| Cake – Satan Is My Motor Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It's all metaphor. i think really he's just talking about religion. he's saying that he is a good person (he has a good, well working car) but that even so he has human flaws that are unavoidable (satan is his motor). I think in a way what he is trying to point out is that EVERYONE has flaws built into them, he's just honest enough to admit it. satan is the only one that understands this fact that we are all sinners by nature. that sin is unavoidable. at the end he's saying that HE is in charge of his actions (he can stop at any time and change directions). we are all capable of good and evil. it's about making the right choices. we will all be sinners but it's more about how we react to things and what we do in life that matters. we will all make mistakes on the way. it's the way of the internal combustion engine. | |
| The Quakes – Revenge Is Mine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| fuck yeahhhhhhhh | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Talking Bird Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i actually really like this song. | |
| Built to Spill – Carry the Zero Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| it's talking alot about insecurities and how you become them. how they're self defeating. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Earth Angel (The Penguins cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| me too. back to the future brings me back to my childhood. | |
| Frightened Rabbit – The Modern Leper Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the lyrics give me goose bumps. | |
| Matt Pond PA – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| it's just really soft and mellow. nmh isn't really about that at all. he has a unique way of singing. | |
| Modest Mouse – The Stars Are Projectors Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i just came listening to this. | |
| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| he's saying don't be sad about what you can't control. just like gravity. just have a positive outview. we die, we fuck, we live. it's life. the second we are born we start to die. don't get so worried about it. LET IT BE. it's okay. just give up and smile. don't freak out because you can't control things like you want to. they are out of your control for a reason. even freedom has no purpose. | |
| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| such a great song. | |
| Modest Mouse – Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| second song talking about breathing Listerine. guess he likes mouth wash. | |
| Modest Mouse – Shit Luck Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| let's break shit!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
| Modest Mouse – Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| GOD MODEST MOUSE FUCK ME! THIS IS LIKE, YOU ARE THE BEATLES. sorry i sounded stupid but for real. this is big. | |
| Modest Mouse – Beach Side Property Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| it makes me laugh every time he screams. lol! i feel ya! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! | |
| Modest Mouse – Custom Concern Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| this song makes me want to jump for joy and cry at the same time. jump for joy because someone out there has a brain and understands the world as i do. cry because the understanding is a sad one. | |
| Modest Mouse – Breakthrough Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| it means let it break through. whatever that means to you is what it means. | |
| Frightened Rabbit – The Modern Leper Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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lmfao. so good. i'm tingling and smiling big. this is so fucking amazing. so honest. it's great. "Well, I crippled your heart a hundred times And still can't work out why You see, I've got this disease I can't shake And I'm just rattling through life Well, this is how we do things now Yeah, this is how the modern stay scared So I cut out all the good stuff Yeah, I cut off my foot to spite my leg Well, is that you in front of me? Coming back for even more of exactly the same You must be a masochist to love a modern leper" /orgasm |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Long Division Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| this song is kind of annoying. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Your New Twin Sized Bed Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i like this song but someone else pointed it out and i agree that ben's lyrics are dumbing down. i guess it was probably the record label wanting more people to be able to relate. including stupid people. just sucks his old shit sometimes took a long time to figure out. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Debate Exposes Doubt Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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he's just so fucking honest about life. "Finally there is clarity and there is purpose after all But every night ends the same As I'm collapsing once more by your side Finally there is clarity: this tiny life is making sense And every drop numbs the both of us But I alone am staggering" i mean come on. you can't say it any better than that. life just seems meaningless but it's pointless to live thinking that. but it's inevitably true. it's just like something that tears everyone apart a little. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Styrofoam Plates Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| this song and death cab in general teaches that patience can really lead to something beautiful and amazing. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Tomorrow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| of course. he's just amazing. | |
