| Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yorke said there's no glimmer of hope in this song. | |
| Wintersleep – Faithful guide Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I never knew that 'til now. And it makes sense. "Kept on staring" / "Rest your eyes" |
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| Matthew Good – She's In It For The Money Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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He said it was the song he wishes he didn't have to write. No man should have to... |
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| The Knife – Marble House Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sorry for any poor phrasing or grammatical errors on my above post, it's 6am and I haven't slept in like 2 days.. | |
| The Knife – Marble House Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I like to think of it as love and Marriage, and how it can be beautiful, but it can also feel like a trap, it can intimidate, become abusive and ultimately collapse. I'm gonna start with the title, "Marble House" A "House" is where we live, learn, grow. It's also in some situations where you'd move or hope to be in Marriage, a material foundation that can hold a family, the product of love. Marble is concrete, and often polished very intricate in appearance. "Marble House" seems take take the properties of the stone and apply it to the house. So now we have a hard, beautiful, sheening dwelling of which the inhabitance are originally love. Permanent, unbreakable walls though can also have a reverse effect. Rock can be cold, and unforgiving. Something so thick and protective sounding can also protect things from leaving. Prison walls are made of rock. "I wanted to see right through from the other side I wanted to walk a trail with no end in sight" The "Other side" could be viewed as the afterlife. Wanting to "See through from the other side" means looking back, being reminiscent of the course of life, and the near storybook love that was there. "Walk a trail with no end in sight" is the hope of being together forever, that the love and passion would never run dry. Marriage can be assumed here. Though all of that may seem positive, it's being sung in past tense, which suggest this was what was suppose to happen, but may not have. "The moment we believe that we have never met Another kind of love it's easy to forget" This was said perfectly by duncanmostest above. "When we are all alone then we do both agree We have a thing in common this was meant to be" This to me is what runs through your head when you look into your partners eyes after a length of time and it hits you again... "This is why I love you." The common ground spoken of here is the marriage, and remembering that you got married out of love.. And that must mean it has to last right? After being together for so long it's easy to lose some of the properties of a loving relationship, to lose the "Spark", but when alone it's easy to remember again, remember the love that brought you this far. This is in relative present tense. "You close my eyes and soothe my ears You heal my wounds and dry my tears" Basically, comforting, making things better. But better from what? It could be partner A soothing partner B after partner B scraped their knees. Or, It could be partner A soothing partner B after partner A does something to cause the grief. We don't know. "On the inside of this marble house I grow And the seeds I sow will grow up prisoners too" What do you do when you settle in a house? Well, what happens when you plant a seed? It grows. It connects to and becomes it's surroundings, feeding off and relying on them. Depending on the soil, the crops could prosper or fail and wither. This is getting lengthy so I'm gonna skip to my favorite part of the song: "I raise my hands to heaven of curiosity I don't know what to ask for What has it got for me?" Here, "Curiosity" is the key word. I think it could imply that the marriage under God's name, the love that was seen as fate has or is failing.. And that if holy union is failing.. What to do? Times of great despair and confusion.. What can the future hold? "The others say we're hiding It's as forward as can be" It's noticeable to others that love here has or is dying, and it's completely obvious. "Some things I do for money Some things I do for free" Some things are done for a reward. Some things are done, and they're your own award. |
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| Matthew Good – While We Were Hunting Rabbits Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"I'm a boat on the ocean/I'm just a ship lost at sea" is quite possibly the emotional peek of Matt's voice. This song is absolutely amazing, and without a doubt comes out in the top 3 songs on the CD. Avalanche as a whole is simply brilliant, and I would go as far to call it Matt's life work, and one of the greatest milestones in Canadian music. Lauren stated above the main inspiration behind the song. Nearing the end of the Matthew Good Band era, Matt could nolonger be what the band demanded of him, he didn't want to be an actor or worse a marionette, per se, who's strings are pulled by contractors and the image hungry public. The bands separation led to his independant career where it seems he could be himself. This song pertains to this change in life, and how the change effected and broadened his view of the world. His transition from Matthew Good of the Matthew Good Band.. To just Matthew Good. |
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| Matthew Good – She's In It For The Money Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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For those who don't know, this song is about the Heartbreak Matt went through because of his divorce. We should all learn from the line "Build your heart a diamond, and it don't need no ring." I too saw the Vancouver show, it was truly amazing... |
