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| Sufjan Stevens – Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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To me this song is about the ultimate acceptance of social identity. Sufjan spent the first seventy minutes talking about vanity, murder, love, death, fear, ambition, failure, and it is all indeed very laughable. It is the mess of human life, and in the final song we plunge face first into that mess, free and content. |
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| The Antlers – Epilogue Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The dude's losing his wife to cancer. He has not fallen in love with her in the hospital, they were married before she was diagnosed. They had a strained relationship and she is killing hims as she herself is dying. He blames himself for her death and the entire album is a fever dream. He is equating his obscene amounts of grief with his own death. |
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| Team Sleep – Tomb Of Liegia Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It seems to me that it's refering to actual events. For some reason I get a mental image of those Jonestown Massacre photo's when I hear this song. |
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| Deftones – Xerces Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The annoying paradox of Deftones is the music's relationship to the lyrics: Chino writes in such an obscure, minamalist fashion that the lyrics alone are not much more than wierd little statements. But the music in addition makes it powerful- I often feel that Chino is making love to me with his words and music. This is partly why I get a little pissed at Deftones heavier songs: metal simply does not work well with lyics such as these. Ultimately, however, Chino is good enough at writing lyrics with music in mind that the songs that aren't so heavy are usually near materpieces, such as this one. |
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| Modest Mouse – Sunspots in the House of the Late Scapegoat Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song is about the way modern society attacks the indiviudual through social norms developed by advertising and such:
"The parts to pound attractive
Your feeling you owe on your size is bleeding"
This seems to be implying that the individual is abused in order to be made attractive in the eyes of everyone else. |
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| Regina Spektor – Somedays Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is another one of her songs where she hints at her sexuality. I'm fairly certain Regina is a lesbian. |
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| Regina Spektor – Summer in the City Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I see this as her coming-out song. I'm fairly certain Regina is a lesbian and I don't see how anyone can deny that this song is from a woman's perspective. |
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| Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Street Spirit," to me, is a phrase that sums up the attitude and soul of Radiohead. This is a band that rose out of the ashes, as all great artists do. The song is hard to listen to but extremely important to many of us. |
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| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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THE SONG HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A COUPLE. It's symbolism, birth. It's used in all the classic stories and poems. The idea of earth as a dead child is not a new one. |
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| Modest Mouse – Dashboard Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Long Drive is great, but you can't beat Moon and Antarctica for philosophy. I can listen to that album fifty times in a row and still find something new in it. |
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| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The song is about creation and reality. It has nothing to do with a couple. Isaac brilliantly uses a baby dead in the womb (baby cum angels . . . three and not just two) to symbolise the earth as a false assignment. What we have is a dead baby: so full of potential that will never be realized. |
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| Modest Mouse – Dashboard Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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What the fuck is wrong with you all? Yes, Good News was not one of their best albums, but you can't dismiss it because it just had a couple shitty songs on it. Have you assholes even listened to the whole album? It's got a lot of great songs on it. And anyway, Isaac's drinking problem (or lack there of, apparently) has nothing to do with his poetic and beautifull outlook on life. |
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| Modest Mouse – Beach Side Property Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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You're all forgeting the last part of the song:
"We're going union like they say
We'll buy the congregation
Then one day, you'll find us sitting
in your chairs with big ideas of stocks and shares."
It's about, not only the de-naturalization of nature and society, but of the loss of meaning to the human spirit. You're taking it too literaly, it's about us, not them. |
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| Modest Mouse – Custom Concern Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's about the way life falls into place before our eyes in a slow and lazy fashion. I don't think it has anything to do with "brain-washing." If you look around you, this is what you will see, monuments and steeples to wear out our eyes. This is a world created by us, not some power hungry society. The line that gets to me is "I don't feel at all like I fall." I actually wrote that on a bathroom wall today . . . |
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| Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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What none of you realize is that a Modest Mouse song will mean something entirely different to different peopel.
To me this one is about the way life creeps inside of you and you never even realize it's there until the day you die. Life is a waste of time as long as you don't pay attetnion to it. |
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