| Bon Iver – Flume Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I enjoy this song, like many of you. I find it quite beautiful. I've been unable to understand most of what he's saying while actually listening - he mumbles in that layered falsetto and it's hard to discern the words. But, I can't say I understand or even really care for the lyrics now that I know them. My main question is - what do feathers have to do with anything, especially a flume? When I first heard the song I thought maybe he was saying "plume" but obviously the word "flume" doesn't appear anywhere else in the song and being as this is the title, I can't be right. Anyone have any thoughts on this? The womb theory is interesting. But, in fitting with that theme, "gluey feathers on a flume" can only mean one thing, and it's really quite distasteful, especially when in reference to one's mother. I get the impression that these lyrics are meaningless and were chosen for a certain sound, hence why he mumbles through them to the point that they are almost unintelligible. | |
| Kate Nash – Skeleton Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I should add though, that psychologically the song is deeper than just describing a skeleton. She really personifies Stanley, and he's been a sort of imaginary friend to her in the past... someone to see her through hard times, someone to talk to and bounce ideas off of. Always accepting, I imagine, and very non-judgmental. She's talking about holding on to childhood things that are dear, like a skeleton that she's spent her whole life with, and dressed up in clothes, even when others ridicule it... She considers getting rid of it, letting it go, since she has grown up and people are even less understanding about it now than they were when she was a kid. "Introducing" him to others is awkward and always necessitates an explanation. (Kind of like telling people you're a vegetarian. Sigh.) But in the end, she decides not to kill Stanley, because she concludes that she loves him even if it's silly and irrational and childish, even if she has to spend the rest of her life awkwardly explaining herself, she's not giving him up. | |
| Kate Nash – Skeleton Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I first heard this song, it struck me as very literal. I initially thought she was talking about her own skeleton, but then she says that they've only been together since she was seven. So unless she was a gelatinous mound of flesh for seven years, we can rule out that hypothesis. Then I sensed that she was talking about a real skeleton that she owns, and other people consider her freakish for having it. Then I started reading the comments on here, and I was like, wow... maybe it's a lot deeper than I thought. Maybe it really IS an imaginary friend, or Kate's platonic man-friend, or a girl with scoliosis... But, no. Sorry to disappoint you. Although it's really, really awesome that people found their own meanings in this song... I just think that's very cool. And maybe she intended it on this deeper level, who knows. Her writing didn't strike me as deep on any of the other songs, though... I love her, don't get me wrong, the music is a lot of fun and addictive, and I've been listening to her a lot. But here. "Kate Nash has a skeleton in her closet. Well, it actually lives in her family’s living room, but it’s still quite a disturbing vision to outsiders. Nash documents this anomaly on “Skeleton Song” from her freshly dropped record Made of Bricks. The 20-year-old, UK-bred composer still resides with her parents and the bag of bones they call Stanley. Nash prefers to keep her loved-ones, including Stan, close considering the exponential speed at which she climbed the UK charts and became a global hit via MySpace." So as some of the previous posters were trying to say, Skeleton Song is a document of Stanley, a literal skeleton, and I sense that she was writing about Stanley literally with nothing deeper in mind; however, she wrote it in such an ambiguous, poetic sort of way that we can all look at it and see something different. So to that end, she was quite successful. I would say this is her best written song in terms of lyrics. |
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| Kate Nash – Merry Happy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I couldn't agree less that she is Lily Allen and Regina Spektor's love child, much less that she is greater than the sum of the parts. Ugh! This song is so horribly repetitive. There is no chord progression whatsoever. It's the same 4 chords repeated over and over and over, and the same lyrics repeated verbatim. And I agree with those who say the lyrics leave a lot to be desired... Lily and Regina write 50 times better lyrics. This song is okay but I can only listen to about half of it before I get completely bored. It really just doesn't go anywhere. These are just my opinions, of course - disclaimer. He he. No offense to anyone. | |
| Lily Allen – Not Big Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I personally don't care who wrote it. The music is good and I enjoy listening to it. I also don't see anything wrong or abnormal at all with a 22 year old girl hanging out at the bars a lot. I don't know any 22 year old girls who DON'T hang out at the bars quite a bit... big whooptie-doodles. And when she says "let's see how you feel in a couple of weeks when I work my way through your mates" I don't take it literally and make her into a slut. It's a threat, it's a diss. She's not seriously going to go out and screw all of his friends for real. But he did her wrong and she's trying to make him feel SMALL, however she can. That's my take on it. |
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| Regina Spektor – Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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From www.m-w.com (Merriam-Webster Online) "ticky-tacky: sleazy or shoddy material used especially in the construction of look-alike tract houses; also : something built of ticky-tacky" Also: "1 : of an uninspired or monotonous sameness 2 : tacky 3 : built of ticky-tacky " It was a song written originally by Malvina Reynolds in 1962, best known as someone above noted from the Pete Seeger version. |
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| Regina Spektor – Baby Jesus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"This song speaks for itself really, the belief in jesus and the biblical story in modern times. " I like when people say "it's obviously about..." or "this speaks for itself..." and then I totally see something different in the song than what the person feels it's obviously about... he he! I agree with those that said it's about the feelings of being Jewish, or another other religion, in a predominately Christian country... especially at Christmastime... (Regina's commented millions of billions of times that her songs are rarely/never autobiographical or about herself really in any way...) To me it is simply about the scary "you're either with us or against us" attitude of a lot of Christians... |
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| Regina Spektor – Aching to Pupate Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Also, to add... I read an interview with her where she said she has no f*ing idea what half her songs mean anyway and she hates it when people ask her... so if it means an ugly hooker to you, then it's an ugly hooker, or a flasher, or a young girl... it's pretty abstract, and that's the beauty of her writing. So no more YIKES-ing!! He he. | |
| Regina Spektor – Aching to Pupate Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Wow... I love this site. It's so funny how we all see something so different in all these songs.. I always thought this song was about a flasher. He's totally crazy, wears a fake moustache and lipstick, stands on the street corner with all the other vendors who are selling stuff but then, he opens up his trenchcoat !!!! Ok. No one wants to buy what he's got in there... and he just can't understand why. haha! |
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| Regina Spektor – One More Time with Feeling Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I instantly thought this song was about a person in the hospital who is dying... the helium balloon pushing at the ceiling and the flickering lights is the soul, still attached to the body but trying to leave... and "everyone takes turns, now it's yours to play the part.."... ie dying. They're proud of this person, but he/she still feels like their true self is not known, and this person is desperate, before they go, to make the people at the bedside understand him/her. And Regina uses the metaphor, "hold on, one more time with feeling.." something you might hear a music instructor say.. comparing life to music, breathing to a rhythm, so hold on and try it again, keep breathing - keep the rhythm going, one last time to make them understand before you go... |
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| Regina Spektor – Reading Time with Pickle Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I always thought this song was sort of Buddhist... about the narrator seeing into the true nature of things... she buys these pickles, and finds comfort in them, laying in bed eating one while she reads a book... it overtakes her senses, she even sees the lamp as green... totally engrossed in this pickle, and amazed by it.. hence the "is it possible all this magic went unnoticed?" But then, the next time she sees the pickles in the store, she has a sudden enlightenment that pickles are "just pickles"... that they're actually not "pickles," they are cucumbers and water and pickling spices etc. And that they exist because of love, indeed that love is the answer to every question... even the ones we may have forgotten to ask. |
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