| Jimmy Eat World – My Sundown Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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by audio_eyes6 on 06-23-2003 @ 09:04:18 PM "not only is J.E.W amazingly wonderful, but this is my botfriend and mine's song..." ...i dunno audio_eyes6, you gotta be pretty desperate to do it with a robot... |
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| Sufjan Stevens – All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| yeah i was gonna say, anyone raised in the church ought to remember where he gets the title, theres a REALLY corny worship song with the same title, it's just just the words from Isaiah 55:12 put to doofy fiddler-on-the-roof type music. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Say Yes! To Michigan! Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I was trying to explain the old "Say 'Yes!' To M!ch!gan!" advertising campaign to my wife a few weeks ago, then i bought this cd and when i looked at the track listings and there was a song named after that old Michigan tourism jingle. I love it. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I won't pretend to know what this songs means or even implies as a whole, but for what it's worth, the last line is definitely in reference to Jesus. "delivering signs" is a phrase the Bible uses when talking about Jesus performing public miracles to prove his power, and "dusting from their eyes" is from a specific story where Jesus heals a blind man by spitting on the dust to make mud, then wiping the mud in the blind man's eyes. I think he references that specific miracle because the blind man had trouble understanding what he was seeing after he had been healed. | |
| Radiohead – Follow Me Around Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Phrogex - im quite sure its just a live song, like true love waits or big ideas. the best version i have is from a show in toronto. | |
| Radiohead – Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury, & Executioner.) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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RdeC... I hate to burst your idealistic bubble about radiohead, but they DO make politically specific statements and songs. "Follow Me Around" is a song that bashes Tony Blair by name, and in the liner notes for Kid A there is a caracature of Blair with a smile full of bear's teeth (which seems to help tie in the theme of cannibalism that Thom adopted back in 2001). I saw them play Acron back in August of 2001 and he said something about "fuck Bush and his cronies" before playing a song. so i would say that Radiohead could learn from Green Day about objectivity... " |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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what the heck are people talking about? its like the chords are good so people say things like "this song is so meaningfull to me because its about being true to yourself, and being in love, and being brave when people make fun of you because you dress differently..." thats not this song you're talking about you idiot, thats your life you're thinking about! Sure, the song might help you to be brave or to feel in love, but THATS NOT WHAT IT'S ABOUT! theres one on here that actually says its about a little retarded boy and the struggles he goes through... WHAT THE HECK IS THAT? you'd be better off saying its about a bunch of people in the 1900's who ride a blimp to the moon... which it isnt. its just a pretty vague song, no actually story like "Lily" or message like "Muzzle", its just a string of phrases associated with the album's general theme of unsettled teenage urgency... (same with 1979.) the key idea to this song is that tonite, tonite is not just pop music repitition, its like this: TONITE(noun), TONITE(adjective). tonight happens tonight and tonight only, so seize the moment. the rest of the lyrics are pretty straightforward, no hidden meanings, and absolutely NO RETARDED KID TRYING TO FIT IN OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT! |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Glass + the Ghost Children Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i've read that originaly billy wanted to do another double disc album like Mellon Collie, but the album nixed it, and just chose their favorite songs and slapped them together, which totally screwed up Billy's whole storyline to the concept album. Machina was the album title, "the Machines of God" was supposed to be the imaginary band's name a-la "Ziggy Stardust" Billy even makes reference to Bowie's rock opera on "if there is a God": "... he likes our loud guitars, and our spiders from mars". so Virgin released half of the songs, all out of order and it indirectly led to the breakup of the Pumpkins. a while later, they pressed a very limited number of vinyls called "machina II: the friends and enemies of modern music" it was a 12" and then three(?) 7"s of b-sides and alternates like TAFH was to Mellon Collie. They mailed them out to their most active fans, along with instructions to make the songs available for free download on the internet. Billy literally called Machina II "a final farewell to the fans, and a final fuck-you to the industry". I've heard that one of the super-fans who recieved this oh-so-coveted rarity was Elijah Wood, he is one of the most avid SP fans alive. The words in the song arent supposed to be Billy, but "Glass"; the ficitonal rock star leader of TMOG who loses his mind after losing his drug-addicted girlfriend. whats interesting is that the song "the aeroplane flies high" seems to be a precursor to this song, similar taped dialouge, similar subject matter. |
