| Daniel Johnston – Casper The Friendly Ghost Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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haven't you ever had a death fantasy? where you fantasize about your death, how things will be, how people will react when you die? everybody respects the dead |
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| Guided by Voices – I Am A Scientist Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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it's about substance abuse if you don't understand, consider yrself lucky i am an incurable just unlock my mind ease yr painful lives the hole i dig is bottomless nothing else can set me free think: "drinker's peace" without the ironic distance. think elliott smith's "a distorted reality is now a necessity to be free" he speaks in a language immediately recognizable to anyone with an addictive personality and even the slightest bit of self-awareness. you know what i'm talking about. |
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| Songs: Ohia – I've Been Riding With the Ghost Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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substance abuse if you've ever had a problem, you know exactly what he's talking about you can hear desperation despair - and more importantly, a furious, indignant hope - just barely underneath his voice |
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| The Smiths – Ask Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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i always thought love and bomb were referring to the same thing as in: if (it != love) it == the bomb it's weird that so many people are interpreting "bomb" literally (not that i'm saying it isn't possible). i thought it meant that if whatever it is that's bringing them together isn't love, then it's some other unnamed connective, explosive emotion - or that the bomb is simply a serendipitous gift: the act of "ask"ing itself. once the "you" in the lyrics asks, it'll either be love or it won't, but it'll still bring them together |
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| Pavement – Carrot Rope Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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i'm almost completely sure "slim door" is a reference to a robert frost poem - the one where the narrator is walking around in the dark with his arms in front of him and an open door hits him in the face read it like three years ago so my memory of it is a little weak |
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| The Shins – Saint Simon Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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this part is all one phrase: "since i don't have the time nor mind to figure out the nursery rhymes that helped us out and make sense of our lives / the cruel, uneventful state of apathy releases me" it's all one sentence. the line starting with "since" is one single long preceding clause, and "releases" is the verb. this doesn't sound very important but most people on this page seem to be drawing a different interpretation because of the way the song is laid out (they think "the cruel, uneventful state of apathy..." is a completely separate line). in the next line, the "them" he refers to is still the nursery rhymes (and likely all the myths, santa, monsters, true love, etc. that we believed as children). there's a lot of things i think that are wrong with the interpretations here, but i think as a whole, we've all got it. like there's one part wrong with a post, but the next part is brilliant. we've all got small parts of the meaning and it really comes together. i'm kinda surprised it actually worked out that way. just wanted to say that saint simon is one of my favorite songs of all time. |
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| The Shins – Fighting In A Sack Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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i like the comments so far, but it's less about anti-religion and more about hopelessness and despair. the ones huddled up in fear and hate - that's all of us. our fate is death and nothingness. it's a lot to put us through. the "lingering voices" = your ego. we try to rationalize our existence, to prove to ourselves that we have meaning, even when you know it's not that simple. basically it's a song about rejecting the absolute truths of religion and some philosophies, and the despair that goes along with that rejection - now there's nothing certain in life. certainty is something humans cling to and oftentimes it's something we need - but it requires faith. there's no fool-proof logical philosophical answer to life, the universe, and everything. |
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