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| The Beatles – You Never Give Me Your Money Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
All good children go to Heaven"
Man, this lines are *dark*. I love to sing them with my young girls as a little ditty... but in time I realized -- why/when would a child go to heaven? Dang.
The Beatles lyrics often got *real*. |
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| Low – Words Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Guys, it's both: It's a TV preacher. The man who wants to burn his soul is *in* a box, one of those old cabinet-mounted sets.
I really wish what they meant by "my hands are dry".
Like somebody else said, this album is very much about hell (on earth). |
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| Queen – Another One Bites The Dust Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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To me, this song has always been about a relationship. About the defiance needed to get involved romantically/sexually with someone.
"There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man: you can beat him, you can cheat him, you can treat him bad and leave him when he's down."
How is that not love related? Plus, if we look at the rest of Queen's songs, they're about love/sex, aren't they?
Plus, the line I quoted has seemed to me to sum up quite perfectly how it feels to get dumped.
Yes I'm drunk. But I can still spell. And you know I'm right. |
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| KoЯn – Freak on a Leash Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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jesus, this song page illustrates perfectly this site's worst flaw, the one that could bring it to its knees: no moderation. what the hell is wrong with you people? the ones that aren't amateur trolls are biting hook, line and sinker.
admins, please, it's time to start thinking about this. who is gonna want to use a site that needs you to wade through pages of crap to get to the serious comments? this just ain't right. |
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| Massive Attack – Live With Me (feat. Terry Callier) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Well, no one's commented yet on the lyrics.. pretty straightforward, actually. A common theme of nostalgia, one to which most of us can relate. This is one of those songs that are perfect to listen to when you're recovering from a heartbreak.. hehe, at least it hit me pretty close to home. |
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| Grandaddy – Our Dying Brains Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I love how they introduce this song in the Glastonbury Black Sessions live recording: "So just to let you guys know, we're from an area where there's a bunch of, there's a bunch of hillbillies, and we like to camp and stuff, and, ahem, it would have been very, uh, very inaccurate of us to come here and not dip into what's going on here, so, if it's any consolation, between the five of us up here we probably ingested about six different kinds of chemicals and like four or five different kinds of alcohol, and we think we plan of making the best of it until we leave, so, we all had a good time". Audience goes wild, of course.
This song brings back memories of college and alcohol and classrooms.. no one does nostalgia better than Grandaddy. |
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| Grandaddy – Nonphenomenal Lineage Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think it's about how the author believes he is perceived by others, presumably by those in a position to judge him; you know, in a "you have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting" way.
According to WP, lineage is kinship, descent. So, it's about having just average genes, just average intelligence. Which leads to the door of an average life. |
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| Grandaddy – So You'll Aim Toward The Sky Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I most agree with LoganNYC's evaluation. And yes, while it might be a little to close to home for me as well, I've always seen this song as a sad reminder of the life we failed to forge for ourselves.
God, that's so sad. |
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| Grandaddy – Miner At The Dial-A-View Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Just to add one final thought: I, too, have always imagined the miner as being on an asteroid and looking down to his home planet. I've heard on more than one occasion that the theme of the album, The Sophtware Slump, is that of a postapocalyptic future, a common theme throughout the album's futuristic nostalgia. |
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| Grandaddy – The Crystal Lake Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I love the angst in this piece. Grandaddy always evokes other places, times, people... always wishing you weren't here but somewhere else.. the lamentation of the modern, detached, absent man. |
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| Grandaddy – The Final Push to the Sum Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Again, another great song about nostalgia by these guys. Nobody evocates past times, people you won't see again and places you won't visit, like Grandaddy.
And all of us can relate to this feeling, in one way or another, since we all had childhood dreams and fantasies that never panned out. |
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| Grandaddy – The Warming Sun Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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My god, such vivid images this song paints. No band makes me feel as nostalgic as Grandaddy does. Lytle is a freaking genius. (not actual genius, just a freaking one) |
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| Grandaddy – O.K. With My Decay Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Yes, depressing, but at the same time you have to admire the honesty. And all of us have to admit that we have felt that way at one time or another: powerless to change your life, you embrace the thought that you're in a bad place and thus stop worrying about it.
It's a little like Nietzsche said, "The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night." |
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| Grandaddy – Yeah Is What We Had Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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To me, it's definitely about the end of a relationship. "Good is what we understood"... god, what a great line. I like to think that Jason's talking about the fact that when you're very involved in a relationship, you're only focusing on the good parts, and blocking out or blissfully (and consciously) ignoring the bad ones. |
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| Grandaddy – I'm on Standby Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Yes! This song is about drifting, about wandering through life with no destination, no objective or point. I guess this happens to all of us, at more than one point in our life. |
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| Grandaddy – Miner At The Dial-A-View Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I see this song as an expression of nostalgia, but not as much for other people, as for the other life he might have lived.
I see this song as a beautiful little metaphor of the longing felt for the other life, the other one that might have been lived. And I believe we all can relate to that, because, as we grow older, we see how the people we know tend to live their own little lives as so do we all... similar I guess to the feelings expressed by Lennon in "In My Life". |
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| The Beatles – Michelle Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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this song acquires such a special meaning when you're in love with a michelle. everyone should be so lucky! :-P |
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| Arcade Fire – Une Annee Sans Lumiere Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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thanks ellie for that translation!
and like everyone said, it's obviously about this guy noticing a young woman that went unnoticed by her own father. |
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| Arcade Fire – In the Backseat Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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this song so relates to my life.
i have been in a few funerals where i have thought "omg, this person just died... and i haven't even started to live.. i'm still just learning how to f+cking drive my own life"
im still learning. at twentyseven.
sigh. |
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| Pink Floyd – Sorrow Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Although I agree w LuciferSam, that doesn't mean this song sucks; even though it's not in the same league as Echoes, it's still quite an enjoyable and fine song. |
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| Pink Floyd – A New Machine (Part 2) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Not only a reprise, but a fabulous expansion. The depths of meaning go beyond the depth of the musical achievements, but that doesn't make it a substandard song: on the contrary, it adds to its quirky delightfulness. |
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| Pink Floyd – Yet Another Movie Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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What I've always imagined this song to be about is channel flipping (round and round) in the middle of the night, jumping from old movie to old movie.. and the guy's singing about the odd movies he's jumping to and fro. |
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| Pink Floyd – Yet Another Movie Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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LuciferSam: Um, actually, not really. My CD doesn't have that freaky satan rock you mention.. I believe you may have downloaded a flawed copy of the song.
I suggest you go out and get yourself the original. It really is a keeper. |
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| Black Sabbath – Am I Going Insane Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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From the FAQ at blacksabbath.com:
"Ozzy said that Geezer was rhyming radio rental with mental so they started using the phrase radio when meaning mental. Radio rental rhymes with mental. Hence 'Am I Going Insane (radio)' means 'Am I Going Insane (mental)'."
(http://www.black-sabbath.com/faq/faq11.htm#faq11005) |
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