| Arcade Fire – Rococo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Please read Tim4x's comment on Rococo style, I missed it earlier, my bad. | |
| Arcade Fire – Rococo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Rococo is most certainly a froufrou, ornamented art that I (like the modern kids) actually know absolutely nothing about, but can recognize. There is something about the way he says Rococo, Rococo.. As if he's "cooing", like a bird. That and the eating out of his hand. And who else but parrots use great big words that they don't understand. The second stanza has the whole... paradigm, framework idea, but he's speaking about it as if it's a structure that can be torn down. And the third stanza has him speaking of wild and tame, showing off colors. Although the showing off colors does really make me think of birds trying to attract one another during mating season, I will admit to perhaps taking this bird thing a little too far. I think the advancing colors is to convey an ostentatious nature in these kids, though. Either way, he speaks of the modern kids as being animals, uncultivated and hasty. |
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| The Lovely Feathers – Pope John Paul Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Nonsensical (or seemingly so) like most of their work, but, to me, sublime. Saw them live a few times actually. Unfortunately, the last time, when they played without one Richard Yanofsky, their show was quite disappointing. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| its actually really about building a staircase because escalators cost too much money | |
| Chromeo – Tenderoni Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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great song i believe i read somewhere that tenderoni's supposed 2007 objective with this song was to get people to apostrophize/qualify others using "tenderoni" |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Seer's Tower Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is not the tower of Babel, as some have pointed out. It has nothing to do with working together to replace God and replacing God to be found impossible. This tower is "above the earth." Great writers weigh every word, they master the language they use. He doesn't say the tower that "reaches above the earth." Perhaps he feels himself as the seer, reading the apocalyptic passage from the bible. As he reads it, he imagines it. Also, there's something about the Earth being loaned to us by God. We CEDE the universe, to give up the universe. In the tower above the earth There is a view that reaches far Where we CEDE the universe I see the fire, I see the end Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead. The believers well go to paradise, together. The non-believers will die alone, no paradise for them. Seven miles above the earth must be where God is, seven being the perfect number. Could Emmanuel of mothers "God of earth?" Seven miles above the earth There is Emmanuel of mothers With his sword, with his robe He comes dividing man from brothers In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel In the powers of the earth, we wait until it rails and rails In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel Oh, my mother, she betrayed us, but my father loved and bathed us Still I go to the deepest grave Where I go to sleep alone Seven miles above the earth There is Emmanuel of mothers With his sword, with his robe He comes dividing man from brothers Third paragraph was covered by other people... I'm not too sure on it myself... Any takers? The last two lines could be him believing that he might have doubted God too much to go to paradise amongst brothers and, rather, be forced to die, like the "men", alone. Still I go to the deepest grave Where I go to sleep alone |
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| Nickelback – If Everyone Cared Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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what a bad song! this band is a joke... first stanza ends with a note about solidarity? second stanza, he's greatful (probably for this solidarity) third stanza.. bland, generic, eutopic ideals fifth stanza, "let's show them wrong and create heaven on earth" eighth stanza, the poem's voice believes that he loves this other person he refer to in the first stanza, more than anyone else has ever loved anyone else... and the poem's voice is just sooo convincing and by the way, if anyone thinks the day when nobody dies is going to be a good one... then read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Vonnegut or think about what it would be like for... say... two seconds i believe poisons said the song and video are very moving... the only thing it moves me to do is change radio station |
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| Leonard Cohen – The Future Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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what a bad song leonard cohen's apocalyptic view of the future, big frigging deal anal sex, crack, hiroshima... what? did he just tie up everything he thought was bad? the future is bad! maybe this was some great advancement at the time... but a song like this could never compare to, say, Strange Fruit not to mention he could have spared us his voice... construction is less painful to listen to |
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| John Frusciante – The Past Recedes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i'm disappointed that no one takes the time to crack open a dictionnary when they don't understand words like recede... the song says quite the opposite, the character is more comfortable living in the past than breaking free from it... the character doesn't want to make that effort because then there's nothing to hold on to.. |
