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Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career Lyrics 16 years ago
i thought it was my modeling career, then i saw the album and song title (and had no idea what maudlin meant [and still don't])

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Animal Collective – Unsolved Mysteries Lyrics 16 years ago
Why must we move on
From such happy lawns
Into nostalgia's palm
And feed on the traces

this is my favorite part. its saying that people live out their childhoods so happily, either because one is naturally more happy as a child than an adult, or due to nostalgia people remember things happier than they were. so when people become adults they strive to become as happy as they were when they were kids, which can never happen because they weren't even as happy as they remember. its an illusion. so hes saying he wishes we could remain children forever.

the second half reminds me of a bird or mouse in the hand of a man feeding on some grains, in this vulnerable position that shows how much power man has over a small animal. this is symbolic of the power time has over man. man is in nostalgia's palm feeding on the good memories always.

as for the other 95% of the song im clueless

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The Weakerthans – Manifest Lyrics 16 years ago
this reminds me of the opening to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, with the horns and all.

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Dr. Dog – The Rabbit, the Bat, and the Reindeer Lyrics 16 years ago
maybe the rabbit the bat and the reindeer refers to the holidays that divorced parents are forced to split their kids up for...

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Dr. Dog – Say Something Lyrics 16 years ago
i was afraid when he said, "all over your open mouth"

but then he added the part about words hanging out, so i became at ease again

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Dr. Dog – County Line Lyrics 16 years ago
has anyone noticed the line where he says, "and on bended knee, i will sing to thee"

you think he is proposing to his love, though you soon find he is only tying his shoe

cool lyrics.

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of Montreal – City Bird Lyrics 16 years ago
i can't believe no one has taken the song literally...

what if it is just about a tiny, hopeless bird that has grown up on the streets of a major city, learning not how to fly like it should but learning to toil on the barren cement wastelands that is New York or Toronto or Chicago?

the narrator presses the bird to fly away, and escape to his vast kingdom in the sky, but he refuses, choosing instead to take crumbs from city dwellers

and then, the narrator's revelation at the end reveals that maybe the city bird can fly, it just chooses not to because of the happiness it knows it brings to the innocent yet dreary city dwellers, spending day and night without seeing nature

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of Montreal – City Bird Lyrics 16 years ago
i can't believe no one has taken the song literally...

what if it is just about a tiny, hopeless bird that has grown up on the streets of a major city, learning not how to fly like it should but learning to toil on the barren cement wastelands that is New York or Toronto or Chicago?

the narrator presses the bird to fly away, and escape to his vast kingdom in the sky, but he refuses, choosing instead to take crumbs from city dwellers

and then, the narrator's revelation at the end reveals that maybe the city bird can fly, it just chooses not to because of the happiness it knows it brings to the innocent yet dreary city dwellers, spending day and night without seeing nature

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The Shins – Know Your Onion! Lyrics 18 years ago
love this song....the melody is ripped off of You Still Believe in Me by the Beach Boys off of Pet Sounds

still though i love this song

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Sam Roberts – Mind Flood Lyrics 19 years ago
"We are the people of the sky"

is it just me or is that a blatent sloan shout-out

CANROCK FOREVER

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Pavement – Blue Hawaiian Lyrics 19 years ago
the capitals S...followed by a t...Stephen...its probably me...hes Stephen Malkmus..ahaha

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Weezer – Space Rock Lyrics 19 years ago
my favourite Weezer song of all time..i don't know why but i find it odd that not many other people like it

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Sloan – Who Loves Life More? Lyrics 19 years ago
this song is great

it is clearly about the question of Who Loves life More, the guy who works his ass off all his life and retires with a nice house and family or the guy who has fun and is care-free all his life

in the end...he "has to suggest" that a "small dose of both would be best" meaning that you can live a little of both lives and be the happiest

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Sloan – I Am The Cancer Lyrics 19 years ago
i think this song is about people leaving and someone is dying of cancer...the i am he cancer part is like saying he wishes that the person didn't have cancer...the i havn't got a dime part is refering to the need for money to survive cancer but he doesn't have any

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