| Laura Marling – Gurdjieff's Daughter Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Browns0286:2620] yeah it's what you said | |
| Laura Marling – Short Movie Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I have agonised and agonised over the first line of the second verse... I think it might be: "Buy the watercolour dry" but I am far from certain. |
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| Jason Lytle – Last problem of the Alps Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Love this song | |
| Sharon Van Etten – Give Out Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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My favourite song on Tramp...gorgeous. Her melancholic lovelorn songs are always my favourites! |
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| Wye Oak – Two Small Deaths Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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These lyrics are totally wrong, they appear to be the words for the title track 'Civilian'... Copy/paste fail Justus0? |
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| Jessica Lea Mayfield – Run Myself Into The Ground Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| <3 | |
| Fionn Regan – 100 Acres of Sycamore Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Please suggest any corrections! I am pretty sure on most of the lyrics, but I cannot tell what on earth he's rambling on about in the final part... Terrific song, there's so many themes woven together. The chorus seems to be about someone close to him with some kind of mental disorder; either depression or maybe something like schizophrenia. I'm not really sure how this ties together with the hedonism of the song's opening lyrics, the random pirate-themed penultimate verse, or the stream-of-consciousness of the final part. As ever with him, I suspect they are themes and narratives culled from literature he enjoys, I wonder if anyone has suggestions as to what those pieces might be! |
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| King Creosote – Bats in the Attic Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is so so beautiful. | |
| Radiohead – Little by Little Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I hear it as: Little by little by hook or by crook Never get NOTICED Never get judged ... |
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| David Ford – Panic (Dirt & Matchwood) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| fixed | |
| Josh Ritter – Thin Blue Flame Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Beautifully put. | |
| Josh Ritter – Thin Blue Flame Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I have problems construing this song as anything but anti-faith and anti-religion, even though there are plenty of people here that would disagree with me about that, so I guess it's the cynical lens that I'm looking through! :) I would argue that the song is talking about religious belief as a cause of (or at least an excuse for) global conflict. Particularly lines like "It's a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart | It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart." The extended poker metaphor appears to be central to that; just as they do with gambling, people get almost hypnotised by the language and imagery of religion ("In Royal City I fell into a trance") and they fall into the trap of aspiring to something that is virtually impossible - a Royal Flush - or the idea of God and Heaven. I think Ritter sympathises with the religious people that fall for the gambler's fallacy ; "Oh it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance." I would suggest he's saying that only by aiming for something more realistic ("Only a full house going to make it through") and grounded in rationality, will we start to avoid the conflicts he describes so vividly in the verse beginning "I became a thin blue stream". The full house metaphor takes on an interesting double-meaning, becoming almost a pun for the unity that we would all enjoy if we could only put the notion of religion aside. The ideal world he goes on to depict in the final verse is one that is free of such delusions ("I stopped looking for royal cities in the air"), and accordingly it is utopian. "Heaven" and "Angels" are ironically able to exist on earth because the conflicts created by religion are absent. The line "Heaven is so big there ain't no need to look up" would seem to suggest that the very thing religion promises us after we die is right here in front of us now, and if people could appreciate that, the world would more akin to the idyllic place he describes. Whatever it means though, and I'm still not certain, this is just an amazing piece of lyric-writing. They would make for a beautiful poem if taken away from the music (which I also love, don't get me wrong). Incredible use of imagery and themes, and so thought-provoking... makes you nauseous when you think about how meaningless and intellectually-barren commercial music is by comparison. I think I <3 Josh Ritter! |
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| Sharon Van Etten – Don't Do It Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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There were one or two spots where i was unsure of the words, if anyone else has corrections go for it :) such an awesome and powerful song, her voice is just total perfection. seems very obviously to be about her talking someone down from committing suicide |
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| Sharon Van Etten – Keep Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| so beautiful <3 | |
| Tom McRae – Summer of John Wayne Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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sensational, his best song in years... utterly smitten with this. |
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| David Ford – Hurricane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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this song is pure genius.... absolutely criminal that he can't get a record label to put out his album and keeps having to release these Pages Torn From The Electrical Sketchbook EPs :-( |
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| David Ford – Panic (Dirt & Matchwood) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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He said a few words by means of introduction before he performed it when I saw him last (his most-recent Bristol gig); about how the media and current political climate is all geared towards creating 'panic' and his own confusion as to how much of it is genuinely worth our fear and how much of it is designed to enable the government to erode civil liberties. From the lyrics though, I agree it does seem to be a real mish-mash of broader grievances with society that he has. Great polemic, even if we can't be sure what it's about! xD Also, purely for bragging rights, I got to play along with him on A Short Song About Shoes that night by strumming a Washboard! Giggity :D |
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| David Ford – Panic (Dirt & Matchwood) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| someone being negative would say this is completely the same as State of the Union in lyrical style and composition... but dammit i do not care! What a fantastic song, I love it when he's all acerbic. | |
| Muse – Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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if you don't think a rock band writing a symphony isn't ostentatious, what adjective would you use? you seem to have myopicly latched onto the negative connotations of the word I used, when it was clearly intended as praise. Go find someone else to flame :) |
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| Muse – Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It just boggles the mind that there is a band out there on a major label, making popular music that dares to have this level of artistic vision and sheer ambition. Even though a band writing a symphony is pretentious in the extreme, this is phenomenal stuff, you have to take your hat off to it. | |
| Grouper – Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Yay! <3 Grouper, this song is perfect. | |
| Liam Frost – The Mourners Of ST Paul Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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hehe none of you can spell 'seems'! lemons :P other than that your version is pretty much spot-on sophies, cheers |
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