| Built to Spill – Big Dipper Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I sort of get the feeling this Jack guy is kind of stuck in his childhood. | |
| Built to Spill – Big Dipper Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Jack thought it twice and thought that that that made it true Some brains just work that way that's what chemicals can do" Sounds like OCD, and I think it's interesting how he said "that" three times in a verse about OCD. |
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| Built to Spill – Broken Chairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't know what this song's really about, all I know is how I feel when I listen to it. I wish I could repeat in words not the lyrics, but what the music is saying. I don't know how else to describe it. Broken chairs makes me think of life's disappointments. We just have to adjust to them, you know? The quited garden sounds like your ideal life or world. I love the "my head's a dictionary of long spring days and the speech of crows". Spring is about life and birth, crows represent the opposite, as he points out ("mirrors of apprehension"). Hopes and fears. Good times and bad times. All these memories in his head. |
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| Built to Spill – Stab Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I disagree with the person who said this song is uplifting. I don't think it's depressing, either. I think it's just...honest. | |
| Built to Spill – Stab Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The first two verses sound like they're coming from someone who is seriously considering suicide. The third verse seems to be saying there is still a bit of a will to live, still something to stay alive for even if it's not much. The last verse sounds as if it's coming from someone who is disappointed with the way he's lived, but life goes on anyway, and it's wearing him out. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You Into the Dark Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| also, in the video he keeps pouring the milk but his bowl is never full. He's looking at the hole as he pours it, his eyes don't leave that hole. Seems like a representation of how some people never really live because they're so preoccupied with death. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You Into the Dark Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I thought I understood this song quite well until I saw the video. In the video he is completely alone, so who is he following into the dark? He just eats and sleeps, like he's depressed. There is no sign that another person used to be there with him, either. It's obviously about death because the hole just keeps getting bigger and he keeps trying to avoid it the way we avoid death. I like the part about catholic school, I think that's about turning away from religion and never going back to it, because he disagrees with the christian definition of "love". Sounds like the perfect love song, until you see the video and he is completely alone. When I listen to the song I imagine him valiantly facing death with someone he loves. Then you see the video and he's alone and afraid. |
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| Built to Spill – Built To Spill Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| life's disappointments. Or life as a disappointment. | |
| Toadies – Heel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's about a dominant-submissive sexual relationship. This guy has a pretty sick mind. | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen the Rain? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"there's a calm before the storm" makes me think of the "normal" mood a bipolar person might experience before a manic, hypomanic, or depressive episode. I don't know, this song just makes me think about that...rain on a sunny day. And it's always been that way, it can't stop. It's a cycle. I doubt that's what the song's about. It just makes me think about that because I'm bipolar. I can't help but think it has something to do with nam because of the similarity to "who'll stop the rain?" |
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| Toadies – I Come from the Water Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The first half of this song makes me think of the invasion of Normandy or something. I can just see a soldier rising out of the water to meet his destiny in battle. But I always just assumed the song was about evolution. | |
| Toadies – Tyler Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this song speaks for itself. | |
| Toadies – I Burn Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Fahrenheit 481? haha. This song is not about sin. No way. It's about fire being divine...if this song has anything to do with religion, it's a religion that doesn't even believe in sin. Sin is irrelevant. Cremation, yeah. Or some kind of earth religion and it's rituals with fire. |
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| Toadies – Backslider Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| yeah what musiclovah said is right on. I feel like I could have written this song. I remember being baptized; I remember thinking I saw Jesus when I was a kid; I remember being on bended knee, praying, how it was all so real. I don't claim that religion anymore. To me this song is about being faithful as a child because you look up to your parents and you believe what they tell you about religion, and then life happens and it doesn't matter how real it seemed when you were a kid; it's not real now. | |
| Built to Spill – In Your Mind Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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| Built to Spill – I Would Hurt A Fly Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I met Doug after a show and he seems like the nicest freaking person ever. So I wonder if everyone thinks he "wouldn't hurt a fly". And he's saying that they're wrong, he isn't always mr. nice guy and he's capable of hurting someone who has hurt him (let you go to sleep feeling bad as me)....know what I mean? And I wonder if this fly thing is in anyway related to "fly round my pretty little miss"? | |
| Built to Spill – Gone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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How can you explain The person to the pain And then the sickness to the sane beautiful. and I was thinking maybe he actually says, "not enough to just believe them." Anyone else think so? |
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| Doug Martsch – Sleeve Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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There isn't a way of deciding Which half of life's less inviting Awake or a dream Cause both of them lead you to suffer You wake from one into the other Twice a day beautiful. Dough Martsch is so talented, and seems like such a beautiful soul. He must be; just look at these lyrics. |
