| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – New Year's Kiss Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I don\'t think it\'s "walked home itching in last night\'s clothes." \n\nI hear "walked home ON MISSION," i.e. on the street that the bars are (were?) located.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Street | |
| Taylor Swift – Girl at Home Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "I see you turn off your phone" -- this is a pretty acute observation hidden in a throwaway detail that has the ring of truth to it. The guy probably wants to be able to pretend to his girlfriend that his phone died. | |
| Taylor Swift – All Too Well Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Pretty sure that line refers to sex. | |
| The Chicks – Goodbye Earl Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Well, this is a little pedantic, but don't red-eye flights fly east, like from California to Chicago or the East Coast? Who would ever take a red eye out of Atlanta? | |
| Michelle Branch – Summertime Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I thought I saw you a couple months ago At the airport boarding a plane I couldn't move I didn't know what to do And you took my breath away I really like these lines. They ring true - when you're switching planes at a hub, it's possible you could run into anyone you've ever known. The mixture of fear and longing in "couldn't move" and "took my breath away" is pretty apt too. |
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| Mayday Parade – Champagne's for Celebrating (I'll Have a Martini) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love all the s-sounds in "save a sad song for the sing-along." | |
| Mayday Parade – Jamie All Over Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That's simpler. But why not Florida, then? I still think Georgia lacks the mystique that California and to a lesser extent Florida have... | |
| Straylight Run – The Tension and the Terror Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure it's "thin limbed." Take the line as divided into three parts, each part describing an aspect of the beloved: "Thin-limbed, gorgeous, green eyes smiling." I.e. she is thin-limbed and gorgeous, and her green eyes seem to smile. | |
| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Hey Eleanor Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The name Eleanor is a good choice. It's a pretty name. What's the relationship between the speaker and the addressee? Does he have a crush on her? |
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| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – I Love Creedence Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I just noticed that the song spans a period of time. The first time September is mentioned, it's in the future, but later September has come and gone and our narrator is now 26. I don't know what to make of that fact. | |
| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – White On White Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love the last three lines. There's so much going on, and I don't fully understand them. A couple observations: 1) Although we're pretty sure that the addressee is dead (appearance in a dream, "gone to stay"), it's still very effective to delay the explicit announcement of their death. The final confirmation of our guess hits pretty hard. 2) We're forced to wait two lines to find out why the rain matters to the narrator. We expect the rain to be in some way comforting (rain is often particularly associated with grief in our culture, although I think that's culturally determined and not found elsewhere). It hits hard, though, that the rain not only comforts the narrator but also substitutes for a real farewell. 3) The specific detail of the reservoir provides a sense of verisimilitude and also marks the experience as an extreme for the narrator. 4) Also, I love the way he emphasizes the last syllable of "reservoir" (I can't think of another word with that sound -svw-) and all the alliteration in s in the last line. And I'm pretty sure it's "I'd never seen the reservoir so high" not "I've..." |
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| Mayday Parade – Jamie All Over Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So, as I read it, both the visit to Las Vegas and the love-making on the beach are part of his dream. He wants to spend more time with this girl in CA (hence the pointing at the map), but it's unrealistic, which she knows (she keeps telling him it's a dream) but he refuses to accept. Why is it so impossible? Because he lives in Georgia, which he has to go back to. He will return there with nothing but fond memories. Why Georgia? I mean, it's on the opposite side of the country from California. Also I think of Georgia as something of an anti-California. California has these almost magical connotations: it's a place where dreams come true, in athletics, in show business, or in love. Whereas, on a superficial level, Georgia is a lot like California: a southern state on the coast with a warm climate. But in contrast to California Georgia is frightfully mundane, whether you're talking about the material excess of Atlanta, the conservative Greek life of Athens, or the small town life of southern Georgia. When was the last time you heard someone say the next place they want to go is Georgia? |
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| The Mountain Goats – Twin Human Highway Flares Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is the defining moment of the album, "Full Force Galesburg." All the other songs turn around the moment enshrined in this one. Or so Darnielle sees it: from cool quote #2 (http://www.themountaingoats.net/music/galesburg.html): All that was left later was the vision of the two of us crossing the parking lot toward the blazing room off the interstate half an hour past Iowa over on the other side of the Mississippi. These songs are about what made that moment either possible or inevitable, depending on how you look at it. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Weekend in Western Illinois Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I entirely disagree with tomStrangelove. It's about a couple abandoning everything for each other, who see themselves in the dogs that howl for joy in the new season's storms. Some other thoughts: There's a lot about springtime fertility in this song. I think it should be taken closely with the previous song on the album, "Twin Human Highway Flares," which is about a young couple very much in love traveling from Iowa "into western Illinois." I wonder if Galesburg was chosen because its name evokes storms, gales. Or perhaps the city's present unfortunate condition is a good backdrop to the couple and the dogs. And how can you hear the line "and some of our promises were binding up here where our dreams take form" and not be incredibly envious? |
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| The Mountain Goats – Genesis 19:1-2 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The song is an interpretation of Genesis 19:1-2, as the title indicates. In that passage Lot extends hospitality to two angels, who will save him and his family but destroy the rest of the city. A part of the refrain of this song - "the two angels came to Sodom in the evening" - is a direct quotation from 19:1, as it is rendered in the NRSV and elsewhere. The key point of 19:1-2 is that Lot is already sitting in Sodom's gateway when the angels arrive - as though he were expecting them. This song depicts Lot's suffering as he awaits the angels, waits until he "[sees them] coming up the boulevard." On the one hand everyone Lot knows, whether important or not, is in Sodom, behind him ("her and all the others lined up behind the gate"); on the other hand, he has the material possessions he needs to survive (a camera, a felt tip marker, money, "everything [he] needed"). His suffering lies in knowing that everything he loves will perish at the hands of people he will entertain, even though he himself will survive. This pain is captured in the metaphor of the intense red of a setting sun as "bleeding all over [him]." |
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| My Chemical Romance – It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Fucking Deathwish Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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You're right, dIeInG4yOoH!. "you get what everyone else gets / you get a lifetime" is from a comic book. In Neil Gaiman's Sandman, as Death leads away a literally centuries-old man, he asks her about how he did: BERNIE: But I did okay, didn't I? I mean, I got, what, fifteen thousand years. That's pretty good. Isn't it? I lived a pretty long time. DEATH: You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less. You got a lifetime. (Neil Gaiman, Sandman: Brief Lives, Chapter 3, p. 5) |
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