| Low – Two-Step Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| iembalm, could you go into more detail on how this song relates to the marriage rites of the LDS church? Or, could anyone else? | |
| M83 – You, Appearing Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I have to say, I really love and buy into this interpretation. Especially after hearing dark moves of love end the album | |
| Andrew Bird – Effigy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| He gave a pretty detailed intro to this song when I saw him in Portland a couple months ago. He did say it was about a guy who sits at the end of the bar and makes unsolicited comments. He also said that the guy didn't have a ton of friends, may have played a little too much dungeons and dragons, and really wants and tries to be able to communicate with people but just doesn't remember or know how. Very touching, beautiful song | |
| Radiohead – Creep Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hey everyone knows this is the shitiest radiohead song Right!?!?!? | |
| TV on the Radio – Stork and Owl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
|
Stork=associated with birth, delivering babies. Owl=death omen. Beautiful song about birth and death, life and love. |
|
| The Magnetic Fields – Nothing Matters When We're Dancing Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song literally makes me ache. One of the purest songs ever written | |
| Ben Kweller – Make It Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
|
"I need a good luck charm to give me good luck. I need a good alarm to wake me up." So good! Best line ever |
|
| The National – Fake Empire Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Definitely the greatest song ever written. Ever. | |
| Kanye West – Say You Will Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree with the 808 sounding like a heart monitor and the chorus being a direct reference to wedding vows (I do, I will, etc.). This song has the biggest melody on the album, if not of all time. I love how austere the auto-tune makes his voice sound. It's so sad and powerful, and yet at the same time so almost sterile and resigned. | |
| Kanye West – Addiction Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I really love this song. Especially the PERFECT sample. The juxtaposition between the self-conscious wrongness of what he's doing with the simple, pure love and happiness of the sample is just really jarring and amazing, almost shocking. Completely changes the meaning of My Funny Valentine. | |
| Kanye West – Drive Slow (feat. Paul Wall, GLC) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
This song is so gorgeous. Like all the best Kanye songs, under the more run-of-the-mill surface topics, there is a real poigniance, message, and beauty that can be glimpsed through a few key lines ("And I was just a virgin a baby/One of the reasons I looked up to him crazy"). I agree with the people above that this song is really about taking life slow. When people are teenagers, they feel like every day they don't grow up a little is a day wasted. Kanye used to feel this way, until this friend that he looked up to in the song died (I feel like this is almost implied because the whole thing is so retrospective and nostalgic; where is this friend now?). When this guy died, Kanye realized that he was trying way too hard, and he just needed to "drive slow". The atmosphere of the song and Kanye's retrospection towards his teenage years give the song a really strong nostalgic feel. I do wish Kanye had done this song by himself, because I don't think the other two verses really add to the song. But, the other two verses could be representing the voice/attitude of Kanye's friend when they were younger. It seems like these other two verses lack the grown-up wisdom and nostalgia of the Ye verse; it seems like they are still stuck in their teenage years compared to Kanye. |
|
| Kanye West – Amazing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love the clicking in the beat of this song. It sounds so cool | |
| Beirut – Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
I love this song. It has one of the most haunting, beautiful melodies ever. I know it seems stupid when people say every random song is about a relationship or relationship problems, but I do think this song is about a relationship that is sort of winding down. The english translation of the title ("Last glass(for the road)" makes me think that even more. "Come sit at the table Under October's able skies Once we'd seen eye to eye I'd known that I'd pass you by, and I tried" Sounds like he's literally sitting at a table with his lover, and they're having their "last glass" together. It's October and it's about to be winter (cheesy metaphor if you ask me), he's explaining to her why things aren't working, and he saw it coming. "The bells chime Seven times Completed at nine The world moves slower, I find No, but I Learned of time By your hands" He uses the image of a clock chiming while they're sitting at the table to bring up the idea of time. I'm not sure what he means by "the world moves slower, I find", but I guess it might be referring to the actual conversation they are having, or possibly how he thinks he'll perceive time after they've broken up. "And in shallow waters' end I learned not to swim, but to lie" I guess more obvious metaphors. Their relationship isn't that deep to him. He isn't that old, and he needs someone who will show him how to grow more as a person. "I'll wait for now 'Til it's ready to burn out I insist on doubts We're already lying on the glass The glass " Summing it up: he insists on doubting that things are going to work out for them. I'm not sure what "lying on the glass" means, but I guess it could be that they are obviously in a dangerous situation. I love this song! |
|
| Wolf Parade – This Heart's on Fire Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the contrast of the line "I am my mother's hen" in this song, the last of the album, to the line "I am my father's son" in the first song. The two songs display very different attitudes about the singer's parents. Could it also signify a general direction the album moves in? | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Song for Kelly Huckaby Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
This song is about nothing more, nothing less than taking a road trip from Washington to California down I-5, and all of the fun, experiences, and emotions that go with it. I-5 is the freeway that spans from Canada to Mexico and goes through Seattle, Portland, pretty close to San Francisco, through LA all the way to Mexico. I taken this exact road trip a few times, and this song is a hauntingly beautiful and scarily accurate portrayal. I don't know much about Gibbard's personal history, but there are many literal references in the song that make it obvious what it's about. Iron Street is a street in Bellingham, WA, where Gibbard is from (he refers to the street as home in the first verse). This trip takes an entire (long) day at the very least. Waking up to take a 5 am turn at the wheel would not be out of the ordinary. The image of Mt. Shasta is what really made it clear what the song is about to me. Anyone who has driven through northern CA on I-5 will know that Mt. Shasta is not far from the freeway, and it is an absolutely huge, massive, powerful, beautiful presence. Going to California from the NW to me gives a sense of triumph, of going somewhere bigger (hence the feeling of "climbing up shasta"). Mission street is a famous street in San Francisco. The murals are probably a reference to the "sreet art" in SF. When you get done with an epic trip like that and go back to daily life, it almost seems mythical in comparison, and definitely romantic. Hence "photographs of the best times we had, windows smudged by the speed." This is absolutely one of my favorite songs by DCFC. It gives such a romantic sense of adventure and being part of something bigger than yourself. Where the music opens up after "smoke trailed from the butt of my cigarette," I love the massive open feeling. It's like the feeling of driving south on I-5 at 90 miles an hour through the absolute desert nothingness of Northern CA, driving away from problems and your normal life, even if just for a few days. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.