| St. Vincent – Cruel Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think people with the interpretation about a house wife are getting that from the music video which is not a good way to go about interpreting songs. I agree with what you said and want to add: Addressing "Bodies" goes along with the objectification theme. The kids who run the alley casually cruel and take and leave you seem to be implying rape in an alley. "Bodies, can't you see what everybody wants from you? For you could want that, too" If your body could simply want what the other body wants then rape wouldn't be a problem. "How could they be casually cruel?" How can someone committing such a terrible act do it without any remorse or empathy or somberness. |
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| Here We Go Magic – F.F.A.P. Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Is it about a priest molesting a boy a struggling with his guilt? | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I doubt it's that referring to the band itself because this album came out the same year B&S formed. | |
| Scott Walker – Rosemary Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This isn't the place to advertise your tumblr or long winded critiques. | |
| Scott Walker – Rosemary Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This isn't the place to advertise your tumblr or long winded critiques. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Sadie Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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That Nietzsche quote makes it seem like you're saying Joanna Newsom is trying to seem profound but actually is only shallow. Nietzsche was all about creating your own meaning in life. If the lyrics are just a mixture of events that happened in her life, that does not make them meaningless, quite the opposite! She chose them for a reason and she chose the words for a reason, not randomly, that is what gives it meaning. Why do people come to a website where you are supposed to discuss song interpretation merely to reject the value of song interpretation? It's not about discovering some hidden message, like the daVinci Code, but if a song evokes a response in a listener it has objective meaning in that temporal moment. Putting that experience of listening to words is an important way to understand something both inner and outer, even if it's mainly to the benefit of the person written the comment. After all, that's what the actual songwriters are doing themselves. |
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| White Magic – Keeping The Wolves From The Door Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I believe she is singing about clinging to personal identity. Thefreedictionary.com gives one definition of "keeping the wolves from the door" as, "to maintain oneself at a minimal level; to keep from starving, freezing, etc." Taking this literally, she is singing about maintain her SELF but at the back of her mind she knows it is not real but still feels driven to cling to it. That is why she sings, "I was meant to go on hoping, Even though there's really no hope," The references are to illusion are obviously evocative of Buddhism's teaching of no-self. And yet there is "something" maintaining the belief. The next verse, "I wonder when you're older, You'll find there was a disappearance, Disappearance of the meaning that you had, that you had, that you, oh." Is plainly describing the time in a persons life around the college years when they begin to realize that all the foundational concepts that gave meaning to their life are breaking down. The other lyrics I can't say precisely what they mean, but they definitely can go along with this interpretation. I get a sense from the overall song of the uncomfortable ambivalence of recognizing the trouble caused by clinging to fear, not wanting to maintain the illusion of 'other', yet also realizing there are things outside of you that should be feared. Otherwise you end up going down some destructive paths. This is how I interpret the lyric about "thunder" ( a common childhood and animal fear of the unknown danger) and the "inner of my being" that you are always outside of (inside and outside create always necessitate each other), being infinite trouble. ... I just realized that the only other comment on here, which I slightly mentally scoffed at as I began to write this "serious" interpretation, was in fact my own from two years ago. There are so many levels of irony that this happened with this song in particular. |
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| Stereolab – Metronomic Underground Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Other than the first two lines, this song is almost directly quoting the DaoDeJing of Laozi. Chapter 56: "Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt the sharpness, untangle the tangles, soften your glare, merge with the dust. This is known as enigmatic unity And so one can neither be too familiar with nor too distant from them; One can neither benefit nor harm them; One can neither honor nor demean them, And so they are honored by the whole world." The DaoDeJing was written in response to the violent and insane times of the Warring States Period. When Stereolab sings "Crazy, sturdy, a torpedo; Crazy, brutal, a torpedo" they are criticizing war. Given the Daoist context, perhaps the change from "sturdy" to "brutal" is meant to show that a torpedo (national defense) isn't actually sturdy at all, it's just insane and disruptive. Real sturdyness is the sturdyness of calm tranquility and peace. |
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| Stereolab – Les Yper-sound Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I like both possibilities but does anyone else hear "Making more posits" rather than "Make 'em opposites" ? Both make sense | |
| The Shins – Those Bold City Girls Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Instead of "was ground from your whole empty youth." It's "resound". | |
| Chad Vangaalen – Freedom for a Policeman Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| So quirky punk | |
| Gruff Rhys – Conservation Conversation Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To me, this song is about the strange attitude modern culture has towards environmentalism and liberal ideals. On one hand you have the college age pseudo-hippies who love to have conversations about conservation but still live lives of comfort and capitalism that contradict this. This is best shown in the chorus: And as the conservation conversation Gets replaced by condensation And hot air *Hot air is an idiom for speaking insincerely Solar flare Human toll Remote control *Rhys is juxtaposing the solemn topic of murder from war, with the consumerism of watching TV. Now the lunches are devoured we will recline for an hour *Lunches being DEVOURED is an obvious word choice to show consumerism and then RECLINE is a reinforcement of the remote control thing. At the scenic nuclear power station *An oxymoron Hear the steady drip of condensation And the conservation conversation *Again reinforcing the idea of hot air The songs full of juxtaposition and oxymoron. The ending of him singing Conservation Conversation faster and faster makes me think that ultimately he's saying a Conservation Conversation is an oxymoron; in order to have real conservation people have to take action not just talk about it. |
