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Deftones – Needles and Pins Lyrics 15 years ago
It was about you and me. You were pins. I was needles. We played. You wanted that, then you came on. We tuned out everyone in the crowd. Because then it was just me and you. We fell in love with the sound. Made a pact to each other, when no one was around. You put the cross between me and you. No one fucked with us then. We were.

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Pinback – This Red Book Lyrics 15 years ago
No clue. My favorite one though. I play my Pinback at 1.1 speed so it sounds closer to the live versions.

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Pinback – Forced Motion Lyrics 15 years ago
you're drunk Kerze

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Pinback – June Lyrics 15 years ago
fatsodeluxe has a pretty good point -though if you're making up your own meaning, I'd like to stick with the war related one, since they seem to be heavily influenced by historical events also. "Dropping down perfume" could very well mean chemicals to put out fires; could also be taken as the smell of bombs, lyrically; only Rob knows. "Trees with the fire storm" -anti-air turrets anyone? Maybe I ought to lay off the war footage in the news.

Make sure you check out Rob's collaboration with Sleeping People to hold us up while the next Pinback record comes out. Peace.

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Pinback – Forced Motion Lyrics 18 years ago
Not a meaning, but "Guide me, test me" kind of sounds like "Jackson, Jesse" from Cat Power's Nude as the news. Right.

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Pinback – June Lyrics 18 years ago
BTW, trees with the fire storm makes me think of anti aircraft turrets -if you're getting bombed, it'd be up to them I guess...

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Pinback – Good to Sea Lyrics 18 years ago
Could be about the current administration and the war.

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Nelly Furtado – My Love Grows Deeper Part 1 Lyrics 18 years ago
Haven't heard this version -these are the lyrics to the one in the CD:

My love grows deeper every day and takes a little piece of me
My love grows deeper every day and takes a little piece of me
My love grows deeper every day, deep into the sea
But takes a little piece of me, a little piece of me


Oh it's so beautiful out and I can't see why we're not allowed to be
Up in the sky with the birds counting the flowers
Oh my powers have failed me again when I can't see beginning to end
No I try and test it again through the hours


Chorus:
Wandering stars in the blue
could not be born cause of you
Wandering stars in the blue
could not be born cause of you


My love grows deeper every day and takes a little piece of me
My love grows deeper every day and takes a little piece of me
My love grows deeper every day, deep into the sea
But takes a little piece of me, a little piece of me


Oh why can't I be green as the grass beneath my feet
As fresh as the dew hits the ground in the morning
And not yellow like bumble bees, please take me off my knees, my knees
I don't wanna be red forever


Chorus

I've been looking at the moon but I've been thinking of myself
I've got me under my own skin I don't need nobody else
I'm looking at the moon but I'm thinking of myself
I've got me under my own skin I don't need nobody else


Chorus

If I could have sunlight in the palm of your hand
I'd take the moonlight instead


I don't think it's about being in love with another person. It could be interpreted as being in love with one self and not needing anyone else. Or, if you want to stretch it, think that that some one else could be god? It fits pretty well if you're an atheist, don’t ya think?...

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Beth Gibbons – Sand River Lyrics 18 years ago
I don't think we ever said it, but I hope you know this was our song. I will always remember that night when you drank too much wine and were singing it. I loved you so much N.

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Sonic Youth – Halloween Lyrics 19 years ago
This is the sexiest song ever written and perfectly delivered from Kim’s whispery voice. Thurston, you lucky bastard. Although it’s probably some obscure reference to something really deep, to my personally simplistic view, this is a song about the basic act of fucking.

I’ve edited some words, but mostly I’ve changed the punctuation, becuz I think the timing in which it’s sung is a huge part of the song’s mood:

There's something shifting in the distance,
Don't know what it is…
Days as dead as night,
Except for the feeling that's…
Crawling up inside of me, as you,
Sing your song, as you…
Swing along and your,
It's your... your song

The devil in me…
Makes me stare at you, as you…
Twist up along… sing your song, and you’re…
Slithering up to me, and you’re
So close I just, uh, wanna… touch you
And uh, sing you a song, but you
Don't know what's going on, but you…
Wanna… me to come along, as you…
Sing your song, and you’re
Fucking with me, as you,
Slither up to me
Your lips are, slipping
Twisting up my insides, and
Sing along, you're just a,
Swinging man, it’s not it your
Swinging song, and I
Don’t know what you want, but
You're looking at me, and you’re
Falling on the ground, and you’re
Twisting around…
Fucking with my, my mind, and
I don't know what's… going on

Swing your song, twisting along, as you
Slither up to me and it's… gotta be in, I don’t know what you…
Wanna do, and you’re,
Looking at me, with your…
Big dark eyes and you’re…
Rubbing your body…

Twistin'

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Sonic Youth – No Queen Blues Lyrics 19 years ago
Sounds to me like it’s about someone comforting a misunderstood outcast, someone who’s a big fish in a small pond. Can’t really read more into the lyrics. I love the “bullshit artists sit and stare” part. Seen too many of those myself.

