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The most existential analysis of life ever put to music. This song almost crests the silver lining of Edith Piaf, but she was far too French to understand the true gritted reality of existence. James Osterberg will live forever as our artistic bastion, leading us into the wild woods of life, like the Pied Piper he's always been.

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Liferollson37 Hit it the nail on the head.. Song about coming of age and realizing all your dreams were squandered day by day having our free will stripped to a certain extent by the society we live in or how we were raised and who we were raised by. Lamenting on our parents who we eventually forgot about in pursuit of our own lives. Reminiscing about childhood and how everyone is just fated to pretend .. We see it even clearer with social media everyone seems to have picture perfect lives or avatars theyre fated to pretend to live. Truly...

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This song is basically a reply to the entire last album as the Strokes love making connections to their previous work "He's gonna let you down" for "Cuz I've got you to let me down" and this leads onto the next song Reptilia (me realising I don't have any more points to make, haha). I guess this is a well-suited song for Marie Antoinette because it's very much a narcissistic song. The "culture" line could be referring to the new "garage rock revival" that The Strokes are constantly being moshed in with? But like any bands put in that "culture,"...

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This song sounds like 'The End Has No End' by the Strokes, which is an interpolation of 'Sweet Child O' Mine' by Guns and Roses. This is exactly the effect No Cities To Love is going for - and that's why I love it. It's purposely borrowing from popular songs of the day as many fans have pointed out, but for the sake of demonstrating that damage that other bands have done by 'stealing' verses and solos from music in the past. This is why Sleater-Kinney is art.

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"Stargazers ride through the ancient realms" is about the astronomist (the stargazers) who see the light of stars emitted bilions years ago taking long time to reach the Earth. So they're actually time travelling seeing things of "ancient realms"

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Haha here I am on a dead thread with comments older than me but here we go.

I don’t feel that this song is meant to describe a very nice relationship you should aspire to have. Rather a superficial one.

So come on down and walk with me, and tell me I'm your man I only want to know a couple of things about you

Again the speaker is depicted as just interested in being called someone’s “man” he specifically just wants that romantic identifier. He only wants to know a couple of things about the girl, he...

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Yes, the lyrics quite obviously are about sex with a 16-year-old, notwithstanding all the efforts to downplay that. But that's not what the song is about. When it rains, the sea changes color, but it does not change. What color does the sea become? It goes grey. The song is about aging.

Edge of Seventeen was released in 1981. Stevie was born in 48 - she would have been 33. Her tumultuous 20's over, the Fleetwood Mac sex betrayal sagas becoming a thing of the past. The music scene full of babies doing New Wave. Fleetwood Mac and Stevie...

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I've always liked this song a lot. Even sings more care free than most Jimmy songs but still hits home. And I always thought it was melancholy gooey-based but it appears to be some sort of French word, I could look it up but I'm too lazy.

Also maybe about losing your ego, packing your bag of mysteries, he's the man that gave up his own name in the roll of cosmic dice you win one hard you lose it twice, touching on a common theme of escaping the drag

quitting your job, becoming a bartender, starting over and realizing...

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To everyone that has posted that they think that the freezer is referring to where you store your L & that tweezers are the correct tool to handle L with: While I do agree that you should probably handle your tabs of L with tweezers, you you're all not doing yourself any favors keeping your tabs in the freezer, in fact your destroying it. Let me quickly explain why for all of your benefit and so you do not waste your stuff. When you keep your tabs in the freezer condensation begins the very moment you remove them from the freezer due to...

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It's about the cabal who controls the world (Deep state, illuminati, freemasons, etc.) the silent majority (us) waking people up to what they have been doing to us for many years, most of their songs are about rising up against the new world order, they never went mainstream, never took the ticket and that is why pennywise holds a special place in my heart, no symbolism, no triangle or all seeing eye symbols, just them screaming, "WAKE UP".

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