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Subject: TAB: Black Eye (correct version) by Uncle Tupelo
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 96 17:35:46 -0500
From: Jim
Black Eye
by Uncle Tupelo
Transcribed by John Erlinger (tardis@tetranet.net)
Written by Farrar/Tweedy (Warner-Tamerlane Pub./Feedhorn Songs)
From the Rockville Records album "March 16-20 1992" (ROCK6090-2)
(capo 5th fret)
Em G
He had a black eye
C
He was proud of
G
Like some of his friends
D Em
It made him feel somewhere outside
Em/D C C/G D G
Of everything and everywhere he'd been
Like his brothers
He emptied himself
And played it safe
Like their father
He wanted to remember
But he almost always
Forgot what he was gonna say
D Em Em/D C D
Black eye
G
Black eye
When he realized
That this one was here to stay
He took down
All the mirrors in the hallway
And thought only of his younger face
Black eye
Black eye
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sephiroth Average |
#1 by sephiroth at Nov 24, 1985 at 1:56 PM EST |
| I love this song. I'm not 100% sure what the lyrics mean, I get the vibe I think as like a rural towns suck vibe. Isn't this the most gorgeous song you ever heard though? | |
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bec Average |
#2 by bec madden at Jun 1, 1990 at 12:39 AM EST |
| I agree with mkilby to some extent, but I believe that the "black eye" is more of a symbolic meaning. I think the persons "black eye" is more his reputation. He prided himself in being somebody who everbody knew when he was younger and everybody knew him, but maybe not in an entirely good way. Then, he got older and more mature and everybody still remembers him for who he was when he was younger, even though he has changed, and he can't and doesn't want it to be like that. Kind of like if you have a brother or a parent who is notorious, and everybody assumes you to be the same way even though you are completely different. Just my take on things. | |
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Sam Average |
#3 by Sam at Feb 24, 1999 at 6:09 AM EST |
| I agree completely -this song is incredible, one of my favorite all time songs. It's just hauntingly simple & brutally honest. | |
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*Lee Average |
#4 by *Lee * at Feb 17, 2004 at 2:00 PM EST |
| I love this song too. I've always assumed the black eye is a metaphor for enduring the pains of life. When he was a young man, he took pride in his black eye (and studied his reflection in the mirror), presumably acquired in a macho-teenage brawl. But when he got older, life gave him a more permanent black ring around the eyes (maybe disease related to coal-mining, which half of Uncle Tupelo's songs seem to relate to? or just alcholism/depression/hard labor?). "When he realized/That this one was here to stay/He took down/All the mirrors in the hallway/And thought only of his younger face." I guess to me this is a sad commentary on how the painful initiations of youth, that once were a point of pride, come to mean something all together different when adversity piles up and becomes monotonous and hopeless in the setting so familiar to Tweedy and Farrar, a midwestern community burdened down by hard labor and poverty. | |
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