| Les Savy Fav – Raging in the Plague Age Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I used to hold the biggest balls, deep inside my castle walls. Spent my nights with concubines, wasted, unchaste, drunk on blood red wine. Being the kind was pretty cool. I'd have to say that ruling ruled. I'd be enthroned still had I not one day fallen ill. I spit and I coughed. My vision went soft. My chest got tight. My court, they surrounded me, they gagged and bounded me, and threw me out into the night. Out in the mud I sadly sighed and waited quietly to die. There came a noise, boisterous from down at the cloisters and I heard the Cardinal cry: "Draw up the drawbridge. Draw down the blinds. Everyone inside is getting high tonight. Waiting for the Plague to move on, no one's getting sober 'till the liquor's all gone." The bra in the candelabra, the panties on the paintings, the Monks have tapped their finest cask, and the Nuns are into fainting. They sing, "I hold my breath you hit my chest." You stumble from the arms of the one what made you, didn't you? You fumble to the palms of the one what paid you, didn't you? |
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| Modest Mouse – Missed the Boat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I was pretty sure that he says, "I know this all myself, I assume as much for other people" |
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| Islands – Humans Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song sounds eerily similar to the kinks' "dead end street." i wonder if it was intentional? |
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| The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime #2 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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You know what's great about the world? That none of you are record producers. Or in a successful band. Or music journalists. Go on and keep shitting on bands that try new things. That's REALLY what the indie scene needs right now: a lack of new material. Hell, let's just cut out the middleman and make the entire thing acoustic with bad recording equipment. |
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| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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He says "baby cum angels"? I could've sworn to god the lyric was "then they become angels / fly around you" What led me to believe this is that "fuck" is censored in the BBC radio session of this song, but "cum" isn't (if that's actually the lyric) |
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| mewithoutYou – Four Word Letter (Pt. Two) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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the lyrics here are great. as usual, though, he borrows a lot of stuff from Rumi, one of his biggest influences. "But I'm so small I can barely be seen - how can this great love be inside of me?" Look at your eyes - they're small in size, but they see enormous things. " (direct excerpt from rumi) |
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| mewithoutYou – Seven Sisters Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Also: I was completely confused about the "thousand half-loves" part. There is a mystical poet by the name of Jalaluddin Rumi, who has written many poems about love and separation. Rumi's most famous quote is: "A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home." The connection is pretty obvious here, I guess. Weiss put a different, negative spin on "I'm a thousand half-loves well worth leaving [forsaking] to take your madness [whole heart] home." He implies that he does not have a 'whole heart' by saying that he still has a 'thousand half-loves.' I could probably go much deeper into this, but I'm not sure how much more there is about it. |
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| mewithoutYou – Seven Sisters Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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this song most likely refers to the creation legend of the Kiowa Indian tribe, which made up a large part of the prose and poetry of N. Scott Momaday. In the prologue to "The Ancient Child," the Kiowa creation story is told as follows: "Eight Children were there at play, seven sisters and their brother. Suddenly the boy was struck dumb; he trembled and began to run upon his hands and feet. His fingers became claws, and his body was covered with fur. Directly there was a bear where the boy had been. The sisters were terrified; they ran, and the bear after them. They came to the stump of a great tree, and the tree spoke to them. It bade them climb upon it, and as they did so it began to rise in the air. The bear came to kill them, but they were beyond its reach. It reared against the trunk and scored the bark all around with it claws. The seven sisters were borne into the sky, and they became the stars of the Big Dipper." The concept of a great transformation of both form and spirituality is a major part of Kiowa beliefs. The story interprets the connection between life and its cycles, as well as the transformation of these two things amongst animals and humans, the land and the stars. This is the only relation I can find between the two, where he says "He made the world a grassy road before our bare wandering feet, etc." Throughout the song he seems to be pondering this spiritual transformation ("rejoice, the cleansing of my lips!"), and mentions physical transformation ("I threw a stone down at the reflection of my image in the water and it altogether disappeared. I burst, it shattered me like a bullet through a bottle.") I'm not sure why the closing line, but my guess is that he's questioning the validity of such transformations. The chorus also relates to Kiowa customs. The Kiowa are best known for their ceremonional Sun Dance; the connection here is the opening and closing lines ("Come quick, you light that knows no evening - come alone to the alone!" (the sun) You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I see you.") *sp. thanks to thegreatcreator<3 |
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