| Regina Spektor – Better Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Maybe Regina is just trying to explain that feeling where you would do almost anything for your sibling (or friend who's practically like a sibling). But of course, you can only do so much for your sister. Kissing something better, however, is a small was of helping and a huge sign of love and comfort. | |
| The Decemberists – Summersong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| yeah, umm....like i said before, it's totally all about sex. I mean, read the lyrics! It's great though, I adore this song. | |
| Cat Stevens – Trouble Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yes, Elliott Smith's version is great, I agree. But covers are covers, and i really think that credit should be given to the original composor. This song is f-ing incredible. Ironically, it puts me in a better mood when i listen to it. There isn't a better song to get drunk to when you're really low, singing loudly along with it. Now that I do that.... | |
| Nico – The Fairest Of The Seasons Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
It seems to me that this song could also be read as the 'fairest of the seasons' as a metaphor for moving out of a dark state of mind, into one of sanity. That's how it seems to me. Amazing song. |
|
| The Be Good Tanyas – The Littlest Birds (Sing the Prettiest Songs) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Everything about this is so southern bayou and beautiful. I'm not sure what it's about. Clearly about someone who's in love, but their getting tired of moving around all the time, and maybe want to settle down. There's something in Summer dying that makes everthing seem harder. | |
| The Decemberists – Summersong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I don't think anyone died in this song. In french, orgasms are called "la petite mort” which mean "little deaths". That whole first verse is clearly about sex. Of course, as I think someone mentioned before, it's just a summer thing. | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Mayfly Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love the line about the bible. "With it's verses lost in time lost in meaning for the people who surround you." Seriously. Our modern world makes me want to cry--we run our lives based upon the words in a book, written by MEN and interrpreted to mean ridiculous things. | |
| Devendra Banhart – Animals in My Play Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
i love the way this song is song. It just seems as if some one is stuggling with something, and they find comfort with their...sister. I know, way to state the obvious. But still. Gorgeous. |
|
| Page France – Junkyard Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
this is one of my favorite songs. "I was born to lie here patiently Be dragged on by the black star And you were told to glow majestically And love until your hands bleed" This line hit me particularly hard, because I always feel as if girls are practically ordered to sweet and loving, and this ideal little girlfriend package. 'love until your hands bleed' gives a beautiful, breif image of the whole experience. |
|
| Bob Dylan – Wagon Wheel (Demo) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| no one's commented on this? Are they crazy? This song is amazing. It just makes me feel instantly better. | |
| Daniel Johnston – Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
This song saved my life. Daniel Johnston is my hero. |
|
| Belle & Sebastian – If You Find Yourself Caught in Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
Don't worry 'Vezo"-- I wouldn't say we're all the same. Some of us are more open minded. Oh, and this song is gorgeous. |
|
| The Microphones – I Listen Close Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this song is tangled up with grey images of winter. It's haunting, and beautiful, and almost primal. The year could be 1592, or 2006. | |
| Cat Power – I Don't Blame You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
yah, you guys are right, it's probably about Kurt. Still, it could be a methaphor for a lot of people. That's the beauty of it. All of Cat power is gorgeous. This one makes me want to cry. |
|
| Ben Kweller – I Need You Back Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| When I listen to this song, I just want to hug Ben. It's an energetic song, but he's quite desperate groveling and begging for whoever it is to come back to him. (Well...duh, hence the title). Still, who wanted come back, after hearing this? | |
| Badly Drawn Boy – Tickets To What You Need Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is great. It's about a guy who does everything for everyone else, but at the same time, he's going slowly insane. | |
| The Shins – Young Pilgrims Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
This song (and the whole album, really) just screams 'fall' in every way. It's all about this boy growing up, painfully. |
|
| Metric – Calculation (Theme) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
This song says more about a certain feeling than I can express verbally. It's almost as if the singer is giving up (on a relationship, etc), but instead of being completely angry about this, or really even upset, they've seemed to accept it, if not with a little sadness. I love the "I could be passive gracefully". It's sort of what the singer knows they should do, but it....sucks. I love this song. |
|
| The Subdudes – Papa Dukie and the Mud People Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Anyone who loves New Orleans should listen to the Subdudes. This song has such a great sound--you just want to sing along and start dancing when you hear it. | |
| Belle & Sebastian – White Collar Boy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It kind of reminds me of the french movie, Les Comperes | |
| Belle & Sebastian – White Collar Boy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
"White collar, scared to be bored" Poor little rich boy whose life is amazing, but who is bored and finds any kind of high or adremeline rush to shake up his life. And maybe he goes a little too far.... This song makes me so incredibly happy, though. It's amazing... |
|
| James Blunt – Billy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| thanks, "teenybopper". I'll keep that in mind. | |
| Devon – Montreal Waltz Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
I can't believe that no one has commented on Devon! She rocks. This song reminds me of spring and frappacinos. And more than that, it seems to be a song about restlessness being resolved. |
|
| Sting – We Work The Black Seam Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It's a play off on the William Blake poem "Jerusalem" where Blake talks about farm land being replaced by the "dark satanic mills" which are coal factories. Here, they talk about coal being replaced by nuclear power. It's really quite sad. | |
