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The Starting Line – Left Coast Envy Lyrics	23 years ago
I happened to have the chance to see these guys in concert last night...and my GOD, were they amazing! This was one of the songs they performed (they opened, along with No Use For a Name and Authority Zero, for Sum41), and at one point, Kenny just pointed the mic to the audience and EVERYONE started singing...it was truly an experience to be remembered, =D.

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Guster – Rocketship Lyrics

23 years ago

I heard this song and adopted it as my 'theme song' a while ago, when I was going through a rough time and was considering suicide. ((That's something that few of my friends know, but for some reason, I'm not afraid to post it here...)) It spoke to me (as most Guster songs do), telling everyone my outlook on life: "I'm going to go quietly, by myself. You've been less that appreciative of me, so maybe you'll notice me once I'm gone, maybe you'll apologize, but you can't deny it. I'm too scared of the future to live in it, and I don't want to become one of THEM. Don't think I was an amazing person - I wasn't - I didn't do it to test myself, and nobody else had any part in it - it was MY decision." 0.o;;, goodness, that ended up being just a -little- longer than I'd planned...

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Guster – Dissolve Lyrics

23 years ago

How come nobody's commented on this one yet? I personally think this is one of Guster's most moving/disturbing songs. My interpretation: This one's DEFINITELY about death. I think someone's brother has just committed suicide, but they feel like they could have stopped their brother. They bear the weight of their sibling's death (though the 'brother' reference doesn't have to be taken literally; there seems to be a little BIblical reference, so it could be just a good frind of the singer), and it's killing them as well. Though, this is a little confusing...the part about denial. I'm not sure whether the person is feeling guilty, or denying the fact that their 'brother' has killed himself, or maybe a little of both? I do think, though, that by the end, the singer is trying to convince htem that it's not their fault, they couldn't have done anything to stop their 'brother,' that it's in the hands of God...but, again, at the end, the "To figure out/It's not your fault...Your brother won't be proud of you/Proud of you anymore," is saying that if they over-analyze this, if they try to find out how it couldn't be their fault, their 'brother' won't be proud of them...so was it their fault, or wasn't it? Someone else needs to comment on this song, ^_^.

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Guster – Demons Lyrics

23 years ago

Ahh, Demons, ^_^. This was my first Guster song. ((Saying that sounds like I was a little kid, reading my first book or something...)) I feel like sharing my Guster experience, so bear with me... I found this song a couple years ago, on an anime contest (it was some sort of monthly contest to draw a picture based on the music they give you, and Demons was the song of the Month.) However, it was a different version (a capella), by a band called Dogstar...so for a good half a year, I was misled, thinking that this amazing song was written by Dogstar. At camp that summer, I heard LOTS of people listening to the Guster version of Demons...and I found the truth, ^_^. And so, another Guster fangirl was born. Onto my interpretation: I definitely agree with all that's been said already, that the song is about people who are afraid to be themselves, who hide under a mask, like we're told NOT to do - to be the antithesis of what they've been taught, to be the Demon. ((This is where I think the title comes in.)) It's always easier to be cold, distant, detatched, so that when something happens that could potentially hurt you, you're out of the line of fire, your feelings locked tight away from the world under your Demon-mask.

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Guster – Barrel Of A Gun Lyrics	23 years ago
To be honest, I didn't even realize this song was even -partially- about...yeah...until I read the comments here, ^^;. Though I admit, it makes sense. ;_;, It was such a wonderful song...but now it feels...tainted, soiled, almost. >.

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Guster – Happier Lyrics

23 years ago

Well, I hadn't really thought about it the way LIssie Ratz had explained it, but I agree with her interpretation. To be honest, I was really moved my this song in particular, because it felt to me like what one of my 'friends' at the time would have said. ((We had a sort-of falling-out; long story.)) Sort of yelling at me, saying, "Fine, desert me, I don't care anymore. You know what? If you don't want to deal with me anymore, if that's what really makes you happier, then go ahead. I'm sick of putting up with you." By the time I had really understood the lyrics (or listened to them enough to figure out what they were saying, ^^;; ), it was too late to do anything about our situation...but it still affects me even now. ((Not that that impairs me from singing along to the song...^_^))

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Something Corporate – Walking By Lyrics

23 years ago

Well, I already said what I thought the 'Cheshire Cat Doorstop' was referring to...the girl who's leaving him. I can just picture her, standing at the door (she's about to leave, holding the door open, as a doorstop would), smiling because she wants him to not be sad, to smile back, too, because it hurts her, too, to be leaving him ((the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland was known for smiling, as shown best in the Disney adaptation, when he disappears completely except for his smile))...like when you know that things aren't ok, but you smile sadly anyway because you want everyone else to be okay...the girl is always smiling, though she is crying because it hurts her to go.

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Dream Theater – About to Crash Lyrics

23 years ago

I love this song so much...I know it sounds selfish, but it describes who I am to a T. It's about a girl who everyone praised as being perfect, and she believed it, but couldn't hold up the image, and she's losing her mind because of it...and becoming so depressed at times because she doesn't feel like she can hold up that mask, yet she doesn't want to let everyone down because she's 'PERFECT'. And then there are those times when she feels so happy that everyone's pleased with her, that she's doing what they tell her is the right things, that they still think she's perfect, she feels like she can fly...but she'll just end up crashing and burning. And then HE's there to catch her...^_^.

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Something Corporate – Walking By Lyrics

23 years ago

I love this song sooo much...but I do have to say that the part that I felt said the most to me was when he's talking about his 'Cheshire Cat doorstop.' I got a mental image of a girl that the he loved so much, but who had to leave him, with a sad smile plastered on her face as she's 'walking by.' I don't know...the whole Cheshire cat thing just said so much...like even though it may be hurting her, too (not only him), she's got to keep up a plastic smile all the time, like the Cheshire cat. ((Perhaps she's got wander-lust, ^_^?))

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Something Corporate – If I Die Lyrics

24 years ago

*nodnod* Like Freestyle said, it's about a guy who's in love with a girl, and she doesn't return his feelings. But it seems to me that although he still has feelings for her, he's not terribly thrilled with her. My reasoning: the first part of the chorus is not the nicest thing you could say to someone, "if I die, I won't be the one who sticks around," but the second part is sort of giving in, "if I'm awake, I won't let you down." Though this could also be interpreted as saying, " if I'm not going to be alive with you at all, I won't bother hanging around for you, but if I'm still here, then I'm not going to stop pursuing you." Sort of a spinoff of the prayer, 'if i die before I wake,' that sort of thing.

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Something Corporate – Spin Lyrics

24 years ago

This is the reason I love SoCo so much - their lyrics. Their songs are so full of feeling, and they're wonderful pieces of music on their own, but their lyrics are pieces in themselves. This song in particular, I think it's so interesting how he ends the first chorus with 'this world won't stop, so never stop, just spin.' It's almost like a pun - the world keeps spinning, it doesn't stop, so don't you stop either; go with the world. To me, it's talking to a friend or someone else who's going through a really hard time in their life, and telling them to keep at it, not to give up, because 'maybe you could win,' (you still have a shot at having a good life, no matter what bad things have happened to you). Just my 2/100 of a dollar, ^_^.

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