| Haddaway – What Is Love? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I have a 79 minute remix of this song. It's incredible. |
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| Danielson – Kids Pushing Kids Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Twee! Twee! | |
| Enya – Only Time Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song makes me bittersweet. I don't know where I'll go, but I know that I'm going to lose my present to the past. Locking things into place is scary. So I have control over the moment, but I can't say where it will lead me, and by the time I know, the fork in the road is miles back. I don't know how my past will lead to the present, but I know I shouldn't worry. It won't do me any good -- such is the status quo. I shouldn't worry. Let go. That's what this song says to me: "Let go." |
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| Björk – Gloomy Sunday Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| As far as this song goes, there are only three good versions: The original, Billie Holiday's cover, and Venetian Snares's remix (In no small part because it heavily samples the Billie Holiday cover). End story. | |
| Nerf Herder – Mr. Blue Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm surprised that they covered this and not the other three songs that together make up the "Concerto for a Rainy Day" symphony that Mr. Blue Sky finishes out. It makes way more sense when you've heard all of that. |
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| The Hoosiers – Goodbye Mr A Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This sounds like it was very heavily influenced by Electric Light Orchestra's 1977 classic, Mr. Blue Sky. That is not a bad thing, of course, considering how awesome Mr. Blue Sky is -- I'll say that Goodbye Mr. A does not level up, in fact -- but it is interesting to note. |
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| Afroman – Palmdale Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Fuck that, Lancaster, Palmdale; you think you guys are hard? Think you live in a shithole? Yeah, I lived in Lake Los Angeles for fifteen years. Then I moved to... Palmdale. It's a step up, really. |
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| Just Jack – Writer's Block Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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------------------------------------------------------------- “I must have, kind of felt that my head was too high.” ------------------------------------------------------------- I don't think so. More like, "I mustn't have built my hopes too high." |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Dreaming of 4000 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The bit about taking care of women could almost come from another song, methinks. | |
| Modest Mouse – Spitting Venom Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'm surprised nobody has commented on how the minimalist acoustic intro, rife with bitterness and showcasing a healthy baritone, is reminiscent of Johnny Cash. | |
| Modest Mouse – Dashboard Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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@rheartspumpdust: One word answer: Cigars. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Showdown Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Odious: abominable; unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those ... I think that the word findsomepeace was looking for was "ominous." But that's just my grammar-nazi talking. This song combines Western imagery with ideas that would be more often seen in Film Noir works--rain as a sigh of ill-to-come vs. a showdown. Interesting. |
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| Blind Melon – Change Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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@TJE_Drummer_11 on 03-28-2003 @ 09:29:44 PM Yeah, Nirvana was definitely bett--Oh, wait: ----------------------------- "With the lights out, it's less dangerous Here we are now, entertain us I feel stupid and contagious Here we are now, entertain us A mulatto, an albino A mosquito, my libido" ----------------------------- Yeah, maybe not--but just maybe. Or definitely. Yeah, probably definitely. And to think, Cobain said that he always wanted to be remembered as a good songwriter. Mosquitoes and libido? Sounds like he fucked that goal up. |
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| Muse – New Born Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Is it "Soulless is everywhere" or "Solace is everywhere"? The latter makes more sense, certainly, but the posted lyrics agree with the former.... | |
| Misfits – She Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Venetian Snares covered this, using a much more minimalist sound (think monotonic Gregorian Chant over short bursts of strings). Listening to that, it is clear that the chorus is "She loves naked sin/He loves evil sex/She has lost control/They are growing old." And the original is all well and done, and I dig Danzig, but I think the Venetian Snares cover works better for this song. |
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| DragonForce – Fury of the Storm Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Listening to this song... And playing one of the GBC Fire Emblem games At the same time Can only make one feel Like Mars. Yeah. It makes me feel like the God of War. Because I'm out on that battlefield Whooping evil's ass in a plain of brimstone and fire. And Herman Li is shredding through history in both of my ears. |
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| Linkin Park – Hands Held High Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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by Darkeagle5601 on 09-01-2007 @ 02:44:04 AM ------------------------------------------------------------- Well said, Thanasimos. As I'm searching through here, I'm glad that I'm not the only Bush supporter around here. ------------------------------------------------------------- Well, y'know... I try! I'm happy that I'm not the only one either - after all, it seems I was taking on a mite bit of an army back there. |
