| Bloc Party – On Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is about cocaine. From an interview... "Silver slugs lined up like bullets, rolled up twenties they disappear, you make my tongue loose." Is this an unashamed celebration of the liberation of hedonism? "Yes," Okereke begins. "And no. After Silent Alarm, I realized I could have tried harder, so with this record I thought, 'I'll be honest about everything.' All the ugly thoughts, all the things you wouldn't tell your best friend. A warts-and-all account of where my mind is right now. It's a song about getting fucked up on a Friday night. In east London you can't go anywhere without someone having cocaine on them. Suddenly, when we came back from tour it was all around me. But it's not a moralizing song about using cocaine - more an explanation of the appeal and the comedown." |
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| Bloc Party – Uniform Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Actually, upon closer listen it is (You can be happy just playing dumb). Sorry. |
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| Bloc Party – Uniform Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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(Tattoo our arms) (Converse shoes) (Cynical) (A cigarette) --- (You can be happy just playing dumb) is actually (You can be happy, just play dumb) --- We're finding it hard to (?) ourselves...I'm almost positive this is "untame ourselves". The accent is a bit thick here but I'm pretty sure that's what he's saying. |
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| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Counting Down The Hours Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Negatyve is 100% right about the Mr. Mellor line. The song is actually about Ted reconciling his feelings on the war and the world around him and finding the strength to carry on. Here's a quote from an interview he did: There's a real legitimate question, "What's the point?" and I've certainly asked myself that, on this trip actually. Sometimes it just gets to be such an insane grind and you're not getting the feedback that helps you keep your own energy and momentum up. And you're just like "what is the point, man?" ya know? George Bush just won the election again. People are dying left and right. You're burning gas on the high way and making more petroleum products for people to stick in their cd players, what's the point? In many more words than that I put that question on my website and within 3 hours I got hundreds of emails from people who were like "There's a point, and you're making that point and you better keep making that point" and I was like "ok". Maybe I don't know what the point is necessarily and maybe that's the only point, that it's not about effecting things on such a grand scale that the grand scale artists try to effect things on. What it's about is establishing connection and community among individuals. It's not about stopping a war, it's about helping each other live through a war. |
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