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preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead [phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/bbcode.php on line 112: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead ¤ milky moon ¤ • View topic - Engine br(e)ak(e)s?
I was entering in the lyrics for the Baby Birch sheet music from the CD booklet and I noticed she writes "engine breaks." I have always thought she was referring to a noun, i.e. it should be engine BRAKES, but is that even a real thing? Or is she using it as a verb - the engine is breaking? It could go either way, but I am confused by the next line - "and I said 'how about them engine breaks'?" It SOUNDS like she's talking about a noun again - brakes - but maybe there is a phenomena known as an "engine break?" I know nothing about engines. Wiki has an entry for "engine braking ()."
Personally, I think we will never truly understand the things she writes unless she explains them. So many of the interpretations given to her lyrics seem to be just wild guesses. Like most everyone here, I would love to know what goes on in her head when she weaves her words, but I just can't devote any energy to something I believe is beyond my grasp.
Actually I forgot to say WHY I was asking this: I figure she does enough self-checking to avoid it, but I thought maybe it was an error? Maybe she meant brakes all along but mistakenly put breaks instead? Who knows!
"Break" is, I think, a legitimate noun in the sense of "breakages", especially given the colloquial use of "them" for "those". It's blatantly colloquial language.
I do seem to remember noticing a few typos when I read the lyrics. I don't have them to hand but when I do the inner pedant in me will be sure to point them out.
Say, honey, did you belong to me? Tell me, darlin, did I pass your test? I lay, as still as death, until the dawn, whereupon I wrested from that godawful lawlessness.
when using the meaning of the word wrest as: "Distort the meaning or interpretation of (something) to suit one's own interests or views"
I would read that to mean that she went to sleep and woke up to then deal with whatever the answers were in whatever way suited her
Wrest is transitive, and should really have an object if it's being used like that. Literally, its meaning is akin to "wrestle" - to grapple and force. But there is no object. Perhaps it's meant to be reflexive? I wrested myself from that godawful lawlessness? There's also a meaning of "wrest", "to pull or twist violently". That may connote twisting and turning in one's sleep, restlessly.
"Lay" in Good Intentions is being used in the sense of "the lay of the land".
could be wrong but it gives me the impression of someone sitting on a dock watching a boat leave, a boat with an inboard motor, and the breakes are the sound the motor makes as the water is pushed out to propel the boat. the mention of stars in their bulletproof cars is like a double meaning of the stars over head and hollywood stars , perhaps leaving a function and Joanna was doing some star watching herself, with Bill perhaps?
The thing i like best about deciphering Joanna's songs...i'm always wrong.
My guess: She's making a joke combining the broken engine from the prior stanza and the word "breaks" as in the idiom "them's the breaks", phrased with structure borrowed from (or at least similar to) the idiom "how about them apples".