| Sage Francis – Clickety Clack Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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More even than that, ehrb. A ton of the rhymes are an "i", two others and then an "a." The whole song clickity clacks through. Also in awe. |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Attractive Today Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's definitely "for some reasons still vague" | |
| Fountains of Wayne – Someone to Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Two lonely people in much the same situation: lives stuck in neutral. They tell themselves "it'll happen" soon. There's the perfect opportunity to meet cute, but whether because of the lives they lead, the people they are, or most likely the culture we all live in, they just drift right by each other. Great critique of modern pop mentality. |
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| Fall Out Boy – Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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After "put these words down..." the line is "save lies like these." These guys are amazingly critical of their fans, and it looks like half the fans have no idea of that. How do you spell irony? |
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| Nickel Creek – This Side Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I have a live recording of this song, and Chris asks the audience if any of them has seen The Matrix (which very few have). He comments that they should check out the movie, and before "This Side" had a name, the band referred to it as "The Matrix Song." | |
| Pearl Jam – Man of the Hour Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Just because a song was written for one purpose does not mean it could apply well in another. I think it's pretty clear that Man of the Hour was written for and about Big Fish (an excellent movie), but it's a good enough song to be used in many, many other circumstances. | |
| Sage Francis – The Buzz Kill Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Should be: hell spawned some iffy calls in city hall. they still got the gall to blame the vitriol on biggie smalls Follows the theme of criticism of popular music and reactions to it. Also, the meaning of the kiss is better if you spell is "moi" rather than "mwah." http://www.sagefrancis.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=48 for Sage's own transcription of these lyrics. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I've seen 11 pages of comments and no one even touch upon my interpretation of the song. Take this song and "Time to Dance" as two views of the same events (this connection can be seen in the testosterone/estrogen dichotomy, the similar references to dancing). Time to Dance sees the events at some kind of dance or formal event from either the view of the (female) victim or an outside observer. This song is the view from a cheated-on man. The events could be actual or fantasy (very possible that it is imagined--the protagonist of the first half of the album is probably schizophrenic; see Camisado). The simple summary: he shoots her, in the stomach. Time to Dance is all about bullets, pulling the trigger, blood on the ballroom floor, etc. He "lets her have it." She's still even then after attention, stealing it (in his mind) from him, as the event "sreams photo op." In "Lying" there are a couple lyrics that follow this plot pattern. The first verse is at first what the man thinks happened when the woman cheats on him, but the second part takes place *right now.* Her hands are shaking as she takes off her dress--her heart is racing as she touches her skin where she has been shot, and comes up with blood. He begins to digress in his thoughts (or words, as he taunts her), and comes back to the present. The shock of being shot sets in, and the stomach acid "finds a new way to make you sick" as it leaks out into her body. I read the interpretation regarding pregnancy and see some possibility there, but the narrator's focus on making the events and attention about him don't fit with this, as well as the rather direct reference to stomach acid. In what ways can stomach acid make you sick? And why would it be a *new* way? I think that the shooting, whether real or fantasy, fits nicely into the evolving story of struggling for popularity while fighting mental illness in the pre-intermission album. |
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