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| Linkin Park – Hands Held High Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Rich? God damn, I wish I was rich. I dunno what these 'takes' are, but I'll admit, I'm not rich, and I don't want to pay taxes into a broken welfare and government aid system. Did you know that the Section 8 family down the street can afford a better house than I can because they're just enough poorer than me that they can get onto the government dole? Tell me why the fuck I'm paying taxes to put somebody in a nicer house than me; why I'm paying into welfare so they can blow their small income on spinning rims and a giant (and annoying) subwoofer in their car, and then I'll consider liking the taxes. If you're on the dole, you should be come out functionally poorer than those who are not. Otherwise, the dole is unfair and unbalanced. I suppose that Morelandjerad is just a little too middle class to know what it's actually like being poor, and seeing the poorer better off than yourself because some thick headed Senator digging for votes from the really poor (You do know that that's why democrats are pro-immigrant and pro government aid, right? Those people vote for them because those people owe them. The democrats have been using that system since the 1870s: buying off the poor and the immigrants with money from the better off to get more votes). So yeah, pay your taxes. Remember that until the system is reformed (it won't be: The more people that can take advantage of the system are the more people that will vote democrat), your taxes are being wasted. It's not my half to help those people. They got poor on their own; I was born poor and I'm fixing it, not living it up on the government's money: what we do is not anybody else's responsibility. I'll donate to charities; I'll volunteer; I'll help many people many times over - however, I will be the one to choose to help: I will not be made to help by the government; especially when I'm being made to help so much that it hurts me. Another note is that I'm still struck by the irony of people who can clearly not understand the grammar and spelling of what is presumably their own native language calling others stupid. Did they consider that they just believe the anti-Bush propaganda because they themselves are the ones without intelligence; that they, rather than following the facts, just follow the biggest propaganda campaign? It really makes more sense than the idea that these people actually thought this through with any dedication - especially considering that the mass media is overwhelmingly liberal and that therefore the liberal end has the largest propaganda network.... Then again, perhaps I'm not giving them enough credit. It might stroke my ego if I decided that the lot of you don't misunderstand plain English because you're stupid, but rather because English is incalculably difficult and that I'm just a genius... Either way, let's take note that a large part of the pro-Bush end in this thread has been well learned in their language, and that the vast majority of the anti-Bush end has been less than intelligent in their use of the English language. Am I proving any points here? Only if you guys can understand them; those who can already see the point and those that can't understand what I'm saying are the ones that need it the most. I should learn to speak without English, such that I might get through. |
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| Keane – Somewhere Only We Know Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| When things go wrong, I always go back to the womb too. | |
| Linkin Park – Hands Held High Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Whoops! Boned up my little diatribe about English there with a typo. Go ahead and, in your mind, replace the 'don't' in the last sentence with 'won't.' It'll make me easier to understand. | |
| Linkin Park – Hands Held High Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Jump when they tell us they want to see jumping. Fuck that, I want to see some fist pumping. Risk something. Take back what's yours. Say something that you know they might attack you for Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before. Like I'm stupid standing for what I'm standing for. Like this war's really just a different brand of war." In response to the last two comments, I'd like to host 'Dose of Irony Time!' Whoever can tell me why those seven lines are ironic coming from the liberal mindset (that is to say, the mindset determining the war to be unnecessary and supporters like my own self to be idiots who 'don't understand') wins a touch of my respect. Furthermore, to Clowman, get a grip. Learn your statistics, buddy, and you may see that those two numbers have absolutely nothing to do with each other. By the math and those numbers, chances are that means that 7.6 of Americans both have disorders and support Bush while 18.6% of Americans both have disorders and decry Bush (or have a neutral stance, as it may be). Furthermore, how can you call me stupid for supporting Bush? You can't even put a proper sentence together in English and you call me stupid? Please, only the intelligent have the right to call others stupid. If you can't even write in English without fucking it up, you can't call anybody stupid; rather, you can, but you don't be taken seriously. |
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| Muse – Starlight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I can't but help to draw lines between this song and Voices of a Distant Star. I doubt it was intended, but I can't listen to this song without choking up a little bit as it forces me to recall that short little movie. Both are works of art. | |
