| The Microphones – Great Ghosts Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[spaceness:4187] I think that's an excellent interpretation. I'm still deciding whether he is talking about former selves or if he's referring to previous love(s). Beautiful song! | |
| The Microphones – I Was Afraid All Of The Day Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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After my first read-through, I think this might be about either depression or being overly cautious about opening up to others after being hurt (possibly betrayed). From a few select lines, it becomes clear that the depressive feelings are cyclic: "I'm familiar with this way / I face this fear / I've been a slave" but the narrator also knows what it feels like to feel normal: "I've held a torch - it's gone away" I think the torch is referring to the concept of the Glow, which is a recurring theme in Phil's music. My interpretation of the Glow is that it's some transcendental happiness that comes and goes. The end of the song is about how, even though the narrator knows the depression/Glow cycle repeats and will continue to repeat, he can't help but scorn the idea of the Glow ever coming back: "And now I look the moon in the face / And in my fear, I curse its grace" He doesn't want to get his hopes up again. |
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| The Strokes – I'll Try Anything Once Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| After further thinking about it, this could have been just an artistic variation, but the intent is still clear. The lyrics could be someone telling another's birth story, perhaps a grandfather or father talking to a grandson or son, respectively. Sounds like the narrator is relaying what he's figured out about life, and he talks about how he wouldn't change anything if he did it all again. | |
| The Strokes – I'll Try Anything Once Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Okay, I found out the correct lyrics for "---- you were born in 1984." The correct lyrics are: That's when you were born in 1984 He must have slurred these words together in the official recording, but Julian clearly pronounced those two words at a live concert. A video can be watched of him saying it on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74cWQ8hDqY#t=84 Skip to 1:24 if it does not do so automatically. |
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| The Strokes – I'll Try Anything Once Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Also agreed, sounds like "son" to me. The word son almost completely changes the meaning of the song, too, as the whole song could be about a father/grandfather giving advice to his son about growing into the world. Even if this isn't what the song actually means, I like this interpretation. | |
| Eels – Skywriting Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Interesting, the first impression I got from this song is that E was breaking up with a girlfriend. She should "go on" her own way, he'll be fine going in his direction, and that they are breaking up because they are simply going in different ways rather than there being a conflict. Looking out over the sea means that when she thinks of E, look to the sky and know that he's doing fine. Though I'm sure now by reading comments that it was about death instead. |
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| Eels – Susan's House Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Perhaps the whole idea of "Susan's house" is that in order to cope with the tragedies that he highlighted throughout the song, he reverts back to a need for a maternal figure to tell him "everything's fine" and to comfort him. Possibly a significant other. | |
| Eels – Susan's House Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| That part is interesting too. I think the part about walking on symbolizes how E has to learn to ignore the ugly parts of the world to keep himself from extreme depression. Susan symbolizes E's focus on the positive parts of life even though he is surrounded by woe. | |
| Eels – Susan's House Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Watch the music video and you get a better idea where they were coming from. | |
| Eels – Susan's House Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I agree with this interpretation. What I felt from the song and the video was that E simply took a walk down his neighborhood streets and did nothing but observe. He identified the problems everyone goes through, the ways people try to cope with such problems, and the complete unpredictability of life (remember the murdered child). | |
| Chris Bathgate – Serpentine Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Here are my line guesses -- it's good to hear his articulations on the official music video of his on youtube. I'll post just the lines I fix. stanza 1, line 1 My lone stone in my day's all serpentine stanza 1, line 2 The tired tiredness in my chest rests and subsides stanza 2, line 1 Now your thin frame has set my eyes to fray stanza 2, line 2 On our dim stretch of this street, how it aches stanza 2, line 3 for every gray and sad [impart to coil] (possibly) |
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| Eminem – Square Dance Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's actually "Fuckin' assassins hijackin' Amtraks crashin'" Amtrak is a train company, thus the noise of the train horn in the background. The other corrections are good though. |
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| Eminem – Stay Wide Awake Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Also, this line: Jabba the Hut, be de ba ba be de ba ba, it's time to da da Should be changed to: Jabba the Hutt, Betty-ba-ba, Betty-ba-ba, it's time to die die |
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| Eminem – Stay Wide Awake Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Great song.. the lyrics are a bit grim but the flow and rhythm of it is what makes this song great. | |
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