The chorus asks which one he's checked out of. Hence, "Half Gate" could mean a filter half open. Not that great of a book, but a good look into existential choices. It reminds me of the book "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". These are 2 possibilities, each with it's own problems. At the end of the day, something is needed to validate existence - "to remind me once again why I'm even here". Perhaps the "every pleasure burned to the wick" isn't about the pleasures burned up together in the relationship, but rather, all the pleasures to be had without worry of being tied down to someone else - basically a hedonist life of pleasure, but maybe no substance, nothing heavy and meaningful to keep you from floating away.
GRIZZLY BEAR SHIELDS LYRICS FREE
The life is free to consume and acquire whatever it wants. The other outcome or life starts after the first chorus - "At the end of the line". The shame might be because of infidelity, or might simply be shame that most of this work and life isn't bringing happiness like once thought. The work and the daily chaos of keeping this life in shape drowns out some passion. Things become stale and old after a time. There is love and familiarity, but it's a lot of work. One outcome is being with the same person for a very long time - sort of grounded and tied to them. This song is about a person stuck between two worlds, or perhaps two different possible outcomes, or perhaps two different possible lives. My InterpretationMy thoughts on this song agree with some of the earlier posts about relationships and infidelity, but with an added feature. It's also an unbelievably beautiful song. It's about wanting the innocence back that you never had in the first place. It's about the reality of two separate people trying to share their experiences and their perspectives with each other, and knowing that, in the end, no matter how close they grow, that they live (and die) alone. The song is not simply about the subject's supposed betrayal of their significant other. It is beautiful enough that the subject of the song continues to wish throughout that "in some great beyond" the person he loves (even with the delusions) is "still there still as you were". Grizzly Bear Lyrics 'Gun-Shy' The sky keeps staring at me Frozen in my tracks. That being said, the delusion itself is somehow beautiful. He begins to wonder if the other person was delusional at the start and if the only thing lost was their delusion. In addition, the subject wonders whether or not the other person in the relationship could ever have been satisfied, or whether the only thing destroyed in the betrayal was naivety. While he always had attempted to be the ideal mate for his significant other, he can never be anything more than he's already been previously. The subject of the song knows that he is flawed, and moreover he knows that he would have never been enough for the person he is in love with. That being said, there's more than the simply the betrayal being portrayed. At the same time, the subject knows that is a delusion. While both know this to be true, they still attempt to cling to the relationship hoping it can continue to bear a resemblance to what it was in the past. Not only have they cheated, but it has changed the other person to the point where the relationship (and perhaps the other person) is unrecoverable or unrecognizable. Yet for how uncharacteristic it might seem for a band whose greatest gift, all along, was nuance, this louder take suits the band brilliantly.My InterpretationI think the subject of the song is, at first, simply talking about the aftermath of cheating on someone they love. And Chris Bear’s drums crash with an urgency that rarely surfaced in the chamber-folk arrangements on past albums. Their guitar riffs have grown more ragged and noisy. Shields doesn’t wholly comprise songs with the level of bombast displayed in “Sleeping Ute,” but it’s no exaggeration to say this is the most dramatic album in the Grizzly Bear catalog to date. There’s a little bit of synthesizer too, but that’s entirely beside the point in a song that finds the ordinarily softer-spoken Grizzly Bear coming much closer to Led Zeppelin than ever before. The breezy, bouncy twinkle of “Two Weeks,” the kind-of sort-of hit that emerged from 2009’s Veckatimest, has all but vanished, and in its place are lots of guitars. It only takes about 30 seconds of “Sleeping Ute,” the first track on Grizzly Bear’s fourth album Shields, to fully grasp that something has changed with the Brooklyn indie-pop quartet.
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