| Astronautalis – Secrets On Our Lips Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"her bottom lip was swollen from being pressed between my teeth." and "hands creeping innocent under the waist of my jeans" are two of the most bittersweet, evocative lines ever. |
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| Astronautalis – Meet Me Here Later Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Unhgggffffffffffff. Best. | |
| Paul Kelly – Won’t you come around? Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| great song, and one of the best film clips ever made! | |
| Paul Kelly – Incident on South Dowling Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's pretty much a 'trainspotting' type narrative. Kelly was a Heroin user, on and off for many years. |
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| Lou Reed – She's My Best Friend Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Lou got friendzoned. | |
| Lou Reed – Wild Child Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Lou Reed 'and company' weren't really the road trippin' type... | |
| Lou Reed – Pale Blue Eyes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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How is there only two comments on this masterpiece? "Thought of you as everything I've had but couldn't keep" I think might possibly be one my favourite lines ever written by Lou. 'Pale Blue Eyes' cycles backwards through an adulterous relationship. there's what they did, ("it's truly, truly a sin") then there's what she said ("money is like us in time/lies but can't stand up") - she's married to a wealthy man, although she admits money is pointless. Then there's his response-("I'd put you in the mirror, I out in front of me") - He wishes he had more of a moral conscience like her, but doesn't care about her husband because he's so infatuated with her. Then there's his thoughts, possibly not vocalised to her ("thought of you as my mountaintop, thought of you as my peak")- he knows it's over, and she's chosen to stay with her husband over him, a part of him always knew she was ("something I've had but couldn't keep") Lastly, but as the opening of the song, his reflections on the situation, possibly sometime later, sometimes he feels sad, but mostly, he now sees the situation in an angering light. like the stages of grief, he has surpassed loss, sadness and disbelief and now blames her. |
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| Lou Reed – Rock And Roll Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| throw away those material possessions and inhibitions gurl, yu got rock'n'roll now! | |
| Lou Reed – Caroline Says 2 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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She put her fist through the window pane It was such a funny feeling It's so cold in Alaska it's so cold in Alaska It's so cold in Alaska I've always pictured her sinking to the floor with wrist slashed from punching the window and experiencing the rush of knowing she was bleeding out before starting to feel "so cold" but knowing it's over is some kind of bittersweet comfort to her... too melodramatic? |
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| Lou Reed – Sally Can't Dance Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I wouldn't necessarily say it's "about" Edie, but definitely based loosely on her and probably a few others. I cant for the life of me figure where the name Sally came from though... |
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| Why? – The Plan Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Does, "For an heirloom pocket watch And the watch kept warm and working In a raw skank's crotch" Remind anyone else of the Christopher Walken scene in Pulp Fiction? |
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| Why? – Strawberries Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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No comments? This is probably my favourite track from Mumps. It feels like a spoken inner eulogy to me... |
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| Why? – Probable Cause Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Any one else noticed a running theme through Mumps being about Yoni being childless/unmarried? | |
| Why? – Good Friday Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| hahahahahhaha. Blowin' fanny kisses to menstruating bitches. | |
| Why? – Good Friday Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I heard that too and asked a muslim friend of mine about it and she said that when the sun sets in the east "it will be the beginning of the end of the world" and I think it makes sense in the context of the song, kind of like, I'll see you at the end of time, knowing that after everything, we're all human and that even when you think you've lost someone we're all going to die someday and it might be then that we reunite? | |
| Why? – These Few Presidents Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I really feel like the song is about a lover who broke up with him and whom he resented for quite some time, because he still loved her. After a failed suicide attempt some time elapses before she (maybe) succeeds and he feels like he could never forgive her for pushing him away whjen he was trying to help. The first verse could be after an initial failed suicide attempt, she stuck her head in the oven (hence the smell of gas) he goes to her house, or a house he once shared with her and in the kitchen she still has a tea towel with their names on it, bringing up painful memories? 'our still living human bodies' could be taken as the house still has some trace of their presence as a couple there? and 'if you're in heaven waiting/you made it there fighting/the tightest kite string' could mean if she has finally been able to kill herself it was a struggle, something was tethering her to earth/life, maybe he'd reached out to her in recent times but she shut him out. The monetary thing for me could be funds left to him? However much though he deems it as not enough to 'let her off' for what she's done. and what I think is one of the best lines ever penned by Yoni, "even though I haven't seen you in years, yours is a funeral I'd fly to from anywhere" I think captures the extent of infatuation and regret about their breakup/her death that he would give anything, fly across the world to see her again, even if it was at her funeral. I know thats certainly how I feel about a certain ex whenever I hear that line. |
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| Why? – Fatalist Palmistry Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Sorry for hijacking, but am I also the only one who hears 'God put a psalm on my palm that you cant read'? I think the liner notes say song but it would be such a yoni-esqe lyric... |
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