| Mika – Over My Shoulder Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I bet that most people dont know that this song is actually on the album. Listening to this song is like being hipnotized gently in to a state of unconsciousness. Its mesmerising when your in the mood. | |
| Mika – Lollipop Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| GR8 SONG! Yer, his says 'bore' on the album and 'whore' live. | |
| Keane – Hamburg Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Hamburg Song was written in America - I seem to remember writing it on a guitar in the back of the bus. But the first time we ever got together and did a demo of it, was in Hamburg on a tour last year [it was 2004].We had a really great day - it was the first time we'd done any work on any new songs and we had a day off so we went into a studio and just worked on some new demos, and Hamburg Song was one of them. It was just labelled on the tape box as "Hamburg Song" and we never got round to changing it. Somehow the name seemed to fit really well with the song. Lyrically I guess it's about... again, it's a bit like Atlantic, it's about a fear of what we've got slipping away and I guess it's a plea just to remember what a great thing it is to have a bond between people. And even if you all go off and you do different things and you make different friends and have all these adventures as people do - it's just a plea that at the end of it all you're still the backstop in someone's life, as it were. When we demoed it up, we did it very very simply, and then started to play it live a little bit and we played it very very simply, and Tom's just playing an organ on it. And there was definitely a temptation to turn it into this big ballad, and we just felt ... we actually tried it; we thought we better try it, so we tried putting some drums on it, and that song is all about atmosphere - in fact the whole record, the most important thing was to capture an atmosphere. And we just felt that the best way to do that with Hamburg Song was the way that we'd done it to start off with, which was really really stripped back and simple, so we kept it that way." - Tim - Podcast 3 (30th May 2006) |
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| Keane – The Frog Prince Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"It's a reaction to a certain singer who seemed to make it his mission to slag us off at every point, but really didn't seem to be being true to himself, or to have understood what we are. We don't want to get into some tabloid slanging match, but we just felt like he was acting a part, and really pretending to be someone he is not. We really feel that you don't have to be all glitzy and tabloid to make good music, and that there's a bond between musicians and artists that should be held up - why not talk about a band you love or a song that inspired you?" - Richard - ilikemusic.com - Source "Well another theme that runs through the record is the idea of a surreal and sinister kinda fairytale world gone wrong. And that runs through A Bad Dream, Crystal Ball, Broken Toy and the whole thing of The Iron Sea definitely has a slightly macabre unreal feel to it, and I think The Frog Prince is the most literal expression of that. Again, a bit like Leaving So Soon?, it was written on behalf of all three of us. It was inspired by a conversation that Tom and I were having in a slightly drunken state in a hotel in Toronto, and we were talking about someone in another band who we felt was a really talented songwriter and really intelligent and talented person, but we felt he was busy bad-mouthing us and every other band that was around it seemed. It was very frustrating to see him go from a cool great songwriter in a small indie band, to suddenly becoming this person who's playing the part of the arrogant rock star. And I guess we in some stupid way felt that was some sort of betrayal, because you feel that you're part of a community of bands and people who started at kind of at the same time. So that song was a defence of us, and it's a plea not to betray who you actually are, in the hope of impressing other people. And I guess it's using the idea of this sinister fairytale as a way of manifesting the weird world of the media and so on, and if you wander into it thinking you can say whatever you want then people encourage you to play a part. But they'll just as soon stab you in the back, as give you a big hug and tell you how wonderful you are. It's very dangerous game to play, and it ends up with you ceasing to be who you really are. And we've always, rather naively, tried to get by on being completely who we are, and being completely honest about who we are and being completely honest about who we are - and a lot of people really respect that, but on the other hand it leaves you exposed, you don't have a shield up of any sort; so that's what the song is about." - Tim - Podcast 6 (19th June 2006) |
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| John Legend – Ordinary People Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I heard this song last night. It touched me in a special way. What I mean to say by that is upon hearing it I entirely lost faith in the music industry and had the sudden urge to vomit and deffecate at the same time. The lyrics are so magnificantly cliche and redundant. "We're just ordinary people, We don't know which way to go, Cause we're ordinary people," Thanks, John, I forgot that you were ordinary people while you were telling me you don't know which way to go. The ryhming isn't consistant throughout the song either. He seems to be using three or four different pairings. I suppose it's more convenient to write that way though, whenever you can't make it ryhme just change styles. These lyrics are so poorly writen they almost trump the music and vocals in sheer artistic failure. The man can't sing, and the piano sounds like it's being improvised by a twelve year old boy. John Legend has proven through this song that he's not an ordinary person. He's on the high side of absolutely unacceptable at best. Nothing more needs to be said. Since you all seem to think this song is so great I have a website you might like to visit. www.thearc.org I'm sure you'll all fit right in. Congratulations "Davematthewsgrl7"! Because of the complete and utter stupidity of your comment you get your own section. What exactly about this song is so realistic? That it talks about working out your problems on step at a time? Thousands upon thousands of songs, movies, books and television shows have presented the same message, though never, to my knowledge, as poorly as this. John Legend sucks. Idiot. Oridinary People is a masterpiece in my opinion, and you do know T.S.I.B you dont have to rhyme all the time. In fact, its better when you dont. I mean i can write a song in five minuets with great ryhming consistency, but it still doesn't mean it's a great song.This is a brilliant song that is both relevant and thoughtful, and it is thoes things that matter most to people. Personally, i think you need to buy a inflatable doll to reduce your boredom. |
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| Keane – Atlantic Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "Well Atlantic was the first thing that we recorded for the record, and it was actually gonna be a b-side. It was weird - it was just a very very scrappy demo. To be honest, I don't think any of us had really thought that it could be a really great song, or a great piece of music or anything; but Richard started playing this weird thing on the drums - we had some drums from the demo and he started playing out-of-time with them, sort of half a beat behind them. And it created this weird, incredible drum pattern which was funky and industrial, and it just brought the whole song to life and it immediately started to sound amazing. It's a piece of music that I'm really really proud, and I think we're all really really proud of as a band. It's a great example of a piece of music that we've all contributed to, and it wouldn't be the song that it is unless we all put something special into it. The reason it's the first song on the record, is because it's got such an incredible atmosphere to it, and I guess it's about having a terror of being alone - it sets the mood of the record really well, both musically and lyrically." - Tim - Podcast 2 (22nd May 2006) | |
| Keane – He Used To Be A Lovely Boy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Agreed. Keane's most underated song.should of been on the album along with Let it Slide. | |
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