| Happy Mondays – Step On Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[georgiecasey:48994] Your "melon" is your head. "You're twisting my melon" means "you're talking in circles, full of doublespeak, trying to confuse me" | |
| Butthole Surfers – Let's Talk About Cars Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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All I know is that listening to this song very high, I decided to cut the sleeves off of most of my t-shirts. Now, I have...... new t-shirts. |
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| Phish – Farmhouse Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[EaglesWings:29082] +1 For writing a comment about the meaning of the song :) | |
| Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[TampaDude:29052] It would work better if it were "He's a-headed west FOR the Cumberland Gap, THROUGH Johnson City, TN". Philly - Roanoake - Johnson City - Cumberland Gap is a westward route..... But the way they sing it sounds real good :) |
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| Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[TampaDude:29051] It would work better if it were "He's a-headed west FOR the Cumberland Gap, THROUGH Johnson City, TN". Philly - Roanoake - Johnson City - Cumberland Gap is a westward route..... But the way they sing it sounds real good :) |
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| Dixie Cups – Iko Iko Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[scottyboyd:22884] Ok, first of all, you don't know me. When I say I've researched the song, you don't know how *much* I've researched or what I know. You're being rather presumptuous, unless your goal is keyboard warrioring, in which case I guess you're doing fine. I'm not the person you want to talk down to, though, because I'm very likely on your side, and will respond to new information positively. I can learn from this experience, whether or not you talk down to me. I never said the song was a "funny story"; I was talking about my story of me and my friend being clueless. How you took that to mean I thought the song was a "funny story", I have no idea. The song itself is not funny, and your outrage is appropriate. Had I known the background you're talking about, would I have commented in a way that is blind to that? Hell no. My flippancy, and willing to indulge in word play - not mockery of slavery - is a result of having looked only a little bit into the history of the song, and knowing that it had something to do with Mardi Gras. When I claimed to understand the song pretty well, that was clearly the Dunning Kruger effect, having its way with me. If you've never screwed up like that, good job. Now that you've told me more about the song, I have an entirely different opinion about it. Thank you for the education. |
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| Dixie Cups – Iko Iko Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[scottyboyd:22797] I actually understand the song pretty well, having researched it. I was telling a funny story, the point of which you seem to have missed. | |
| Mr. Big – To Be With You Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[WinterOnyx:19226] - This is my question, too. Maybe greens and blues represent envy and sadness, the feelings he's experienced while waiting? It's still an odd phrasing, but that's the best I've got. | |
| Lucinda Williams – 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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"Mr Johnson sings over in a corner by the bar Sold his soul to the devil so he can play guitar" This is evidently a reference to 1930s bluesman Robert Johnson, and the legends that he sold his soul at a crossroads in exchange for guitar skills. |
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| R.E.M. – Fall On Me Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[exobscura:8831] - I'm sorry, what? What does "pronoun the lyricist for betting" mean? | |
| Edwyn Collins – The Campaign for Real Rock Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I love Edwyn Collins and this song, although it's not the strongest track on Gorgeous George, an altogether excellent album. This song, the title track, and "Moron" are a sort of bitter trifecta of diatribes about the music industry and its current state. I would say the music is better in some of the more personal numbers like "South of Heaven" and "Subsidence". Regarding my first comment, it turns out I have a sense of humor, and I'm pretty sure Mr. Collins does, too. By all means, keep jumping to wrong conclusions, though, Cesar10954. It's amusing to watch. |
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| Edwyn Collins – The Campaign for Real Rock Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Sounds like someone wasn't invited to play Lollapalooza.... | |
| Snoop Dogg – Drop It Like It's Hot Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| He's talking about his new shoes. Check Urban Dictionary. | |
| Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Again (naturally) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Left standing in the lurch at a church Where people saying, "My god, that's tough She's stood him up, No point in us remaining. We may as well go home." Is is just me, or does this guy have shitbags for friends? If my buddy were stood up at his wedding, I wouldn't be like, "oh, I may as well go home". I'd be like, "Dude, come with me to a place I know about; I got the first sixteen rounds." |
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| Sonic Youth – Skink Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| If this song isn't about cunnilingus, then I'm really confused. | |
| The Tom Robinson Band – 2-4-6-8 Motorway Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Simply one of the best driving songs ever recorded. Cranking this up when you get out of the city, on the open road, feels like nothing else! | |
| Camper Van Beethoven – Sweethearts Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"And on a mission over China The lady opens up her arms The flowers bloom where you haved placed them" Is this a description of a bombing run? |
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| Butthole Surfers – The Ballad of Naked Man Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The first spoken lines are a reference to Vince Lombardi's famous speech which opens: "Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing." The lines just after those are a riff off the saying by Mark Twain, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog." The "naked man in Denver" line is a mystery to me. |
