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| Bright Eyes – Coyote Song Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is so melodically and lyrically perfect, I've been listening to it on repeat all day...the pedal steel just blows me away.
I have very high hopes for the new album <3 |
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| Bright Eyes – Classic Cars Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The end of this song to me is like a more cryptic version of "yeah, I am not singing for you" from Lets Not Shit Ourselves. Cassadaga is a real leap in style and content for Conor, and in some ways the lyrics have become less emotionally accessible. So the lines "I made a new cast of the death mask that is going to cover my face
I had to change the combination to the safe
Hide it all behind a wall, let people wait" seems to me to be a reference to his new, more cryptic lyrics - the emotional stuff is there, but you have to dig a little deeper. The "safe" represents his feelings and thoughs, the "new combination" is the development in his style of songwriting, less confessional and more ambiguous, and "let people wait" is another protest against giving all of yourself away in a son at once - he's doing it for himself, not anyone else, and is content with the direction he's going in - to hell with everyone else. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Bend to Squares Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think it's more about /not/ killing yourself..."knock the wind from one last urge...time passed and that was that/Quite a slip, a loosened grasp." I think the "slip" and "loosened grasp" refer to the state of mind that the person was in at the time, with less of a hold on life and living, with "one last urge" that they ultimately did not give in to. "What a way to cut lengthwise" almost sounds like an exclamation of longing - like, 'how nice it would be to do that'. Only I don't think they do. |
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| Bright Eyes – Lime Tree Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The part about the lime tree reminds me of the bit in 'The Bell Jar' when Esther Greenwood imagines a plum tree, with a ripe plum at the end of each brance, with each plum representing a different version of a successful future - as a wife and mother, or a scientist, or a magazine editor, or a famous poet etc., and then she sees the plums all begin to wither whislt she is indecisive as to which plum to pursue - to me the ripe and rotten limes represent different possibilities, some of which are still available and some that have been left too long, choices that have been made that narrow down your options, stuff like that.
I love the delivery of the line "I can't sleep next to a stranger when I'm coming down". |
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| Rilo Kiley – A Man/Me/Then Jim Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I love the line 'to see my ex-first love' - as though anyone could ever stop being your first love. It's so perfectly skewed. |
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| Elliott Smith – The Biggest Lie Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I love the line 'I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint', it really epitomises how fake everything in our society has become. |
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| The Shins – New Slang Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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For some reason, this song really reminds me of a lot of stuff by Simon and Garfunkel. It has the same melodic and poetic qualities as a lot of their songs. |
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| Bright Eyes – A Line Allows Progress, a Circle Does Not Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The inlayof the EP, whilst crediting Tim Kasher with 'ghostly backing vocals', also credits Joseph Knapp from Son, Ambulance with 'singing', which backs up what the Saddle Creek site said. Also, 'singing' seems to suggest bigger role than 'backing vocals', such as alternate verses etc. So I'd say it was Joe, not Tim. |
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| Ozma – Lorraine Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I really like this song, with all the layers and movie references and the slowing down at the end and the chords on 'candy-coated eyes'. |
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| Bright Eyes – Drunk Kid Catholic Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Following on from what 764-mouser said about the lines
'They crawl from the oceans
To paint in the caves
But I’m working all weekend
I need to get paid ',
I was thinking the other night about the meaning, and had two ideas, the first being that the bit about crawling from the ocean to paint in the caves was how evolution has happened, and the word 'to' suggests that they evolved so that they could paint in the caves, which could be interpreted as a desire for art, and the way in which civilisation has been built upon it, and how the need for art amongst living things is so strong that they evolved for the specific purpose of 'painting in the caves'.
The second idea was that, again because of the use of the word 'to', Conor is suggesting that organisms went to all the trouble of evolving and ended up doodling on the walls of wherever they were, and that in a way, the whole evolution of humankind has been a bit of a waste of time.
If you consider the part about needing to work at the weekend, the first idea makes more sense, as the lines that follow would suggest that perhaps he wants to join in with the art 'but' cannot, as he has to work - an example of the dull, everyday aspects of life that aren't much fun but which our society has made essential - work makes money, and you need money to live. So I think that, if looked at in this way, the song is saying that he'd like to spend all his time creating beautiful things and making art, something sea-dwelling creatures evolved so that he could do, but instead he has to work because he needs the money.
That's just my opinion, though *grins* |
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| R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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What I love about this song is that it works for people on so many different levels, from people who've broken up with a boy/girlfriend to those who want to end their lives. It's a great song. |
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