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| TV on the Radio – Dirty Whirlwind Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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To me, this song always seemed to be about fucking and the guy is too tangled up in how good the sex is with her to care about how awful everything else is going to be with this woman. |
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| The Walkmen – 138th Street Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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To add to my previous comment; either way, I think it's about someone not living the life they think they should. |
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| The Walkmen – 138th Street Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song makes me think of someone who used to be a bit of a fuck up, either drank too much or did too many drugs, whatever, and he finally stopped all of his nonsense and grew up and settled down, but his old "friends" are telling him he sold out or gave up the party life for a house with a white picket fence, and sometimes he feels that old life calling to him.
Or, this song also makes me think of someone who is gay but is trying to be "straight" and maybe his old lover has heard about this and knows it's just a facade and it's going to make him unhappy, and he catches him at some of the gay bars/clubs, when he should be at home with his family. |
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| Cat Power – You May Know Him Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song is about believing in God when you're young and then when you're young and start having sex and having guilt associated with what you're doing. My friends who have grown up in religious househould have told me about this peculiar feeling. |
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| Cat Power – You May Know Him Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song is about believing in God when you're young and then when you're young and start having sex and having guilt associated with what you're doing. My friends who have grown up in religious househould have told me about this peculiar feeling. |
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| Wilco – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I took this song to be about the relationship between artists and their audiences. "I am trying to break your heart"... That's the job of an artist. They're supposed to give us beauty, in whatever form they create, that makes us think, that breaks our heart with its pure delicacy and grace. I think part of the song also addresses the issue of misinterpreting things, like when an audience laughs when they're not supposed to and cries when they should be laughing and also says, hey, we're both naked here, when I'm singing from my soul and when you're listening yours. |
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| The Walkmen – That's The Punch Line Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this song is about people who follow fashion trends religiously and let the fucking idiots behind entertainment magazines and gossip rags tell you that all these trivial things are quite important when you should know they aren't. And I think he's trying to let the person he's speaking to know that they're becoming a joke, and we're laughing with you right now but you are becoming the joke. |
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| The Walkmen – Bows + Arrows Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Like everyone else on here, I think this song is about a post-break up. But I think it's about the girl being the bigger of the two and he's promising to be an adult about all of this (I'll stand up as I shake your hand) and to get along with her but is probably being childish (this man is a fraud). At some point, he winds up asking to sleep at her place, on the floor, and then she kicks him out the next morning (the morning sun has come and gone). He finally realises his behavior is immature and promises to her, in his mind, that he'll correct all of his wrong-doings toward her and "someday, girl, we'll get along". |
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| The Shins – The Celibate Life Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Here's what I think the song is about: A guy who slept with a party girl (the chemicals dancing in her head being booze and drugs) who he geniunely cares about but she just likes to hook-up with random dudes, him being one of them. The four day affair was either him and her or her and some dude and the "singer" happened to show up when one of her escapades was leaving (my rival
whose eyes had no reason to fall). The last part of the song I think he tells her, or is trying to make her aware of the fact, that she's going to come to regret her decisions of her party girl life style (the girls in the middle are always the first to fall off). |
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