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| Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Am I the only one who doesn't banter a wide smile when talking/listening to this song? | |
| Talk Talk – Happiness Is Easy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Shit lyrics"?? Are you kidding me? Smarten up, listen to them closely, and look at the world around you. If you don't get anything out of it, then you're either ignorant, or a dumbass. |
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| Talk Talk – It's My Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Listen to fishbear. Listen to more Talk Talk. |
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| Josh Ritter – Girl In The War Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Matthew Good did a cover of this, check it out: http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/04/a-little-experiment/ Great song, great cover. jpw1019 did a great job of explaining it. |
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| Matthew Good – Weapon Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Thanks. I honestly don't believe there is and haven't found someone with more genius musical talent out there today. This song is amazing and underappreciated. Maybe radioplay ruined it for a mass population of people who don't pay attention to lyrical depth.... |
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| Panic! at the Disco – There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| How bands like this became popular is beyond me. It's no different from rap... Kinda like 50 Cent! Complete trash that conforming parasites love to get into. | |
| Panic! at the Disco – There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Eh Ehm! Where does one begin to describe this steaming pile of garbage? You've already seen the ridiculous name, so let's try a few of song titles on for size. Track two is called "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage", and it's followed by "London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines". If those don't quite do it for you, check out "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", or my personal favorite, "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off". But of course, the asinine song titles and the moronic band name have nothing on the actual songs. The usual guitar, bass, and drums are augmented by drum machine beats and synths that would be more at home blaring over the P.A. at your local gym than in anything one might consider enjoyable music. The production, handled by Matt Squire, a guy who is certainly no stranger to radio-friendly emo, is slick and polished. Vocalist Brendon Urie's impassioned, warbling vocals are so strained it's as if he might just burst into tears at any moment. This poor guy's heart must get broken on a daily basis or something. And if it wasn't bad enough, someone convinced him to add some fancy effects on a track or two that make it sound like someone is lightly karate chopping him across the throat while he sings. It's sad that this is what emo has become. The genre's always had some irritating characteristics, but this newest batch of heartbroken heartthrobs has managed to build their careers solely out of those characteristics. The whining, the emotionally exposed lyrics, and the passionate choruses are there, but there's no sincerity, creativity, or originality. |
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| Wintersleep – A long flight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Flamacue, I think you're dead on. Agreed completely, saves some writing :) |
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| Wintersleep – Wind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Carried away by the wind, you're carried away by the wind" I believe reprisents fate, and how it's stealing away from what was a loving relationship; Individuals taking their separate paths which causes them to become mutually exclusive. A good example would be lovers and school, taking separate paths because that's what fate demanded, causing their relationship to end. "This lie" is them saying and acting like they'll be together forever. It's a shame that life is like that... I see |
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| Wintersleep – Assembly Lines Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is about a husband who's trying as hard as he could to follow his fathers footsteps, to be successful, but isn't doing to well. This business life he's created is eating away at his personal life, so neither are going well. He tries to be professional to follow his fathers words, to be exactly what a business man should, and to make money, but regardless he's just not the most successful, so he constantly is trying to better himself and his work life. I picture a tired frusterated man who can only smile at customers, a man distrought at home, growing from his family in his personal life that he's attempting to work so hard for. I could be way off though.. Anyone? |
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| Wintersleep – Home Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I agree completely. I see this as a transition point in someones life. Examples I'll give are a student/teenager leaving home, and a job requiring time away from home/family. The student encountered new problems, stresses of individuality, etc., and the worker maybe peril, loneliness, temptations, etc.. This song to me is about being back "Home," to the place where everything is forgotten, the place where things is easy and love a-plenty. WE NEED MORE WINTERSLEEP FANS!! |
