| Voxtrot – Berlin, Without Return Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"kino eye" is presumably a specific reference to the soviet film director dziga vertov, who advanced the theory of the same name in the 1920s - basically it's the idea that when we see the world through a camera, the camera becomes an extension of ourselves, like a new mechanical eye. his most famous film was "man with a movie camera", which was partially inspired by an earlier film "berlin: symphony of a city". |
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| The Mountain Goats – Prowl Great Cain Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| "Like a caterpillar crawling out along the surface of the blade" is a reference to a line from Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now: "I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving." | |
| This Beautiful Mess – Up the Barricades Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| les misérables? | |
| God Help the Girl – If You Could Speak Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Got out of bed and I put on my sunsuit Blue checky shirt and a dress Nothing was left for a girl in pyjamas No breakfast, no kindness, no cake Girl, if you could speak you'd know what to do Age has left a gift with you Rent a cheap secondhand crystal ball I will trust my future to you Got out of bed when the springs wouldn't have me They fired me up like a gun Fell into my suit and I walked out to breakfast Green leaves and blue sky and sun Boy, if you could speak you'd know what to do You'd sit and let the world go round Remember all you saw and tell it back In the stories when the day is done Remember all you saw and tell it back In the stories when the day is done |
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| Morrissey – The Girl Least Likely To Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't recall where I first read this, but this song has almost precisely the same tune as the Cookies' "Only to Other People". It's uncanny! (But quite reasonable, as Morrissey is a fan of theirs!) | |
| The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir – Fan Club Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is terrific. Where are all the SYGC fans on SongMeanings?!! | |
| Belle & Sebastian – This Is Just a Modern Rock Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is exactly as long as my walk to school. It always makes me my mornings much better. | |
| Voxtrot – The Start of Something Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| So when she says "My vote is as red as my blood"... is she a Socialist or a Republican? | |
| Black Kids – I've Underestimated My Charms (Again) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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'like many a mael/i've got angst in my pants' is a reference to the mael brothers (sparks)' brilliant record (and song) 'angst in my pants'. quite a sparksy tune, really. one of my favourite tracks of 2007. |
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| John Vanderslice – White Dove Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is the saddest song ever. | |
| Cold War Kids – Sermons vs. the Gospel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this is about "Franny & Zooey" by J.D. Salinger. For instance, Franny's obsession with the Jesus Prayer - "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me", and her inner struggle against American culture (materialism and an utter lack of "wisdom"). Once it is suggested she see a psychoanalyst, but that is firmly struck down by her brother Zooey. Later they discuss their brother Seymour telling Zooey to "shine your shoes for the Fat Lady"... | |
| The Decemberists – On the Bus Mall Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this is like the sad cousin of "piccadilly palare". | |
| Guster – Dissolve Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Is the line "It's true we aren't immune" a reference to the line "and it's true we are immune" from U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday? I've always wondered. | |
| The Shins – A Comet Appears Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this feels like a teenage boy reading 'thus spoke zarathustra' for the first time at sleep-away bible camp in the middle of some mid-western forest. and i mean that in the best way possible. | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Underwater (You and Me) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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balumpus - it reminded me of the Waterboys too! Particularly 'we're struck by the still of the moon' reminds me a lot of the chorus of 'Whole of the Moon'. This song also reminds me a lot of some of Eno's earlier stuff, for some reason... Kind of 'St. Elmo's Fire'. Anyway, it's definitely my favorite track from the album. |
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| The Cure – Mint Car Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| According to Robert Smith, the song is called "Mint Car" because whenever bassist Simon Gallup got a new car (a "mint" car) he'd be very happy, and thus within the band they came to associate the phrase "mint car" with being happy. | |
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