| Bright Eyes – Reinvent the Wheel Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Sourced to Last.fm comment so it's still hearsay, but better than nothing: http://www.last.fm/music/Bright+Eyes/_/Reinvent+the+Wheel/+shoutbox It's not about Elliott Smith. Conor said at a concert that it was about his cousin, Collin McElroy, who died back in 2001 or 2002 and who he also wrote Poison Oak for and dedicated Lifted to. :] |
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| Elliott Smith – Tomorrow Tomorrow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "Static in my head" and "deaf and dumb and done" both seem to be lyrical themes in this record, as "good to go" is on self-titled as well as just in general with Elliott. Love Perks of Being a Wallflower as well as this song and all of Elliott's work. What an awesome guy. | |
| Andrew Bird – Masterfade Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I hadn't thought about in the technology and nature terms that Andrew talks about. I think my thoughts were based off a theme in the movie PI; how the main character is always trying to quantify everything and make the world and nature mathematical. Looking up at the sky and seeing 0s and 1s to me just feels like someone trying to calculate life. | |
| Kevin Devine – Brother's Blood Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Kevin talks about the theme of this concept in the interview next to his review in AP. "My Brother's Blood boils in my arms" is a sentiment expressing that "in God's eyes, there's nothing to differentiate me and someone in sub-Saharan Africa than the lottery that I won being born where I was." He goes on to talk about how "fucked up and upside down it is," "when we start putting a value on what lives are worth because of the color of the skin or the class structure in society." The imagery he uses clearly shows his anger in the extremity of difference in our situations. I know personally it really upsets me when I hear of people struggling in other places simply because of "the lottery" Kevin talks about and I think this is him coming to terms with the "fury, fights and fits" it gives him. | |
| NOFX – The Marxist Brothers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I sincerely doubt that the reference to Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes is a shot at Propaghandi seeing as how that record was released on Mike's record label and the label they release on now was started on a $50,000 loan from Mike. Totally forgot about the Marx Brothers thing but remember thinking it when I first saw the title, good call laurel. | |
| Pedro the Lion – Suspect Fled the Scene Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The religious interpretations make a lot of sense but I feel like they still lack a reason for why he's running and why they're shooting to kill. | |
| Mat Kearney – What's a Boy To Do Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is definitely about a father, be it his father or it's in somebody else's eyes, I assume his. The christian assumptions are made about every single song and I'm tired of it. --I don't get these two lines: Young boys playing in the park turning their backs to take a shot You know I'll stay sharp around here 'cause they're stoning and leaving type Take a shot to me would only make sense in this context to getting beaten? Unless stoning refers to like getting stoned? and leaving type I'm completely lost. --This definitely fits in perfectly with the dad thing: It's the kind of love that comes and goes when there's company coming around --I don't know how you can possibly say it's about jesus or anything and not his father with this line: Daddy's been looking down his nose at all of them --As trivial as it sounds it seems to me that it's actually really sad in that to me, this is about: He kept saying I was too young to finish a fight -And then these kids just like beating him up and taking his shoes (I could be completely insane about this one): I'd die each time they came I never got to draw my knife Well it was just a pair of shoes in a middle school room with the world watching in And angel is crying I'm dying just a little inside as they ran away -This line just chills me, pertaining to the saying he was too young to finish a fight: Funny which words stick around 20 years down when you're driving alone --On this I agree with the, Mat trying to everything perfect while he just gets ignored point: Well I'll stack all my books in perfect rows From the biggest down to the smallest ones And I buy all the perfect clothes -Another completely dad line: Bullet proof and black, where I look like a son --This one seems disputable 'cuz could very easily be a spin the bottle thing. But to fit in, to me, Missy seems like his sister. The rainy night and bottle spinning round set a dark tone and that his dad is drunk. The everybody singing kind loses it for me. The slipping around goes with drink. But the halfway rush of blood with grabbing missy trying to find a lightswitch in the dark sounds to me like his dad beat Missy while drunk, with the rush of blood and the frantic...ness...of him: Well it was just a rain night at his house A bottle spinning around the room And everybody's singing and slipping down the bottom halfway rush of blood And I was grabbing Missy but I was trying to find the light switch in the dark --This is definitely suicide with the boy at the bottom of the bridge, car on top, white sheet left cover. I don't get the holy kiss part, other than it somehow pertaining to a greeting, but i don't know what.: It's all quiet for the first time With no voices left to fall I saw a boy at the bottom of the bridge His car was left there on the top It's four o'clock in the morning Didn't need to be like this There's a white sheet left to cover up What should have been a holy kiss It's not like those days It's not like I'm scared of you All in all, to me, it definitely is about a dad. Something s are disputable and there are still alot of lyrics I don't understand. The only thing I'm sure of is that this song is incredible. |
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| He Is Legend – The Seduction Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| well i think its clearly obvious that this is song is based on romeo and juliet hence when he screams "juliet" and continually says "juliet you know you want it" and when he says "i'm dancing with a capulet" and for those of you who havent read the story or remember it juliet is a capulet. what im really interested in is what the hell is he talking about when hes talking about "mr. jones". so basically i'm re-stating and elaborating on what staplesmcjebus said, that man is a genius | |
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