Updated lyrics from the mustang site:

Hey hey where you going in such a hurry?
Take it easy girl and tell me a story
Move on over here, slow it down
Tell me why you're being run out of town

I don't give a fuck
Why everybody thinks you should shut up
Everybody's freaked cuz everybody knows
That you're the queen of NO

Hey hey where you going in such a rush?
Hey girl I think they think you know too much
They can't catch you with me
Cuz I move too slow
Slow enough to know
That you're gonna have to go

I don't really care
Why the bullshit artists sit and stare
They can never find out
About me and the queen of NO

I don't really care
Why the bullshit artists sit and stare
They can't ever find out
About me and the queen of NO

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Sonic Youth – On The Strip Lyrics 19 years ago
Keeping with the record's theme, sounds like it's about a runaway kid's story on L.A. The guitar riff where Kim's singing "hold tight and fear..." it's a true work of art, it expresses so much angst. I believe I've gone somehow deaf blasting that part on my headphones.

I've updated the lyrics straight from the SY and mustang's sites:

Every time you look my way
You showed a lie in what you say
Every time you look my way
You talk a rhyme called purple haze
Close your eyes and pretend
You're not at all like them
Smartest girl on the strip
You really know just how to be hip
Tellin stories 'bout your crazy trip
Messin with stars and doing tricks
Close your eyes and pretend
It's not at all like then
Big glass house on the hill
Doing dope and ditching school
Yesterday Bruce Barry was here
A wild kid I thought was cool
Close your eyes and pretend
This is how it should end
Cinderella of the night
Doesn't know her left from right
She's so hungry for a bite
Forgetting her friends fork and knife
Don't you know who's keeping score?
Who's that barking at your door?
Hold tight and fear a little bit
Hold tight and fear a little bit
Hold tight and fear a little bit
Hold tight and fear
That was then, this is now
Every time you look my way
Remember a girl who used to say
Hold me tight anyway
It's okay, it's only play
I remember in the dark
Where I came from for a lark

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Pinback – June Lyrics 19 years ago
Those piano notes are so beautiful.
Because someone needed to state the obvious (my take):
It's about a place, probably a small village, being bombed by airplanes. Although it sounds wrong, I like to think that the verse is sung by the person on the ground and the chorus is sung from the perspective of the person in the bomber, having doubts "Why do I assume these things (the target) are bad? Why must all those pretty things be sad?
Hyperdrive sequence begun, hit it Pinback...

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Sonic Youth – Becuz Lyrics 19 years ago
According to Chris Lawrence's page, this one's a homage to Patti Smith's "Because The Night". Seems like a straight forward love song to me, lyrically. Kim's vocals are amazing -it's so incredibly sexy the way she whispers it while instrumentally there's all kinds of things going on.
It is maybe my favorite song all around. The way the guitars are played blows me away, especially Thurston's, doing this weird tuned percussive riff. Overall, the song rhythm I can only describe as sexual -the beginning hurling through the climax where the guitars go wild, then it slows back down while you're still enjoying whatever just happened ;-). Or maybe I've just been listening to it too much :-P

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Sonic Youth – Kissability Lyrics 20 years ago
the lyrics are pretty upfront -but the music is just beyond explanation -I love this song -how can they be so scary and pop-like at the same time? this one like all of SY's songs is far beyond contemporary music even now. The beauty of discovering a new song you like is amazing on its own right, but with this song I was just taken to some emotional states I didn't even know I could experience. Try and isolate out the guitars, each riff is a work of art. Thank you Sonic Youth for giving me beauty and hope.

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Pinback – Sender Lyrics 20 years ago
here's my take:
boy likes girl -girl approaches -boy gets nervous -she's so...amazing -need air -tongue tied -what was the boy going to say to her? he lost his path...-girls that approach him are boats in a straight line but he's going to mess it up and feel bad for it afterwards -he gets frustrated and shows other people his bad side -is not cool nor fair... something like that

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