| Zac Brown Band – Colder Weather Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Courtesy of www.theboot.com "The Boot sat down with accomplished songwriter, Wyatt Durrette, to discuss the Zac Brown Band's latest single, 'Colder Weather.' Wyatt started the song, but it soon turned into a group collaboration with ZBB members Zac Brown and Coy Bowles, as well as Southern Ground Records artist Levi Lowrey. There was a girl I was seeing, who lived in Kansas City. We really liked each other, but geography and timing just wasn't working for us. She was getting pretty frustrated with the whole thing and wanted me to slow down, as far as traveling so much and all those things. I wasn't willing to do that because we were just getting started, and I'm chasing my dreams. I was going to see her. We were in Green Bay, Wisc. playing a show with Little Big Town, and it was pouring down snow. We were supposed to go to Kansas City the next day for some radio thing, but the radio people canceled. Instead, we just went on to wherever we were going next. I had to call her and tell her that I wasn't going to make it. She was not a happy camper. She let me have it. I hung up the phone, walked on the bus and wrote the chorus and the melody to the chorus. ... Levi Lowrey is one of the best artists I know. He's a poet. I felt like this song needed the way he wrote, so I invited Levi over to my house one night and we wrote the rest of the verses. It turned out great. It was so weird because that same night, Coy, our guitar player, stopped by. He was just coming by my house to say hey. He didn't know we were writing. He sat down and was listening to us write the verses, and he said, "How about a bridge?" He read one to us, and we were like, "Hell yeah! That's perfect!" [laughs] So we stuck that in there, and I brought all that to Zac. Zac and I finished writing the alternate chorus in the end. That one's special to all of us. It holds a spot because of what we do and being away and all those things. For those guys, I think that song rings on missing their family. That's the beauty of art: everybody has their own take on what the song can mean. As for me, it's a story of impossible love where geography or timing gets in the way of it, and it's just not possible." |
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| Josh Ritter – Thin Blue Flame Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Streets a’swimming with amputees It’s a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart It’s getting harder and harder to tell them apart Days are nights and the nights are long Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine Now the wolves are howling at our door Singing bout vengeance like it’s the joy of the Lord Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round They’re guilty when killed and they’re killed where they’re found If what’s loosed on earth will be loosed up on high It’s a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die" Anyone else think that with these lines, Josh has summed up the Bush doctrine more beautifully and brilliantly than anyone else has? |
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| Damien Rice – Grey Room Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Thanks for the calrification on "Desole" David. Love this song. The man emerges from his depression ("grey days") and finds he still has love to give. Beautiful. |
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| Damien Rice – Accidental Babies Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I take this song differently. I dont think its an actual cheating song. I see it as being about two people who were together, then broke up and moved on to other relationships. The guy is questioning his ex if her new man is everything that he had been to her. And speaking from experience, when there are two people in that situation - there is always a risk of "accidental babies". Because a baby ties you to your new partner, where before if the two former lovers wanted to be back together there wasnt anything to stop them. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Motorcycle Drive By Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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In the 10 years since I first heard that song, one part has stuck with me and has come into my mind over and over as lovers have appeared and disapperaed in my life. "Careening through the universe, Your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free, I hope you take a piece of me with you". Some of the women who I have had the most important relationships (romantic and otherwise) have shown that self-centered personality trait and I would suppose that most of you women out there have felt the same way about many of the men you have known. Too many times we make decisions about love without even thinking about how it will affect our significant other, our family, our mutual friends, etc. We see the spiraling divorce rates in this country and we wonder why. Yet the hardest part to understand is the "guiltless and free" part - most people dont purposely damage those people that they care for - they simply don't think about it. They think about themselves. For my part I am now happily engaged and have a baby on the way, so at the ripe old age of 30 I have steered my way through the relationship wreckage we all face and found a port to call home. So maybe thats how it is for everyone. But I wonder... Anyway great song - very underrated band and a classic album. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Good for You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this song is a fine example of the emotions that can blur the lines between love/obsession/co-dependency. When this album came out i had a girl that I was good friends with that I wanted more from - yet I was willing to put aside my desires for all the aspects of a normal romantic relationship - just as long as I could be near her and a part of her life. She was that intoxicating. And I was naive enough to think that unrequited love eventually is rewarded LOL. | |
| Wilco – Sunken Treasure Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song is about a man who feels he has not value to the world. "...there is no sunken treasure, rumored to be. Wrapped inside my ribs in a sea black with ink" would seem to refer to the writers feeling that there is nothing good in him despite all his written words. Is this Jeff speaking of himself? This is a deep, brilliant song. |
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| Wilco – Forget The Flowers Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This song is about a relationship like I had once....we were pretty much a happy couple but things didnt work out...anyway, afterwards she forgot about most of the good things we had together. Suddenly every fight we had was magnified and every happy moment was reduced. And flowers were literally forgotten (she swore I had only given them to her a few times when I had actually done it dozens of time). The whole song is about that kind of post-breakup forgetfullness. | |
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