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Portugal. The Man – Bad, Bad Levi Brown Lyrics 17 years ago
Has anyone else ever heard the demo of this song - I find it to be amazing. The lyrics are vastly different. Here's what I could get out of it - corrections would be nice. I put brackets [ ] around anything I was unsure about.


If I were, if I were a bear, I would be
The greatest of all, the greatest of all
With a speech like God so
Speech like God, so dark and foreboding
I’d growl up your fears with
Growl up your fears with
These dark and foreboding eyes

In the deepest voice you’ve ever mustered
Basements lurk with [deep heart things]
Hopes to cover up our findings
Uncomforting, comforting, comforting

[Climb along with]
[Climb along with] a sense of urgency
Dry glasses cover tables up
In a home with some wooden fires
White water rapids [unsure]

In the deepest voice you’ve ever mustered
Basements lurk with [deep heart things]
Hopes to cover up our findings
Uncomforting, comforting, comforting

In the deepest voice you’ve ever mustered
Basements lurk with…
Hopes to cover up our…

In the deepest voice you’ve ever mustered
Our smiles are made up of
Swords and scissors and all things lovely too
In the deepest voice you’ve ever mustered
Our hands are made up of
Twisting teeth, bite grip like vices

In the deepest voice you’ve ever mustered
Our smiles are made up of
Swords and scissors and all things dragging too
In the deepest voice you’ve ever mustered
Our hands are made up of
Twisting teeth, bite grip like vices

In the deepest voice you’ve ever mustered
Our smiles are made up of
Swords and scissors and all things dragging too

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Portugal. The Man – Children Lyrics 17 years ago
I get more of a sense of religion and it's strange hold in the 1800's when the people were migrating around. The idea of a "body speaking tongues" and the references to medicine as well as "talking to Pales" or, the native Americans.

Kind of seems like a song about early settlers. The whole ending seems like a preacher saying "we'll spend another year in this fire!" Kind of like scaring them and such and condemning people for sins. It would fit with the title and theme of the album "Church Mouth"

Also:

"Shine me from the roots out" is really: "shine me if the moons out" and the beginning is "burn me in blood, oil, salt, sugar, water pails". It's one of those burn them at the stake type of things.

I don't know about the whole song, I just get a feeling like Inquisition, Witch Trials, Possession and preachers.

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The Receiving End Of Sirens – The Wall Of All Against All Lyrics 17 years ago
The ending piece, beautifully done:


You'll be undercover, under covers
Sleeping with the enemy
This is the last night in my body
Somehow, right now this skin will have to do

You'll be undercover, under covers
Sleeping with the enemy
You have caused this collapse
Between the heart and the synapse

This is what we like to call...

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I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business – I Know The Sum And Substance Of My Evil Lyrics 17 years ago
We all knew this day was coming
Our bitter hearts can hear it calling us
So proud of what we've done
So proud of who we are

Standing tall next to taller buildings
And filling up with all the reasons
Why you should never trust yourself
The way you fool yourself, I'm fooled

Its those nights alone where your driving
And the sky just looks a little funny
You're thinking of the worst
You figure out the worst

Right after you figure it all out
You find a way to straighten your head out
But what if you are wrong
And the world has had enough

Its throwing signs from random places
To keep you at your toes
To see how you figure it out
Before you figure it out

We fall to our knees and beg
The words are gone
Its just a thought

And we fall and we fall
And we fall to our knees
And we fall and we fall

We all knew this day was coming
Our bitter hearts can hear it calling us
So proud of what we've done
So proud of who we are

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The Early November – Session 08 Part II Lyrics 18 years ago
There are more lines in this piece. Behind the first dialogue portions. Matt, Dean and Emily all have lines. And the line is "No, you're just being a selfish prick." not 'kid'.

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The Early November – Runaway II Lyrics 18 years ago
such an incredible offering for the music and artistic world. These two songs (part I and II) were the first I heard off of The Mother, The Mechanic and The Path. I immediately ran out and got the full album. Listened too it straight through, so as not to interrupt the storyline. This is still one of my favorites of the 40 + offered songs.

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The Early November – Session 07 Lyrics 18 years ago
You completely miss the point of it. Dean's reminiscing, sarcastically about growing up. It's supposed to be a type of fantasy like "meeting your parents and finding out all of this stuff should make you happy." But it didn't. It's an awesome use of sarcasm.

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Portugal. The Man – It's Complicated Being A Wizard Lyrics 18 years ago
* with thanks to everyone who has offered a translation of each piece thus far. I now present "It's complicated being a wizard" in complete."


Try and always find you
Where sheep's shed friendly information
Slowly spout back, sifting through patient air
Their legs are bending back to find
The roots where, offer only explanations
We will only take what hands and backs and legs
Can carry out of here



Someday we'll find a home (I found the way out)
Someday we'll find a lonely, lonely home
(But if I told you, you'd be down)

Where they bring the change
Where they bring the change
Lips likely holes; pouring out feelings
Lips likely holes; pouring out feelings

Overflow the bows; remote control that holds you
Open it and part the steps that never move
Overflow the bows; remote control that holds you
Open it and part the steps that never move

Some children came
And found our secret lair; your move
Some children came
And found our secret lair; your move

Lengths of snakes match each silent syllable
With eyes like these, hello?
You missed the sparrows mark
A breath of rockets shone like torches
A breath of rockets shone like torches

Hustle got a bog, and the people never listen
The leaves are full of cracks; pass partly season boats
Automated fiction, a film on the eyes
Doctor's stand: they'll never form and never seen again

Some children came
And found our secret lair; your move
Some children came
And found our secret lair; your move

Lengths of snakes match each silent syllable
With eyes like these, hello?
You missed the Sparrows mark
A breath of rockets shone like torches
A breath of rockets shone like torches

Hello? Hello?
(I found a way out)
(I found a way out)

Lengths of snakes match each silent syllable
With eyes like these, hello? Hello?
A breath of rockets shone like torches
A breath of rockets shone like torches

Some children came
And found our lair; your move

Hello? Hello?
(I found a way out)
(I found a way out)

Lengths of snakes match each silent syllable
With eyes like these, hello? Hello?
A breath of rockets shone like torches
A breath of rockets shone like torches

Some children came
And found our lair; your move

Overflow the bows; remote control that holds you
Open it and part the steps that never move
Overflow the bows; remote control that holds you
Open it and part the steps that never move

Overflow the bows; remote control that holds you
Open it and part the steps that never move
Overflow the bows; remote control that holds you
Open it and part the steps that never move



Back to the well; the acrobats spinning round
The head's in the bay; stepping in close
To that door; into the shore
Feelings and pains; plans slip them back
Into behind the view; the place seen
Up through that door; it's in the door
Back through they go; they're going past
The port on his mouth dripping shame
They find eyes that flow through that door; it's in the door
Ripples and tides bowing for seconds
The moon crowning games
The leeches to get through that door; it's in the door

Back to the well; the acrobats spinning round
His head's in the bay; always back
To that door, to that door
It's in the door; it's in the door, it's in the door
Back to the bay, the acrobat spinning around
His heads in the den, it's in the door
It's in the door; it's in the door, it's in the door
Back to the bay, the acrobat spinning around
His heads in the den, it's in the door
It's in the door; it's in the door, it's in the door



Always, always, always
Always all alone; and they said
Always, always, always
Always all alone; and they said
Always, always, always
Always all alone; and they said
Always, always, always
Always all alone; and they said



It's not the system, it's not the system
It's not the system, it's not the system
So tell me what, so tell me what
It's not the system, it's not the system
It's not the system, it's not the system
So tell me what, so tell me what
It's not the system, it's not the system
It's not the system, it's not the system
So tell me what, so tell me what



I found the way out
But if I told you, you'd be down
And I hate to get you down
when you're up so high
And I hate to get you down
when you're up so high

And I hate to get you down
I hate to get you down
When you're up so high
When you're up so high
So high, so high, so high

Track 'em in
Fine recedes you're sure to do



Some children come
And found our secret lair; your move
Some children come
And found our secret lair; your move

Some children come
And found our secret lair; your move
Some children come
And found our secret lair; your move

Some children come
And found our secret lair; your move
Some children come
And found our secret lair; your move




Lengths of snakes damage each silent syllable
With eyes like this, hello?
You missed the sparrows mark
A breath of rockets shone like torches
A breath of rockets shone like torches

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Brand New – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 (Neutral Milk Hotel cover) Lyrics 18 years ago
There's a saying:

"If you aren't in Elephant Six, then you don't get any credibility. If you are in Elephant Six, then you're not as good as Mangum."