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| Built to Spill – They Got Away Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I can't believe no one's commented on this song. I love it. I met Doug Martsch after a show, but I was too shy to say much of anything. But he just gave off this really cool vibe, and now I wish I had said something, asked him some questions. He was very friendly and smiled a lot, and what a wonderful smile. | |
| Modest Mouse – King Rat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| blue penguin, I think you're wrong. These lyrics look right to me. | |
| Modest Mouse – King Rat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| do you think he's talking about himself? | |
| Modest Mouse – King Rat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this would have been the best song on the album. maybe second best after parting of the sensory. | |
| Modest Mouse – You'll See Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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yes, it does sound like people as places as people. It also sounds like Life Like Weeds and the Stars are Projectors, and probably some other songs. I'm talking lyrics-wise. Where the music is concerned, I find this song to be so soothing, like a lullaby. |
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| Ugly Casanova – Diamonds on the Face of Evil Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| has a native american feel to it. Reminds me of Cowboy Dan for some reason. | |
| Ugly Casanova – Cat Faces Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| good point nauseous. In third planet he talks about pitch, "your heart felt good, it was dripping pitch and made of wood." | |
| Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Life has no meaning other than the meaning we give it. You and I are as insignificant as weeds, and god, fate, or just death, acts as a gardener and pulls us up. When I saw them live they did a "Life Like Weeds" tease. He really stressed this part: And you think you feel most everything And we know that our hearts are just made out of strings To be pulled, strings to be pulled So you think you've figured out everything But we know that our minds are just made out of strings To be pulled, strings to be pulled It was the best part of the concert...I was so happy I nearly cried. And in the places you go, you'll see the place where you're from And in the faces you meet, you'll see the place where you'll die And on the day that you die, you'll see the people you’d met And in the faces you see, you'll see just who you've been that sounds like he's saying we're all part of the same thing...we all come from the earth and return to the earth...so basically we're all just a part of one whole thing...tao, perhaps? A lot of Brock's lyrics make me think about taoism--as a philosophy, not a religion. |
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| Bright Eyes – I Believe in Symmetry Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this song started making sense to me after I read about taoism. | |
| Bright Eyes – Easy/Lucky/Free Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| if I die young, I've left instructions for this song to be played at my funeral, along with Bowl of Oranges. | |
| Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Briansdemise, your comment made me think of something. In Parting of the Sensory Isaac says, "if you say what to do, I know what not to stop". Maybe he is talking about the paradox of free will. | |
| Modest Mouse – The Stars Are Projectors Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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When he says that the stars are projectors which project our lives down to earth...well, doesn't that just sound so absurd? Like so many religious claims. I can't help but wonder if he is trying to say with this song that the universe is based on that never ending math equation, a circle, no beginning and no end. So we should stop using religion to answer our questions because there are no answers here. |
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| Modest Mouse – White Lies, Yellow Teeth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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oh yeah, at the end this song sounds like doin' the cockroach a bit, and then for a minute it sounds like the end of cowboy dan. Cowboy Dan, to me, seems to be about the most timeless and universal reason for human suffering: awareness of and frustration over the inevitability of death and the meaningless it brings to our lives. Again, something I think Brock sings about a LOT. So I think that with this song Brock may be saying that we make all this crap up to make ourselves feel better about that, to give meaning to our lives. That's why it's a "white lie", because the intentions are good but it's still a lie. |
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| Modest Mouse – White Lies, Yellow Teeth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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First off, I think he is saying "I didn't convince you but I did me". He talks about taking a walk in the beginning of Parting of the Sensory, too. I think this walk he speaks of is a metaphor...maybe a metaphor for life? The walk of life? Because in parting of the sensory he talks about a lifelong walk to the exact same spot. In fact, this futility, getting nowhere, being fixed where we are, etc, is something he sings about a LOT lot lot. some hippie told me free your pets so i let them all go free it didn't take no time at all for them to run on back to me. OK, this reminds me of something from "This Devil's Work Day": Well let's take this potted plant to the woods and set it free I'm gonna tell the owners just how nice that was of me i knew a man who went on and on about how he knew a man who knew a man who knew a man who knew him once sounds like he is making a reference to the Bible, or just to any religious text. The "him" he speaks of would be God. And the man who goes on and on about how he knows a man who knew a man who knew....would be the authors of the Bible. you can keep diggin down and down inside and even turn around or find in hell you're diggin up again he's saying that the whole idea of heaven and hell is a joke. in the place before you're made they give you all these options like if you've got wings or have you got feelings or can you breathe under water? so are you going to be a bird, a human, or a fish? I don't know what he's talking about. This part seems like a joke to me. I wonder if this song could be mocking people who claim to know the truth about the afterlife, a higher power, the universe. Trying to say illustrate how silly they sound. Same thing I think of when I hear "the stars are projectors yeah, projecting our lives down to this planet earth." he chose lifting 10 times his weight and natural body armor and then on the day his mother gave he came out as an insect a cockroach? as in doin' the cockroach? the phrase "white lies yellow teeth" just makes me think of a preacher. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song is about the loss of innocence...the autumn of life, the "fall". Spring is birth, summer is childhood innocence, fall is the loss of that innocence, winter is old age, or death. This song tells the story of a couple losing their virginity to each other in a bathroom stall...well, at least the girl is losing her virginity, who knows about the guy. And it's a lonely view from here, because saying goodbye to your childhood is the beginning of the end. Fall begins and next is winter...or old age. It's a journey we all have to go through alone...very lonely. - |
