| Joanna Newsom – Good Intentions Paving Company Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "just get us out, get home alive" is "just get us out, dead or alive" | |
| Lil' Wayne – La La Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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not weed. we. i'm all about "we", like paris. get it? in paris, they say "oui", which sounds like "we"? i just got it today. it's pretty genius. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Please Come Home to Hamngatan Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the point i've gleaned, especially after considering the relationship of the title to the lyrics, is that his wife has left with someone else, and he just wants her to come back. he's willing to forgive her and not have it be a big deal, he just wants her to come back. he's pretty blase about the injustices in his life. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Please Come Home to Hamngatan Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the point i've gleaned, especially after considering the relationship of the title to the lyrics, is that his wife has left with someone else, and he just wants her to come back. he's willing to forgive her and not have it be a big deal, he just wants her to come back. he's pretty blase about the injustices in his life. | |
| Lil' Wayne – 3 Peat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| one of the sickest "i'm back" tracks anyone ever wrote | |
| Lil' Wayne – Shoot Me Down Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| when he says "and i done it before, please don't make me do it no more", he's talking about shooting himself. when he was a kid, he was posing in the mirror with a loaded gun and he accidentally shot himself. so the whole aiming at a mirror thing is coming from that event in his childhood. he raps about it on other songs, too ("3 peat" - "two more inches, i'da been in that casket/according to the doctor, i could've died in traffic"). | |
| OutKast – Da Art of Storytellin' (Part 2) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| dre's verse is the hardest thing anyone ever spit, ever. | |
| Cursive – At Conception Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Jeannie and Father Cole have been having sex. Jeannie is pregnant. To avoid either of them having to raise the child or face the shame of admitting that they have been sleeping together, Jeannie will get an abortion. In order to protect her reputation, the once hard-nosed anti-abortion Father Cole will give a sermon in which he says that abortion is acceptable if the girl is raped. Jeannie will claim to have been raped, not by Father Cole, but by some unknown, non-existent, third party. Neither Father Cole nor Jeannie are suspected of sleeping together, there is no baby to raise, Father Cole can continue the priesthood, Jeannie won't be looked down upon for cheating on her army boyfriend or having an abortion. Works out the best for everybody. The line is "accepting termination, due to rape." |
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| Okkervil River – Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| the lyric is "they only BLEW on what was burning". | |
| Say Anything – This is Fucking Ecstasy (feat. Anthony Raneri) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Also: "Defence" is "for them" "poison learned from what we're pressed" is "poison's on a rubber press" "the pendants fly" is "dependence on" "tear could never guard" is "here are never gone" "This life that's" is "It's like they're" and various omissions of words like the. |
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| Say Anything – This is Fucking Ecstasy (feat. Anthony Raneri) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"A major album, please" should be "A maze where I was placed." I think there are some more errors in the first few lines, but i'm not positive. I think "sinking" is "sprinting." "Helplessly in shock" is "hopelessly and choke." |
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| Cursive – Hymns for the Heathen Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My take (just some expansion, mostly): "The Son of God complex" doesn't refer to baby Christ specifically, but just feelings of chosenness or anointedness that everyone deals with. In line with the anti-church feel of the album, Kasher asserts that, not only are you not chosen above anyone else, but neither is he, and neither is anyone, and no one needs to be. "The Prodigal Damsel" refers specifically to the prodigal son of the Bible, the man who takes his share of his father's estate as a young man and moves away to foreign lands to squander it on prostitutes. From what we know about Dorothy from this song and "Dorothy Dreams of Tornadoes," it becomes clear that Dorothy is long absent from her husband and Happy Hollow, living in an impractical dream world. "The tree stump of knowledge" is a pretty clear reference to the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden. Through just the fruit, which they are goaded into eating by Satan, disguised as a serpent, Adam and Eve gained self-awareness, much to God's dismay. Now, we have even more knowledge, having taken almost all of the tree for ourselves. Kasher gains some pleasure in his belief that we now know more than god intended. (The tree and serpent are also referenced in the lyrics to "Big Bang.") I can't honestly say if "the passion of the chaplain" is a double reference (to a biblical concept and the lyrics of the song, as most of the "hymns" are), but it appears to refer only to the song. "The Brute Kiss of Judas" is the ultimate act of betrayal. The song itself is not about the life or story of Judas, but rather a specific instance of betrayal (in this case, Lucy offering up her lover to the ravages of war). Kasher draws a parallel between this and Judas' offering up of Jesus to those who would crucify Him, identifying Him to the men who take Him to trial with an embrace and kiss. Sodom, the city of sin, was burned by God's wrath. Dorothy sees a similar fate in store for the denizens of Happy Hollow, and begs her husband to escape with her. "The Church of Doubting Thomas" is a reference to the apostle Thomas, who declared that he would not believe in the resurrection of Christ until he had seen the holes in his hands and feet and put his hand in his side. Kasher thinks that this is a reasonable way to look at things, and declares that, until one god formally makes Himself or Herself known to everyone, there is no need for any gods at all. The First Horseman of the Apocalypse carries a bow with no arrows, representing a nonviolent rise to power of him and the other horsemen (pestilence, war, famine, and death). Kasher laments that, through means described in "The Sunks," these horsemen (or rather, the things they represent) seem to be taking some power in the world. "immaculate Exception" is a play on "Immaculate Conception," the way in which the Virgin Mary became pregnant. Having got Jeanie pregnant, the pro-life Father Cole preaches that abortion is acceptable in cases of rape, and it is implied that, to save both of their reputations, Jeanie will claim that this is the source of her pregnancy, and will have it terminated. She has been declared an exception to the immaculate anti-abortion rule. Mary Magdalene is identified as a prostitute not in the Bible, but in subsequent sermons delivered by preists and popes, deriving from one delivered by Pope Gregory, in which he used Mary Magdalene as a model of a repentant sinner, and her hometown, where women where known for their questionable reputations. GoGoGo hit this one on the head. A condemnation of the restrictive lifestyles imposed on young people in the Midwest because of the dominance of Biblical ideals. "Lecherous" means lustful. The implication here is that the Shepherd uses his position and skills of deception to fool women into sleeping with him. Though no actual religious position is identified, the use of the term "Into the Fold" and the reference to a shepherd indicates that this man has SOME religious affiliation. "Hiding in Confession" is just a reiteration of the main dramatic situation in "Rise Up! Rise Up!" "An Afterword" is too straightforward to explain. Also of note are the musical and lyrical parallels between this song and "Opening the Hymnal." The Hymnal contains these Hymns for the Heathen, and all are contained inside Kasher. An odd statement, considering the condemnation of "chosenness" in "Babies." |
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