So, that pretty much set's it up for everyone. NMH is in fact, impossible to match because Mangum isn't singing. Mangum is evoking. His music is not meant to be music, but soul. He is putting himself in to every song, which is why he stopped after Aeroplane, he couldn't put himself out there anymore. At the end of the CD he symbolically put's down his guitar, saying that he will never pick it up again for fans. And he never has.

So, I really like Brand New. Musically they have excellent sound scapes, and lyrically they have ups and downs. To take on a Neutral Milk Hotel song is a very powerful statement.

I have heard the cover they did of "Oh Comely", and in general, I think it is was a very worthy cover, as far and as close as anyone will ever get (because it is impossible to match Mangum).

So I can only believe that the cover of "Two Headed Boy Part 2" is just as worthy.

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Faith No More – The Real Thing Lyrics 18 years ago
This song is Epic re-versed. What is it? It's it.

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Neutral Milk Hotel – A&E Melody Lyrics 18 years ago
i don't really know what this song became. but it sounded like a demo of it. whatever it was i got it off limewire and it sounds like Magnum. Anyone know anything about it?

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Neutral Milk Hotel – Little Birds Lyrics 18 years ago
he says "now he's in the water" right before the ending piece.

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Shabutie – Disciple's Anthem Lyrics 18 years ago
It's just a huge break-up song. I heard before that Nikki was angry with Claudio, it was something about "choose the band or me" or something along those lines. So, I think this song is just his way of saying:

You leave me sour, unfulfilled, stiff, and aroused. So, farewell Nikki; because I am a desciple of Shabutie. I choose my band over you.

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Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics 18 years ago
okay, let's clarify up a few things... Aliester Crowley did not change his name to match 666, his Mother coined him the Beast when he was six. Aliester is simply latin/greek for Alexander. and He was not a devout Satanist and Mason. He was a member of the L.O.L. the O.T.C and Freemasons, as well as the English branch of The Golden Dawn. but his real place was in the A'A' which he bagan. He is a Thelemist, not a Satanist. He did not invoke satan or anything. he worked planetary magick and the Abra-melin rite (done at Boleskine mansion) was meant to contact a Guardian Angel, not the Devil. Do some damn research people, read a few books, compare some notes. Don't dare claim to know spiritual dictation when you have only dabbled. you only look ridiculous, like Christians trying to use science to prove God...

as for the song...

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

(very simple, there is a girl, who believes that the only thing that glitters, or shines "is of value" is gold. that all she should care about is material goods. so, when she dies, she is sure that if she amassed a large enough fortune in life, she will have all she desires in Heaven at her back and call. So she's buying her way to Heaven)

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes
Words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

(The sign on the wall is saying "salvation" and she is looking at it. The songbird singing is a way of saying "you need nothing more then what you have to be happy" and she is wondering if her thoughts on all that glitters is gold, is just misguided thought. so she wonders, and wonders.)

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

(the feeling she gets looking to the west is the call of materialism. it's an old theory, but philosophy follows the sun. it begins east, pure and spiritual. and as it goes west faith dies and is replaced by mediocre materialism. so she feels the pull of materialism. but she sees the figures of her past who have gone that way, and she wonders, and wonders if it is right)

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

(The Piper is not Jesus or Satan or any of them. It is Pan, God of joy, wisdom, love, children, forest and animals. this verse is saying that if we hold long to our beliefs, and we listen to a God like Pan and we embrace the spiritual instead of the material then a new day will come for those who perservere, and life will echo happiness through out the world (the forest) and all will be good)

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

(the bustle in the hedgerow is the spirits of faith. it's saying, don't be frightened by what you don't know, it is just a preparation for the May Queen. the May Queen is all over literature she is purity and honesty, deepest faith. so it is saying, the May Queen is coming and you have two roads, spiritual or material, and it is not to late to change yours. but again, the girl wonders, and wonders)

Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

(the call of Pan is in all of us, we should be spiritual, for materials gain you nothing beyond this world. the wind blowing is symbolic of the four great winds; north is dreams, east is spiritual oneness, south is love and west is material desires. the "whispering wind is the quietest, most unknown; east. the wind that is forgotten. he is saying "we belong here" but she still wonders if she does.)

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.

(as we go down our own roads, our wants (shadows, uneeded pieces, the fake us) more powerful then our needs (souls, the part of us that is indeniable and impossible to be without), the May Queen is there to show us that everything is spiritual, and all actions and objects work to get you to Heaven, Summerland, Shangri-lah, or whatever. Not just gold.)

And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

(if you listen one last time, Pan will reach you, and you will finally understand what it is to be alive. one is all and all is one is a Pagan concept that everything is connected and joined through molecules, atoms, quarks, etc. so it is saying, 'cast off your materialistic wants, because we (girl, may queen, piper, page, plant) are all one and the same, and we do not need anything more)

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

(despite being shown, told and explained. the girl still goes the way of the westerners, choosing materialism over spiritualism. she fails. she does not understand her soul).

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Neutral Milk Hotel – I Hear You Breathe Lyrics 18 years ago
I disagree, I think that this song is very good. It's deeply emotional in a different kind of way. Usually Jeff Mangum pulls you in with a deep emotional voice, and surrounds you in musical sorrows. this song is different though, Jeff chooses his music as the primary center, and allows you to drift to it, or to listen to his words, which are intensically deep in a 'complexy' but simple way.

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Modest Mouse – White Lies, Yellow Teeth Lyrics 18 years ago
you went out for a walk
i'm sure you went a long ways
sorting things out in our heads
we'll forget in a few days

* you went walking to find the meanings. i'm sure that you will, you'll tell me what it all means, you'll know what is in 'both our heads' and once you do, we'll forget in a few days what you meant. the corruption of faith and religion, how the ideas started out good, but died.

in the place before you're made
they give you all these options
like if you've got wings
or have you got feelings
or can you breathe under water?

* in heaven you can be an angel or a man (angels have wings but no feeling or emotion like humans) or an animal, which can breathe underwater (as you know humans can't breathe underwater)

he chose lifting 10 times his weight
and natural body armor
and then on the day his mother gave
he came out as an insect

* he tried to cheat the system and get the best, but the system (faith) is just as screwed up as ever, and he got punked by it. he wanted all the goods, but got the worst kind of them. he got the strength and the armor, but couldn't use them for shit.

people talk in soda pop
they talk it quite a lot
the opinions that i dont give
are the opinions i dont got

* all religion is just soda-pop and made up opinion on the spot to sound like you have some kind of idea of what's really going on. Faith is different, but religion is all bunk.

white lies fall off my yellow teeth,
i didnt convince you but i believed
white lies fall off my yellow teeth,
i didnt convince you but i believed
white lies fall off my yellow teeth,
i didnt convince you but i believed

* religion is white lies, yellow teeth is the preachers. they don't want to convince you of truth, they just want to hear you say you believe. No real reason to why, simply for their own gain.

all so plain its all a plan
its all so true of everyone
the sky does not ever end
the air just gets much thinner

* it's all part of the plan, and everyone could see it if they just tried. theres no Heaven, the air just get's thinner and thinner until you die. they try and convince you otherwise.

i knew a man who went on and on
about how he knew a man who knew a man
who knew a man who knew him once

* there's never any first hand accounts about why we should believe any particular religion. it's always some person saying "so-and-so said" but never really knowing 'so-and-so' themselves. we get shotty third generation hand-me-downs of what to believe.

you can keep diggin down and down inside
and even turn around or find in hell
you're diggin up again

* the more you dig to 'get away' the better, because you'll never find a Hell like they say if you blasphemine, you'll just find you're way back up again, to a better spot.

some hippie told me free your pets
so i let them all go free
it didn't take no time at all
for them to run on back to me.