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| Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| He says one time in the song, "Some day nothing will die and you were not meant to steal it's carbon." I swear to God. Just listen to it carefully. | |
| Modest Mouse – Doin' the Cockroach Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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algol--interesting. And it makes sense because meaninglessness seems to be something Isaac Brock sings about often. I wonder if this song has something to do with evolution, or lack of it. Because cockroaches have been around for so long but aren't they pretty much the same as they've always been? So aren't we just like cockroaches in that respect? We've just survived for so long, but we're not truly making any progress. That depends on how you define progress, obviously, but yeah. And I think that's something else he sings about often..."the more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind"..."every time you think you're walking you're just moving the ground"...lots more where that came from...the whole song seems to be comparing human beings to cockroaches. God I love this song. |
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| Modest Mouse – Alone Down There Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| ok, now I have to read Lord of the Flies. | |
| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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He says "the universe is shaped exactly like the earth" several times. there is a lot of repetition in this song. If the universe is shaped exactly like the earth then it's a sphere, or a circle, and it has no beginning and no end. Isaac sings about circles a lot, and the never ending math equation. The only thing he doesn't repeat in this song: My boss just quit the job says he's goin out to find blind spots and he'll do it. The 3rd planet is sure that they're being watched by an eye in the sky that can't be stopped. When you get to the promise land your gonna shake that eyes hand. I wonder if that means anything? He repeats everything else and starts over...like a circle? |
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| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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He says "the universe is shaped exactly like the earth" several times. there is a lot of repetition in this song. If the universe is shaped exactly like the earth then it's a sphere, or a circle, and it has no beginning and no end. Isaac sings about circles a lot, and the never ending math equation. The only thing he doesn't repeat in this song: My boss just quit the job says he's goin out to find blind spots and he'll do it. The 3rd planet is sure that they're being watched by an eye in the sky that can't be stopped. When you get to the promise land your gonna shake that eyes hand. I wonder if that means anything? He repeats everything else and starts over...like a circle? |
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| Modest Mouse – March Into the Sea Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| in the booklet it says "give me forced health until I wish death on myself" but it doesn't sound like he's saying that. It sounds more like "if I weren't so dead I'd wish death on myself"...that's just what it sounds like to me, and the lyrics booklet is often not quite right on other albums. And he often talks about being dead already. | |
| Modest Mouse – Whenever I Breathe Out, You Breathe In (Positive/Negative) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| roylennigan said above, "so we're stuck not feeling anything. not quite depressed, but never satisfied either. this isn't about love or some deep connection with another person, but rather the lack of one." And that and this song pretty much sums up what I've struggled with on and off for 11 years. And I was beginning to wonder if anyone else gets it. | |
| Modest Mouse – Medication Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"we're all doctors trading sadness for numbness grass looks much greener but it's green-painted cement the mayor's machines are there cleaning the pavement you can't make dirt clean so we'll just lemon-scent it" I think he may be talking about one of two things. He could be talking about taking psych meds. The first part, "this is the part of me that needs medication this is the part of me that believes in heaven ....thinks outer space is all dead ....wishes it was with it ....'s trying to be funny ....loves my parents ...thinks that ants are cavemen ....thinks all humans are ants ....learns from sitcoms .....means nothing just sounds to me like something a person with bipolar or even just depression would say. Because some people see it like this: you have this disorder or this disease of the mind or whatever it is...and you could just take medication for it and then life wouldn't be so painful. But if you take the medication, you may miss the part of yourself that you're numbing, because it does have it's upsides...it's like a lens that lets you see the world a certain way, but with it comes a lot of pain. You can keep the lens or you can take medicine to take it away and see the world through the eyes of someone who isn't "disordered". Also kinda sounds like he could be talking about people "selling out", climbing the corporate ladder or whatever so we can buy all this material shit to numb us. But it doesn't fix anything, just lemon-scents it. there are so many other possible meanings to this song. That's the thing about his lyrics, anyone could relate to a Modest Mouse song, but we relate to it in different ways. |
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| Modest Mouse – What People Are Made Of Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think bugmenot is right on. Isaac Brock sings about this a lot, too. He says in many songs that we're already dead, many songs about life being a circle/cycle, the carbon cycle, never-ending math equation, etc. | |
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