| Jonas Brothers – Don't Charge Me for the Crime (feat. Common) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm not a JB fan but I don't even care, this song is badass. It's pretty self-explanatory but I really like how the story plays out throughout the song and there's just this nice rolling guitar in the background...it's really mature for them. I like it. |
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| Interpol – The Scale Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| lol @ me already stating part of my post. Oh well. I have a bad memory, I guess. | |
| Interpol – The Scale Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't really agree anymore with the abortion idea. I don't think Paul would write something that literal. I get a story from this though...like it's someone on his deathbed, who has lived a bit of a rolling stone, devil-may-care lifestyle or whatever you'd say, never staying in one place, doing whatever he wanted without thinking about the consequences. And as he is dying he starts to consider all of the things he has done and wants to take them back. He feels like the world is coming down on him and he doesn't know how to deal with it, and he's regretful....the images of the clouds and the sun on fire seem to me to be that regret coming over him, or maybe it is his fearful image of death overtaking him. "Pick a rose to hide my face"--I don't know. It just brings up this idea of following passion, to me. |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Slowdive Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song makes me want to dance. Of course it's about sex, though (particularly going down?). Most of this album is! | |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Peek-A-Boo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'd put my money on the sex trade idea. Reading over the lyrics, it made me think of rape...funny considering how loud and peppy-sounding the song is. | |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Melt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it's basically comparing an orgasm/sexual experience to dying. Obviously there's some s&m overtones... what a sexysexysexy song. |
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| Interpol – The Scale Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't agree with my own abortion theory anymore, haha. As far as the meaning I really don't know. It seems kindof apocalyptic. |
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| Interpol – Who Do You Think? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Apparently the drummer Sam doesn't like this song. :/ | |
| Interpol – Length of Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My view of this song: Two brokenhearted people come together out of need for one another and have this grandiose all-consuming romance, a "strong summer love" that causes him to stop paying attention to any of the other people in his life, his "friends in need". It also sounds like the two of them have tried and considered having a normal, real relationship but she is insecure about what other people think of her being with him, it seems--people who don't want her to be happy, a "bitter breed" with "bitter hearts". People always say this song is so confusing, but I think it is one of Interpol's most straightforward. |
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| Gravenhurst – The Diver Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| what? this isn't the diver. in any case the real lyrics are lovely and the song itself is beautiful and simple. it almost sounds like a lullaby, in a way. | |
| Space Cowboy – My Egyptian Lover Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This was my fuckin jammmm this summer. Pretty straightforward, I think. Haha. I love how her voice is all cool and whatever while the background sounds like a nintendo exploding or something. It's awesome. :D |
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| Gravenhurst – The Velvet Cell Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is so good and this band is my new obsession. I can't believe this doesn't have any other comments! I think this song is pretty straightforward lyrically. It's about the dormant animalistic instincts that can become triggered within people...resulting in destruction. :) |
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| Interpol – Pioneer to the Falls Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song sounds incredible live, it's an absolutely immense song. Heart-wrenchingly gorgeous! Lyrically I love it too, but I fail to understand them...it seems to go back and forth, from these incredibly loving words to a few lines that sound rather sad...I need to give it more thought. |
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| Rihanna – Lemme Get That Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Golddigger part II, from the female's perspective. This song is catchy as hell! |
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| She Wants Revenge – Black Liner Run Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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You all pretty much covered it, I've always viewed this as being about an obsession over someone a man knows over the internet...probably a young girl, of course...and given the numerous references to the internet it's kindof obvious. He thinks she is allowing him in and she does lead him on playfully but when he becomes serious about it, she gets scared...at least, this is how it looks to me. This is one of my favorite SWR songs, definitely. It's dark. |
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| Muse – Starlight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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When a friend of mine attempted suicide this song took a whole other meaning for me, as though there are two people narrating the song--one, sick of constantly chasing a goal that they are starting to think is unattainable, and wanting to give up completely--the other, begging them to stop and vowing to always be there for them. This song has always made me want to cry, it's so beautiful. I haven't considered it within the concept of the album as a whole, though, so I'm sure it takes on different meaning when put together with the other themes of the album. |