* this is a direct refference to mankinds need to be sheparded. the hippie is a like God telling Satan, let them go, watch them stand on their own. the animals (us) are released, but we return, because all the "white lies" from the "yellow teeth" have made us to weak to make our own decisions anymore.

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Neutral Milk Hotel – Sailing Through Lyrics 18 years ago
hmm, just a thought, but, during the time when Mangum lived in the closet, he said it was haunted by people who wanted to be in him. does anyone think that maybe this song is talking about that? Artists often times give several meanings for a song so fans will choose their own. but the second and finale of this song make me think it might've been about the "ghosts in his closet"

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Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely Lyrics 18 years ago
There is another half of this song, called 'Oh sister' which leads in to this one (or so says a site by a guy who met Mangum) so I don't know if it's true, but, when reading Oh Sister lyrics, it does add more to the meaning

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Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory Lyrics 18 years ago
Okay, so, I listened to the song so many times that it started skipping, so I stopped, but, I think I got the majority of the lines spoken in the background finally... so, here you go, use them as you see fit...

(P.S. if anyone can correct mine be my guest)


There's no work in walking and it fueled the talk
I would grab my shoes and then away I'd walk
Through all the stubborn beauty I'd start at the dawn
Until the sun had fully stopped, never walking away from
Just a way to pull apart, dehydrate back into minerals
A life-long walk to the same exact spot
Carbon's anniversary, the parting of the sensory
It’s old, old news to read, the parting of the sensory

Who the hell made you the boss?
(Who made grass in these exact same spots?)
We placed our chips in all the right spots, but still lost
Any shit head who had ever walked
(Knew that it could only be a matter of time now)
Could take the ship and do a much finer job
This fit like clothes made out of wasps
(Why the fuck is it every time we try we make it to the same dam spots?)
Aw fuck it, I guess I lost (who is responsible for all this loss?)
The parting of the sensory, Carbon's anniversary
Just part of the game, if you please, Carbon's anniversary

Who the hell made you the boss?
(We’ve got the most chips in the whole damn flock)
If you tell me what to do, I know what not to stop
(Although I tried I got back to the same damn spot)
If you were the ship, then who would ever get on?
The weather changed it for the worst
And came down on us like it had been rehearsed
And unlike we'd hoped, but change will surely come
And be awful for most, but really good for some
(Who the hell made you the boss?)

I took a trip to the exact same spot and pulled the trigger
But we forgot to cock on every single shot
Aw fuck it, I guess we lost (aw fuck it I guess we lost)
Someday you will die and somehow something's going to steal your carbon
Someday you will die and somehow something's going to steal your carbon
Someday you will die somehow and something's going to steal your carbon
(Someday you will die somehow and something's going to steal your carbon)

Someday you will die and someone's, or something will steal your carbon
(Someday you will die somehow and something's going to steal your carbon)
Someday something will die and somehow you'll figure out
How often you will die somehow and something's going to steal your carbon

Someday something will die and you will rob it just steal it's carbon
Someday you will die somehow and something's going to steal your carbon
Someday somehow or something will die, and you will steal it's carbon
Somehow you will die, and you will figure out how often you will die somehow
and something's going to steal your carbon
Someday you will die somehow and someone's going to steal your carbon
Someday you will die and somehow you will figure out how often

Someday you will die somehow and something's going to steal your carbon
You will die somehow, and something's going to steal your carbon
All this time to figure out and find out we'll be bathed in carbon
You will figure out that someday you will die
Someday you will die somehow and someone's going to steal your carbon

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Modest Mouse – Little Motel Lyrics 18 years ago
It is a love song. It's just hard for anyone to imagine Isaac writing a song about a straight forward love. Let me explain it:

I hope that you like it in your little motel, and I hope that the suite sleeps and suits you well.
Well I can see it as time and a sight through smell and thats why its nice to be by yourself

(this is him saying to whom ever the loved one is that he hopes they are enjoying themselves wherever they are right now, because he's not there. But he sees the time apart as a positive because it helps him understand that even the closest of people need time apart, time in their own 'little motels' or personal space)

Cause thats what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for, aren't I?
That's what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for darlin'

(here in the chorus he says he was waiting for some time to himself, not in the sense of a break-up, but in the idea that everyone needs some time for themselves once in a while)

We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be put out to drift. Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and they both tell me that we're better than this

(He's saying that he knows they fight and argue, but he doesn't want to be left, and he doesn't want to leave them. So he's saying he's learning more, and he sees in all aspects of them that together, they are better then fighting and arguing.)

Cause thats what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for, aren't I?
That's what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for darlin'

(now the chorus is reflecting on the knowledge he has that they don't need to fight. He's saying that he's waiting for the time to come when they will be above the fighting and arguing and the 'drifting to little motels' )

We trade tit for tat, yeah that for this and I don't think that there was an insult that was missed. I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and, I'm very sorry

(Here, they are still apart, and he is saying that he knows how they work, how when one does something the other compensates, so if he argues, they do, and if the other insults, he does. He says that he doesn't want to live this way, and he is sorry that he is.)

Cause thats what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for, aren't I?
That's what I'm waiting for, that's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for darlin'

(Again the chorus is reflecting on the stanza, he is waiting for forgiveness for his mistakes and for his part of the relationship problems, he's waiting for her to say that everything is alright again)

The remainder of a shooting star landed directly on our broke down little car before we had made a wish
that we would be missed if one another just did not exist

(This is the most hopeful part of the entire song. He is with her again (they've left their 'little motels' and have again met) and he is about to wish on a shooting star that they would not have to miss each other (break-up) and the star lands right in front of them, signalling that they will be together forever. if a wishing star comes to you it's a really magickal event, and it fell on to their 'broke down car' or relationship, and now it'll all be better)

Cause thats what we're waiting for, That's what we're waiting for, that's what we're waiting on, aren't we?
That's what we're waiting for, that's what we're waiting for, that's what we're waiting for darlin'
That's what we're waiting for, that's what we're waiting for, that's what we're waiting for aren't we?

(The extended ending chorus is simply implying that they are both waiting for that shooting star to come and blow apart the fractures of their 'broke little car' (relationship) so that everything will be alright again)

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Modest Mouse – Bukowski Lyrics 19 years ago
did anyone stop and debate if the lines are actually meant to be said as follows:

(in verse I)
But God, who'd wanna be God?
Who'd wanna be such an ashole?
But God, who'd wanna be God?
Who'd wanna be such an ashole?

(in verse III IV)
Who'd wanna be
Who'd wanna be such a control freak
Who'd wanna be
Who'd wanna be such a control freak

(in verse VIII)
But God, who'd wanna be God?
Who'd wanna be such an ashole?
But God, who'd wanna be God?
Who'd wanna be such an ashole?

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Modest Mouse – Ohio Lyrics 19 years ago
I'm upset and I leave the doors open wide
Our hearts are used up, cracked and dry
Pulled the scabs off of regrets
We haven't learned to eat our conscience yet

Rows of lights to illuminate lines
Why don't they turn them off and let us see night
Drove crazed grooming my lies
You can't look in on one way eyes, Ohio


these are two of the greatest lines ever. if you don't find emotional depth within them, then you really are as cracked up, used up, and dry as Issac is saying. but if you can be stirred, touched and felt, then Issac has done his job, and he is freeing you through inspirational and thought provoking lyrics that open you up to the fact that life is more then just a straight shot down the open road. cut the lights once in a while, and just kinda look around you and listen...

you'll find more to life then just what they show you.
and if you're brave, and open, you'll embrace the lines left out of the illuminated rows.

