| The Breeders – Mad Lucas Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| http://www.hermitofredcoats.co.uk/the_hermit.html | |
| Little Joy – Don't Watch Me Dancing Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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a beautiful girl who doesn't know what she wants and doesn't want to fall in love even though everyone is in 'love' with her mysterious appeal (which maybe stems from her avoidance of commitment). she's wasting her best years avoiding real relationships and is dating a guy who has been waiting for her to love him for a while now. best guess from my first listen. |
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| Spacemen 3 – Things'll never be the same Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| heroin//// love//// nihilism | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – America Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| america, you're non-existent. you're forever in flux and unobtainable and a catalyst for destruction. | |
| The Smiths – Meat Is Murder Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i fucking love morrissey. | |
| The Smiths – I Know It's Over Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I know it's over still I cling I don't know where else I can go, mother |
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| The Shins – Australia Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| god damn it. this is my most listened to song, probably ever (and definitely, according to my lastfm). i've been listening to it often, ever since i bought the album when it was released. and still the lyrics put me in awe when i decide to read them every so often. why does james mercer know me!? and can express literally everything everything i am complexly thinking about in the simplest of terms? | |
| Sparklehorse – Morning Hollow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i like skullzor's interpretation, and i think it can be branched out to applied to anyone-- many live from addiction to addiction, whether it be substances, or passionate love, or just some kind of extreme, disillusioned fantasy. many can only live in the comfort of those extremes, often only want to live in those extremes because life is too mundane and droning without them. without them, there's no motivation. i can definitely see this being about a dog, on the surface, but it can also illustrate the destruction of a human's hopes over the course of his life-- constantly getting extreme passions, enveloping loves destroyed, and after a while just deciding to settle for paralysis; he gives up. it's easier, it's the sane, stable, realistic choice. he gives up hope for attaining those fleeting ineffable states. he don't want all the intense pain and insanity that goes along with constantly trying to attain a phantom ideal. "She don't get up When I come Into the room She don't run Through the fields Anymore" rest in peace, mark linkous. |
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| Sparklehorse – Knives of Summertime Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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WHAT, only one comment? this is my favorite. rip, mark linkous. and the hurricane of her eyes wailed away the knives the knives of summertime |
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| Girls – Lauren Marie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| lauraaaa....? | |
| Devendra Banhart – Queen Bee Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well I do like a certain girl She moves like a dancing dream I saw everything I've seen And I meant everything I mean Oh queen bee You're always happy and free Oh queen bee Land by me, by me She's kissed everyone I've kissed She's missed everyone I've missed And her guess is always as good as mine And I'm blessed, she treats me so damn kind She's grown every seed I've grown She's known everything I've known And our dreams they always coincide And our bows are always firmly tied And oh queen bee, I'm always happy to see you Oh queen bee Sting me, sting me Sting me. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Patterns Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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And the pattern still remains On the wall where darkness fell, And it's fitting that it should, For in darkness I must dwell. Like the color of my skin, Or the day that I grow old, My life is made of patterns That can scarcely be controlled. WHY. SO. GOOD? SO BRILLIANT. we're stuck in our habits, in our minds, in our flaws, we can't escape. and we go in cycles when we think we're moving forward, but really we just end up making the same errors we've made in our past, but in a slightly different way. these errors, these things we can't escape about ourselves are these patterns burned into the wall. "for in darkness i must dwell," we must learn to accept these inescapable truths about ourselves... as much as we want to escape the finite truths about ourselves and live in the infinite, we must rather create a sort of synthesis between the two and dwell in the darkness of the knowledge that we can never live in infinite bliss as much as we would like to. |
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| Devendra Banhart – The Beatles Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| hahahahahaaaa devendra! | |
| Devendra Banhart – Long Haired Child Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i always thought he was saying "i don't want the child to be a lonely child" | |
| Akron/Family – Italy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I am waiting under the sun... When is time going to change? |