| The Shins – One By One All Day Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i agree with just about everything but i don't see the last few lines as having necessarily anything to do with religion. "if every moment of our lives were cradled softly in the hands of some strange and gentle child i'd not roll my eyes so." i think he's just saying that the world is rough you know, not cradled softly in the hands of some strange and gentle child, and if only it could be, he wouldn't roll his eyes so much. he wouldn't think so negatively and be so annoyed by the world. but in reality it's not and it's rough and rotten like the elm in the silo floor. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| yeah my ex-gf filed stalking charges on me because of phone calls. after 10 months she just deleted me from everything and stopped answering phone calls. no explanation. no closure. no breakup. nothing. just disappeared. 3 days before that she took me to go look for a place for us to move in together. then 3 days later on her birthday she did that. so yeah it took me a while to just move on. hard to move on with no closure. then i got kicked out by my roommate and best friend of 6 years. i mean my lease was over but i still needed time to get my stuff out and it was a day after my 21st birthday. then a month after the breakup, after i left her alone, she started calling me and bothering me. tells me that she cheated on me with 5 people including my ex-best friend. after that i just up and left town. didn't want to do anything stupid. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| he is saying they're already lovers basically in his mind. it's inevitable. he calls her love. i will possess your heart. he won't give up and he just wants her. that's all he can think about. i will have your heart! | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Marching Bands of Manhattan Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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If I could open my arms And span the length of the isle of Manhattan I'd bring it to where you are Making a lake of the East River and Hudson (he is saying that if he could he would give you everything he loves if possible) And if I could open my mouth Wide enough for a marching band to march out They would make your name sing And bend through alleys and bounce off all the buildings (he is saying that he would sing your name with a marching band and make the name heard everywhere) I wish we could open our eyes To see in all directions at the same time Oh, what a beautiful view If you were never aware of what was around you (we need to see everything instead of just our own point of view, it would be more beautiful) And it is true what you say That I live like a hermit in my own head But when the sun shines again I'll pull the curtains and blinds to let the light in (he keeps his thoughts to himself but when given the chance, next time, he wants to let it all out, let the sunshine blind him) Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound But while you debate half empty or half full It slowly rises, your love is going to drown (sorrow will grow on you, it comes through a pinhole and leaks and grows into you, but while you debate whether you are happy or not, it slowly rises, the sadness is going to drown your love if you aren't careful. happiness is just a state of mind, you have to BE happy whether you feel like it or not) |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Marching Bands of Manhattan Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| he just loves everyone. he is my therapy. he says, "there is nothing wrong with love". | |
| American Football – Never Meant Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| no, it's said. why would it be sad? let's forget everything said, everything we did... | |
| John Vanderslice – They Won't Let Me Run Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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one day I fell in love and of course we fucked around the morning she threw up my options were all laid out I followed through and now I got two sons no peace even when you come �cause they won�t let you run i can relate. well we didn't fall in love. but everything else... |
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| Remy Zero – Shattered Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i love the song but you are missing some lyrics at the end from you one look just one look and everything is shattered from you one word towers burn and fall, fall, fall from you one look just one look and everything is shattered from you one word towers burn and fall and fall |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – The Big Sleep Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| war is gay. streetlight manifesto is spectacular. | |
| Streetlight Manifesto – Failing, Flailing Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this is one of my fav. songs on the album actually... | |
| The Beach Boys – God Only Knows Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| classic love song that ISN'T bullshit. haha. | |
| Leftover Crack – Life Is Pain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| leftover crack is the shit | |
| The Shins – Sleeping Lessons Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this song is amazing. i find it hilarious that a song already has lyrics for an album that isn't even released yet. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Expo '86 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| http://www.expomuseum.com/1986/ | |
