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Elbow – Forget Myself Lyrics

17 years ago

Satellite Towns, yeah in this case he's talking about bury, bolton, stockport, oldham etc. but it applies to any city and it's surrounding towns, the folk of which are decending upon the bright city lights. This is about drowning your sorrows in an unfamiliar/cold/non-judgemental city where nobody knows you and you will be forgiven for whatever you do, because nobody cares. "No I know I wont forget you but I’ll forget myself and the city will forgive me".

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Elbow – Starlings Lyrics

17 years ago

Agree with "piersy" but would like to add that I think this is a love between an older man and a young woman and the obvious conflict, emotionally, that can cause. He's obsessed with a young girl he feels he will eventually lose so tries to be aloof but struggles. He puts himself down in one breath "I'm asking you to back a horse that's good for glue and nothing else" cause he feels he can't compete with younger guys, then plays to his strengths by telling her " But find a man that's truer than, find a man that needs you more than I". He wants to hear her "dreams and obsessions" cause maybe he no longer has any and doesn't want to be the reason she doesn't fulfill them, but..........darling is this love!

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Fleet Foxes – Drops in the River Lyrics	17 years ago
Not sure all these lyrics are correct but this seems to be about a brief (sexual) encounter and likening that to how everything (including our lives) are miniscule and brief in the grand scheme of things, ie drops in the river/ a brief encounter. Love this band!

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Fleet Foxes – Tiger Mountain Peasant Song Lyrics

17 years ago

I love this song! I think wonderous not wanderers is the first lyric and "to benefit" in the fourth line. But that aside, I agree with songyone to a large degree. A lonely man who feels alienated from the world as he sees it now (probably through a lost love) on the verge of suicide or insanity. I think the first line implies a disbelief that he is still alive, maybe a feeling alcholics have (but i'm no expert). The second verse, he's retracing steps that once had meaning but no longer have, and the third verse is about alianation. Just my take on it but hey what a great song, hope you enjoy as much as I.

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Midlake – Roscoe Lyrics	18 years ago
Don't think I could express what I think any better than amcgary has already done, but I'm intrigued by mattkays Prokofiev theory. I'll have to look into that one.

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Midlake – Head Home Lyrics

18 years ago

The whole of this CD seems to be about the past and times when life was a far more simple affair, when life could be enjoyed for free and without exploitation. The mention of the Leviathan by Thomas Hobbs seems to be important as 'spdcheetah' has said, order over anarchy. I think maybe they prefer the order and structure of the past over the more deconstruced, anarchistic free-for-all society we seem to live in today where the rights of the individual are more important than the community, to the detriment of all.

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Midlake – In This Camp Lyrics	18 years ago
I get the impression this maybe set in the American civil war (the north being too far away) but could probably translate to any war. It seems to be about a man who didn't really want to be fighting in this war and in the absence of much female company had fallen in love with Babatte (who served them tea) and fantasised about running away with her instead of doing his duty.

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Midlake – Branches Lyrics	18 years ago
Unrequited love. She is happy with her life but he is unhappy with his because she dosen't love him and he can't see how he could ever love anyone else. It's great to hear bands singing about simple themes in a not too obvious way. Great band, beautiful songs.

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