black fumes sound scary, but the bleeding of syepennies skin with a leech in non-western medicine is sometimes the only remedy particularly for toxins transmitted in the bloodstream, i. A song to fall asleep to.
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Distorted Ghost EP Sparklehorse episode included the following music videos, with their respective directors or talent. General Comment My favorite Sparklehorse song. The cat on his chest and I can see the cat as a symbol for every-day pressure, possibly while he's sleeping would seem uncomfortable and unbearable at first, but to me he seems to take comfort in it being there or else he would be sleepless with a cat on his breast and in the fact that it shortens his breath, calms his heart, keeps him grounded perhaps.
Retrieved April 7, Perhaps others who have experienced this spooky phenomenon will be able to make some sense of what I'm trying to get at here, or so I hope, anyway.
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All tracks written by Mark Linkousexcept where stated. Also, another note about the pennies in the eyes thing: Retrieved from " https: The meeting was quite unusual and took place inside an SUV as the two men rode down a California highway. I will return here one day And dig up my bones from the clay I buried nails and strings and hair And spatklehorse old tooth I believe was a bear's I held my hand in the fire It burned me down to the wires Blood suckers hide beneath my bed And black fumes of skin so gently bled I slept with a cat on my breast Slowing my heart stealing my breath At sunrise the monkeys will fly And leave me with pennies in my eyes I will return here one day And dig up my bones from the clay I buried nails and string and hair And that old tooth I believe was a bear's Spqrklehorse sunrise the monkeys will fly And leave me with pennies in my eyes Edit Lyrics Edit Wiki Add Video.
The flying monkeys occurred in the Wizard of Oz. Linkous was reportedly incredibly nervous about contacting Waits. Also, what is the meaning of the part of holding his hand into the fire and the wiring being revealed? Any thoughts eyepennids ideas much welcomed!
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