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| Radiohead – Faust Arp Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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yeah, it's interesting that this song refers to faust cuz in videotape (the last song on the same album) he mentions mephistopheles trying to grab him from below. same story. and the themes of dr. faustus (the play that the story originates from) talk about a man selling his soul for money and going to hell.
"i love you, but enough is enough" could be talking about a love for something material but falling out of his own delusion. except then he realizes that he's "stuck" and it's too late.
total speculation on my part. |
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| The Decemberists – The Engine Driver Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think it's one person, not many. In all different aspects of himself, he is tortured by the love of someone. The writer, especially. So when it says "if you dont love me, let me go" it does not mean "take it or leave it, this is who i am" but "if you can't love me in the way i love you, please stop torturing me by your very thought". Perhaps the constant changing the narrator is doing is to forget the beloved. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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i dont think that we have to worry so much about what sufjan meant by everything that he wrote. when it comes to art, it's so much more about what you take out of it. if he's episcopalian, or catholic, or christian, or islamic, it doesnt matter. the song is still haunting and beautiful, and can mean a number of things to different people through their own experiences. that's music. and art. just love it. |
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| The Most Serene Republic – content was always my favorite color Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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i think what the song means is pretty obvious. he's in a controlling relationship, that he parallels with a "cat in a tree". he wants to save it, but he can't. she is what he wants... and it hurts him, but there's nothing he can do to fix the problems of the relationship.
ohhhh i love this song. |
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| The Beatles – Hey Jude Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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The Beatles were and are the ground-breakers of Rock and Roll as we know it. They established the basic STRUCTURE of rock music! Sure, the Articles of Confederation were impractical. And true, we don't focus on them whatsoever (except in US History, otherwise how could we refer to them?). You only proved our point. Society DOES focus on the Beatles, and revere them, because they were innovative and inspired. We would disregard them (like we did the Articles of Confederation) if they were anything other than that. Sure, many of the initial songs were light and free, but then again who says that a song about love and happiness is insignificant? And who could blame them for seeking monetary gain? Aren't they human? Do they not need to make a living? And in contrast, many of their songs, such as this one, are meaningful and inspirational. I truly pity people who disregard the Beatles. |
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| Cursive – A Red So Deep Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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ahhh....such a good song! poor girl, asshole husband...makes a great song...and the best part is in the end..."hold me sweetly like those days we bled with love a red so deep...we sunk"...what more could be said about this song?!?! i can't stop listening to it |
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| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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paul's like the only beatle that matters that's still alive!!! he just got married...how could he be dead? the beatles is the best band in all of history..and this is their best song!! oh god, i love it so much and it never gets old. but i'd have to say that the best parts are right in the beginning and towards the end...i don't really care for paul's "woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head..." sequence...but it doesn't matter cuz it's still a REALLY, REALLY good song |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Styrofoam Plates Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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yea, i'd say that the best part of the song is when he says "you can deck out a lie in a suit, but i won't buy it." it's so honest and wonderful in that way. The music is really moving, also. it's a sad song that just makes your day. Ben Gibbard is a god! and i also have mixed feelings about the origins of the song, for on one hand if it's fictitious, it shows his awesome strength as a poet and a writer, and it's true not EVERYTHING has to be autobiographical...but it's just nice to know that when he's singing it there is emotion...real emotion. either way the song is amazing. |
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| Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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oh, NIAM that's perfect! yes, that makes sense..."he didn't take the time to lie" ...that's a way to explain that...i doubt he was deathly ill like one person mentioned. i also heard it off of kill bill and those movies are wonderful!!! pure genius...and this song is so powerful ... |
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| Wilco – Jesus, Etc. Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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i agree that the song could very well be about drugs...as jeff tweedy had problems with them himself. and your "textual evidence" (in advanced english, are we?) is supported quite well. it is much more sentimental to listen to the others, as theirs are idealistic...and you failed to support the other parts of the song like "our love is all we have...our love is all of God's money" and the referances to buildings shaking and the world collapsing, unless you suggest that these referances would be the point of her realization that she must change, for that would make sense as a decision so monumental would be emotional...and also, songs don't ALWAYS work out when you analyze them...either way, you have an awesome point that i never would have thought of! |
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| Wilco – How To Fight Loneliness Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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the song is beautiful and the words are insightful. they're pretty self-explanatory, though, and yet striking nevertheless..."just smile all the time" by itself seems so positive...and yet it's such satire |
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| Wilco – Company In My Back Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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i absolutely agree. you know how when you start really liking a song and you're doing something like maybe homework or playing a game or talking online or something and it comes on you just STOP and sigh and life is wonderful...for this song it never went away...i'll always stop and sigh...and it will always make my life beautiful ... |
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| Wilco – Handshake Drugs Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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it's funny cuz everything that this song says is sorta against how i feel...about his problem with drugs and how he only wants to change himself for this woman (i hate phoniness)...and yet i love it anyway! that's the beauty with music...even the lyrics strike me..as stuff i don't wanna do...and yet i'm so moved...by his voice, the lyrics, the collaboration of instruments...there are no words to explain the depth of genius in this band! and yet...something just struck me...perhaps he wants to change positively for this woman...like give up those nasty drugs!! that would be something beautiful to see...but his tone declares that it'll never happen...and he's not good enough...or feels not good enough..."exactly what do you want me to be?!" |
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| The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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i think that both this and the shins' version of this song are brilliant, but this one seems more substantial...but about the lyrics: it is obviously referring to a bomb shelter and the end of the world...but i also agree that that explanation is not as deep as it goes. it must have to do with his relationship with the girl, yea...perhaps that he's walled himself in after a fight...but now he's longing to open up again? if that's the case why are the news reports telling him to stay indoors? is he too late? has she let him go? but anyway, that bit about "screaming at the top of my lungs, pretending the echoes belong to someone"...really evokes emotion...at least that's how i felt. |
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| The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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RES IPSA ... you took the words out of my mouth...words that i don't think i had actually thought consciously...but it almost brought me to tears...it was like...BANG...epiphany...will you marry me? but anyway...i think the best part of the song is simply the phrase "a stranger with your doorkey" paired with the music and the intonation of his voice, it is so striking and moving. and who hasn't felt that a close one has drifted? and the doorkey is the physical evidence of a past close relationship with that person...while you've reverted into a stranger? ... oh... so beautiful, so tragic... |
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