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| Snoop Dogg – Drop It Like It's Hot Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| If you write like that, then many, many people will assume you're a goddamned idiot. Seriously, you may be pretty smart, but you're presenting yourself as shit. Learn Standard Written English, and use it in public communication. You probably already know it. | |
| Butthole Surfers – Birds Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Lyric correction: ---------------------------------- first time: You can never do anything that's never been done before You can try a different style, but you end up just the same as before Wasted second time: You can never do anything that's never been done before You can try a different style, but you always end up on the floor Wasted ----------------------- I wish I could sing like Gibby, without having to do all the things Gibby's done. |
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| Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballad of Broken Seas Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The line about the "gilded sailboat of sin" is a reference to the Flying Burrito Brothers' album, "The Gilded Palace of Sin". Not sure why, but there it is. | |
| The Postal Service – Nothing Better Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures," is one of the wisest lyrics in a breakup song I've ever heard. I've been that guy, and this song has helped remind me to let a thing die. | |
| Tom Waits – Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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These are among the best song lyrics ever written by anyone, ever. I always wonder what kind of "dope" they were taking. My favorite part of his delivery is how every line is sung except for "to pay this lawyer", which is basically spoken. It's like that sentiment is so un-musical it doesn't even get a melody. Just amazing, Tom. Really great. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Prodigal Son Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| After posting this, I realized... Keith is playing the other, good son. "Hey! Why is HE being honored, for wasting all of your money and screwing up?" Good work, Keith. | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Errors in the lyrics: "But your friends are all serious ravers" (spelling) "At the church bazaar / I think I went too far" (not "nearly went") "And open fields of eucalyptus" (not "roads") ...at least, I'm pretty sure about all of those. |
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| James Taylor – Carolina In My Mind Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Wow, I've been mishearing this for years. I've always thought he sang, "Ain't it just like a friend of mine / To get me drunk or high." I can't believe it's "it hit me from behind," instead, but I listen closely, and sure enough... |
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| The Rolling Stones – Prodigal Son Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I love Keith's lyrical contribution right at the end. This is probably the least evil song the Stones ever recorded. | |
| Nelly Furtado – Turn Off The Light Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I always heard the line, "there's an aching inside my head" as "I'm dancing naked inside my head." I liked my version! | |
| Mary J. Blige – Family Affair Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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For years, I misheard the last line in the chorus, "So just dance for me", as "Soldiers dance for me". I really liked that lyric. |
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| R.E.M. – Fall On Me Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The line "building towered foresight isn't anything at all" is an awesome lyric. It reminds me of Newton's pronouncement, "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." When you're standing up there, you're building towered foresight, each generation adding to the scientific progress of those who came before. Michael says that doing that "isn't anything at all". Maybe he's questioning the value of knowing what we CAN do, if we aren't also going to be wise regarding what we SHOULD do. This is, of course, in keeping with the environmental theme that so many people are noticing. Michael directly referenced the Newton quotation in "King of Birds" on the subsequent album, with the lyric, "standing on the shoulders of Giants / leaves me cold". It sounds like a pretty similar sentiment in both places; maybe it was part of the same train of thought for him. |
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| R.E.M. – Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ok, my take on this one is different from all of those, and it seems kind of bizarre, but it works for me. First of all, is it really "reaping wheel", and not "repeat reel"? I think it's about a movie place, a dirty movie place. It's out of town, because "gentlemen don't get caught". You're going somewhere you won't get caught. "Cages under a cage" are viewing rooms within the larger building, little booths where you go in and view a "repeat reel". I mean, this isn't high-budget 70's stuff, I'm thinking the early days, when they were called "blue movies", and I imagine like a 5 minute clip, that's on loop. "Secret stigma" is obvious, "poster torn" is just because the place is cheap and shoddy. "Stranger to these parts" is because the place is just in town for a while, and then moves on. When it moves, we get to: "Boxcar is pulling a carnival of sorts out of town". The idea is that sometimes, the train brings in a carnival, and takes it away two weeks later. The singer wryly notes as the porn shop gets packed up and moved on, that it too is a carnival, of sorts. I have no idea why he says "diminish". ---------------------------- I don't know if this is what anyone ever meant by this song, or if the scene I'm seeing is even realistic in this universe, but it's what I hear. I love R.E.M.; those guys have given us so much. |
