Amos Lee: Violin Meaning
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Violin Lyrics
I've been heading for a breakdown
Every time I leave my house
Well it feels just like a shakedown
Between street sweepers and the pushers or the lawyers
Who may as well be butchers
Between the small timing hustlers who all, seem...
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#1 top rated interpretation:Such cryptic and introspectively beautiful lyrics. It's funny how he's asking, "God, why you been hanging out in that old violin while I've been waiting for you?" when there's not even a violin heard anywhere in the song. If only he could hear that violin (the voice of God), would he be comforted...but he's reluctant to open the case, or even to allow it to be heard.
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#2 top rated interpretation:I think maybe he is a musician and he hears God in the music of the violin but wants more needs God to pull him out of the sadness of the world around him.
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#3 top rated interpretation:I think we need to look deeper into the meaning of this song as painful as it. If we look through history about the violin it has been known as the devils instrument and I believe that is why Amos chose it for this song. I believe he is at the crossroads choosing between god and the devil. The music that he hears from that violin is so beautiful he confuses it for god in fact it has been the cause of all his sorrow. All the fame and fortune that comes with selling your soul such as the pushers selling you dope and the lawyers suing you for record contracts that you made. The big fish is a symbol of jesus and the ambition is the devil and he is stuck between both.
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He’s referring to a Stradivarius... That God is so intertwined in a beautiful instrument that he can’t be found in the complexities of a crumbling world.
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Maybe just expressing how powerful music can be and describing how when we think God isn't listening He's all around us in songs.
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I believe the answer parallels the message in the poem
The Masters Hands.
The poem is of the Christian tradition, and suggests the value in each of us is revealed by the touch of the master.
I suggest the spirit of the song may be that the power of God, not necessarily a religious conceptualization, is contained in the vessel.
Our value is integral, awaiting revelation. -
This song touched my heart deeply. It’s a metaphor indeed, but there was a time in my life when I was asking the same, actually screaming out, to The Father, where are You??
It’s not until I gave my whole heart and gave all the pain to The Father when my healing began.
GOD will never forsake us. Seek Him with your whole heart... He’s always there. -
I submit that he's not calling out to God, but rather a significant other that should be his emotional shelter from a crazy world. Hanging out in that ol' violin is a metaphor for feeling so sorry for self that you can't be emotionally available for anyone else. I need you but you cant be here for me because of your own problems.
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He's sick and tired of waiting for a woman who plays the violin to come and pull him out of the bs and dulldrums of the business and not so cryptic messages hidden in lyrics. He needs more than a little cheering up. He can't sleep and he needs a friend. Sometimes it makes him feel like he's going to have a serious mental meltdown. The woman, musician claims that she has to practice the violin and can't get over to see him. Please hang out with me, he says, the rest of these buttheads are literally driving me crazy!
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He's sick and tired of waiting for a woman who plays the violin to come and pull him out of the bs and dulldrums of the business and not so cryptic messages hidden in lyrics. He needs some cheering up. Sometimes it makes him feel like he's going to have a breakdown. The woman, musician claims that she has to practice the violin and can't get over to see him. Please hang out with me, he says, the rest of these buttheads are driving me crazy!
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Music = Language....see above comments.
Amen and thank you God for Amos and all that he has touched through you, God. -
At a recent show in Wilmington, DE, Amos introduced this song by talking about Philly. He stated that no matter how bad the winters get, and how run down they make you feel, spring always comes. This explanation was very symbolic to me as well, but confirmed exactly what I thought it was about.
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I believe everyone wants to find God and good in this world. Too busy to realise that all the answers can be found in music :)
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Only my heart understands the lyrics to this song. While my mouth can't find the words to say. I'm happy to be alive
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Only my heart understands the lyrics to this song. While my mouth can't find the words to say. I happy to be alive
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He believes God is small and insignificant otherwise he would have " hiding out in that ole double bass". Much bigger instrument. See it all makes sense now.
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With the exception of the last comment - You're all nuts.
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he said "it's a song about writing songs" I think our answer- God in the violin- is in the last place we may look. Somewhere small that WE have to go look not wait around for God to come to us.
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