| Death Cab for Cutie – The Ice Is Getting Thinner Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i wish this song had been released a year ago, it would have been perfect. just as all things ben gibbard tend to be | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Long Division Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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kind of unclear about some parts still, but this could be about a man who was left behind in the past by an ex lover (hence the term "remainder"), and has spent much time dwelling on the pain he was burdened with.: "And the echoes that remained Were of old friends and lovers Their features bleeding together in his brain" he had since become very easily excited to jump at a new opportunity to be the upper hand, the one who leaves and not the one who is left.: "He was always distracted By the very mention of an open door Because he has sworn not to be what he'd been before" then i feel like the effects from being treated badly in his past show up to haunt him in the ending of the song. he transforms from the victim into the villain, treating his new woman the way he was previously treated. they both realize there's no solution to either of their problems without one of them ending up as the remainder, and therefore continue the damaged relationship they have, all because he swore never to be left behind again.: "She said she never envisioned him A type of person capable of such deceit And they carried on like long division Because it was clear with every page Oh, that they were farther away From a solution that would play" |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Grapevine Fires Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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lovely, i'm still on my first time of listening to the album all the way through, but so far this song has captured my attention even above the others i take it to be an end of the world type of song, but feeling strangely at peace with that. "But I couldn't think of anywhere I would've rather been To watch it all burn away" |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Bixby Canyon Bridge Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I want to know my fate if I keep up this way It's hard to want to stay away And everyone you meet all seem to be asleep You wonder if you're missing your dream Can't see your dream Can't see your dream Just can't see your dream Dream Dream Dream Dream Dream Dream Dream Dream" well. considering the context the rest of the song puts this passage in, i feel like this is a cry from Ben to someone else seeking the same answers as him (the "big truth about life/the universe" herringha mentioned?). because we all know how lonely it can be when you can't find another soul to comprehend the thoughts you have, or perhaps, in ben's case, the answers he's searching for. so to seriously dissect this: 1) he's asking what will become of him if he continues to search for that knowledge, because 2) he's finding it hard to give up the quest, regardless of the letdowns he has faced/may face. 3) when he speaks of everyone else being asleep, i believe he's talking about all the ignorance in this world. how most people are oblivious to the great information Ben wishes to receive..the goal he's illustrated with this song is unknown to most. and 4) how alone this realization can make him feel. which, in turn, can 5) make one wonder if he's the only one, if he's missing what seems to continuously fill the brains of those other people, content without the great status of achievement Ben's been searching for. 6) he describes that contentness with the analogy of sleeping peacefully with their dreams, and he's wondering if he's just missing his dream. |
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| Manchester Orchestra – Colly Strings Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i always heard "you can't believe without fear" | |
| Manchester Orchestra – I Can Barely Breathe Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think this song in general is about the way andy feels about this world and the people in it, how it's letting him down. like he used to have someone, and they decided to stay around while the "dark flood" changed everyone around him, including his companion. he talks about watching the world crumble into disaster, laying in ruins, and then how no one even wants the answers anymore. they want to believe what's easy and what's overtaking the world. "if you knew i was dying would it change you? if you knew i was dying would it change anything?" basically asking his ex-companion if they'd ever be changed back to who they were "everybody has their reasons that's the reason we're all gonna die, cause if seeing is believing, then believe that we have lost our eyes" i think that's talking about atheism or just, in general, the loss of belief we have lost our eyes = we can't see = we can't believe, no one believes in anything anymore. and what a bland world that is. "when i fly solo, i fly so high" easily means that hey, everybody's so fake i gotta just roll with myself, that's what works for me. "we all deserve something" i think this expresses a.. you'll get what's coming to you. type of thing. speaking towards the people who live up to the stereotypes in this song. and possibly wondering where his good karma is, because he deserves it for going through all that shit |
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| Manchester Orchestra – Play It Again, Sam! You Don't Have Any Feathers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i also always took this song to mean suicide. i love it, it's easily one of my favorite songs and has been for the past year now.. it just stays with you. it's one of those. i think it's mostly like.. mother and daughter get into a fight, and then the daughter kills herself. throughout the song you keep finding out more about her, that her parents probably didn't treat her well (the suicide = "you really did it this time") ("father left work by, oh i don't know, one or two.." kind of sets an unimportant spin on things) and she was probably unhappy. after this, you learn that the family is feeling remorseful, they know she'd been abandoned, but they ask her not to leave them, not to give up. she's been forgiven for what she did, so please come back. but they know their pleas are too late, meaningless. the other verses seem to be memories, like andy hull is remembering how he treated her so well and tried so hard to keep her safe, but she just kept trying to fly and others kept pushing her down again the other memory seems to come in more of a flashback form, like something from the girl's past that scarred her. "red and blue lights" obviously referring to police cars, ambulances, ect. "the others" are whoever committed the crime, and they ran and got away with it. andy prays that they won't stay here on earth, that they'd be punished for their harm to the girl, but no such luck the prodigal child part is easy, talking about wishing the child would return, again with the "come back to me." the sinner/maker part would be, i'd say, about the dead girl's family and how they're returning to god (their father/maker) as prodigal children, on their knees, which explains stanza 7. it's what they're saying to their maker i really think that this doesn't have to be a specific case of daughter dying/family saddened. i think it can connect to many cases of abandonment |
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| Annuals – Brother Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this is so pretty. two young brothers living a carefree life, seemingly in the country just living and loving life's smaller things, like finding a turtle or exploring the creek. then this comes "In his face I met fear; that I could die right there. But I climbed right out." and the song just jumps at you, like..here it is, this is life happening. and it tells you the boy begins to grow up. beyond young joy. and who doesn't want those days back, even just a little bit |
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| Annuals – Fair Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"I know there's no hope in holding up this weight. It just won't float. Man, I tried, but the tide. It knows no sides. If that's what's not fair, then what could be wrong with my life?" that whole stanza. mmm. basically i take it to mean that this person is done trying to be strong because life just won't have it that way. fate doesn't take sides, and if that isn't fair.. then his life is more than just unfair. god i love that last line. |
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| Annuals – Fair Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"I know there's no hope in holding up this weight. It just won't float. Man, I tried, but the tide. It knows no sides. If that's what's not fair, then what could be wrong with my life?" that whole stanza. mmm. basically i take it to mean that this person is done trying to be strong because life just won't have it that way. fate doesn't take sides, and if that isn't fair.. then his life is more than just unfair. god i love that last line. |
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| Brand New – Upward Over the Mountain (Iron & Wine cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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oh wow. this song is so beautiful. nothing tops jesse's la da da's paired with a soft melody by acoustic guitar. perhaps in the title someone should add "(iron & wine cover)" ? |
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| Cassie Steele – Mr. Cliche Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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ooh i like it. actually the lyrics of this song are what have drawn me in, "the more you roll the more will need the more you rock the more you will bleed" very true. love the way she tells it |
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| The Bravery – The Ocean Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song just..gives me chills except im pretty sure it's "at all of the lives that i never have led there's one where i stayed with you across the sea" also i dont think "but to hurt but to mend me that i wonder why" is right |
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| The Bravery – Time Won't Let Me Go Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"i never had a 'Summer of 69' never had a Cherry Valance of my own" love those references ever since the first time i heard it hah |
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| The Bravery – Time Won't Let Me Go Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"i never had a 'Summer of 69' never had a Cherry Valance of my own" love those references ever since the first time i heard it hah |
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