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| The Shins – Pink Bullets Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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One of the most touching songs I know about a love lost. I always think about this one woman I loved when I hear this song. And how we had to part when things became too tangled, and the long days that passed afterwards, feeling so low and doing so little, the years just fly by when I think of her it's like no time has passed at all, but at the same time with each passing day I understand less and less. The only line that doesn't fit for me is how all this was before "murder was cool" - but I guess what he means is that they were far more innocent then. |
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| Miike Snow – Animal Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Every time I hear this song I think about the Animorphs by K.A. Applegate. I bet anything Mikke Snow read those books too! |
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| Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Has anyone ever tried to figure out if terrapin is some kind of amalgram? Obviously it is a kind of turtle (the album cover makes that clear as well). But why? I have always imagined that the name was selected in reference to the Hindu belief that the earth and the universe rests on a turtle's back. Somehow "Terrapin" is a word that includes everything we are and everything we will ever be. As we used to say on tour "wow man, cosmic!" :) |
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| Grateful Dead – Box Of Rain Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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personally I always felt that the box of rain was an illusion to drugs, and "pass it on" always made me think of passing a join around with a group of close friends, each with their own dreams and problems, all supportive of each other, but no one really able to solve each other's lives. But the box of rain would ease the pain and love would see them through. I always found these words to be a riddle, but somehow very reassuring at the same time. |
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| Colin Hay – I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is simply the saddest, sweetest, most touchingly honest song ever written about living on with a broken heart and an undying love for someone who you know you will never have in your life again. I wish I didn't know what this felt like, but I do... |
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| Matchbox Twenty – Last Beautiful Girl Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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There is a certain someone out there who I hope hears this song and ends up crying like a baby. And I hope I have the strength to never take her back. |
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| Joni Mitchell – Cactus Tree Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I listen to this song when I feel angry at this certain woman I know, who loved me and was loved by so many, but broke so many hearts because she just could not settle for an ordinary life. No one is right and no one is wrong, but love so often hurts. Still, one wonders all that she missed, being so busy being free. |
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| Joni Mitchell – For Free Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Joni's ode to the noble street musicans of the world! Too bad that someday, the RIAA will send out robots to kill them all and smash their guitars to pieces for not paying royalties...LOL! |
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| Joni Mitchell – The Circle Game Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I remember listening to this song holding my son when he was just 3 days old and tears of joy rolling down my cheeks. One of the happiest days of my life that I will never forget. I wish Joni would finish it someday and take the lyrics past 20...to 50 or 60 perhaps. Oh what a tale that would be :) |
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| Joni Mitchell – How Do You Stop Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I love this song and will always associate it with passionately making out with a girl in my car, not quite sure either of us were, how far we wanted to go, but not quite able to stop either. The song is about that, but also about how fleeting the moments of our life really are. We'd all love to save certain moments in amber, but they all slip away. |
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| Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Please, someone fix the typo in the first verse, which is about clouds, not love. This is simply the most tear jerking song about growing up that has ever been written. It is so bittersweet. Classic early Joni. No one can compare. |
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| Joni Mitchell – A Case Of You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Simply one of the most haunting songs about love I've ever known. For anyone who has been deeply in love with someone who was not quite right for them, but had no choice but to stick it out until the bitter end. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Warehouse Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is one of my favorite songs to hear live - I love how the song changes into sort of a Jamacian steel drum ska riff at the end, when the speaker finally comes to terms with his death and is able, without fear to look back on his physical life and revel in how great it was to be alive. smelling, touching, feeling. But in the end, the body is just a bare and empty warehouse for the soul, and when the soul is ready to move on, the warehouse is just a pile of empty bones. By the way, no one has mentioned the wonderful dual metaphor of the bones: "sitting over these bones - you can read them however you want to" - "bones" not only refers to the actual bones of the body that the soul is hovering over, but also to fortune, as in casting bones (dice) to divine the future or to divine life's meaning. Is the singer's soul saying that he regrets having spent so much time worrying about trivial things, and now he sees that the colors don't really matter. So "keep all your sights on", because what comes next is really going to blow your mind :) |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Big Eyed Fish (Busted Stuff version) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I have to say I like the other version of this song a lot better. That one is not so much a song about regret as about respecting one's limitations and learning to be happy with who you are, while acknowledging that we are all flawed dreamers and sometimes we just have to take risks. When this version of the song was sung Dave was more of a mind to stress the costs of screwing up. Maybe he was just missing being a monkey in a tree more on that particular day in the studio. We all have days like that I'm sure! |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Big Eyed Fish Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's not so much a song about regret as about respecting one's limitations and learning to be happy with who you are. All the while the song acknowledges that we are all flawed dreamers and we need to accept that about ourselves too. Sometimes we lose, sometimes we win. And it's all good, because it has to be, because there is no way out of life. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Proudest Monkey Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think the Pride mentioned in this song is more along the lines of false hubris. The "monkey see monkey do" line to me always had the ring of sarcasm, that all the things we do in our modern lives are really just taking on societies values (consumerism, working 9 to 5, monagomy, religion, war) and it was better when life was simple, swinging in the trees. Not that we can go back. But we have to reevaluate and rebalance our lives and remember where we come from. I think this is a theme in a lot of Dave's songs actually. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Minarets Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't think this song is too hard to figure out, but the grammer syntax, like a lot of Dave's songs, is somewhat hard to follow.
It's basically saying that religion is to blame for all wars, that all the children lost to war cannot be justified by faith, that in the end mankind will wipe himself out if we allow the war between east and west to rage on on. There are illusions to pain and suffering ("Sister chained...bound, beaten and bleeding") and to our disconnection from that pain and our media being the father figure, rationalizing and sensationalizing all of it, all the while we are forgetting that what's really happening is the beginning of the end of all mankind. |
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| Ben Lee – Apple Candy Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Yes, definitely. I read somewhere (on Amazon.com, I think) that this song was about Ben wanting to have a threesome with another couple where the guy was bisexual - what a crock of sh-t! When you really listen its just obvious that the "him" in the song is God and what Ben wants is to "know what he knows" - to be as close to her as spiritually possible, and to share in that. At least that's exactly how it hit me when I really listened to it. I'm glad to see that I am not the only one. |
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