| The Dresden Dolls – My Alcoholic Friends Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Horlick's is a kind of hot meaty, relaxing, nostalgic Bovril-style drink we folks have in the uk... I think she should write that song ^ :D |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Ampersand Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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yes, same old blood rush, see above ^^ :) so its about not wanting to be known as someone's 'other half'... but probably a lot of other things too, knowing amanda's lyrics! bits in it keep reminding me of things from her blogs... but i dont think any of them are actually straightforwardly in the meaning of the song, more just things that were playing on her mind when she wrote it, or just coincidences, maybe... |
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| Regina Spektor – Summer in the City Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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sorry about the post from earlier. i just read it back and it sounds horrible, doesn't it... so i'm sorry if i sounded bitchy, icarus. i do think "cleavage" has a double meaning, though; although having re-listened to the song and actually understood the "at the backs of other women" verse i agree with the rest of you it makes sense for it to be from a man's perspective. also, i love what lilito said. it adds a lot to the song for me for some reason. i think i'd just better get round to reading dr. zhivago, hadn't i? |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Colorblind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| yeah that was one of the things i thought of when i heard it first, too, llamasandcows. or at least that verse is udsing the context/language of racism to say...well, whatever its saying... | |
| Regina Spektor – Summer in the City Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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earth to icarusisfalling :, -cleavege, as in splitting in two, two things being apart from each other, not just breasts. also, women can actually cum as well. bizarre isnt it? (and yes, i agree, this is a thoroughly, thoroughly beautiful line). there is no reason a she couldn't notice or even compare herself to the castrated guys. greenplastic, that verse makes more sense to me from a female, straight perspective... as in, you is a man, who she keeps imagining with other women. ? correct me if i'm wrong... oooohhhhh... this song makes me feel like coming but also like crying. |
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| Regina Spektor – Us Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| it makes me think of russian politics too, though..."they'll name a city after us" makes me think of stalingrad/leningrad etc. anyway. but when you start to really pick the lyrics apart it seems like thats not the main subject of the song, just a sort of theme shes using..thats how it seems to me anyway. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Lonesome Organist Rapes Page Turner Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| agree agree. megan the song is on their myspace site, www.myspace.com/dresdendolls...i love the "ha ha ha"s after the chorus. makes my spine creep. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Colorblind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| please don't kill yourself, alibsugarfree. :) | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Bad Habit Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| thankyou, Pharaoh_Katt. those comments got to me, too. any work of art is open to interpretation - that is what art is, something creative which provokes a response. if one interpretation is indoctrinated on people, then the art ceases to become powerful. one of the things this site has impressed on me is how many people find personal meaning in the Dresden Dolls' songs, relating them to their own lives or drawing their own interpretations, and i think thats great. to me, thats one of the things that make the Dresden Dolls' songs so exemplary - that the lyrics are so intelligent, so poetic, and therefore so open to interpretation. noone wrote this song to put across one straight message - it's far too complex for that, and i think its insulting to the writer to say that its straightforward. as scarygreenmonster quoted the composer as saying in his broadminded and tolerant post above, "I can see how you would interpret the lyrics that way, and I'm glad the song provoked you...". so stop abusing people for airing their ideas, you two. "censorship is to art as lynching is to justice". | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Amsterdam Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| A great song, but it's not actually by the Dresden Dolls - its a cover they often do of a song by Jacques Brel, who was a Belgian cabaret singer in the '60s. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Ampersand Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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thankyou. thankyou, thankyou, thankyou blackskieslullaby. i do love you. i'm shaking all over after listening to that. by the way, anyone who reads my 1st comment, ignore the 'ten percent' bit. i went away, calmed myself down and came to the conclusion that it was just me not having heard the word ampersand before and consequently turning it into a word i did know. when you say it in an amanda accent it sounds a little like 'empersent'. hence the misinterpretation.(i now know that an ampersand is an 'and sign', &) also i saw them in may not april but that doesnt matter really. to me, the "fires" are break-ups, arguments, and the emotion that goes with them, so "flame-retardant" is not being affected by that. "...question how authentic they are/... "She just likes playing hospital"", maybe to do with people accusing her of being melodramatic and exaggerating her emotional wounds, and that she is becoming half convinced they are right... you're right, there are echoes of 'girl anachronism'. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Ampersand Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Dear God. this is the song she played solo when i saw them in april. she called it ten percent then. it was amazing, beautiful, witty...it had me in a bit of a reverie and so i mised most of the words at the time. my heart skipped several beats when i recognised the opening lines just now. where did you get the lyrics for this? if you have a recording, i will love you forever if you share it with me. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Backstabber Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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theres another version, introduced as a new song, circa 2005, (which you can hear at automaticjoy.com) with a couple of different/extra verses... the 'rotten like a crackwhore...'verse is replaced by... (maybe what FxckedUpDoll was referring to?) rotten like a workfriend i can tell the difference if it is so hopeless why are you still with us if it is so useless tell us share with the rest of the class noone buys your answer is it because youre a fucking.... and like fallenpetal said, theres an extra verse at the end in some versions. see above^ :) |
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| Antony and the Johnsons – Fistful of Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i agree with all the abuse theories, but i'm not comletely conviced the narrator is actually in love with the peoson who's abusing them. i think they want to love the person like they used to, and they want the person to love them. so they are pretending to themselves that there is love there, when obviously there isnt...or a pretty warped kind of love anyay. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – A Night at the Roses Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| to me the last verse implies that she hasnt ever actually met this person, but she keeps going to watch them play badly because shes in love...thats why in the last verse shes sitting on the curb after the gig finished, waiting for him to come out so she can say hello, give hum a flower...maybe? and what they deserve is to be together? | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Ultima Esperanza Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| and btw, its called 'Ultima Esperanza', not 'UltimaTE esperanza'. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Kaledrina Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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sakoboi - i love that idea. perfect. see also 'fistful of love' by Antony and the Johnsons. thats on similar lines, and similarly amazing. or maybe she doesnt really love him (the abusive husband) - the song sounds kind of numb, its as though the 'i love you very much' is an automatic response, something she says but doesnt really mean. she just says it, but its empty. she does it to try and stop him...? hence, "pull the string" - its not real, but she keeps saying it, broken record style. thats all she can say, like a speaking dolls with one phrase on its reel. well, i know what i mean, even if im not putting it very eloquently... |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Good Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i heard an interview with the band on radio 1 ages ago, where amanda talked about this song. apparently she wrote it soon after the band first formed. she had been in a pretty steady relationship, i think she said, but when her+brian started the band the guy she was with didnt give a shit about whet they were doing, hated their music, etc. so she was breaking up with him when she wrote this, because he wasnt interested in supporting her in what she was doing with her life, & he didint want to hear about what she'd been doing all day. it was a while ago i heard that, but im pretty sure thats just about what she said. it fits, anyway. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Good Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i remember i heard in a an interview with them on radio 1 ages ago where amanda said this was written soon after the band first formed...she had been in a pretty steady relationship, i think she said, but then her+brian started the band and the guy she was with just didnt give a shit about what her new band was doing, hated their music, etc. so she was breaking up with him when she wrote this. it's expressing the problems she had with that relationship - that he didn't want to hear about what she was doing all day. it was a couple of years ago now, but i think i remember rightly. it makes sense, anyway. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – My Alcoholic Friends Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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a is the first letter of her name. :P 'a is for the address on the letter', 'a is for accident'... |
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| The Dresden Dolls – The Kill Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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yep, live. you can download a live recording though, from www.automaticjoy.com. hope thats of use to you :) also, pat sajak (who i was assuning to be an actual politician of some sort, hence they were just slipping a bit of campaigning into the song) appears to actually be a US television presenter. any leads on what this might mean?? (unless we're mis-hearing the name). i'm lost right now. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Ultima Esperanza Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| a specific true story? or just, happens all the time? | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Delilah Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| ive never been in your situation yet, thank god, Tater Tot ("I feel so helpless...I wish there was a way to tell her that I am still there for her. ") but this song had me feeling as though i was. its the most heartwrenching, beautiful, hopeful thing ive heard in a long time - lyrics and melody. its not a complex situation, and its one i think anyone can relate to - like you say, TT, helplessness when you know someone you love is hurtng themselves and you cant stop it. all you can do is comfort them, give them a ride, however angry you are because of what theyre doing to themselves. so youre not a pansy, TT. yore just human, which is good. | |
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