| The Drones – Sixteen Straws Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| the arse end of the world. an indifferent blue sky. awesome. | |
| Tom Waits – Come on Up to the House Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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sometimes there's nothing in the world that you can do (moon is broken/sky is cracked), you fell useless and worthless ( you see all you lack), there's no light (no hope) no irons (your not acheiving anything), crying and worring makes no difference we're small and insignificant. the house is the place you need to go to realise you dont have power over anything thats worth anything. the house is when you surrender and say. fuck it. dont worry about work or money or success or whatever, just live. |
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| The Panics – Don't Fight It Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| nice work deli elly. | |
| The Shins – Split Needles Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I also think the shins are similar to linkin park. Also, the Cold War Kids are like a combo of New Kids on the Block and Barry Manilow and Bjork is just a Bon jovi wannabe. WTF!?! |
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| The Drones – Shark Fin Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i'd love to hear peoples opinions on what this is about. Very cool and introspective, that last verse is brilliant. He just grits his teeth and keeps sinking |
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| Nirvana – About a Girl Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I found the quote in Q magazine april 2004 "On the day he wrote the song, Kurt claimed to have listened to Meet the Beatles for three straight hours to get into the correct frame of mind" and thanks to nirvanarulez for your open minded support of my unpopular interpretation |
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| Nirvana – About a Girl Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| yeah i read somewhere that kurt listened to 'Meet the Beatles' over and over on the day he wrote this song | |
| Peeping Tom – Neighborhood Spaceman (Feat. Jel & Odd Nosam) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i'm really just a tambourine the world is shaking me so listen |
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| Nick Drake – River Man Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| good work guffle | |
| Unified Theory – California Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| cool. thanks for the info | |
| The Shins – The Past And Pending Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"We've turned every stone and for all our inventions. In matters of love loss, we've no recourse at all" I think this is all one sentence. If you look at it as one line it means they've got no answers (despite leaving no stone unturned) and all the ways they've developed to cope with love loss throughout their lives (all our inventions in matters of love loss) are ineffective |
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| The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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exactly. it may be the lowest form of wit but it makes it's point. and the numbers? we're all just statisiics |
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| Eagle-Eye Cherry – Save Tonight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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noelsterz57 i agree that everyone can interpret any song any way they want and that a song doesn't have to be cristian to be about Jesus. I mean... there's a popular book in circulation about the adventures of jesus he was (apparently) way cool... but it is a MASSIVE stretch to say this is about him. "There's a log on the fire and it burns like me for you" "It aint easy to say goodbye but darling please dont start too cry" C'mon If the the song makes you feel like it's about Jesus or religion or whatever then cool. Whatever floats your boat. But to say that's what it was written about... Very, very, very unlikely |
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| Eagle-Eye Cherry – Save Tonight Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Musicgirl, there is more chance that this song is about an injured fugitive than it being about jesus. That was kind of my point. Yes. I was taking the piss. I agree with Chad and all the "normal people" too. |
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| Unified Theory – California Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| who are these guys? someone told me it was a collaboration between pearl jam and blind melon (including the late Shannon Hoon). I'm not so sure but does anybody know? | |
| Nirvana – About a Girl Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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this song is about religion, depression and drugs. Specifically, God is depressed because nobody understands him and resorts to self medication. I know it's pretty obvious, but bare with me while i provide a few examples for the less astute. The 'friend with the ear to lend' is the personification of drugs. God 'takes advantage' of the companionship of the medication even though he knows it is bad for him and will only 'hang him out to dry'. The second verse refers to the waiting line at his dealers house, and how he would never miss a 'date' with his 'friend' (the friend is drugs remember - try to keep up). Repeating the first verse later in the song reinforces that God is lonely and knows that drugs aren't the answer, but with no other option he knows he will keep going back... ...as reinforced by the final chorus. The 'I can't see you every night for free' line is the clincher. Drugs are expensive, and being a know all, God realises that this fact will eventually lead him to a life of crime. |