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| The Knife – Marble House Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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^ That's so sweet...in an odd way. I tend to think that this song could describe an abusive relationship. In the first verse, from the woman's point of view, she thinks about how she cares for her husband and how she has been convinced that she wanted this life, that she chose it, because she (as many abused) has been manipulated into thinking she deserves it. In the second verse, the husband is saying how she cares for him always and how the "seeds the sew"--their children--are destined to grow up in this impenetrable house as well. The chorus is about how they only think about how they love one another when they are alone, when they really think about it...Neither of them can remember feeling any other kind of love, so they believe that they are meant for one another. In the last part, it is like they (or she) are/is wondering what the future has in store. Their friends tell her she is in denial but she doesn't think anything is wrong. |
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| The National – Mistaken for Strangers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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lapair, your theory makes sense. I don't necessarily think of a model, persay, but when I first read the lyrics I thought it could apply to a similar type of thing, a person losing sight of their real friends...acting like a stranger to them. |
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| The National – Mistaken for Strangers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have never been a fan of The National but after hearing this song I just might be; it's grown on me and it's fantastic. It's so melancholy and yet catchy. Great, sad song...the lyrics are incredible. I agree with rossismad in that it's kindof about that transition in identity as you're really finding how the world works and your approach to it changes to fit it, struggling to be on your own and even alienating those around you... |
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| Interpol – No I in Threesome Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"but there are days in this life when you see the teeth marks of time" I LOVE that line. It's just great, put simply. I think this is a pretty straightforward song really. I love how it's sung so sweetly and it sounds utterly romantic, and then you just hear the title line, which is about probably one of the least romantic suggestions you could make for a dying relationship, haha. |
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| Interpol – All Fired Up Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I had no idea what this song was about until giving it some careful thought. It sounds like it could be allllll about drugs, to me. The references to "meeting halls" that "sweat and shake"..."death's desires"...a "precipice of fate"...dealers and "restless liars". This is all about drugs and being under the very control of an addiction, trying to fight it but being painfully aware of the tight invisible "binds and leash" (as these lyrics are wrong) it has and that it will "watch you fall" as you suffer from their effects. |
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| Interpol – The Scale Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| These lyrics are wrong, the Japanese booklet with the lyrics says "them's the breaks" and "my son you sleep in clouds of fire"...I believe it is "no shame" not "no shape" too but that might be wrong...anyway, I've heard people describe this as being about abortion, and it actually makes a lot of sense to me. I think the line "pick a rose just to hide my face" could mean something about trying to make an act (whatever it is) sound like something right and beautiful but hiding your shame behind it...hmmm I'm not sure. I'm surprised this doesn't have that many responses, the imagery in this song is so vivid and amazing. I hate that line "I have a sequin for an eye", though...it seems to fall flat among the other great lines in this song, to me. Great, though--classic, dark Interpol. | |
| Interpol – Who Do You Think? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is ridiculously catchy, I hope they release it as a single--it would do well, I know it. I think this song could be from the point of view of a person who cares about someone who doesn't care back. That person is leading their life, doing whatever they want and not caring about anyone else, but the narrator always cares about them. The relationship between them is fading and the other person is just following the nearest urge, following a path of selfishness and destruction...."I only call them when I know I don't see them" makes me think of the narrator accepting that their relationship is over, but when that person is in trouble, they will still find them and help them. I used to think of this song as being from a God's perspective of humans, but after thinking about it it could be from anyone's perspective...a parent, an ex-boy/girlfriend, a once close friend...and so on. It's a good song. |
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| Interpol – Pace Is the Trick Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is just now beginning to grow on me, it's very sweeping, very...heart-heavy. At first every time I heard this, it reminded me of obsession, even the whole groupie thing...people (women) following the narrator wherever he goes, with "no self-control", as he and those he knows--"the angels", as these obsessive characters would think of them--know about them and are conscious of the high pedestals that they place on them (the "insatiable needs")....this and another song on OLTA, can't remember which one, had me thinking similar things. Kindof like crazed fans following people that they know from bands and such, invading their everyday lives. On the other hand, another interpretation is that it could be about a man who has been in love, couldn't handle the relationship, and somehow ruined it, and now he feels hurt yet sick of being just some woman's toy, to the point of resenting women and not wanting to have to go back to that point of always being used or so concerned about another person...i.e. being "wound so tight smoking on the balcony", worrying about her and their relationship even during mundane moments. Basically, he's just left a bad relationship where he felt suffocated and now he's letting go off all of that. This song could be taken so many ways...it's very bitter to me, though. Beautiful, anyway. |
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