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| Future of the Left – Manchasm Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Mark Foley was a Republican politician in the US who was removed from office after sending sexually explicit emails to teenage boy.
Anyway. As with Mclusky, these guys don't necessarily have anything deep behind their lyrics. I think they just put words and lines next to each other and see what happens. The last few lines seem to be making fun of someone named Colin, possibly a spurned gay lover of the speaker of the song. Still, I wouldn't put money on any interpretation of this band's lyrics lol |
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| The Real McKenzies – Pickled Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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haha i love this song.
"But if you get a trickle
From a wiggle & a jiggle
It's off to the clinic that day"
Pretty self-explanatory lol |
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| Aerosmith – The Farm Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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It's no accident that the next song on the album is "Crash." This song, to me, is just about being all screwed up in more ways than one: there's no real sense of logic here, because the speaker is insane. "Get me to the farm" could mean he wants more drugs, he wants to get sober, he wants to go to the mental institution, or he wants to die. Probably it means more than one, maybe all of it. The song captures a giddy sense of bat-shit craziness, the peak of the high.
I see "Crash" as a companion piece to this one, equally about insanity, but much more destructive. |
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| They Might Be Giants – Particle Man Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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I love how people over analyze TMBG lyrics. I think most of their lyrics are just nonsense, and that's okay. Sometimes it's alright to write nonsense for fun. |
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| The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I don't really care what the lyrics are. This song is perfect. The vocal hook is pure genius, and there's enough variation that it doesn't feel repetitive or gimmicky. Love in song form. |
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| Mclusky – Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I don't really see how this is about sex. There's sex in it, but it seems more sarcastic than that. I'm fearful of flying and flying is fearful of me. What does that have to do with banging? I think it's mostly nonsense, but fun nonsense. |
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| Deerhoof – Fete d'Adieu Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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One of those songs that doesn't really make sense on a literal level, but is all about the sound. And what beautiful sound it is. |
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| Pink Floyd – Waiting for the Worms Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I agree, but listen again to Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2. The riff is actually taken from the melody of the chant, "We don't need no education." You can hear the guitar riff under the vocals. It's picked up again in Hey You and this song. And it's %100 brilliant. |
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| Mudvayne – Some Assembly Required Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I was about 13 when I learned the current priest at my family's church was one of those from the molestation coverup. He'd molested a boy in the 80's. Though I was never molested, I had confession with that priest, where you're supposed to come clean about your "sins." Needless to say, I left the Church a long time ago. This song sums up my feelings pretty well. |
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| Perfume Genius – Dark Parts Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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A good friend of mine was molested by her grandfather when she was little. This song sums up the heartbreaking things you feel when you find that sort of thing out. Beautiful and sad. |
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| Mudvayne – Nothing To Gein Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I don't listen to metal anymore, but when I was a teenager this song was the shit. I recently revisited this album, and it still holds up. This song is by far the most intense. The emotional power, the horror of it, self-loathing, the rage, it's all captured equally in the lyrics and the pounding music. Beautiful, in a way.
It's just too bad everything else Mudvayne did sucks so bad in comparison. This whole album was raw and powerful. The rest of their albums are hollow, heartless, and sound like a studio exec started telling them how to play their instruments. But this remains a classic in my book. |
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| Infant Sorrow – Gang of Lust Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I thought for sure this would have been a pre-existing song when I saw the movie. I'm sort of disappointed it's not. |
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| The Concretes – Free Ride Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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no comments yet? really?
not very complex lyrics, but very minimal. the atmosphere is more important than the words themselves - you can gauge what it's about by the emotional resonance. and it's beautiful. |
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| Pearl Jam – Fatal Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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My only interpretation is that it's about a divorce from the wife's point of view, or more accurately, the moments she decides she wants a divorce. He comes home late every night while she waits up and she's trying to figure out if he's having an affair.
At the end it's after the divorce and she's trying to forget him.