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| Tom McRae – For The Restless Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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A can't believe someone has commented on this song. It's probably the worst song ever. I don't know for sure. I've never heard it |
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| Blink-182 – Dammit Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| korn? bwaa ha ha haa | |
| Incubus – A Certain Shade of Green Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| remember when you procrastinate you choose last = the good things that come to those who wait are the things left behind by those who got there first. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Thru the Eyes of Ruby Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It's pretty slim pickings in the Smashing Pumpkins catalogue after mellon collie i think. And that Zwan crap was just plain horrible. The first 3 albums are all time greats though | |
| Johnny Cash – Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| thankyou. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Thru the Eyes of Ruby Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think stupid name is onto something. I heard that mellon collie was actually recorded when Billy received a commission to create a script for a broadway production about young love and all it's complicating complications. Struggling thru a disabling writers block which rendered him impotent as a writer, Billy turned to his friend Ruby the Barraster fish from his embarrasingly big aquarium in the backyard. Billy had always been fascinated by Ruby - a rebelious young rascal who always seemed on the outer with her peers. Ruby was a loner in every sense of the word. Except for her relationship with swashbuckling Boris the Bream. Boris possessed an adventurers spirit, by which Ruby was obviously captivated, and Billy was convinced that together, they were forever trying to tunnell out of the aquarium. (similar to pinky and the brain, but without the world domination thing) With inspiration having deserted him and no other muse to draw from, Billy began recording the goings-on of the two feisty fish, who were 'breathing underwater, and living under glass...' N.B. While Billy was watching the bottom of the aquarium for the tunnelling fugitives, Boris and Ruby saddled up two mexican walking fish and rode on up to freedom. They now live in Toledo, where Ruby is well positioned for a partnership in a law firm and Ruby is a stay at home dad. The walking fish were deported... |
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| Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The overriding theme in each verse seems to be that the strongest most profound feelings we're capable of are ones like despair, isolation and longing - or at leat that is almost all love affords us - yet we're still somehow prepared to brave all that for a chance at something that seems painful and pointless until the surrender at the end of each verse, when you become totally open and vulnerable and are consumed by the other person. It's an incredible sacrifice for a fleeting moment of clarity, which in comparisson almost doesn't seem worth it, and the last verse might suggest thats it's not. ‘Well, maybe there’s a God above But all I’ve ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you’ Which says that love never brought him to any higher meaning or purpose, just to the inevitable disappointment and the pointlessness of striking back when you don’t get in first. And the last three lines say: It’s not a cry that you hear at night (it's not ecstacy) It’s not somebody who’s seen the light (it's not a revelation) It’s cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah (it's a reluctant submission) Or it might be about drugs... |
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| Eagle-Eye Cherry – Save Tonight Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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this is about an injured fugitive who's been on the run for a long time, but knows that the game is almost up. He's holed up in a bar with a hostage as the authorities close in and surround him so he's gonna get really drunk to get the dutch courage for the impending shoot-out. He gets her to light candles and close the curtains to make it hard for the snipers. He's resigned to the fact that he's either going to prison or gonna die in the shoot-out ('well we know i'm going away') so the companionship of the hostage provides some solace, and he wants to share a drink, cherish his last moments of freedom/life, and SAVE his remaining strength for the FIGHT at dawn. The burning log and her tears later in the song are indicative of the feelings that grow between two people during shared emotional duress, and may indicate the development of stockholm syndrome. This meaning becomes more evident if you play the song on guitar (it's just Am, F, C and G) at a slower tempo and use your best Tom Waits/Tex Perkins/Johnny Cash voice. I'm sorry that your interpretations were all wrong |
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| Johnny Cash – Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Looks like you're outnumbered ButNeverOutgunned. | |
| The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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the 1st stanza is critical of the war in that the 32 babies held by the 16 wives have a 'natural tan' ie. dark skinned. Suggesting that the men sent off to actually fight the war are african american or latino - people from poorer socio-economic circumstances who are targeted by the military as recruits. But i think the song is more of an indictment on the consumer culture of america than just an anti-war song, with conservatives being blindly led by the news readers babble while the left follows the opinions of the sordid, wretched, checkered celebrities minds. The last verse shows the consumer cannibal kings who blithely follow the celebrity minds perspective or the military wives conservative view. Cool song anyway, no matter how you see it |
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