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| Foo Fighters – The Pretender Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i do like the foo fighters... but these particular lyrics are really nothing special...it's an alright song but it's not too poetic, and it's lyrical content isn't original in the least bit the whole skeletons/soldiers comparison, a sort of "dead man walking" situation, has been sooo overdone... and the chorus is quite vague one thing about songmeanings is whenever a song's lyrics are generic and vague, you have some idiot who is gonna make a comment about how it's about bush or on how it's about current politics in the united states so, this time, i applaud all those who said it... because for once, they were right... keep it up |
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| Sam Roberts – No Sleep Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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St. Catherine and St. Laurent are intersecting streets, in Montreal. This intersection is particularly infamous for it's prostitutes. I belive that this song is about a man who just couldn't pick a girl and settle down. Second stanza is about the hooker (that he's been to, or that's an ex of his): she doesn't recognize me, and she just calls out for people the more i think about this, the harder time i have figuring out what it really means... the hooker being an ex could be a sort of foreshadowing on how bleak his future will be if he continues like this Saturday is THE party night by excellence Minor translation corrections: (as part of it is actually sung in the past perfect) A pretty girl Passed me ever so close She stopped time At the corner of St. Catherine and St. Laurent She looked at me and she smiled She made me think of nothing at that moment But like the wind, she left And I'm awake Yea I'm awake |
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| The Lovely Feathers – Photocorners Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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that's cool, i had a hard time figuring out what this song meant... and just for the record, your correction on the word "invitation" as "invatation"... well, is incorrect... it's "invitation" are these bitches still active? they're local and i haven't heard a buzz from them since forever, no shows, no updates, just myspace logins |
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| The Lovely Feathers – e-man sorrow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| it's been a year and i still haven't figrued out parts to this song... does anyone know if the feathers are still active? i noticed they still login to their myspace... but for the longest time they haven't had an update, plus the website has been down forever... | |
| Sam Roberts – With A Bullet Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| but i doubt it has anything to do with someone who actually worked in a coal mine.. | |
| Sam Roberts – With A Bullet Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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my friend is actually cousin's with eric fares (he does guitar, keyboard and backup vocals) anyway... from what he tells me, sam roberts band has had a past with drugs... especially weed... and miner's lungs is very much the kind of lungs you get when you smoke weed... their music references the stuff a couple times... and umm... you can kind of tell they do drugs, by the sound... or at least have in the past so why talk about coalmines? for coherence? 'cause it sounds good and makes sense... |
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| Holland – the west coast Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| no, i don't believe this is Jason Schwartzman's, he did write "the west coast" but this isn't the same one... as none of the lyrics are the same... | |
| Brand New – Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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All credit goes to my friend Adrian This song is about a guy who loses his virginity to a hooker. He feels guilty about it. The girl is seducing him, hes been waiting all his life to get laid and it happens with a hooker. |
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| Brand New – Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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All credit goes to my friend Adrian This song is about a guy who loses his virginity to a hooker. He feels guilty about it. The girl is seducing him, hes been waiting all his life to get laid and it happens with a hooker. |
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| The Mars Volta – This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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i almost forgot effigy is a portrait, a reproduction of someone... it's usually something you have an intention of burning or, if you want a more clear example... have you ever seen a movie where the evil villain is throwing darts at the superhero's face? if not, just imagine someone taking a picture of you and then stabbing it repeatedly, that picture then becomes an effigy who made this effigy... i can't offer much for this but maybe someone found a drawing of Julio Venegas... hung? dead? that would also be an effigy because the picture itself depicts cruel and murderous intentions... once again i'd love it if someone added something so that we could keep this interesting |
