| The Spinto Band – Brown Boxes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Got you on the wrong side of me Went and had my mind made up so suddenly" Anyone? Remember that French Kicks song? |
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| Modest Mouse – Spitting Venom Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| There's one part in the main riff of this song that sounds like the breakdown riff in Trailer Trash. | |
| Stereophonics – Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Hm, wasn't Mr. Hyde the lunatic one? | |
| Enon – Old Dominion Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Love this song, I wish there were more comments. The chorus rocks and I often find myself singing "Going over there" on random occasions. | |
| TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"writhing under your riding hood tell your gra'ma and your mama too" I love the Little Red Riding Hood reference. |
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| Wilco – I Can't Stand It Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This has to be one of the best songs ever made, the piano and the bells and lyrics, every little detail is perfect! I can't believe no one has commented on its genius. An instant classic, a singable chorus with very disturbing lyrics, but isn't that just Wilco? |
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| Hot Snakes – I Hate The Kids Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| No one's commented on this? This is possibly one of my favorite songs of all time! The drum beat and--what is it, harmonica? I don't know, but I think some of the lyrics are missing. | |
| The Faint – Symptom Finger Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I completely agree that this song is under-rated, it deserves more attention! Although I must admit I was a bit put off by the croaking frog aw-whoa-whoa-oh-whoa-whoa-oh-whoa-oh's at first. Now I've grown to love them. |
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| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Walking To Do Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I can't believe there are no comments on this song--it's amazing! The ending, with the echoing chorus, just makes you want to sing along and dance! | |
| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I would think it's pretty obvious by now that this song is about a priveleged male falling in love with a lower-class girl and--being as spoiled as he was, he just ASSUMED the girl loved him back because he's never faced rejection--he rapes her and praises her, finally commiting suicide with her in tow. Judging from Colin's style of storytelling, it's too clever for the illusion of love idea, and if they both loved each other it wouldn't be in 1st person perspective. The phrase "we fall but our souls are flying" is most definately them leaping off the cliffs (If you've ever seen them, you'd know that it would be an AWFUL but "romantic" death) and their souls flying up towards heaven or the sky. I still don't understand the ties it has to Leslie Ann Levine. My thoughts were...the reason Priveleged Male commited suicide with Lower-Class Girl was because she was pregnant with Leslie had her prematurely, resulting in the death of his daughter. Having her in a dry revine would make sense since she was poor and their love was a secret. After her baby died, I guess that's a good reason for suicide? It doesn't fit exactly, but I'm just throwing out ideas. |
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| Rilo Kiley – Does He Love You? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Twothirdbeat is the closest, I think. My thoughts were: the narrator and wife are/were really good friends, but the wife decided to leave California because it was "better than knowing this tired and lonely fate" as in she knew she would lead a boring, predictable, single life back home. Thus she gets a job, keeps wind at her back, ect. and moves away. While there she meets the guy and such. I always imagined the narrator talking to herself in the third stanza, although the whole "oh, I didn't realize that was YOUR husband" thing ohh reckless mentioned makes sense to me, it keeps everything in talking-to-the-wife form. "I guess it all worked out" --her life while moved away turned out well for her, maybe narrator didn't like that her friend was doing well without her. She's reminding the wife that she used to say she was 'flawed if she wasn't free' back when they were friends, so narrator finds it "interesting" that she likes the guy. "You and I were almost dead" probably doesn't refer to really DYING, but as in they led such dead, boring lives back in California as friends. So narrator says wife is better off for leaving her and California. You know how the rest goes. The wife calls and tells the narrator what she heard and asks if that was true. In the last line the narrator is trying to convince--or rather console--her friend by saying her husband won't leave her because, unlike her, narrator really is 'flawed if not free' and would never settle down with the husband. The question is whether or not narrator was honest when she said the last line. Just my thoughts, I could be way off. |
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