| London Grammar – Non Believer Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[Hamsterboyo:50054] thanks for this post. I recently discovered London grammar and love her voice. This is a great song. If you're bored, mayne you could help me decipher the lyrics on the song "man like me" by Dylan leblanc. I know it's unrelated, but what the heck. I watched several live versions to try to read his lips and hear it in different settings but there are still a few lines I can't solve. I'd appreciate a fresh ear. |
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| Mandolin Orange – Hey Stranger Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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It sounds like shes singing about alcoholism... which makes me wish the lyrics were: Don't go living with THE BOTTLE in mind There's no burden greater in life Hey stranger If ever you decide Giving in to the BOTTLE will ease your weary mind And heavy heart You'll see in time There's no burden greater in life. |
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| Ryan Adams – Two Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| I'd love to do a lyrics video of this song but I need to know its its "from before" or "from the fall" | |
| Ryan Adams – Two Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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as stated above, I think its: No good ever comes from it, honest and instead of fractured from before perhaps its fractured from the fall? I thought by 'it takes 2 when it used to take 1' he meant how hes become defendant on someone when he used to be independant, but the pill addiction theory makes more sense maybe. |
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| The Innocence Mission – Tomorrow On The Runway Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[aubreymcfate:17079] i love love love the innocence mission but i have to be honest, i cant stand religion. ugh. luckily, this particular song seems to be about a past relationship as you said, and not about jesus. i take tomorrow on the runway to mean already far ahead and about to get further away. | |
| Conor Oberst – Time Forgot Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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First of all, i'm pretty sure he says builds a ladder towards the "sun" not "sky" That's what it sounds like, plus "sun" rhymes with "done". I love this song but to really enjoy it, you have to youtube the tiny desk version. It's the opening song. I'm convinced he's describing how he once fell in love. I know you say you'll go all the way But that's not quite far enough Someone told me that same thing Some told me that same thing Someone told me that exact same thing once ....but even though he was willing to do anything for her, she broke his heart. -So now he makes himself unavailable to love again - while still pretending to be available - see the verse about the ivy growing up the garden wall. ivy crawls up the garden wall builds a ladder towards the sun it cant be climbed but who's gunna mind if i say it can be done. Basically hes leading women on and keeping them around just to combat loneliness while still remaining free. They say everyone has a choice to make To be loved or to be free I told you once I felt invisible And I'm sure by now you see What I meant is I'm not all there Until I finally leave Some loneliness is acceptable And some's just outright mean It gets even In "road to joy" he also references keeping a woman and drugs around to fight off loneliness, Great great song but again, please watch the tiny desk video to really appreciate. |
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| The Innocence Mission – Going Away Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's funny how she can sing such common lines and make them sound so amazing. Her voice really brings them to life. "Walk you to the car when you're going where you're going". Someone walking me to the car is nice and all, but when she sings it, it sounds like the greatest thing in the world. In another Innocence Mission song she sings "are you feeling better than before?" -something you and I have probably heard in our lifetimes, but when she sings it it really makes you feel like she cares deeply for this person and it come across very genuine. They throw around the phrase: "they could sing the phonebook and it would sound great" WAY too much, but in her case, it's really true. amazing singer. amazing voice. |
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| Natalie Merchant – Thick As Thieves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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wow, this song was written in 1998 so i was way off with my previous post about the millenium meaning 2000. however...i redeemed myself by doing the necessary research. the meaning of the song is as follows (as i see it): Remember how it all began The apple and the fall of man (adam and eve eating the forbidden fruit) The price we paid (getting kicked out of the garden/no longer being perfect) So the people say (author doesn't buy the story) Down a path of shame it lead us Dared to bite the hand that fed us (God gaev us all but man dared to disobey him; also refers to eating forbidden fruit) The fairy tale The moral end (again suggests this story was untrue (a fairy tale)) The wheel of fortune Never turns again (Bible says we'll never have a that chance again) The worst of it has come and gone In the chaos of millennium In the falling out of the doomsday crowd Their last retreat is moving slow They burn their bridges as they go The heretic is beatified (heretic=anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle He'll teach the harlot's child to smile Wracked again by indecision Should we make that small incision Testify to the bleeding heart inside? (bleeding heart = A term, usually critical and politically loaded, for someone who is held to be overly sympathetic to another person's (or group of people's) plight. Someone who is emotionally concerned about a person, idea, or event but still refuses to act. i think maybe she's saying we ready to show everyone we are this "bleeding heart" type We cut, we scratched We rent, we slashed (rent is the verb form of 'rend' =to separate into parts with force or violence) And when he opened up at last Found a cul-de-sac (i think we know "cul-de-sac as a dead-end road, but it also means the bottom of a bag or an opening or hole. when i looked it up though i found it interesting that another defenition is: any situation in which further progress is impossible. In anatomy it can mean a a saclike cavity, open only at one end. Deep and black Of smoke and ash (i'm not sure of the smoke and ash part, but it's obviously saying we found in our hearts something other than we expected; a big hole) The wicked king of parody (God) Is kissing all his enemies On the seventh day Of the seventh week (refers to Christian Premillennialism and the beliefe that: in the apocalypse, weeks 1-7 retell the biblical history from the creation of humanity to the author’s time of writing (possibly during the Maccabean crisis). However, after the