Issac sings about understanding that the obvious isn't always the most beautiful. giving back the same note you recieved instead of rewriting what they already told you. seeing the world for flaws and all. undertanding yourself inside and out, good and bad. and seeing the road all around you, just not as a tunnel vision in front of you.

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Coheed and Cambria – Hearshot Kid Disaster Lyrics 19 years ago
I dunno about the full meaning, but, here, the lyrics



Still searching for your call today,
Sit down, and structure will you be the engineer?
Still tired and dreaming out against
And overboard when pain kills
You'll hate me and wait for or
Then call me crazy and pretend
I left us discontent and afraid
So what, so I'm crazy
Then send me justice
And I'll have Paris in flames

Still searching for your faith
In the arm that killed the President
Relapse waiting here for...
Still searching for your face
In the crowd that killed the President
Relapse waiting here for...

The army may, though I won't fail you now
Dear Captain send the S.O.S.
When we're gonna go down
The army may, though I won't fail you now
(Going down well you're all fucked up for sure)
Dear Captain send the S.O.S.
When we're gonna go down

Wound open and squeezing my heart against
This pain inflicts And in passion I bleed for it
But with this what they gave me
This book and flint and a match to go with it

Still searching for your face
In the arm that killed the President
Relapse waiting here for...
Still searching for your face
In the crowd that buried New Mexico
I'll be waiting here for...

The army may, though I won't fail you now
Dear Captain send the S.O.S.
When we're gonna go down
The army may, though I won't fail you now
(Going down well you're all fucked up for sure)
Dear Captain send the S.O.S.
When we're gonna go down

Well have you ever heard the lyrics he sang?
In his thoughtful transmission
The words lost sentence remain
Sing his song, sing his song loud
Structure will you be the engineer?
Well where's your song
Or have you lost the key or tone?

Thank God for your strength now
Would you hold your breath?
Waiting for me to exhale
In the short life lived

Thank God for your strength now
Would you hold your breath?
Waiting for me to exhale (pray)
In the short life lived, and now

Oh my God!! When you live, you hang
Oh my God!! When you learn, when you live
Oh whoa, live, you break!! Oh my God!
Oh break! Oh my God! You! Oh my God!
Oh my God! Oh my God!

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Blue October – Hate Me Lyrics 19 years ago
I think this is a very beautiful song. I don't say that about many songs, usually only ones written by an artist that I very highly respect and admire. I will admit that I had never heard of Blue October until I heard "Hate Me" on the radio one day, well, the ending of the chorus actually. I had a friend find me the song (via the chorus) a few days later and I listened to it all, and, I haven't been struck as deep since the days of The Pumpkins. I found it to be a very beautiful song. Amazing lyrics, and the meanings are myriad. everything said here and more. including the after effects of failure. the final verse is about what happens when he fails and drives away his mom, or whomever. no one commented about that yet (the third verse is my favorite one in the song). but anyway, so as not to ramble, i also have an answer to some of the questions posed, namely, lyrics wise. I listened and worked and translated them all...

If you're dreaming are you dreaming of me
I can’t believe you actually picked me…

Hi Justin! This is your mother... its 2:33 on Monday afternoon.
I was just calling to see how you were doing.
You sounded really uptight last night, it made me a little nervous and a lit-
Well it made me nervous that it sounded like you were nervous too.
I just want to make sure you are really okay
And wanted to see if you were checking in on your medication too.
You know I love ya, take care honey I know you're under a lot of pressure.
See ya. Bye, bye!

I have to block out thoughts of you, so I don't lose my head
They crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed
Dropping little reels of tape to remind me that I'm alone
Playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home
There's a burning in my pride, a nervous bleeding in my brain
An ounce of peace is all I want for you, Will you never call again?
And will you never say that you love me just to put it in my face
And will you never try to reach me, it is I that wanted space

Hate me today.
Hate me tomorrow.
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you.
Hate me in ways, yeah ways hard to swallow.
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you.

I'm sober now for 3 whole months, it's one accomplishment that you helped me with.
The one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing that I won't touch again.
In my sick way I want to thank you for holding my head up late at night
While I was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying to stop the fight
You never doubted my warped opinions on things like suicidal hate
You made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take
So I'll drive so fucking far away that I'll never cross your mind
And do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me behind

Hate me today.
Hate me tomorrow.
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you.
Hate me in ways, yeah ways hard to swallow.
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you

And with a sad heart I say bye to you and wave
Kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that I have made
And like a baby boy I never was a man
Until I saw your blue eyes cry and I held your face in my hand
And then I fell down yelling "Make it go away!"
Just make her smile come back and shine just like it used to be
And then she whispered "How can you do this to me?"

Hate me today.
Hate me tomorrow.
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you.
Hate me in ways, yeah ways hard to swallow.
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you

Bye, bye, bye, bye… For you...
Bye, bye, bye, bye… For you... For you…
I can’t believe you actually picked me
Hi Justin! Hi Justin! Hi Justin! Hi Justin!
Hi Justin! Hi Justin! Hi Justin!

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Our Lady Peace – Stealing Babies Lyrics 19 years ago
The Adam, Eve and Lilith thing is probably not what this is about, but it does have some interesting coincidences. I think it's more the AIDS and HIV reasoning. but, the Adam, Eve, and Lilith story is something like this:

God makes Adam, so, Adam is in the garden, Adam is lonely, so, God makes Lilith just like was stated, with mud and dirt and stuff, she's also like part sea snake and stuff. But then, a demon named Samael tricks Lilith in to thinking she's Adams equal, or better (as Lucifer did) but God's like, no, I made Adam in my image, not you. so God banishes her, and makes Eve to be more loyal.

Lilith is then taken in by Samael, and they become a demonic Adam and Eve of sorts, and, yes, Lilith does go and start stealing Eve's babies, and then Samael (or Lucifer) convinces her to steal the forbidden fruit (as a snake) to ward of Lilith. God then banishes Adam and Eve.

Lilith was then passed from faith to faith for a long time. in some, she steals ears. in some, she gives wet dreams. in some she steals babies. in some she's a red haired witch that has siren like abilities. the list goes on and on, she is in most major religions.

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Evanescence – Zero (Smashing Pumpkins cover) Lyrics 19 years ago
I've only heard the original version (i've spent fifteen years trying to collect as much of the Pumpkins as i can but 21 albums is a lot to hunt down, not counting bootlegs) and i've just recently, past two years maybe, started listening to Evanescence, and, i will say, Billy Corgan is a master of writing from the soul, every song, is something deeply emotional. and Amy Lee is a master at aurating the soul. so, when you bring someone who writes of the soul, and one who can sing of the soul, there can be no wrong.

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At the Drive-In – Non-Zero Possibility Lyrics 19 years ago
let me try and explain that better...

~ quarentined ~

machete for hands, authorites hiding behind masks. it's a guy whose done something wrong, he made himself into something and now he's started to hurt people (break the weak) but in hurting them he's spreading a virus (a virus conspires).

the chorus is the guy saying "i have the cause, i'll spread it (have trigger, will travel) and i'll start a frenzy for a cure (feeding frenzy, it's contagious) and soon i'll spark the change (single spark, spectral fire)"

then verse two is all about this disease and virus spreading. the authorities watch towns fall under it (towns in webs, strung over auditoriums) but no one can do anything (no call to arms) and soon it becomes a contagious frenzy to get a cure (slave trade the weak) and all hell breaks loose so to speak.

the whole "push becomes shove" part is a guy who comes into play during "non-zero" because he's watching everyone bury themselves in fear of this virus and catching the cure contagion.

the ending is the guy saying "i told you i'd start the fire with the disease." and he ends saying that.