| Linkin Park – Hands Held High Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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First of all, this may be a double post of sorts, because I just wrote something that I don't believe I posted. He says he has nukes, yes. We don't have reason to believe that they have actually made functioning nukes after there - after all, their last 'test,' designed to intimidate us drew general derision for a reason: It failed. To top it off, we've already got troops in South Korea, ready and waiting to jump on Mr. Jong, so... Following that, he's not crazy. He's political. He knows that the price of actually using a Nuke would be his life and sovereignty, a price he is not willing to pay. After all, for the same number of nuclear warheads that we could cover his entire country in fallout with, he could tactically bomb one or two of our population centers, and only IF he got them beyond the missile defense systems (He has no means of smuggling them past securities like the terrorists do). He won't do it, and that ends the story. He wants the bombs for the power that having them gets him; if he uses them, he dies, and there is no power (of the sort for which he looks) in death. On the other hand, those in Iraq with the nukes (that is to say, Saddam, the sole seat of power) were insane. He didn't ostensibly want nukes for the power they would grant him in political forums, but rather to jump on an excuse to use them against us here in the U.S. (and our citizens abroad, and possibly Western European targets unaffiliated with the States). He wanted them to kill us with. Not for politics. He would, then, use them at the cost of his life. After all, they pump out Suicide Bombers because people are willing to die for that religion. |
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| Linkin Park – Hands Held High Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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We are doing things there. We already have troops in South Korea, to start with, and to end with, we've every reason to believe that *those* WMDs are not functional. Especially after the 'test' last year. The one where it didn't work, y'know. That test. He's not crazy. He's political. He knows far better than to use a nuke on us. The cost in life would include his own were he to order that. The Islamics with nukes? They're crazy. If they die for it, well, they're already particularly fond of suicide bombers. |
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| Linkin Park – Hands Held High Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've seen the comments about why we went to war come up several times in this thread, following in this order: "We went to war for Oil!">"We went to war for the nukes!">"They're not there!">"They moved them!" Here's a tip. We did not go to the war for the oil. If we went for the oil, we would have it by now. We went to war because all the intelligence at the time pointed to them having nuclear weapons, and in light of then-too-recent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from Islamic Extremists, it made too much sense to go and take nuclear weaponry away from an Islamic leader that we know to have been batshit insane. Now, we did not find nukes. People say that they shipped them off to Syria. I, personally, doubt that. However, I don't doubt that we thought they had them when we invaded. Do you know why? Because Saddam was working very hard to convince us that he had nukes and various other WMDs! Much like Kim Il Jong, he was bent on convincing us that he was dangerous, because for the longest time, it looked like that in light of the Vietnam War, the United States would not go to war for something so simple as a threat anymore; it appeared we would no longer support wars, let alone preemptive wars. He thought that if we thought he had nuclear weapons that he was willing to use, we would follow the appeasement path and let him take what he wanted (in this case, Israel). Unfortunately for us and for him, 9/11 happened. That turned around policy rather rapidly, where politics - especially the kind Saddam was playing at - move rather slowly. Therefore, he still had us convinced he was sitting on weapons, and may have still been foolish enough to encourage this belief. At the beginning of our stint in Afghanistan, it began to look more like local Arab states would soon join in the fray at some level or another. Saddam was one of those Arabs likely to join the fray; we also thought he was heavily armed: You're in a heated firefight with a guy two neighborhoods over using Uzis. The guy's neighbors are starting to loom threateningly over the battle, holding their own Uzis. However, one was armed not just with an Uzi, but rather, strapped to his back was a rudimentary rocket launcher. Your brother (I.E., U.S. soldiers formerly not in active duty) shows up. Who do you tell him to shoot? The guy you're fighting, or the guy who's looking ready to fight with a rocket launcher? As to the song, I certainly don't like its politics. I listen to a lot of Alternative Rock; It is certain that in the alternative scheme of things, it's hip to hate on conservative government, and especially Bush and the War in Iraq. Because of this, I've had years to adapt. I can entirely disassociate songs from their political intentions. Yeah, I support the war, and think that Bush isn't fucking up the war, but rather his public relationships. Doesn't stop that from being my favorite song on the album. It's just so well styled! I can also fully sympathize with the troops over there, but I don't agree with how he goes on as though the troops over there are innocents. Here's a hint: We have a volunteer army. This is also already late enough into the war that nobody who was in the military before the war loomed would still be in the military on the same contract - in other words, they would have stayed on willingly during the war. That means that those who are there now - most important part of this demi-essay coming up here - *Wanted to be there.* I've spoken with several, and all joined because they wanted to take part in the war and support both the other troops and our cause. Mike cannot speak for the and tell of their sorrow as though they didn't want to go to war. They knew full well what they were getting into, and I, for one, am more proud of them for it. Me? Take away the internet and I become a standard fare coward. These guys are brave, and they are willing, and they are, quite frankly, better than me. So yeah, stylistically, this is the best song on the album, though if the album were more like Hybrid Theory/Meteora and less like what it is, I would probably call this one of the worst songs. The new sound is good, but it isn't half as good. A good song on this album has nothing on a good song on their other albums (except reanimated, which I couldn't stand). |
