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| LCD Soundsystem – All I Want Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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That's such a heartbreaking line
"From now on, there's true indifference
'Cause I just want what I want"
It's like "I'm totally apathetic because I want something and I know I can't have it" |
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| LCD Soundsystem – All I Want Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I disagree. I've listened to it a billion times and I think it alternates
All I want is your pity
Yeah All I want are your bitter tears |
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| LCD Soundsystem – I Can Change Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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To me the song is a comment on modern romance and its split personality.The whole song reminds me of two people trying to gauge the other's interest in a relationship while trying not to come off too strong. One of my favourite lines has got to be "Love is a murderer" for that reason |
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| Saul Williams – Talk To Strangers Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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thats what you get when a poet decides to call it music and put it to instrumentals: Lyrical Genius. I think this might be the most powerful transcription of an experience I have ever had the pleasure of hearing |
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| Silversun Pickups – Melatonin Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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A friend and I spent some time listening to Carnavas and came up with the idea that it could be a concept album (a la The Shins Wincing the Night Away). We kind of picked at straws with some ideas and there is no place that ever mentions it being a concept album. That didn't make it any less fun to invent though :P
We thought that this song was about a physically abusive relationship between 2 characters: one female and one male. Most of the album is told through the female perspective (the one abused). The dream-like sound that many of the songs on the album have gave us the impression that the whole album is a series of non-chronological dreams.
"She ran into a wall" or something like that is frequently like an excuse for why the female has marks of abuse, and as many other commenters have said, perhaps there is that level of insomnia. I like what acridine said that perhaps the melatonin is a reference to something more than just a hormone.
The female takes the medication and falls asleep because she doesn't want to deal with the person she is in a relationship with. She begins to dream where she knows "i'll see my friend soon again" or the version of the man who she fell in love with rather than what he has become (abusive).
The following songs are memories of their relationship, be they good or bad, that come to mind in the melatonin-induced sleep.
I know its a stretch, but its a fun little idea ;) |
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| Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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True story. I blame it on the decision that Private Helicopter was their second single. Took away the momentum of the band... and all that label confusion before King James Version came out |
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| The Shins – Sea Legs Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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anyone think its interesting that a song about fleeting and temporary love is the longest song on the album? |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – Keasbey Nights Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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verymuch so. someone told me that those three songs (9mm and a three piece suit, keasby nights, and point/counterpoint) tell the story of someone who gets involved in crime, but is not really cut out for it. He regrets his decision and wishes he could get out of it, but knows that the people he ran with won't let him quit the life of crime and they will kill him, but in point/counterpoint he waits and waits, but nobody ever comes.
idk... sounds convincing to me! |
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| Acceptance – Over You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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i thought that line you quoted was about the guy knowing the chick was going to break up with him and he didn't want it |
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| The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I got the vibe that he is creating the idea that she is trying to make him jealous. She sincerely cares about him and worries about him, but he is making her into the bad guy (like Turn on You by The Shins "If you could only see yourself hating me")
He still loves her but is bitter that she (or he) broke it off. I like the idea that it is the same girl from Does this Mean You're Moving On? |
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| The Loved Ones – Suture Self Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I love the title pun... oh and the rest of the song too :P
I just had a correction in lyrics. I believe the first verse reads "Like a tooth sharpening a cannonball"
It fits in with the previous line in that his tooth would be dulled out if he tried to sharpen a cannonball. At least I think so.
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