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| Devendra Banhart – Maria Lionza Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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brilliant: Who do you love The lover you can't forget Who do you love Or the lover you haven't met |
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| Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this sounds like something is dying. the deep static breathing in the background, and the almost medical sounding synthetic beep that is laced consistently throughout the song (if you're listening in headphones, it's in the left ear), but often comes with a sort of hesitation... and the sad piano and strings. or perhaps it's a sort of paralysis. (dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain... a sort of hibernation, a ten minute segment, excerpt of a lifetime of absurd cycles, fading.) of course this is completely out of nowhere, i just always get the feeling that something is fading, paralyzed, decaying when i hear this song... yet also the strings (i'm pretty sure that's what those higher pitched, melancholic chords are) bring a tinge of slight, desperate hope. |
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| Real Estate – Suburban Dogs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Suburban dogs are in love with their chains. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Snow Song Pt. 1 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| rain is a perfectly sculpted garden of wetness. | |
| The Shins – Girl On The Wing Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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StatusFrustration's quote is so applicable to this song (Don't let them kid you it wasn't romantic. I slept on the bottom wing of an airplane. I learned how to sleep there without falling off. I've gone through as much as three days without sleep. There's nothing romantic about that) and just so awesome. Ok. so. i think (and i only think this, because of course i must simplify it and look at it through my life to understand it better, as does anyone else trying to interpret lyrics, especially of the shins) this is about a relationship between two people who are involved in a sort of balancing act. they both want each other. but they both won't admit it. they are both protecting themselves, both in fear of pain. oh god damn it, i should be studying for a final i have in 3 hours but i'm too shocked by the brilliance of this song which i just realized, again, after listening to it hundreds of times. OK. one wound up punch of intuition lays flat my whole take on us. (he has a logical analysis of the relationship between him and this girl, he's way over-analyzed the situation because he's in love with her... (like girl inform me)... and logically, he realized the relationship is fucked up. that he's insane to stay in it. that she probably doesn't like him, really. but his intuition, his gut feeling he has when he's around her, completely obliterates all of his logical reasoning.) you're the girl on the wing of a barnstormer ("Don't let them kid you it wasn't romantic. I slept on the bottom wing of an airplane. I learned how to sleep there without falling off. I've gone through as much as three days without sleep. There's nothing romantic about that." the barnstormer is their relationship, they're perhaps both over analyzing it, and therefore there is this sort of fragile balance maintained and if either of them fuck up that balance-- whether it is imagined or not-- then they will fuck the whole romance up.) the tidal rabbit who came of age before her time. (not sure, perhaps pertaining to the balance--? donno.) we could have been so good-natured if i'd relented when you insisted, but we've been backed against all nature's walls far too long. (they could have a normal, socially acceptable relationship. if they stopped running away from each other, afraid they would fuck up whatever they have... if instead of this weird game they're playing, they would just fulfill each other's true wants... then they would be "good-natured"-- no tricks, no games, no balancing act. but they've been "backed against natures walls" they've been playing this game that expresses their truest fears, their true natures, for too long that they cant just jump into a normal relationship suddenly. they're both too stubborn, too stuck in their flighty nature.) you felt abandoned by me, (she often feels abandoned, dejected because he's trying to play this game of nonchalance and she can never truly, logically, definitely tell if he actually likes her because of this game... she can never be sure if his indifference is part of the game or his true feelings.) i recall the sunshine as you were melting (not sure, but i love this line.) and though the comedy softens the fall they still hear us with their ears to the wall. ('they' are those who know of this relationship. who don't understand it, but want to understand it. want to classify it. so they become spectators of the relationship, trying desperately to categorize it? as for the comedy, i don't know, perhaps because their relationship is so absurd, it's comedic, and therefore it seems more lighthearted, so if it ends, because it was never "officially serious," on the surface, then it "softens the fall," any devastation that may later occur... or they would like to believe their almost- comedic game will save them from hurt, from the fall.) i sold all my evil motives, no icicles stuck in my hide. i'm through with riddles, i know we're little just help me feel warm inside. (here is his true desire, spoken plainly. he wants to stop the deception, his self protection. no more games... he wants her. he wants to stop pretending they're special, that their relationship is somehow superior because of its unclassifi-ability... because of the game their playing. they're like any other little human. they both just want