| Sleater-Kinney – Let's Call It Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Epic song. | |
| The Magnetic Fields – Born on a Train Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The album definitely has an established vampire theme. I still can't figure out if the narrator is one or not. After all, he's leaving in the morning. | |
| The 6ths – Rot In The Sun Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| After all this, he ends up moving there! | |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Kiss Kiss Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Thought this was about a male prostitute or porn actor. Drugs could be involved. | |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – No No No Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I always thought this was about someone getting kicked out of an apartment because their roommate just took their ex-boyfriend back in. But I GUESS it could be about a break-up. The guitar in this song is one of my favorite YYYs moments of all. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – The Jeep Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"...straight off this trail of tears" OH LORD I love the '60s girl group sound. |
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| The Magnetic Fields – Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Maybe because the other person isn't there, or they're not even an item. "If you knew how I long for you Now that you're gone You'd grow wings and fly Home to me Home tonight" |
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| The Magnetic Fields – All My Little Words Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| IIRC from the liner notes interview, it's something that a guy actually said to Stephin once :/ | |
| The Magnetic Fields – The Flowers She Sent And The Flowers She Said She Sent Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One of my favorite songs. I don't think the lyrics really have a meaning, just an atmosphere. | |
| David Bowie – Amsterdam Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Wow, I'm surprised. I love this song, especially the BBC Radio version. | |
| Rasputina – Identity Tokens Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundling_Museum | |
| Rasputina – The Pruning Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| In the liner notes, I think this is subtitled as a "kill 'em all off" song. So basically, I think it's about everyone in the story dying off at the end of the war. Something like that. | |
| Rasputina – We Stay Behind Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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About/inspired by the people who stayed in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. :( |
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| Rasputina – Identity Tokens Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| There's a museum in London, I think, that has an exhibit of all these items that mothers left with their abandoned children back in the day. They tended to be items the mother just happened to have on her at the time, but they wanted to leave something, anything. | |
| Elton John – Texan Love Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| And at least in my copy of the song, I'm pretty sure it says "negro blues", not the slur. | |
| Elton John – Texan Love Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It sounds like the perspective of the hippy-killers in "Easy Rider". Or someone who might've hassled someone like, say, Elton John and his bandmates while visiting the country around that same time. | |
| Rasputina – A Retinue Of Moons - The Infidel Is Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| And maybe the alliance is with Mary Todd/you know who, in some sort of conspiracy. | |
| Rasputina – You Don't Own Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Lesley Gore did it originally, and I love it. | |
| Rasputina – A Retinue Of Moons - The Infidel Is Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Based on the origins of "Choose Me For Champion", I have to assume that "Infidel" is from the point of view of Thursday Christian/Osama bin Laden. | |
| Rasputina – Draconian Crackdown Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Sung from the point of view of Mary Todd Lincoln in the concept album story, paralleling the GWB administration post-9/11. | |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Swimming Horses Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this was about a young unmarried woman who was either pregnant, or had a tumor that made her appear pregnant, and she was poisoned by her family so that she wouldn't be stoned. | |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Arabian Knights Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I heard it was inspired by a visit to the Middle East, but I don't have the details. But more importantly, the title is "Arabian KNIGHTS", not NIGHTS! So offensive. |
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