| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I remember hearing this on the radio when I was little and my mom signing along. It's about how parents need to remind their children of things that they lived through, like the bomb ("the fears that your elders grew by") and growing up constantly paranoid about it, or communism, etc. The things that the baby boomers didn't live through so much so they were all for it. It's a reminder that the elders should not let the youth forget the past, because history repeats itself. And the younger generation needs to help the old people understand what it is like to be young, and to not get angry with them because they just want to know the truth before they die. But, no matter what they tell you, remember that they love you. Wonderful song. |
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| Bright Eyes – Easy/Lucky/Free Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this is Conor thinking about death. Like other people have said. But like, you know when someone dies, someone really close to you, you freak out and rethink everything? That's what this is. At the beginning he's wondering about just the world and stuff, "Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot," like he's afraid that all the bad stuff that happens in the world has made him lose sight of life, but he also realises he never thought of death either. And now that someone has died it's all he can think about, and he's feeling listless and realizing everything is pointless. In the second verse he's kinda talking about how crappy the world really is, and how much life really actually sucks, with the police state thing, and how 'you *might* escape'. He's setting his watch to when he dies, instead of thinking along the lines of how long he has lived he's thinking how long he has to live, which is scary 'cause he sees that actually he doesn't have a lot of time, and that he never thought about it before so it never bothered him. Except he can't help it. And then he talks about how when he dies he'll at least be reunited with the people he knows who are dead. I think the chorus is him reassuring someone who is dying. Death is lucky to him because clearly life sucks. It's easy because, well, dying is easy. And it's free, as in it does not cost anything, monetarily or otherwise, to die. Quite sad actually. Like At the Bottom of Everything in saddness, almost, but the music actually correlates to the lyrics more clearly. Still beautiful. |
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| The Doors – Love Me Two Times Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song always makes me giggle. Cause I think of the Dead Milkmen. "Love me two times girl... 'cause I've got aids." But it's great. I love it. |
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| The Beatles – The Ballad of John and Yoko Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is so fun. I love it. Yoko might annoy me (and other people) a lot, but she made John happy, which is what matters, right? If you'd rather he'd still be alive and miserable, then you can't care that much for him now, can you? |
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| Cobra Starship – Damn, You Look Good and I'm Drunk (Scandalous) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Don't ask me to sign your skin Can't you see these little kids? yeah, I agree with xxlindsaydarexx. The V.I.P. Party Boys part is so damn funny. I love it. Gabe makes me so happy. I think it's go to do with that, and then the transsexual thing. Kinda mean actually. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Nine In The Afternoon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I feel like this is about tripping. But I find drug references in everything. :D "It looks like the end of history" "Into a place where thoughts can bloom" and "Losing the feeling of feeling unique" sound just like tripping to me, but I really doubt they've ever done that. Your eyes are the size of the moon is an obvious ecstasy reference. laceface has it right. Although, when I think of 'Back to the street where we began' they could be referring to Abbey Road, and back to the room/place to Abbey Road Studios, because wikipedia says they recorded some of Pretty. Odd. there, and it'd be like Ryan saying 'let's go back to where this music started.' (because every artist owes something to the Beatles, you can't get around it) And it ties in with the Beatles-esque-ness of the song and video. I think that if that's the case, the rest of the song is just waxing about how kick ass it'd feel to record something at Abbey Road, because, like, honestly. The end of history thing makes me think of how when something really awesome happens you feel like the world could end and it'd be ok. And 'Losing the feeling of feeling unique' could be like how they lost some of their unique-ness when other bands went on to copy them. So they tried this. And it makes them feel awesome. Yeah, just my two cents. |
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| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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PAUL IS DEAD! no just kidding. it makes me laugh that people believed that though. like, wow. this is a great song. |
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| Bright Eyes – A Scale, a Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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When I think of a disease doctors can't treat I think like, understanding the pointlessness of existance. You contract it when you see that everything is not really there really. You know? And it seems to be about how people make the world out to be some magnificent wonderful thing when really it just happened and it's just there and that's it. It doesn't matter where he is because he won't be there tomorrow, and when you turn the page on the calendar the day or month on the page you turned is over. Forever. So there's not much point because time just keeps going, it won't stop for anything. Oh, and pronetocling, I disagree. I think he means that language was not planned by God, it just occured randomly through evolution. But then again, what do I know? |
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| Bright Eyes – At the Bottom of Everything Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Really, I think this is about how we do all sorts of things in our lives to try and figure out purpose and where we are going (So we stare into crystal balls and rip out the epilogues). To do this we conform ("we must blend into the choir...") and all sorts of stuff and we hate it but we feel like we have to to get the answer. And we're so afraid to die without knowing it. And then, finally we "get down there, way down to the very bottom of everything" and realise that our life is pointless. So we're happy we found it, but sad because we realise it was all a waste of time. That what I think, anyways. I love this song though. It's so depressingly beautiful. |
