| Spoon – Take The Fifth Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The fifth amendment to the American constitution in the bill of rights is the criminal rights amendment, almost always used as the right to not incriminate oneself in court. " No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. " |
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| The Protomen – Unrest in the House of Light Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Likely the best song from the entire album. It's pretty obvious, this is Dr Light telling Megaman about Protoman being killed by Dr Wily's robots. Protoman's death made Light bitter, and he doesn't want Megaman to even try to save the Earth until humanity would help. |
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| Ludo – Roxy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The singer gets entirely smashed at a party in France to impress some girl and ends up being the only person there who DOESN'T get to feel her up. Great lyrics, one of my favorite Ludo songs. |
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| Spoon – The Infinite Pet Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| He falls in love with a woman who seems to be some rich, easily controlled doll, and gets conned by her. | |
| The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Tis guy is known to write in quasi-gibberish lyrics and find significance later, but this song just makes me think of the glory of the theatre. You go to a movie and you become a part of this world full of charging armies and deception and intrigue, and even though you've seen it all before it still astounds and surprises you every time. Then you leave the theatre and real life is just dust in the light of this great story, day after night. So you return to the theatre and even though you know you have things to do, this story is so great you go anyway. There's no protecting from voices in your head telling you you've seen it, you need to live, but you slip through the cracks in society and simply continue the cycle of neglect. Or it's gibberesh with awesome vocals and guitar, I seriously have no idea. |
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| The New Pornographers – Centre for Holy Wars Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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From an interviewer with Carl Newman (lyricist and lead singer): Mark Prindle: [Do] lyrics like "Letter From An Occupant" actually mean something or [are they] just a bunch of words that sound cool together (like the Pixies and Pavement have been known to do)? Carl Newman: Some of the lyrics have literal meaning. Some of them i just like the sound of. I've never cared about the meaning of lyrics, I'm more interested in the sound and the force that they have. T-Rex was a great lyricist but it was all meaningless, his lyrics were just a translation of the rock'n'roll soul that was there in the music. I don't know what a "letter from an occupant" is, but I'm hoping that I will figure it out at some point. It sounds like it must mean something. It simply must. "Centre For Holy Wars" seemed like mostly gibberish when I wrote it , but now I listen to it and it sounds like it's about 9/11, all that talk about buildings coming down, floating through the air, holy wars. Does that mean I'm a psychic that channels events before they happen and turns them into pop songs? Yes. I'm a genius." That explains so very very many songs. |
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| The New Pornographers – Centre for Holy Wars Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I've had this song on repeat for 20 minutes, and get more confused each time I hear it. | |
| Ludo – Broken Bride Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It's pretty clear, but here is what Purevolume says: "Broken Bride" is the story of a man (the Traveler) whose wife dies in a car accident in 1989. In deep mourning, he becomes obsessed with finding a way to go back and undo that day. After fifteen years of toil and isolation, he has built a machine to do just that. Miscalculations however, send the Traveler far off course and into an adventure spanning from the Dawn of Time to the Apocalypse. Confronted with unimaginable horrors, he longs only to return to that fateful morning in May, but ultimately finds himself faced with a terrible choice - between saving his wife and saving humanity. http://www.purevolume.com/ludo |
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