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| The Shins – Those To Come Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Well, yeah I get the metaphors and symbolism. But it's about those bugs that hibernate all their lives, wake up, screw and die. But it's basically saying that we, too, are the bugs. |
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| The Elected – A Time for Emily Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I kind of think this is about A Rose For Emily, that story by Faulkner about a woman who kills a man so she can lie beside him. It's showing a POV from both characters, Homer (the man she kills) and Ms. Emily. |
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| Modest Mouse – Spitting Venom Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I'm a little rudie on the inside, so I was pleasently suprised by this, especially the riff and the reference to skanking "just let it drop," is common, if you know your worth in skanking. The unexpected brassy interlude was both shocking and amazing. |
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| Devendra Banhart – Long Haired Child Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I actually think you are all looking too deeply. Why can't it just be a character sketch? It's a hilarious song and the lyrics are so beautiful, funny, clever. So what if he has hair? You think half the people who write things are talking about actual experience? |
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| Devendra Banhart – Little Boys Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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At first, I thought it was about a guy who wanted the companionship of a child to compensate for all the women leaving him. Sort of like Pip in Great Expectation. But it seems that when he starts talking about little boys, there's a whole reversal in the personalty of the song. Like the guy just breaks because he realizes the women are working for him. They don't love him because he's a little perverted or whatever, then he just submits to it. He can never control the urges he has for little children. Hilarious song. Who knows if it's real or not. Don't care. |
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| Devendra Banhart – Heard Somebody Say Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Well, recently in Post WWII History, we talked about America island hopping in the South Pacific. During WWII, actually, torwards the end, there was savage and bloody fighting between the Japanese and the Americans on these islands. Anyway, America missed some islands and after Japan's defeat, they completely forgot about some of the soliders on these isolated islands. Alright, history lesson over. I think this song has to do with that. These soliders were afraid and something like 30 years later they still thought the war was going on.
I think this song has to do with no one liking war but feeling as though they have to fight. Most people want peace or something like it but feel as though the only way to achieve it is through fighting, like there is some kind of miscommunication. The war ended today but everyone knows it's going on still, the war is still fighting, maybe not WWII, but other wars, it's essentially the same war. |
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