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| Bill Callahan – Jim Cain Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This interview from Pitchfork in 2007 should give you an idea of what this song is about, in my opinion.
Callahan: I cannot tell you exactly what is going on now. I look at my hands and I don't know what they wrought in the past. Are they the hands of a bad man? I used to be an artist. I don't think I am right now. I don't know if I ever will be again. I am something else. I was a student of personal strife. I ran with the wrong crowd early on. I tortured myself for a song. I thought it was the way. |
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| Smog – Sweet Smog Children Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This could certainly be interpreted as an intentionally super-creepy shoutout to his adoring fans at the time. |
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| Bill Callahan – Jim Cain Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think this song refers to his shift from Smog to Bill Callahan. In case things go poorly, i.e. his new solo work is a failure or he destroys his legacy, don't forget the good music from his past. The music of Smog also "does him in" because he may find it difficult to move out of the shadow of his earlier work. |
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| Weezer – Butterfly Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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No where in this song does the narrator indicate loving his "butterfly". The opposite is actually true. If he loved her, that would completely change the meaning of the song. This song emphasizes the physical over emotional aspects of a relationship. The feeling Rivers expresses is sorrow, not love.
I also don't believe this was written about a singular person/relationship. "Chasing Butterfly" suggests the plural (and is also a rather dirty way of expressing what he's chasing after). He likely used the opera's conclusion and applied it as a theme to the last two years of his bizzaro rock star/disabled hermit life. |
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| Weezer – Butterfly Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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The "bitch" line is simply meant to reveal how immature and petty the narrator is, or was, to think that these women/woman he was using for sex are just as human as he is. He objectifies this particular girl as a "butterfly" to be "pinned down" and kept in a jar, then as a "dog/bitch" that he can simply wash his hands to forget. He never intended to reciprocate her love beyond sex. Realizing this, he apologizes in the end. |
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| Weezer – Butterfly Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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"because he is a dog, she becomes a bitch after what he has done."
Sorry but that doesn't make any sense. That line is just an example of his immaturity. He's justifying using a girl for sex by saying "because she agreed to sleep with me, she must be a bad person too".
He may not have forced himself on a girl; more likely, this song is about using groupies for sex and then leaving, or claiming to love someone although he knows he can't stick around, just like the lead character in Madame Butterfly. |
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| Sonic Youth – New Hampshire Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I don't know what the fuck this song means but I'm pretty sure that Sonic Youth wasn't influenced by Aerosmith. |
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| Weezer – Your Sister Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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fleas, and games and hundred dollar bills.
lies, and pain and nauseating pills.
first two lines |
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