| The New Pornographers – Mystery Hours Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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pretty sure its about a prostitute.... read the lyrics with that in mind, it all pretty much fits. |
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| Built to Spill – In Your Mind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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...pretty sure its about being on drugs. but i like the whole quantum mechanics idea. thats good stuff. |
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| Built to Spill – Liar Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Forgot a verse (right before the verse about the patio): It takes up all of your life These decisions you make It takes up all of a day Making known all |
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| Built to Spill – Carry the Zero Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think its about moving and trying to create a new image for yourself, but instead blending in and becoming somthing you didn't intend. The first verse seems to be about looking back at life before moving and trying to keep some quality that makes you unique. However, in this new place it's not the same. The second verse seems to be about being worried about people discovering this quality (the blemishes) which make you unique, and how they'll respond when they learn who you really are (or were, maybe). Then we have the lines about being occupied with what other people are occupied with...pretty self explanatory, playing into the self-consciousness of the 2nd verse. The fraction of the sum part to me is like becoming a part of the whole, losing whatever it was that makes you unique, and not liking it (becoming what you thought was dumb). The last part of the song is less clear to me, but it seems like its talking about the fact that now that you've lost this quality and become part of the whole, you can't get it back. Thats kind of my rough interpretation, but i haven't really given it a lot of thought. |
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| Built to Spill – Goin' Against Your Mind Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I saw bts a year and a half ago, opening for the pixies at seattle's bumbershoot festival, and for their soundcheck they just started jamming, and it turned into this song which totally blew me away. I'd always assumed it was some obscure cover since i couldn't find it anywhere, but turns out its because it was off their new cd! | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Your Heart Is an Empty Room Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I kind of disagree with everyone so far, although there are a lot of good arguments. Here's my take. The lyrics for the end of the first verse are wrong, they should be: Home's face: how it ages when you're away Spring blooms and you find the love that's true But you don't know what now to do Cause the chase is all you know And she stopped running months ago To me, this is about a relationship the narrator is in and is tired of. The first line suggests they're no longer attracted to them; home's face being that of his girlfriend, which has (metaphorically) aged. The initial excitement has worn off; "she stopped running months ago." Basically, he feels trapped because, as line 2 suggests, he at least thought it was true love, but now feels nothing. This now fits in a lot better with the burning house metaphor. The first line of the song implies that the narrator set his own house on fire. The second verse expands this idea; he's both literally burning his house down to escape the draw of material possesions, and metaphorically burning down this relationship, "everything that you hold dear". In both cases he "shed not a single tear" because he's now "finally free" from the enabling comfort of a stable relationship and material wealth. The chorus is what ties the two together; when he's at home, with his girlfriend, all he can think about is that he'd rather be somewhere else, with someone else, but is kept there by the stability they provide. So the overall message with this interpretation is the opposite of what pretty much everyone else here has said...i think it says to go out and meet random people, rather than get stuck in a stable relationship. |
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| Radiohead – Talk Show Host Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Aside from the title, this song seems pretty straightforward. It seems to me that the narrator is faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem. Initially he wants to escape from the situation; he wants to be someone else, comparing his situation to a dead body floating in the water, being eaten by gulls. In the second verse, he begins to gain some confidence. He's still hiding from the problem ("come and find me"), but is willing to wait it out (he has sandwiches) and fight if he's found. However, the repetition of "and nothing" seems to imply a lack of courage...he has a (metaphorical) weapon, but he's still scared. By the third verse the problem has found him, as if it were at his door. At this point he's confident and ready to fight it ("You want me? Fucking come on and break the door down, I'm ready). Basically, its the process one goes through when faced with an huge problem...you try to escape. when that fails, you hide. when you're found, you fight it. I love that last verse, its so badass. |
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