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| Adele – Hiding My Heart Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Adele sings the hell out of this song, don't get me wrong; however, I feel it necessary to point out that this is actually a hidden track off Brandi Carlile's album, The Story. |
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| John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is actually about Northwestern Virginia rather than West Virginia--the record executives made him shorter it for commercial reasons. The Shenandoah River doesn't flow through West Virginia, and yet they use it as their theme song because they're apparently poor with THEIR OWN GEOGPRAHY. |
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| Okkervil River – Get Big Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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At a concert, Will asked us to look at the person beside us and imagine that we were totally and completely in love with them--but they'd been unfaithful--and imagine how we're in love with them yet hurt and betrayed to the point of hating them. |
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| Art Brut – Rusted Guns of Milan Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I'm sorry but a song about erectile dysfunction with a verse of, "Don't tell your friends!/Don't tell your friends!/I promise, it won't/Ever happen again, " is absolutely hilarious. As a girl, I know that's the first thing I'd tell my friends. |
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| Dar Williams – The Ocean Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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To me, the song has always been about a type of forbidden love; the ocean represents the condemnation of their romance while the town acts as a privacy field, allowing them to block all negativity out. I think it's another song that alludes to her bisexuality and the ocean represents the socially acceptable love existing between man and woman. At times she'd like to ignore her feelings towards this woman, stop having to fight so hard for a love not accepted, because it'd be easier but in the ends decides against it because it's something worth fighting for, something worth saving. |
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| U2 – Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Personally, I don’t get the line, “And it’s you when I don’t pick up the phone” is about his father already being dead, and Bono not remember it, so much as Bono not being able to call when his father was alive. The song, to me, almost comes off as Bono being really defensive towards his relationship with his father and coming to terms with not only the death of his father but the imperfection of their relationship. I look at it as the spectrum of their relationship from Bono’s birth until his fathers death; from teenage rebellion to an adult understanding and thankfulness, for all that was done, to a child’s dependency on its father. |
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| The Decemberists – The Bagman's Gambit Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Whenever I listen to this song, I get this flash of Washington D.C. in the 1970's, during the Cold War. She a Soviet spy who used him to get information but the Soviets didn't trust her so they locked her away in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), where the narrator has to go and willingly betray his country to secure this woman's freedom.
Granted, St. Petersburg hasn't been Petrograd since 1924 when it was changed to Leningrad in honor of the newly departed Lenin. Interesting enough, that occurred 100 years after the actual Decemberists marched on Senate Square in St. Petersburg.
It could be a tie in because communism started in St. Petersburg by, you know, the godless Bolshevik hordes. It's where the Red Army grew from the Red Guard, former revolutionary soldiers... Uh, I don't know, trying to deceiver Meloy's lyrics into something tangible is a headache. |
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