love, that's all. he admits it.) before we take this ride and let it slide into the cracks where fall and winter collide. (before they play the relationship into the ground, to death, he's going to surrender. in the autumn, it was a fruitful game but it has been decaying, it's dying, quickly decaying, spinning towards winter, death, it can easily fall into that crack between fall & winter-- basically death, paralysis... even though it can't completely die because there is something there, it will fall into that crack, it will freeze, and will probably not be fix-able.) i surrender all my gall in a song of modern love. remember you're the one who summoned me above any other kind. (his is becoming aggravated by this game, exasperated. he surrenders. he admits his love and tries to avoid her running away by saying that she was the one who started it all, that they both decided to do this weird game, and that she must have similar feelings if she chose him over others. if she chose to also stick with the game.) we could have been so good-natured if you'd relented when i insisted, (back to what i said before) we take a week off, let the garden grow by itself (their desire for each other grows when they are apart. the distance somehow strenthens their feelings, the relationship, the game and it's audience. also, maybe they both need to step back from the analysis of this relationship... and when they do that, the garden grows... meaning the importance of it, the passion in it, the fruitfulness of it grows. they've avoided falling into that crack and now it's growing again, they've moved forward in the relationship.) and let the gluttons fill themselves with all the worst of the gory ninties. (let people critique the relationship, they dont care) and though the comedy softens the fall, we still fall short. (hmmm.... "we still fall short" perhaps this means the relationship has still not completely plunged into the ground. despite the obstacles, it has still not been completely devastated. it has fallen short of destruction...?) ok. way over-analyzed. i do this with everything. oh well. |
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| The Shins – Girl On The Wing Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| why. is. james. mercer. so. fucking. brilliant. | |
| Louis Armstrong – There Must Be A Way Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| love louis. | |
| The Shirelles – Mama Said Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Everything was going fine I met a little boy named Billy Joe And then I almost lost my mind .... innocent & naive, fell in love, got her heart broken. My eyes are wide open But all that I can see is Chapel bells are callin' for everyone but-a me But I don't worry 'cause ..... couldnt find love, everyone else *seems* to be finding love except her. And then she said someone will look at me Like I'm looking at you one day Then I might find I don't want it any old way So I don't worry, 'cause ..... perhaps they aren't finding real love, just getting married. shes waiting out, she wants real love, not 'any old way.' she knows she will find love, that she must find it. |
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| Donovan – Colours Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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wow. i. love. this. so simple, but multi-layered, concise lyrics. genius. |
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| Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| holy shit, sobriquet, you're completely right. he says it twice starting at 2:27... it's really subtle, but he's definitely changing the word from love to what sounds like dope. weird. well, not so weird. kinda ruins the romance. makes it even more depressing, realistic. i still love this song sooo much, either way. | |
| The Magnetic Fields – I Don't Want To Get Over You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Cause I don't want to get over love... & I could listen to all my friends And go out again And pretend it's enough.... = favorite lines. |
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| The Shins – Those To Come Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| mercer is brilliant. | |
| Girls – Hellhole Ratrace Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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love this: and i dont want to cry my whole life through, i want to do some laughing too. so come on, come on, come on, come on, laugh with me. i feel that way so often. |
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| The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the breathing noise in this song is so intensely creepy. | |
| Mason Proper – Point A to Point B Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| how come more people don't know about this band....? | |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Insane Lullaby Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| say hello to broken bells. | |
| The Shins – Phantom Limb Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is that foreign land with the sprayed-on tans And it all feels fine Be it silk or slime for some reason, i just have the feeling that this is about us living in a completely constructed false reality, and it feels completely fine... we're all living our lives with the notion that money matters, that time is real, that there's a past and a future when there's only NOW, that language communicates our true feelings and essences, when in reality everything is a direful illusion. we're all living these lives structured by society, structured and thrown into motion by the past, by our ancestors... we live our whole lives without really connecting and it all feels fine. everyone has this fake mask up, this barrier, analogous to a sprayed on tan, at all times but we dont and cant notice. |