~ Non-zero Possibility ~

it begins with the "push becomes shove" guy. he's counting the bodies wasted in efforts to get the cure for the disease. he says he hates counting them and just wants to paint happiness on them as if they all got the cure. then he sees now that mankind has fallen prey, we spread it to animals (fly in tear ducts)

the chorus is saying: it's a disease, diseases leave contusions (bruises, welts, rashes, etc) and the disease eats you (it's hungry and devours all) and it enters the blood and spread (all veins, highway, etc) and then it spreads from humans (this hex delivered, spent) and now animals and pets have it (drawn and quartered pets) like an orchestra its reaching a climax (orchestra influenza) and it grows and grows.

the second verse is saying: after we're dead, we're just the pocket sized case. it'll sleep dormant until someone finds us. then it will begin again, all tenants found, with their prefix (all the next cases, because they came here) and it will continue to expand continuously.

now, second chorus, same meaning. then, for the finale, return to the guy watching and he just goes: i've had enough living as the last one left, (fevered blizz, central nervousness), it's my turn to go (i was bitten on the entrance) so he lets it take him. perhaps the fly bit him, or a dog, or other quartered pet. but he dies from it and it will now inevitably spread.

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At the Drive-In – Non-Zero Possibility Lyrics 19 years ago
i could be completely wrong about this, but, lets look at it this way for a second... take an earlier song on the album, called "Quarentined" and look at it's lyrics. now place "Non-zero Possibility" immediatly after it. kind of creepy? look how the lyrics go into one another...

(quarentined)

Autonomous machete for hands
Warden and judge hide behind masks
Wet raindrop lull, small rationing
Exhumed the rhetoric of “Break the weak”
In single file sanction this outbreak
A virus conspires
Push becomes shove, and days become months
And I seem to have forgotten
The warmth of this sun

Feeding frenzy it's contagious
(Have trigger will travel, have trigger will travel)
Feeding frenzy it's contagious
(Have trigger will travel, have trigger will travel)
Single sparks are spectral fires
(Have trigger will travel, have trigger will travel)
Feeding frenzy it's contagious
Contagious, contagious, contagious, contagious
Contagious, contagious, contagious, contagious

Shackled the grapple and the sentinels found
Binoculars watch cardboard towns strung up in webs
The net was flung over the auditorium
Slave trade the weak, no call to arms
Sanction this outbreak a virus conspires
Push becomes shove, and days become months
And I seem to have forgotten
The warmth of this sun

Feeding frenzy it's contagious
(Have trigger will travel, have trigger will travel)
A single spark can start a spectral fire
(Have trigger will travel, have trigger will travel)
Feeding frenzy it's contagious
(Have trigger will travel, have trigger will travel)
A single spark can start a spectral fire

A single spark can start a spectral fire
(Have trigger will travel)
A single spark can start a spectral fire
(Have trigger will travel)
A single spark can start a spectral fire
(Have trigger will travel)
A single spark can start a spectral fire

I'm just tired of counting bodies,
Is this mausoleum tardy?
Let's just paint you a pretty face,
Flies dip tongues into tear ducts
In toothpicks fought unborn

Contusion is hungry they still eat their young
Proto-culture null and void,
All veins in highway laps
This breath collapsed again,
This hex was delivered spent
Orchestra influenza,
Drawn and quartered pets
It dwells and grows, and grows

This is the pocket-sized edition,
Rapid sleep through benediction
Let's just paint you a pretty face,
Museums mark their bodies down
All the tenants found
All the distance in their prefix

Contusion is hungry they still eat their young
Proto-culture null and void,
All veins in highway laps
This breath collapsed again,
This hex was delivered spent
Orchestra influenza,
Drawn and quartered pets
It dwells and grows, and grows

Fevered bliss into central nervousness
Bitten on the entrance, I was bitten on the entrance
Fevered bliss into central nervousness
Bitten on the entrance, I was bitten on the entrance
Bitten on the entrance, I was bitten on the entrance
Bitten on the entrance, bitten


it seems like the first song is saying "caught a disease and did something, now i'm being punished" cuz he has machete hands and authorities hide from him, but he says he's starting a fire of some kind. he starts a "feeding frenzy" so it's a disease and he has the trigger and he's spreading it. now enter "non-zero" and a guys counting bodies and looking over the dead. he sees it spreading from human to human and then to flies (flies in tear ducts) and he knows when he goes to sleep he'll catch it. so he does. hence, "bitten on the entrance" to sleep and now he's diseased. all because he was sick of disposing of the bodies.

i dunno, i could be crazy, but it's a connection i made.

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Thursday – Tomorrow I'll Be You Lyrics 19 years ago
the lines

as the language dissolves
and the sentence lists,
a slow alphabet of rain
is whispering,
'aabcttipacbdefg...'
since I replaced the I in live with
an O,
I can't remember who you are...

could be saying "we're so concerned with returning to our roots (cutting the hair and becoming cured) that we're actully forgetting what those roots are. can't remember the alphabet, doesn't understand the difference between life and love etc.

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Anatomy of a Ghost – On To Morning Stars Lyrics 19 years ago
We flail on to morning stars; we'll offer all of ourselves
Offer all of ourselves just not to close our eyes
Seize onto the sun as it rises in the east
Ascend to open doors hanging heavenly
Suspended in the superlunary
Even broken you'll be bribed to stand
Was it ever silence telling you oh, oh we won't last long
If this canopy crashes down, crushing us
That's the only way to break this apart
And although the moon is falling down on…
Don't expect this day to end
Do you see that star? Well, I'll meet you there
When you read this you'll be well on your way
And please write soon, so I know that you
Have gotten home safe please don't forget me
Was it ever silence telling you oh, oh we won't last long
If this canopy crashes down, crushing us
That's the only way to break this apart
That’s the only way to break this apart
How I worked hearts molded in mache
To some mended way of beating
Before we behold them break and fold
(The summer to see you again)
Painting pictures that will never fade still they crack
(They paint up my sails… Never… Never)
Clutched at the crushing in our chests
(The summer to see you again)
Dizzy we'll see stars dazzle like glass shards sparkle shatter
(They paint up my sails… Never… Never)
The violence in destroyed frames
Painting pictures that will never fade still they crack
Wake up! By God wake up! Wake up right now!
And if the sheltering sky will slip to sever us
we’ll receive it. We will reap it always remember
How I worked hearts molded in mache
To some mended way of beating
Before we behold them break and fold
(The summer to see you again)
Painting pictures that will never fade still they crack
(They paint up my sails… Never… Never)
Clutched at the crushing in our chests
(The summer to see you again)
Dizzy we'll see stars dazzle like glass shards sparkle shatter
(They paint up my sails… Never… Never)
The violence in destroyed frames
Painting pictures that will never fade still they crack
Was it ever silence?

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Anatomy of a Ghost – Last Transmission Lyrics 19 years ago
here ya go...

