| The Kinks – Destroyer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this song follows on from "Lola" i.e. the Kinks song about meeting a transvestite at a Soho club. The self-destroying aspect may be due to the singer feeling ashamed etc. at having a gay sexual experience i.e. "i woke feelin kinda queer", & the paranoia that people might find out. | |
| The Maccabees – Mary Dress Super Hero Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Anyone know about song meaning? More than its about his grandma? Cos I really like the lyrics, & they seem to be kinda deep - just don't know what they're about! |
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| The Maccabees – Spanishish Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Haha! I love this song... but I think *I want to get out this country But no one here looks after me* sounds more like *I can't get out of this country But no one to look after me* |
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| Jamie T – Calm Down Dearest Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Lyrics as they are in the booklet that accompanies the album CD: Big bang, where we going what we doin this night I feel drunk already maybe drink got spiked But more likely of the like that I'm just a lightweight Well I don't care man I've been drunk forever I've sedated hatred I've sedated pages I've sedated worthwhile cages stages and all of my rage This is a good time to start dancing to this song man A good one dj play the record on man So where be Joey get us a drink a dimp of whiskey And look at the lady she be shady but we maybe What you doing where you going to there after She said get the fuck out man you seem to be so plastered And we be all the night drinking it staring at the girls alike It's all good man what goes on drink your can Walking it drunk down the Strand And talk about how you missed the whole club queue Well who the fuck are you Chorus x2 Heavy it's on my mind Say you feel just fine Racking stacking lines I said calm down dearest I remember shooting shit down the old alleyways Talking tragedies of music like old Holiday I remember what we doing and I don't remember now It's the past it's the future I don't know how to carry on though the rights and wrongs Kick it like we know the songs Already before we rock steady down and on the dancefloor Well I don't get no fights when I get angry drunk I sit down in the corner and I sulk my fucking socks off So who the fuck are we? Just the boys in the city It's all been done before and we do it again so We'll see you later alligators We'll be back I'm sure next week sitting in the bar you know So good bye bye We'll never try never to die but We're so young we don't understand if we canna fly So we're here now but we will be gone soon But not today not tomorrow not the next tune Chorus x2 |
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| Jamie T – Fox News Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is a great song about feeling alone in new surroundings, or in a crowd. Fox News' slogan is "Fair&Balanced" despite them being notoriously right-wing and biased. "Buddy Holly" is a mixture of cocaine & ecstasy. |
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| The Maccabees – Good Old Bill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I like this song, and I'm gonna try and hazard a guess at it's meaning... "Spearmint Rhino" is a famous British stripclub chain. I presume Gran being robbed of her life honey is her dying, or else her husband dying (read on). The de Havilland Hornet is a WWII fighter plane. Driverless i.e. the driver has died. "Last Post" is a song, played on the trumpet (or rather bugle), to commemorate war heroes, particularly of world wars. His "blind crippled crumpet", I'm a bit unsure of. Crumpet either means a type of snack or a pretty woman - so I will opt for it meaning pretty woman. So his blind crippled wife (?) doesn't like living without her husband who died in the war. "The engine won't start without him". She won't do anything without her husband, compares the woman to her husband's fighter plane. The narrator get's well dressed in "mod" style, from mod clothing he buys at Sherry's of London. (Paul Weller is a famous mod). He sheds a tear, and toasts to the war hero (his grandfather.) The war hero left his family wealthy (well-dressed at least "done to the nines with satin for lining".) The war hero's wife is now dying (the narrator's grandmother). Her metaphorical "engine" is running low. The narrator can't fix it. Well that's what I managed to figure out, could be wrong. :) |
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| The Long Blondes – Once and Never Again Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The song is explicitly about a girl who self-harms and is emotionally distressed sue to problems with her boyfriend. Also, explicitly, from the perspective of an older person. I think more implicitly towards the end the real reasons for the older person (whether be man or woman) wanting the young girl to break up with her boyfriend are revealed, e.g. "Oh, how I'd love to feel a girl your age". The narrator in fact wants this 19 year old girl for him/herself. | |
| Jamie T – Sheila Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think... Sheila becomes drunk & angry. She stumbles down by the river, falls in, and dies. Lisa splits up with druggie Jack. Jack becomes depressed & takes too many drugs; drinks to much alcohol and dies (perhaps suicide). "It's over, man it's over!" Georgina has had a trouble childhood. Her alcoholic father, who beat her, had died. Beat up & drugged up, she sees no way out but to overdose. Each death is announced coincidentally at 10.30. The song as a whole is about tragic young death, as I see it. Of course, there are lots of other interpretations. |
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