| Snow Patrol – Called Out In the Dark Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Anyone know what they sing in between the lines that sounds like Shout, or Shut or Shuck or just Sha? | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy In New York Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Marc Cohn does a very respectful and respectable version of The Only Living Boy in New York on his recent covers album "Listening Booth: 1970". It's a great album of his versions of songs released in 1970, the year Simon and Garfunkel broke up. | |
| Free Energy – Bang Pop Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is super catchy bubble gum pop and it's stuck in my head these days. The lyrics are pretty straight forward, but I don't know about her being "completely crystalized" unless they just needed a rhyme to "sunset eyes". Her being ripped on meth doesn't fit the feel of the song. I'd go with more like she looked "all sparkly to him" because he was in love. | |
| Blitzen Trapper – Not Your Lover Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't know if I quite interpret this song quite as bleakly as rudy 38, but I hear it as the story of two lovers. During wakefulness, our narrator has to contend with all the trappings of a relationship, wearing him down a bit, but his escape is blissful sleep. Possibly drugged out a bit ("moon-wallkin cowboy") all he wants to do is sleep and like we all know, the sleep state lets us stop thinking about all our issues and problems and escape either to dreamland or to nothingness. Either way in sleep, he's not playing the role as her lover any more. Doesn't mean that when he wakes up he won't want to be her lover, just that falling asleep is a few hours of lovely escape... |
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| Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Wow, what a great song, like just about every one on this album. Definitely creepy, straight up it tells the tale of an old cowboy killer, the vocals and instrumentals lend an appropriately erie feel. It evokes the book and film "No Country for Old Men". I can totally imagine Anton Chigurh walking around West Texas with this song going through his head. I love that just when you hope our narrator might finally just go up to Oregon to escape his trouble, he "killed the first man that I came upon / Because the devil works quick, you know it don't take long". Definitely a heart and soul of darkness here. I also hear themes of ingrained character: he can't help himself. I'm reminded of the scene in the movie "The Crying Game" (great film from the 80s if you haven't seen it) where the story is told of the frog and the scorpion. The scorpion needs to cross the river and asks the frog if he can hitch a ride on his back, and the frog says, 'but Mr. Scorpion, if I give you a ride, you will sting me and we both will surely drown', but the scorpion with his charm convinces the frog to give him a ride. The frog agrees and in the middle of the river the scorpion stings him. As they sink into the water to their death, the frog cries out, 'Why did you sting me Mr. Scorpion, for now we both will surely drown.' And the scorpion replies, "I can't help it, it's in my nature". |
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| Moe. – Buster Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Hey, angelrenegade, I'd like to help you out, but I have no idea what the hell this song is really about. All I know is that when the opening baseline of Buster hit's me in the middle of a show, I get really happy and prepare to dance my ass off. moe.'s lyrics tend toward the goofy, indeciferable side, especially Rob's lyrics (Rebubula, Tambourine...). I appreciate that three of the members write lyrics and sing, but at the end of the day, they're not the Grateful Dead (who hired lyricists) or Railroad Earth (who just write great songs). They're moe. and they're one of the best touring bands out there right now, not because of their lyrics, but because of the sheer instrumental prowess, telepathic playing, and grooviness that goes on and on. |
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| Wilco – Monday Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Fun song, I just want to know what "FLA" and "TLA" stand for? FLA was the old abbreviation for Florida, or maybe its Fuckin' Los Angeles? I don't know...help? Are they airport abbreviations maybe? | |
| Wilco – I'm Always in Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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beanicka, I believe you're right about the lyrics, though "drag I snag" is a stretch to think he snagged a drag of pot or something. However...the band is definitely singing "Smoke pot, smoke pot" repeatedly in falsetto in the middle of the song. It's garbled on "Summerteeth", but it's very clear at the live shows they've been doing recently. Download one and take a listen :) Maybe it's just homage to the Beatles' White album period? |
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| Wilco – Hummingbird Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| REEFPADDLER, again you've found it. Totally reminds me of "A Day in the Life". | |
| Wilco – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I forgot to ask what the hell, "you're quite a quiet domino/ bury me now/ take off yer bandaid/ 'cause i don't believe in touchdowns" means. I'm still not satisfied with explanations here. Thanks. | |
| Wilco – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Awesome song...I don't believe it's backwards at all, though but forwards. REEFPADLER and PJ10 have it. He's driving around shitfaced "I assassin down the avenue" and visits is ex, drunkenly reminiscing about their time together, the city lights "blinking" at him. "Let's forget about the toung-tied lightening/ let's undress just like cross-eyed strangers" as she smiles pathetically at him. She ends up giving in and he stays over and "then I fell asleep and the city kept blinking" He wakes up feeling shitty and regretful (and she too, probably) but all he can think of is that childish desire to be the winner: "I was trying to break your heart" when in fact it was his heart (too?) that was broken. The sound blips and erratic drum beats connote that drunken feeling. It's a sad, beautiful song. |
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| Wilco – Hell Is Chrome Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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pix101...I think you maybe hit the nail on the head. This song does have that sound of a prescription drug user being led to what he previously thought was the devil: a rehab hospital. "Chrome is hell" totally. I dislike hospitals for the same reason, so squeaky clean, stainless steel...bluggghhh. Maybe that's my "beef" against Chipotle restaurants... Life is messy...dig in :) |
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| Wilco – War On War Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I still have no idea what this one means, but it's so catchy :) The part about learning how to die in order to really live seems to be a recurring Wilco theme. Echoes Christianity, but I suspect Tweedy is referring to any number of transforming experiences in which a person completely submits to some overwhelming force and comes out a changed person. At any rate, I love the lyric, "You are not my typewriter/ but you could be my demon moving forward through flaming doors." |
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| Wilco – Company In My Back Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Hmmm...this song has been growing on me, but it's quite cryptic like a lot of Tweedy's lyrics. I keep trying to decipher the words each time I hear them. "a company in my back" -- what the hell does that mean? Well, here's my best interpretation at this point in time. This is a song about waking up hungover ("I've been puking") next to a lover. He slowly enters wakefullness in a Chicago winter hearing the radiator "hissing radiator tunes" and clumsily tries to shift his weight in bed "I move so slow, a steady crushing hand" only to discover with a foggy brain ("Holy shit") that he has "company". Someone is right there with him, spooning maybe? "company in my back" I like the bug metaphor to convey how small he feels compared to her in these moments, but how he curled his lips and crawl up to her hours before, and "will always die" like bugs do, so he can be remembered. What do you think...am I way off base? It is a cool song, I do like to let it wash over me, but I also think that every songwriter writes words that mean something. |
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