| Frank Black and the Catholics – I Burn Today Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't know which is burning: him or the day. What do you guys think? | |
| The Kinks – Lola Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| On Futurama, Zapp Brannigan sings a version of this song about Leela. He says Coca Cola. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Grace Is Gone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The woman who is said to have denied Dave three times was named Julia Grey. "I'll Back You Up" was a marriage proposal to her (I dunno how you could turn that down!) and "Halloween" is supposedly him venting anger about the rejections. Some also speculate that "Grey Street" is about her. Grace is one of Dave's twin daughters. He's used the word grace in many of his songs and this is what inspired part of the lyrics to Alligator Pie: "Stella said, 'Daddy, when you gonna put me in a song?'". Stella is the other twin. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Grace Is Gone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Dave Matthews has never been divorced. He was supposedly rejected several times by an ex-girlfriend when he proposed to marry her, but he has a wife now and they haven't split up. "Matthews married longtime partner Jennifer Ashley Harper in 2000. The couple has twin daughters, Stella Busina and Grace Anne, born on August 15, 2001 and a son, August Oliver, born on June 19, 2007." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Halloween Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Halloween is not on the CD Recently. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Halloween Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Ashley Harper. They have three kids now and they seem very happy. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Halloween Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Crush is said to be about the woman he DID marry. It all worked out. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Squirm Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| As iccredman explains below, this is a street vendor in New Orleans. He is credited on the album as 'Arthur Robison "Mr. Okra": Produce Vendor". | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Corn Bread Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "Flower" refers to a vulva in general, not virginity. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Funny the Way It Is Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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No. This really just means going to a restaurant. He saved all of his "going DOWN to a restaurant" (Wink wink, I'm so subtle.) lyrics for the song "Seven". But, um, I can see how you might think that, as he does seem to be a big fan of Colonel Angus. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Joyful Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Boy, have you got it wrong! The religion thing is off (the songwriter is an atheist!) and the idea of the perfect woman being a virgin is way off. On of Ani's other songs is called "Promiscuity" (it defends just that) and part of her song Reprieve is one of the most brilliant things ever written about the demonization of female sexuality. Joyful Girl, when performed by Ani DiFranco, is about confidence, contentment and denying accusations that she's an angry, hateful person. It's tender and honest and beautiful. Some have said that she wrote it to assure her mother that she is happy and that she learned how to be from her. When Dave Matthews sings it it's a song of admiration for a woman and describing a little about himself. And besides.... some of Dave's other songs would strongly suggest that his ideal woman is a very sexual person. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Hello Birmingham Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| You weren't the only one. It's a shame that such a thing happened again. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Present/Infant Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Checking the liner notes it seems that daneypops is right, it's "never lived it unfettered". I had a different interpretation when I first heard it that I like more: "will have never lifted a feather". It's like "lifted a finger" but with a feather instead, meaning that she never really... "flew". That said, this song disappoints me. Here's this amazing, powerful goddess of a woman singing about how she never had much self-worth until she had a baby! That's depressing. There are sexist beauty standards in our society telling women they're never pretty enough, but there's an equally strong message from society that "real women have babies". Like you're not really an adult until you've had a child. That seems really anti-feminist and just really shallow and pathetic to me, and I'm hoping that's not what she's trying to say. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Done Wrong Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I definately see the "country" influence without taking the music into consideration at all. She calls herself "the jerk with the heartache here to sing to you about how I been done wrong." It's like the joke about what happens when you play a country song backwards: your girlfriend will come back with your pickup truck and your dog. The joke is that sad country songs about love are basically all about how someone has been "done wrong." But I hear a little country influence in the music as well. | |
| Weird Al Yankovic – Bob Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I got that it was pallindromes because I had heard "Do geese see God?" and "Rats live on no evil star" before. Very clever! And it does sound exactly like Bob Dylan. | |
| Ani DiFranco – O My My Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I just love that line about her lover's headlights sweeping across her ceiling, her smile, and her feeling. Love does feel that way sometimes. Just something little, like the mere presence of your loved one, can make you feel so happy. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Not a Pretty Girl Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Very well said, Ani Smith. feaad, I think that feminism is both about fighting the patriarchy and being yourself at the same time. I think that being yourself and not being defined by stereotypes and limits is an important part of fighting the patriarchy. As the old feminist slogan goes: "The personal is political". |
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| Ani DiFranco – Napoleon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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(Harsh, DMBgirl. Do you know every guy? Do you think it's fair and accurate to make such a huge generalization about half the world's population?) Anyway.... I think that the Napoleon in question is just a hypothetical, vague sellout. The epitome of sellouts. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Millennium Theater Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| (Saw her in San Diego, so she must make the same comments.) | |
| Ani DiFranco – Hat Shaped Hat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ooh, nice take, folkitup! I still have no idea what this song is about. Especially the chorus ("you are what you do...the problem of heaven is solved"). |
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| Ani DiFranco – Dilate Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I still don't understand what it means to see someone and dilate. Can anyone enlighten me? (And no, I don't think this song is exclusive to girls/women/females. I think everyone feels like this.) |
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| Ani DiFranco – Angry Anymore Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"night falls like people into love we generate our own light to compensate for the lack of light from above" That's definately my favorite part! |
