| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – I Love Creedence Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Definitely from the perspective of a girl. It's a love song in the sense of it being about pure, childhood love unadulterated by sex. They were as thick as thieves and the girl gets a boyfriend and it completely changes the friendship. Creedance has a harder time of moving on, and there are lesbian undertones. You can really feel the raw pain. I've always thought that losing a friend is much harder than a lover. Friendship seems more genuine to me and not confounded by physical interaction. Of course "El is the only besides my dad who has said I love you Creedance" is heartbreaking and what initially drew me to the song. Creedance has only loved one person in her life - and that has been diluted by distance and time. |
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| of Montreal – Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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yeah, i sort of feel bad for this "faggy girl"....it also seems like he's on cocaine - "it doesn't kill to try, there are blue lights all around... perhaps because he was so coked up he lead this girl on for a little bit and felt comfortable being a bit of jerk to her. apparently she lacks "soul power." crush for the night - willing to fool around for the night but not much more. the way it trips out when it says that people are gossiping it's almost as though he is an a drug induced sex haze and willing to let people's words temporarily move into the peripheral. he wakes up in the morning and regrets his actions from the night before and feels the need to put the girl down because he's embarassed or engaged to other people otherwise. |
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| of Montreal – I Was Never Young Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that the divorce and social problems while growing up is very dead on. It's about never really experiencing that fantasy of childhood innocense. Too many people are forced to grow up faster than they would like to. It's also about being aware of a lack of innocense during that time - and the depression surrounding it ("i just never smiled"). I think it also relates to being with someone or rather wanting to be with someone who the writer knows is a great, but also an innocent person. He envies the other's innocense and wishes that he could be innocent in turn so that he could be with the other without being tainted by his personal experience. He recognizes that his history has made it impossible to be with someone who has had the luxury of feeling like a child for most of her life. The writer accepts that he grew up fast - but it's not without regret or sadness for not being able to really feel childhood and not being able to be right for this person that he loves because of the past. History always haunts. |
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