| Jimmy Eat World – Pain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I can't believe everyone has misunderstood this song so much! This song is obviously about a whiny self-important jackass who likes to complain about how hard his life is. I mean, he has to SING for a living and gets paid piles of money for it. Sucks to be him, right? Wah wah wah. Self-pity, idiocy, and whiny bullshit. This song is disgusting. |
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| The New Pornographers – The Bleeding Heart Show Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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They're singing, "Hey-la-hey-la, hey-la-hey-la." xP I don't know if it's an intentional reference, but when Terence Mckenna talks about psylocybin mushrooms he recommends a minimum of five dried grams. He calls this a 'heroic dose'. The minimum: heroic Coincidence? |
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| The Long Winters – Shapes Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Well, to start off, it's "Angels rush in where I fear to tread" =P Anyway, this song is really far too catchy. It gets stuck in my head tighter than a peanut buttery piece of bread on the roof of my mouth. I love it. |
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| They Might Be Giants – The World's Address Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The pun that the chorus refers to is the title of the song. 'The World's Address' becomes 'The World's A Dress'. Once you see this, it becomes obvious that the song is a critique on the way our society focuses on outward appearance. "Life's parade of fashion just leaves me depressed Under every garment I can see the world's a dress " This says to me that the constant focus on following the changing trends has worn thin. If one looks, one can easily see through every new fad and style and notice that our world has become shallow and vain. I'm not quite sure what the meaning is behind the line, "Tell them Albert Einstein and Copernicus were wrong" One theory I have is this: Copernicus had a large hand in proving that the Earth is not the center of the Universe. The ideals that this song is disagreeing with would seem to think otherwise. Albert Einstein wrote an essay called "The World As I See It". One of the ideas largely expressed in this essay is that man is dependant on each other's happiness for satisfaction. "But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy." These sentiments similarly clash with the shallow society that this song is speaking out against. This leads me to believe that the line, "Tell them Albert Einstein and Copernicus were wrong", is meant to be ironic, a sarcastic lash against our society today. Or maybe I don't have a clue what I'm talking about. Either way, it's a good song. =) |
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