| La Dispute – Such Small Hands Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm fairly sure my interpretation is not that of the author but words are words. The song is more an overall comment on sharing a difficult situation with someone and not being able to stop it destroying the both you, despite the fact that there is no hate between you, just bitterness at unfortunate events. To me this song is about the aftermath of a still birth, which is linked to the title. The most poignant line referring to this being "every broken promise that you're body couldn't keep". |
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| Brand New – Tautou Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| As he says in the interview above the song has nothing to do with audrey tautou, he just likes to name songs after other things that influence the bands music not just other songs or other bands, just like guernica. | |
| Brand New – Tautou Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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And all is revealed http://overatedmag.com/interviews/brandnewinterview042303.html |
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| Brand New – Degausser Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yup listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIKWnOVqioU&feature=related It is 100% without a doubt Your born blind but you'll run out Our feet were slipping in alkalie |
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| Brand New – Degausser Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh and another thing, to anyone who thinks this is about something as mundane as a break up, or his recent break up. Please dont insult jesse by thinking he wrote a whole album about this, he has one song, you wont know, about her, this is about mental illness, as i personally heard him say it was for his "cousin and the demons in his attic". | |
| Brand New – Degausser Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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If you want a deeply analysed version here it is :D I dont care what people say, i may be looking to much into it but this fits so beautifully if it wasnt intetional, its even more amazing. I think this song is about someone jesse knows with a mental condition (quiet probably schizophrenia or bipolar depression). And the song is about this person coming of the medication they use to control the problem, because they feel like there losing there personality, and there desperatly trying to keep a clear head and keep hold of there lover. So we have Goodbye to sleep I think this staying up is exactly what i need Take apart your head Take apart the counting and the flock it has bred He has insomnia (common in manic depressives) but hes glad because its the real him, take apart your head (the head he's been forced into) and take away the counting the order he's been force into (by authorities, family etc). Goodbye to love It’s just a ride that will push you Up right against the wall* Take apart your head...right against the wall... Chew it up and swallow it He has to say goodbye to his lover and this is what hes been made to think. Right against the wall (force) Chew it up and swallow (the ideals the medication) (Does everybody really need to know everyone? Do you really think you're really a part of it? And is your army really one of some thousands? And will you declare war on the loony bin?) This is them saying they just want to be themselves, and questioning the authroity, questioning what it will all come to, mightnt they just kill mental patients. Pulled back but you've run out Let slip in the alkali (been asleep in the alkali) I can't shake this little feeling I'll never get anything right (im not certain what they are but) Hes running out of there control, an alkali is a key component in anti schizophrenic drugs and he's let slip of his personality as a result of taking it, but he understands that this medication cant make him right, so he wants to just himself. Goodbye you liar Well, you sipped from her cup But you don't own up to anything And you think you will inspire* This is him saying goodbye to the drugged up him, he was a lie, he sipped from her cup (took the medication) but cant own up to what he is, and think that his lover will accept it. Take apart your head...yeah, I wish I could inspire Take apart the demon up in the attic to the left* working out who he is, he wishes he could be perfect, but cant be. He personally said demon up in the attic to the left was a tribute to rocky errikson, and it refers to mental illness, demons in his attic (the brain) to the left (the left hemisphere of the brain being the side of "evil" in tradition) he has said at several perfomances that this is a song for a cousin of his, and his demons. Goodbye my love You wait right here, and they will come and pick you up I've been on pause But I’m shaking off the rust I’ve lost my charge I've been degaussed This is the key to the whole thing. Hes saying goodbye to his lover, they cant be together when hes not on medication, hes saying wait right here, and the men in white will be here soon. IVE BEEN ON PAUSE BUT IM SHAKING OFF THE RUST IVE LOST MY CHARGE I HAVE BEEN DEGAUSSED hes lost his flare, his personality, himself, hes been on pause whilst under the influence, but hes taking back control. Dear god its the most insanely beautiful piece of lyrical genius ive heard since dream brother. Take me, take me back to your bed I love you so much that it hurts my head Please say, "I don't mind you under my skin I’ll let your bad parts in. the bad parts in" When we were made we were set apart But life is a test and I get bad marks Now some saint got the job of writing down my sins The storm is coming The storm is coming in And again, this is what hes saying to his lover, please accept the real me, say you'll accept me with my faults. WHen he was born he was made different from other people, and that means he cant be the perfect person in life. The storm is coming, he insanity, the bit that makes him alive, the bit that make him him is coming back. Overall i think this all makes perfect sense, its the best song i have ever heard, and is a piece of musical as well as lyrical genius, the way the whole song sounds like the head of someone with issues, lots of vocals at the same time, some mourning some screaming, some saying a beautiful, simplistic perfect message to the only one for them. i love the way there a several vocal tracks at onces, some of which arnt in the offcial lyrics, its as if jesse dosnt care if people hear them, he needed them to be said. fewww that was long, i hope atleast one person read it all and agrees with me :) let me know what you think |
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| Finley Quaye – Dice Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Lol i hate you all please don't just say i love this song, i love the oc. DISSCUSS THE SONG MEANING :). Rant over. I suppose i have to agree with the others and say the writer probably intended it to be about taking the gamble to tell someone how you feel. But it fits so beautifully to mean what i first took it to mean, so let me throw in this curve ball.... The song (at least to me) is about losing the one you love, so "I was crying over you" is the grieving" and "i am smiling, i think of you. Where your gardens have no walls" is the peace of mind they get from thinking of there loved one in a better place, where they are happy and free (no walls). And "breath in the air, if you care, you compaire, dont say farewell" is the writers advice to other/himself to just stop and realise that there still with them. Then to be really interesting "When you roll the dice and swear your love for me". My first thought when i had this theme in my head was of the fortune teller type thing of asking a question and using dice to give an answer (with the belief that the dead can manipulate the roll) so on asking the question, they got an answer that can put them at peace. Which nothing can compaire to. The line "Virtuous sensibility, escape velocity" says to me how there good life means in death the can find peace, escape the velocity of every day life. |
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