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| The Beatles – Carry That Weight Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"I never give you my pillow, I only send you my invitations" is probably my favourite line on this album. After the heartbreaking Golden Slumbers going into the momentarily more upbeat Carry That Weight, to suddenly have this reprise of You Never Give Me Your Money would be completely beautiful enough. But then the lyrics themselves. It's like a relationship that is no longer working, or that will never begin. I feel like the former. I don't know how to describe the feeling that it gives me, just the saddest thing ever. |
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| Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I've just realized that in all of my years of listening to the song and putting my own meaning to it, I've never even begun to wonder what he was thinking when he sung it. I don't really care about the specifics there, but just the pure emotion translates straight through. |
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| The Shins – Mine's Not A High Horse Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I guess if the finger was pointing back at her, it might show the duality of the black and white approach. That he's just as guilty as she is. That might fit in with the title, in that the person thinks that she's the one with the high horse, when in fact he's just as bad.
But the song seems like it's more exasperated with someone who's trying to force her opinions on him than a song that makes a deep point about human nature. So I'd still say flicking her off is more appropriate, even if it's not mathematically what the song meant.
And as to whether or not the other person's a girl... it doesn't really say so, but I've always got the impression that the other person was a girl. Dunno why. |
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| The Shins – Mine's Not A High Horse Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I think you guys have pretty much got it, but I really don't think that there's any romance in there, with him asking the girl out or even necessarily breaking up with her. Drelin's right. It's mostly a question of fundamentalist speech and black vs. white, and general differences of opinion about stuff probably to do with religion or something similar. He's said something that offends her black and white approach, and he's asking when she'll see the grey areas and reconsider her ideals.
And I think the finger at the end was definitely intended as a fuck you. |
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| The Shins – Turn a Square Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I'm with the guy cheating on his girlfriend crowd. After all, the lines "I can't just stay stay the course, keep my hands on the wheel" and "our detractors were right, my head's like a kite" seem to point that way. I don't see what else they could really mean. I'd say the girl at the very beginning is one of the ones he cheats with, especially with the bright "like a knife."
Any thoughts on what "swim to the poles just to find the right satellite" means? |
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