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| Better Than Ezra – In The Blood Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Oops. I screwed up the bridge. It should be:
"Too many lost links,
In a chain passed down/on
Through the years..."
It's amazing how much my interpretation of this song has changed in 5 years. |
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| Better Than Ezra – In The Blood Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The lyrics are missing the entire bridge, between the second chorus and the last stanza.
"Too many lost.
They sent a chain passed down,
Through the years,
But ending here if we just face the pain,
And the fear."
The video "stars" a deaf boy and lots of sign language (especially the word "love" and the letter "B"), so who knows. |
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| Better Than Ezra – Desperately Wanting Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Wow. It's been a while since I originally posted about the Kappa Sig angle. Good to see I got some support; there's nothing wrong with interpreting a song in a manner personal to you (we've all done it), but Desparately Wanting is factually about pledging Kappa Sigma at LSU. I was a Kappa Sig at a nearby school and have been to the house in Baton Rouge and seen Kevin's composite picture. One word: afro. Peace all and AEKDB. |
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| Better Than Ezra – Live Again Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"It's about staying in your house for several weeks feeling sorry for yourself when someone has kicked your ass, broken your heart. And it's about leaving your house finally and getting your self-respect back. Enough said."
--Kevin Griffin, House of Blues, New Orleans |
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| Ben Folds Five – Boxing Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"They seem to think I'm made of clay" is also a clever reference to Muhammed Ali's birth name: Cassius Clay. |
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| Better Than Ezra – King of New Orleans Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Ya. Wow. It's been a while since I made that comment...like 3 years lol. Luckly my apartment was fine, no flooding and no wind damage, and the looters didn't get to it. But I am still living in New York City until New Years, when I'm moving back and getting on with my life. Thanks for the concern and warm messages and Ill see you on the other side, form back in the Big Sleazy lol... LONG LIVE BETTER THAN EZRA and LONG LIVE NEW ORLEANS!!! |
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| Better Than Ezra – King of New Orleans Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Ya. Wow. It's been a while since I made that comment...like 3 years lol. Luckly my apartment was fine, no flooding and no wind damage, and the looters didn't get to it. But I am still living in New York City until New Years, when I'm moving back and getting on with my life. Thanks for the concern and warm messages and Ill see you on the other side, form back in the Big Sleazy lol... LONG LIVE BETTER THAN EZRA and LONG LIVE NEW ORLEANS!!! |
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| Better Than Ezra – King of New Orleans Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Ya. Wow. It's been a while since I made that comment...like 3 years lol. Luckly my apartment was fine, no flooding and no wind damage, and the looters didn't get to it. But I am still living in New York City until New Years, when I'm moving back and getting on with my life. Thanks for the concern and warm messages and Ill see you on the other side, form back in the Big Sleazy lol... LONG LIVE BETTER THAN EZRA and LONG LIVE NEW ORLEANS!!! |
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| Better Than Ezra – Rosealia Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"Put on your mask, wearing your cape" is also a reference to being at a Mardi Gras ball or parade, where the paraders are dressed festively, especially the dukes, who wear a mask and cape (they actually look frighteningly like Klansmen lol). |
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| Guster – Demons Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"Honest is easy, fiction's where genius lies."
Pure genius! Best line in all of music. |
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| Matchbox Twenty – Back 2 Good Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song means a lot to me right now 'cause it speaks to me about something I'm going through, but not in the same way as it seems to speak to the rest of you. That's the beauty of music, that a single song can mean so many things to so many people.
Anyway, to me it's about not being able to be with the person you want to be with, because they're really thinking about somebody else they'd rather be with, and that really everyone does that, thus the part about hating everyone for doing just like they (you) do. It's almost cyclical. Everyone's thinking about being with somebody else, but that person is in turn doing the same thing, and it hurts, but can you really blame them? You want to yet at the same time you're doing it to the person you're with. In the end no one's happy, and that's why they invented the blues lol. As the Beetles said, "obladi oblada life goes on..." |
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| Better Than Ezra – Desperately Wanting Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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malachiconstant...
"Pumping out your guts" could be a reference to the not too subtle fraternity tradition of forcing pledges to drink ungodly amounts of alcohol, to the point that more than a few need to have their stomachs pumped.
"Turning out your lights" could have numerous references to pledgeship: being blindfolded, locked in dark rooms for long periods of time, etc.
Like I said, I could be wrong, but just because I'm a frat boy doesn't make my opinion any less valid than yours, contrary to your belief. |
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| Better Than Ezra – Desperately Wanting Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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malachiconstant...
"Pumping out your guts" could be a reference to the not too subtle fraternity tradition of forcing pledges to drink ungodly amounts of alcohol, to the point that more than a few need to have their stomachs pumped.
