| God Help the Girl – Perfection as a Hipster Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| The first line is "They never met." So maybe the incident described in the song is a dream, or someone's imagination. | |
| Morrissey – Dagenham Dave Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[kickme8x:49553] thank you, that made the song make more sense | |
| Van Morrison – Linden Arden Stole The Highlights Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| Love this song, but what does it mean to steal a highlight? | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Chicago Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| @[sabertoothedbliss:48177] I agree that regret and remorse are important themes here and in all of Sufjan's work. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Chicago Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| I too have made a lot of mistakes. That's the level on which the song says the most to me. | |
| The Smiths – Death of a Disco Dancer Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| @[rubyoverdiamonds:48031] You should hear him, as he said in another context, play piano | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Who do you think is speaking? Is it the girl's father? | |
| The New Pornographers – Star Bodies Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[cityclass:41167] They did when doing all of Twin Cinema :) | |
| The New Pornographers – Star Bodies Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[cityclass:41166] They did when doing all of Twin Cinema :) | |
| Belle & Sebastian – This Is Just a Modern Rock Song Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Buses are to Belle and Sebastian what bees were to Emily Dickinson. | |
| Lana Del Rey – Video Games Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[darkfrankhs:35760] I think that's a perceptive take on the song. The fact she says "I heard you like the bad girls" implies she's a little threatened by his reputation | |
| Lana Del Rey – Venice Bitch Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| No comments?? Great song! | |
| The Smithereens – Strangers When We Meet Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| The line "she said 'take care, OK'"? always kills me | |
| Aimee Mann – How Am I Different? Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I can't do it and as for you Can you in good conscience even ask me to What is he asking her to do? |
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| Belle & Sebastian – The Model Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I think "you" is a model the narrator has a crush on but he thinks she's out of his league, and he knows he has no chance with her ("you're not impressed by me") | |
| Liz Phair – White Chocolate Space Egg Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| This is a beautiful song about the joys of motherhood. | |
| The New Pornographers – The Surprise Knock Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| A surprisingly serious song for Carl Newman. Favorite part- his and Neko's harmony on "didn't need a war" | |
| Aimee Mann – Susan Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[frozenfever:35461] I like that interpretation! | |
| The Pretenders – Boots of Chinese Plastic Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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"Prophet [not Hoffa] told us we should tolerate..." "... and see some beauty in this human pageantry" |
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| The Pretenders – Boots of Chinese Plastic Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[FrogTrain:35438] I like your interpretation a lot. | |
| The New Pornographers – Chump Change Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure it's ... all of our HEADS in the sand Love love love this song |
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| Massive Attack – Protection Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Not to take anything away from the other perceptive commenters, one possible interpretation of the song is that it's about a friendship/romance between two women - the "you're a girl and I'm a boy"/"You're a boy and I'm a girl" parts being about gender roleplay. | |
| Massive Attack – Protection Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[IDs_Ego:35096] "the girl she knows is her" - brilliant | |
| Yo La Tengo – The Ballad Of Red Buckets Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[georgyt:35051] I always wondered if it was about them! I saw RB once at Maxwell's and they were great. | |
| Elliott Smith – Happiness/The Gondola Man Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[raukoiel:35003] said the song reminds him of Brokeback Mountain. The first thing I thought of when I read the lyrics was Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams.. but then I realized that Ledger died in 2008 so the song can't literally be about him. But to me it can be. | |
| The New Pornographers – Loose Translation Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I submitted this via the correction form: One holy ghost for a home made girl In a green T-shirt that read, I quote: "What price damnation now?" In the school of thought In the halls of state With a leap of faith The loose translation must have lost her It must have caused her to go back To the civilization Caught between here and the real one Just to say what you'd begun to say once We have been enrolled in the wrong schools All through the pride of fall The falling price of education now There have been no clues in the last few takes In the steps retraced The education must have cost her It must have caused her to go back To the civilization Caught between here and the real one Just to say what you'd begun to say once The education must have cost her The loose translation must have lost her It must have lost her Yeah |
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| Craig Finn – God in Chicago Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I love this song. No big thoughts on meaning, just love it. | |
| The New Pornographers – Star Bodies Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Lost:34106] the Plot love your interpretation | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| It's one of those beautiful Belles songs about the marginalized people and their hearts. Like Piazza New York Catcher. And I love it. | |
| The Go-Betweens – The Clarke Sisters Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[bunny1966:34040] I don't have the LP. But OK, guess I was wrong. | |
| The Shins – One By One All Day Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Will someone think of the poor snails? | |
| Okkervil River – You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[MCtrainface:33684] A double reference! Also Bryan Ferry's 1978 solo album "The Bride Stripped Bare." | |
| The Go-Betweens – The Clarke Sisters Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Also - it's "supple girls" (not softball girls) | |
| Elliott Smith – Looking Over My Shoulder Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I would like to know who "you" is ("you come over with all of your friends") - clearly "you" is a person, not a record company, and probably he/she is a musician ("another slick rock 'n' roller acting like a dick"). Anybody? | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lodi Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| For a long time I thought this was a song about a broke musician stuck somewhere. And it is, but there's a crucial line I missed (as I hear it) -- "Looks like they took my friend." So something else happened. A murder, an arrest.. maybe he's stuck there trying to get his friend out of jail. | |
| Prefab Sprout – Faron Young Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I like what maehiraeth, Cliff3225 and Lloyd35 said. I always thought this song was about a guy (Paddy McAloon presumably) driving through the USA, confronting America's immensity and its culture, and having a perfect moment when Faron Young comes on the radio. | |
| The New Pornographers – The New Face of Zero and One Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[SouthernLights:32527] reasonable theory. To me this is one of Carl Newman's more opaque lyrics | |
| Tracey Thorn – Long White Dress Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| From Wikipedia: "After 27 years as a couple, [Tracey] Thorn and the other half of Everything But The Girl, Ben Watt, married in 2008 at Chelsea Register Office." | |
| Okkervil River – Black Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| My favorite part of the song- "Oh, Cynda Moore." It contains the narrator's love, frustration, sadness, futility. | |
| The Go-Betweens – Love Goes On Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Sheridan Street is in Cairns, Australia. | |
| Aimee Mann – How Am I Different? Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[SirenAsunder:31731] Good idea! the mention of money makes more sense in this interpretation. | |
| Tracey Thorn – Late In The Afternoon Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I love this song. It doesn't need a lot of interpretation - late in the afternoon of life. | |
| Pavement – Texas Never Whispers Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Is this song about a threesome? | |
| Leonard Cohen – Memories Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[ZeksAtLiberty:29474] brilliant take, I love it | |
| A.C. Newman – Most Of Us Prizefighters Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| I agree with ErikWithBrain and starrzy, the prizefighters are musicians. | |
| Elliott Smith – L.A. Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| I can't resist capitalizing Patience (the lyrics make a lot more sense that way) but then I wonder who "Patience" was. | |
| Bob Dylan – Apple Suckling Tree Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Old man down like a county hook?? | |
| Tullycraft – Twee Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Cher: Singer / actress Cherilyn Sarkisian (1946-) best known for "I Got You Babe" | |
| The Smiths – Paint a Vulgar Picture Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Duffo:21598] reminds me of Ziggy Stardust- "when the kids had killed the man" | |
| The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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First song on TNP's first album. It's a declaration of purpose. To avoid "mass" taste, not to change their music to be radio-friendly. On a more trivial note, "hollowed stars" looks like a Gilmore Girls reference to me. |
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