| White Lies – Strangers Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I 1,000% thought that the lyric was "I've got a SEX emergency// I've got to make this happen." It really changes the tone of the song when I finally read the correct chorus. |
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| White Lies – Death Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| If you haven't heard it yet, I STRONGLY recommend checking out the Chase & Status remix of this song. It is a very different sound, but it really captures the uplifting aspect if the song. Be warned though: that version is completely addicting! | |
| Chase and Status – Blind Faith Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Whoops. That was supposed to had read: "I LOVE the "I-" lyric. As though he can't finish because his head is so full of thoughts, and yet lost inside as well. So SO good." | |
| Chase and Status – Blind Faith Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I thought it was about finding release in drugs and/or dance or whatever addiction one can find that helps them release. I always thought the lyric was "I am a man with a heavy heart/ And I dare not turn the pages/ Writing with automatic self destruction I-" ... "I - Keep myself safe/ I won't waste/ This time and space/ So I know why I need this sweet sensation" I LOVE the "I-" lyric. As though he can't finish his own thought, because he's so full of thought and yet lost inside as well. So SO good. |
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| Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I heard this song being spun randomly during Queens Day this year in Amsterdam and was instantly hooked, except instead of "dollar" I heard "sugar" (as in "I need sugar, sugar, sugar is what I need, baby"). How gratifying it is to have finally found it! Thank you Google gods! | |
| M83 – Midnight City Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This one is particularly difficult for me to discern the lyrics. I agree with CaseyWildrose for "Waiting for a car, waiting for a ride in the dark." The thing that I found really helpful though was when you found: "it wraps me in the blinding twilight." Except I heard "it wrapsyou wrapped me in the blinding twilight" instead. What do you think? |
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| Duran Duran – Come Undone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I always gathered that this song was about meeting/dating/loving someone who felt like such a perfect fit it was as if they were made for you and then not knowing what to do once you've split apart. The idea of 'who do you go to'? when you've lost your best friend. At least that's how I've always interpreted it. | |
| Tori Amos – Bells For Her Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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@Pilla ~ I tried to post a reply directly, but it was a no-go. Anyway, I also thought it could be a song to herself. I read in another forum that Under the Pink is thought of as a 'girls' album in that it deals with the different ways women hurt one another through betrayl and jealousy. I had this idea at one time that the 'two friends' were actually two [or more] opposing sides of herself and the bells signified having to face losing one part of herself for another part. And that the different selves mean so many little intimacies to each other "Bells and footfalls and soldiers and dolls/brothers and lovers she and I were" but that time is changing them. In this way, there is an inner war between these selves. Like one part doesn't think she has a voice, so she wants to use a braver, cover voice, but that the part that is telling the story is saying 'you don't need my voice, girl/ you have your own/but you never thought it was enough of.' And there also seems to be this fear that with the introduction of men some part of her will dissolve, like 'sand under his shoes.' And she 'can't stop what's coming' so she just has to face it and be resigned to it. |
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| Tori Amos – Bells For Her Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have always loved the significance of the title to this song ~ Bells. for Her. For a song of such resignation, such sadness it is interesting to choose bells. I have spent a really long time listening to this song (years even) and reading/considering your comments. Finally I just wrote a journal entry about my thoughts on this song (because this forum isn't designed for prolonged discourse), so if you have interest in what I had to say here is the URL: http://starshinesmonet.livejournal.com/157090.html I added it here in case the other doesn't work: http://www.songmeanings.net/journals/view/17085992/ |
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| Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it's about someone in a relationship that is emotionally spent (perhaps they've also been hurt and/or betrayed in some way in addition to their exhausted feelings) and feels torn in two directions. On the one hand they feel angry and want revenge "It doesn't hurt me./Do you want to feel how it feels?/Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me? ... You don't want to hurt me,/But see how deep the bullet lies./ Unaware I'm tearing you asunder./Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts. ...Is there so much hate for the ones we love?" And on the other hand, they just want to be strong enough to repair the damage. "Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making? You, it's you and me. ...And if I only could,/I'd make a deal with God, And I'd get him to swap our places," If I only could be the one taking care of this I wouldn't hurt us, I place us back at the beginning before we were unhappy. |
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| Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love how realistic this love song is. I love everything about it. | |
| The 6ths – You You You You You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| A most wonderful love song. One day if I ever break up with my current boyfriend I have a whole compilation for those feelings, but the first song would be this one, because I always sing it to him in his ears (sometimes while he is sleeping - I know, I am weird. Whatevs) and see that look of love when I say the lyric "You make everything beautiful seem true." It is true, he does. | |