So this is my last transmission, the words that soon fall to the dust
And no I won’t be home, on this day and in these fists was held
Questions unanswered, and it is killing me, it is killing me
Kiss of black on our lips lungs breaking so cave in
And forget these words spoken in sequence won’t be our last
Plain wrapped brown package placed in our arms
Tied up with string, explodes while scanning horizons
Feel skin get numb as the words begin to fall, all begins to fall
We woke up on the day before we were handed the open book
Chamber clicks and the pin breaks the shell
When these hands fell from sore to block our eyes from seeing more
Fingers making a picket fence hiding from what we know
Fading slowly into white light… this was all, this was ours, and this was all
Kiss of black on our lips lungs breaking so cave in
And forget these words spoken in sequence
Plain wrapped brown package placed in our arms
Tied up with string, explodes while scanning horizons
Feel skin get numb as the words begin to fall, all begins to fall
Way to go, wait it out, it won’t be long
Climbing up these misplaced spires in our hopes they would find us
Wait it out and drop satellites, just tonight, give it up
This was all, this was ours, and this was all ours
Kiss of black on our lips lungs breaking so cave in
And forget these words spoken in sequence won’t be our last
Plain wrapped brown package placed in our arms
Tied up with string, explodes while scanning horizons
Feel skin get numb as the words begin to fall, all begins to fall
Plain wrapped brown package placed in our arms
Tied up with string, explodes while scanning horizons
Feel skin get numb as the words begin to fall, all begins to fall
Tear the clouds bring on the rain watching faces fall
Every day letting it worsen they’ll never learn
Knew we knew just not enough
So now back to the present found at the tops
Of the rock walls where the spires climb
So tall the wheat fields, so tall the wheat fields
Growing up too much, the importance of fate, of faith
The head bumps ahead bleeding from burning sun
Lungs breaking so cave in, lungs breaking so cave in
Lungs breaking so cave in, lungs breaking so cave in
Lungs breaking so, lungs breaking so cave in
Lungs breaking so, lungs breaking so cave in
Lungs breaking so cave in, so cave in

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Anatomy of a Ghost – In Case Of Future Complications Lyrics 19 years ago
once more, to find meaning, the right and complete lyrics are required...

Rewrite the book chapter three is empty
Pure white with headings in the shadows
One voice moves and lips are absent whispers
Designed for the future, twisted steel frame
Seals glass walls observation seating
This room will be full one day
Shoot when you see the pales of their eyes
Climbing up to meet us, to take us on
So place your rope back in that socket
For rebuilding from these losses
We won’t meet again, we won’t be taken
Now in the open window smearing portrait
Across the view reset the stopped watch
Two days behind? Did I sleep through it?
Consciousness takes control
Semi trucks and white dotted lines
Car still in drive, just pull over park
Get out to climb, the fence breaks
And skins falling down dead leaf covered ground
Hide, much softer forgives the concrete sidewalks
I just expected more
Shoot when you see the pales of their eyes
Climbing up to meet us, to take us on
So place your rope back in that socket
For rebuilding from these losses
We won’t meet again, we won’t be taken
And did you forget, did you forget
Those cold hands on your face
The ones sliding down to your neck
And you won’t miss the pressure of feet
Standing on your chest
That’s just how the body reacts when the scene is wrong
Set the stopwatch two days behind, did I sleep through it?
Climb yourself up towards the hole in the sky
Consciousness takes control
Shoot when you see the pales of their eyes
Climbing up to meet us, to take us on
So place your rope back in that socket
For rebuilding from these losses
We won’t meet again, we won’t be taken
So place your rope back in that socket
For rebuilding from these losses
We won’t meet again, we won’t be taken

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Anatomy of a Ghost – Distress In The Control Tower Lyrics 19 years ago
to decipher the song, you must first have all the lyrics... here ya go... by the way, they regrouped. awesome band...

We're surrounded… just drop the gun
The fields have been cut off with stars and black windmills
The ticking clock spins out of control
Erosion claims the monuments
The wires rust sets the ghost with such hollow empty sound
Breaking on its touch to eardrums
Traversing these low vibrations to an awful piercing pitch
So tear us down so we can cut our throats
Leaving the words written in the sky
No we won't, no we won’t
Put these hands down tonight
And breathing takes practice and its practice we missed
So we died end transmission we're giving up
Climb the spires in hopes of…
The flowing uncut grass climbs up all in efforts to drag us down
Hidden from the stand off as if they wouldn't look
Turn the lights low. Wasting precious time.
Wait for no one. Tell it like it is.
Turn the lights low. Wasting precious time.
Wait for no one. Tell it like it is.
Turn the lights low. Wasting precious time.
Wait for no one. Tell it like it is.
Turn the lights low. Wasting precious time.
Wait for no one. Tell it like it is.
Turn the lights low. Wasting precious time.
Turn out the lights and dream of colors
Wait for no one. Tell it like it is.
Turn the lights low. Wasting precious time.
Turn out the lights and dream of colors
Wait for no one. Tell it like it is.
And breathing takes practice and its practice we missed
So we die end transmission we're giving up
Climb the spires in hopes of…
Climb the spires in hopes that
The stand off ends today
Climb the spires in hopes of…
Climb the spires in hopes that
The stand off ends today
We're surrounded… just drop the gun
The fields have been cut off with stars and black windmills
Sudden full… sudden release!
We're surrounded… just drop the gun
The fields have been cut off, the ticking clock spins out of control
Suffer face, hands, suffocate
We're surrounded… just drop the gun
The fields have been cut off with stars and black windmills
Sudden full… sudden release!
We're surrounded… just drop the gun
The fields have been cut off, the ticking clock spins out of control
Suffer face, hands, suffocate
And breathing takes practice and its practice we missed
So we die end transmission we're giving up
We're surrounded… just drop the gun
The fields have been cut off with stars and black windmills
Sudden full… sudden release!
Climb the spires in hopes that the stand off ends today
We're surrounded… just drop the gun
The fields have been cut off, the ticking clock spins out of control
Suffer face, hands, suffocate
Climb the spires in hopes that the stand off ends today

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Anatomy of a Ghost – Birth Of A Mile Lyrics 19 years ago
here's the full lyrics...

Never found our way out again
Cause to trace this blood trail is more than I can bear
This is my spring I finally fixed the car, floored out of here
I'll find out who my friends are, the ones waiting tomorrow morning
I pushed this away so hard, this is my spring, fixed the car today
I wish I were lighter, the weariness weighs too heavily on me.
This is my spring still cold enough for snow from planes tracing seams
Across the sky overhead seed the soil left to fallow too long
With pamphlets proclaiming "falls finally dead"
The steering wheel never mine to turn
Now it turns on any tangent but around
That's something you still have to learn
With the muffler my memory removed
I'm spared the sound, never found our way out again;
Never found our way out again
Cause to trace this blood trail is more than I can bear
From planes tracing seams across the sky overhead
Seed the soil left to fallow too long
With pamphlets proclaiming "falls finally dead" “so long!”
So much like growing up falling becomes fallen and buried alive
But buoyancy keeps it up survive, (keeps it alive)
So much like growing up falling becomes fallen and buried alive
But buoyancy keeps it up survive, (keeps it alive)
So much like growing up falling becomes fallen and buried alive
But buoyancy keeps it up survive, (keeps it alive)
So much like growing up falling becomes fallen and buried alive
But buoyancy keeps it up survive, (keeps it alive)
So much like growing up falling becomes fallen and buried alive
But buoyancy keeps it up survive, (keeps it alive)
So much like growing up falling becomes fallen and buried alive
But buoyancy keeps it up survive, (keeps it alive)
So much like growing up falling becomes fallen and buried alive
But buoyancy keeps it up survive

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Anatomy of a Ghost – Beauty Is In It's Embrace Lyrics 19 years ago
if you're gonna love the band to death, at least get the lyrics right...

Inside display of broken wings
So smooth porcelain face cracks and flakes away
Turns pulse flying down telephone lines to the pictures
On your wall burning on contact
And the branches were stripped under winters numb
What was precious gets lost
With the breath that was the fire burning through the room
What was precious get’s lost
Lies! Fires! Circle and engulf this room in this moon
Lies! Fires! Circle and engulf this room in this moon
And we won't come back under back drop of mountains above
Pastels in flames, flames that crawl up
Time won’t stop for the hurt
And the branches were stripped under winters numb
What was precious gets lost
With the breath that was the fire burning through the room
What was precious get’s lost
It hits the back seat tearing fabric from the lines
Till the clouds come to swallow the night
Leaving less piled on the floor
This one hands you the all we fall.
This one hands you the all we fall.
This one hands you the all we fall.
This one hands you the all we fall.
This won’t hurt you, won’t wait for.
This won’t hurt you, loose your voice.
This one takes life, loose your face.
This one hurts, won’t wait for.
This one hands you the all we fall.
This one hands you the all we fall.
This one hands you the all we fall.
This one hands you the all we fall.
This won’t hurt you, won’t wait for.
This won’t hurt you, loose your voice.
This won’t hurt you, won’t wait for.
This one hands you the all we fall

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Modest Mouse – Dark Center of the Universe Lyrics 19 years ago
here's the lyrics. i dunno how long each line is allotted. so, lines start with capital letters...

