| Why? – By Torpedo or Crohn's Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| pish posh. I know y'all know WHO I'm talking about, I meant whether anyone else got what I was thinking. Then again, apparently I was thinking that about 20 seconds before going to bed, so. | |
| Why? – By Torpedo or Crohn's Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This sounds more like a Hymie's song than a Why? song. If anyone knows what I'm talking about. | |
| Horrorpops – Where They Wander Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Come on guys, this song is about zombies. | |
| Why? – Me On Beer Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Thanks, fixed. | |
| The Decemberists – Human Behaviour (Björk cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure those aren't added lines, he's just imitating the nonsense lines that Bjork sings. Nobody bothers transcribing them in the Bjork lyrics because they're not actual words. She throws em into a lot of her songs. | |
| Why? – Yes It Is Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Is this... what album is this on? | |
| Why? – Shirtless, Sheetless and Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Or wait maybe a drag queen. Heh. |
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| Why? – Darla Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Metaphor? Or..... LOVE SONG TO A CHICKEN? | |
| The Ziggens – Here Comes a Regular Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This is originally by the Replacements, I guess. And the lyrics to that version say it's "in the back with the loudmouths"... definitely sounds like he's saying "for" here though. So who knows. Good song. | |
| Mogwai – O I Sleep Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Yeah, and the way it follows the song before it on the CD, it's length is perfect. | |
| Matisyahu – King Without A Crown Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I heard this song on the radio, had no idea what he was saying but thought "hey, that's pretty kickass." Then I looked it up and was like "uhhhhhmmmmmm." Is this guy for real? I honestly can't tell. | |
| Against Me! – Baby, I'm an Anarchist! Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song means that for 2 minutes and 40 seconds I am an anarchist. Even if in reality I am a spineless liberal, I can't listen to this song without saying to myself, "fuck! I want to riot! I am seriously going to live like that." I never actually start rioting or living like that... but I think I am going to every single time. And, honestly, this song has pretty much been analyzed into the ground. |
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| Art Brut – My Little Brother Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song reminds me of when my little brother discovered rock & roll. Haha. | |
| Why? – Shirtless, Sheetless and Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Sounds like it's told from the point of view of a woman. | |
| Big D and the Kids Table – Checklist Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is basically amazing. "You don't have to dress up It's not a fucking fashion show" Every time I see Big D, and I see annoying scenester fans that all look the same singing along with this song, I laugh. Really hard. |
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| Jack Johnson – It's All Understood Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| A lot of times, when someone quotes Anchorman, I think of the first verse of this song. That movie has been quoted to death and people still laugh when someone says "I love lamp." | |
| Rufus Wainwright – Damned Ladies Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Yeah they're all women characters from operas. Desdemona is from Verdi's "Otello" Tosca is from Puccini's "La Tosca" Violetta is from Verdi's "La Traviata" Cio-cio is from Puccini's "Madam Butterfly" Mimi is from Puccini's "La Boheme" (upon which Rent was based, by the way... same Mimi) Gilda is from Verdi's "Rigoletto" Katya Kabanova is from Janacek's opera of the same name Pamina is from Mozart's "The Magic Flute" My brain is basically exploding from reference overload. Exploding in a good way. |
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| Sparklehorse – Dog Door Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This could just be some cracked-out ramblings. Otherwise, no idea either. Maybe uhmm. The speaker is "in the dog house" so to speak, but not just when he does something wrong. He's always at the feet of this woman. Not only sleeping in the dog house, but also using the dog door. |
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| Rainer Maria – Ears Ring Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Um okay this is probably a long shot, but this is what I found when I googled "blue lady": "According to the ghostly Coastside legend, some 72 years ago a beautiful, young woman met by chance, a handsome dangerous man and fell in love with him. This sophisticated ladies' man was, say some, a piano player in the bar. The naive young woman, always dressed in blue was already married to another but her unsuspecting husband and young son never knew of the illicit affair. She made many trips to the restaurant to be with her lover. The beautiful lady in blue died in a violent automobile accident and it is here at the Distillery you will now find her searching for her lover." |
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| Mogwai – R U Still In 2 It? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| ...and love, love will tear us apart again. | |
| Low – Dinosaur Act Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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A dinosaur is a huge, long-dead animal... so maybe this is a family of pilots; the younger generations continue with the family trade just because they're supposed to; the passion is long dead. They have the weight of history on their shoulders, but it's all an act. Orrrr maybe I am reading way too far into this and it's about dinosaurs. |
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| Iron & Wine – Evening on the Ground (Lilith's Song) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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From my understanding, one of the ways that Lilith refused to submit was by refusing to be on the bottom when they had sex. "You will never make me Learn to lay beneath the mountain" ...literally, heh. |
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| The Decemberists – Odalisque Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Yeah, we were looking at slides in my art history class, and up came Ingres' "La Grand Odalisque." Now I can't listen to the song without picturing the painting, or look at the painting without hearing the song. | |
| The Decemberists – The Engine Driver Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| All of the verses have a theme of permanence... "a long one;" a trade that is passed down through generations; "ever tortured." These roles aren't just jobs; they a part of a person's enduring identity. The speaker will forever be a writer trying to rid this person from his life unless she just admits she doesn't love him. | |
| Why? – Me On Beer Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure it's not "yokelessness" since that's not even a word, but that's what it sounds like. | |
| Horrorpops – Baby Lou Tattoo Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"My body takes a new form, I'm getting reborn!" I don't think you have to be into body mods to relate to this. Any time your body is changed from a tattoo, piercing, surgery, accident, whatever, you're a different person. |
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| The Receiving End Of Sirens – Planning A Prison Break Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"This is the last night in my body" is a sweet line. And thanks thexauthor, because that makes sense and I never would have figured that out, haha. I always felt like the line described feeling on the brink of some huge, permanent change; this is the last night of my life that I'll be a high school student, a teenager, a virgin, a smoker... a prisoner, heh. You get the idea. Maybe it wasn't the intent to give that feeling, but that's what I got from it. |
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| The Decemberists – Oceanside Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this might be a reference to Poe's "Annabel Lee": "It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee" At first I thought it was a Nabokov reference, because in "Lolita" the narrator talks about loving a girl named Annabel by the sea... then I learned that Nabokov was making a Poe reference... heh, I love references. |
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