| Chris Michaud – Emily Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0633158920070306 | |
| John Mayer – Slow Dancing in a Burning Room Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is just utterly heartbreaking and brilliant - hands down the best song off Continuum. So very sweet and harsh at once. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – #34 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Haines Fullerton, a friend of Dave's, assisted in writing this song. His suicide and Miguel Valdez's death (to ALS) may attribute to the 2005 live versions / UTTAD album version not having any words. A beautiful, haunting piece of music. Purely emotional. The last minute is so charged with energy that it ends the album on a perfect high note. |
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| Radiohead – Arpeggi Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The full band version is even more amazing than the Ether Festival version. They've been playing it live recently. | |
| Bell X1 – In Every Sunflower Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Ridiculously chilling and heartbreakingly sad. Bell X1 has yet not to amaze me. | |
| Bell X1 – Tongue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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While Damien Rice's version changes the lyrics in the prechorus a bit, the meaning's still the same - Overall, this song sums up the end of a bad relationship - there's a powerful desire to be free that becomes absolutely necessary. Independence - "This one's for me." |
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| Bell X1 – Natalie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is so happily sad, if that makes any sense at all. I absolutely love it. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Another Glass of Wine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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That's strange. If you've got a recording of it, I'm sure someone around the boards could pick up on it. I'm from the amidreaming.org boards, by the way. |
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| Tool – Jambi Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Jambi is the name of the genie on the 80s show Peewee's Playhouse. That ties in with the whole "wish" theme. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Another Glass of Wine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Perhaps it's "Any Noise / Anti Noise" then, if it can't be found under Say Goodbye. Try looking there. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – For the Beauty of Wynona Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No. Prominent live versions, however, include 9.10.2000 (with David Ryan Harris), 10.26.1998 (with Tim Reynolds), and 5.18.02 (Dave Matthews solo). They can be found around most DMB message boards. All in all, one of their very best covers. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Deed Is Done Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Actually, Stefan's child hadn't died until about September 1996. The Luther College version was played in February of that year. Even earlier, there was a full band version played on 10/4/95 and a Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds version played on 9/24/95. It was supposedly recorded during the Crash sessions but was scrapped. Supposedly, this is about a fan named "Emily" who was stricken with terminal cancer (from dmbalmanac.com) - it's a clear and powerful lament over the loss of a child to cancer. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Kind Intentions Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No, it's not a love song in that sense at all. Quite clearly, this one's about Anne, seeing as the date of being written ranged anywhere from 1991 to 1993 (it's on an old demo). This and its successors (2.5.94 soundcheck, 3.8.94's "Sister", and 4.6.94's "Me and Her") are all just really sad songs. Kind Intentions documents an abusive relationship. |
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| Radiohead – Black Star Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Let me start off by saying that this song is among my top 3 of all time, if not my favorite song of all time. Radiohead has crafted a heartwrenching masterpiece of a song with almost-B-side "Black Star", and after over 100 listens in the past month [and many more before that], the song still carries an immense emotional weight with me. "Black Star" appears to be a song about a failing relationship [by the end, the relationship has failed completely]. "...I get home from work, and you're still standing in your dressing gown, Well, what am I to do? I know all the things around your head and what they do to you. What are we coming to? What are we gonna do?..." - The first verse reflects Thom Yorke's realization that the first signs of the failing relationship are taking place. He plaintively asks "What are we coming to?", symbolizing a last attempt at reparation. "Blame it on the black star, Blame it on the falling sky. Blame it on the satellite that beams me home." The chorus shows Yorke's [and likely the woman as well]'s view on the situation, almost as if they want to avoid the situation at all costs, even though it's become inevitable. "...The troubled words of a troubled mind, I try to understand what is eating you. I try to stay awake, but it's been 58 hours since that I last slept with you. What are we coming to? I just don't know anymore..." Yorke again comes through with a real emotion-twister of a verse. He is being torn apart at the seams because of this separation, and since the second to last line verifies that the relationship is not quite over yet, Yorke slams the point home with the hopelessly sung "I just don't know anymore". The chorus is once again sung, leading into one of my top moments of all-time [concerning music] - the second to last verse is by far one of the strongest and most identifiable verses I have come across in ages, and the sadness in Yorke's voice when this second to last verse is sung really just levels me emotionally. "...I get on the train and I just stand about, now that I don't think of you. I keep falling over, I keep passing out, When I see a face like you. What am I coming to? I'm gonna melt down." Yorke bitingly shows the feeling of emptiness that comes with the end of a relationship [that was once good and had gone bad], and the change from "What are we coming to?" to "What am I coming to?" shows that once again, the song's narrator is single, alone. The last line in the song's lyrics [before the chorus and last "verse" that isn't on this site], "I'm gonna melt down..." sums up almost everything in the song... ...but it doesn't end there. After one powerful last chorus, the song goes into jam mode, with the final two lines, Yorke's sad yellings of "This is killing me", aptly ending the song on a beautiful, haunting note. With that, I give you the absolutely fantastic "Black Star" by Radiohead. |
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