| The Colour – The Devils Got a Holda Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I don't feel that this song is a rip off of Led Seppelin's "Rock and Rol?" Although both songs are equally amazing. I have absolutely no idea what it might mean, however. Drug addiction undertones" Ah, there's a small possibility. The "Devil" might be the drug addiction. "well it's a lonely lonely lonely lonely road Well it's cold it's cold it's cold it's so damn cold and we're all in the same mess alone Lone lone lonely lonely lonely alone" He's all alone because he's on drugs and that creates a sort of prison for him. He says he's lonely 48264206 times in the song so I feel that that has some deep meaning for him. "And we're all in the same mess alone" He's surrounded by "friends" who are on drugs also or have some sort of issue that makes them all in the same mess together, but alone at the same time. |
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| The 69 Eyes – Lost Boys Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Wow, I know you all love this song, it kicks ass, but there were about 18 + posts and only two or so vaguely hinted at what the song means. Anyone care to take a shot? | |
| The Honorary Title – Everything I Once Had Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The guy has a girlfriend that he loves, but she's unfaithful yet he still stays by her. But he can't hold on to her anymore, because there's a hole in the trust that they built up in the 6 months they were together in his bed. She dumped him on Valentine's Day as he was going to work at nine in the morning. He tried to avoid the (annoying) red cliches of the day, and while everybody else held bouquets of flowers he just held his face in the basement trying to get rid of the memory of her. "Falling victim to the public's prey" means that he's not alone and he's up for grabs by vicious society. Because come on, society can sometimes majorly suck for a newly single guy or girl. In the last stanza he makes a remark about how his ex will hook up with anyone because she's a whore about it. She was just a phase he had to go through....She's beautiful, and he loves her but it's over. I can imagine the guy drunk, screaming and crying the last stanza. The line, "with your beautiful blue and white" might mean blue eyes and pale white skin? |
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| Chevelle – Panic Prone Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Gave in again The bastard Can keep refusing right So, he'll loan the cash But the sin, is on the hands of you" Possibly a girl? owes money but she can't pay it. So another gave in, he just couldn't refuse the right way. And the narrator of the song thinks he's a bastard for giving in and not letting the girl deal with her own problems. "So, to care or Plead silence Weekends are calling" The question is, should you always help a person to show you care, of remain silent and let them deal on their own? "There's close enough And there's too far It won't change an empty stair But, I can't seem to end These images Hauntingly looks like hell" The guy is petrified of letting people get close. There's close enough... But he likes having people there for him. He doesn't want people to be too far away... Try as he might, the guy is tortured. He can't seem to get the haunted images out of his head. Undertones that the girlfriend hurt him? Possibly something more? "(come) Enter the foreign (fate) All that’s shameful (cheat) May the past find (out) Separating" "Cheat, may the past find out..." The girl can cheat on him, but he wishes he had found out in the past. "Separating" means he's leaving her? "To end this catastrophic scene Awake and breathe in To care or (To care or) To care or (To care or)" He wants to end it. Things are too painful. But what else can he do but care? |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Lightness Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is about a guy who likes a girl but is afraid to say it. So he sneaks glances. It doesn't seem perverted, it was something he couldn't help doing. The ivory lines are her skin he sees through the tears in the fabric. "oh, instincts are misleading you shouldn't think what you're feeling they don't tell you what you know you should want. You shouldn't think you like someone, you should know it. You shouldn't think you love someon, you should know it like instinct. The guy just is petrified to approach this girl and is reasoning with himself. He just can't bring himself to do it. Possibly she's popular and beautiful, and he's kind of an outcast? |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Bad Reputation (Freedy Johnston cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"I know I got a bad reputation And it isn't just talk talk talk If I could only give you everything You know I haven't got I couldn't have one conversation If it wasn't for the lies lies lies And still I wanna tell you everything Till I close my eyes" A guy has a bad reputation, (obviously) and it's all true. He can't ever have a conversation with someone without lying to them. In a nutshell, he's fucked. He wants to tell (someone) the truth till he's exhausted and closes his eyes but can't seem too. "Suddenly I'm on the street Seven years disappeared Below my feet Been breakin down Do you want me now? Do you want me now? He's livingo n the street now because he's so messed up, 7 years went by so fast he doesn't remember it. Or maybe he did so much drugs and drank too much alcohol to remember it all? He asks a girl, "Do you want me now?" I think it's a reverse psychology deal. He will only trust the girl if the girl can truly love him for all his good and bad qualities. He's hit rock bottom, but he still wants her love, and that's the only thing that matters. "Suddenly I'm down in Harold Square Looking in a crowd Your face is everywhere Been turning around Do you want me now? Do you want me now?" He can't get her out of his mind. Her face is everywhere. Does she still want him after all he did? "Don't try to be an inspiration You're just wasting your time time time You know I'm 'bout the best I'll ever be I see it in your eyes I know I got a bad reputation And it isn't just talk talk talk If I could only give you everything You know I haven't got" He doesn't want her help. Doesn't want her to think she can fix him. Where he is right then, how bad his life is is the best he'll ever be. He's not going to get any better...He wants her to know he's a bad guy, but he'd give her everything he doesn't even have if she wanted... "Suddenly I'm in another place Looking in the crowd I think I see your face Been turning round Do you want me now? Do you want me now?" Now things are switched, he thinks he sees her face so he turns around and wants to know if she still wants him. Her face isn't "everywhere" now, but he still wants her. "Don't you think I've heard the talk Nobody's gonna tell me who to look Been breakin' down Do you want me now? Do you want me now? But I'm just breakin' down down down down down Been breakin' down down down down down Been breakin' down down down down down Been breakin' down down down down down" Nobody will ever be able to tell him who to love, meaning he loves her despite everybody. But he's breaking down and he's not good enough for her. In fact he's been breaking down all his life and he needs her to know that. |