| Explosions in the Sky – Your Hand in Mine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song makes me think about that scene in Wall-E where he discovers the concept of holding hands (and equates it to love/friendship/not being lonely) and then of the scene when he tries to hold EVE's hand. I think this song is about the moment when you realize you've fallen in love and nothing feels better to you then that persons' hand in yours. |
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| The Mars Volta – With Twilight As My Guide Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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So melancholy and dark, but haunting and beautifully well written. I like the idea of schizophrenia, or just inner darkness in general. Our secret devils that make us numb inside and lack empathy for others. Every time I hear this song song now, it makes me feel as though the song were an autobiography of one of the stories of Edgar Allen Poe (or the like) and what it feels like to be the embodiment of that. As though the author were writing from the perspective of the story itself and about what it would be like to one of those stories. Oh creepy! A perfect song for October! |
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| The 6ths – Just Like a Movie Star Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Whether it's a just met or a break-up love song, what is it about these 6ths that they just KNOW how to write a good love song! | |
| The 6ths – Night Falls Like a Grand Piano Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this is one of the very best love songs I have ever heard, not just because it is lyrically innovative, but also because the author/protagonist isn't about to take the moment they fall in love for granted. This person is in love with life as much as they are with as another person. There is this feeling like the author just wants to feel as much of this moment as they can. They don't want to miss any part of it, because they know how special it is. It's a fantastic song. I feel lucky and surprised to be the first one to comment on it. | |
| Band of Horses – No One's Gonna Love You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It IS a pretty song, but are you sure you want it played for your wedding? Isn't that kind of a bad omen? I'm just saying... | |
| Band of Horses – No One's Gonna Love You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Definitely about the zombie apocalypse! Why did I see it before! RE: "We're reeling through an endless fall/We are the ever-living ghost of what once was." Well recognized, foxy! | |
| Marina and the Diamonds – Oh No! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Marina has actually outright stated that this song is a sequel to Mowgli's Road in an interview. What was interesting to me is that while she wrote one when she wasn't certain who she was, this one was written to clarify that she does in fact know exactly WHO she is. Whether she likes that person might be a different story, however. I think it is a song about coming to terms with who you think you are and who you are in reality (or who you've become), especially in a society like our where so much of our personality is either media driven or media influenced. Marina and the Diamonds is obviously the latter, as much of her song profiles her love, and sometimes self-proclaimed obsession with America's media culture of Hollywood and the like. The real dilemma comes when someone organic discovers that they are also 'Hollywood' (in a stereotype: plastic). |
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| The Bird and the Bee – Love Letter To Japan Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love this song! It conveys my feelings so perfectly! | |
| Jeff Buckley – Lover, You Should've Come Over Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Best. Lyricist. Ever. "Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever" I think my point is clear. |
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| The Shins – Pink Bullets Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Is it possible that the Shins can ever become greater song writers than they were in this song? Yes. "But your memory is here and I'd it to stay/ Warm light on a winter day" gives them a run for the money though. I love that feeling. It's like a brick oven or a blanket, or a favourite spot to read. |
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| Scissor Sisters – Might Tell You Tonight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm a sucker for a well written love song and I think I may have found another soul for shoe. For me this song was about the moment in a relationship where you realize the person you've been casually dating has unexpectedly grown into something more and contemplating the risks of telling them you know it and feeling all that fear and excitement of the possibilities of tomorrow. Or it could just be about adjusting to a new piano that will become the love of a musicians' life. Who knows...? |
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| The Verve – So Sister Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I wrote your name in dust on a truck As it rolled out of town Just in case my love for you might be found" I love this lyric and especially the sentiment behind it. I just had a conversation that reminded me of this song, about that time in love where you love so much you want the whole world to know it. And you do these things full of incredible longing - I suppose because you know ultimately that the kind of happiness you have will never last that way forever. While I don't think it is the saddest song I've heard, I do agree with your assessment, thisismusic. This is by far my favourite song by the Verve, although Ashcroft has one of those immensely powerful voices that he makes the choice a difficult one. And WHY are so few people commenting on it? This one though I could connect to from the first listen. It's also sad that it is so hard to find. |
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| Band of Horses – No One's Gonna Love You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Not relevant, but you have some amazing song choices in your catelog Rearden. Must be a Canadian thing. | |
| Band of Horses – No One's Gonna Love You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Oh, I love this song. It's like lightning - a flash of light and searing pain all at once... With far too much truth than one should face at one time. | |
| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A lot of people have claimed they couldn't read my blog about this, so I added it here. http://www.songmeanings.net/journals/view/17085992/ |
