| Frank Turner – Glory Hallelujah Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Alun54: Just what I was thinking too, as a believer. To me, this song is ultimately about stepping up as people and taking credit for the crap we do, and the good we do too. I really like Frank Turners more-or-less positive lyrics on this entire album, and this is also a pretty inspiring song! I think what I find more surprisingly than his joyful atheism is the intensely nationalistic English identity he expresses throughout the album -- nationalism is a violent religion, and a lot of other faiths are corrupted by its allure. At least, that's the few from my angle. At any rate, what I try to take from Frank's England-fanboyism is to realize and appreciate your own culture. I see him as the English take on Americana. Englisha!? Hoping to track this down on vinyl soon! |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Christmas in the Room Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think it's not just about someone special, but also about how everything we try to use to make Christmas more exciting, is worthless in comparison to the simple time of rest that Christmas should be. It reminds me a lot of the topic in The Child With The Stars On His Head. That's another amazing one | |
| Sufjan Stevens – The Child with the Star on His Head Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is so epic. One of his best Christmas ones yet, and so frightfully deliciously long. I read the lyrics one over and it resonated with me about how Christmas should be a time of rest of a timeout from the various garbage we think we need in our lives, like engineering, dictionaries, even calendars. The child-mother references seem pretty obvious Jesus and Mary to me (someone can, and will attempt to dispute that; fine). LAst year I thought about giving on Christmas, cause after peeling away the layers of materialism and fake Christmas trees and mall tramplings, what was left? How do you celebrate a little boy's birthday if they're not longer in the flesh? This year, I've been realizing that salvation was born; an escape from the trappings of eye-for-an-eye, competitive pricing, material addiction, social "norms," blaming your boring life on the government, etc. Like Sufjan, I still believe Christmas is a time to get away from it all. |
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| Metro Station – Shake It Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sex. The sound is a little less annoying than Fall Out Boy, because of the synths, but it's probably worse because lyrically it falls into the steaming pile of sex-pop-shit that large record companies have been shoving down our throats for the last 2 decades. |
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| Denison Witmer – Song Of Songs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Great song! One of the best on his new album, for sure. It's definitely influenced from the book Songs of Songs of the Bible. I think it's about how much more sense sex makes after marriage. The story in Songs of Songs is about the search for perfect love, with attention to the details, and of which sex and faithfulness to one person are major themes. |
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| Denison Witmer – Carry The Weight Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Now, these lyrics are so basic, than it can be taken many many ways, but here's my take: About us carrying the weight of our friends and family and those in our community, without always asking "why did it happen?" or "what are the details." Ultimately it's about just quietly just doing what we can to take the weight of life and carry it all together. I'm a supporter of community living though, so I'm a little biased. |
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| Denison Witmer – Beautiful Boys and Girls Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is about when he felt he belonged and was positive about life and all, but then how he lost that along the way. The part of the well brings to mind the time Jesus turned a prostitute's life around. In fact, the mention of naked bodies buried in veins may be referring to her addiction to sex. I don't know though, it seems to me Denison usually writes middle-weighted lyrics out of a knack for imagination. And I think the chorus refers to the beauty of broken people in terms of possible redemption. I love Denison's simple poetic lyrics. |
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| Denison Witmer – Life Before Aesthetics Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song is about when life wasn't so filled with us trying to be fashionable and always needing things to be beautiful to us. However, he finds beauty in nature, which is so timeless, and ultimately admits that it was inevitable that aesthetics came into being. | |
| Alela Diane – The Pirate's Gospel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Hedonism is not sustainable. | |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting – Horses In The Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Skullflower and Prayers On Fire have Sanskrit, Un'aria is titled Italian, Stockhausen, Est Is Ihr Gehirn Das Ich Suche is German, and the Horses In The Sky has Navajo. | |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting – Horses In The Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The language spliced in here is Farsi, sometimes called Persian, which is the official language of Iran. Here is what you are hearing along with English translations: Negah con, negah con, be aebr-ha-ye tu-ye aseman (Look at the clouds in the sky) Saerneveshtaemo didaem (I have seen my destiny) Aesb-aem bayaed bebaze, ha ha ha (My horse must lose, ha ha ha) Musik-e delvapaesi (Musical anxiety) Maen be seda jaevab midaem mostaeghim. Seda naefaesaeme. (I answer to sound directly. Sound is my breath.) |
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| Thrice – The Messenger Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Aman, where do you get your interpretations from? They are pretty wacked, to put it plainly. | |
| Thrice – Firebreather Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Considering the fact that liner notes in Artist In The Ambulance mentioned at least one member of the band going out for smokes during the writing/recording of the album, I highly, highly, (highly) doubt Dustin could write something like this. Not too mention, nothing in any of of Thrice's other lyrics would indicate that Dustin would feel the need to condemn. I'm going with the the Christian viewpoint because I'm taking into account what Dustin has previously written. That, and the freedom of speech and freedom analysis. I agree, it's no use being physically free unless you act like it. | |
| Pedro the Lion – Secret of the Easy Yoke Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Notice how he says: "But if all that's left is duty I'm falling on my sword At least then I would not serve An unseen, distant Lord" So, he's not necessairly saying that those "duties" or actions are useless or uninspired, but that if that's ALL that's left, if it all just boils down to duty to a distant unseen lord, then he doesn't want a part of that. Everybody needs to get close before pretending to be. This song is inspiring. I discovered it 2 days after I felt really down and far from God. I still want to believe in Him, but I'm losing faith... |
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