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| Camera Obscura – Other Towns and Cities Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I don't know how specific we can get - the song seems mostly to just be a quiet, sad reflection on a relationship that didn't last supremely long but had a lot of weight to it. Drinking isn't the same since you can't do it with the other person anymore, the plough star trail is her mentioning something about her lover that he/she may have not known before and also hinting at their intimacy, etc. "The dresses came out" seems to me to say that it's over, she's packed her stuff up from wherever they were sharing space and then the tears come because of that. Or perhaps it means she hasn't had a reason to wear a dress to show off for anyone until now, and that's what brings the tears.
Regardless, I think it fits in with the album very well - after Forests and Sands, this comes on and continues the slow melancholy quiet pace right before they slam you with Honey in the Sun for the last hurrah. |
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| The Beta Band – Liquid Bird Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Another great one. The lyrics are obviously a bit...obscure, like all of their songs, really. The feel I get from it is desperation and a lack of power over your own situation, and how you respond to it. Do you fight to the end or do you let it all go? |
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| Tom Waits – Never Let Go Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I doubt this is about a literal person, though it always could just be exaggeration about the love between two people.
I also agree with the idea of him singing about God, or the World in general, much like Cave did on There She Goes My Beautiful World. The idea seems to be that regardless of what happens to you in life, you refuse to stop living it.
Lyrics like "dare me to jump" make sense in that context: the world puts risks and iffy situations in our path, and Waits is saying every time it tempts him like that he's going to give it his all.
That's the way I prefer to read it, anyway. It is just as likely that it's about God or a specific lover. |
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| The Beta Band – Alleged Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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As it eerily often happens with the Beta Band, this song reflects something I've gone through nearly perfectly despite confusing lyrics. You date a girl, she jokes about how you'll never stay together. Then, much later, she disappears from your life for some spaced reason, and you try to remember it fondly by thinking of the jokes but all that really does is hurt ya more, or make you want to hurt yourself. And the fuel to harm yourself with your memories is all the little jokes that hurt so badly in retrospect.
The last bit, I assume, is representative of your overworking mind, just repeating unknown questions. |
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| Polaris – Recently Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The base line for this song is ridiculously catchy. Pretty obvious lyrics, but "siamese in crazy love" is a great line. |
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| Tom Waits – Time Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I get the feeling there's a woman who sells herself somehow - prostitute, or something similar. The chorus is encouraging her to actually love someone, finally. |
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| Pink – Feel Good Time Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The entire melody of this song is ripped directly from Spirit's "Fresh Garbage." I couldn't believe it the first time I heard it. |
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| Talking Heads – Wild Wild Life Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I came here to see if anyone agreed with my thoughts on this song, and I suppose they don't. After hearing it I really assumed it was about taking drugs in some form. Wild life seems like it could almost be replaceable by "drugs" in a general sense: both medicated drugs or recreational, either works. Hence buying wild life on the way to the stock exchange, or having the head doctor give it to you. |
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