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| Wintersleep – Listen (Listen, Listen) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is the song that made me fall in love with Wintersleep. I see a parallel with most of Listen and my own life. Chris_the_anithero: I think you're on to something when you say that the singer is trying to convince someone of something, but my interpretation is a bit different. I think that maybe the person the lyrist is singing to is depressed or has given up. That maybe she wants it all to just end, but the singer wants the oppostite. He believes ther's moer for her, that she is amazing. |
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| Wintersleep – Danse macabre Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think it has something to do with conformist... People everywhere are conforming with the MyPod generation. People that blindly follow a new hallow culture, consisting of shallow icons and ignorence, and he's comparing them to the Dance of the Dead. Just like cerpin_taxt said, the dance of the dead is a mythic event where the dead dance in ritual. "Was I sleeping all this time, was my shadow ever mine?" = Conformism. No face, no shadow. Anyone? --- I'm disappointed in how many people will just write something aloing the lines of "I love this song" or "Such a great song, one of my favorites!" I want to hear what you think of the lyrics, not if you like the song or not. Example: >"one of my favourite wintersleep songs for sure. all their songs mean something different to me. they are soooooo amazing live" -tequila_ We know they're awesome live, and your posting in the Wintersleep forum, so we know you like the band... You say each song means something different to you... So? What do they mean? I'm not trying to be an jerk, but seriously. |
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| Wintersleep – Faithful guide Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is such a beautiful song... My interpretation is that the person singing had the perfect relationship, that he had found his soulmate and was completely in love. This person though, possibly through his own greed or paranoia(Afraid of monsters), had caused himself and his loved one to grow apart. He had been so in love that he would steer the vessel of his loved one through the afterlife, but had lost everything because of his own doing. The song hints to both the lyrist and the loved one simply ending they're relationship(The lover moved on and the lyrist left in shambles.), aswell as the lover dying, and the singer not being there for her when she died(Explains not being able to steer the vessel, not guiding, and using passed tense in the word "Wanted.") I'm wish there were more Wintersleep fans out here! I would like to hear what they think! |
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| Matthew Good – Weapon Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"We're all equal in the evil and beauty we're capable of producing" Reiterates a lot of what I have to say in as single sentance. ----- When I listen to the song, "Ain't it so weird" stands out to me. It basically points out that the basic properties we have as humans make us a weapon(The greatest weapon that will ever exist, except maybe a more ridiculously malicious alien race from beyond...). As humans we'll raise effigies of peace, preach equality and say the future is bright. We'll say that we can make the world balanced and peaceful. This is all possible in my mind. Peace can be achieved through everyone being willing, everyone unifying. Something so close and so far away. Hence "Here by my side, an angel/it's Heaven" I believe George Orwell brings hits us with a depressing reality though. There is light in the hearts of many, but just the same there's evil, and it's far easier to give into destruction than it is anything else. People will ever more give into greed and lust, seek power and money. Security through evils(Oddly enough only creates paranoia.). Just look at Lord of the Flies; Handed paradise, only to have it daunted, and destroyed by a few corrupted hearts. This though, can just as easily happen in life outside novels. One sadistic world leader, one miscommunication, one assumption, one bad decision, and all we ever knew could change drastically, or simply shatter, leaving us bloodshot in the shards of our own demise. All thanks to the little perverted voice in the back of every humans head. The little guy on everyone's shoulder. Hence, "The Devil" Because of this, we should never turn our backs on ourselves, because we are our own worst enemy. The only thing other than a meteor or supernova that capable of killing us IS us. So, never turn your back on it. "A new color to paint the world" can simply be seen as the desire felt on both sides, felt by the light and dark in the hearts of everyone. "Be Careful" is a warning, that it's completely up to you which plane you'll walk, whether you're part of the solution or problem, good or not good, essentially. As for the world dropping off? I would say that it's realising everything I've written above, that we're fully capable of an entire spectrum of things, and it's up to us what happens. "The world" being the very foundation of our existance implies that the fall is of massive proportions, and realising that we're down the darker path as of now, dropping off the world is but the bitter truth. You've fallen off a planet, you'll be falling for a while. you've got time, breathe in and out, gather yourself. So? Ain't it so weird how being human makes you a weapon? ----- There could be a great deal of political meaning too, dealing with situations during and following 9/11. It could stretch into numerous things though. The comment made earlier about relations between the United States and Canada is a new one to me. It could mean love, dealing with arms, running a nation. It can so easily be interpreted in many ways, so we'll just have to trust Matt's on it's originally intended meaning, which is given to you in my very first quote. Though, like all other songs it still retains the ability be translated in different ways to different people. |
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