Maybe this is completely off base, but it makes sense to me. |
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| John Prine – Sam Stone Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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the spelling of "pitchers" is just a representation of prine's southern pronunciation of "pictures." the term "ears" on a picture or a piece of paper is just the way you fold a picture or a piece of paper in order to come back to it. i guess a picture would be folded in the corner like that after a long period of time, say, folded in someone's wallet, getting crumpled, taken out, refolded.
it's just another way of showing the regret the man has and the way he wishes he could get back to something like what might have been the good old years. |
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| Radiohead – Prove Yourself Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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why does everyone automatically assume that "prove yourself" is a positive line? i see it as thom basically saying, if you're better off dead, prove it. get it over with, then. and in that message is the fact that 90% of people who say "i'm better of dead" don't actually mean it, so the song is a challenge. if you're better off dead, then kill yourself, but otherwise quit your bitching. that's my interpretation, anyway. |
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| Fear Factory – Resurrection Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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love how this song sounds vaguely like eighties metal. but really i love the end verse. i used to listen to this cd when i was an angsty teen in high school and loved this song because it was one of the only good uplifting metal songs that wasn't annoyingly christian. |
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| The National – Mr. November Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i think it makes the most sense that this is about an american president waiting for the results of an election. he's either talking to his wife, someone close, or the voters themselves. the term "blue blood" signifies royalty, and anyone who keeps up to date on politics can understand "the english are waiting." the line "i used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders" might signify him remembering his younger days - as most people who rise to office have been leaders their whole lives, perhaps he was class president or something similar 'carried in the arms of cheerleaders.' |
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| The National – Green Gloves Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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green is the color of jealousy. as others have already said, he wants to live the lives of others. green gloves is a pretty great metaphor. |
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| Sparklehorse – Little Fat Baby Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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pretty sure this song is really about looking at someone who has suffered at miserable life or death-- it seems like it's about the death of someone being "dragged by a donkey," but that's probably metaphor. the striking thing is to consider that that man, whatever he's done in his life, whether he deserved this end or not, he was once just an innocent baby that everyone would coo over. |
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| Sparklehorse – Sunshine Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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some of sparklehorse's weird style bugs me, but this is one of the songs they got right down to the t. great sound, pretty mellow and introspective. to me it's about how everything is temporary without exception |
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| Devendra Banhart – Little Boys Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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i love how people who know nothing about music or art think that every song, poem, piece of art is autobiographical. you can make a song from a perspective of a hermaphrodite who likes boys and women and NOT have it be about yourself. is it really that hard to understand? |
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| Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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it's just a rant. it's not about masturbation or drugs, nor is it about being crazy, exactly. it's more about the fact that life is ludicrous, and the only thing you can do to deal with it is go a little bit crazy. to me the lyrics are something someone would write when he's feeling so overwhelmed the only thing he can do is laugh about it. |
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| The Strokes – Is This It Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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alright, how the f*ck does everyone keep coming to the conclusion that this is about casual sex? It's definitely about a relationship between the speaker and the person he's talking to, but I don't see how casual sex has anything to do with anything.
the first verse i think is about him being bored and basically working his way into this girl's life and them having some sort or relationship, but he might not be happy, hence he "can't think," so he doesn't know if what he's doing is right.
"Is this it" reflects that.
The second verse I can't say precisely, but maybe he's talking about her past lovers, or all lovers in general, and how they are all simple and don't want to think about the fact that there's always somebody else waiting in the wings that will steal her first.
And the last verse is possibly about the clusterf*ck that relationships can cause. At first the girl's ex thinks it's alright, but he gets drunk and thinks that the speaker "went too far," and is upset about the girl seeing him. The speaker basically says that they're not all going to see eye to eye and that's how it should be.
then "is this it" takes on a different meaning, perhaps a grander meaning, asking, is this really how life is? nobody will see eye to eye and will make enemies for all kinds of stupid reasons.
then the first verse returns and the song comes full circle, the whole thing repeating, because progress will never be made: "is this it?" |
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| Radiohead – I Am a Wicked Child Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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this song really reminds me of clinic, from the percussion to the guitar to the ambient harmonica. i wonder if the line "i walked a crooked mile" is actually a reference to the clinic song "jigsaw man" with the line: 'benny walked a crooked mile.' radiohead has said that they enjoy clinic's music, so i don't think it's a stretch that they would try a song that sounds similar to something clinic would do.
i think this is the only radiohead song to have a country twang sound to it, and i really think it might be a kind of homage to clinic, or just inspired by their music. |
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