Well I may disintegrate into the thin air if you’d like
I'm not the dark center of the universe like you thought
And I might disintegrate into the thin air if you’d like
And I'm not the dark center of the universe like you thought
Well it took a lot of work to be the ass I am
And I'm really damn sure that anyone can
Equally, easily fuck ya over
Well died said something but I didn't mean it
Everyone's life ends but no one ever completes it
Dry or wet ice, they both melt and you're equally cheated
Well it took a lot of work to be the ass I am
And I'm really damn sure that anyone can
Equally, easily fuck ya over
Well an endless ocean landing on an endless desert
Well it's funny as hell, but no one laughs when they get there
If you can't see the thin air then why the hell should you care?
Well it took a lot of work to be the ass I am
And I'm really damn sure that anyone can
Equally, easily fuck ya over
Well sure you'll tell me you've got nothing to say
And our voice shook hands the other day
If you can't see the thin air then what the hell is in your way?

Well I may disintegrate into the thin air if you’d like
And I'm not the dark center of the universe like you thought
Well it took a lot of work to be the ass I am
And I'm really damn sure that anyone can
Equally, easily fuck ya over
Well an endless ocean landing on an endless desert
Well it's funny as hell, but no one laughs when they get there
If you can't see the thin air then why the hell should you care?
Well it took a lot of work to be the ass I am
And I'm really damn sure that anyone can
Equally, easily fuck ya over
Well died said something but I didn't mean it
Everyone's life ends but no one ever completes it
Dry or wet ice, they both melt and you're equally cheated
Well it took a lot of work to be the ass I am
And I'm really damn sure that anyone can
Equally, easily fuck ya over
Well sure you'll tell me you've got nothing to say
And our voice shook hands the other day
If you can't see the thin air then what the hell is in your way?

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Modest Mouse – Novocain Stain Lyrics 19 years ago
okay... here are the lyrics...

When I can work out how it was
Then I'll tell you
TV stained my memories, yeah
I don't fit the shoes
Remeber through sounds
Remeber through smells
Remeber through colors
Remeber through towns
With fear and fascination
On what was here and what's replacing them now
Interchange, plazas, and malls
And crowded chain restaraunts
More housing developments go up
Named after the things they replace
So welcome to Minow Brook
And welcome to Shady Space
It all seems a little abrupt
No I don't like this change of pace

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Modest Mouse – A Life of Arctic Sounds Lyrics 19 years ago
ummm, possibly a break up song? or an attempt to not have one? "as long as your gone" as in, if you're away i won't be able to apologize. so, maybe he's talking about having said something and she left, so, now he's going all this way there. but along the way he starts to loose hope "and 1100 miles is too far inside a car" so he turns around and is just like: "i'll write my name in the sun" or, i'm going away, watch me into the sunset (western style) and he'll live alone "life of arctic sounds" and he sees the humor in this irony (going miles for nothing) and he says, "hey, alright. so i screwed up. whatever." maybe something like that.

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Modest Mouse – Other People's Lives Lyrics 19 years ago
argh... this song is incomplete. you can't make full sense until you have all the lyrics. i have most of them, but not all of them, here...

This is how it seems to be:

Other people’s lives seem more interesting, cuz they ain’t mine
Other people’s lives seem more interesting, cuz they ain’t mine
Other people’s lives seem more interesting, cuz they ain’t mine
Other people’s lives seem much more interesting

Well I’m fed up and I need to go out of existence
Or just down the road forever
Well later that night on the side of the road
I’m out of gas and I should have known better
Well a guy shows up, he’s twenty-five years old
Always thought this kid was such a mama’s boy
He said… and that’s what he said
He’d been in the army and he did some speed
He went down to Thailand and he did the deed
Oh yeah… he did it for the boys
Well the cop showed up way damn late
I was excited though I usually hate to see them

Other people’s lives seem more interesting, cuz they ain’t mine
Other people’s lives seem more innocent, cuz they ain’t mine
Other people’s lives seem more interesting, cuz they ain’t mine
And other people’s lives seem more interesting, cuz they ain’t mine

Well later that night on the side of the road
I’m out of gas and I should have known better, yeah
Well I’m fed up and I need to go out of existence
Or just down the road forever, oh yeah, yeah
Well a guy shows up, he’s twenty-five years old
Always steals his kisses, such a mama’s boy
He said… and that’s what he said
Palm tree houses are way down lane
I was excited but usually I hate to see them

(Isaac mumbling)

Open drawer, out of sight, on the road, out of road, going out
Out of gas, out of road, out of car, out of everything at last
Out, out and rent a car, and you’ve got yourself a crazy walk
I said bowlegged, or maybe your just being peg legged
Or something like that

Buh duh duh, duh duh buh duh duh, duh duh duh
Buh duh duh, duh duh buh duh duh, duh duh duh
Buh duh duh duh duh (etc)

Well later that night on the side of the road
I’m out of gas and I should have known better, oh yeah, oh yeah
The cop showed up, way damn late
I was excited but usually I hate to see him… yeah

Buh duh duh, duh duh buh duh duh, duh duh duh
Buh duh duh, duh duh buh duh duh, duh duh duh
Buh duh duh duh duh (etc)

(Isaac is mumbling)
Big car, and I should’ve promised myself
I can not go when there’s nothing better
And it’s better all alone on the side of the road
I could’ve sworn she left when I was drunk
My god now her face is gone
It goes on and on and on and on
Out of gas and nothing left
Got caught but I’m still on the gas
I said, I said, I said now I’m gonna break my pace
(Isaac is mumbling)

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Coheed and Cambria – The Light and the Glass Lyrics 20 years ago
passionturtle is a moron.

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Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Lyrics 20 years ago
ok... so, there's a lot i read on here about the actual lyrics. there's two versions. i'll post them both below. the first is the CD version, and i put a careful ear to this, so, question me if you want, but, i took my time doing this.

IKSOSE3 (cd version)

Broad incision sits across the evening
A victim to our fathers lost war
The restless children sit and mourn the graves
Of those they've never seen before
Will they be buried here among the dead?
In the silent secret

The pioneers... in dealing with it
They march for dawn, of Will and worthy
The truth be told the child was born

Man your own jackhammer
Man your battle stations
We'll have you dead pretty soon, and now
Sincerely written from my brother's blood machine
To you, man your own battle station
We'll have you home pretty soon

Awake through motion with curiosity
To curtain your first move
Over arm's length they'll break protocol
Jealous envy for the youngest one
To be the hero is all I'll ask
Can I be buried here among the dead?
With room to honor me here in the end
You'll be better off too, soon
You'll be better off when you get home

The pioneers... in dealing with it
They march for dawn, of Will and worthy
The truth be told the child was born

Man your own jackhammer
Man your battle stations
We'll have you dead pretty soon, and now
Sincerely written from my brother's blood machine
To you, man your own battle station
We'll have you home pretty soon

For you, I'd do anything just to make you happy
Hear you tell me that you're proud of me
For them I'll kill anything
Cut the throats of babies born
Break their hearts for they were them
Waiting for you to say "I love you too"

The navigator... The pilot... Her favorite
The one they call the vision that bears the gift
The navigator... The pilot... Her favorite
The one they call the vision that bears the gift

Will, do the children really understand
The things you did to them? And why, oh why?
Should they conjure up the will?
For you, my love, I would kill him

We're coming home pretty soon.
We're coming home
In the seventh turning hour
Will the victims shadow fall?
Should the irony grow hungry?
With the victory and all they sought for

