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| Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Are we sure there are parentheses around "About the time the doorknob broke"? Because the line would have a completely new meaning were there none. |
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| Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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1. I always thought the Good Samaritan reference was supposed to be sarcastic. A "good samaritan" is a philanthropist, one who selflessly helps another, no? Then, to say he is "dressing up" and "getting ready for the show" makes him sound like a hypocrite, one who is only doing it for the "show". Correct me if I'm wrong.
2. If Desolation Row is such a nice place, as you say, then why is it that "between the windows of the sea, where lovely mermaids flow" (evidently a peaceful, harmonious place), "nobody has to think too much about Desolation Row"?? |
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| The Beatles – When I'm Sixty-Four Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Haha. My chorus teacher had us sing this once a few years ago, and it makes me love it so much more because I remember all the harmony. I looooove this song! I really like how Paul does the sort of sugary, melodic songs such as this and Honey Pie, because they are just so refreshing and fun. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Satellite Of Love Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I love how VU puts these little interjections in their songs that seem unrelated and are often slower than the actual song--- e.g. "I've been told baby you've been bold" in here, "heavenly wine and roses" in Sweet Jane, and "here comes two of you" in Beginning to See the Light. They always make the songs stand out for me. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Another Sunny Day Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I can't find any information on that tongue technique of the Eskimos, but Solublefish and lich45, that makes a lot more sense than the talking thing. Thanks, guys. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Love You More Than Life Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I used to take this as the cliche sort of line, the title I mean, just another expression of the seemingly boundless capacity of one's love. However, I think the true meaning of this song is actually more complex than that for which most people give it credit.
Think of the implications of loving a person more than loving life. To not love life creates a vacuum like existence, with no cares or thoughts or wants or needs. It is like a numb existence that is hardly an existence at all. This kind of life is depicted throughout all of the narrator's lyrics about indifference as to the state of the world and mental "sinking". Because he lives this life, he will never be with whomever he loves, and will never be able to do anything but profess the fact that he loves her more than life. It's like a coma, sort of, where one is indifferent to the coma itself but cannot voice such indifference, although it is truth. |
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| Pavement – Gold Soundz Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The only parts I really understand are those when he seems to be reassuring her that she is knowledgeable and superior; that she isn't ignorant. "It has a nice ring when you laugh at the low life opinions" "Cause I never want to make you feel that you're social, never ignorant soul". It seems that although he was telling her this, she actually wasn't above ignorance or "low life" at all. |
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| Pavement – Unfair Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Aw man, I always thought it was "lost in the foothills of my pride" and I always loved that line. Then I saw the real lyrics. |
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| Pink Floyd – Seamus Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Having Echoes right after this song basically makes me forget it exists at all, honestly. |
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| Pink Floyd – Echoes Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is freaking wild. Gosh, I always skipped it over because of its length, but I think now it is definitely one of my favorite songs EVER. It makes me shiver all over. Seriously orgasmic. |
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| Pavement – Conduit for Sale! Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song made me laugh out loud. At the end, he sounds exactly like a dying animal. Usually, people just say that to describe a bad voice, but in this case, that's really what he sounds like. Wild! |
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| Belle & Sebastian – To Be Myself Completely Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I love Belle and Sebastian, and I love The Life Pursuit, but I really can't stand this song. The music itself is so simple and monotonous, and his voice just doesn't flow as beautifully in this song as it does in the others on the album. Here, it's almost unbearable for me. And the lyrics, I find rather dull. Just my opinion, but it doesn't seem to fit on TLP. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Song for Sunshine Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I don't see any optimism in this song at all, except in the "Sunshine..." parts. It seems to me that those are sarcastic, especially considering the high-pitched, dreamy voice in which they are sung. I mean, "honeyed sweet apples, they're rotting away"--seems to me pretty indicative of the real nature of the song.
First verse says it all. The honeyed sweet apples line refers to the sweetness of nature, sunshine, and summer that is dying in the life in which we exist. The line about food on our plates that was never alive refers to the depleted nature of our lifestyles, more literally, the fact that the stuff we eat is manufactured, processed junk. Unnatural.
The next verse is basically a representation of the kind of people who are alive today. Materialistic, ignorant.
It seems to me, as I said before, that this song is about the depleted and ever-depleting nature of our lives. The chorus (Sunshine, we all see the same sky, asking the same questions) refers to the fact that we should all be able to get along and live peacefully and nicely, because we are all humans and share qualities that should allow this. This is sort of a plea, versus the overall cynical message of the song. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Beginning to See the Light Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Same as moik said--I definitely don't pretend to understand this song.