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| Gruff Rhys – Conservation Conversation Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To me, this song is about the strange attitude modern culture has towards environmentalism and liberal ideals. On one hand you have the college age pseudo-hippies who love to have conversations about conservation but still live lives of comfort and capitalism that contradict this. This is best shown in the chorus: And as the conservation conversation Gets replaced by condensation And hot air Hot air is an idiom for speaking insincerely Solar flare Human toll Remote control Rhys is juxtaposing the solemn topic of murder from war, with the consumerism of watching TV. Now the lunches are devoured we will recline for an hour Lunches being DEVOURED is an obvious word choice to show consumerism and then RECLINE is a reinforcement of the remote control thing. At the scenic nuclear power station An oxymoron Hear the steady drip of condensation And the conservation conversation Again reinforcing the idea of hot air The songs full of juxtaposition and oxymoron. The ending of him singing Conservation Conversation faster and faster makes me think that ultimately he's saying a Conservation Conversation is an oxymoron; in order to have real conservation people have to take action not just talk about it. |
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| The Flaming Lips – Brainville Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think this song is making fun of college and how our society lies to itself about it's significance. | |
| Modest Mouse – Bankrupt on Selling Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Well, all the apostles, they're sitting in swings Saying, "I'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings And some sandals with the style of straps That cling best to the era" is referring, I think, to Amos 2 “because they sell righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals” |
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| Dirty Projectors – Two Doves Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Two Doves is a reference to the Song of Solomon "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes. " Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. Is also from Song of Solomon |
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| Noah Georgeson – Hand Me, Please, A City Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think he's talking about consumerism/capitalism. The 2nd verse is about the devaluing of human beings and the categorization effect of society. The third verse is about greed and entitlement, "Hand me please a city." "Hand me please an ocean," an ocean being the biggest thing one could imagine to own. The first verse about the elevation of material things: land, houses- A house is not a home, but western culture demands that it is. | |
| Neon Indian – Ephemeral Artery Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| femoral | |
| Panda Bear – We Built A Robot Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| No it's not. | |
| Pavement – Perfume-V Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| a docent is a guide or a teacher | |
| The Mountain Goats – The Day the Aliens Came (Hawaiian Feeling) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| 'And I will put my back foot forward' should be "best foot" | |
| Madvillain – Papermill Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Madvillainy 2 came out in 2008 | |
| M. Ward – A Voice At The End Of The Line Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| "call" "ring" "dialing your number" | |
| Belle & Sebastian – The State I Am In Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| or maybe he's saying that he's currently in the state Rhode Island. | |
| A Tribe Called Quest – Electric Relaxation Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's defiantly please settle down. Q-tip said so in an interview you can find on youtube. | |
| A Tribe Called Quest – Sucka Nigga Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| no, dome is your head. | |
| White Magic – Keeping The Wolves From The Door Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I love the way she pronounces "door" | |
| Department of Eagles – Waves of Rye Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| reminds me of catcher in the rye | |
| Department of Eagles – Waves of Rye Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| reminds me of catcher in the rye | |
| Joanna Newsom – Monkey & Bear Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tanzb%C3%A4r_1810.jpg | |
| Panda Bear – Bros Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| except the songs about his brother | |
| Super Furry Animals – The Gateway Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| hilarious | |
| Real Estate – Fake Blues Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| wonderful lyrics, wonderful music. | |
| Brazilian Girls – Sirenes De La Fete Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| translation anybody? | |
| Radiohead – Knives Out Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm pretty damn certain it's about Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 like the pavement song Hit The Plane Down. "He's bloated and frozen Still there's no point in letting it go to waste" "So knives out Catch the mouse Don't look down Shove it in your mouth" pretty obvious when you look at it that way |
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| Chad Vangaalen – Echo Train Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| eagle-bear, this song is about the transient nature of life, as you said, but nowhere do the lyrics suggest that Chad's dissing philosophical questions. If anything, this song's just the opposite. | |
| The Dodos – Park Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| this song resonates with me so much | |
| Times New Viking – My Head Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| phantom limb is a way cooler lyric anyways | |
| Animal Collective – Native Belle Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The tittle makes me think of native son ( a belle is a girl so it seems like a play off of that.) | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| i like dylan and and i like RHCP but I don't like this. | |
| Dr. Dog – Dutchman Falls Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song really plays with point of view. "Well, I knew she'd been unfaithful But he knew she had to pay So I grew to be more like him With each passing of each day" I think the "he" is his desire for revenge. "Each day" he needs vengeance more and more. There's some more stuff i could say but i don't really feel like thinking that hard |
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| The Dodos – Two Medicines Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| what's the point of having a life if your just going to numb everything out with drugs. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| woops | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| "Jack's in his corset, Jane is in her vest" The "her" is referring to Jack, meaning that he's a transvestite carrying marijuana in his vest pocket. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| "Jack's in his corset, Jane is in her vest" The "her" is referring to Jack, meaning that he's a transvestite carrying marijuana in his vest pocket. | |
| Sparklehorse – Everytime I'm With You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I get a very negative vibe from this. I don't think he really likes the fact that he's drunk all the time with his friend. It's like in The Wackness where that girl is afraid to hang out with this guy straight because they've always been high when they're around each other. | |
| Grandaddy – Lost on Yer Merry Way Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think it's about a person with a fear of commitment "Trouble with people like me, Tie 'em down and then they vanish instantly/ Let this one fly" | |
| Super Furry Animals – Inaugural Trams Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| kraftwerk. | |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Elmo Delmo Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| worst SM song ever | |
| Wilco – Red-Eyed and Blue Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| *while | |
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