| The Cars – All Mixed Up Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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My favorite Cars song. I don't know if the writer intended this, but I always hear it as a man with gender identity issues. He sees himself as a woman. |
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| Roxy Music – More Than This Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Lovely and zenlike in its simple wisdom. There is a quiet grandeur in the observations.. Fallen leaves in the night Who can say where they´re blowing.. Why the sea on the tide Has no way of turning Some things just are. Don't agonize over them. |
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| Mark Hollis – The Colour of Spring Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Mark Hollis says as much in the silence between notes as he does with sound. This song is simply exquisite. | |
| Harry Chapin – Taxi Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is pure poetry..simple and lovely. | |
| Gin Blossoms – Miss Disarray Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| No new ground broken here..just a great band doing what it does best: making damned catchy pop rock songs. | |
| Gin Blossoms – Not Only Numb Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| My favorite song from one of my favorite bands..a simple rendering of a complex relationship. Robin Wilson's soulful voice certainly adds weight to the lyrics. | |
| The Motels – Only the Lonely Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| One of the best songs of the eighties. | |
| The Motels – Suddenly Last Summer Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This may be inspired by the Tennessee Williams one act play. Taken from the perspective of Catharine, or perhaps even Sebastian, it definitely has a hazy, macabre overtone. | |
| Green Day – 21 Guns Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is a wimpy pacifist anthem written by an angry, ungrateful, pretentious, self-indulgent punk who wears eyeliner. And the chorus sounds like an inferior ripoff of Mott the Hoople's "All The Young Dudes". | |
| Yo La Tengo – Season of the Shark Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I have always approached this song from the perspective of a father speaking to a child..a daughter who is ready to go off to college, etc...he knows he needs to let go a little, but still wants to protect her. | |
| Nick Drake – Place To Be Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I have never been sure exactly what this song means. At first listen, the lyrics seem to be simply about longing for a person, a lost love... ...but lines like "gotta get up clean the place" and " Now I'm weaker than the palest blue, Oh so weak in this need for you" seem to speak to an addiction of some sort. Or, perhaps it is the interweaving of the two...in other words, love (or the object of it) is the addiction. Either way, this song is achingly gorgeous, haunting, heartbreaking. Probably Nick Drake's best song. |
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| Corinne Bailey Rae – Like a Star Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I saw her perform this song on "Later...with Jools Holland". It was so beautiful that I had to find out more about her. i'm now a big fan. As for the lyrics...arguments stem from passion. The relationship is this song is passionate, one of a kind...all others do not matter enough to expend such energy. It is simply a confession of love, and all that love allows. |
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| Linkin Park – Shadow Of The Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I like the sound they have here....it's a bit derivative but it works. It seems like endings and beginnings, perhaps a suicide theme. Plaintive and also oddly hopeful... "And the sun will set for you The sun will set for you And the shadow of the day Will embrace the world in grey And the sun will set for you." When he is gone, the sun will still rise and set for everyone else, and life will go on. |
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| Linkin Park – What I've Done Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have never been a fan of Linkin Park, but I think this is a great song. They show a high level of depth and maturity in exploring guilt and redemption here. |
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| Jars of Clay – Worlds Apart Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Did you really have to die for me? All I am for all you are Because what I need and what I believe are worlds apart" The weight of the sacrifice of Christ, and the response it demands, is perfectly stated here. Brilliant. |
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| Rob Thomas – Little Wonders Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have never been a Rob Thomas fan, but I congratulate him for writing such a lovely, infectious, insightful song. Little things, good and bad, shape who we are. They are learning experiences that can give us wisdom or bitterness, depending on how we react to them. Still, all of them remind us that we are alive, and that small things make life worth living. |
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| Josh Joplin Group – Gravity Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is the classic "life is gravity" metaphor done well. "Pull me down, don't pull me down Pull me down, don't pull me down" People screw up....bad things sometimes happen. Get over it. |
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| Josh Joplin Group – I've Changed Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Sometimes when people are young they are idealists. They have unreasonably high expectations. As they get older, however, they see and experience the real world with its heartbreak and difficulty and disappointment, and they become wiser. This song is about being at that point, and realizing that happiness is possible anyway. |
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| Josh Joplin Group – Dutch Wonderland Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is an observation about the precious simplicity and carefree innocence of childhood, and a lament for their loss as we become adults and complicate our lives. For example: "We were the great believers that dreams came with stars And freedom just depended on the car Until one day the sky fell in and freedom lost control And ran off the road and hit a pole" What a brilliant verse... It should not be taken literally. It simply highlights that with freedom comes the fetters of responsibility. |
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| Josh Joplin Group – Camera One Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is an allegory. Each individual is a celebrity in his own mind, and lives and makes decisions based on what he thinks will please others or advance his celebrity status. This song is about being genuine and true to who we are, and not letting what we percieve as "success" make us someone we're not. It is about pursuing happiness for its own sake, and the gnawing regret we suffer when we don't. |
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| King Crimson – Pictures of a City Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sinfield was an incredible poet. The intricacy of those lyrics, and the powerful images he suggests...it's like a dream world. Brilliant. | |
| King Crimson – Facts of Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"It doesn't mean you should just because you can. It doesn't mean you should just because you can. Like Abraham and Ishmael, fighting over sand. It doesn't mean you should just because you can." Genius. |
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| King Crimson – Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think I remember Robert Fripp saying this was a commentary on the poor quality of most pop music. I'll have to check the liner notes. | |
| King Crimson – Ladies Of The Road Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Sleazy, jazzy, and just plain great. The sax is alive in this one. It sounds like Alan Oldie is spot on in his interpretation. |
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| King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The original 1969 studio version of this song is the best version. It is also the only "noisy" song on the first album (and genuinely terrifying). The manic but regimented playing is simply beyond virtuosic. I hear a heavy jazz influence, but also metal, prog, and psychedelia. It is interesting to note that this song was written and recorded while the Vietnam War was in full chaotic swing. That seems to have an influence on the lyrics....ex: "Blood rack, barbed wire, Politicians' funeral pyre, Innocents raped with napalm fire..." |
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| Radiohead – Fitter Happier Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Complete safety and perfection are not achievable. Acceptance of vulnerability and taking risks makes us alive. | |
| Radiohead – Lucky Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It seems to me that the narrator in the song just survived a horrofic accident without a single injury, and now he feels invincible. | |
| Radiohead – The Tourist Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Possibly the greatest closing track in the history of rock music... It is a gorgeous lament about how we are too busy to stop and appreciate the small things that make life enjoyable. |
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| Elliott Smith – Waltz #2 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is one of my top ten favorite songs of all time. Sometimes people carelessly toss around words like "masterpiece" until they become cliched...but this song is one, a melancholy work of art. | |
| Elliott Smith – A Fond Farewell Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Chilling and achingly beautiful...especially when I consider that it was released posthumously. It reminds me of a distinctly painful time in my personal life. |
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| Liam Finn – Second Chance Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I heard this song this morning, and thought it was great. I was surprised to find out it was Neil Finn's son. The lyrics are obviously about a bitter end to a relationship. |
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