"Turning out your lights" could have numerous references to pledgeship: being blindfolded, locked in dark rooms for long periods of time, etc.
Like I said, I could be wrong, but just because I'm a frat boy doesn't make my opinion any less valid than yours, contrary to your belief. |
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| Better Than Ezra – Normal Town Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I don't know exactly what it's about (it sounds mostly fanciful) but it refers to the time when they were living in Boston after college when they were just starting out. "The Charles", "Back Bay", and "South End" are all geographic references to Beantown and "Mrs. Porter's" is a private, all girls boarding school in Farmington, CT, about two and a half hours from Boston. |
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| Jack Johnson – Flake Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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There are too versions of this song, a straight up acoustic one, without the last three stanzas, and the other one with Ben Harper that includes the last three stanzas. I like the acoustic one better, it's more raw and emotional I think. Jack rules. |
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| Guster – Airport Song Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Ya, it's about the Hari Krishna's that hang out in airports tryin to sell their books to everyone. Everyone's seen them. There's also another fan tradition with this song at shows. After Adam sings "I'll be hiding in your dirty room" the audience shouts "Dirty! Oh, so dirty!" Guster rules! |
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| Better Than Ezra – In The Blood Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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The guy wants to ask a girl to marry him. Some of the details I don't get (like the "How can you throw away everything you live for?" part) |
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| Dave Matthews Band – All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Jeez. Who wrote the last stanza of the song?? Auf Wiedersehen??? I don't think so. The last stanza is:
The man inside,
Deep inside...
And I do love Dave but the Hendrix version is still better. Probably the greatest single rock song in history, but that's a debate for another room. |
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| Better Than Ezra – King of New Orleans Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This song is New Orleans through and through. Anyone who lives in the Big Easy (such as myself) will be able to tell you that "gutter punks" are the homeless or runaway or otherwise rebellious teenagers who live on the streets of the French Quarter. Seen as a blight on the city by its more well-to-do residents, they are a true subculture in themselves. They roam the streets at night, panhandling ("gonna make $20 before the weekend'd over) and hte disdain of other inhabitants of the city can be seen throughout the song ("Did you kick him in the face? Did you see the blood run down?", "Did you think aloud, 'How dare they even look me in the eye?'", one of the punks is even punched when he opines that Cat Stevens was the greatest singer). Of course, this is brought symbolically to a head in the song with the quip of a passerby, "You gutter punks are all the same." Kevin Griffin, however, sees them in a softer light and implores, "Just give him one more chance, try to see the beauty in his world," this entailing that the gutter punks see the good in their own existence. The "King" is a personification of all the gutter punks, for they truly do see themselves collectively as the "Kings of New Orleans," and Kevin declares "God save the King!" |
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| Better Than Ezra – Desperately Wanting Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Actually, this song is about something else entirely, something a little darker. Kevin Griffen was a Kappa Sigma at Louisiana State University (I've seen his composite pic at the house. Weeiiird...) and this song is about Kappa Sigma (or any fraternity, really, but specific to the LSU Kappa Sigs) pledgeship. I don't want to spend an hour disecting the song line-by-line, but it all adds up in the end if you know certain aspects of Kappa Sig (especially Southern KS) pledgeship. For instance: "Pass the house, that you never call home" (pledges, seen as practically sub-human were (are) constantly reminded that the frat house is the ACTIVE's house and NOT the pledges). The chorus ("I remember running through the wet grass...") comes from a tradition of pledges, on their bid day, running from a certain central place to their respective houses. They wanted to join the fraternity so badly that they never tired, we're always "desperately wanting." You can read the rest of the lyrics with the ample stereotypes of hellish fraternity pledging ("filled you full of those pills", "kick'em right in the face", "make'em wish they weren't born," etc) and it pretty much spells itself out. The part about "the letters have dropped off" is a reference to another LSU tradition that I don't fully understand (tho I have heard brothers from the chapter mention it), but the "letters" are clearly the Greek ones. Asking what went wrong when u never had it right.. is a reference to the fact that pledges are never right and, most fittingly, "finally figured ouy some things you'll never know" refers to initiation and finally learning the Ritual, which, of course, no one outside of the fraternity will ever know. Much of the rest of the lyrics are symbolic references ("the door", etc) to other pledging things. Damn, looks like i did take and hour. Oh well. OF COURSE you must recognize that I am slightly biased (as are all Kappa Sigs) in this reading of the song, but it has been reported that Kevin himself has admitted that the song is about just this. However, as Dennis Miller says: "That's just my opinion. I could be wrong." Thanks for listening. |
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