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| Modest Mouse – Baby Blue Sedan Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The line, "I miss you when you're around," can also be construed as saying that that person has changed - When they are around, you are reminded by themselves that they have changed, and miss the person they were before they changed; the 'you' you miss. Knowing MM, ten to one says that every sensible interpretation of this line is correct, because of allthe worldplay going on with the songs. | |
| Breaking Benjamin – The Diary of Jane Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Here's a tip: 'Sore and sick,' not 'soaring sick.' | |
| Dropkick Murphys – Take It and Run Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hard not to love this song. I came out of one of these sorts of areas (no longer there, thank God. It'll change my perspective on life, which is good, but stay too long and it simply ruins your life), so it - like many Murphys songs about being underpaid/overworked/poor, it just works for me. That and the music is awesome, of course. As for what it's about, yeah - it's about trying to pull yourself out of a rut and having trouble. |
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| The Offspring – The Kids Aren't Alright Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song really hits home with me. For all essential purposes, this is the neighborhood I was born on and lived my first sixteen years on. I'm the only person on that street who's come anywhere near pulling themselves out of the gutter; most of us (forty or fifty) are simply descending into the cholo and ghetto lifestyle that permeated the area. It's pretty terrible, really. Just a few years ago, I looked around me and at my friends and really wanted to cry, because some of my friends were brilliant people, but were just letting themselves and everyone around them down. The meth labs, the potheads, it's all my old town. This song is basically about that - the people who both let society down and at the same time were let down by society when it allowed them to go that route. I really wish I could have gotten some more of my old friends on their feet; I rue it to this day that I didn't. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Ticket to the Moon Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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On the superficial level, this is, amazingly enough, about a guy who ends up having to leave his girl behind and go to the moon - a one way ticket, so chances are it's a prison isle type thing a la Australia? On the actual meaning level, it seems to simply be about a guy who is, due to unfortunate circumstances nevertheless outside of his control, forced to break off contact with the person he loves. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Twilight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Well, there's not much question but that Webmasterdee is right, about everything, too - the sheer awesomeness and the meaning, as well. | |
| Sublime – Doin' Time Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Damn, this is a driving song for sure. It's just so *smooth*. I could drive to this on repeat for hours. Perfect for unjammed intracity freeways. | |
| Dropkick Murphys – Finnegan's Wake Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think you're wrong. Catheter there makes no sense - Catheters weren't quite common back when this was originally written, and nobody would drink it. However, a name of a liquor is something Finnegan would've had a drink of. Beyond that, try slipping "His work Every day" into that slot. Hmm? Doesn't fit? Didja skip and stutter trying to nip it in there? That gives it an extra syllable. Hence, each is correct and every is not. |
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| Astronautalis – I'm Never Right (Feat. Isaiah) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I am not very confident in these lyrics - especially the second and last verses (insofar as they may be verses - more likely the fictions of my own mind). Pick them apart. | |
| Avenged Sevenfold – Strength of The World Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| On the topic of books, this one keeps bringing scenes from the Wheel of Time Series, specifically the parts where that one guy loses his wife (often) and also the part where his family ends up dead. Very fun song, this; straightforward meaning as well. | |
| Harvey Danger – Moral Centralia Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| As a note, Centralia is a reference to a ghost town in Pennsylvania. Used to be a coal town, but they were burning their trash and accidentally lit up an exposed coal vein. This got below the town into the mines, and has been raging for - get this - the last forty years. Twenty years ago, they gave up on fighting it, and evacuated the town. As of the last check, the town is now inhabited by twelve people, and the fire is looking to spread through underground veins into the next town fairly soon, unless serious measures are enacted. Adds a whole new meaning to that section of the song, if you ask me. I got so curious, I actually looked up the word Centralia. There's a wikipedia article on it that's fairly funny, in a morbid way. | |
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