| Rufus Wainwright – Release the Stars Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Nobody's Off the Hook" is actually about Teddy Thompson, not this one. This song is fucking brilliant live. That's about all I've got to contribute, though. |
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| Rufus Wainwright – Going to a Town Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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For me, this song was a total letdown. Lyrically, it's very obvious and heavy-handed. It tries to be political but doesn't say anything that hasn't been said a hundred times in the same way ("Do you really think you go to hell for having loved?"). Compared to old Rufus, this is very trite and shallow, which his myspace commentary suggests was deliberate... but I'm not buying the angsty "I'm so tired of America" lines either. I also hate the video. But I have hope for Rufus, still. |
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| Bright Eyes – Cartoon Blues Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"if there weren't women present we wouldn't be here so let's make like we're friends." If this is the best Conor can come up with regarding feminism and the women's movement, I'd just as soon he not bother. It's so far from profound, and he thinks it's some great secret? |
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| Bright Eyes – I Must Belong Somewhere Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| anyone else think the verses of this song sound a LOT like "weather reports" off of Noise Floor? just... well, faster? it may just be the version i've downloaded, too, but i knew i'd heard something just like it. (still love both songs, of course) | |
| Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I've always thought the line went, "There was no snake oil cure for unlucky in love." This song just seems so intimate, and even with everyone else on-stage and singing, Jenny manages to evoke this connection with the audience where you just hang on the words and the melody. She knows exactly how a song should sound. |
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| Ben Folds – Landed Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| What an amazing song. I know how it feels, when you try and try with someone, and it doesn't work, but you just can't let them out of your life. Sucks. | |
| Ben Kweller – In Other Words Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song really gets to me. Although the butterfly line has puzzled me for some time, I've been thinking and reading all of these quotes and I've tried to synthesize the entire chorus into a meaningful concept. Butterflies are fragile, soft, and innocent. Passive-aggressive to me has to do with taking a situation in which you should stand up for yourself, and instead avoiding conflict and complaining about the situation later. So the passive-aggressive butterflies are ignoring and avoiding their problems (putting them on the shelf, so to speak), but they're beautiful. Incidentally, in conflict, girls are often guilty of passive-aggression, which relates back to the gentle, soft, innocent connotations that butterflies carry as stereotypical perceptions of femininity. To deny your problems like this would probably be described as "kidding yourself"--nobody can deny that problems exist and need to be dealt with. If Ben is singing this song to some male character who sounds heartbroken, then I think the chorus is about someone breaking your heart because they let all the resentment and unpleasantness build up. But everyone he finds will be like that. Sociologists say that anything perceived as real will resultingly have real consequences (the Thomas dictum). The real consequences of kidding yourself must be "the demise of the beautiful." So, the end of the butterflies--their innocense, or maybe just their life. But then Ben asks "What is beautiful?" to remind us that there are more butterflies than we might initially see. I'm not sure that this made any sense. |
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| Ben Folds – Hiro's Song Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I'm not familiar with the Blur song, but I think the "Hero" point is interesting. If not an intentional insert, still a parallel that is worth exploring. This song cracks me up, but it is no "Secret Life of Morgan Davis." That just kills me. |
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| Guster – Keep It Together Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think this song sounds a lot like "Lord of the Flies." | |
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