| The Feeling – Don't Make Me Sad Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is the best song ever. Does anyone know which member of the feeling says 'it's broken' at the end of the song? Or what it is that is broken? Funnily enough, I'm listening to this song while I'm writing this. This is one of the best songs about love out there. I really feel his sentiment. |
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| The Feeling – I Want You Now. Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think he wants HIM now. He's gay. Duh. | |
| The Sleepy Jackson – I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I like to sing this at people when I understand what they mean but I just don't agree. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dani California Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Wow. First few times I heard it I was looking more at the music video- after all, the lyrics are hard to hear. After reading them, it's clear this is a little more than just a catchy pop-rock tune. I like the rhythm of the lyrics too. :) Good song, good band- but not particularly awe-inspiring. It does deserve to become a classic though, of that I have no doubt. | |
| Enon – Hocus Pocus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The middle bit... damn. I love the middle bit. The hocusy-pocusy part just MAKES the album. I love this song- perhaps the only happy romantic song that appeals to me. But his voice in this song- sounds a little bit like a seriel killer if you know what I mean. All breathy and what-have-you. | |
| Bernard Fanning – Thrill Is Gone Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ahh... the song makes a lot more sense now frog_man. 'Sure was a hell of a mistake I made But I sure am glad that I made it No way for a grown man to behave More the act of a teen opportunist' How interesting- the meaning seems so obvious now. Strangely, I like it a little more now I know it's about something real. Even though I've lost a good amount of respect for Bernard Fanning as a person after reading that, the song has only been raised in my esteem. |
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| Bernard Fanning – Further Down The Road Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree. He's waiting to find out further down the road rather than racing ahead to find out. I get the feeling from the lyrics that it's a journey (like back-packing from inn to inn), and the journey is a metaphor for the relationship. He's impatient, he's unsure, but he's willing to wait. It's far from being my favourite on the album, but I definately like the song- especially its pace. What about the- 'I'm standing in the middle of a good dream'? Perhaps he thinks he's just going to wake up and it'll all be over? That it's too good to last? |
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| Bernard Fanning – Down To The River Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I loved this song more the first few times I listened to it. Now, after thinking more about the lyrics than the song, I don't think I would follow him down to the river, even if he asked me tenderly! :( I think the breaking of wings is a metaphor for destroying freedom, and for some reason, in this case it makes me think of house wives who could have been something- but someone broke their wings. And then, following someone down to the river seems like a show of trust to me for some reason- and then he goes and breaks their wings? What? But why, Bernard Fanning? Why? And then there's the following lines which add to the disturbing after-taste of this song- 'Try not to mourn Shake off the pain Don’t run, run, run' Huh... don't run? Shake off the pain? I don't know, the speaker in these lyrics sounds to me like a rather subtle creep. And I don't know why, but some lines, like 'the earth's going to shake' sounds a little like (but without actually being) an innuendo. Someone tell me I'm wrong about this song. Tell me it isn't creepy, and I'm just imagining things. |
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| Modest Mouse – Birds vs. Worms Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Why is everyone trying to make this song about power-balance? No offence Madame theist and El Jef, but I think the meaning of this song is far simpler and you're trying to make it fit something it doesn't. If it was about 'the man', whether that's God or employers, it would be far more angry musically. My personal opinion is this song is saying that it is a natural thing to not get along. After all, birds and worms don't get along, why should we feel we all have to get along? The calming nature of the song (I LOVE the guitar so much in this song I listen to it on repeat just for that) implies that it's ok that we don't get along, there's no reason to be upset about it. So he sings- "You can see that birds and worms do not agree' kind of like, 'you see? in nature things don't always have to get along, why should we be any different?' Either about all human kind, or perhaps just too people. I don't entirely agree with this philosophy, but I think that's the intended meaning. I also like the self mockery in the- 'Self pity me so pitiful' and 'Self righteous me so wrong' Self righteous me seems to be about being wrong in the eyes of the other party. Obviously the self pity is just about self pity- but phrased so well. :) Damn I love this song. I don't think it even needs anything more than a subtle meaning to be as awesome as it is. But it's interesting to know other people have a completely different interpretation of this song- the power difference between birds and worms had never occurred to me before, and I think it's probably significant in the meaning as well. |
