| Songs: Ohia – U.M.W. Pension Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Similarly, the drill sergeants repeatedly found that among the raw recruits there were men so abysmally untaught that they did not know left from right, and hence could not step off on the left foot as all soldiers should. To teach these lads how to march, the sergeants would tie a wisp of hay to the left foot and a wisp of straw to the right; then, setting the men to march, they would chant, “Hay-foot, straw-foot, hay-foot, straw-foot”—and so on, until everybody had caught on. | |
| Smog – Held Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Here's the music writer Mark Richardson: "You think that to be a man means to keep this tough exterior apparent at all times. And to allow yourself to be held just like a 'big old baby' is to let go of that completely. That's complete vulnerability, 'surrendering to your charity,' as Callahan says in the next line, but it's less about being physically vulnerable (though there is that too) than emotionally vulnerable. You have to believe that someone could care about you even if you regress to an infantile state." |
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| The Mountain Goats – Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's worth noting that Culiacán has a history of drug trafficking. Wikipedia says "Culiacán's reputation as a narco city has made it the de facto home of the Mexican narcocorrido," or drug smuggling ballad. Since this song makes reference to Culiacán, and also apparently to a drug and a kidnapping, maybe "Ezekiel 7" is itself a narcocorrido of a sort. | |
| Indian Summer – Angry Son Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Has anyone noticed that this song seems to draw from the Rites of Spring song "Hidden Wheel"? Here are some lines from that one: Now I'm the angry son Everything I've learned was wrong I'm the burning door Once I'm opened I can't be closed I found a hidden wheel And it rolls to reveal that I'm the angry son I'm the angry son |
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| La Quiete – Ai Bambini Occorre Educazione (Children Need To Be Educated) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Sounds like dialectical materialism to me. | |
| Swing Kids – Fourty Three Seconds Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The blog Hardcore for Nerds says this about Forty Three Seconds: "I’ve never seen anyone else write this, but I’m assuming the meaning of the song is a statistic of youth deaths or something along those lines." I buy that explanation. Every 43 seconds, a kid is killed by ________. My guess would be "suicide". It's a fruitful subject for songwriting. Also, if you Google 'suicide every seconds', you'll get a bunch of results saying people kill themselves every 30 or 40 seconds. So the exact number really could have been 43 at some point. Each suicide seems irrational to the friends and family of the dead. It "doesn't even make sense." But these deaths, individually unexplainable, occur on a huge scale. They are widely studied and commented on as a sociological phenomenon. Every 43 seconds, another equally inexplicable tragedy happens. The statistic is "just the point." |
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| Yaphet Kotto – Reserved For Speaker Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is Cape Henry Virginia. In 1607, thirteen years before the Pilgrims, the first English settlers landed here. They came seeking a new world, where religion(???) could reach out from these shores for the glory of Jesus. This cross marks the place where their first official act in America was to kneel and pray. And just twelve miles away, this cross marks the place where 369 years later, CBN is fulfilling their dream(???) | |
| Portraits Of Past – kqed equals volvo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| KQED is the public radio station that broadcasts NPR in San Francisco, where Portraits of Past is from. At the time this was written, I guess NPR listeners often drove Volvos, although that stereotype has probably changed now that hybrid vehicles are so widespread. I have no idea how all that fits into the larger meaning of the song. | |
| Converge – Minnesota Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yea, he's from Minnesota and you can hear commentary from one of his matches in this song. I don't understand what Ric Flair has to do with anything, though. Why write a song about him? What are his "demons"? Any ideas? | |
| Jawbreaker – Bivouac Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Wikipedia explains ant bivouacs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivouac_(ants) | |
| Rites of Spring – Drink Deep Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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And temporal. I'm surprised by the lack of comments on this one. I thought it was their most beloved song. |
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| Orchid – Snow Delay At The Frankfurt School Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i had to look up what you guys were talking about. for anyone else wondering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory_%28Frankfurt_School%29 |
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| Native Nod – Bread Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i love how this shows the obsessive body-consciousness of someone that age. it sorta says that maybe the root of all those teenage frustrations is biological. | |
| American Nightmare – Fuck What Fireworks Stand For Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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they recorded this song when they were still American Nightmare. they only changed their name because they were forced to. best band of the 2000's |
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| Blacklisted – Crossed Fingers Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Ice age coming warm heart turned cold" I think this line is a reference to the American Nightmare song "The Ice Age is Coming". |
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| Unbroken – Curtain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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it seems to be about a former lover who is now with someone else. "your type of love is a curtain you will always hide behind for the rest of your life regret will always get you in the end and that is the only peace of mind i have." my favorite part |
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| Unbroken – Curtain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| such a perfect end to the cd. | |
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