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The Decemberists – Culling of the Fold Lyrics 19 years ago
i love the way colin sings "ah hah hah hah" at the very end. it's explosive.

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CocoRosie – West Side Lyrics 19 years ago
this song is gorgeous like no other.

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Damien Rice – Then Go Lyrics 19 years ago
the version of this song that i have has completely different second and third verses. I happen to like the variation in these, so I thought I'd share:

among the intentions which have been sought
numbered and labeled but none of them bought
I get the feeling you're testing me
you're saturated in urgency
I stick your probe in further but you're still not pleased
and if there's someplace else you'd rather be
then go, then go.

I would have lied for you
I would have cried for you
I crossed the line for you
I would have died for you

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Nada Surf – Bacardi Lyrics 20 years ago
"You feel like claymation in flourescent light."

This line left me pretty speechless the first time I listened to this song. I've never heard the sentiment expressed so well. Brilliant brilliant lyrics.

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Morrissey – Everyday Is Like Sunday Lyrics 20 years ago
I agree with Thierry, it's about how life in general is 'silent and gray' and full of disappointments that you're going to meet no matter where you go to escape it.


Buuuut. Colin Meloy's cover IS beautiful.

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CocoRosie – By Your Side Lyrics 20 years ago
Amazing song.
Kind of tongue-in-cheek commentary on housewives who get themselves into situations ("I'd wear your black eyes") just "for a diamond ring." There's no love between the two, just the desire to mold into a domestic society.
Or maybe I've just been analyzing too much feminist-related lit in English class lately.

Or I suppose the narrator could be saying that she loves the guy so much that she'd be willing to settle down as a housewife, despite the dull life she outlines.

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Tarkio – Better Half Lyrics 20 years ago
Nope. It's "Better Half".

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Tarkio – Keeping Me Awake Lyrics 20 years ago
I always interpreted this as a summer romance that fell apart, and looking back on it, the narrator himself is falling apart and writing these songs at all the odd hours of the night.

Effing beautiful song. One of Colin Meloy's greatest, I think.

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