 Genius Meanings
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The Oh Hellos – Constellations
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Notos explores the fallibility of our own ideas:
Thematically, the series considers the question: “Where did our ideas come from?” Notos recounts a time when the duo weren’t even
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The Oh Hellos – Passerine
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The song is titled “Passerine”, which is a relatively ambiguous term. The category of passerine includes any bird with feet built to be able to perch, including both birds of prey
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The Oh Hellos – Bitter Water
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On one level, this is a song about one who looks back on an ended relationship with regret that the relationship existed in the first place. The love was bitter even in the
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The Oh Hellos – Caesar
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Hear on the wind how the pendulum swings / Feel how the winter succumbs to the spring / Over the palisade morning will break / Rise up to meet it, oh sleeper awake / Gather the
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The Oh Hellos – Where Is Your Rider?
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“Where Is Your Rider” is based on the previous song, “Pale White Horse”, so listeners can assume that the “rider” in this song is the rider of that horse, Death. Repeatedly asking
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The Oh Hellos – Thus Always To Tyrants
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“Thus Always to Tyrants” (or “Sic semper tyrannis” in Latin) is used as a rallying cry against abuse of power, echoing the alleged words of Brutus after he murdered Julius Ceasar.
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The Oh Hellos – Pale White Horse
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“Pale White Horse” and “Where is Your Rider?” form a two part story that serves as the turning point of the album. In “Pale White Horse”, the singer describes an apocalyptic scene
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The Oh Hellos – Soldier, Poet, King
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“Soldier, Poet, King” is a song about the second coming of Jesus Christ. It is based on C. S. Lewis’s writings about the end of the world according to Revelation; this song and
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The Oh Hellos – Torches
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“Torches” was the first single off Notos, a new EP from The Oh Hellos released December 8, 2017. From NPR:
“Notos is the first of four EPs that The Oh Hellos will release over
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The Oh Hellos – The Valley
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[Verse 1] / We were born in the valley of the dead and the wicked / That our father's father found / And where we laid him down / We were born in the shadow of the crimes of our
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The Oh Hellos – In Memoriam - 2022 Remaster
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Well, it's a long way out to reach the sea / But I'm sure I'll find you waiting there for me / And by the time I blink, I'll see your wild arms swinging / Just to meet me in the
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The Oh Hellos – Lapis Lazuli
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I don’t mean to speak so collectively / I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna hear it / What can I say, what can I say, what can I say / 'Cause the more I recite it / The more
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The Oh Hellos – Rio Grande
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Somewhere down south of here / There’s a woman with an armload of grass / Weaving a basket / That’ll float the Rio Grande / She’ll send her baby off in it / The river running wild
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The Oh Hellos – Trees
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Climbing trees like we did when we were children / Scaling walls; the walls that took us years to build / Climbing trees; haven't much since we were children / Shaking limbs tend
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The Oh Hellos – Zephyrus
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What do you find within the lines of / Distant suns / And their systems / Where I come up empty? / What of those painted songs of heroes / Or the moon / Herculean / Pulling a half
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The Oh Hellos – Second Child, Restless Child
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“Second Child, Restless Child” is song 4 from the album “Through the Deep, Dark Valley” (2012).
“Second Child, Restless Child” is a continuation of the narrative begun in “Eat You
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The Oh Hellos – Murmurations / Reading the Augury
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[Instrumental]
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The Oh Hellos – Boreas
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Boreas is the titular song in the EP “Boreas”, initially released as a single on the 21st of August 2020. While the other Greek wind EPs by The Oh Hellos also followed the
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The Oh Hellos – Notos
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According to the album description from The Oh Hellos' Bandcamp page:
Notos, the first installment in an ongoing series, is named for the ancient Greco-Roman god of the south wind
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The Oh Hellos – This Will End
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No, I am not afraid to die / It's every breath that comes before / Heartache, I've heard, is part of life / And I have broken more and more / But I can hope how this will end
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The Oh Hellos – Theseus
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At the edges of my fingers / Never quite closing ‘round it / Oh, that peace like a river / Always going, but never getting / Seems like maybe it’s not all that much a place / As it
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The Oh Hellos – Grow
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Between the seams that line your living room / A vine of ivy's pushing her way through / And as she creeps along, she sinks her roots / Into the cracks, and pulls 'em back until
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The Oh Hellos – Exeunt
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Exeunt (lit., “They leave” in stage terminology), shows the two minds the writer has about his leaving. One mind frame wistfully remembers the good times he and his lover once had
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The Oh Hellos – On the Mountain Tall
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On the mountain tall / Whisper to me words in a voice so small / Like the one that to Elijah called / Quiet as a candle and bright as the morning sun / Though the fire and wind
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The Oh Hellos – New River
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“New River” is the result of the transformation seen throughout Notos.
The title of the song and the corresponding lyrics are in reference to Isaiah 43:19, where it says,
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The Oh Hellos – Soap
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I’ve heard / Since I was younger / That oil and water don’t mix / They're polar opposites / With a molecular rift you can’t fix / But I swear with all your burnt bridges / You can
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The Oh Hellos – O Sleeper
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While the weary nations weep / Awakening me from a dream / I see the moonlight steal across my sheets / My love is lying fast asleep / Chasing its beams / She stirs, and then she
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