| Brandi Carlile – That Year Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I saw her perform this song back in October and when she played this everyone was silent. She mentioned before she played it that when she was 16, a friend of hers from high school killed himself and she hated him for it. Now she finally forgives him for it after all of this time and she can finally say that they are friends again. It is heartbreaking, for sure. I can't wait for this to be on a record. |
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| Brand New – Good to Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have to Do Is Die Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Am I correct to defend the fist that holds this pen? It's ink that lies, the pen, the page, the paper I live, I learn you will always take what I have earned And so aid my end while I believe I'm winning" It's him second-guessing himself about the lyrics he has written and the music he has made. People are bringing him down and making him question himself. Maybe bad reviews or something? Taking what he has earned could mean fans or money maybe, and whoever is doing this to him is helping him prepare for the end of his career when he feels like he is just getting started. "Our friends speak out in our defense Pay ten deaf ears for two months rent We burn the gallows they erect And cut the nooses they tie for our necks" The people at his record company, perhaps, speak out to the people refered in the first stanza and try to defend the band. They are defending them and everything but they know nothing that they are about. They are paying them to play music that they don't understand but as long as they are profiting from them, they don't care. Now the band is rebelling and "cutting the nooses" from them because they know that if they don't start taking control themselves, things are not going to go the way they would want. Selling out, commercializing, aka: Suicide to them. "You constantly make it impossible to make conversation We're comatose but audible But I liked it the farther I get out We passed it off, but it's all on us Well common conversation, it took everything I got And I liked it the farther I get out" It is so hard to get through to these people and they feel like they are comotose (unconscious) and everything is happening and they can't do anything about it, but they are being heard. The more they get out, the more shows they play, the more they are being heard by the right kind of people and the more that they like it. The rest of the song is mostly how they want to get back at the people that wouldn't listen to them, or wouldn't give them the time of day. People who let other people make their decisions for them (the soldiers). "Take heart, sweetheart. Or I will take it from you." Take heart in things, care about things, listen to things and devour things for your own enjoyment, not what everyone else wants you to do, or someone will take that away from you too. This is such an amazing song. I take it as a "That's not the last you are going to hear from us" kind of song and I think it gets that point across. That's just my take on it, I could be completely off. |
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| Jimmy Eat World – Cautioners Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this is exactly how i feel about a current relationship that i have. wow. i saw them last night and they played this song. it was so incredible. maria taylor sang the back-up vocals. amazing. absolutely beautiful song. | |
| Brand New – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 (Neutral Milk Hotel cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this song is great. i love how it goes back to the original melody in the last verse. jesse has such a great voice. it makes me weak in the knee's. | |
| Brand New – Guernica Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this is one of the most emotional songs on the album. it's just so incredible that someone can turn a tragedy into something so lyrically beautiful. ugh. jesse lacey does it again. | |
| Manchester Orchestra – I'd Rather Have Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| he would rather endure terrible things than be with her, but he would rather have a broken heart than be without her. | |
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