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Passion Pit – Little Secrets Lyrics 16 years ago
Whoops, okay, wait-- "Now painting rainbows on my ugly face."

According to the album leaflet thing, the lyrics are:

when I came down the dawn poured into me
I shook 'em up the walls came crumbling
my thin skin trembling with these salty wounds
my stolen gold inside the emperor's tomb

now painting rainbows on my ugly face
I built this cardboard neighborhood's disgrace
but I ascend and serve my feverish need
within the confines of such chemistry

let this be our little secret
no one needs to know we're feeling
higher and higher and higher
higher and higher and higher

but I feel alive, oh, I feel it in me
up and up we keep on climbing
higher and higher and higher
higher and higher and higher

my face blew up at such a casual sight
the smattered colors of ecstatic fright
the rush above me to oblivion
outlining wet sidewalks in halogen

have you ever felt so goddamn strong?
how come it takes some people so damn long
he turned to squeeze the lemon juice to rain
the citrus drawing out the scene in stains

mother, I can tell what you've been thinking
staring at the stars on your ceiling
thinking once there was a power that you were weilding
but now I've hit the mark,
stabbing at the dark
and I cannot help but ignore the people staring at my scars

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Passion Pit – Little Secrets Lyrics 16 years ago
I think the first line of the second verse is "now pinning rainbows to my ugly face."

You can hear it clearer on the Live on KCRW video on youtube, so check that out. I still can't tell what he says in the third line of the second verse.

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Company of Thieves – The Tornado Song Lyrics 16 years ago
I think it's "soft skinned boys lead the way".

Anyway, I love this song :D One of my favorites on the album.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Little Shadow Lyrics 16 years ago
"Volume strikes" sounds more like "for all your strides" (also, I think "with all your sight" is "for all your sight")

In the end, I definitely hear something in the place of

"Hey, shadow, stars, break of dawn
Take a turn for stars, to my fantasy"

Kind of sounds like this, but I don't know if they're right... but still, maybe someone can make some guesses based on the sounds/syllables here?

Hey shade inside, dig and deeply die [or maybe, "deepened 'til we die", or "diggin' deep, we die"?]
Turn and turn your sight to a fantasy [pretty positive about this one]

I do think the end makes a bit more sense this way:

Closer, shadow
For all your strides, still, we're caught between
All this sorrow, little shadow
To the night, will you follow me?
Hey, shade inside, [...]
Turn and turn your sight to a fantasy
Little shadow, to the night, will you follow me?
Little shadow, to the night, will you follow me?

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dull Life Lyrics 16 years ago
I dunno about anyone else, but I hear "Want you to stay in a subtle way, like you're walking again" at the beginning. It /could/ be something else for the first part (but I definitely don't hear a "K" sound) and I'm pretty sure about it being "you're" instead of "I'm" in the second line.

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Evaline – Write Your Pretentious Squalls (Off Again) Lyrics 16 years ago
Am I the only one that hears a bit of word play in the "You're off again breathing"(You're all [effing] breathing)?

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The Dollyrots – A Desperate S.O.S. Lyrics 17 years ago
I typed the lyrics as they were written in the booklet (well, I separated the verses; the lyrics were written in blocks of text). Unless I typo-ed a few times(possible because the text was tiny), these are the correct lyrics.

But if you could point out the errors ( there's no error in Global Warming; I never had it as warning) I'd happily fix them.

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Bella – stay here Lyrics 17 years ago
I think it sounds like she says

take all your time
I never mind
I just don't want to move till you're home
I'll figure out
what we're about
and when I know it I'll let you know
you should stay here
we should change our names
when you come here
you'll let me stay
Take all your clothes
I'll let you, I'll go
but I don't know what to wear when you're gone
after goodbyes
I'll tell myself lies
that I dont need you, I dont need
you for long

I'm not sure about some of it, but for the most part I think that's what the right lyrics are...

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Uh Huh Her – Not A Love Song Lyrics 17 years ago
These are the lyrics from the CD booklet insert thing.

The scene is dead by morning
Slipping past the great divide
It chases over bridges
Spins me out of my own mind

Hollow is how you like it
What you see is what you get
Say you love it again
But you never do

I am not singing a love,
Singing a love song
'Cause love is a game to you now
Watch just to see how long
I want to fall away
And waste another day
'Cause love is a game to you now
Watch just to see how long

I see I disappoint you
Why don't you find another threat?
This isn't what you thought now
If you fall, won't you tell me in my ear?
You're here to waste their time dear
But you can't waste mine
Say you love me again
But you never do


But if you can't save love anyway
You'll love again
'Cause love is a game to you now
Watch just to see how long
I want to fall away
And waste another day
'Cause love is a game to you now
Watch just to see how long

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Girl In A Coma – Their Cell Lyrics 17 years ago
I think that the song is, in general, about trying to avoid contradicting yourself( and being called out on it ).

If you told your secrets to a deaf man, he couldn't call you out on those secrets a year later when you're doing the exact opposite.

"Tattooed lovers they don't like to reminisce" is an important line.

If you had your ex's name tattooed somewhere on you, would you want to sit there and remember/discuss whatever s--ty thing happened with them, while the proof is there on your body that you thought it would last forever?

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Regina Spektor – Samson Lyrics 18 years ago
I don't care what she meant by this song; I'm a firm believer that when you hear a song you should draw your own interpretation of it, however meaningful it is.

Personally, I like to think of it like this (even if it might not be about it):

Samson was a Samantha, originally. The speaker, a lesbian, fell in love with her before she became Samson, a man. 'You are my sweetest downfall,' Even though she considers herself a lesbian (the speaker, not Regina.), she is in love with a man. You aren't usually considered a lesbian if you're in love with a man, and when something like that happens it can be a blow to your pride. A confusing 'I thought I knew myself' situation.

I admit I don't know much about the Bible... so I really don't know if this is correct, but this is my interpretation anyway. I'm allowed to be wrong, s'long as I get my inspiration from the song :P

After the sex change, since Samantha is now Samson, and it's no longer a homosexual relationship... the Bible didn't mention it as wrong anymore; they became 'normal' and they fit into society's expectations.

And LaurieB89, that seems possible to me. I just think it's a bit odd about the 'Your hair was long when we first met,' part... because if she gave birth to him, wouldn't he have had not so much hair when they first met? Unless it was an adopted child, perhaps? Dunno.

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The Dollyrots – Brand New Key Lyrics 19 years ago
It's a cover of Melanie's song Brand New Key, a hit around 1971-1972.

The song is talking about quad skates, which are fastened by a screw. The key that is talked about is possibly the screw to adjust the skates.

This could be seen as an innuendo, the key in a lock symbolizing sexual intercourse.

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The Meg And Dia Band – Roses Lyrics 19 years ago
[ Apples parachute the boys back down. ]

What do apples do when you drop them? They crash down. So it's like an oxymoron.

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Shiny Toy Guns – We Are Pilots Lyrics 19 years ago
My personal opinion on this song is that it's talking about unaccepting parents. That's not too hard to find out, but unaccepting of what? Homosexuality, maybe... since alot of people believe something is 'wrong' with homosexuals. If I put my self in that position, and 'came out' to my parents, I can see all the things in that song perfectly describing that situation.

"Sword beneath my clean dress" ~ All my life, my mother would scold me about the proper ladylike things.. Hiding a sword beneath a dress, could maybe mean hiding a more boyish part of herself?

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