| Neutral Milk Hotel – Naomi Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is a very dark love song... it's beautiful, you can just drown in it. I don't bother about what the individual lines suggest, I just take it as a song about somebody precious... but there are sinister undertones such as the angels holding her down until she cries, and the bit where her perfume "tastes like shit." Neutral Milk Hotel's songs are all very dark in some way, and they bring out a mix of emotions you can't catergorise- not just caring or sweetness or even hate, but a mix of them all at once... and it's very, very strange but always very beautiful. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Seeing Other People Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| These lyrics are some of the most... hard-hitting I've ever heard, but I guess that's a personal thing. To me, it's about a couple of boys "kissing just for practise." The phrase "other boys" suggests they're both boys, as does "gigolo" and all that lot. "Hand over the window," and "at least that's what we say we are doing" imply some sort of nervousness or shame about their sexuality; they are actually attached to each other but they feel they shouldn't be. "At least they know where to put it" hints at the awkwardness of sex between boys, and... yeah, that's what I understand from it. Stuart Murdoch is a real poet. He really is a genius at writing about teenage awkwardness and obscurity. As a 16-year-old, Belle and Sebastian really mean something to me. | |
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