| The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song's incredibly easy to figure out. It's about morrissey's own big mouth. hah. The beginning bit about trying to reassure "sweetness" that he didn't want to smash every tooth in their head is him doing damage control after Bigmouth has gone and blabbed all over. I think the true identities about these two figures isn't explicit and might even be generalized. Anyway, Moz goes on to talk about how he's being martyred for his beliefs, just like Joan of Arc while being unable to hear properly, as if he's toned death to what's probably appropriate or not. So people treat him like he's got no right to join the human race. ect ect. oh, stephen. haha. | |
| Los Campesinos! – Miserabilia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it basically means that all of what we collect in our life and cherish as "memorabilia" is ultimately just physical markers of bad memories and experiences, hence it being 'miserabilia'. We may see them as important and impactful, these moments, and they might well be but in the end it sucks and it hurts and such is life. ( "None of it mattered, Nobody cares" ) "Your hands will remain empty when you have stopped clutching at straws Cling to bad memories, forget all the insufferable bores." It doesn't matter if you hold onto to tangible representations of these shitty memories because whether you do or you don't, you're empty handed either way. You gain nothing. "I'm not saying there's good in none of this Miserabilia to show the kids" The song isn't condemning the collection of these kind of sad trophies, it's only natural that we do it, but in the end just about the only benefit it'll serve is maybe to further illustrate these stories if you choose to tell them to your friends or kids. Most of the song is illustrating memories which might lead you to collect 'miserabilia' such as loving someone too much and scaring them away, getting cheated on, and your favourite team losing (if datewithikea is right.). As well as further explaining the real nature of the things we collect ( "scabs in lockets, hung them round our necks like nooses" ). It must also be said that 'miserabilia' and the stuff we collect isn't limited to physical things but memories as well. |
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| Los Campesinos! – Miserabilia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I've spend too much time on my knees next to urinals in garish Mexican restaurants Sobbing into my warm, pale palms for a better understanding of my dietary requirements" She's obviously been giving guys oral sex in restaurants. It's commonly noted that if you're on your knees in a men's restroom, that's what you're doing. The bit about her dietary requirements is in reference to her swallowing the semen. It's mostly protein so.. yeah. So either he's been in there, replicating what she's been doing to try to understand (aka also giving head) or he's just been in there, sans giving head, trying to figure out why she's been doing that. Both result in him crying into his hands. |
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| Dashboard Confessional – These Bones Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yeah. At the Rock Band tour on Nov. 7th, he specifically said this song was about Twilight. Considering I don't really like Twilight..... I kind of died a little when he announced this. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm only 17 and have heard this song no more than a month ago and yet I truly believe this will be one of the songs to haunt me for the rest of my life. Just as L. Cohen states his dismay and elation at the fact that "Jane" has, by many accounts, cheated on him with the "Thin gypsy thief", I too am dismayed and elated at the permanence this song will have in my thoughts and mind. I'm afraid that this song is something I'll stay awake at night, thinking about but glad for the beauty and passion it possesses. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Michael Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song is easy. Franz has stated many times they write songs about what they see around them in their group of friends. This one is no different. The narrator's not ALEX or anyone in the band, it's about the obvious homosexuality that appears in his social network and how they deal with it. | |
| Rilo Kiley – Science vs. Romance Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Zeroes and ones " that last part is a play off of X's and O's. |
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