| Wu-Tang Clan – Gravel Pit Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| pretty sure that meth's first line is holocaust,from the land of the lost, not holla cross. | |
| Orange Juice – Rip It Up Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Personally, I prefer this song to the Buzzcock's Boredom (which is also a great song in its own right). I don't think that you can compare the two songs stylisticaly, which are very different despite the intentional similarity in the lyrics of the second half of the third verse 3 and the little bit of the guitar after that verse. This simolarity to me is very tounge in check and I think forms little of the backbone of Rip it Up. To use this knowing wink to a song that Edwyn Collins obviously liked and over compare it to Rip it Up does Orange Juice's song little justice. which I think is a classic. |
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| The Drums – Me and the Moon Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't kow about this song, but I definitely think that the rhythm section from Lets go Surfing sounds similar to Joy Division's Disorder, from the Unknown Pleasures album. | |
| Jamie T – Sticks N' Stones Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The line is no time for beaver instead of go time for fever. | |
| Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the writer of this song was hugely influenced by the disney film the fox and the hound and this song is a loose interpretation of the themes explored in that movie of the conflict between friendship and duty. The song-writer is writing from the perspective of a hound, which is part of a pack that is hunting foxes. The red scarves are tied around the pack's throats to show that they are owned and are not wild dogs/wolves. This stops them from being shot, hence their little heads falling in the snow (note how snow is linked to death in this song). They pack is swallowed by their coats because thy have their winter coats of fur instead of their summer coats. This hound was following the pack. He is following the pack because he does not want to be an active part of it. The reason for this is that the pack is tracking his fox friend from when he was a puppy. Michael (the fox friend of the hound) is hiding from the pack, but bolts for safety when they get too close to him for comfort. Unfortunately Michael is caught and killed by the pack with his blood staining the snow as red as strawberries in the summertime. This final lyric in the song expresses the care that the hound feels for the fox. Perhaps the fox and the hound played in fields of strawberries during the summertime and the hound is thinking back to these good times to try and get over the trauma (note how the summertime is associated with pleasantness, whereas the wintertime is associated with death). The pack could also be a pack of wolves and the scarves of red around their throats are from the pack eating their prey.Resulting in them having bloody manes. They would need to eat and therefore have these manes to stop them from starving and dying, hence falling in the snow. Whether it is hounds or wolves the themes of the song remain the same. |
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| The Flaming Lips – Race for the Prize Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think this song has any deep statments to make. To me it is an escapist fantasy song. The lyrics and dramatic sounding music remind me of a comic book type scenario where the scientists are racing to invent some dangerous cure/device to avert an impending world ending crisis (comet striking earth/alien invasion/deadly virus etc), rather than actualy racing each other. They are obviously at great risk and may have to experiment on themselves to test the device/antidote at the cost of their own life, but the selfless heroes no choice, as it is to save the world and their loved ones! Every time I hear this song I always have a picture of a couple of Clark Kent (6 foot 4, square chin) scientist types in white lab coats holding test tube and working with lazers. Sometimes the scientists are bitter rivals forced to work together to save the world. Sometimes they are respected colleagues racing in seperate labs, or in the same lab knowing that thety will both die. Either way this is a great song |
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| Graham Coxon – Girl Done Gone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| something about this song makes me think he is taking the piss out of Damon Albarn and the tender song with this soulful and blusey split up song. | |
| Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The woods. Cheers for the lecture. I wasn't talking about Leona Lewis herself being in an abusive relationship but the character in the song that may not be Leona Lewis at all, but someone she is representing, possibly someone she knows, possibly a figment of her imagination. You can interpret the song in a positive or negative way, as it is ambigous. I have no experience in song writing, but I guess this is to get the intrest from as many different people for differing meanings. |
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| Hot Chip – Ready for the Floor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Is it carving up the wall, or climbing up the wall? | |
| Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Is she in a physically abusive relationship? Is this why she keeps bleeding in love? Are her friends trying to pull her away from this destructive relationship, but she just won't? | |
| Ryan Adams – New York, New York Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always thought the line was ... love won't play games with you... unless you want it to Thats a better line in my opinion and I'm keeping it. |
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| Blur – Ernold Same Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is a great song. It explores the same themes as starshapped. I wish Damon Albarn wrote some more ballads. He is an amazing musician and also a great lyricist. He got a load of stick around this time for his third person character writing which may of resulted in him dropping the ballads, which is a crying shame. |
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| The Smiths – I Won't Share You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Marr left the Smiths in 1987. He has done loads of stuff before joining modest mouse. | |
| Blur – Starshaped Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is one of my favourite blur songs. It really sums up the mundanity that can be felt in a nine to five experience when you don't enjoy the job you have. | |
| The Smiths – I Keep Mine Hidden Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yellow and green are two colours that express characteristics in a person. Yellow is cowardice and green is envy; inexperience, or it could be both. They are astumbling block because these characteristics are what prevents the person in the song from opening up to anyone. This is why he keeps his hidden. |
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| The Smiths – I Won't Share You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I always thought this song was about someone wanting to further themself at the expense of a current relationship the person inquestion is in. From a band point of view you could imagine it being about Marr leaving the Smiths. Marr wrote the note and the she reading it is Morrissey. He did refer to himself as being the queen in the queen is dead album title. |
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