| Sleep Station – Elena Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i'm surprised there are no comments- this song is very chilling. if you've heard the story of dr. von cosel, you'll know it's about his beloved patient elena. he preserved her body after her death- "the truth that i put behind her." lovely song. |
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| The Decemberists – Grace Cathedral Hill Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| no, it's but'll, which sounds weird but actually seems to mean "but it will never belong to you" in reference to the world. | |
| The Decemberists – Cocoon Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"and script out the rest of your life" ..not sure, is that in the liner notes? in the song it says "tracing the bends and the shapes (could be shades? I'm not sure)" "the sorry coclusion, the hole in the sky command what is tried, what is true" ^ makes me think of the ozone layer, the hole in the sky being the damage we've done. |
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| The Decemberists – Leslie Ann Levine Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i like the reference to the chimney sweep- could this be the chimbley sweep from 'her majesty'? | |
| The Decemberists – Song for Myla Goldberg Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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i just finished reading this book and can only find a few things that relate to bee season, but some may relate to myla goldberg herself. i don't know too much about her. i do know that jxnarcoticz is right about the sticky mess, though i don't get the impression that it's his first time at it. it is his first time attempting to meditate and he ends up masturbating and making a huge sticky mess. jim isn't a character but i think thedouglas has it spot on with the things that didn't come from the book. also, myla goldberg has super long legs. |
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| The Decemberists – A Cautionary Song Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think the mention of collard greens is pretty silly and gives me an image of a young boy looking at his mother in a whole new light after finding out that she's a whore. another good line is "the lot of the marina's teeming minions (in their opinions)" which makes me giggle to imagine sailors boosting their egos by imagining their fleet to be something spectacular. |
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| The Decemberists – Billy Liar Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I wonder how he has his hands in his pockets if his knickers are down. I get that it's about being a teenaged boy and masturbation is part of that. | |
| The Decemberists – On the Bus Mall Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"and we laughed off the quick tricks and the old men with limp dicks on the colonnades at the waterfront park" I will never look at portland's waterfront park the same way again. old men with limp dicks will come to my mind every time I try. I didn't get the impression that this was a song about teenage runaways / whores at first. But now I do. this at all linked to the fact that, last I heard, Portland had one of the highest rates of teen runaways / homeless? |
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| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"I found you, a tattooed tramp A dirty daugher from the labour cans I laid you down on the grass of a clearing You wept but your soul was willing" makes it seem like the narrator thinks he's doing something good for her by having sex with her- he found her in the labour cans (camps? I thought it was camps) and was fixated on her. my first impression was rape. |
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| Iron & Wine – Love and Some Verses Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think part of it is about his loving her through all her phases. Maybe she uses change to cover up some vulnerability, as in the long dress to hide her knees? | |
| Iron & Wine – Naked as We Came Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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nice comments, eucil. I like the reference to wasting in the ground- I've felt the same way. the reference to ashes suggests preference to cremation because it's sort of.. well, freeing. not wanting to sit and rot in the ground. |
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| Rufus Wainwright – California Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| the way wainwright says 'California, please' sounds really sarcastic as if he's mocking it rather than praising. | |
| Guster – Homecoming King Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I agree with what's been said, that it's about the kids who hit their peak in highschool- the homecoming kings and star atheletes who won't make it any further than that. | |
| Rufus Wainwright – Oh What a World Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"Men reading fashion magazines Oh what a world It seems we live in Straight man" reminds me a little of the current trend of the 'metrosexual.' |
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| The Shins – The Celibate Life Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I was thinking the chemicals referred to vain things like dying of your hair and ruining it in order to look better. leading "no celibate life" can obviously refer to sex but might also refer to indulging in other things, and maybe being selfish in general. | |
| Rufus Wainwright – Grey Gardens Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I read that Wainwright is a fan of the documentary 'Grey Gardens' and that it has a large cult fanbase with gay males- evidently, the young Edie Beale is sort of symbolic of the way they've been treated in the past- she's a flamboyant oddball. Has anyone seen the film? I can't find it at the library or my local video stores. evidently the lines: "Trying to get my mansions green After I've Grey Gardens seen" refer to Edie Beale (the older of the two) driving away her daughter's boyfriends and the younger girl's insistance that she would've had a lovely spouse or such if not for her mother. Tadzio refers to lost love in general, like dukegatsby and morpheus said, from Death in Venice. |
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