When I listen to it, however, I think about the contrast between the euphoria of enlightenment and the underlying, incessant knowledge that we really do not know anything. The narrator rants and raves about this epiphany he seems to be in the middle of, but it is broken at various points by a much quieter, more intimate confession of a second side of this man that will not leave him. It makes me very sad, to think that you cannot truly be happy because there is always a gnawing pain deep inside of you. That is what I feel whenever I hear those quiet parts: "here we go again", "here comes two of you", etc. |
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| The Velvet Underground – That's The Story Of My Life Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I love how this song seems to go in a circle. The story of his life is the difference between wrong and right and Billy said those words are dead and that is also the story of his life. Thus every line is every other line. It makes me dizzy. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Candy Says Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It doesn't have to be about Candy or about a sex change.
To me, it speaks of the sad and futile yearning to be as free as blue birds, to be a part of the flow of nature and without the heavy burdens of a human body and big decisions draining your soul.
I like to think of it as wanting to just BE. to not have a body or any of that, to just exist. And that is what the question means: what would we see if we were able to be free of our selves? |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Three Peaches Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I love Neutral Milk Hotel passionately, but I honestly don't like this song very much. I find that it seems rather pretentious. What is so great that she didn't die, except for that he did not want her to? |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Someone Is Waiting Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think the imagery of a room is important here. In the first stanza, the speaker seems to be cramped to a room, as her face blows through his windows and fills the room, giving a feeling of confinement.
The second stanza refers to "superheroes from your skies" and then they are "bleeding from your ceiling" which implies that that her skies are limited to her ceiling, once again, as if her life is taking place in just one room. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Trial Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The Worm is portrayed throughout the song as an unpleasant character, yes? If so, this clashes with his final sentence on Pink Floyd for the destruction of the wall. After all, is not the wall's destruction a good thing? |
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| The Decemberists – Oceanside Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I don't know...it wouldn't be like Colin to spell the name incorrectly. Also, the song isn't really about a girl who lives by the sea, it's more of comparing the ocean more to her chastity or indifference to sex than using it as personification. She waves "lather up and lay her down 'til she's fast and sleeping": they protect and comfort her, but all the narrator wants is to "only get you oceanside", in which case she would no longer be IN the comforting ocean, but out of it. This is obviously the fact that he wants to have sex with her, "lay your muscles wide, it'd be heavenly". To "coax her overboard" is the same idea. I get the image of a beautiful girl relaxing calmly on tall, softly rolling waves, just floating happily and a man standing on the sand and staring up at her on the waves longingly. I like this song. However, I don't understand the line at the end of the song "the field is right for reaping" because it changes the imagery and symbolism from oceans and water and beaches to fields. Peculiar, yeah? |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 and 3 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I entirely disagree.
I completely appreciate the things that Jesus taught and I don't believe that he was the Son of God. It makes no difference if he were crazy while he was preaching, it would have no impact on my thoughts on his teachings if he had said these things under the influence of a highly powerful drug. The only Jesus I know is the one who said these great things, and that is the Jesus I appreciate. It doesn't matter if he lied about being the Son of God, because the things he taught about life and love were very wise regardless. Trust has nothing to do with it. Perhaps you can't understand this, which is alright, but it is very close-minded to assume that on the basis of your reasoning alone "you can't fully support the gospels and Jesus' teachings wtihout believing he was who he said he was" because I most definitely do. |
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| The Decemberists – The Soldiering Life Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"The call to arms, you likened to a whisper
I liken to a radio"
^ I kept trying to figure that out, and now that I think I have, I feel obliged to share it with you!
The narrator, it seems, sees the draft, or call for men to come to the army, as a "radio": meaning everyone can hear, everyone is welcome. His friend, on the other hand, likens it to a "whisper", which is only heard by one person, as if this friend thinks he is the only one worthy enough to be called to arms. In this, I think we are being told, along with other lines, of the many differences between these two men. These differences, then, lead into the fact that in war, you put your differences aside and everyone is equal when you're all fighting against the same enemy. |
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| The Decemberists – I Was Meant for the Stage Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I know Meloy writes songs about other people and their stories all the time, but this one, for some reason, always struck me as being solely about Colin himself. I never thought it was about anyone else, or just another story. |
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| Pink Floyd – Goodbye Cruel World Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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For the love of Mike, people. If you're so freaking literal, you'll never be able to interpret ANYTHING. Sure, this is not suicide in the terms of physically ending your life, but yes, it is suicide. He is retreating behind the wall, into himself, alone, he is, essentially, dying. In many ways, you can call this suicide. Don't be stupid. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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BrainStewed THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT. It makes me think of their actions as if they are savage animals. Sort of like it's all a big jungle and everyone's just wild and carnivorous. |
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