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| Elliott Smith – Tomorrow Tomorrow Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This might be totally off, and forgive me if this has already been said. But I think there's a fair argument for the song being written to his mother. His mother constantly told him that he was a failure and wasn't going anywhere. He didn't listen to her pleeding for him to give up his career in music, though. So he was deaf, he was dumb for continuing and he was done, over. And "Give yourself another talk" instead of talking to me. I dunno. Just an idea. |
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| Elliott Smith – No Name #2 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I agree with most of the stuff TheReasoanbleMan said, I just don't think it's about pregnancy. I think ScribnerVillage said about her breaking up with him is more on the spot. "No more situations I only go in to get kicked out." |
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| Elliott Smith – No Name #4 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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He did say he did not write about personal events. He also said that none of his songs ever meant anything, he just "Thought they sounded cool," which we know is a lie. I'm not saying that he did write about personal events, and that THAT was a lie, I'm just saying it's a possibility. He hated the thought of everyone who listened to his music linking it to his personal life.
My thoughts when I listened to this song were the same as lisalynn's. |
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| Quasi – California Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I was 90% sure it was "Life is dull, life is grey..." But yeah, I love this song. |
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| Elliott Smith – Speed Trials Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is the first time I'm reading the lyrics, I didn't really know what they were before. I think they get better as they go along. I actually never would've thought it was about drug use, but now that I think about it... Yeah, what Fearnotofman said about meeting the dealer makes sense. So the dealer is the one who thinks he's above everyone else. |
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| Elliott Smith – Between the Bars Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This has probebly already been said but I just read the first two comments, and I always thought that "between the bars" was like he was in prison, or who he was singing to was. Lately I've been wondering if he was sort of admiring someone from afar and he had to hold himself back, and stay behind bars. |
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| Quasi – It's Hard To Turn Me On Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Is it possible they're talking about Elliott Smith's point of view, here? "I tell you what I dreamed"- in the song "Don't Go Down" by Elliott, for example he says "She Had a dream, woke up in shock..." And of course they were all "swallowed by the work machine" together. They went on tours together, "We traveled many miles to no guarantee." And perhaps they feel that nothing makes Elliott happy, not even Walt Disney. |
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| Quasi – It's Hard To Turn Me On Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Is it possible they're talking about Elliott Smith's point of view, here? "I tell you what I dreamed"- in the song "Don't Go Down" by Elliott, for example he says "She Had a dream, woke up in shock..." And of course they were all "swallowed by the work machine" together. They went on tours together, "We traveled many miles to no guarantee." And perhaps they feel that nothing makes Elliott happy, not even Walt Disney. |
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| Quasi – I Never Want To See You Again Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I really like this song. It's one of the Quasi songs thaat really developes as it goes on. It starts out one way, but by the end it's something completely different. In the lyrics, though; they start with this one idea "atmospheric gasses cannot remain with dirt," then it moves into another idea, this idea that you grasp at the stars but they're too far away, then the lyrics move almos to the idea at the beginning. "I never want to see you again"- "Atmospheric gasses cannot remain with dirt." |
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| Quasi – Our Happiness Is Guaranteed Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This isn't very accurate, I'm pretty sure it's "We Fill our tanks with oxygen and step outside our homes," no "and" before the "I can't tell the difference between people and machine. "love WAS THE" problem for our ancestors;" "News FROM the surface shows how hard life there can be." No "and" before "every little thing is stricktly monitored."
All the inacuracies here, aside, I do love this song, and the lyrics are so good! It has alot of hidden meanings, but it's also just really well written. |
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| Quasi – Nothing From Nothing Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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If you want to right a song, Jerms, right it and submit it.
