| Bright Eyes – Well Whiskey Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[bright:18015]-realities did you drink since then? | |
| Life Without Buildings – The Leanover Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Man, I really thought I had something, but it turns out the dates don't match at all. I'll share it with you anyway. I knew she was saying "If I lose ya" but it also sounded like "Fallujah," the site of a bloody campaign in 2004 in the US-Iraq War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah), and so also "if I lose ya in the street" it sounded like it could be "a Fallujan street." The combat in Fallujah was in an urban area, so if you were there fighting, it would be in the streets. Then, toward the end, she starts saying "Contact!" which is what you might shout if you spot an enemy soldier (see this use: http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/18/world/fg-killing18). She also seems to be getting upset and possibly inconsolable toward the end of the song. So it sort of sounded to me like the song could be about the speaker losing someone she cares about in the Fallujan streets--buuuut it's not. It could still be about someone dying to enemy gunfire somewhere, but, alas, the Fallujah angle is gone. |
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| Modest Mouse – Heart Cooks Brain Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Is it possible that he says something other than those first four lines? I'm hearing "It's a coal mine" and "It's a bad thought" as "It's all mine . . . so back off" I don't have the liner notes, though, so maybe that's Word of God what the lyrics are. Still not sure I'd believe it even if I read it in the liner notes, though. |
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| Built to Spill – The Plan Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It is now a new decade, and no sign of GeeMo. We keep the vigil. Not one of my favorite interpretations, but one I couldn't resist when on various substances: the plan is God's (or Somebody's) plan for the world, and all the hell that can happen in civil war and genocide and disease moment to moment only really makes sense in the largest context. You could extrapolate that to political leaders' plans in general, or the fact that humanity just in general is a planning species. Some people have already hit upon that, just that we're planners. I think th3house might be right that they have some specific plan in mind, and the one to conquer the world is assuredly a plan that keeps coming up throughout history, but the plan to make the whole world in love with itself is an even more common plan--one most people never go as far as most conquistadors go in implementing. Anyway, I am sure GeeMo will clarify for us all when he gets back. |
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| Eyedea & Abilities – Glass Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| at least, that's what i always thought. | |
| Eyedea & Abilities – Glass Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Cursive – Mama, I'm Swollen Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I see a logical progression from "Mama, I'm Satan" through "Let Me Up" to this song. In "Mama, I'm Satan," I think Kasher is singing as the adolescent believing he is important enough to be The Wrecker of the World, the writer who thinks his writ is holy, the sort of person he addressed in "Opening the Hymnal/Babies." In Billy Corgan's words, he is "intoxicated with the madness, [he's] in love with [his] sadness." Then there is more maturity in "Let Me Up," a sort of hopelessness or nihilism, that there is no point, that our world is thick with meaningless and absurdity. It's comfortable, but desperate. The struggle of "Mama, I'm Satan," is gone, along with any hope of cure. The speaker just seems to want ANY sort of purpose or end or oblivion. The final line is particularly suggestive: there's all this potency, but it's trapped in the shell of the body. Which brings us to this song, the bloody fact of that potency. Here, you have pregnancy--and so heartbreakingly and surprisingly. I imagine a young teen girl going to her mother to confess so ineloquently but earnestly, "Mama, I'm swollen." But this is the potency of the body dreamed of in "Let Me Up," this is the purpose we get. It is the only way deeds are ever made flesh--and how great a consequence those deeds are, because not only does a newborn eventually rip out of you, bloody, but they suffer this bloody world, and then they die--all because of one single decision, one act. |
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| The Dandy Warhols – Mohammed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The fact that being alone is in some ways a failure and the doubt about the value (or even the truth) of freedom makes me think this is a person who repeatedly tries and fails to make connections with people. It's a huge jump, but a possibility that occurred to me was a sex addict or at least a promiscuous person who recognizes the value of a relationship, thinks that the "freedom" one gets by being a bachelor is no freedom at all, and yet can't help themselves and inevitably cheats or leads people on, etc. If that's the case, "Augustine" might be a better title. |
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| The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I respect: - people who did not like Darjeeling Limited - people who did - people who did hear this song before seeing the film - people who first heard the song in the film I think: - the song is good - the movie is good I hope: - anyone who disagrees by speaking in cruel generalities and arguing in ad hominem goes back to 4chan. |
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| John Lennon – Mind Games Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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1. "Some kind of druid dudes" always struck me as a ridiculous, bad line -- but the sort of line my friends would say. 2. Loose Tongue: He's talking about the world getting better off into infinity--the exact opposite of a sudden end of the world in flames and terror. |
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| Toadies – I Burn Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm also gonna go with fahrenheit 451. pg. 60: "Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriums. Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean." |
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| Bright Eyes – I Will Be Grateful for This Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I know that it's supposed to rhyme with "well," but for the life of me, I think the lyric is "his handsome head," just because it makes way more sense to me that way. Conor has certainly used imperfect rhymes before. Maybe he sings it so that you can take both from it. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – You Are the Rake Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| maybe it has something to do with how love is about trying to be another person, and we try so hard to do that, and we just can't, but we still have to try. | |
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