| Wilco – One By One Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Love this song. It makes me feel a weird mix of sadness and happiness. Its by Woody Guthrie but he never performed it. | |
| Wilco – Via Chicago Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love this song, but the live version is just so incredible. I'm not sure about the lyrics, but especially the in the live version the emotion is amazing. I love how it builds up into almost cacophony, but then returns to the simple melody. I love that tension and release. | |
| Paul Simon – American Tune Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this is a beautiful, sad song. I love it. | |
| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love the idea of a "crooked bow" being a violin bow. I never thought of it that way. But then again I am not a violinist. But it makes a lot of sense for Andrew Bird to be singing about. The first time I heard the song I thought he was saying a "crooked bone" which I think is an interesting image even though its not the correct lyric. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The first part makes me think of an old photograph. Like the old black and white ones that they hand tinted (I think that's what its called when they add in the colors by painting with dye). | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I love this song. Narrow stairs over all is a great album. I like it almost as much as Transatlanticism. I honestly really like the intro because it slowly builds up. Its not just the same thing played over and over. I don't find it boring. If you're not patient enough for the intro, I guess you can just listen to the radio edit -shrug- I also like the fact that this song at first sounds like an innocent boy wants girl song, but as you start to examine it more you realize that it's pretty creepy. It kind of goes with the story of the song and how love can turn into something dark. Lundylow: You refer to The Island: The Landlord's Daughter by the Decemberists, yes? :'D |
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| Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing! Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this song. I can't help but to dance around madly whenever I listen to it! | |
| Colbie Caillat – Realize Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song comes on the radio SO much and I HATE it. | |
| Cake – Short Skirt/Long Jacket Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| In a way, I think it's somewhat of a parody of all those songs that talk about the girl they want. I get that feeling from the fact that the lyrics are kind of silly such as "fingernails that shine like justice". So it's about an impossibly awesome girl with all of the great qualities, regardless of conflicting attributes. | |
| Cake – Mahna Mahna (Piero Umiliani cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| AMAZING is all I can say to describe this song. | |
| Gorillaz – Rock The House Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song rocks. Hahaha The video is basically one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. |
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| Radiohead – The Tourist Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. I love how it's really slow and mellow and the lyrics are saying "slow down". I also love how... final it seems. I went to a first screening of a film by some film students and they used this song near the end of their movie, so I will always associate it will things ending. | |
| Sublime – Caress Me Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It sounds like Bradley is vomiting garbage or something in this song | |
| Tally Hall – Smile Like You Mean It Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I LOVE this cover. It's a Killers song, but sounds distinctly Tally Hall. Which I think is the point of a cover. | |
| Beck – Hotwax Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love his songs with spanish in them. He's very obviously not a native speaker. He pronounces everything so.... white. Haha. | |
| Cake – When You Sleep Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's about dreams, and who you really are in your subconscious, with the double entendre of masturbation :) | |
| The Fratellis – Whistle for the Choir Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yes, I agree with MishaLove that everyone has pretty much covered the meaning. However, I think the part where he says 'So if you're lonely, why'd you say you're not lonely?' is referring to the girl saying that she's not single, even though she is. She would have told him that to avoid directly denying him, and he's wondering why. |
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| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Deus Ex Machina Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Okay here is a very ROUGH translation of the song. I'm not a native speaker and have limited vocabulary, but since no one has translated it yet, here it goes: Queen, queen of my life Fill, my kingdom of happiness has bright in her sight (something about beauty) the hours are long (something along these lines, this is not exact) when you are not at my side (no idea) the love that has professed reaching to understand that you are the queen of my life and on your head i place the crown (?) the hours are short if I have you well around and the flower shrivels(?) when it hears your sigh you look like a (?) (I think this line should read "tu miras como un filo) that pierces very profoundly you controll so my world adjoins(?) the queen of my life so yeah, just reading through those lyrics there are a lot of mistakes, and there are no accent marks. Also another note is that the lyrics have a lot of "ita"s in it, which is like a suffix of endearment in Spanish. But yeah, that's my undoubtly horribly incorrect translation, but you kind of get the gist. |
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| Islands – Rough Gem Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Er, no. That is completely wrong. The song is very obviously about diamonds. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Not coke. If it was about cocaine, why would there be references about miners in Africa. The part about the miners is referring to how the Europeans create the cities and mines in Africa and employ Africans who work very hard with little pay. Whenever there's a new deposit found, it's the Europeans who benefit, not the workers. And on the topic of songs not meaning anything, I think it is acceptable. Sometimes a poem/lyrics will be about sounds and rhythm as opposed to meanings. But this particular song is obviously meaningful. |
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| The Mars Volta – Vicarious Atonement Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think the album has a lot to do with religion, but not necessarily that it is bad. I think it means that with religion should come spirituality, not blind faith. But anyway. Vicarious atonement means atonement through another person. In the medieval ages rich people payed monks to do their praying for them so that they wouldn't have to bother doing it themselves but would still reach "salvation". I think this song is critizing religions hate towards other religions (especially how a lot of Christians hate other religions). The river Ganges is a river in India, one that is very very sacred to Hindu people. A lot of people have their ashes put into the Ganges after they die. I think there are some other ceremonies or something that has to to with Hinduism. Anyway, "in the River Ganges God damns my name" is my favorite line. I think it's saying that like, some people would believe that God condemns the people of other religions. But yeah. Love this song. It's so emotional and almost passive agressive-sounding to me. |
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| The Mars Volta – Viscera Eyes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Wow, that is like, totally right. I completely agree. That just really makes a lot of sense. | |
| Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Undead Custard: Christianity is the most popular religion. Around 30 percent of the world population is christian. However Islam is the fastest growing... Nihasa: Please just shut up. You're an idiot. |
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| Sublime – Seed Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about a guy taking a girl's viriginity. | |
| The Mars Volta – Asilos Magdalena Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| What I love about this song is that the language has multiple meanings. It makes it really intriguing to someone who loves Spanish. | |
| The Mars Volta – Viscera Eyes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I don't think that the album is saying that religion is crap. I think it is focusing more on how people are so obsessed with their religion that they cannot accept that other people believe other things. I think it could also be criticizing people who blindly follow, saying that religious figures and symbols mean nothing if you believe without reason. I also think it could be about how people fight over beliefs and cannot see the problems that they should really be dealing with. | |
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