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| Jerry Herman – Put On Your Sunday Clothes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The use of the first three paragraphs in WALL-E was just brilliant. | |
| Barbra Streisand – It Only Takes A Moment Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I loved the use of this in WALL-E! | |
| Peter Gabriel – Down To Earth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Beautiful song, and so appropriate in its context! | |
| Ani DiFranco – Both Hands Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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""Most people think that is odd, but you don't have to be female to be a feminist. " syko, youre my hero. ppl are always so 'wahh feminism how scary!!' wahhh. then again i live in texas ... " Ditto that. Finally, someone gets it! I hate that feminism has become the f-word. People are just terrified of it. They say things like "I'm not a feminist, BUT... I believe men and women should have equal rights." I just sit there and laugh and say "Um, Guess what..." |
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| The Dead Milkmen – Big Lizard Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I, um, don't think it's obvious. I don't get it at all. But it's stuck in my head! The lizard just has to represent something... but what?! |
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| Ani DiFranco – Reprieve Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song has one of the best lines about female sexuality and reproductive rights I have ever heard. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Lost Woman Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Abortion IS a form of taking responsibility. Responsibility is hard, no matter which sort of decisions you make out of responsibility. That's what this song is about -- the fact that there is nothing black and white about this decision, and that trying to force the issue into either/or terms is cruel and unnecessary. " EXACTLY what the song is saying, androgybunny. And she is also saying that people who just automatically condemn abortion and want to outlaw it have no grasp on reality. And I think the "he" in the song is obviously the man who impregnated her. She is, as imdizzyagain said, upset by the fact that he does not care, as evidenced in "his bored eyes were obscene.... i wish his shoulder wasn't touching mine." In semi-related news: Apparantly, Ani is now pregnant and going to have a child. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Millennium Theater Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I love this song lyrically and musically. I especially like the dramatic announcer voice during the last verse. She said that the "impeachement" in the song reffered to Clinton, though, not Bush, when she performed this live. She joked that such things as "starting phony wars" were not grounds for impeachment. "Only blowjobs." |
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| Ani DiFranco – Tiptoe Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Himtopia" is obviously a reference to his living in his own patriarichal fantasy-world. And what he's just said is that same old tired argument that's been debunked a thousand times. No place for that here. Ani is undoubtedly pro-choice. She has a "Choice" section in the "action" section of her site, she attends events like the March for Women's Lives often, and she has had an abortion. In this poem, she acknowledges that her decision was painful and regretted. It's a beautiful look into her mind. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Half-Assed Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The chorus and this verse are my favorites: "spring is super in supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow nevermind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile, wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so I'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know" It's pretty self-explanitory. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Decree Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"...In hospitals and schools, airports, and banks and bars Big ones on street corners, little ones driving by in cars And glowing through countless bedroom curtains at night That thirty k tone and that pale blue light saying..." It's actually "20k tone" on the album, but I'm wondering what this MEANS. I finally realized she's talking about TVs, but I dunno what the "20k tone" means. |
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| O-Zone – Dragostea Din Tei Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Catchiest song of all time. | |
| Ani DiFranco – 32 Flavors Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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In response to StrangeOutOfContext: That is EXACTLY the interpretation of those lines I read in a book called "Odd Girl Out" I was thrilled that they quoted her. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – An' Another Thing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| You know, I've read a few "lyrics" online, and it seems like everyone interprets the song differently because nobody can understand him. | |
| Talking Heads – Stay Up Late Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| What is this about?! | |
| Talking Heads – (Nothing But) Flowers Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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He's in some sort of future where humans live simply and in harmony with the environment, and he misses the old convieniences. Whiner. *laughs* I still love this song. |
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| Talking Heads – Lifetime Piling Up Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I really don't know exactly what it's about other than memories and stuff, but here's my favorite line: "I can see my lifetime pilin' up I can see it smashin' into yours It was not an accident at all" |
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| Ani DiFranco – Slide Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Okay, this has been driving me crazy for a while now. What does she mean by "and my pussy is a tractor and this is a tractor pull"? It's shocking, but what does it MEAN?! |
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| Ani DiFranco – Little Plastic Castle Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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She's talking about hoe superficial people are. This song makes me laugh almost every time. (And well said, charvana.) |
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| Ani DiFranco – Lost Woman Song Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Note: This really did happen to Ani and she did feel incredible sadness and remorse but continues to speak up about the importance of choice. What's not included in these lyrics are the end: "I'm not going to sacrifice My freedom of choice No, you can't make me sacrifice My freedom of choice No, you can't make us sacrifice Our freedom of choice." Anyway, it's a jaw-dropping, incredible song. She really bares her soul in this. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Dog Coffee Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| But what is "Dog Coffee"?! | |
| Ani DiFranco – Bodily Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I love the line "Emptyness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take." This song just expresses feelings of betrayal and heartbreak so well... |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Hunger for the Great Light Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Incorrect lyric: "I have the little death delight" It's really "I have (a/the) little death to die." This may SEEM random until you consider the fact that the root of the word "orgasm" is French for "the little death." |
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