We were one among the Fence
One among the Fence

We're coming home
Man your own jackhammer
Man your battle stations
We'll have you dead pretty soon and now
Sincerely written from my brother's blood machine
Man your battle stations
We'll have you home pretty soon... Tonight

IKSOSE3 (starland ballroom version)

congregations here across the evening
all victims to the father's lost call
the restless children sit and mourn the graves
of those they've never seen before
should i be buried here among the dead?
in the silent... secret...
the pioneers, in dealing with it
they march for dawn, with will and worthy
the truth be told, the child was born

man your own jackhammer!
man your, battle stations
we'll have you dead pretty soon
come now, so tell me what for
my brothers bloodless savior
man your battle stations
we'll have you home pretty soon
until then...

awake in motion, with curiosity
to curtain your first move
over arms length they'll break protocol
jealous envy for the youngest one
to eb the hero is all i'll ask
can i be buried here among the dead?
with room toh onor me here in the end
you'll be better off too, soon
you'll be better off when you get home
the pioneers, in dealing with it
they march for dawn, with will and worthy
the truth be told, the child was born

man your own jackhammer!
man your, battle stations
we'll have you dead pretty soon
kill now, sincerely written from
my brother's bloodmachine to you
man your battle stations
we'll have you home pretty soon

for you, i'll do anything just to make you happy
hear you tell me that you're proud of me
for them, i'll kill anything, vut the throats of babies
born and break the hearts
for they were them waiting for you to say...

the navigator, her pilot, her favorite
the one they call the Vision that bares the gift
the navigator, her pilot, her favorite
the one they call the Vision that bares the gift, yeah

will, do the children really understand
the things you did to them, and why, oh why
should they conjure up the will?
for you my love, i would kill them
we're coming home pretty soon...
home, we're coming home

in the seventh turning hour
should the victims shadow fall
will the irony grow hungry
with the victory and all they sought for
we were one among the fence
one among the fence

(you guys know this part?)
whoa oh oh, oh, hoa oh oh
whoa oh oh, oh, hoa oh oh
whoa oh oh, oh, hoa oh oh
whoa war, war or or or or
too young yeah, too young yeah
to die, the pio oh hi hi
and now we're coming home
man your own jackhammers!
man your battle stations
your dead pretty soon!
until now, so tell me what for
my brothers blood machine, to you
we'll have you home pretty soon
until then...




ok, so, i've heard some stuff about the "sincerely" line, and i listened. here's how it is...
on the cd he says "sincerely written from my brothers blood machine to you" i am positive of that.

but live, he breaks it down once, with breaths...
so tell me *breath* (not sincerely)
what for *breath* (not written from)
my brother's bloodless (not my brothers blood)
sav-ior (not machine)
it's hard to hear but listen REALLY closely and in the first verse he says it on live from starland ballroom.

it makes sense too. in the song, the red army takes Jesse and Claudio comes back. so, first he's like, "tell me what it will take for his safe return" but they say "your death" so claudio starts going. then they kill Jesse, "sincerely written from.." and the song ends with claudio saying, "i'll have you home pretty soon" to Jesse as he begins to go.

following the cd...

cuts marked is when the army is searching for claudio as he comes, and here, jesse gives himself up so chase can go free. "i'd rather not see her.." and they take jesse t the end. and he tries to ask one last thing "deliver a favor to my love" but, it ends and they take him.

three evils comes and they kill jesse, they bleed him and burn him hence "what for my brothers bloodless savior?" said earlier. claudio is coming and jesse's dead and all, and the story continues from there. but the line sung live is actually "so tell me what for my brothers bloodless savior."

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Coheed and Cambria – Elf Tower, New Mexico Lyrics 20 years ago
you have the lyrics wrong...

elf, power... new mexico, ho oah hoa
elf, power... new mexico, ho oah hoa
well thank God you're still angry at me
i've got a better chance of seeing you
dead in the rain a-yeahehah
and thank you, for this one last, big mistake
it's your turn come shoot for it, if you win one
you can leade the way, yeah
mid-dazed i'll ride in to New Jersey
did you, think maybe i, was doing quite well
without you, in the frame?

stay... killed in defence
caught with a cold you run after her
i'm giving you up go on find somebody new
until then pretend
you touched me before you asked for her
i'm giving you up go on find somebody new

dear Nikki what (dear Nikki what)
what if i could have found a better half
here in new... well i merely came her

in elf power, new mexico
elf tower, new mexico hoa oh oah

stay here in our last standing hourglass circumstance
devoted here too the mist and the weary eyes
lost and buried here in your big surprise
in the ground
will your fingers find my back, familar fit
for the questions that i had to ask
did you, think maybe i, was doing quite well
without you, in the frame?

stay... killed in defence
caught with a cold you run after her
i'm giving you up go on find somebody new
until then pretend
you touched me before you asked for her
i'm giving you up go on find somebody new

dear Nikki what (dear Nikki what)
what if i could have found a better half
here in new... well i merely came her

in elf power, new mexico

smile, tonight, you are run out of there
i'll give my words in one lesson
dear God before i heard it
this was your intention!
before i, i could have figured out
over and over, see there's coheed
and then cambria in innocent merger
abscence makes the heart grow fonder

thank God they recovered your body in new mexico
three days in spoiled love i miss you in every way
you could've been dear wish you were here
still in the frame

stay... killed in defence
caught with a cold you run after her
i'm giving you up go on find somebody new
until then pretend
you touched me before you asked for her
i'm giving you up go on find somebody new

dear Nikki what (dear Nikki what)
what if i could have found a better half
here in new... well i merely came her

in elf power, new mexico

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Coheed and Cambria – Welcome Home Lyrics 20 years ago
for those of you wondering... there's two songs missing from this site. and "I'm going to kill you" is called "The Missing McCloud Boys" but anyway, i have two other songs you don't have on here...

Blood Machine

wrong way, loose turn
is this a game that you play
with your enemy?
momma, i killed her
it's in her face that i see
and her figure haunts me
i want you dead
i need you dead

i wish for days
for the telephone
to sing a song to me
at my worst i'll play
here in the garden to see
all your blood over me
i want you dead
i need you dead

don't change your heart
cuz baby you've got me
here with the last word
to fall out your mouth
i did what was told
but if i could just take it back
you know i would

nah, nah, nah, nah
nah, nah, nah, nah
nah, nah, nah, nah
nah, nah, nah, nah

i'm the soft of your cheeks
here in the cold of your lies
sweet phermaldahyde
god give me turn
with all my love that i give
for her eyes to hold

don't change your heart
cuz baby you've got me
here with the last words
to fall out your mouth
i did what was told
but if i could just take it back
you know i would

nah, nah, nah, nah
cuz baby you've got me
nah, nah, nah, nah
cuz baby you've got me
nah, nah, nah, nah
cuz baby you've got me
nah, nah, nah, nah


Your Love

chelsie's on a vacation far away
come on up and talk it over
so many things that i want to say
you know i like my girls a little bit older
i dont want to loose your love tonight yeah
i don't want to loose your
i don't want to use your love tonight

ain't got many friends i can talk to
when i'm up or down in trouble
you know i would do anything for you
seal it up and keep it under cover
i dont want to loose your love tonight yeah
i don't want to loose your
i don't want to use your love tonight

try to stop my hands from shaking
something in my minds not making sense
and it's been a while since we were all alone
i can hardly say how i'm feeling

as you go won't you please close the door
and don't forget what i've told you
just cuz you're alone doesn't mean i'm not
just another shoulder to cry upon
i dont want to loose your love tonight yeah
i don't want to loose your
i don't want to use your love tonight

cuz i don't want to loose your love tonight
cuz i don't want to use your love tonight
cuz i don't want to loose your love tonight
cuz i don't want to use your love tonight
cuz i don't want to loose your love tonight
cuz i don't want to use your love tonight
cuz i don't want to loose your love tonight
cuz i don't want to use your love tonight
cuz i don't want to loose your love tonight
cuz i don't want to use your love tonight

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