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| Modest Mouse – A Different City Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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"They gave me a receipt that said I didn't buy nothing." When you die, you can't take anything with you. Not your money, not your knowledge, not even your physical body. It's like you spent your entire life filling these shopping bags that you never even get to leave the store with. |
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| Modest Mouse – Dark Center of the Universe Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This album (and this song specifically) deals a lot with the observation of opposite things, and the ultimate realization that they all identically cheat you anyway, and so it doesn't matter... |
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| Bright Eyes – Happy Accident Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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conor's voice sounds excellent in this.
"you want a life that you cannot live, but that's what keeps you competitive"
love it. |
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| Los Campesinos! – Who Fell Asleep In Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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"I think too much about the end, but being around it made me feel like I'm coping.
Now when I view the cemetery I don't see headstones,
I see rows of engraved milk teeth, hungry, waiting for me"
And though I am fearful, I think I just crave the relief
Oh man, how good is that part? |
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| Nada Surf – Treading Water Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I love the "we both stand there politely trying to change each other’s core" line. The missionary is trying to get him to believe in something he can't, and he's trying to get the missionary to stop believing in something he does, and it's so relatable to everyday life; people are always trying to change other people into something more like theirselves, maybe so they won't feel so alone, but they can't. |
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| Say Anything – Less Cute Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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"everytime i see your face, i die inside
everytime i see your face, i die inside"
is what's being sung in the background at the end |
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| Miniature Tigers – Like Or Like-Like Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i think this is about a young, innocent crush; you can tell they're young because of the "like-like" and the verse about him doorbell ditching her (like how younger kids will tease the person they like) |
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| Manchester Orchestra – I Remember That I Wanted To Kiss/Kill You Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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you can find this one here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WT42V6S1. it's marked as one of the 'new song's (i think it's the third one? if i remember correctly). it was recorded around december '08, though, so idk about it being something that'll end up on the new album. |
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| Devon Williams – Sufferer Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The "praying outside..." part is likely really off, so if anyone knows the correct lyrics, feel free to post them. |
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| Crime in Stereo – ...But You Are Vast Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Heroin = metaphor. It being the most harmful/addicting drug, he's comparing the person to it to show just how bad they are for him. "You are the bent and blackened spoon..." is obviously not him talking to the heroin; he's talking to the person this song's about. |
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| Say Anything – Death For My Birthday Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Indeed you were, gunny.
For anyone that's interested, you can find an analysis for each of the new songs here: http://www.altpress.com/features/txtsayanything.htm |
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| Say Anything – Death For My Birthday Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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"This song is another example of something I find inherently wrong with society and it comes from a different place. I'm a pretty spiritual and religious guy--not traditionally religious by any means--but very cerebral. One of the things that is promoted in spiritually is this understanding of death being a kind of gate to another world and that life isn't the only thing that exists in the life of your soul. Life on earth is only one part of it, but I think there are people who become obsessed with that notion. I've even been guilty of that at certain moments, but I'm a pretty live-in-the-moment kind of guy. Some people forget that life is important and their fascination with death or the idea that it will take you to a perfect place keeps them from living their life as if it's their only life. This song is about someone who drifts through this middle-of-the-road life and never really feels emotions strongly or is thankful for what they have because they're so focused on the notion that they will eventually die. They believe this life doesn't matter because it's all temporary, and I completely disagree with that. I believe in the afterlife and that earth is only one perception that we will be experiencing for a certain amount of time, and that there's more to it than that. I think that you have to love it for what it is and treat it as the most important thing in the world." -Maxim |
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| Say Anything – I Could Be President Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I feel like this one is along the same lines as "An Insult to the Dead" in that he's afraid of sitting around and not contributing to the world ("sleeping in"). Was this the Song Shop song? |
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| Sigur Rós – Olsen Olsen Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Something about this song just makes me feel so clear-headed and unlimited. I love the la la la's around six minutes in-ish. |
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| The Menzingers – Richard Coury Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song is of course alluding to Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem, "Richard Cory" - which for anyone who isn't familiar, is about an incredibly wealthy and envied man who (to the surprise of everyone who 'knows' him) kills himself at the end of the poem. I believe Simon & Garfunkel also have a song based on the poem, if anyone's interested. |
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