| The Hold Steady – Magazines Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Chorus is fantastic. Love the pairing of magazines and daddy issues - seemingly unrelated but just seem flow together perfectly during this song. | |
| Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song blows me away. It feels like it's one thousand years old. Gillian and I are definitely getting married...just have to tell her about that. |
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| Band of Horses – I Go to the Barn Because I Like the Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Thank you to Pomaceous for the song info! I absolutely adore this song as well. The first three lines are beautiful and romantic. "Empty dress" is just a wonderful phrase. Guigou - good question! I've often wondered about the title - if it's just non-sensical or ties in how somehow to song lyrics. Is he meeting a lover in the barn? Hard to say. |
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| The Walkmen – Dónde Está la Playa Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "Back to the battle today" - what a wonderful line to open the album! | |
| Frog Eyes – Reform The Countryside Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Bukharin would love this song! | |
| Frog Eyes – Reform The Countryside Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Bukharin would love this song! | |
| Wolf Parade – You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The question for me is: who is he addressing in the song? When he says "I'll buiid a house inside of you" - is this the father? If it is the father, then yes, I'd agree with dbtheathen abou the father leaving the family - it would be obvious there. The "you" he builds a house in is also obviously the "runner" in the title. Intially I thought there might be a third party here - someone else he is talking to, but now that I think it over it appears to be a dialogue just between he and his father. |
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| Wolf Parade – Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Artblot - good looking on the CMG interview. I was actually going to post that. There's a nice sum-up on it here too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Ghost I really like everyone's analysis here on the hungry ghosts. Consumerism run rampant , the cold war, the "me" generation, ie the world our parents are leaving us with. One thing to add: "I got water and I got holes" has to be one of the saddest lines on the album. For me it ties back into the hungry ghost image - mouths the size of the point of a needle and stomachs the size of mountains - as if we're genetically defective from being born of hungry ghosts. There are holes in our hands, water passes right through us - there is no way of quenching this torturous thrist. |
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