| Deerhunter – These Hands Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Gorgeous, gorgeous song. The words are so simple yet so desperate against the music. This is probably my favorite song on Microcastle, along with Nothing Ever Happened. | |
| Garbage – The World Is Not Enough Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Maybe it's me, but I think the first lines are: I know how to hurt I know how to HEAL Anyone else hear it? |
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| The Radio Dept. – Bad Reputation Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Aww, this is cute. | |
| The Radio Dept. – I Don't Like It Like This Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Funny, I didn't even realize this was on the marie antoinette soundtrack until I read the comment above. I pretty much agree with tromayans. |
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| Nick Drake – Cello Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yeah, the cello is absolutely splendid. I really want the part for it. | |
| Nekromantix – I'm A Hellcat Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| yeh. | |
| Narcoleptic Youth – Classified Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Do I look like a man? Or a crayon? Do I look like a man?" That's funny. |
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| Narcoleptic Youth – Politically Incorrect Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Pretty sure this is as straightforward as it gets...political correctness is well, crass. | |
| Leftover Crack – Gang Control Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| thelastpunkkid: why would anyone want to make sid vicious proud? | |
| Leftover Crack – Feed The Children (Books Of Lies) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well, that's certainly just one man's opinion. I love this song. I don't think one has to find all of religion to be mind decaying in order to appreciate it, though. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Only Skin Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Glorious. I..wow...I've been in awe with Ys. This is possibly my new favorite song. I saw her perform last night and it was unlike anything I've ever experience before. Just fantastic. | |
| Yo La Tengo – Black Flowers Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm not sure, but everytime I listen to this song I think about a guy (or girl) who has a friend who's not quite sure of what she wants. And the guy likes her, and she knows this, but she is still confused about her choices. So she goes around and sleeps with other people. And it pains him to know that she's going around with guys who wouldn't treat her as well as he would treat her. And she knows it bothers him so she's ashamed. But no matter what happens, the guy is going to support her and wait patiently, hence: "Well you don't have to stay inside Don't have to run, don't have to hide Come dry your eyes You know you can always change your mind". Or maybe it's about two people in a relationship, and one decides to cheat, and then feels bad about it. Or maybe a father-daughter relationship, and the father looking after his daughter. Or maybe I should shut up because I'm not making sense. Great song. Cheers. |
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| Devotchka – How It Ends Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"And in your soul they poked a million holes. But you never let them show. Come on, its time to go..." Wow. |
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| Broken Social Scene – Stars and Sons Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah, I don't think I can interpret the meaning of this song any better than you all have done. I also saw them perform this. It was brilliant. |
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| The Ditty Bops – There’s A Girl Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah, pretty much. But I mean, both girls (the ditty bops) are pretty much gay. They've been girlfriends for a while. |
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| Math And Physics Club – Movie Ending Romance Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I know a lot of people say this but these guys remind me a lot of Belle & Sebastian. Anyway, I love them. And this song is lovely. | |
| Azure Ray – November Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I wish I had the cello part for this song... | |
| Cat Power – Names Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm not sure how Chan Marshall manages to perform this without breaking down. I can't listen to it all the way through without doing so. | |
| Arcade Fire – Cars and Telephones Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This was the first song I ever heard by the Arcade Fire. I, too, think this is about the difficulty of a long distance relationship. But I was listening to it recently and something else came to mind. It could be about the terrible distance between a relationship that once was but is no longer. "Drive my car across the atlantic ocean" could be a metaphor for finding a way to trick time into letting him go back to fix things...to once again be with the person that inspired him (or her) to write this piece of life. But mostly, yeah, i think it's about an actual long distance relationship. |
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| Metric – Combat Baby Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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How do you get off calling us blind? Only because a lot of songs by Metric can be tied to politics, it doesn't mean all of them strictly embody the subject. |
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| Broken Social Scene – Bandwitch Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| They played this last night. It was thoroughly haunting, but fucking fantastic. | |
