| The Kill Devil Hills – Cool My Desire Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| A lot of The Kill Devil Hills lyrics remind me of early Doors stuff. This is pretty straightforward, it's about the desire for a fix. | |
| The Kill Devil Hills – When the Wolf Comes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song, from what I gather, is about the evil in people. Specifically, the evils of addiction. The verses seem to recount relapses from different perspectives. The first verse is in reference to the addict, where they feel they are in life, why they use,etc. The second seems more from the partner/child perspective; it's as if the songwriter is now using the wolf as metaphor for the addict him/herself, arriving come and causing chaos. The third verse, I'm honestly not sure who it's written for. It could go either way. The mantra, which is probably the highlight of the song changes the entire mood of it all; love is stronger than pain. An addiction (to anything, mind you,) to hate, to greed, even to bones cannot match the power of love. This mantra may actually be what the victim utters, and why the victim ultimately stays with the wolf. Or, it could be what the recovering addict says to themselves as part of recovery. "If it's a final time to party Im'a lay right there on my stone" First off, stone as in stone sober. Secondly, those who need a think are referred to as "laying on their stone." The mantra following that stanza more overtly lets you know that, at least from the songwriter's perspective, they're done with the drugs/drink. Beautiful song, and very powerful. |
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| Sage Francis – Keep Moving Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Commitophobic. Knows what's up. Sage is speaking as if this embodies his relationships, how he winds up connecting, and disconnecting. Things get serious and then the girl becomes a warden. He feels imprisoned in her insecurities, and has trained himself to avoid the tough conversations and things that come with settling down. He knows he's damaged, aware that he's toxic, but is stuck reliving the hurtful relationships of before and seeign them replayed in new love. As far as inspiration and the reference to Dylan, I feel like this song is almost an hommage to "It ain't me, babe" |
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| Sage Francis – Three Sheets to the Wind Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Sage has always been ambiguous about his use of alcohol. This song is no exception. I can't tell, honestly, if he's using the metaphor to say that he's sailing away from an addiction he once had or sailing toward it. Three sheets to the wind, of course, is an idiom referring to a point beyond intoxication. The last verse seems to be him referring to his own set of vices he's addicted to, his bad eating habits and strange set of beliefs. This was one of my favourites off of Li(f)e; it felt like the "fuck it all, let's go for broke." song on the album. |
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| MC Frontalot – It Is Pitch Dark Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is definitely about Zork, it's many sequels, how addictive the game was and still is, losing yourself in the game; how you never seem to have a source of light in the game as it's often pitch black and Grues are abound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork There's massive amounts of nerd cred that frontalot seems to splash in his songs to connect with those old school nerds who sat behind apple IIs and Tandys when they were knee high. Holla! |
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| The National – Karen Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song feels like instability. You can tell that the lead singer is pleading for his lover's company, while trying to deny the draw toward the outrageous. There's a pull back and forth; he can play the rock star, have his liaisons and act like a drunken oaf, but he's also actively denying his child-like behaviour and looking for ways to change it in order to grow into a suitable partner. Part of him kind of feels like all of his whining and lamenting over the subject is pointless; the third verse is sort of a giving up on the issue, where he's sick of arguing over who and what he is and just wants to numb his mind of it all. I'd say the final portion is significant, where he's full on accepting the fact that this is who he is, a rambunctious alcoholic who's depressed and tired of following the picket fence agenda. "Idle...protect the nest, protect the title." He isn't going anywhere by pretending to be a family man, but he cares about his lover and sees that his actions hurt her. I think a lot of us want something more out of the fairytales we've been fed, and this song is a perfect representation of that feeling. |
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| David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The song is parodious, that is, it's making fun of the "boy" image. It's almost self deprecating, as Bowie pretty much presented himself in the same manner earlier in his career, as a flashy and sexually ambiguous boy toy who could do fuck all without consequence. | |
| David Bowie – Bring Me the Disco King Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Life wasn't worth the balance Or the crumpled paper it was written on I love the pun he wrote here, equating life's worth to a bank statement. This song is most definitely about the torture of the tunnel vision we have when looking upon the past. Everything is exciting, everything is happy, and the present is depressing and altogether worthless. In all of the toils of a career, of a life lived and enjoyed, the end result is nothing to dance about, nothing to celebrate. The Disco King is the god figure in this song, the one who has us all dancing, whether it be a danse macabre or a joyful step into good times that kill us all in the end. |
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| David Bowie – Underground Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song can definitely be interpreted as an internal conflict within a heroin user. The serenity and bliss of the drug, and then the cry for help to get out of it all due to it's isolating air. The entire opening verse sounds like an apologetic admission of guilt in response to heroin use. Sort of a--leave if you have to, but the lack of love and sincerity around me brings me to inject, it brings me to dose. The line: "But don't tell me truth hurts, little girl/Because it hurts like hell" is significant due to the bitter sting of it, the 'I'm in hell, don't tell me about how hot it gets' sort of tone to it. If you picture it, you can almost see Bowie saying this to his first wife, "Don't tell me what drugs do to a person, I'm living through that right now." In fact, the last line "Too much rejection/No love, injection" is rather blatant; describing the centerpiece of the conversation. The entire "where nothing ever hurts" area is a bit push and pull, as he's screaming for the help of a guardian to remove him from his addiction, while calling upon his sister to bring him back down into a nod. Of course, it isn't JUST about heroin addiction. The song obviously fits into the fantasy/reality clash that exists within Labyrinth, and can also paint the picture of a fractured relationship between two people, or even the desperation of one person who feels that the world has rejected their sincerity and beauty, and has to escape into themselves. |
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| Sage Francis – Sea Lion Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| For the record, "Piano Man" is an obvious reference to Billy Joel's track by that title. Sea Lion can be taken as an hommage to "Piano Man," so anyone confused by this song might want to give the lyrics and audio to that song a check. | |
| Sage Francis – Good Fashion Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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" Dark lenses tint the windows that are under my eyelids To hide from the light like I'm stuck in a fire pit" He opens the song in reference to his glasses; they're his blanket from the hell he sees. A good portion of this verse is a detail of what it is he hides from, both internally and externally. As it were, he's describing a hell on earth, the death of his innocence and inner sense...the glasses sheild him from the external, while doubling a sheild to protect those outside from the internal. The chorus is typical of Sage's wordplay, where the addition of subtraction of a word can change the entire meaning of a phrase he writes. Hell, it's Good Fashion...this refers to his inability to explain why he feels the need to protect himself, which is referenced in the second verse "that can never make the final reel." He explains the need for his sunglasses in the repeat of the stanza, however, when he responds with "hell." Essentially, the sunglasses are his sheild from hell, but "good fashion" is easier for those who speaks with to stomach. |
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