| The Walkmen – Postcards From Tiny Islands Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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**Can an admin delete the previous post. Marijuana affects the memory. Postcards from Tiny Islands is about Suicide. He's walking to another place far from his life the entire song. He's always walking and when he sees the moon he starts writing the letter. He's a glass ball in the empty sky and when he drops "to the ground below" the tempo of the song increases almost to a free fall. The tiny islands are bridges and the postcards are his suicide note. "The marble (were stone in me?)" I feel like he's saying "there's marble and stone in me". I think it's a very gruesome way to depict his body when he hits the ground. And then he sees the moon pass by and saying the letter explains it all, "It's to much to enclose". The Holidays flying by are the years since his death. |
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| The Walkmen – Postcards From Tiny Islands Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Postcards from Tiny Islands is about Suicide. He's walking to another place far from his life the entire song. He's always walking and when he sees the moon he starts writing the letter. He's a glass ball in the empty sky and when he drops "to the ground below" the tempo of the song increases almost to a free fall. The tiny islands are bridges and the postcards are his suicide note. I feel that "The marble (were stone in me?)" I feel like he's saying there's marble and stone in me. He's fucking dieing and he's watching the moon pass by and saying the letter I live in Williamsburg Brooklyn and I walked the bridge tonight because I'm broke. I felt like jumping, It reminded me of the song. "The marble (were stone in me?)" I feel like he's saying there's marble and stone in me. He's fucking dieing and he's watching the moon pass by and saying the letter explains it all, "It's to much to enclose". The Holidays flying by are the years, it's time. |
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| Kings of Leon – Taper Jean Girl Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm not acquainted with Caleb's lyrics but I feel the Taper Jean girl is a prostitute. The Taper Jean girl has a motel face, so I assume she's pretty trashy, she wears jeans so she's a casual girl. I can only assume after she turns tricks she's ashamed so she buries her eyes in a secret place. To me Sunday has this whole meaning of morality, it is god's day. Cunt is probably the worse derivative for a females reputation. I can't tell whether or not Caleb is speaking through the prostitute or describing her. But whoever the cunt is, she's concerned with an image and that's why that image of making oneself up is indicated. And then there is the male. He's tasted the watcher. The supreme watcher is God, and the whole invocation of religious sentimentality (black as a night on a Sunday) resurfaces. From here its going to be reading way deeper. The second chorus is a biography. The prostitute remembers her first sexual experiences in the 7'th grade. She used lust like a weapon. Now she smokes cigarettes and that winter chafe, seems like a rash to me. She's dirty and trashy like a cheap motel. I don't whether the daughter is the prostitutes or one of her clients. And it doesn't really matter. The song kind of kills me, and so the dispute with that lyric should be made just that. The Taper Jean girl kills me. |
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| Cold War Kids – Rubidoux Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh and furthermore on the third verse concerning rich and poor, they play themselves low, they're not freaking out, it's just another sad thing for them to absorb (Just like talking city blues down in the whole they loath) | |
| Cold War Kids – Rubidoux Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is obviously about the end of the world. Cold War Kids enthusiasts all know that there is a large presence of religious invocation within the lead singers lyrics. The song begins with what would be our basic instinctual reaction to the end of days: Locking ourselves in, clutching our worthless materialistic possessions, and watching the infrastructure of this capitalist world collapse (hence the chandliers falling, imagine the scene of a movie). The second verse is hard for me to explain besides the fact that although humanity is ending the environment is static, however the indication of baptism indicates a human beings attempt to find salvation before the end. I love the third verse. It compares the mindset of the rich and poor. Those persian rugs are worthless in the end but the few feet who float above them calm themselves in a rythmic prayer (hence percussionist succession words). But there is the poor, who know the city blues in the holes they loathe, so this apocalypse is just another step for them. My interpretation of the chorus line is simply this. Where would you go?> What would you do? Would you drive to Rubidoux (an uninhabited, vacant scene of California) to watch the stars. What would you bring? Perhaps some alcohol to dull the tragedy, how about a pistol for protection. People have all commented about "Romantic call of Why" arguing it's "Isle of Wight". I hate to say this. BUT NO IT ISN'T. Romantic Call of Why. Imagine a man, knowing the end is near, Falling down on the sand of this beautiful area, and cursing the heavens, with upraised hands, "Saying, Why God" (Again think of a movie, perhaps Twilight Zone episode, Time is time at last, you know the one with guy who breaks his glasses after the world is destroyed). Now the verse about Priests and Holy men. I do not in any way shape or form believe the Cold War Kids are a religious band. I believer they are master painters of themes with song and sound. But here it is. Religion has told us this would come. But instead we chose to dirty our hands with sin, and saunter within the lost and found of human emotion. The last verse before the chorus to me is an illustration of the last minutes. Think of religious imagery, the world is said to end by fire, and in this song it rains down. The doors to choose from might be many but the end is near (The night time is going to come) complete darkness. And the last place left is Rubidoux. now. Am I right? |
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| Incubus – Leech Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It's a total political statement, the album was aimed at that theme. I think this song is the most obscure piece of art. | |
| Incubus – Leech Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It's a total political statement, the album was aimed at that theme. I think this song is the most obscure piece of art. | |
| Incubus – Pantomime Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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although each musical piece has it's own doorway to interpretation it doesn't neglect the fact that someone wrote it and it was written for a certain purpose to them specifically I believe this song is about the passion for a woman and within this relationship one has betrayed the other or maybe both the song begins as the set of a pantomime play and if anyone has taken humantities class Pantomime is an ancient form of theater where one man re enacted a story without his words and only his body (in which case he says we waves his hands and everyone sees what he means) In the second part the pantomime asks someone in the audience to show him his heresy which is by webster--- adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma. Again Humanities courses will tell you that by church law anyone of the higer more noble class could not be caught dead with anyone from the theater. Boyd goes on to explain the optimistism of this pantomime in his predicament He knows what he wants to say, but maybe it's a better idea to just play it out and see how things work out. the last verse is the deepest of them all the pantomime admits his desire and his fantasy to be totally melded together with this person in heated desire (sweat, spit, and his blood)--- (Pantomimes used wine to signify blood in their plays as they didn't have special effects blood capsules like today) However she is of noble cause and he is a part of theater so she will remain his deep secret forever, but she'll always know exactly how he refers to her in his plays (I promise you'll see what it means) I've listened to this song a million times and I've taken a Humanities course tracing the history of theater and Pantomime had an entire section as it was a bi product of the italian rennasaince. I feel that the comparisons are undeniable. But hey if you got a different interpretation punch yourself in the head and hopefully the coma will erase all you just read |
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