| The Tiny – Everything Is Free Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yeah, it's pretty hard to argue against the file sharing interpretation. Which disappoints me, because the music behind the words is so heart-wrenching and powerful. It sounds like it should be about something bigger than not getting paid as much as you want because some people steal. I mean, I'm not saying that I condone piracy, but with this music, it sounds like melodramatic whining. It makes me sad, and not in the way that it should. |
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| Why? – Song of the Sad Assassin Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm not sure why such a parallel needs to be drawn with the demise of cLOUDDEAD and all that. How many times have you been doing something horribly boring and imagined yourself living a more exciting life to pass the time? Maybe he's a "sad assassin" because he's stuck in the basement on Fairmount Street washing his clothes and he wishes he could be out in the world murdering folks and gettin' it on with the ladies. It's a very visual song, starting with a scene of action-movie tension and unexpected sensual allure, and then flipping to an ugly laundry room where he sits alone, perhaps waiting for the spin cycle to finish. I think these lines: in the basement, i feel like a loop of the last eight frames of film before a slow motion lee harvey oswald gets shot in the gut and killed point to his longing for adventure and excitement (and on another level, for the release of death), even after coming back to his rather uneventful reality. Before Oswald was killed, he was, after all, just going about his daily activities, without any indication that his life was about to end, and then... BAM. If it could happen to Oswald, why couldn't it happen to Yoni, sitting there in that basement? There's just so much in the song that's right there in front of your face that I don't feel the need to take it beyond that to a metaphorical level. It's a wonderful snapshot of someone's -- really, anyone's -- state of mind in a moment of boredom. |
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| Why? – Song of the Sad Assassin Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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An apartment building I used to live in had a laundry room for the tenants. It was seventy-five cents a load to use the machines. You put three quarters in the slots, push the sliding bar in, and the machine starts. I think he's just bored, doing laundry, imagining various, more exciting things, like maybe a woman seducing him then and there, or an assassin coming by and killing him. I could, of course, be way off... |
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| Modest Mouse – March Into the Sea Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's about human beings basically being shit as a species. "Our tails wagged and then fell off" refers to our "evolution" from primates, but after what should have been such a leap forward, we were instead less than what came before us. We destroy our world and each other, like a plague upon the earth. Hence, we turned and "marched into the sea" where life started and the most basic living organisms call home. We've gone beyond ourselves to the point of devolution. We've lost our hands, metaphorically speaking, and so we have lost our ability to connect with our fellow human beings. In the end, we're no better than any other lifeform. | |
| Owen Pallett – Learn To Keep Your Mouth Shut, Owen Pallett Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I wish this song was longer. The strings at the end are just absolutely beautiful. Considering the (hilarious) title, I'd say this is just about Owen spouting off about some shallow, materialistic woman and the resulting verbal backlash from a friend of said woman. He regrets saying anything, not because he was wrong, but because he didn't appreciate the lecture. Simple... I think. |
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| Why? – Crushed Bones Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I did my best on the transcription, but a lot of it's guesswork, especially in the "riders on the tube" verse. Any suggestions for corrections are very much welcome. That said, although the song is explicitly about drugs, I'm not sure what Why? is trying to say about them. I'd say that drugs seem to be portrayed in a negative light in the lyrics. I don't know much about Yoni Wolf, but the line that says "Back then I'da..." seems to suggest that maybe the person whose point of view the song expresses, be it Wolf or some imagined character, is a recovering drug addict reflecting on how the experience felt and some of the common sights and occurrences during the time of the addiction. Anyway, it's an excellent song. |
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| Afghan Whigs – Miles Iz Ded Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| sashdudelly - It's listed as "Rebirth of the Cool" on iTunes. | |
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