| The Decemberists – July, July! Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
This song reminds me of summer like no song ever has. (Hence the title). It just screams adventure and life. "and i say your uncle was a crooked french canadian" It reminds me of my uncle. (Plural, actually) I think maybe the song's about memory and those years where the summer is endless and strange, and all of the days blend together. |
|
| The Be Good Tanyas – The Lakes Of Pontchartrain Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
Oh God, I LOVE this song. I don't even think I can do it justice by writing about it. I know the Be Good Tanyas didn't actually write it, but...they make it come to life, you know? Thinking back, it makes me cry. Anyway, enough sap. |
|
| The Be Good Tanyas – Broken Telephone Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
I connect with this song. For one thing, her voice is amazing. It seems to me that this song is about comfort and holding on to somone she loves but actually floating away from all of the comfort. "It's a hard world it's a cold world I could never say what I mean i went looking in all the wrong places There's nothing wrong with you" Does that make any sense? |
|
| Elliott Smith – A Fond Farewell Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
Whenever I'm sad, this verse just hits me: "I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy The cold comfort of the in-between A little less than a human being A little less than a happy high A little less than a suicide The only things that you really tried" We've all been snubbed, and have known people who're just so hopelessly helpless that you almost want to give up on them and tell them to get over themselves. But we're all the hopeless person at times, too... |
|
| The Magnetic Fields – Sad Little Moon Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
I love this song. I'm not exactly sure what it means, but no one else is posing anything, and Magnetic Fields rocks, but what can you do? The public is so confused. "You didn't need them, your sunday friends and so you watched them like grains of sand running one by one out of your hands softly falling... " This shows amazing strength. Most people (myself included) need other people. Some people actually HAVE to have people with them, all the time, or they won't function. In this song, however, a stronger feeling is shared. |
|
| Ben Folds – Trusted Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
God, I LOVE this song. "How does it feel to realize you're all alone behind your eyes?" It feels sucky, that's how it feels. like likethecomet said, you feel relievedf to find someone who loves you and knows you and trusts you, but then you find out that they doubt everything you do, and don't trust you at all. It sucks. |
|
| Built to Spill – Car Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
To me it seems as if the singer is someone older, or someone who's seen the world already. They love this younger girl or boy who still has a lot left to learn. However, they don't necessarily want to relive the bad things in life, and therefore don't want to know all of the sucky details that this second person finds out about. "You'll get the chance to take the world apart and figure out how it works Don't let me know what you find out" |
|
| The Decemberists – The Bagman's Gambit Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Has anyone read the Bloody Jack books? This song reminds me of them | |
| James Blunt – Goodbye My Lover Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| As I said about James Blunt Eariler, I love him but I'm really upset that he's going mainstream America. I saw him last summer in London, and I thought, "he's really good. He'll probably make it over in America eventually, but I don't think he'll follow the paths of the horrible musicians." HOwever, he went on VH1, and he's ruined for me, and given to little teenyboppers without brains or a sense of rhythm. | |
| James Blunt – Billy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I love this song, and all of James Blunt's songs, but I have to say I'm really upset that he's going mainstream America. I saw him last summer in London, and I thought, "he's really good. He'll probably make it over in America eventually, but I don't think he'll follow the paths of the horrible musicians." HOwever, he went on VH1, and he's ruined for me, and given to little teenyboppers without brains or a sense of rhythm. | |
| Pink Martini – Hang On Little Tomato Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I'm with you there, I love this song. Whenever things are shitty, or I"m in a really bad mood, I listen to this song to cheer me up. It's gotten me through a lot. | |
| Bing Crosby – White Christmas Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I love this! Cheesy as it is (and, yes, every well respected christmas song is appropriatly cheesy) it reminds me of an ideal classic Christmas. I still wish I was a little kid, sometimes. | |
| The Decemberists – Red Right Ankle Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
I love this song. Its so poetic and beautiful. I really love the verse about her gypsy uncle. We all have these deep, dark family secrets that we don't even know the half of. There is nothing more intruging than a gypsy uncle, and she has decided in her mind what he looked like. And even after she finds out his hide out in the pyranees, she decides to give this mysterious man the privacy he deserves. |
|
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
Anne Frank or Pepiro Arillo, or some other person during the hollocaust, etc., I love this part: "But now we must pick up every piece Of the life we used to love Just to keep ourselves At least enough to carry on" It reminds me of all the people from New Orleans and Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. I have a lot of family and friends from that area, and I've seen them pick up their lives and move all over the country just to keep on living. |
|
| Belle & Sebastian – If She Wants Me Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
"And it was hard Like coming off the pills that you take to stay happy" God...that brings me back. It sort of shows this struggle in life, and human happiness, and how it can be acheived sometimes easily, sometimes through pills, and sometimes through hard work and love. |
|
| Belle & Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take? How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays? Oh elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze A trail for the devil to erase I love this first stanza. It reminds me of so many relationships between so many different types of people. I love songs like this that make you think and remember. Do you think they mean Ferdinand Magellan? Or some other Ferdinand? Anyway, I love this song. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.