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| Michael Jackson – Earth Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This was playing at P.S. 1 for a while... where I first saw it. I hope it is more publicized now because of his death, since it is such a wonderful video. It shows that Michael Jackson was really kind hearted, dedicating a whole video to such important issues, not a lot of artists would do that. | |
| Grizzly Bear – All We Ask Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i think rainandrey is right, because they're definitely saying something more than "calling us" and "lead us on" at those parts. | |
| The Shins – Caring Is Creepy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Wow, you summed it all up in a sentence, and I completely agree with you. I wish I were that concise. | |
| Bright Eyes – Lua Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I just read the first 4 pages and then pages 10 & 11... and all people seem to care about it coke vs. bulemia. WHO CARES? Let me tell you, I live in new york... and have had experience with both "addictions" (personally and through close friends) and it could certainly be either, I think it's coke but that's not the point. It's what you want it to be, how it applies to your life, through your addictions and problems because then it is easier to interpret the song if you can kind of apply it to your situation. There's more to this song then interpreting what precise addiction the girl has. Also, self destruction is an important part of it... but there are other aspects to this song. These are the two stanzas i notice most when i listen- "When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend Get a coffee and the paper Have my own conversations With the sidewalk and the pigeons And my window reflection The mask I polish in the evening By the morning looks like shit" I certainly can't interpret this perfectly but I have some questions about it. It sounds great, being able to be your on best friend... what does that even mean? I was thinking perhaps loosing yourself in past nostalgia and longing. Or somehow being able to be o.k. alone. Being able to be happy alone, which would be great considering so many people rely on others for happiness. I remember seeing "Into the Wild" a few years ago, and hearing christopher say "I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things." Yet, later saying "Happiness only real when shared." It seems like in this stanza, he knows he should be able to be his best friend, and shouldnt feel so miserable or depressed alone... but I dont know if he is able to be ok alone. After all, he ends the stanza with "The mask I polish in the evening/ By the morning looks like shit." Perhaps he thinks he should be alright alone but cant be... because of whatever, because of the drugs maybe or because he has problems with relationships, who knows. And I know you have a heavy heart I can feel it when we kiss And many men stronger than me Have thrown their backs out trying to lift it But me, I'm not a gamble You can count on me to split The love I sell you in the evening By the morning won't exist" This to me, is more perplexing than the previous stanza. I had a general concept of what a heavy heart is, but I looked it up anyway, to be sure. The source isnt exactly reliable (urbandictionary) but it seems to be right: "Melancholy; depressed; sad. When your heart is weighted down by sorrow. Often times a death, or when you are still in love with someone from the past." She is obviously still in love with someone from her past, or perhaps even had an unrequited love... but it seems as if she's gone through life (since this past love) dating guys who fall in love with her, yet she knows deep down she never had a chance at loving them back because she's so stuck on this past love. (sorry, that sentence was wicked syntactically fucked up. i'm tired. i'm lazy.) Anyway... he surmises this about her and is ok with it, because he doesn't seem to be looking for love (or maybe he is but is incredibly hopeless and assumes it cant come from her). Rather, perhaps someone to keep him from being lonely (which further confirms he can't be ok by himself) and someone to do drugs with (I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up?)... It's obvious they're both suffering from some kind of pain, that they hide from with drugs and hide from with their relationship. Her misery seems to sprout from her past love lost, and it seems uncertain where his sprouts from. He even says he doesn't know: And I'm not sure what the trouble was That started all of this The reasons all have run away But the feeling never did It's not something I would recommend But it is one way to live Because what is simple in the moonlight By the morning never is I wonder where his heartache has originated from. I guess that's not important but rather what he is going to do about it, if anything. |
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| Flake Music – Structo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I don't think iTunes has it wrong, and Structo is what they called this song. | |
| Fleet Foxes – Textbook Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this is such a random fleet foxes song, it doesnt sound like their others. | |
| Animal Collective – In the Flowers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "And when our eyes will meet there we will recognize nothing's wrong." | |