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| The Sleepy Jackson – Good Dancers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song- the music video is tripped out! When I read valo's comment, I was quite affronted. However, upon listening to the song again, I realised he's quite right. The violins, certainly, give that effect. So sue me- I like the sound of slaughtering kitten's on opium. These are perhaps the most confusing lyrics I have ever encountered. So short, and so weird. I think the only way to interpret is line by line, each with entirely seperate meanings. 'Don't always dream for what you want' I like this line. It has an interesting truth about it- I think what it means is, what we want is not always what we need, or what we get in the end. It would be more logical, then, to not dream for what we want. 'But I love to watch good dancers talk' I think their must be something significant about good dancers talking. Dancers use their bodies mainly in their proffession- entirely physical performers. And so, to watch good dancers talk, when we normally see them performing with their bodies, would be an interesting experience. Perhaps this line is about seeing people in a different light, a light that you never thought you could see them. Like good dancers talking when we never here their voices on stage. Similarly, watching geography teachers at a theme park or little kids on World Vision ads helping people would have the same effect. 'My heart is stronger than you all' This line is weird, and slightly pretentious. Perhaps, though, it is the speaker being self-assuring. Maybe the line means, 'you can't break me, I'm too strong inside'. Kind of like when insects colour themselves to look poisonous. This line is a warning, saying that his heart is not just strong, but stronger than you all. 'The war's good and I'm so tired' I may be reading far too much into this line, but I don't think it's about literal war. I think it's saying that a conflict is good- perhaps the conflict in a relationship? Or perhaps the conflict in his life is good? And then the 'I'm so tired' part means that though this conflict is good for him, it tires him out. I always feel it means this when I listen to the song. Something in his tone, maybe? 'When you think with your mind you've got a place to go now.' I think this means, when you actually stop and think, no, you aren't trapped. You always have a place to go. I'm not sure how the person feels restricted or trapped, but I think this means that tif they just thought for a moment they'd realise there were no restrictions on them. Alternatively, this line means that their mind is the place that they can go to escape. Like, escaping into your imagination. So there's what I think the song means, even though it's only peices of the meaning. Perhaps the entire meaning is so deep down that only Lukey-boy himself understands its meaning. |
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| The Sleepy Jackson – Devil Was In My Yard Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't think its blaming the devil exactly, I think Luke is using the Devil as a metaphor. Often Personality seems like one big song to me, all the songs linked into one idea, one concept. I think Devil Was In My Yard is really closely linked to Higher Than Hell. In terms of this song alone, I'd say Daneonfire is pretty much right. He's explaining, using the metaphor of the devil, that he is no longer that person. The devil is evil obviously, and evil was dwelling in his yard, in other words his proximity. Now the devil is gone, he's ok. Like the lines 'I'm going to make it'. The only thing is, this 'girl' doesn't understand. He is impatiently asked, 'How long girl, how long, how long 'til you know that?', Like, what more could I possibly do to convince you I'm a good guy and I'm done with all that stuff? What more proof do I need to give you? I personally think in this song, the speaker is Luke Steele himself, saying that the devil isn't in his yard anymore, or that he's done with a part of his life he isn't proud of. Drugs, maybe? The biography on the Sleepy Jacksons website also offers some insite into songs like Devil Was In My Yard on the Personality album- "It was only after Id worked on the songs for a while that I realized they were all to do with the conflicting sides of my personality explains Luke. When they first come to me they seem to be about specific incidents to do with our last manager and things in the band going haywire. But after a while they go into another realm. I realised they were more to do with the spiritual conflict between God and the Devil. I surprised myself with how angry and intense they were. But I like that paradox; uplifting tunes with these lyrics about struggle and resolution." What I like about this song, lyrically, is that, unlike other Sleepy Jackson songs, its very straight forward in its meaning. Normally I like to have to delve a little deeper, but with this song I appreciate the fact that all the metaphors are quite direct. |
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| The Decemberists – The Engine Driver Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song. This is the first Decemberists song I ever heard, and I fell in love with it. I agree that this song is about the desperate, painful hopelessness of not being able to let go. I think the line 'If you don't love me, let me go' is a desperate cry, a plea for help. The protagonist is begging, BEGGING the love to let them go. But it doesn't matter how many pages are written, that person will always be in their bones, refusing the protagonist both their right to move on and their right to love. There are some people who will always be in our bones, the memory of them irremovable and painful. And then the metaphor for being in your 'bones' makes you feel like your crawling beneath your skin with the memories of those who wouldn't love you and wouldn't let you go- and you just want to scrape them off you, even if they have become a part of your emotional identity, it doesn't matter- you don't want that feeling of them in your bones anymore. You can't bear it. Hense, 'if you don't love me, let me go' sounds like the protagonist is begging for mercy. In my opinion, the protagonist is a writer, and only a writer. The other characters- the Engine Driver, the moneylender, etc, etc, are characters written by the protagonist. They are in the pages upon pages that have been written. But these character also reflect the writers thoughts and feelings in reality, though they deny this with the emphasis on- 'a writer of fictions'. The characters are all explaining their identity and how this identity is part of them, it's inside of them, forever and forever, like the love that is stuck in the writer's bones. All the writer can think about is whether they will be able to move on (with the faint hope that they won't have to, that they are still loved). These thoughts leak into the writing, and these characters are formed, all of them singing the chorus- 'and if you don't love me, let me go'. Really, this song to me is about torturing yourself with your own emotions, always focusing on what will never be, and never being able to move on yet feeling that this is because you were never let go. |
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