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| Carbon Leaf – The War Was In Color Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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What do you think the line "before I bore a son" means compared to the use of the word grandson? Literally it doesn't mean anything because a man has never bore a son, but do you think it's meant to mean he died before he helped conceive a child, or before his child was born? Never could figure out if the grandson part was literal, or just addressed to someone young... |
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| The National – Think You Can Wait Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song seems to evoke someone desperately asking that the "in sickness or health" clause of their wedding vows be honored while he struggles with mental health issues.
But the line "We've been holding a good night gun" makes me uncomfortable. All I keep picturing is someone writing a suicide note that's a parody of Goodnight Moon. "Goodnight gun. Goodnight, goodnight everyone." |
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| Woodhands – Dancer Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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What about the rest of the lyrics?? What's given is only what the man says, not what the woman sings during the majority of the song :( |
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| Wheat – I Met A Girl Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The lyrics here aren't quite complete. Right before the chorus is repeated the second time, they say "I said" and before the third "she said" which might significantly change the tone of the song - with all the words, it sounds like neither the singer nor the girl he's with are entirely happy in their relationship. |
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| Wolfsheim – Once In A Lifetime Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't think that the "you" in this song is necessarily God. I think he's addressing Life, and why he's no longer afraid to live or die. |
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| Splender – I Apologize Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Huh. I've never gotten an abortion vibe out of this song. I've always figured it was about another guy, one who is infatuated with the singer, not a woman at all. |
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| Bat for Lashes – Trophy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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patquinnchin, I also got the impression that this song is about rape, or violation of some sort. It might not literally mean that the "trophy" (which seems to be love or their relationship) was taken from her, though. What if it's about a violation of privacy, and she resents the fact that her relationship is being used to entertain people? Like how celebrities can't really have a private life? If so, then "bought" might be literal, and mean buying tabloids/the tabloids buying unauthorized photos. |
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| Blue October – Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't think there's more than one person, or even more than one personality being addressed in this song. What do you call yourself in your thoughts, "I/me" or "you"? When I'm mad at myself, I'm definitely thinking of "you" when I lecture myself not I. "why the hell did you just did that?" etc. I think the "you" in this song is his weaknesses being spoken about in that way. |
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| Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think I see it like ciarankl does. This person clearly leaves a path of broken hearts and promises behind them, but she still wants them. Most of the time you don't get into a relationship with someone you know is "bad" this clear-eyed and aware, so this sort of makes it worse that she wants it anyway. |
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| Far Too Jones – Nameless Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Does anyone hear this as anything other than a guy who feels really guilty about his girlfriend having an abortion?
But maybe it's deeper than that, and has a religious aspect to it. Why will they have to name it (literally name the baby? or name as in owning up to something they've done wrong?) one day, and why can't he save himself after not saving it? Maybe he's afraid that they're damned now. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone with You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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fursoftasfur is right. When he says "Gave up a wife and family" he doesn't mean that he put aside a real wife and family, or that he put aside some symbolic one, either. Gave up in this case means didn't have. He gave up the opportunity to have a wife and family. It's common enough to say a career woman gave up a husband and/or family to accomplish her work, and people don't mean she actually had kids or got married then, either. |
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| Mindless Self Indulgence – Molly Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I didn't think of drugs, bulimia or masturbation, but of teenage girls who know one notices are pregnant then abandon their babies in bathrooms; often the babies don't survive. You know, the good girls no one ever suspects would do something as "terrible" as get pregnant young... |
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| Cat Power – He War Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this song is directed to another girl, not the guy she's interested in. She likes the guy, but he's already involved, putting her and the girl she probably doesn't even know at odds with one another. Since he picks the girlfriend, she loses which leaves her longing for him and a little guilty for "fighting" a war for him in the first place ("I never meant to be the needle..." sounds guilty to me, anyway). The song tells the girl he loves that she won, and that the singer doesn't really feel like she had a chance anyway because she's "not that hot new chick" that could actually win him away from the one he loves. |
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