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Nirvana – Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle Lyrics 17 years ago
In my opinion this song is at least mainly about Frances Farmer like most people have said,
the title is "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" because she was born and raised in Seattle and was hospitalized at Western State hospital in Steilacoom, WA and allegedly had a lobotomy performed on her there.
This part in particular makes me think of her (also my favorite part):

In her false witness, we hope you're still with us,
To see if they float or drown
Our favorite patient, a display of patience,
Disease-covered Puget Sound
She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars,
And leave a blanket of ash on the ground

Someone asked what the Puget Sound was, it's a large fjord (system of flooded glacial valleys) but the area of land around
the sound (which isn't just Seattle but includes it as well as my podunk town =P) is often called the Puget Sound too. Look at a map of WA and
the water that cuts thorough the middle of Western Washington is it.

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Nirvana – Son of a Gun Lyrics 17 years ago
Ok, so I know this isn't the real meaning of the song but this is what I get out of it:

When I was a little kid I had a friend named Connor and like me he was Autistic, though a lot more so then me so he didn't really talk.
Well if you don't know, many people with Autism do something called "stimming" (self-stimulation)
in other words they repeat a particular movement to stimulate their senses or to calm down (for example I rock back and forth).

Anyways, the stimming Connor would do was just like the chorus of the song; he would jump up and down spinning around while swinging his arms.

So whenever I heard this song (original or Nirvana cover) that's what it makes me think of, since the first version I heard was Nirvana's when I was a kid I'm putting it here.

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Sigur Rós – Í Gær Lyrics 17 years ago
The title: Í Gær means yesterday.

Amazing song.

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Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Lyrics 18 years ago
I agree that it is mostly about Annelies (Anne) Frank though not completely but these might refer to her:
And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly
From the aeroplane over the sea
This could refer to how Anne wanted to be cremated, the aeoplane referencing how she wanted to travel.
Anna's ghost all around
Anne was German and in German the E in Anne would be pronounced as an A; making it Anna .
How I would push my fingers through your mouth
To make those muscles move
That made your voice so smooth and sweet
How though she died her story is told through her diary.
All secrets sleep in winter clothes
With one you loved so long ago
Now he don't even know his name
This could be a reference to “Hello” Silberberg a boy who liked Anne, his name was Helmuth but he went by “Hello“.

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