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| The Beatles – I Will Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this always makes me think of simon and garfunkel. i dunno why, but their sound in some songs is almost reminiscent of this. call me crazy. very gorgeous though. i agree with everyone else, probably about soulmates. |
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| The Beatles – Ain't She Sweet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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john brought a guitar into lettering class and sang this for cynthia back when they were in college. so cute. |
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| John Lennon – Imagine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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it's all about worldwide communism. where there will be no religion, so we can all be "living for today", as opposed to for tomorrow or after we die by trying to please an imaginary god. no need to hurt each other because we have everything we need, so no "greed or hunger", we can all share everything and be happy. what a gorgeous dream of a song. so very sad. |
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| The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i love the sitar in this. it's very amazing. i think that the song is about this girl leading john on almost, she shows him her room and since she's poor the bed must be made of norwegian wood (which is fancy way of saying cheap pine). and she doesn't have a chair, again alluding to the poor thing. they must've gotten pretty wasted or something "drinking her wine" and started to do something, but she thought about how she had work in the morning and killed it. so john got mad and slept in the bath. and when he woke up, she was gone, and because he was still mad, he probably burned her furniture or something. the slept in the bath part really resonates with me. i remember a long time ago i was sleeping over at my thea's house. it was me, my sister, and her two other nieces. she got mad at us and told us that if we didn't behave she's separate us and we could all sleep separately, one in one room, one in another, one in her room with her, and one in the bathtub. i found it incredibly funny at the time, but now it sort of symbolises a sort of estrangement. like, being separated from everything, in the cool unfeeling bathtub. kind of like john is complaining about how he is estranged from his wife, because he is having an affair, but it's his own fault, because he "crawled off to sleep in the bath." and nobody made him go. and when he's alone because the girl had to work, he feels stupid and takes his anger out on her house/furniture/whatever, and also this bird has flown could be him realizing he totally screwed over his relationship with cynthia. but that's just my two cents. i love this song, anyways. |
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| The Beatles – Lady Madonna Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think they're making fun of the catholic view of mary. and just catholicism in general "creeping like a nun" nuns don't really creep. i never considered prosititution. although that would make sense. |
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| The Beatles – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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horsefabio is right. i've never tripped, but people have descibed it to me, and this sounds so much like everything they've said. i bet john wrote the verses about acid and the refrain about his sons picture, and named it and didn't even realise the acronym in the title until someone pointed it out to him. he probably then thought it the most hilarious thing and left it that way just to be funny and confuse people like us. either way, it's a good song. |
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| The Clash – Rock the Casbah Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i adore this song. it just seems kinda like, and not to be mean or anything, but making fun of how stupid religious fundies are, any kind of fundie too, when they say a certain type of music is "bad". you know? it's just music. no need to get so worked up over it. i adore this song so much though. total classic that never gets old. XD |
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| The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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it's about communism! "Everyone of us has all we need," does that not sound like communism? idk, it just struck me earlier. i adore this song, however terrible it is. i remember when i was a little girl at girl scout camp, during a meal someone would yell "air raid!" and we'd all dive under the tables and sing the refrain to this song. it was amazing. and then it got banned because people hit their heads. oh well... |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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it is about mrs roosevelt. "Going to the candidates debate" what else could that refer to? "Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home" the white house grounds maybe? it may have other meaning though as well. but that's what it always strikes me as being about. i think someone told paul simon to change the lyric from roosevelt to robinson somewhere before it was made, and he did. |
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| The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song is blantantly about oral sex, yes, but i think it also has deeper meaning. it's beautifully and almost sad either way. |
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| Bright Eyes – Lover I Don't Have to Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i just figured out the... "Love's an excuse to get hurt And to hurt Do you like to hurt? I do, I do Then hurt me" part. love = a reason to get hurt, so it's a waste of time. it's just a way for masochists to get their pleasure. "and to hurt" as an afterthought, it's also just a way for people to hurt others, so the sadists can hae their fun. but then he asks "do you like to hurt?" i.e. do you like to be loved. "i do, i do" a desparate attempt, i always invision it said by a girl in tears, to clarify she wants to be loved. "then hurt me." - love me. this song is so gorgeously breathtakingly sad and dark and mysterious and gah. i can't put it into words. |
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