Now, if you want to try to do some annalysing here, it's pretty obvious what these lyrics mean... |
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| Quasi – I Give Up Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I haven't heard this song, looks good. Anyone know where I could find it? |
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| Pixies – Gigantic Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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iheartboston! That actually makes a large deal of sense. It also makes sense that people wouldn't see the intended sarcasm. Sarcasm and satire are really hard to get across in songs, I wrote a song entitled Pity Me, that was intended to be satire. My friend took one look at it, looked at me, called it emo, and walked away. |
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| Pixies – Gigantic Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Although the thing everyone has been saying about "BBC" makes perfect sense in the song, I just want to mention something. Couldn't Gigantic be the size of his [i]heart[/i]? Even more than that, gigantic could be how much she loves him, "A big big love." |
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| Elliott Smith – Strung Out Again Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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An incredible heart-wrenching song, Strung Out Again has odd chords and seemingly misplaced cymbol crashes. If the song doesn't capture the feeling of being Strung Out Again, it sure makes you feel that way. The majority of the song has guitar that is not all that distorted, but every now and then he throws in this harsh build of some distorted scale-mode, accentuated by those misplaced cymbol crashes I noted before. All, this, without even paying attention to the amazing lyrics, it is a truely amazing piece of artwork. |
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| Elliott Smith – A Fond Farewell Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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One of the most upbeat songs, has the most depressing and thought provoking imagery and lyrics. Lines like:
"the dying man in a living room
who's shadow paces the floor"
Really make you think. For one, notice he said THE dying man in A living room. Why is the man the noun that gets the importance? Also, his shadow paces the floor. It could be literal, it would make sense to say that since he is pacing the floor, not knowing when he'll die, his shadow is too. However, shadow could also be figurative. The shadow of all the great things he used to do before he ruined his life. His former self is pacing the floor, almost the way a worried mother would do when she finds out her son, who is really a good kid, did something wrong. The small part of him that is still what he used to be, is wondering why he did what he did, and regretting it. |
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| Elliott Smith – Waltz #2 Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song isn't so obvious. What I get from it is that he used to have it in for this girl, but then she left him, and got with another guy. He sort of pitties this guy because this girl isn't as special as she seems. Then things start to go wrong between them, and they call him to ask him for help. And he claims to have forgotten everything about her. His memory's remote he only remembers things he chooses. And he's only choosing to remember the present. It's easier to hate her, when he doesn't remember all the good times they had. "Looking out on a subsitute scene," she's married to this guy who is pretty much fullfilling the same role he had before.
Now he seems almost like a child at camp, he's all alone. When you are at camp you mother sends letters to see how you're doing. You miss everyone terribly, but you say, "It's okay, it's alright, nothings wrong." Then you talk to the new friends of yours about your problems, and the councelor comes over to talk to him. The councelor never really helps, and tells you things you should do to keep your mind off things, alot of the time it's things you can't do. And then you begin to wish you were back where it all made sense, and you could do the things you had to do.
His biggest problem is that he remembers the times he had with this horrible girl, that were actually really fun. That, however, was a different girl, who does not actually exist. Since she doesn't exist, he can't ever know her. Thus, "I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you, anyhow." |
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| Elliott Smith – A Passing Feeling Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It is quite obviously about his addiction to drugs. And how he was doing so well accomplishing so many things, and then "blew it all to hell." Now, all he can do is wait until he can buy more of the drugs that will give him a feeling of happiness, though it'd pass soon after. Though, without it he wouldn't "exist at all." He regrets getting himself into all of this, and he "sends a request for relief." Or else the relief he is requesting IS the drugs, I'm not certain. Either way it's quite obvious that he regrets it, but knows he can't get rid of the addiction, at least not on his own. |
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| Elliott Smith – Don't Go Down Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is another one of those songs from From A Basement, that I hated when I first heard it, and now I couldn't love it anymore. I don't think it's at all about a guy who is telling a girl that he loves her when he doesn't.
I think it's about how he found a girl who he thought was a "snowball in hell." While the girl might've liked him, she couldn't deal with how her parents thought the exact opposite of him. The dream she had of her body outlined in chalk shows that she thought she could die if she continued trying to be with him with her parents yelling in her ear about it. Then she left him, and "leaned/beamed down to kiss him from the sun." So she was in a better place, because her parents weren't complaining anymore, but she still likes him, and the kiss is almost appologetic. |
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| Elliott Smith – Don't Go Down Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is another one of those songs from From A Basement, that I hated when I first heard it, and now I couldn't love it anymore. I don't think it's at all about a guy who is telling a girl that he loves her when he doesn't.
I think it's about how he found a girl who he thought was a "snowball in hell." While the girl might've liked him, she couldn't deal with how her parents thought the exact opposite of him. The dream she had of her body outlined in chalk shows that she thought she could die if she continued trying to be with him with her parents yelling in her ear about it. Then she left him, and "leaned/beamed down to kiss him from the sun." So she was in a better place, because her parents weren't complaining anymore, but she still likes him, and the kiss is almost appologetic. |
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| Oingo Boingo – Just Another Day Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I love this song so much, it has so much meaning. I am a huge Oingo Boingo fan, have every album but Good For Your Soul. The one thing about this song is that one of the best parts is not in any lyrics I've found. At the end of the song, the rest of the band starts repeating "It's just another day," while Danny sings out something that is pretty unrecognizable. I have come to believe he is saying "Please heal my heart." It is slightly easier to hear on the Boingo Alive version. |
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