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| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I LOVE your screen name! Great song. | |
| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is a follow-up for my first comment, because apparently there has been some issues with the blog posting. Sorry about that, folks! So, my final decision is that I am going to simply write the band and bloody well ASK them what it is about. In fact I just might send them this blog as well. I'm coming up only to hold you under I'm coming up only to show you wrong And to know you is hard and we wonder To know you all wrong we were Ooo Ooo Really to late to call so we wait for it Morning to wake you is all we got To know me as hardly golden Is To know me all wrong they were And every occasion I' ll be ready for the funeral And every occasion once more is called the funeral Every occasion I am ready for the funeral And every occasion of one brilliant day funeral I am coming up only to show you down for it I am coming up only to show you wrong To the outside The dead leaves, they are alive For they don't have trees to hang their hearts Ooo Ooo And every occasion I will be ready for the funeral And every occasion once more is called the funeral And every occasion I am ready for the funeral And every occasion a one brilliant day funeral In the beginning of the song, it is implied that the speaker is present only to create a conflict for the person they are speaking to. "I'm coming up only to hold you under/ I'm coming up only to show you [you're?] wrong" The connotation of these lyrics are that s/he is there to drag the other down with them. To know this person is difficult and the others present wonder about them with condescending concern. However the next line "To know you all wrong we were" suggests that they misunderstood the person completely and we incorrect to treat them with such pompous disregard. In the second verse the speaker, seems to be acting as a leader for a group of people. Serving as an apologetic assembly to someone they've wronged. S/he says "Really too late to call, so we wait for morning." As though they have now realized their error and would like to give an apology. However it is too late at night and morning is the only opportunity they have. This is where the speaker goes into his odd diatribe about seeing him as a golden god. I have yet to find a connection between the two (my theory and this subject). One man's opinion: This song is about being obsessed with someone to the point where you just make fun of them and pester them but time is short and he doesn't think he'll ever get the courage to tell her so he just gets ready for her funeral. Or at least that's what I get from the brilliant song. I could not see this opinion. I listened over and over in this context, but it never came to me. I saw a possibility for a crush until I re-read the lyrics and noticed that it is more like the protagonist feels like everyone connected to the situation misunderstands in some way. Either they misunderstand the protagonist or the person/people he/she is speaking to or even themselves. And those assumed opinions are presumptuously erroneous and insolent. However the speaker also seems a bit arrogant and presumptuous, as he says "to know me as hardly golden/[Is] To know me all wrong/They were" leads one to believe that perhaps "they" didn't see him as "golden" (spectacular) and therefore knew him falsely. This demonstrates to us that perhaps he has a big head about himself, that although might not be an entirely inaccurate or flawed sense of self, will conflict with his connections to other, as it expectedly leads him to presume others as foolish if they do not think of him in the way he desires. The speaker sounds a little like a much discussed character among men, Holden Caulfield of notorious Catcher in the Rye when he is explaining that in his life in a good moment someone feel the need to come around and spray paint "FUCK YOU" on it. The protagonist in this song kind of feels like the personal representation of that message for the one they are speaking to. But that's just my current reality settling its two cents into the picture. At one point, someone suggested the orator might be talking to [or about?] God. I don't remember their exact meaning or words, but some suggestion of this might not be at all unfeasible. The opinions subsequently follow: don't think it has anything to do with teasing someone you're obsessed with... from what is gather, it's a lament; waiting for morning to wake the ones you love is all you've got left. It's too late to call, so we'll trust that in the morning that the people we care for will still be alive. but at every occasion, and at any time you're prepared for a funeral, prepared for the age when your loved ones start to die off. Another opinion: i think the song isn't lamenting over how you're ready to accept your loved ones' deaths. rather, i think it addresses the fact that we can't control our own death and when it happens, and that it is inevitable to all of us. i think it's a song about realizing your own death and being comfortable with the fact that death is imminent and can happen at any age and place. it sounds as if the singer has done all he has in life, and is ready to face death whenever it chooses to appear. it has a joyous approach to death somewhat, as if death is the process of being liberated. also, the song brings up points about family members when he mentions the "dead leaves" and the "tree." think of it as a family tree, where our own dead relatives may be dead [departed? Deceased?] but their hearts live on in the rest of the family, just as the dead leaves are alone as they have fallen down from the proverbial "family tree." But dead leaves are alone. They have no family or memory or anyone who holds remembrance for them (as far as we know). Yes this metaphor works in the context that a family tree grows big and has leaves that fall every "season" but those leaves are usually remembered in someway, where real dead trees are not habitually. Later, as I was writing the song writers in diress actually, I wrote this idea: If this song is really about death, as the lyrics indicate, and are not some metaphor for another matter; then perhaps the author perceives the body to be a kind of trap and trees are one case by which they set their example. "The dead leaves, they are alive /For they don't have trees to hang their hearts" This indicates that the leaves have heavy hearts that, while