| The Go! Team – Hold Yr Terror Close Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
I'm not sure what Langdon means... I'm listening to the song right now and those are the lyrics I hear... Anyway, when I listen to this song I get the impression that Chi is conquering her fear of strangers by carpooling. I know, that's not what the song's about. Whatever. But listen to these parts: "why should we all be alone every night on the way home" "carried you 'till it got dark" "you're right strangers are easy to like" Also, something I noticed: What if this lyric "maybe if we look at the map everything done is a wrap" is really "Maybe if we look at the map Everything done is a rap" Since all the other lyrics on the album are raps, and this is the only song that is actually sung. |
|
| Death from Above 1979 – Going Steady Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Sounds like a father having to say goodbye to his daughter as she prepares to get married or go to school or whatever. How hard it is to accept that you won't be able to protect her forever and that bad things can and will happen. | |
| Death from Above 1979 – If We Don't Make It, We'll Fake It Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I actually prefer the lyrics written in paragraph form because it feels like more of a narrative that way. When it's typed "verse chorus verse repeat verse" it feels like "these are the words we needed to rhyme with each other" rather than "these are the experiences and emotions we needed to write about." | |
| Death from Above 1979 – You're a Woman, I'm a Machine Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This would also explain the title, "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine" ="You Need Love, All I Have To Give Is My Body, My Sex" | |
| Death from Above 1979 – Cold War Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Does anyone have an idea why he references "Three years" as the time frame? I was thinking originally that this might be about George W's term mending in three years from the time when this song was written but that doesn't make much sense since the band's from Toronto. Any ideas? | |
| Death from Above 1979 – Cold War Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Does anyone have an idea why he references "Three years" as the time frame? I was thinking originally that this might be about George W's term mending in three years from the time when this song was written but that doesn't make much sense since the band's from Toronto. Any ideas? | |
| Death from Above 1979 – Losing Friends Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This might be about a hipster growing up, realizing everyone around him is ten years younger, and gets out of the scene. He's saying the scene politics were the birthplace of his hatred. He's sick of the pointless competition. This is all implied in the lyrical "verse" chunk of the song, but then it veers into the chorus about losing friends and I'm not sure how this would fit into the proposed storyline, but it seems like he's saying he wants to have real friends and not imposters posing as his friends. If everyone abandons him, he wants to know about it and not go on living with these "fake friends." This sounds like typical 'hipster'/'scenester' behavior so it might fit into the original idea of him leaving the scene. | |
| Death from Above 1979 – You're a Woman, I'm a Machine Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
Maybe about prostitution? " Take what you want My head is full Take what you need My price is good You want it all I've seen it once I've seen it all " This is a lover whose been around the block beofre and doesn't give a shit anymore. "Now that its over this weight is off my shoulder Now that its over I love you more and more " Maybe this is a 'customer' who he's falle nin love with? He's glad he doesn't have to try to impress her anymore and can finally allow himself to actually love another. "I know that you Would take my hand If I were to Give you the chance " He knows she wants marrige, but that doesn't come easy for those in his line of work. "You want it all Just like you should Our thoughts are pure Our thoughts are good Be what you want You'll have it all " This girl wants the full package: marriage, kids... And he understands that that's exactly how she should feel, and he's thinking about retiring and giving her what she wants. This song is almost definitely just about sex, but the prostitute perspective gives it a storyline that it would otherwise lack. |
|
| Death from Above 1979 – Pull Out Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
I realize that the song's about sex, but I'm really loving the Iraq analogy. I love my girl I want to get her off He loves his country (Either America or Iraq, I guess) and just wants the best for it. Turn the lights up So I can see Turn the lights up Turn the lights up May be a reference to all the political "throwing the wool over our eyes" and the media not covering the war accurately. He's saying he wants to know what's actually going on. 1-2-3 Push in 1-2-3 Pull out Possibly a reference to an exit strategy. A plan that would be set in stone so we wouldn't get stuck in there. Let your spirit free girl Let Iraq free and/or release America from the right-wing's grip. Like I said, the songs obviously about sex. It's just interesting making up your own metaphors for such straightforward lyrics. |
|
| Death from Above 1979 – Go Home, Get Down Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I don't really see where you got the "friend gets wasted" part from. I guess that would explain the guy taking the girl home with him to kind of 'do her a favor' though. | |
| LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Another thing I just thought of. James Murpghy is so "anti-scene" and the Rapture leaving his DFA label for Universal (I think?) had a big effect on him. Maybe the last line "Never let them go downtown" is a reference to "Never let a band become too cool for its own good because that mentality is killing music." | |
| LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
Finally the correct title is restored. This song sounds like he's instructing a kid on how to throw an awesome party. |
|
| Death from Above 1979 – Black History Month Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
Actually, Seb used the word "dilatant" which he had heard in an Iggy Pop interview. (Iggy Pop was actually using the word "dilettante") He percieved it to mean stiff or uptight and either located or created this definition : DILATANT Function: adjective : increasing in viscosity and setting to a solid as a result of deformation by expansion, pressure, or agitation So either way, it wasn't really supposed to mean anything. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.