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| Radiohead – Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury, & Executioner.) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i assumed it was talking about governments neglecting education standards "historical context of myxamatosis to control rabbits, tongue tied, etc." because they tend to profit from a dumber populace. case in point: broke ass midwestern rural people are getting poorer and poorer because of bush and their kids are getting less and less funding for schools, but thanks to bush, the PNAC, and Fox News, what those people beleive is that GWB is a good christian man, and moreover, that a good christian man is the only man fit to run a democracy. the dumber we are, the more we'll beg for the government to protect us. look at how many people support the patriot act- anybody who reads that is bound to get uncomfortable, or they've been so convinced of the dangers of "terror" (aka Eastasia) that they deem the violation of their rights necessary to protect those rights (which cutting off your nose to spite your face). .... by the way Tentacled, i've noticed you keep posting "Thom angsts." on every single song. and i dont think you really know what that word means, or perhaps you havent ever heard radiohead. I think most people here would agree Thom doesnt angst, he sneers, curses, or straight-up lashes out. in "Creep" he mocks the idea that someone thought themselves too good for him "...you're so fuckin' special" on "Just", he says he has no sympathy for the person contemplating suicide because "... you do it to yourself" and this whole album is a smart-ass attack at Bush. thats not angst. i suggest you take your "So-and-so angsts." antics to the Dashboard Confessional section. that pussy totally angsts. |
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| Radiohead – True Love Waits Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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thats totally gay dude. your replacement lyrics dont even rhyme. this song is totally this decade's "How Soon Is Now?": the haunting ballad of someone who cant give up on true love, even when they know they've lost all hope. |
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| The Breeders – Cannonball Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i heard this song in a beer commercial back in like '95, thought it was the shizz. i haunted me for ten years, long enough for the internet to solve all of my other foggy song memories, but by this time i had forgotten all the lyrics except for "hey now...". and that chugging riff. try looking that up on the internet. so i searched through every possible mid-nineties girl band i could think of, listening to clips of liz phair (and rediscovered supernova, a gem) and veruca salt, trying to find a girl band that rocked hard enough for a palm mute chugging part. the funny thing is, between the time i first heard this song and today when i finally figured out the mystery, i went through high school and college started listening to bands like the pixies. so i was familiar with the breeders, being a pixies "side project". its funny i didnt just think of it from the beginning. that bass has the same exact tone as most other breeders songs. i guess it's the vocals that threw me off. | |
| Pavement – Carrot Rope Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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this song is definately about drugs... the only thing to really support the whole penis idea is the "little boy/ what's in my pocket" but I think thats just in reference to taking advantage of people's curiosity and innocence. look at the next line "its the chance of a lifetime to see something thats never seen by mere mortals except me..." thats definintely not a penis. thats dope. as for the "little little christian lie" thats not referring to christians or catholics or any kind of conspiracy, its just another way of saying "a white lie" he's saying that its just a little bad, not a huge deal to smoke a little weed. on top of all that, just their style of music screams recreational drug use, not pedophilia. as for the wicket keeper/conscience thing, i'd never heard that before, that makes perfect sense to me, ties in with the "little christian lie". and as for the hobbit idea... ridiculous. |
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| Pavement – Speak, See, Remember Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| the thing that originally attracted me to pavement was the dynamics of their songs. songs like this one are all over the place. by the end of the song, you've been carried so far from the beginning you sometimes have trouble remembering the tune from the beginning verses. its pavement at its best. | |
| Pavement – Billie Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| wow. this is one of the best if not the best off the album, and its sad to see so many obviously wrong lyrics... | |
| Pavement – Platform Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think its "thanks people like you, I'm no longer half bad" and i think that carrie thing is just a coincidence, or at best he had that in mind, but he clearly says patty and catty, in that order. |
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| Pedro the Lion – Foregone Conclusions Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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this is BY FAR my favourite Pedro song simply for the use of the word "fuck". its so great when i heard it for the first time, i stopped the cd and laughed and just went generally nuts. i think its brilliant because of the multiple contexts it hits in that one line: he's still talking about agressive proselytizing, but by using that line about the Spirit saying "fuck", he pokes fun not only at people's foregone conclusions about God, but also, he's getting a little cheeky with those christian musician types who have been on his case to "clean up his lyrics". and i think that's why i love pedro the lion so much: its not christian praise music. i dont listen to christmas carols all year round... why should we only have happy christian music? its a fuckin joke to think christians are all smiles and good times, plenty of us are alcoholics or cheat on our spouses or mistreat our friends or doubt God's presence. i guess depressing christian songs just make the idea of salvation seem a lot more important. |