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| The Mars Volta – This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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this apparatus must be unearthed unearthed can mean discovered apparatus in a larger sense could be the mechanism behind something... does anyone see where i'm going with this? what's behind something is usually the root of it, or, if you prefer, the cause the cause must be discovered, perhaps unveiled (because when you unearth, you uncover... yes, uncover can mean find BUT it can also mean to unmask) this cause must be unmasked! well this is an amazing song... after three years of using this site i think i'm finally gonna add what i have to say... i have yet to find an explanation for the "anonymous avenge my name" part... it seems to stick out a bit from the rest... some lines that haven't been explained and i'd like to take a crack at... can anyone offer an explanation for the "is there straw dressed in these fields" i mean yes, i associate straw with fields and animals and pasture but... if it helps, i have two definitions for a straw man 1. it is a weak or imaginary opposition... 2. a person set up to serve as a cover for a usually questionable transaction if we use the latter definition dressed could mean ready, arranged (someone on standby in case of, in the event of... don't get it? who's played the Avenging Angels mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City? 'Nuf said, you watch over a drug transaction) fields is defined as a complex of forces that serve as causative agents in human behavior... or you can say a field when you refer to a group of people who participate in a sport... field could also just be used as an area, a meeting point is there a straw man waiting in these fields or is there a straw man AMONGST US, making sure that something goes as planned... such as the death of Julio Venegas... a traitor (not information wise) far-fetched? not as much as you would think if you knew the whole Ben - Julio relationship which I will not explain right now... but supposedly Ben edged Julio on to commit suicide This song is about vocabulary. To anyone who reads a lot, keep it up and you'll understand words like these. to anyone who doesn't, just make sure you have a dictionnary handy :) A litany is a sort of chant... so assuming this chant was to symbolise his death, this would work. However, it's more of a supplication than anything... why would you mock a supplication? Can you cure us of this fate suggests that the person talking is Julio (who is in desperation and considering suicide). Why would someone who is trying to find a way out of a situation, mock a supplication? "Mock the litany in it's face" could also be seen as an order given by a character (obvious the antagonist) to someone that is helping him (him being the antagonist). Does it sting of augur truth. Augur is a roman prophet, yes BUT more importantly, it's designates someone who foretells events by omens, and may be used simply to designate the prediction itself a prefect was a chief officer in ancient Rome. if you look a little further, a prefect apostolic is a roman clergyman that occupies a high, important, priest-like position... omerta is kind of like a rule, a code... used in underground crime organisations that swears you to secrecy My guess: ...Hex zero rouge -symbolizes his awakening? (let's ignore this line, hex is a spell (usually a curse, but i think it can be positive too) ...He'll hybernate no more -he awakes from coma ...The altars run dry -altars might be hopes and prayers, he's run out of hope... ...Prefect dictate your final words -a priest dictating final words... high priests at one point replaced the doctors role of declaring someone dead... i believe ...does it sting of augur truth -does the truth of the prediction sting ...was your temple left in ruins? -everything he had, plans, aspirations... just crumbled ...is that you moatilliatta? -i'll believe everyone else... moatilliatta was something uttered subconsciously (well obviously) by the comatosed Julio Venegas or (and this one seems more plausible) moatilliatta is really evil disguised as a friend, who leads Julio Venegas to suicide words from ancient rome civilization used include: augur, prefect, litany, (perhaps omerta, as underground bandits were something quite common in Rome... off the top of my head i can actually think of fictional (or semi-fictional) references: Underworld (headquarters are in Rome), (Luigi Vampa from The Count of Monte Cristo BOOK), and also The Da Vinci Code, which I haven't read but I feel compelled to add it in). So this kind of leaves me with one conclusion, although The Mars Volta may be geniuses at times... their lyrics are definitely often misleading. I'd like someone to challenge something (or everything) i've written, i realize that i may have made some points, but have probably not covered them all and after listening to this about a million times... i think it's about time i figure out EXACTLY what everything means... my fav song on their first album, probably because it's the song that made me love them |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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ive read one of chuck palahniuk's books... and i know that it's time to dance is pretty much taken from the book "invisible monsters" and some other people have said that p!atd worships palahniuk... i hope that helps i know that a harlequin is kinda like a jester... or it can be the pattern to the clothes they wore... but i dont understand what they mean by it... and im betting it means something more than just silly... |
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