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| Weezer – Back to the Shack Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I think you're spot on for the most part. i would like to ad that I think the line "And if we die in obscurity/Oh well, at least we raised some hell", to me, refers to the band's dwindling sales. They used to sell millions for records, and I think their last record sold less than 100,000. "Obscurity" seems to be an acknowledgment that they aren't as famous/well-liked as they once were. |
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| Conor Oberst – Gentleman's Pact Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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"isn't it "thought i'd die young with my true love, thought i'd be a millionaire"?"
I've heard those lyrics in a live version of the song, but the EP version is definitely "I tried to die young with my true love, ended up a millionaire". |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Child Bride Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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From the Nebraska demos, this song is the lyrical predecessor of "Working On The Highway", which would later appear on the Born In The U.S.A. album. |
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| Pearl Jam – Bee Girl Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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That song at the end (the one that goes "so all you fools
who sing just like him") is called "4/20/02", and it's about Layne Staley of Alice In Chains. Layne was found dead on April 20th 2002. |
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| Local H – California Songs Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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cbake76, this is my take on it: I think he's referring to how people from the West Coast talk about California as if it were some sort of paradise (i.e. "heaven"). So I think "your heaven is a lie" in this sense is another reference to California. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – If I Had A $1000000 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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*mLe* said: ShiverForMe...are you serious that you didn't know that we use dollars in canada? ..shame, shame what did you think we used?
Well, I always thought you used some sort of system by which you traded trinklets for goods and services. I was way off. LOL. Anyway, this song is hilarious, "but not a real green dress, that's cruel" and "a Picasso or a Garfunkel" are my favorite lines. |
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| Local H – Nothing Special Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think it's about feeling that you don't have much of a future. Everything's sort of laid out before you and you know that you're going to spend the rest of your life working some dead end nine to five job, scratching lotto tickets in the vain hope that you'll win big and be able to change things. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Nothing Man Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think both interpretations are good (the 9/11 interpretation and the suicide interpretation). I tend to agree with the latter. When I first heard the song I got the feeling that it was about a depressed guy who throws in the towel and ends his life. The utter emptiness in the statement "I am the nothing man" really gets to me, definitely a feeling I can relate to. I could be totally off on this one, but I think the "pearl and silver" line might be a reference to a pearl-handled pistol. |
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| Bob Dylan – My Back Pages Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I've always loved the line "Fearing not that I'd become my enemy/In the instant that I preach", but I'm not sure I completely understand it. Is he saying that by "preaching" he unwittingly became his enemy, or is he saying that even if he does preach he still won't become his enemy? |
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| Bob Dylan – With God on Our Side Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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First off, Hitler was not a Christian. This is a quote by Hitler: "National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.... Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things."
Now, back to the song: I love this song, especially the lines "For you don't count the dead/When God's on your side". |
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| Local H – California Songs Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Great song. It seems that there are many people who think that nothing worth knowing about happens outside of Cali or NY, and the Midwest is always overlooked. This song is a big F.U. to those people. |
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| Local H – O.K. Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Like TusseyTheTerrible this song reminds me of Kurt Cobain. I think CrysC is probably right about the song's meaning, but every time I hear it I think of Cobain. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Vanilla Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Here's my take on the song: A guy likes a girl. She doesn't realise it, but pretty much everyone else does. The line "I am vanilla" confused be a bit, but I think maybe he's saying that he's plain or ordinary. He can't have her because she's special and he's just too plain (i.e. vanilla). |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Pastichio Medley Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I agree with ajhodges, it was a bit frustrating when they'd start a really good riff, and then a few seconds later the song would move on to something else. As for why they called it Pastichio Medley, I think maybe it was a play on the word "pastiche", defined by dictionary .com as:
1. a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
2. an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge. |
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| Hole – Bless Me Father Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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As soon as I made my last post I remembered where I found it. This page has the version that's here on songmeanings: http://www.courtney-love.org/en/audio.htm |
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| Hole – Bless Me Father Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I've heard this version of the song. I found it on a Hole/Courtney Love site, but I can't remember which one. However, there is another version of the song, it's quite different, you can find in the "aural" section of moonwashedrose.com, it's part of the March 10 1999 San Francisco show. If I find the version that's posted here again, I'll come back and add a link. |
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