alive were full of pain and worry from life's troubles, and as the leaves die and fallen from the tree, having nowhere to hang themselves up, are now free and can truly be fully alive. Last opinion I included: I'm posting what I hear... and no one here seems to have mentioned this but i think you have to consider that the lyrics at least in the first verse could be talking about god whether these boys are religious or not... could always be a commentary on humans in general. A clever notion: I love the double meaning "morning to wake you." This line calls to mind the terms "mourning" and "wake" (both of which are strongly associated with funerals), making the line pack a much greater punch. After this was mentioned I laughed and then tried to connect this with the rest of the song, because it really IS clever and would really bring something to the meaning I think. "And every occasion I will be ready for the funeral/And every occasion once more is called the funeral/And every occasion I am ready for the funeral/And every occasion a one brilliant day funeral" The chorus I have saved for last, as it is the main focus of most songs. A funeral can mean a few different things, but the most prominent idea is associated with death and dying. The central theme being an end to something's existence and the rite that follows. It is somewhat ironic then that Appleseed Cast's Ceremony has followed this song in the play list I set up unknowingly. Interestingly, another connotation that occurs with this expression is the concept of taking up someone else's responsibility or worrying about another's problem[s]. It is often given a negative impression to be someone's funeral in return for assisting or caring for them. This song does hold a proposition that the speaker is prepared to accept the funeral they are in for to in oder to better understand and hold the other person up (or under in this case). Instead, maybe they are saying that they are willing to accept every day of life's funeral in exchange for living it, which is why the song retains such an uplifting melody. "And every occasion I will be ready for the funeral" does not give the impression of a lyric that was not thought over. Every occasion is called a funeral. And I am ready for it: this brilliant one day funeral. Have you accepted your death? Or your life? AND EVERY OCCASION IS ONCE MORE CALLED THE FUNERAL. WOW that line is so powerful. It really has me wrapped around it. As though it were once again called the funeral, as though it once WAS called the funeral and no longer was for a great deal of time but is now being reintroduced as a funeral. What was is called before is was a funeral? A wake? A responsibility? Life?.... Eh, who know. I am simply the song dissector. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Good for You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Kozworth - I thought the same thing :) I like our version better. | |
| Spoon – The Way We Get By Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I've actually never seen an episode of the O.C. so whether its good or not I cannot say -- however... every amazing band I have ever loved or grown up falling in love with has now become a popularity contest as a result of this ... show. So I loathe it. Sometimes I tell myself "At least these terrific bands are getting the exposure they deserve and now are becoming successful." And then I think "What a crock." Because although I want my bands to be a success and do well, I feel like screaming (and sometimes do) when I know some teeny bopping bitch who doesn't know Spoon or the Notwist or the Shins from his or her a** and would just as willingly put on Nelly or Jessica Simpson as anyone with any real depth, like Dead Meadow or Matthew good or even the Decemberists. BAH... Why do we so cater to superficiality and support growing up in a lack of substance, just add water environment? I will just never get that. Ok. Enough rant, now on to Spoon> Great song. I really like the references to Iggy Pop songs in regards to being young and just this kind of raw struggle one mostly finds in adolescence. I also love the lines "We believe in the sum of ourselves" and "We seek out the tactiturn" that helps us identify with that. For anyone who doesn't know {I had to look it up} taciturn means "silence" and I think lying in bed listening to your favorite music on your headphones is one of those very soulful activities one attributes to a particular time frame, even when one still does it at oh say 25 (like me). Although there is a little bit of sadness and meretriciousity as well, with images of teenagers on a park bench or in the backseat of a beat-up car having animalistic, meaningless sex. It is also just the way it is sometimes. |
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| Sound Team – Your Eyes Are Liars Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Oh goodness, I love this song. I have listened to it more times than I can count, and I can't get over how much I enjoy it despite its so obviously bitter tone. | |
| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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So, I spent a really long time listening to this song and reading/considering your comments. Finally I just wrote a journal entry about my thoughts on this song, so if you have interest in what I had to say here is the URL: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=1944596&blogID=187932653&MyToken=95d13d94-71e8-450d-8f86-50e3e0e73ffa Also, did anyone think that perhaps he meant "funeral" in the context of someone who takes other people's worries and responsibility and makes them their own? Just curious. The blog went in another direct, this was just a random thought bubble. p.S> Anyone know where to get "Your Eyes Are Liars" by Sound Team lyrics??? |
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| The Appleseed Cast – ...and Nothing Less Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think" all the lost & found" refers to the experiences you gain from being really alive. The more involved you are with your life, the experience you gain and therefore you lose and find more sometimes than others. So perhaps this person was not yet involved with their life - but the lyricist obviously holds them in a regard which shows the potential to be truely better, and burn brightly if only the effort is made. However I think a certain amount of respect is being given to the character just for existing at all by the tone of the song. |
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