| The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I LOVE the guitary bit... Erlack I WANT MARR'S BABIES | |
| The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think the song is at all romantic... All of The Smiths songs strike me as being about selfish or somehow warped love, which is probably why I like them. I don't see: "And if a double-decker bus crashes in to us to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die" as romantic, the narrator (or whoever) wanting to die at his most happiest... I think that he's in the car with someone who he loves, or desires, but who doesn't reciprocate his feelings, and that his desire for them to die side by side is his way of making himself significant in that person's life. |
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| The Smiths – Still Ill Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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ha I love the line "under the iron bridge we kissed and although I ended up with sore lips it just wasn't like the old days anymore" - I've just got this image of a couple kissing non-stop for ten minutes, that really laboured, trying-to-make-it-work kissing, and both of them feeling a bit bored... |
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| Iron & Wine – Each Coming Night Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the line "cause light strikes a deal with each coming night" says to me not anything really about heaven or day or literal light, but about the warmth his lover gets when she thinks of what little of his face she can remember. I don't really know what the part about the riverside is about. I don't like the baptism idea... I don't think the reference to "judgement day" is meant to be particularly religious. maybe it's intended to conjure up how you feel when you're lying with the person you love? like his body is all you need, and how time can melt together until it almost feels like eternity... that's just what I think. |
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| Funeral for a Friend – Bullet Theory Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Newnoise, I know this was a while, but... I wouldn't say it's bigheaded to presume that a British band might write about a major American event, however long ago it was. People will be writing about 7/11 for years to come, and though that is an extreme example, it should be pointed out that at the time everyone thought that it was a terrorist action on behalf of the communists. Everyone was afraid of communism then, and the threat of terrorism was first becoming known in Britain with the rise of the IRA, so... I don't think it's bigheaded. |
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| Funeral for a Friend – Alvarez Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I went to one of their concerts at the Astoria, London, about a year ago and Matt introduced the song to be about a pair of gay cowboys "with their assless leather chaps", interestingly. Aw, I just love him. | |
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