| The Get Up Kids – Shorty Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| screamo sucks ass. the only reason the screaming in this song doesn't ruin it is because it's used as sparingly as possible. it's like a tambourine or a guitar solo. cool every now and then, lame when it's non-stop. screamo sucks ass and AP mag is brainwashing kids into loving goddamn awful bands. WHERE'S THE INTEGRITY?? START THE REVOLUTION! | |
| The Get Up Kids – The Breathing Method Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i agree that this song is a different version of "shorty." i think it's about the bitter end of a shitty friendship and its repercussions, in the same vein of "shorty." plus these two songs sound more dynamically similar than any other two on "eudora." think about it. |
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| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – I Love Creedence Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i totally agree that there are definitely lesbian undertones. people get freaked out by unconventional songs and make them about whatever they want with the guise of "my personal interpretation" AKA their mistake that they refuse to believe otherwise in. |
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| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – I Love Creedence Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this song is definitely, literally about two girls. whether it means that to you or not doesn't matter, the point is in a linear narrative form, creedence is a girl. "we laughed like WE we're queens and split OUR ballgowns at the seams" unless creedence is a gay male, which would negate any romantic relationship between he and elodie, she is a girl. not everything is a love song. |
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| Jimmy Eat World – Dizzy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this site sucks. people should try and remember that the artist is a grown-ass man with kids and a wife so a lot of the songs probably have a different perspective than usual. mrpants - mad props, i considered the same thing myself. i also took the 'hovering' as a big part of the context since it sounds like they're boning. plus the lines before, 'your first, your last, your only' could totally be in terms of boning as well. the "number counting down to a new start" is supposed to go along with the 'time' allusion. a clock didn't move forward and ease some kind of uncomfortable situation with time, it just kept counting down like a timer before things would be better. i wish someone knew of a better setting for the song. it sounds like it's about a pretty important, singular event, and not just some washed-up, dried out relationship. |
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| Bad Astronaut – San Francisco Serenade Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the first verse begins with joey talking about how responsible he feels and felt for derrick. he knows a lot of people won't understand him, but he says it anyway so history will always know how much he cared about his friend. the place where they live isn't good for them, emotionally or financially, but it's what they know and it's safe, and if they left things might be worse, so they settle for the same. joey's world is consumed by the death of his friend, and the only time he can stop thinking about it is when he sleeps. he also cites sleeping as an escape in the passenger. at the same time, he dreams of his friend coming back to life and things restoring themselves back to good. he then quickly summarizes what happened (the stories). in the end, everything collapsed (with a suspicious allusion to the twin towers falling, another issue dealt with in the passenger). in the end, he begs for someone to help him, but not to change things, but rather just accept for what they are. a super mature song but one of the greatest songwriters of all time. he thinks derrick will be the death of him, and he may suffer the same fate, or at least enter the same depression derrick suffered from. |
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| Bad Astronaut – Best Western Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song is about how good catholic school kids are just as rebellious and "bad" as regular teenagers. it sounds like a party planned on a sunday night where a bunch of kids pay for a party bus to take them to a shitty hotel so they can get drunk and have sex with each other. the chorus is all about the mentality of the kids. they are actively rebelling, and feel like screaming at their parents to notice how much they're acting up so that they view them as mature. |
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| The Lawrence Arms – I'll Take What's In The Box, Monty Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i'm pretty sure this girl becomes brendan's wife. | |
| Jets to Brazil – Rocket Boy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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this song reminds me a lot of "accident prone" by jawbreaker. blake's been quoted, describing that song as about "a winter full of accidents" or something like that (used to be on the blackball records site, can't find it now). the reference to an accident here may very well be the same accident mentioned in "accident prone" written so many years earlier. i know blake broke his leg, mainly through the allusion in the bad astronaut song "unlucky stuntman." as for the bulk of it, i think this song describes leaving home for the first time, and how drastically that changes your life. this could refer to blake's time at NYU, or maybe just time spent on the road with jawbreaker. either way, it's about coming down from a great height, whether that be the initial excitement of college, or the initial excitement of jawbreaker's success. eventually, things begin to change, and loneliness and depression take hold. gah, i can't even begin to explain how deep i think this song goes. |
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| The Lawrence Arms – The Disaster March Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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haha, drewler, you rule. it seems most members can't grasp the concept of a song NOT being about an immature relationship. what i meant was that i went to school in chicago last semester, and met up with the guys from the larry arms a few times at shows and whatnot, and i made it a point to talk to brendan about this song cos i think it's so amazing. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Passenger Seat Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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crow, i don't want to tell you your interpretation is wrong, but i personally feel that this song has nothing to do with a break up, nor does 'tiny vessels' have anything to do with love, but rather partaking in the physical act of love when it never existed, not disappeared, in the first place. aka hookin' up. haha. but seriously, a lot of ben's songs are about feeling guilty about being with a person he doesn't really have feelings for. |
