| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – A Jackknife to a Swan Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Jackknife and swan are 2 kinds of contrasting dives. The connotation of jackknife is abrupt and violent, upwards. The connotation of swan is collapse, downward, lifeless. My take is just a reading of the verse as a story. Walter worked at this place for 30 years, watching things get progressively worse. One day he looks out and watches Evelyn's violent murder. He leaves that day, doing the same thing he always does, but he's freaked out by Eveyln's murder. Someone calls out him, he doesn't know if they're after him, so he takes off. He slips because he's not thinking straight, and ends up hit by a train |
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| Tom Waits – Sins of My Father Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Hand on the wheel/gravel on the road/ Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold?" ... Amazing. Once the grove gets you these 10 minutes could be 10 seconds or 10 hours. It's basically poetry set to music, you could just publish the lyrics and I would still be a work of genius. How anyone can write this much, this perfect, is beyond my understanding. |
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| The Knife – Afraid of You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| can anyone make out what the guy sings? | |
| Fall Out Boy – Thnks fr th Mmrs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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ok here's a new idea, besides the hey chirs theory: maybe this is pete wentz telling the media and everybody to get the heck out of his life. when he says "and I want these words to make it right but it's the wong that make the words come to life" and then later the "put your finger back to the key" he's talking about how he knows that gossip magazines want to tell the truth but lies are more interesting and sell so they type what they believe isn't true. the chorus is basically saying that even if he does something that only lasted one night, the media is forcing him to remember it even if he doesn't want to. the line from closer is a reference to one of the biggest rumors about him, which has been said a thousand times and I don't need to say again. in the second verse, when he says that "been looking forward to the future but my eyesight is going bad" he's taking on the persona of the media, who try to predict and follow everything he does but can't see the truth. then, in the third verse, he talks about the public's reactions: how they say he's sold out, and how they believe the media's gossip about his alleged one night stands with "page six lovers," famous tabloid party girls. when he says "get me out of my mind get you out of these clothes/ I'm just a liner from getting you into the mood" he's mocking the way people say that he thinks. that's my opinion, at least. |
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| The Sound of Animals Fighting – Act I: Chasing Suns Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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You can make out the words more clearly from the live DVD version of this song. I contrasted your above lyrics from what I can hear on the DVD version... Instead of "all the fault you call" I hear "let them take the sky" and the rest is hard to make out, but def not what you wrote. Some other corrections.... "poster boy" instead of "talking boy" and "more frequently excuses finally come, forgive him when he gets back" |
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| Damien Rice – Me, My Yoke and I Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| http://board.damienrice.com/index.php?showtopic=212 | |
| 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Surprised noone pointed this out yet: "If I go crazy will you still call me Superman" This is a reference to Nietzsche and his death. Superman is a term borrowed from Nietzsche's philosophy. |
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| Cloud Cult – Your 8th Birthday Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is a great song. But the lyric is "You make lightning bugs swarm as if it was graduation" not "lightning bolts warm". | |
| Dawn Landes – Kissing Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love love love thing song. To me this song shows two lovers focused only on their special moment; kissing. So much is happening around them but they don't notice a thing. | |
| Metric – On the Sly Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The first section of this song seems to disenchant the idea of growing up. "Putting back a few" could be a reference to getting drunk, I'm not sure. The rest of this verse/intro is about growing up and getting older. Her old boyfriend isn't a DJ he's a musician who revolutionized music somehow "Broke the 12 bar blues" and is very rich and popular because of that "He pays the airline DJs now. He is everywhere". I don't think this actually happened to the singer as there is no mention of it on wikipedia. I find it hard to say exactly what this song is about but I find it very depressing/amazing at the same time. It is definitely about some sort of love affair and being disenchanted about growing up in a north American consumer culture as metric has written other songs criticizing American culture. |
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| Infected Mushroom – The Shen Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| anyone make out the lyrics at 3:26? | |
| In Flames – Dial 595-Escape Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is an excellent song, my favorite from In Flames in fact. I transcribed the song's drum part using Sibelius (so I can practice it), and was looking up the lyrics to put into the final score as a reminder... but it seems the lyrics are just used as filler in this song, because they don't make much sense :) Nevertheless, it's a great song and I'm going to play it a lot. |
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| Billy Joel – She's Always A Woman Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To elaborate, Joel is using "convicted" in a passive aggressive way, to describe marriage. He is taking the idea that a woman didn't have to be married, or at least, not in the traditional sense, from the equal rights movement, and kind of snarling it back at them. "Hi, here's what you ladies want, it seems like rubbish to me, you should be happy with a good man blah blah, as my Mother was, so here's me regurgiting some of your wishes, let's see how sarcastic I can be about it, and how stupid I can make you sound." | |
| Billy Joel – She's Always A Woman Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Uh, this is one of the very few songs that I think is really not that open to different interpretation at all. It's obviously about the rise of Women's lib, and if you grew up then you will know these views were very prevalent. Joel obviously felt threatened and misunderstood Women's rights. He was right in between eras. He experienced the days when you could easily buy a woman with money and fame, and she had very few rights in the relationship. He's saying that no matter what Women's lib throws at him he will always see a Woman in the traditional sense. He is semi sarcastic in most lyrics, discussing a Woman's Independence, education, and the desire to earn a living in a fairly disparaging way. No wonder he doesn't want to sing it anymore, particularly if he has daughters. His views may have simply matured. "Oh, she takes care of herself She can wait if she wants She's ahead of her time" "She can do as she pleases She's nobody's fool" "But she can't be convicted She's earned her degree" Some of you are trying to take this song out of the era it was written in, simply not understanding how different things were then. You want to think it's a love song, it really does superficially sound like one, but it's simply not. It's a song born out of fear, mistrust, loss of power, the politics of the '70's, disillusionment, the whole psychological kettle of fish. It is a misogynistic song, albeit a very beautiful one. |
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| John Lennon – How Do You Sleep? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| PS, as for the rhyme pattern, 'king' actually fits better than 'gay' would | |
| John Lennon – How Do You Sleep? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| @ z4ckm0rris: The word 'straights' is not used in reference to sexual orientation, but the character and lifestyle of the people he is referring to - they are 'straight' as in straight edge, drug free, boring (in john's opinion), etc. In telling him he 'was king' they are pumping up his ego, and suggesting that he was the most important Beatle. | |
| Michael McDonald – Yah Mo B There Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Funny, funny... Would be funnier, though, suckmykiss, if it wasn't a joke you took from 10,000,000 other people on the internet. | |
| The Whitlams – Tangled Up In Blue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Does to me. | |
| Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that this song is about a crippled person who doesn't want to live anymore. "Set my spirit free" and sirens in the background. I think it is a sign for death. |
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| Incubus – Drive Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| You could look into it like that, but it can also be for drinking and driving | |
| Alkaline Trio – If We Never Go Inside Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's a song about punk, getting old, staying honest, asking yourself when's the time to leave. Think about it: "for some of us it saved our lives" "It happens at a wonderful age, with the traffic lights your mind can change" "We made up rules to follow for good, No wonder we're fucked up, some of us did" And the chorus asks the final question: "Were you planning on staying forever? You don't fit in this hole, or don't you remember?" Walk slow (respect) through the "graveyard", the scene of the dead, the people who got stuck here forever, not willing to admit there's more to life than pretending to be 18 forever. We all know them. It's a wonderful song, full of unanswered questions that bother us all. And it shows no disrespect for anyone. |
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