| Ben Folds – Bitches Ain't Shit (Dr. Dre cover) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| bitches ain't shit. it's the meaning to life. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Title Track Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Death Cab for Cutie have everything it takes to be the next universally appreciated pop band in indie rock, following groups like Pavement, Superchunk, and Built to Spill. If they release more records like We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, they no doubt will be. Unlike all of those bands, though, Death Cab for Cutie is not interested in becoming guitar heroes, stepping through their songs at a snail's pace to best fit the general sorrow of the vocals. Like Malkmus and MacCaughan, Death Cab for Cutie's lyrics are poetic and appear nonsensical, singer Benjamin Gibbard turning almost every verse into a metaphor. However, unlike those two bands (give or take an album about a breakup), much is hidden under Gibbard's colorful, cryptic prose. The album turns out to be, although it takes much inspection and time to figure it out, a concept album, each song detailing a different part of a relationship not meant to be. "Title Track" opens the album with a muffled guitar and drum sound paralleling the muffled thinking of the singer as he shares an evening and a cigarette with a female friend. As the muffle is removed from the sound, a clangy guitar sound bursts out, while "call response overturns convictions every time" and the night of conversation turns physical. Before the moment has even started, Gibbard is already into regret, but he retains some hope. That hope is quickly killed two songs later in "For What Reason." The song takes a nimble bass line, harsh guitars, and lots of noise to add to the bitterness of Gibbard lashing out at the woman for being "so slick with that sarcastic slew of phrases like 'I thought you knew,' while keeping me in hot pursuit." Maybe he did know, but hearing her say it doesn't make him feel any better Hopes and desires crushed, the story takes a detour as Gibbard takes to the road for the songs "Lowell, MA" (named after Jack Kerouac's hometown for obvious reasons), "405," and "Little Fury Bugs," using the free time for introspection. The climax of the story happens over the pair "Company Calls" and "Company Calls Epilogue," when the listener finds out why this relationship was doomed from the start: the woman is engaged to be married. "Company Calls" is the most buoyant pop song on the album, Gibbard knowing what he wants to say, shouting "Set your sights to sink this partyline, 'cause it's so tired." The metaphor of political parties links back to the "Title Track," when the affair was seen as forming a splinter group. Now the singer continues the thread, pleading for the woman to "destroy this mock shrine." However, Gibbard isn't able to convey these thoughts, or, rather, he decides he cannot. "The figures on your wedding cake" do not represent him so he decides he must keep his distance, "mail(ing) a postcard sending greetings from the Eastern Block" instead of crashing the wedding. In the "...Epilogue," the guitar sound becomes almost mournful as Gibbard shows up at the wedding, merely a guest at the celebration for the death of his dreams. He wishes he could drunkenly crash the festivities and let his feelings be known, but he can't and won't "spit it out when the date's been set. The white routine to be ingested inaccurately." The music Death Cab for Cutie creates is catchy and pure, and the story it weaves is touching and honest, the two working in tandem to a heightened degree of expressiveness that words alone cannot attain. If the band has a flaw, it's that with all those other bands that have achieved such widespread adoration in indie rock which they may or may not be following in the footsteps of, Death Cab's music may also be following too closely. However, sometimes you must forgive any lack of expansion in the genre and just admire skilled craftsmanship as art. For ...We're Voting Yes, Death Cab for Cutie has expertly assembled and finely tuned ten pop machines to form one great pop album.(from http://www.fakejazz.com/reviews/deathcab.shtml ) |
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| Good Charlotte – Emotionless Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| good charlette sucks. i could have come up with the lyrics while taking a crap. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You Into the Dark Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| really good song. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – A Lack of Color Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| it seems that is what always happens. right when you fucking start falling for a girl she finds another guy. | |
| Cat Stevens – Tuesday's Dead Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| JME, you're completely retarded. just because something mentions the sky doesn't mean it is talking about 9/11. seriously... | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Tiny Vessels Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i can completely relate to this song. other than the part about going to california. i've never gone to california. but i did meet a girl. | |
| Rilo Kiley – Jenny, You're Barely Alive Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| omg i don't have this fucking song. someone email me their aim sn or something so i can get it. my email address is jessmkio@hotmail.com | |
| Rilo Kiley – Rest of My Life Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| this song is so fucking sad. i hope i never feel like that. i'm so in love right now. | |
| Cake – Haze Of Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i think it's alot more simple than that. if you have ever loved some one alot or maybe been in love you will know that it does give you a different view of them. you tend to think that they would never do you wrong and that any bad thoughts about them are just you being paranoid. love can be VERY blinding. | |
| Saves the Day – You Vandal Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| holy shit this is so freaky. my girlfriend left for the Galápagos Islands for 2 weeks and i'm pretty much feeling the same way. she can't call me and i'm getting so fucking lonely. | |
| Engine Down – Intent To Pacify Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I saw them play live as well. The singers voice was so good I couldn't believe it was live and right in front of me at first. I mean...it was REALLY good! After that I bought one of their albums at the show and downloaded the rest. Really great band. | |
| Explosions in the Sky – Have You Passed Through This Night? Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I saw them live. All I have to say after seeing them is that they are utterly amazing. The best instrumental band I have come across ever. They played until the drummer passed out, never stopping. | |
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