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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"But don't hate her when she gets up to leave"
The two-headed boy is found by a girl, who loves him and cares about him, even though he's a freak in a jar. She makes him realize what love is and I think ultimately he does the same for her. Yet when it comes down to it, he's still a boy in a jar and she can't be with him, she has her own life to lead. So while she will look back on this as a time when she was young and impressionable and lovesick, her meeting the two-headed boy is the most significant thing of his life, the only part of it worthwhile. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – The Gifted Children Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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That's not Jeff Mangum singing, I don't know about the rest. I downloaded this song under "Neutral Milk Hotel" but I'm not sure if it's Robert Schneider singing and Jeff on the drums or another band altogether. Anyone know? |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Okay, I'm sorry to add what will most likely be a lenghty message to this already long thread, but I feel like everybody is wrong about this song and the album in general. It is not a "concept" ablum about Anne Frank, it is about Jeff's thoughts. Anne Frank is definitely a big part, but people always want to analyze Jeff's songs by looking for any Anne Frank reference they can and end up ONLY looking for those, which is what I think has happened.
This song is not about Anne Frank. If you find references, you're looking too hard. Much of my interpretation comes from the book from the "33 1/3" series, "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea." Though I've loved this song for over 3 years, it wasn't until last nite that I realized exactly what it's about, simply because I wasn't looking at the song as a whole.
What this song is is a love song. A two-headed boy suspended in formaldahyde in a jar in a dark basement somewhere like a carnival freak show (carnivals and circus themes are common in many of Jeff's songs). A girl comes down to visit him, and he taps on the jar so she can hear where he is. Tap on the jar, I will follow the sound. There are many references to radios, as if this poor freakish child has the most beautiful music in his heart that he wants to share with this girl, the only one in the world that cares about him. To suggest that it's just about a boy wanting to have sex is bastardizing this song. He's building her a radio so he can convey all the emotions that COULD be communicated through sex, but are so much more beautiful as music. I'm not sure if in the end she's disgusted by the music he produces and runs away ("choking with her hands across her face) or if she has to leave because...well, he's a boy in a jar, but either way she leaves, leaving him with the memories of the most beautiful moments of his entire life. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone with You Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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What's so beautiful about Sufjan Stevens is that he succeeds where every other Christian artist fails. Sufjan's music is not about openly praising God and Bible-hugging, it's small and personal. He's not trying to flaunt his beliefs, he's just trying to express his love. It's so good that finally there's some GOOD music about Jesus, that isn't so obvious and full of shit like other Christian rock bands. |
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| David Banner – Play Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song makes me want to rip my ears off. Who the fuck can listen to some horny pervert whispering about a girl masturbating?? That's disgusting! It's horrible that people like Madlib and Doom can do such amazing things with this genre yet the ones that get the attention are no-talent perverts like david banner. Don't even say it's got a good beat. It probably took about three minutes to write. Just because it HAS a beat, doesn't mean it has a GOOD beat |
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| Devotchka – Til the End of Time Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I just watched Little Miss Sunshine for the second time and this song is absolutely perfect. So romantic, yet the music is too beautiful to be cheesy. I believe every word this man says. |
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| Okkervil River – Black Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is so wonderful because I can truly hear his anguish as he wails out the lyrics. Not only that, but I can picture him writing this song after his friend/girlfriend told him all about this and he had no idea what to do. Jamisonlikewhat analyzes the song interestingly, but I don't think the catchy melody is meant to be misleading; I think it actually conveys the power, the drive, and the desperation of the song. Oftentimes very catchy, creative tunes come from deep deep anguish, and I think that's what happens here. And this song most definitely IS about molestation. A lyric no one has mentioned yet is "But I can still see the cigarette's heat." What comes to mind is either her father had a cigarette after raping her in the car or he burned her with a cigarette. Probably the latter, in my opinion.
One lyric I'm not sure I get is, "You should say his name the way that he said yours." Maybe that he always refered to her as a whore and a slut and insulted her and she should do the same back to him. "You don't want to say his name anymore" probably means she just wants to push it away and not think about it, just like she wants to push him away. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Wishful Eyes Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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FYI, this song continues:
All I really wanted
Was to be in your body
I really wanna be in your body
I wanna be inside you
He says that over and over again, but he clairified that it's not about sex, it's just about wanting to be in someone's head. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 and 3 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think the ballsiest thing Jeff did was write King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 2. I think almost every one of his fans would be initially put off very much by this part, but I think it's SOOO cool! Jeff is somewhat religious, but not in the evangelical kind of way. I've heard him explain this song on a live cd and if you look in the liner notes on Aeroplane where this lyric should be he explains it. I think people read into it too much and he felt he had to defend himself, but truth be told I don't think it really means everything. He says that he's just as confused as everyone else about God and everything, so he could actually be trying to be ironic and mock evangelicals. And I agree with words&tricks. |
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| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I don't think this song has any deep metaphores or anything. It most certainly isn't about drugs because Thom never used drugs besides alcohol. It's also not about love, either. I don't think many Radiohead songs are about love. This song, to me, is about apathy, laziness, and the sort of selfish i-don't-give-a-fuck attitude people have and the depersonalization of the world. The lyric that speaks to me most is "I'm just lying in a bar with my drip-feed on, talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen." Again, apathy, boredom, and alienation. |
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| Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I think this song is about the end of the world, and it being only you and the one you love. It's taken in a very romantic "What if..." direction, and it's beautiful. It's about forgetting everyone else in the world and what they think and what they know because the only ones that matter in the entire world are you and the one you love...absolutely beautiful |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Song Against Sex Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I love this song so freakin' much. It sucks cuz virtually all the songs I write are about drugs, fucking, and love, and the evils of all of them, but Jeff's written a song about all of them that completely destroys anything I've written or ever will write
Side note: I heard that Jeff read "But don't take those pills your boyfriend gave you, you're too wonderful to die" on a bathroom stall...how cool is that? |
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| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A version) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Some think Kid A is the story of a person's life and Motion Picture Soundtrack is about death. If so, it's a very interesting look at it. What Thom is saying is that in the end it's not all beautiful like everyone says, and death is not wonderful ('It's not like the movies, they fed us on little white lies'). This song seems more of a cold acceptance, that the world is an ugly place, but at the same time there is a touch of optimism at the fact that there is something after life, after the ugliness. That could be what the instrumental bit is at the end, the assumption into heaven. Of course, I'm not saying this is exactly what the song means, I'm just throwing it out there :D |
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| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Some think Kid A is the story of a person's life and Motion Picture Soundtrack is about death. If so, it's a very interesting look at it. What Thom is saying is that in the end it's not all beautiful like everyone says, and death is not wonderful ('It's not like the movies, they fed us on little white lies'). This song seems more of a cold acceptance, that the world is an ugly place, but at the same time there is a touch of optimism at the fact that there is something after life, after the ugliness. That could be what the instrumental bit is at the end, the assumption into heaven. Of course, I'm not saying this is exactly what the song means, I'm just throwing it out there :D |
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| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Some think Kid A is the story of a person's life and Motion Picture Soundtrack is about death. If so, it's a very interesting look at it. What Thom is saying is that in the end it's not all beautiful like everyone says, and death is not wonderful ('It's not like the movies, they fed us on little white lies'). This song seems more of a cold acceptance, that the world is an ugly place, but at the same time there is a touch of optimism at the fact that there is something after life, after the ugliness. That could be what the instrumental bit is at the end, the assumption into heaven. Of course, I'm not saying this is exactly what the song means, I'm just throwing it out there :D |
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