| The Jezabels – Mace Spray Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I read what Nik Kaloper had said about this song in the "Triple J" magazine a while ago and I had no idea what he was saying. He said it was about questioning a particular ideology (presumably feminism) or something to that effect. It didn't make sense to me at all. Until I read this interview here with Hayley Mary: http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/music/bands/the-jezabels-feminine-mystique/ Here's a quote from her: "I studied a little bit of gender studies towards the end of my arts degree, and I really got interested in the stigma of feminism, and how people are kind of like, oh, get over it, and it’s just sort of a bad word. And to be a feminist is, you know, passe and negative and naive, and all that kind of stuff. And I wanted to somehow be a femme band but be aware of that at the same time, and I think my lyrics are just a process of me trying to do that. Whether I succeed or not is questionable, because most people don’t get it. With (the song) “Mace Spray,” for example (whose chorus includes the line, “She loves me / More than anyone who wouldn’t lay a hand”), it’s kind of about feminism, the “she” in it. And her as a sort of fairly fickle master, and having trouble with her because she wants to liberate you and she means so many good things to you as a woman, or as a girl. But at the same time, she makes you really scared and she makes you have a lot of anger. And trying to sort of be a modern feminist, or a contemporary feminist, or someone who doesn’t have to hate men and all the negatives of feminism. I suppose, for me, it’s an attempt to try and put feminism in your face, whilst transcending or even satirizing that attitude that it’s a negative thing. But also, I’m torn. Like, it sometimes is a bad thing for me. It makes you angry. It’s basically my ongoing struggle with feminism." |
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| Laura Marling – Devil's Spoke Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Rachel28, I'm sorry but do you have to be so rude? Sometimes the people who post up lyrics on here do it by ear and sometimes the words are difficult to make out. Mistakes happen. Who cares? (This coming from a self-proclaimed Grammar Nazi). I'm sure people post lyrics up as a way of showing their appreciation to the artist, not as an act of disrespect even if their lyrics ARE wrong. And besides, your "corrections" are also wrong. It's "country drip" and "Many trains and many miles, brought you to me". http://www.lauramarling.com/lyrics.php?song=devils-spoke There's only one minor mistake I can see on that "official" page and it's where "flowers grows" should be "flower grows". |
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| The Jezabels – A Little Piece Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hey, your lyrics sound right. At least that's how I would have transcribed it too. But the band's posted up a copy of the lyrics on the forum and they're like so: There’s a cold, easy glow dancing over our street. I could have chased it down. I could’ve held your love, But wouldn’t you think me weak? Of all, I should know How the streets come and go When you chase the kaleidoscope dream, but, Stranger, baby, always keep me in your sweet memory. Biting cold, thrashing, scolding, Drowned me under our street. Perfect hips, perfects tits she was. Perfect lips, pieces of your heart, Splattered on the cliff. We go home, watch a movie. Tell me can you feel the beat? Getting loose, getting loose she was, Letting those feeling loose; She was, becoming a monster. She drew the line in the mind. She was not holding on. And have you been through the sea, on the night? Hold me tight. Babe, we’ve got it. And did you find that you’d like a little Piece of cherry pie, hot from the oven? The oven? And it was “who let the girl out”, Let the dog out “let the girl out”, Don’t you miss me the way I miss you? Sailor, Sailor, Sailor, I’m sending birds to watch over you. And when you see Honah Lee is a lie, Hold me tight. Babe, we’ve got it. All you need, honestly, A little piece of cherry pie, Hot from the oven. On your knees, face me, Cherry pie, baby. |
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| Mumford & Sons – Dust Bowl Dance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song, personally, seems to paint a vivid story of a young man who grew up poor in the farming countryside. He has no other family and the people in his community too have been driven off their land as it "had given all it could yield". I'm assuming someone of considerable wealth and power had "used" these people and, for lack of a better word, raped them of their possessions and fields. Dust bowls can indeed be terrible disasters, and maybe the "dust bowl" itself is a metaphor for the brutality of that wealthy someone. The persona - the young man - feels mistreated and disheartened by what he considers an injustice. He grows up bearing great hatred for whoever wronged him and his people, like a Robin Hood, of sorts. Acting as a vigilante, he seeks out the wrongdoer and kills him. In the end, he is caught and a confession is unapologetically brought forth. Of course, this is purely a literal analysis. I don't even know how to begin reading it figuratively. |
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| Jens Lekman – A Postcard To Nina Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The song describes Lekman having an awkward dinner with Nina and her parents. He's pretending to be her date so she can hide the fact that she's gay from her father who has a "catholic heart [which] is big and slow". He "thinks about [her] every second" but knows it will never amount due to her preferences, so I'd suppose that the song is somewhat sad in that respect. "Don't let anyone stand in your way" is probably a plea for Nina to not hold back or hide the things that make her who she is and what makes her a happy person. That she shouldn't let her father's conservative nature "stand in [her] way". |
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| Sarah Blasko – The Albatross Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I studied S.T Coleridge's poetry a while ago and some of Sarah Blasko's songs relate to it in way or another, even the cover is a direct homage, I think. This is very similar to a Coleridge poem called "The Rime of Ancient Mariner" where a seaman has committed a crime (killing an albatross) and he starts to realise it and he wears the bird's carcass on his neck to remind him. Soon, a ghost ship appears ahead of his own with two beings: Death and Life-in-Death - which might be what she means by "Two ships are sailing" - to pass judgement upon the seaman. Etc, etc, etc, he is punished and then the seaman...actually, I'm rambling. In short, the albatross is a symbol of hope but after it is killed, it becomes a symbol of guilt. So, this song could be about a confession and the purging of some form of guilt, or to "unlock the latches that bind us". Without much thought to the poem, I just think it's about two people, they like each other and then sail off into the sunset. Lol, both are wrong anyway. It's just my take on it. |
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| Tegan and Sara – Knife Going In Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yes, you two are right on both counts. That said, I've not much of a clue as to what this song means. "She" probably represents something intangible rather than a person. |
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| Tegan and Sara – My Number Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I agree with most that's already been said. No point in reiterating the point. I think it's funny how different their voices are in this song and their newer songs but regardless, the song is lovely. | |
| Sandi Thom – Lonely Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah, I think those lyrics you mentioned are right too Baby Girl. And the first "Isn't it regrettable?" should be "Isn't it incredible?" But yes, great song. It's about the only one I like of Miss Thom's. It's meaning is quite self-explanatory from the lyrics methinks. |
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