seventh "week", the temporary earthly messianic age begins and occurs for a period of three more “weeks”. After the temporary messianic kingdom, the creation of the new heavens and the new earth occurs.) The tyrant's voice is softer now But just for one forgiving hour Before the rise of his Iron fist again (The apocryphal book was apparently an attempt to explain the difficulties associated with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple to the Jewish people.During one of the visions in the book, Ezra received a revelation from the angel Uriel. The angel explained that prior to the last judgment, the Messiah will come and establish a temporary kingdom lasting 400 years after which all of creation will be obliterated including the Messiah. The Author in this song is perhaps refering to this 400 year period as the "forgiving hour" afterwhich he will rise his "iron fist" and begin destroying all.) I've come tonight I've come to know The way we are The way we'll go Come to measure this The width of the wide abyss (i think she's saying we should take things with a grain of salt as they say and not jump onto every bandwagon that comes along) I come to you in restless sleep Where all your dreams turn bitter-sweet With voodoo doll philosophies And day-glo holy trinities (I believe she is saying we're filled with beliefs which aren't backed by reality) The crooked raft that leaves the shore Ferries drunken souls aboard (?? crooked raft would suggest a dangerous trip ahead or ill-planned perhaps for "drunken souls" which may mean the souls (us) are not in our right minds or mislead) Pilgrims march to Compestella (Compestella = ancient Campus Stellae, Eng Compostella 42°52N 8°37W, pop (2000e) 106 000. City in La Coruña province, Galicia, NW Spain, on R Sar; former capital of the Kingdom of Galicia; world-famous place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages (shrine of St James)) Visions of their saint in yellow (St. James shrine located there) All follow deep in trance Lost in a catatonic dance (deliberate movements but without thought; robotic) Know no future Damn the past Blind, warm, ecstatic Safe at last... ('Ignorance is bliss', to put it quite plainly) |
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| Natalie Merchant – Thick As Thieves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I found the following quote, if anyone still cares, on an orthodox xhristian website: _________________________ ""Thick as Thieves" refers to the story of Adam and Eve as simply a fairy tale, the Holy Trinity as a philosophy, and expresses an overall negative and dismissive attitude toward Christian beliefs. Even the picture of Natalie dressed as a Roman Catholic nun on the CD cover is in poor taste. " ___________________________ |
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| Natalie Merchant – When They Ring The Golden Bells Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| just in case anyone was wondering, the beautiful voice on this song singing with natalie is karen paris of the group INNOCENCE MISSION. They're a bit hard to find, but worth looking up. They have some GREAT songs which are so soothing | |
| Natalie Merchant – Golden Boy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "GOLDEN BOY was a song I wrote without being absolutely certain of its meaning. During the recording the engineer commented that he couldn't get the image of the infamous boys from Columbine High School out of his head. I sud-denly realized that I was addressing the unhealthy tendency we have as a culture to fix our attention upon our deviant and violent outcasts. Names of serial killers are easier to conjure than names of great humanitarians. We repeatedly make celebrities out of psychopaths whether we intend to or not." -N.Merchant | |
| Natalie Merchant – Saint Judas Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "I wrote SAINT JUDAS in response to an exhibition at the New York Historical Society that contained the most difficult images I had ever seen. It was the history of lynching in photography. I knew that Mavis would understand my words and deliver them. I wanted to hear that incredible powerhouse of a voice, but I also asked her because of her close association with the Civil Rights movement. The Staples Singers wrote 'Freedom Highway' and 'Why Am I Treated So Bad?' during the acts of civil disobedience and desegregation in the Deep South. They sang along side Dr. Martin Luther King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Singing with Mavis was an historic event for me." -N. Merchant | |
| Natalie Merchant – This House Is On Fire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "I actually wrote THIS HOUSE IS ON FIRE during the WTO protests in Seattle and the presidential ballot dispute in Florida. I saw people taking to the streets to find their collective voice and to be heard. I decided to ask Stephen Barber to write the string arrangement in that particular mode because I am a fan of North African pop music, especially Om Kalsoum, the famous Egyptian chanteuse. It is very strange how events are conspiring to give this song possible new meaning I could never have imagined." -N. Merchant | |
| Natalie Merchant – Motherland Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "The title song, MOTHERLAND has much deeper resonance since the events of September 11th and its aftermath. I was far more cynical when I wrote, 'Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep, keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me, don't go.' Now the song is a desperate plea for innocence, to be 'faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free,' expresses a craving we all share now for the world we took for granted and lost. Suddenly there seems to be no hiding from our past as a nation or our present, or our future. For me it's the death of nostalgia and dreams." -N. Merchant | |
| Natalie Merchant – Thick As Thieves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i have to agree that the first part about the fall of man would have to be about adam and eve and not some roman mythology. It just makes sense that way. enkainami, you did a good job, but one part i disagree with you on is the bit about the falling out of the doomsday crowd. she says the worst of it has come and gone with the choas of milleneum - and the falling out of the doomsday crowd. I think she's refering to all the people who insisted the world was coming to an end in 2000 (milleneum) and the falling out would be them being wrong (obviously). I was unsure about the burning bridges part and that's why i came here. I guess we can look at in the general sense as it usually refers to making enemies and not allowing yourself an opprotunity to return in the future (never a good idea). I tend to think this song follows a timeline of sorts. If it starts with adam and eve and then progresses to 2000 and then later in the song she mentions "tonight". ...although i'm not sure when this song was written off the top of my head. I'm going to search around some more for other people's thoughts. I'll check back if i find anything. |
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