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| The Lawrence Arms – The Disaster March Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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this song is definitely not about a breakup. it's about typical angsty youth, and realizing dissatisfaction and discontent with the world is something people have been feeling for years (hence the connections to simon and garfunkel and holden caufield, icons of the past). also, those last lines aren't correct: "i am man with guitar, i am three's company it's the end of the world, sit and watch with me." the only reason they aren't included in the booklet is cos of a lyric change. straight from brendan himself. |
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| The Lawrence Arms – Necrotism: Decanting the Insalubrious (Cyborg Midnight) Part 7 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"im wasted as my time spent sitting idly by drinking in this shithole while you all went out outside its a great day to fall asleep its a kick-ass day to dream that im still capable of saying what I mean" brendans drunk (wow), depressed, and wants nothing more than to sit away from the crowd and think about things. he's spent so much time spreading anti-bush messages that he wonders if they even hold any meaning anymore. "the times are changing but we all stayed the same we faded and faded now nothing remains as we breathe our last breaths and kiss our goodbyes remember us buried alive" things in life often change, regardless of what we had in mind. it's when we struggle to keep our own plans depsite the fact that the planmaking is outside of our control that we 'fade.' |
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| Alkaline Trio – Smoke Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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this song is definitely about the strain distance can put on a relationship. it sounds like everytime he heads out for another tour, he gets really nervous and anxious that when he comes back, his wife may not want to be married to him anymore after all the time apart. in the chorus, when he says he wishes he still smoked, he means he's wishing he had a way to alleviate all the tension he's experiencing; it's a nice way of saying "things are not good." |
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| The Lawrence Arms – Turnstiles Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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to me this song sounds like chris is teetering on the edge of ending a relationship. it's put him through a lot; he's been angry, confused, nervous and non-sympathetic (haha). he's not 100% either way, and the lyrics do a really good job of showing that reluctance, hence the turnstiles, going through his thoughts and his options over and over in a never-ending process. in the end, he's still not really positive what he's gonna do, and he simply concludes with a warning of what will happen if he chooses to leave. the part where chris and brendan harmonize on "i'm just fine" sends shivers down my spine. it's just so honest in its fake, sarcastic tone. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Passenger Seat Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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i love how people told someone they were wrong when their own personal interpretation was different than the 30 preceeding it. especially when that interpretation had more thought put into it than the typical "dis iz a luv song" kind. watch me get flamed even worse: i think this song is about god. about faith, and leaving things out of your control totally up to this benevolent being (the role of a passenger). what's more, is the response to the question about the satellites, a simple smile. if you break it down, the question epitomizes what all religions try to answer, how man is connected to this gigantic universe; a man made object colliding with something billions of miles away, occuring totally naturally in the sky. but, as we all know, the meaning of life has yet to be determined, and all the narrator gets is a smile (very reminescent of the final scene in dogma). in the last verse, the song switches voices and now the driver (god) is speaking to the passenger. such a good song. |
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| The Format – On Your Porch Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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this song is very introspective. nate is about to leave his home, and really needs to gather of all his thoughts before he takes off. the imagery of the porch is very comforting, sitting back and talking and reminescing, because it is indeed the end of a certain period in his life. in doing so, he recalls all that his family has been through with his dad's sickness. "three years" is also mentioned in "cause a scene," so obviously they were a very important time for nate. anyway, now that his dad has overcome his sickness, or for whatever reasons (probably intentions of the format becoming sucessful), nate has to leave and go off to california to become what he has always been "ever since we were kids," meaning he has been a musician since he was young, but now things are much more serious, and there is a lot more at stake. but if nothing else, his parents will be proud of him and he will be proud of himself for even trying to fulfill his childhood dreams. i am not quite sure on what the smoke may mean. perhaps the sinking into his skin is representative of that his experiences and memories of his home will never leave him, but that has always been a part of the song i never felt too sure about. any ideas? |
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| Jawbreaker – Accident Prone Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| i think this song is about hopelessness. it sounds as if blake has given up on everything because the last few years have been full of such hell, and that he wants nothing more than to just get the hell out. however, one thing, this one person, is keeping him somewhat tied down to where he's at in life. he is having a hard time leaving, but at the same time he is capable of doing it because that person has let hm down, and if nothing else, his leaving will spite that person, and who doesn't feel the joy that the immediate effects of a little revenge bring about? at this point he is able to say, "hey, you fucked up. i'm gone." | |
| Weezer – Say It Ain't So Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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goddamnit. some of you people practically ruin what could be an awesome site. not every single song a band writes is about a girl. if that's your thinking, wake up, get over your fucking self and realize there is far more to life than high school dating. this song is without a doubt about a son struggling with his fathers' alcoholism. and it is simply amazing. so honest and emotional. question though, what are your (sincere, as in not shitty, "girl" interpretations) thoughts on the line "my love is lifetaker"? only part of the song i haven't really figured out. |
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