Ethan Frome – Music Analysis
Pathetic Fallacy—device used to connect
reader and text; belief that the natural
landscape and world parallels human
emotion
**Identification between music and
audience—meets the same need and serves a
similar function
Consider the connections to character,
setting, emotional climate and tone…
2.99 Cent Blues—Regina Spektor
Somewhere far away where I roam
There live my buffalo twin in our twin
buffalo home
He calls me by my native name
And takes good care of my native son
He even lets us drink spring water on
Sundays 2.99 a gallon
And somewhere further down the road
where I also roam
There lives my caterpillar cousin beneath a
fancy engraved tomb head stone
In the middle of his southern town
Beneath a cemetery burial plot
He don't pay rent no more
But he sure likes the spot
But in the furthest place I've ever known
Where even I so rarely roam
There lives a boy who just come back from
war
His flesh was wounded but he made it back
home
His mother calls him by his given name
And the neighbors whisper how he prefers
to be alone
And he gets nightmares about boys dripping
blood sold for 2.99 a gallon
But when I get me all real tired
And I got no more strength to roam
I catch me a horse driven carriage ride
From a local man named Ethan Frome
He don't say much as he tips his hat
And he carries his body as heavy as lead
And he could have been flying through the
snow on his sled
But he wife was in bed and the horses had to
be fed
Besides it's 2.99 a story
Pay up it's just 2.99 a story...
2.99 a gallon
K’s Choice “Winter”
You're crying but as long as it's transparent
and not red
There's no real reason to be sad to the people
who are
Smiling, always happy, always gay they do
not know
That the edges of the mouth can move the
other way
You're freezing, the ice on which you nearly
slipped outside
Is in your body, in your mind, getting
warmer you are
Dreaming, quite useless but it feels okay to
you
In a world that's dreaming too, in a world in
which you
Keep on searching for a thing sublime
When all you need is inside of you
Everybody's waiting for springtime
Well winter can be cozy too
Cherish the moment, cherish the key
That leads to sane insanity
Cherish incompetence, cherish me
Don't ever cherish somebody who
Keeps on searching for a thing sublime
When all you need is inside of you
Everybody's waiting for springtime
Well winter can be cozy to
The White Stripes “In the Cold, Cold
Night”
I saw you standing in the corner
On the edge of a buring light
I saw you standing in the corner
Come to me again in the cold cold night
In the cold cold night
You make me feel a little older
Like a full grown women might.
But when you gonna grow colder
Come to me again in the cold cold night
In the cold cold night
I hear you walkin' by my front door
I hear the creakin' of the kitchen floor
I don't care what other people say
I'm gonna love you anyway
Come to me again in the cold cold night
I can't stand it any longer
I need the fuel to make my fire bight
So don't fight it any longer
Come to me again in the cold cold night
In the cold cold night
And I know that you feel it too
When my skin turns into glue
You will know that it's warm inside
And you'll come run to me
In the cold cold night
In the cold cold night
Damien Rice w/Lisa Hannigan “9
Crimes”
Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place
To be thinking of you
It's the wrong time
For somebody new
It's a small crime
And I've got no excuse
Lisa: Is that alright with you?
Give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that alright with you?
If you don't shoot it how am I supposed to
hold it
Is that alright with you?
Give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that alright with you?
With you.
Damien: Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place
To be cheating on you
It's the wrong time
She's pulling me through
It's a small crime
And I've got no excuse
Sarah McLachlan “Full of Grace”
the winter here's cold, and bitter
it's chilled us to the bone
we haven't seen the sun for weeks
to long too far from home
I feel just like I'm sinking
and I claw for solid ground
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
oh darkness I feel like letting go
if all of the strength and all of the courage
come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than
this
full of grace
full of grace
my love
so it's better this way, I said
having seen this place before
where everything we said and did
hurts us all the more
its just that we stayed, too long
in the same old sickly skin
I'm pulled down by the undertow
Rachel Yamagata “I”ll Find a Way”
I'll find a way to see you again
I'll find a way to see you again
I used to think that anything I'd do
Wouldn't matter at all anyway
But now I find that when it comes to you
I'm the winner of cards I can't play
Wait for me, wait for me
Darling, I need you desperately, desperately
here
And I'll find a way to see you again
And I'll find a way to see you again
The rain is like an orchestra to me
Little gifts from above meant to say
Girl, you falling at his feet
Isn't lovely or stunning today
Wait with me, wait with me
I'm alive when you're here with me, here
with me, stay
And I'll find a way to see you again
And I'll find a way to see you again
Why do the street lamps die
When you're passing by
Like a hand that won't stay on my shoulder
tonight
If you held me close, would you laugh it
away
Would you dare the glance that I steal to
stay
And I'll find a way to see you again
Yes, I'll find a way to see you again
I'll find a way, a way, a way to see you again
I'll find a way, a way, a way to see you again
I'll find a way, a way, a way to see you again
The rain will bring, the rain will bring, the
rain will bring, bring, bring me down