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| Brand New – Sowing Season (Yeah) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is about a guy who was with a girl that was an alcoholic and a druggie. He's slowly losing all his friends because non of them can stand his girlfriend the way she is. Maybe the guy was into drugs and alcohol too but he's trying to come clean: "I am on the mend And at least now I can say that I am trying And I hope you will forget The things that I still lack" "Is it in you now, To watch the things you gave your life to, broken? And then stoop and build them up With worn out tools?" She fucked up in life, and now everything's shattered. Now she has to rebuild her life, (rehab) even though she's messed up from the drugs and alcohol (worn out tools). "Nothing gets so bad That a whisper from your father couldn't fix it He whispers like a bridge It’s a river spanned Take all that you have And turn it into something you would miss if Somebody threw that brick That shattered all your plans" Her life may seem bad, but it's not that horrible. He makes the distinction by saying that nothing gets so bad that her father's kind words couldn't fix. In the stanza just above, the guy wants the girl to make her life better, so that it would be something she'd miss if she ever lost it again. By doing that, she'd be less inclined to ever do drugs again because her life was worth more. Few people tend to do drugs if they have a lot to lose by doing it... "Do you miss the blend Of color she left in your black and white field? Do you feel condemned Just for being there? I am not your friend, your lover, or your family, yeah" I think the "do you miss the blend" stanza is the guy asking, "Do you miss the drugs?" And the, "Do you feel condemned, just for being there" part is the guy asking, "Do you feel condemned for being in rehab?" In the last line, beautifully, the guy washes his hands of her. He says he's not her friend, lover or family. They're over, she screwed up waay too many times but he's at least willing to help her get better, then he'll leave. |
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| The Postal Service – Nothing Better Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Oh what a quintessential way to show the tragic story of a guy who fucked up, a girl who is leaving him because he hurt her too much, and just how much he wants her back. His heart is broken, and he would do anything to get it fixed. "So just say how to make it right And I swear I'll do my best to comply" He'll go to hell and back for her it seems. The girl is tired, she's tired of getting hurt and is willing to argue her point. Hence: "I feel I must interject here You're getting carried away Feeling sorry for youself With these revisions and gaps in history So let me help you remember I've made charts and graphs That should finally make it clear I've prepared a lecture on why I have to leave" The guy is probably annoying her. He fucked up, not her. He had his chance so he shouldn't have wasted it. "Don't you feed me lines About some idealistic future My heart won't heal right If you keep tearing out the sutures" She's fed up with him...she can't let herself trust him again after all the times he hurt her. "I admit that I have made mistakes And I swear I'll never wrong you again You've got a lure I can't deny But you've had your chance so say goodbye Say goodbye" He's valiantly trying anything. It seems like he'd get on his hands and knees and beg at his point. But alas, even though she loves him, he had his chance and now this is the end. Ah, what a beautiful song. |
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| The Postal Service – This Place Is a Prison Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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You can create your own prison in your mind. And I think that's what he did. He was into drugs and alcohol. Inhalling "thrills" through $20 is an obvious. "Tumblers" are drinking glasses with a round bottom so he keeps drinking out of the glass, and it keeps getting refilled. It's his prison that he can't get out of, a never-ending cycle. "And I know that it's not a party If it happens every night Pretending there's glamour and candelabra When you're drinking by candlelight" If you continually abuse drugs and alcohol, it's a habit, not a party. He's trying to pretend his lifei s glamourous when in all actuality, it's hell for him. When he asks: "What does it take, to get a drink in this place..." He was probably at a bar? Maybe he got cut off? |
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| The Dandy Warhols – You Were The Last High Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I feel that this song is about a guy that really loved a girl, but they ended things. Then when it said: "You were awake And I should've stayed But wondered" Maybe he hooked up with her on a random night and regretted it the next morning so he should have stayed, but chose not too because he knew she'd only hurt him. Then: "I was the first to have spoken And I said just about All of the things you shouldn't say So maybe you loved me but now Maybe you don't And maybe you'll call me Maybe you won't (oh)" He chose to say what she wanted to avoid saying. That they were truly over. Then later he things that maybe she loves him but she just might not, and maybe she'll call him but maybe she won't. It sounds like he's given up on her and really doesn't care too much. She's hurt him too badly. In a crowd of 100,000 more, he feels alone because of all she did to him. She was the happiest he had ever been, his last "high." |
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| The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I didn't catch any gay undertones in this song. To me, it's about a guy that really likes a girl and is trying to point out all the similarities they have. For instance, he might work at a place that cooks vegan food, and since she's vegan... Also, they have similar good looks (which does seem a little shallow of the guy to point that out...) They both wait tables for a living, and she has a band that he seems willing to listen too. My review is a little mushed, my thoughts aren't too clear, but that's my take on this lovely song. | |
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