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| The Sounds – Song with a Mission Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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No, I don't think so. "This song is (...) only for people living like we do and not for the true" - I take the first line literally and then this one signifies that the "true" fans can go f**k themselves. All those who don't want their favorite bands to become successfull, who don't want the music to be accessible for "mainstream" people. |
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| Cursive – Rise Up! Rise Up! Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think "I'm not saying let's burn down the church" is a very important line that speaks for the whole album.
The rest of the song is pretty much obvious - cease the day, live your life to the fullest, or you'll regret it later. |
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| Cursive – Dorothy Dreams of Tornadoes Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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No, this song is different from Dorothy at Fourty in many ways. This one is sung by Dorothy, not to her, and I'm thinking that Dorothy is the lyrical I of Kasher himself on this album. It's about how everyone else is stagnating and that stagnation is a horrible thing. Only Dorothy is the only one to recognize that, that's why she wants to get out until it's entirely too late - but this is refered to as "dreams" in the other Dorothy song. These two songs are basically about two different ways of life: the conservative one (and I don't mean politically), where you are keen to keep the status quo, to die in the city you were born in, and the life of wanderlust, where you can't feel happy once you've arrived somewhere.
It's also about childhood dreams in a way that most of us dream of going away when we've grown up, but few really dare to do it. |
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| Cursive – Dorothy at Forty Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is irony. What Dorothy dreams of are fairytales (like the Wizard of Oz), but that's not the kind of dreams that you're allowed to have in the USA. You're supposed to follow the American Dram, which is purely matherialistic and doesn't have anything romantic to it. So instead she's supposed to work to gaign money to then spend it on things.
It's certainly not his opinion in the foreground of this song, this "dreamers never live, only dream of it". Big parts of the record are about losing the connection to your childhood, and that's why the age is mentioned, Dorothy has remained child even at fourty and she's supposed to finally give up her dreams. Maybe Dorothy is Kasher himself? Seems likely to me. |
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| Cursive – Bad Science Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I love how Cursive have carried the same theme throw the whole album. This song is abot growing up and how you are forced to give up your childhood by the society... One of the blunter messages. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Backstabber Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's obviously about all thouse scene kids who abandon a band once they sign to a major label. Those who want to have the band just for themselves, who don't want others listening to the same music, since they don't think mainstream people are worthy of it. God, how often have I heard "omg liek no, band xyz was played on oc, now everyone'll listen to them"... They don't allow their favorite bands the success they've earned for themselves. These fans are real backstabbers, they used to adore the band and once it's become known they gossip about it. If I had to put this song on a themed tape, it was right next to The Sounds' "Song With a Meaning". |
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| Mariha – It Hurts Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I think this song is about being depressed. You can't see anything good in your environment, even though there might be a lot of things. The reason for the depression is probably a broken heart - "you were my first priority and now you flee away from me". |
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| Soul Asylum – Closer To The Stars Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I think that wanting to be "closer to the stars" is actually metaphor for wanting success, acknowledgement, recognition. There's that person, an ugly duckling, who puts her whole effort into becoming someone different, a model as I see it ("walked into that magazine", "hooked on glossy pictures"). And once she has reached her goal everybody starts talking behind her back, for example alleging that she is stupid (this is what mostly makes me think that she's a model, you can here people talk about models' stupidity everywhere).
The last part is telling her to just bear with it ("what's the scene you're making"). It's been her choice, so she shouldn't regret it now or expect others to make it better for her. Nobody cares as long as she goes on ("we'll seek you when you awaken alone" - maybe after a suicide?), they neglect what they see ("said you were faking"). It's a really sad song. |
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