| Andrew Bird – Souverian Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Under the elders the older get younger the younger get over over the elders and under the elders pretend that you're older now." >>> "If the Greeks were pessimists and had the will to tragedy precisely when they were surrounded by the riches of youth, if, to quote Plato, it was precisely madness which brought the greatest blessings to Hellas, and if, on the other hand and conversely, it was precisely during their period of dissolution and weakness that the Greeks became ever more optimistic, more superficial, more actorly, but also filled with a greater lust for logic and for making the world logical, which is to say more 'cheerful' and more 'scientific' could it then perhaps be the case, despite all 'modern ideas' and the prejudices of democratic taste, that the victory of optimism, the predominance of reasonableness, practical and theoretical utilitarianism, like its contemporary, democracy, that all this is symptomatic of a decline in strength, of approaching old age, of physiological exhaustion? And that pessimism is precisely not a symptom of these things? Was Epicurus an optimist-- precisely because he was suffering?" -The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche I don't know, those lines just reminded me of that passage from the Birth of Tragedy. I may be completely off. But just another way to look at the song, I guess. |
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| Andrew Bird – Souverian Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| let go, perhaps? | |
| Kid Cudi – Day 'n' Nite (Nightmare) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| love this song. crookers remix is amazing. | |
| The Shins – Caring Is Creepy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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HOLY SHIT. I shouldn't even be analyzing this because I believe so much in the song, but I guess it goes along with the irony of it. This kind of all branches of a Nietzschean view of "life," in my view... What lines speak to me the most? Underneath the power lines seeking shade We try to protect ourselves from the "truth," using the most useless, impractical things, which do nothing. Yet, we still don't realize we're protecting ourselves from any kind of "truth." It's as if we believe the shade from the power lines is real, even though it's nonexistent. This shade can be compared to the kind of "truth" we obtain from a society built on language, intellect, and logic. None of it is actual. It is all just something we've conceived of... Yet, we still try to use this blanket of falseness to "protect" us from something. In the song, it is literally the heat from the sun we're trying to protect ourselves from. In more abstract terms, it could be just the illogicity (sp), chaos, and flux in life. Far above our heads are the icy heights That contain all reason Yet, this "truth" I mentioned before (which is similar to the "truth" Nietzsche refers to in "On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense," as well as "The Birth of Tragedy) is not even obtainable, if it exists at all. It's "far above our heads." I think it's ironic in a way that Mercer uses "icy" to describe this... because it's as if this nonexistent "truth" is stable, but it's actually flux. Perhaps, though, he is refering to the fact that whatever this "truth" is, it is cold. It is blunt. It is something we don't want to have to admit to ourselves--- perhaps it relates to the meaninglessness of life as well as it's randomness. This, of course, in our view, is cold. Also.... I just realized he refers to (what I've always though of (in this context) as) the "truth" as reason.... but that is false. Whatever this "truth" is must be illogical... Another irony? Or perhaps he is just saying "reason" is not reachable, because it is nonexistent. It's a luscious mix of words and tricks That let us bet when you know we should fold I think of this "luscious mix of words and tricks" as the system of logic, system of reason, system of language, we have in place in our society. Society forces us to do things we may not completely agree with. IT forces us to adhere to rules, to a sort of logic, to a social standard... which goes against our true emotions and feelings. It makes us "bend" or adhere falsely to false rules.... when we "know we should fold" or we feel deep down that we should instead be following our emotions. Hold your glass up, hold it in Never betray the way you've always known it is STOPPPPPPPPPP ADHERING TO SOCIETY'S FALSE SYSTEM OF LOGIC. Follow your emotions. Become dionysian, because somehow.... that is in a way more "true" than following intellect and reason. One day I'll be wondering how I got so old just wondering how I never got cold wearing nothing in the snow Favorite. Absolute favorite line of any song, ever. Favorite quote, possibly, ever. What Mercer seems to be saying is that many people "wonder how [they] never got cold wearing nothing in the snow." AKA Even though they believe in chaos, illogicity, flux, emotion, dionysus.... they still can't tear themselves away from all reason, all logic. Somehow, they can't completely let go of their instinct to make sense of everything... they can't let go of their longing to at least believe in some kind of truth, even though they ironically believe there is no truth, no absolute. Yes, this is contradictory... but this is what, IMO, Mercer is saying............... that no matter how much some may believe in flux, and nonmeaning, in randomness (which are all connected), they can't completely tear themselves away from believing in something concrete. The fact that they believe that there is nothing, that there is no reason......... just the FACT that they believe in NONREASON... is believing in something, and is logic, IS reason. This is what the snow is.... the snow is this "truth" that is all around us. This "truth" that somehow relates to flux, to nonreason, to emotion... that we're all emersed (sp) in... yet somehow we still are not ever completely in it.... that SOMEHOW is what we try to solve.... HOW do we never get "cold"... how do we never completely become this flux and illogicity, even though we believe in it? Perhaps because we DO believe in it, and that is completely opposite of what we believe in. I know this makes no "sense" but it's not supposed to. Try to live with this chiasmic unity I am trying to explain... yet never will be able to fully explain.... and that is how I will "get so old" wondering. I will never be able to reach a full explanation of this.... and yet I will continue to try to. I know I will not reach an end, yet I will continue to try until I am old, and wondering how I continued to wonder, even though I knew the "truth" all along. What irony. Ahhh I can't even explain it. All these squawking birds won't quit Building nothing, laying bricks Yet, despite everything I just said.... I still won't stop laying these bricks towards a "false" end or "truth." I won't quit. If I do, I'll be nonexistent... and I can't even explain my logic behind that. After all this, it is appropriate that I not explain logic, anyway. AH I love this song. Perhaps I've overanalyzed it.... I'm sure I have.... but at least it goes along with the irony present in the song. And, I am going to publish this without looking it over for typos or places where it makes no sense, because to some extent, I believe in the concept of stream of consciousness. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i know this is really lame but- please listen to this when you're high. jeff magnum's voice is INCREDIBLE. i can't really describe it without sounding ridiculous but it radiates.... ahh it's great. the instruments in the background are really sharp too. it's just amazing every time... i can't get over it. oh my favorite line: "As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for" |
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| Fleet Foxes – Mykonos Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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holy shit. Brother you don't need to turn me away I was waiting down at the ancient gate one of the most gorgeous things i have ever heard in my life. that a cappella, wow. that lyric also kind of reminds me of Kafka's the Trial where the old man waits his whole life at the door of the court in the chaplain's story... |
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| The Kinks – Strangers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i think it was in the royal tenenbaums at some point too... i may be completely wrong though but i remember dcwnloading the soundtrack for that before i saw darjeeling and strangers was on it./ | |
| The Shins – Fighting In A Sack Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| oooh just saw the "If the lyrics for Fighting In A Sack, by Shins, The, are incorrect, please use the Report Thread in the forums so that our team of moderators can make the needed changes. Please do not post the corrections within the comments." Alrightyy then... I'll go do that now. | |
| The Shins – Fighting In A Sack Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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correct lyrics (i'm pretty sure): "Just last night I woke from some unconscionable dream Had it nailed to my forehead again To keep this boat afloat There are things you can't afford to know So I save all my breath for the sails But you'll find those lingering voices Are just your ego's attempt to make it all clean and nice and make a moron out of you Walking a bridge on weakening cables Huddled up in fear and hate because we know our fate and it's a lot to put us through Most ideas turn to dust As there are few in which we can all trust Haven't you noticed I've been shedding all of mine? So let's abandon that track And leave our fathers fighting in a sack 'Cause we're way too wise-assed for that You might find some fools at your doorstep Hustling the latest changes to the book that's the strangest In an attempt to multiply Marionettes on weakening cables Huddled up with fear and hate because they know their fate and it's a lot to put them through We've taken on a climb And it's long enough to put the best of us on our backs Walking up a slide And there are those we know who'd have us five miles off the track You'll find those lingering voices Are just your ego's attempt to make it all clean and nice and make a moron out of you Crossing a bridge on weakening cables Huddled up with fear and hate because we know our fate and it's a lot to put us through" doesn't change the meaning but there were a few words that were wrong. |
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| Elliott Smith – Because (The Beatles cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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fucking gorgeous. fits the credits at the end of american beauty perfectly. describes the whole movie . his voice is unbelievable in this. |
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| Say Anything – Alive with the Glory Of Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Um, so, this is my favorite song, ever. I heard it in Sept 07 and had never heard of Say Anything before (sadly). I only heard it once but the first 4 lines were stuck in my head for a few days until i finally downloaded it. Now, almost 8 months later i can still listen to the whole song without getting bored... and I've probably listened to this song more than any other in my life. I showed all of my friends this song and every one of them loved it (not too sure if thats a good or bad thing but i dont care). Sometimes I spend weekend nights driving around with a car full of my friends who are in love Say Anything just listening to this and a few other of their songs. I think I would die if I saw them perform this in concert... |
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