| Andrew Bird – Skin Is, My Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The lady he's with sounds kind of awful to me- slamming the door, a bird of prey? Not flattering descriptions. And while the song is catchy and happy, the lyrics really aren't... There's a sense of disconnect and unhappiness. It's her bones resting on his, not her body... It just seems more negative than it sounds. | |
| Andrew Bird – Hot Math Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's on the second CD of Noble Beast, which can be found illegally online or legally in stores, virtual or physical, I assume! | |
| Lali Puna – Faking The Books Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What I got from this was a sense of covering up the imperfections of life. In a relationship, maybe she knows she's not in love, that it won't last, or that she's not ready for or able to be the person she's been trying to be. | |
| Good Old War – Weak Man Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'd say he's trying to convince a girl that he's being sincere in his advances and in his feelings. She seems to be cautious or distrustful, and he's trying to reassure her that he's being candid and honestly feels a lot for her, and wants to keep their relationship strong, as it's the only thing they've both got. | |
| Frightened Rabbit – The Twist Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Haha, this feels like it's from the perspective of a high school prom date, especially with the reference to the tie and the dress long enough it has to be lifted to see her shins. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"And here's where your mother sleeps And here is the room where your brothers were born Indentions in the sheets Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore And it's so sad to see the world agree That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes" If we're going with the reincarnation idea, I feel like this is crying out to the world that all the suffering we've ever seen, see today, and ever will see- These things happen to us, our families, if not in this life, then in others. The faces filled with flies always feels like it's referring to starving Africans suffering from genocide, civil war and rebellion, drought, and global indifference. At the very least, that bits obviously not about Anne. She had a sister, no brothers. The fact that the room where the mother sleeps and the brothers were born are juxtaposed like that gives me the feeling of a third world, otherwise they'd probably have been born in a hospital. |
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| Smokey & Miho – Blue Glasses Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is great! The beat, the way she sings... It's a great song to dance to. The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory, though it's pretty obvious that English is not the first language of the speaker. It's beautiful. | |
| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I haven't looked through all the pages... But I think the arrogance of the speaker is interesting. I think it's as much a backlash against the Holier-than-thou friends who have these interventions as a lament for self-destructive people. The speaker, of course, has been right all along. He smiles politely, he tells his friend everything he's done wrong. I could see it as the speaker reflecting back on what he did wrong, distancing him from his friend and not being to reach him because of his arrogance. | |
| Incubus – Echo Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"It reminded me twice that I was alive And it reminded me that you're so worth the fight My biggest fear will be the rescue of me" Personally, I think that the rescue of "me" is rescuing him from the numbness and detachment that is present when one forgets that one is alive, maybe a mental illness, depression, perhaps? In my experience anyway. The same might be true for the rescure of "you", since people tend to fall in love with people who understand each other and may have the same problems. |
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| Counting Crows – Colorblind Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| As a very personal meaning, I always relate this song to my girlfriend Nicole. She has a lot of problems, it's very difficult to elicit any of her out of her shell at times... Whenever I hear this song, I think of her: When her emotions have overloaded into numbness and she can't feel anything, when she feels too much and has to release it, and the times when she's sobbing and shaking like a leaf, and it's all I can do to hold her tight and love her with all of my being. | |
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