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| The Hold Steady – Two Handed Handshake Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Good song, but its not better than anything on Stay Postive.
One For the Cutters is essential to the album's storyline and a great song. There's no way it should have been cut for this. |
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| The Hold Steady – Sweet Payne Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is definitely about Gideon and how his gang activity got him in trouble, and how he works odd jobs around the country. In response to the earlier poster, I'm not sure that Holly and Gideon were together.
I think Charlemagne and Holly were together at one point, considering the line "do you want me to tell it like boy meets girl and the rest is history? or do you want it like a murder mystery?" (from Charlemagne in Sweatpants).
Then the relationship went bad....
"while he was down in lowertown. she was feeling out the 530 folk mass. and the night that she got born again. he was getting with her little hoodrat friend."
We also know "Holly was a hoodrat". So its safe to assume that Charlemagne hooked up with one of Holly's friends while she was at church.
The breakup is also referred to in Curves and Nerves, as posted above: " he didn't fit the plans she made. these hoodrat chicks are like razor blades. they're pretty cheap but they'll cut you deep."
I disagree that Charlemagne is dead. The shallow grave line is a metaphor. The "say something vague" line refers to him in jail, because he was "another lover lost, to the restaurant raids." In other words, a drug bust.
Plus, on "First Night", we get an update on all the characters. Holly is in the hospital, "Charlemagne pulls street corner scams", and Gideon is still a drug addict, because he has a "pipe made from a Pringle's can". |
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| The Ataris – The Driftwood Sinn Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Here's a link to the events that inspired this song:
http://crime.about.com/b/a/256919.htm
Two Christian summer camp counselors were murdered in their sleep on a beach in California, and there were various clues left behind, some of them were carved in the driftwood on the beach, others were left in a guestbook in a hut made out of driftwood. |
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| The Ataris – Begin Again From the Beginning Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Come on now, use some common sense before putting lyrics up: "Like arrival times on railway bluebirds" is definetly wrong. Sounds like it should be "Like arrival times on railway billboards" |
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| The Ataris – Secret Handshakes Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song follows up on a lot of the things in Fast Times at Dropout High, like the house fire when he was a kid and the fact that he found out his parents had another child before him but they gave it up for adoption. From this it sounds like the child may have been put up for adoption becuase of his father-in-laws involvement with the Freemasons, hence the line "Does it ever even phase you that your father's involvement with a cult nearly killed your first born child?" |
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