| The Magnetic Fields – Quick! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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| Charlotte Gainsbourg – Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Not my translation (though I made a few minor edits of my own), but found here: http://whiskeyclone.net/ghost/songinfo.php?songID=981 When one is dead, then one is dead When one no longer laughs, they no longer live When I will have cut the cord Put me in a garbage can Let me hang a month And from there throw me to the cat Who will refuse my spleen and my liver But choose the hour for him to eat my heart And I still stay with you On your shoulders and your knees Which I will be because it is necessary to exist The cat of the Cafe Des Artistes And if the bread runs out I shall be there and don't hesitate To break my legs and my neck And then eat me like the cat It will not be the first time That they will have eaten an artist When one is dead, then one is dead When one no longer laughs, they no longer live When I have cut the string Put me in a garbage can And then they forgot me there There there there there there there there there As they forgot the cat As they will forget my head and my songs It will not be last time That they will forget an artist And then they forgot me there There there there there there there there there |
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| Charlotte Gainsbourg – La Collectionneuse Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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All the French verses are poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, so some translations can be found online. I found translations for each verse and put them together here: I picked this sprig of heather Autumn is dead - remember We will never see each other again on this earth Odor of time, sprig of heather And remember that I am waiting for you I have had the courage to look behind me At the corpses of my days How slowly time passes As a funeral passes You will regret this hour of tears It will leave only too soon Like all other hours And you, my heart, why are you beating? Like a melancholic watchman I watch the night and death Bring on the night, ring out the hour The days wear on but I endure |
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| Cold War Kids – Every Man I Fall For Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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One of the record's slow-tempo tunes, "Every Man I Fall For," is about relationships from a woman's perspective. "Coming from a divorced family, my mom was very important to me," Willett says. "And I've always been very sensitive to a woman's... to how women just, they generally get more screwed by relationships, be it marriage or dating ones, than men do. And even that — is that a very sexist thing to say? I don't think so. I think it's just generally true." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94925127 |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Go With The Flow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about life. The girl in the beginning is giving up on life, ('throw myself away') because she doesn't see any value to it anymore and he's saying, he can't make her stay (alive or the way she is) but he won't be able to forget her whether she's there or not anymore because she's already affected his life. He's going to continue living his life 'going with the flow' and letting things be because things still matter to him. Mentally he's thinking a lot because of what she's done, leaving and forgetting about life and he's aware of how important it is to believe in things and how people's beliefs (in their head) effect everything. "It's so safe to play along, little soldiers in a row" seems to me like an image of how people don't believe in things on their own anymore because they're scared and just become like sheep, and follow what the popular opinion is. He wants to live differently though--have 'something good to die for' so that he has a real reason to live ('make it beautiful to live'). He's not afraid to make mistakes anymore and act differently, because that's living life to it's fullest. He questions how he's going to live his life and he thinks the best way is to go with the flow of it (there by also accepting the girl throwing her self away). Wait, no. It's just about sex. |
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| The Vines – Autumn Shade II Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the line "You am I and I am Great" might be just a nice reference to theband 'You Am I'. I love this song though Look through me because I am transparent Ought to know me but why even know yourself I'm beginning to need all that I can't have I'm succeeding to speak like I'm fucking mad I like to think of this in relation to his Asperger's... and the difficulties with social interaction... vaguely. The way you present yourself, the way others see you, and then what you actually KNOW about people or what they know about you, and how this frustration about not really understanding people (and maybe feeling like you need to understand but you just can't?), and ending up saying thengs you don't really mean, or just getting so frustrated you go maaaad. |
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| Patrick Wolf – Accident & Emergency Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"The song is, first of all, based around two chords", says Wolf. "It was originally called A and E. And the two chords it's based on are A and E," But he was saved from having to call the song Apples and Edelweiss by a well-timed tour of Belgium. "It reminded me of a time when I was 11", he says. "I was a choir boy and we were on tour. We were on the motorway in a double decker coach and I was on the bottom deck - it went over a bump and I fell out of the emergency exit. I was in a coma for a week." Wolf soon become known at school as "the boy who survived falling out of a coach", not that this gained him any respect. "I actually became the freak of the school you know. So I started making lots more music." http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/comment/story/0,,1932514,00.html |
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| Patrick Wolf – Wind in the Wires Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/14696/Interview_Interview_Patrick_Wolf "I think something that hasn't been covered in a lot of the interviews with this record is that the title track to Wind In the Wires is a love song to electricity. There's not so much electronics on the album, but there's a lot of electricity-- buzzing noises, low frequency noises, and stuff. Radio static, kind of analog noises. The song is a realization that electricity is just another element. A lot of people have asked me "Why aren't you doing so much electronic stuff?" To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or fire or water. There's lightning, for god's sake! An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really." |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Goldaline my dear We will fold and freeze together Far away from here There is sun and spring and green forever But now we move to feel For ourselves inside some stranger's stomach Place your body here Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine "One of my new songs ["Oh, Comely"] talks about Siamese twins freezing to death in the forest," he said. "One is saying, `Don't worry. We've been attached forever, and we'll end up in someone else's stomach together anyway.' " http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/98/03/05/NEUTRAL_MILK_HOTEL.html reincarnation reference i think its vaguely about always wanting to be together, life after life looking at it completely with a reincarnation theme, each verse may be about a dif life. the first, he was her only friend through her difficult life. the second, again she had a hard life, and he was her lover and comfort. the third, maybe she had died (as Anne Frank?) and he is waiting until he dies and meets her again "50 years later". the last verse is another image confirming they will always be together "We will fold and freeze together...Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine". |
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