| My Chemical Romance – Cementery Drive (Hidden Message) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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woooah, those 'don't do it' things are totally there! Funny I never heard them before now, I'm usually pretty good about stuff like that. SO cool.. |
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| CocoRosie – South 2nd Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is definitely not about baseball... It is about the loss of childhood and growing up. It's about a family that's living in a bad area where there is probably gang violence or something along those lines. The kids at school are keeping score on who's winning what fight, and then next fight is the one happening in this song. Big Brother is teaching Little Brother how to fight, how to earn respect, and how to be streetwise. The kids' mother rushes out, hollering at them to stop fighting, and Big Brother protests, saying that Little Brother has to learn sometime. Their mother can't believe that all of these kids, that should be doing childish things like chasing after ice cream trucks, are here to watch her little boy get beat up (thus, the ice cream truck sings no more.) She gets mad and tells the kid beating up her son that 'if he's so tough' he should go and fight her. In the end, this song is basically saying that kids do things like this without thinking about their mothers. Little Brother might grow up to be in some gang or to be in a lot of pride-related fights because of his Big Brother's influence on him. If something goes wrong during one of these fights, he might die (someone might have a gun or a knife or something.) Mama won't be making no birthday cake because her son will be dead. So kids, consider your mother before you get into some stupid fight. They worry about you... :\ |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Dumb I Sound Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is indeed one of Sufjan's most beautiful and heavy. I tried manipulating the ending to see what was being said, and came up with some weird results. Sufjan continually repeats something along the lines of "This sounds so stupid, soo stupid, ha ha." Also, if you speed up the ending, you can hear this deep voice repeating something like "Pizza... pizza..." during the whole freak out at the end. And that very last rumble in the last two or three seconds? I think he's saying "Yeti." Why? I have no idea... But rest assured when I figured that all out... I laughed! :D So silly at the end of such a heavy song. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Sufjan usually sounds like a storyteller when he sings. In that he's telling a tale, but there's a certain degree to which he is detached with the story. I mean, Chicago, and Decatur, and The Predatory Wasp are all tale-like songs, but he sings softly, and folky, etc. I don't get that feeling with this song. I get the feeling of a severe emotional connection. This song is so... freaking... intense. It's louder and louder, and more severe until the falsetto where it fades back again, and then does the same thing again. And then he sighs at the end, breaths, like singing the song was a really big chore. He just sounds so attached to this song, like it means a lot to him, and considering the subject matter.... eeee. I'm not suggesting anything, just that I find this song to have a signifcantly different feel from most of Sufjan's work. It's way more... "unsettling" I guess, although that's not the right word. I think it's just that everyone feels disgusting sometimes, even though they don't show it. Bad thoughts run through their mind, or bad memories where they did something wrong, and they feel just as disgusting as this demented serial killer was. Does anyone else feel the same way about that? About his connection to this song? |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I get a childhood memory sort of feel from this song. I think people are right about how he sees a wasp in his bedroom, and it reminds him of the time his friend and he were at the palisades. Not quite sure what the lights on the floor or any of that is. Maybe writing in cursive and thinking outrageously is writing in a journal or something? I don't think the narrator is supposed to be a girl, even with the legwarmers mention. I do think that the boys in this song are supposed to be good friends, and quite young. The way I understand it is that he teased his friend (perhaps seven times) until his friend just broke down and cried and ran away with his face in his hands (hiding his face, so it doesn't look like he crying, maybe just saying that he's "washing his face" so he doesn't look stupid?) The narrator feels bad. He didn't mean to make his friend feel so badly. He comes up behind his friend and says he sorry, kissing him (figuratively, or literally: sometimes little kids do that sort of thing because that's how they learn to express how they feel.) He sees the "wasp" on the length of his arm. In other words, he sees that he can sting his friend just as badly as any wasp can. The we were in love thing is tricky that way though. It could be about two boys that like each other and were just exploring and then the other boy freaked out and stopped being friends with the narrator. However, I think that Sufjan could be talking about a different sort of love. Kids are more apt to admit that they "love" their friends. In actuality, we do love our really good friends, it's just not the diehard love. It's a family sort of love. He says his friend ran away. It could be that they had a fight and aren't friends. It could also be that the friend actually ran away from home and the narrator doesn't see him anymore. Either way, this friend is gone, and the narrator has remembered his friend, and how much he loved him. That even when they fought, and even though he's gone, he still loves his friend. I'm not sure about the car thing (maybe just remembering car rides with his friend-- little kids are usually in the backseat) or the tower thing. Anyway: I took it as a love between friends that no longer see each other for whatever reason, and the memories of what they had. |
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