| Five Iron Frenzy – We Own the Skies Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The band moved on after quitting in 2003. They pretty much all got regular jobs, giving their shoulders to the plow, traveling the well worn path of normal work. Game up the crazy road life kingdom for a steady paycheck. I don't think the band members hate that life or anything; in fact I think most of the band was sick of road life and that's a big reason they quit. But this song seems to be about the adrenaline filled fun of coming back together and traveling to shows and performing again, maybe not forever, but at least for "tonight." |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – To Start a Fire Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| (I meant to say they co-penned the lyrics) | |
| Five Iron Frenzy – To Start a Fire Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This seems to be about the experience of getting old friends together to re-start the band. Considering Roper and Kerr co-penned the music, it could even be more specifically about their friendship, although I don't see why it'd need to be that specific. The broke up 10 years ago, a lot has changed for everybody since then, they're different people. They're older and more weathered by the world and their former experiences as a band, making life harder. In order to make the band good and worthwhile again, it's going to taken passion and conviction and personal fire. |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – Battle Dancing Unicorns with Glitter Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think this song is a more abstract extension of "At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys"... Five Iron's fans tend to be younger than them, and their style of music is the music of the young (frenzied, energetic, loud). But I'd guess Reese feels a greater cultural disconnect than ever with high school kids. And while the notoriously cynical HS generation of today whose jokes and subculture are hard to understand by those of us 10 or more years ahead of them, Reese is proclaiming that they're charging forward anyway, even trying (unsuccessfully) to participate in the youth subculture via these lyrics. Does that make any sense?? |
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| Weird Al Yankovic – Canadian Idiot Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I prefer Five Iron Frenzy's "Oh, Canada." | |
| Ben Folds – Brainwashed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song sounds to me like it's not actually written to his ex-wife, but to someone ELSE who wrote a song based on what Ben's ex-wife told him/her. Y'know? I have solid internal sources that say the song is actually about Bono, hence the phrase "brainwashed you too," aka "U2." This also explains references to the Bible, as Bono is religious. You heard it here first. |
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| Ben Folds – Effington Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| With the "If there's a god..." line, At first I thought it was just a goofy, meaningless line. But then I thought... Ben Folds lives in Nashville, home of the Tennessee Titans. "Titans" were a class of gods who preceded the Olympians. So it would be pretty funny to a real god that we have a football team called the "Titans." | |
| Ben Folds Five – Kate Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song because it is degenerative. Early in the song, she is beyond perfect. Little animals sing along with her like Cinderella, roses want to be her, and daisies are in her footsteps. In the next verse, she smokes pot and never changes her clothes. By the prechorus, it is impressive simply that "she speaks and she breathes." It's a song about thinking the girl you have a crush on is perfect, and loving everything about them, even the parts that are either not redeemable or are completely ordinary. |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – Blue Mix Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I registered on this site just so I can correct what has been said about this song... I remember reading an interview with Reese Roper back when this record was released, and he said it was about "some bands we have toured with." He didn't say who. So it's not just some general message, it is about particular bands. Now, the only band that really makes sense for this is the Supertones, although I have also heard Reese say that they're good guys with a good purpose. So Bob the Goat's statement that it's may be about the Supertone's management sounds exactly right. Once again: I know for sure it is not some general statement about Christian music; IT'S ABOUT A COUPLE OF REAL BANDS. |
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