| Death Cab for Cutie – Different Names for the Same Thing Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I'm with you, srj2224. I recently saw DCFC at an all ages show in San Diego, and I had to elbow 14 year olds out of my way who were talking about the new Kelly Clarkson album. I'm serious. I guess its hip to listen to Death Cab now, but there is so much value in their previous work. Dont get me wrong, Plans is worth they hype, but I hope it makes people seek our their older, underrated stuff | |
| Fiona Apple – Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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In concert in San diego, fiona said that this song was about when you know a relationship is bad, but you keep going back to it to make sure there isn't anything left. And you come away going... yep, still crap. I think the singsong melody sarcastically contrasts the grimmness of the line "so sick in the head i need to be bled dry to quit". It's a pretty melodramatic statement, and is contrasted by the simplicity of the other option: "or I just really used to love him". haha, fiona, you're so great! |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Marching Bands of Manhattan Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound but while you debate half empty or half full it slowly rises your love is gonna drown this is the most poetic stanza. I think it means that sorrows constantly trickle into our lives, and we get so used to not being happy, that the guarantee of sorrow becomes a comfort, and maybe we confuse comfort for happiness. But while we, conflicted, debate it in our own minds as sad (half empty) or happy (half full), the level of the "water" (sorrow) rises, answering our question. I think the beautiful irony is that half full (or filling, as this case is) is usually thought of as positive, but in fact here it is SORROW that is rising, definitely not a positive thing. This is the most complex and beautiful 4 lines on the album |
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| Nada Surf – Your Legs Grow Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song is about when you know someone who is either gone having a really hard time, and you care about them so much but there is nothing you can do to make everything right. "And if you move off to the side, I'll get swept back out Where it's cold but not that deep, cause your legs grow." To me, this means that if the other person is unreachable, then he will get lost, "swept out to the ocean" where it is cold and uncomfortable. But as humans, we cope to uncomfortable situations, we do what we need to do to keep going, our legs grow, even if we think they can't. ps ""In my room is, I think, a reference to a side project that Matt Caws did called 'in my room'" this band is so effing adorable its not even funny |
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