| Tori Amos – Caught A Lite Sneeze Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i feel like this song is about cheating and forgiveness. "boys on my left side/boys on my right side/boys in the middle/and you're not here" and "didn't know our love was so small" seem to evidence this. he doesn't trust her anymore. | |
| MGMT – Time to Pretend Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i feel like this song is being sarcastic, especially when you note the title and when he says "but there is really nothing, nothing we can do..." it's like a lot of their other songs, about disillusionment, especially with teens and early twenties. it's almost existential...finding where you belong in life and realizing because you don't want the morning commute and the office, what else is there for you? so you hide yourself in glamor and drugs and the superficial to burn out rather than fade away--but is that any way to live? "choke on our vomit" is that any way to die? i think it's being critical, especially since i know people who think like this song. |
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| Babyshambles – Lost Art of Murder Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i honestly think this is at least inspired by him breaking up with kate moss. the lyrics are definitely "a bird is just a burden to your heart, your soul..." in British/London slang, "bird" is the term for a girl. so basically he's using aliteration to say that girls/having a girl is just a burden. "i lost my phone in paradise" if it is anything about kate, they were in staying in Africa, and that's where he met another girl and evidently cheated on her. but yes, the bird thing. |
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| Okkervil River – Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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they do make allusions to movies, though, right? like for example-- "No fade in: film begins on a kid in the big city. And no cut to a costly parade (that’s for him only!)" Ferris Bueller's Day Off? |
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| The Strokes – On The Other Side Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| minus the whole band and member bio, the song sounds pretty existential to me. like 'why are we here' and 'everything is so mundane, i've seen it all before, i'm sick of it, i hate everything'...just a really jaded look on life. so the narrator drinks to try to make it go away, but that doesn't help, either. viewing it this way, 'on the other side' refers to death. something everyone can relate to at least a little, i know i can. | |
| Sean Paul – Like Glue Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"i mon nah play number two" a "player number two" in jamaican slang/patois, similar to "batting/playing for/switching to the other team" means a gay man. this song is basically about sex with girls. "trees" = weed. |
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| Help She Can't Swim – are you feeling fashionable? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| it's basically insulting people who try to fit an image--just cause you have the wardrobe and you wear the logos don't mean you're awesome. | |
| Hefner – I Stole A Bride Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Wowowow this song is so gorgeous. So. Gorgeous. It uses the allegory of Helen of Troy to describe his situation--he does steal someone else's bride. He feels really guilty ('why must she taunt me so/she still has his scent'). Yet she's so beautiful and he's afraid of losing her. |
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| The Libertines – Tomblands Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Fifteen holes in the dealer's chest" as in a box chest and or anatomical chest. does anyone know what a Martell man is? |
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| Say Hi – Your Brains vs. My Tractorbeam Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Gravity Bound...i was thinking THE EXACT same thing. | |
| Interpol – Slow Hands Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I thought this was SongMeanings and not RatetheSong? Anyway, I think it's about a guy who's in love with a girl with a bad reputation for relationships. I get that from the first verse. As far as the 'slow hands'..not sure what that imagery could mean. |
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| Devendra Banhart – The Body Breaks Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i definitely thought it was: "and my flesh sings out, it sings 'come put me out.'" i think that makes more sense in context, unless i'm wrong, of course. |
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| Interpol – Obstacle 1 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i might be completely off but it kind of sounds to me like a guy and a girl once had a relationship and he's trying to get it back together. he keeps proposing all these ideas of how to work it out one way or the other, "we can find new ways of living," "we can cap the old times" etc. but she knows that either it's just not 'meant to be' or it's just not going to work, "she can read.." he realizes that both of them have changed, "it's different now that i'm poor and ageing.." she's still in his life, i guess, "it's in the way that she walks..." and that hurts him a lot, "she puts the weights into my little heart." at least that's how i see it. |
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| Arcade Fire – In the Backseat Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i also think this song is about losing a family member, as well, for the reasons previously stated. i thought the driving also represented how her not driving doesn't make her responsible for the incident. i think NightNeverSleeps' analysis is pretty accurate though. | |
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