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| R.E.M. – We Walk Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I never would have had any idea what that was if not for you pointing it out. Thank you! :D | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Mayfly Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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There's something about Jesus going on here. Cana is mentioned in verse 2, and the Bible in verse 3. According to that Bible, Cana was the site of Jesus' first miracle, when he turned water into wine for that wedding. Definitely the start of something big. What has this got to do with the song? Who knows? Maybe one of Christ's apostles has a crush on Mary Magdalene, and this song is written from his perspective? That'd be pretty cool. The "mayfly" would, of course, be a reference to mortality. |
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| Violent Femmes – Waiting For The Bus Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I really like the image of the Femmes busking on the street at a bus stop in Milwaukee, playing this song to people who are waiting for a late bus. I don't know if that ever really happened, but I hope it did. | |
| Eminem – Fack Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Dude, it's so obvious. This song is about heroin. | |
| Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yeah, it's a great song, but seriously. What the hell is a "Buffalo Stance"? | |
| Neil Young – The Needle And The Damage Done Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Hendrix never took H. | |
| Neil Young – The Needle And The Damage Done Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| There's the well-known instance of the footage cut from The Last Waltz because of the bit of cocaine visible in Neil's nose. However, I've never heard of him using heroin, so to call him an "infamous heroin addict" seems to be a stretch of the word "infamous". | |
| Nirvana – Breed Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I've always thought this one was real clear. It's a guy having doubts about settling down and starting a family with a girl. He's into her, but he doesn't feel that they have to "breed", or "plant a house", or "build a tree". She's like "We could do all three". He doesn't dig it. | |
| Nirvana – In Bloom Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Does anyone else hear the first line of the second verse - "We can have some more" - as the completion of the first line of the first verse - "Sell the kids for food"? I've always heard it that way; I dunno. |
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| Nirvana – In Bloom Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Trendies started around the time that time started. | |
| Sonic Youth – Swimsuit Issue Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I've always heard the final lines as "I'm swimmin'". For me, that goes with the title "Swimsuit Issue" and this list of supermodels' names at the end. Kim is poking at the fact that these women are packaged and sold as "swimsuit" models, when it actually has nothing at all to do with swimming, and everything to do with objectification. It's an ironic "I'm swimmin'". That's how I've always heard it, anyway. |
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| Ween – Demon Sweat Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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No comments, wow! This is a great end-of-day song. It's been in my bedtime mix forever. No idea what it's about, though. |
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| Ween – Don't Shit Where You Eat Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Does it belong in a song? You're asking this about the band that brought us songs such as "You Fucked Up", "Flies on My Dick", "Put the Coke on My Dick", "Let Me Lick Your Pussy", "The Fucked Jam", "Piss up a Rope", "Common Bitch", and many more. The phrase "don't shit where you eat" is pretty family-friendly compared to all that! |
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| Ween – She Wanted to Leave Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"I'm not the man I used to be, now I'm one of them". This is a song about becoming a pirate after having his heart torn out an stomped on by a woman. I mean, shit, who hasn't been there? |
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| Ween – Sorry Charlie Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is a great song for a beginning guitar player to learn. | |
| Ween – Captain Fantasy Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think it's about nitrous oxide. "Take a bit and go down, beneath the reaches of sound" makes sense if you're familiar with the stuff. | |
| Ween – Chocolate Town Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Beautiful song, both instrumentally and vocally. Oysterhead is correct. This is the best song I know of about cleaning up. Warren Zevon's "Detox Mansion" is second, I guess. I think the line "sail Brown Bay to Chocolate Town" is about the lifestyle (Brown Bay), and where it eventually led him (Chocolate Town). I remember when they cancelled some shows or something, and Dean explained on the website that it was due to one of the members "Alcoholism and generally brown lifestyle". The color brown has always been big with these guys. Remember the line in Mutilated Lips, "Everything is turning brown"? That's to say nothing of "Painting the Town Brown". |
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| Ween – Nicole Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It seems that Nicole is an ex-girlfriend. I think there are a few songs on God Ween Satan about her. "Nicole" and "Old Queen Cole" are certainly the same person, as the latter name occurs in this song, and in the song "Old Queen Cole", the subject is addressed as "Nikki". It's possible that "You Fucked Up" and "Common Bitch" are about the same girl, because they also seem to be breakup songs. |
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| Ween – Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"That Frenchman loves to party / And I know he's not to blame" This lyric is so evocative for me. It's like he's sitting there suffering with a hangover, and he thinks back to the good time he had last night. I can imagine him smiling at some memory while saying "That Frenchman loves to party", but then he looks up and his girl is NOT amused. Seeing the stinkeye she's giving him, he adds, "and I know he's not to blame." Brilliant. |
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