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| The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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then again, its morrissey we're talking about. when are we not feeling sorry for morrissey? ... well i mean except for now, when he's got his grinning ass blown up on a wall-size poster at the virgin megastore. |
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| Cake – Sheep Go To Heaven Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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thats a good point which i often think about... panpipes are associated with Pan, and vicariously "Pantheism". |
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| Pedro the Lion – Indian Summer Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| indian summer is a brief period of warm, summer-like weather that comes in late fall and is a precursor to a bitter winter. i think this song reflects americans' short-sighted optimism, bazan writes mostly in definitives, "it will NEVER rain again..." and talking about raising our kids to be dependent on consumerism. as i listen to this song i get a sense that we are experiencing a sociological "indian summer". quality of living in america goes up and up and up and we become less and less self-sufficient, all the time praising God for the "freedoms" we're so sure we'll never lose. | |
| Cake – Sheep Go To Heaven Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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dang i wish somebody would delete all these stupid taking back sunday comments... anyway, THIS COMMENT IS ABOUT THE SONG "SHEEP GO TO HEAVEN" BY THE BAND CAKE! SO DONT TALK ABOUT JESSE OR BRAND NEW OR ANY OF THEIR WIMP-ASS EMO-LYRIC-WRITING BAND DRAMA. Cake has always been deeply fascinating to me, because of their implied satanic meanings in songs, kind of like an evil version of the wishy washy spirituality of creed, only put to better music. first off, i would like to point out that very few, if any, of the songs john mccrea has written have been straightforward lyrically, they are usually filled with cynicism and irony which makes it hard to tell which side of the story he's really on. He tends to sing about things in an exaggerated manner from the opposite perspective he actually holds, in order to ridicule them (see "comfort eagle" "italian leather sofa" or even their cover of "i will survive" which seems to almost be mocking that attitude of forced independence from someone you once loved deeply.) mccrea NEVER, not ever writes about his feelings, and never addresses petty social issues directly; so i think we should rule out things about people's attitudes and his attitudes, this song may be social commentary, but it is not served "ready for consumption" the points about beckett's quote "the gravedigger..." is a VERY valuable admission, that is no coincidence and i think lends alot to the ability to see an overall theme of this song as being built around a frame of looking at the idea of hedonist/pantheist beliefs, in conjunction with the christian view both as they address death. "sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell" refers not only to the theme of "waiting for godot" but also the bible, which was the inspiration for beckett's work, the bible often times compares the judgment of the wicked as sheep being seperated from the goats, or wheat being seperated from the chaff. also, the lyrics "i just want to play on my pan-pipes, i just want to drink me some wine, as soon as youre born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time" tie together that satanic idea that there is no god/no afterlife and all that exists is this life and what you make of it with the bible says in Isaiah, where the quote "eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we will die" actually comes from. this is said in the context of prophecy, lamenting the foolishness of a society that works so hard to build an empire and then lets it all fall apart because of their nihilistic ideology, convinced that all is meaningless anyway. the song clearly is grappling with the issue of death, and meaning therein. when we die, what happens? do the good truly go to heaven and the bad to hell? if not, how then should we live? this isnt a song about religion, its a song about mortality, but like many cake songs, it seems to be looked at through the lens of religion. as far as the sheep and goats referring to non-conformity, i dont think they do directly since the rest of the song seems to deal with beckett's theme of death. there might be some subtext that implies a bias towards non-comformity, but thats probably either something that a lot of people are adamant about and therefore applying the lyrics to their personal experience (which is a normal function of lyrics) or it is just a personal feeling that is carried through in mccrea's writing style. i think the most cryptic part of this song is the little bridge that says the thing about the gravedigger, the stone-mason, the barber, and the carpenter. the fact that the barber is giving haircuts while the carpenter is "taking you out to lunch" instead of doing carpentry would definitely imply that this carpenter is a metaphor for something or someone else, namely Christ. this makes a lot of sense when you think about the meaning of the song, if there is no heaven and hell, no good or evil, then Christians are empty-headed sheep, all "out to lunch" as the vernacular puts it. what the stone mason is is simply beyond me, and given the bulk of comments on this site i doubt i'll ever know. all that being said, i'm still not sure what side of the argument mccrea is really on. he sings about hedonistic lifestyles almost entirely negatively, but also almost entirely negatively about religion. he sings with the same earnest candor about living it up until you die as he does about the evil going to hell, its hard to tell if he really buys into either one. perhaps the song is pointing out that even if there are no spiritual consequences for our actions, there are other consequences that make such a shortsighted lifestyle foolish? |
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