| The Shins – Pink Bullets Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Few modern songs give me chills and tears like this does. Let it mean whatever you want it to. Frankly, none of us will ever come close to the Writer's meaning, so we might as well enjoy our own interpretations. As for the that last chord struck right at the end. Well it's such an elegant and simple device to portray a very complex feeling. The chord is a D9. The song is in two keys, G major (chorus) and E minor (verse), and the D9 acts dually. It is both the chord that precludes a return to the major key, and it contains an E, tying it to the minor chord. In layman's terms, it gives a sense of instability heavily wanting to return to G major, or a happy feeling, but it is caught in a limbo by the lone E played over it, giving it a sense of a settled sad feeling. Sadness, longing for happiness. All in one chord. DAMN! |
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| Sufjan Stevens – A Loverless Bed (Without Remission) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is a tough song to decipher. It's evident that it was meant to be cryptic and personal, devoid of any real meaning unless one was privy to the situation of the writer. It is however, written in beautiful poetic form. I disagree with the blatant sex imagery that texas007 suggested in the last line. That is not to say it isn't there. It just isn't as blatant as you suggest. "The woman you've turned red..." is such a subtle, "polite" way of putting it that preceding it with very physical graphic language describing the act of coitus is out of place. Maybe after, but never before. Being well versed in Sufjan lyrics also, I do not feel that this fits with his previous and later form. The word "hairline" takes on many meanings, which could be very intentional on sufjan's part. The image in my mind is a crack, or a hairline fracture, signifying tension and a sense of imminence, as in a dam, or a bone. Something will break and something must drastically change one way or another. This is supported by the phrase "when the hairline breaks." Then again, I could be wrong. I don't want to assume that I am the end all be all of lyrical analysis. And this song can really mean to you what it will. I frankly dont think sufjan would mind. |
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| The Presidents of the United States of America – Body Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The word "Body" out of any context has several disparate meanings. The two biggies are sex-object, and corpse. So obviously the presidents wanted a song about the word body, with all of its implications, and it's very strange to the listener to hear the word used in both at the same time. It messes with you by making you realize you use the same word for such different things. | |
| Spoon – Sister Jack Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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the second verse looks makes it sound more like hes being sold at a county fair. "makeshift awning." and "knees on the ground and a stick in my back" evokes ownership/prisoner images. Like how those pictures of POW camps in korea have guys kneeling tied to sticks and trees. How it fits into the theme of the first verse beats me. but the third combo verse is nicely executed. If you dont read the lyrics it sneaks by you. |
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| Radiohead – Just Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's about seinfeld.* Ya know when kramer just shows up on his own crackassed schedule. I love the stuff you can read into these songs.** *with sincere apologies to Mr. Yorke **I'm not really enough of a douche to believe this. Just enough of one to want to joke about it when it comes to mind. |
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