| Drapht – Rapunzel Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Couldn't believe there were no lyrics up for this - got addicted when I heard it getting a fair bit of play on Triple J recently. From the lyrics and the video it's easy to see that this is a song about a relationship that starts out alright where he's charming giving her gifts and sees her as a shorter version of Erin McNaught (Miss Universe) but the girlfriend, "Rapunzel" and he start to fight (Calling for calm, we fought; made Iraq / and the border of Jordan a walk in the park) but it's "too hard to break it off" and so they stay together despite her getting gradually more and more controlling despite his pleas for her to let her hair down (a nice play on words with Rapunzel). Eventually he realised that she wasn't the "cinderella" he fell in love with and though it was hard, he had to move on... though at the end of the video he's seen chasing an equally aloof lookalike to the original Rapunzel, haha. I think it's particularly great to see Aussie hiphop artists using more local references. I actually got all of them in this one, which I'll admit I don't in a lot of US hiphop. Anyway, just to clarify all the references for fans worldwide: Erin McNaught: Aussie Supermodel, known for having a great bum Pandora: a kind of bracelet really popular here where you can add "charm" beads to a simple silver or gold bracelet. Herbie - The Love Bug: awesome vw bug that had a series of movies made about it. Sentient and awesome :) (We don't speak of the Lindsey Lohan abomination) :P Russell Crowe: Aussie celeb who got in a spot of bother in an incident where he threw an unplugged and faulty phone from his hotel room at a concierge, over frustration at not being able to call his wife who was in Aus at the time while he filmed in the US. Hewitt: Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player known for angry cries when his serves go out. "Underlay underlay": a great play on words here with "andale andale" meaning "faster, faster" in Spanish, according to the video "Underlay" is a beer company. I'm not familar with it personally though. Britney: everyone knows Britney. Everyone also knows her lip-synching. Truman: reference to the Truman Show, where a guy didn't know his life was being made into reality tv, his every movement watched. Dodi: Dodi Fayed, the late Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales' lover who died with her in a car crash. It is alleged that the crash was caused by paparazzi trying to chase their car, hence "dying for a photo". Naomi Campbell: diva-esque supermodel, well known for "flying off the handle" when upset. |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Disappear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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That does look a lot better, bfg. Have you submitted those as corrections? :) I like it; I mean, the first thing anyone's going to say is that it's really, really different from everything on Even If It Kills Me, but I think that they keep up their lyrical intensity which is kind of why I fell in love with them in the first place. Any thoughts on the meaning? To me it seems to be about being able to go unnoticed, "disappear", even by the people/person you care about, how difficult it is to go on being ignored "first you breathe out, then you breathe in" even though you'll be "with you 'til the end." |
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| Dean Geyer – On The Way Down Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Best. Cover. Ever. He actually added to my love of this song on idol, rather than the millions of other covers that make me actuallywant to check to see if my ears are bleeding. |
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| Lemon Demon – Knife Fight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Haha, gangs. :D I love the final line by Marty: "Oh, that was fun... where's my knife?" I think this song is satirising pretty much the violence in the world today... particularly the use of sarcasm in "civilised gentlemen" part :D |
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| Coheed and Cambria – Cuts Marked in the March of Men Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hey guys - just thought I'd ask - howcome there's no lyric translation for the acoustic version of this song? The lyrics are the same but slightly reshuffled, and there's an acoustic guitar interlude followed by some words that I can't make out, bu involve "delivering" and "this way" and something that sounds like "the pain will not show" or something. Any ideas? |
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| Vanessa Amorosi – Shine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Did you know that this song was originally going to be called "Die" but Vanessa's label thought it was too depressing a title, so they forced her to change the name of the song to "Shine" - and then it went and landed in the Australia top forty! Clever marketing ^^ That aside, it's a beautiful song. |
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| Evanescence – Lithium Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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First of all: the last two lines are slightly incorrect! It should read "Lithium - stay in love with me oh... I'm gonna let it go" Second. This song is amazing. To me, it's a song about the struggle to walk the line between feeling and getting hurt because you feel too damn much. I've been hurt before because I laid myself open, but after shutting everyone else out for a time afterwards, I realised that I'd rather let people in and get hurt because of that, because not hurting and not feeling in themselves were more damaging to me. This song seems to express that really well, even if it does refer to bipolar disorder. I think there are varying degrees to everything, including depression, and that the reason Amy and the gang portray this emotion as something so all-encompassing is because they are artists - they feel more. This is now my favourite song... it's so haunting and mirrors that stage in my life so perfectly. I guess songs are like Astrology predictions - they can be interpreted different ways to mean different things to different people. (Oh and this morning, singing to the radio, I discovered I can get the highest note at the end... so proud!!!) Luv phoenixintheashes. |
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