| Kings of Convenience – The Build-Up Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Kings of Convenience are amazing. When I saw Feist, she opened with this song and it blew me away. Everyone was just in awe. | |
| Kings of Convenience – Manhattan Skyline Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I prefer this to the original. The emotion is conveyed differently...softer, but stronger somehow. It's one of the few songs that makes me cry. | |
| Sleater-Kinney – What's Mine Is Yours Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I agree with infanitygirl's interpretation and the song being about being gay. The lines "Someone's at the front door selling Band-Aids for our sores" make me think of some sort of relgious group (i.e. jehovah's witnesess) knocking on my door wanting to heal my sinful wounds by selling their religious rhetoric/propaganda. Hence "Bandaids for our sores" (wounds meaning homosexuality or any other thing considered blasphemous). But that's just me. | |
| Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| There's a reference to Mark Twain about the weather in San Francisco. I'm not sure if someone mentioned it already. But I was extremely pleased with how they incorporated it into this song. Absolutely superb. | |
| Sleater-Kinney – Light-Rail Coyote Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Brilliant. I've wanted to move to Portland ever since I heard this song. | |
| Camera Obscura – I Need All the Friends I Can Get Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is song is so much fun. | |
| Jason Collett – Pink Night Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I saw Jason Collett when he opened for Feist. Everybody laughed when he sang those lines, "I love it when my girlfriend calls me a cocksucking faggot". | |
| Goldfrapp – Twist Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Def. on my list of "Songs to put out to". | |
| Goldfrapp – Strict Machine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I don't doubt the fact that it is probably about lab rats. Funny thing is they use this song on the background of the commercial for the Verizon LG chocolate. |
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| Gogol Bordello – When the Trickster Starts A-Poking (Bordello Kind of Guy) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is great to dance to. | |
| Gogol Bordello – Underdog World Strike Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love these guys. This is probably my favorite by them. | |
| Camera Obscura – I Don't Do Crowds Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"you turned the heads of every boy and girl alike would you have them all if there were enough hours in the night?" Best lines :) For me anyway. |
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| Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up to Dry Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is so damn catchy. | |
| Jason Collett – Hangover Days Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love Jason Collett. I saw him open for Feist and he was just so passionate. This song's incredible. | |
| Maria Taylor – Xanax Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I saw Maria Taylor open for Mates of State and she was absolutely incredible. They played this song and it just blew me away. | |
| Alkaline Trio – 5-3-10-4 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I wish the trio had never sold out. It pains me to see all these idiot kids coming out of shitty stores like hot topic with their alk3 shirts. Damn. When I first heard it this song, I thought it had some thing to do to Sinclair's "The Jungle", with the reference to stockyards and cattles and whatnot. Anyway, great song. |
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| The Organ – Memorize The City Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Although our lips barely touched, I have never felt so much and i’d really like to feel that way again" Can relate. too well. Gorgeous song. |
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| Múm – Will the Summer Make Good for All of Our Sins? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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and summer will make good for all of our sins if we only wish it hard enough... Haunting...gorgeous line. |
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| Metric – Combat Baby Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Well, yeah, I do believe it is about missing someone. The song gives off an impression of two people who knew each other very well. I don’t think they engaged in fights like the ones we normally depict in our minds, but rather they challenged each other (not necessarily to prove superiority, but to introduce a new way to look at something). They were both individuals unlike everyone who were alike in that manner, but they constantly challenged each other because well, each had a creative way of thinking. She misses being subjected to a new idea or being proved wrong. “I want to be wrong but No one here wants to fight me like you do”. They were rebellious. And when I say rebellious, I don’t mean like the “let’s do drugs-let’s be anarchists-let’s blow shit up” type thing. They did things together that others wouldn’t normally take pleasure out of. Hence the line: “Get back in town, I wanna paint it black…” I’m not suggesting that she wants to literally paint the town black. But the speaker in the song wants that person back in order to have fun again and do something crazy. Everyone around is probably dull and lacks vitality and they’re “faux punk fatigues”. If the other person was around they could “fight off the lethargy”. I mean, I don’t know…maybe I’ve just been listening to it too much lately. Or it could be that’s nearly 2 in the morning and I lack caffeine. |
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