| fun. – Benson Hedges Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well here's what I got from this song (one of my favorites-btw) feel free to disagree: Holy ghosts, When do you come out to play? 'Cause if the Lord is gonna find me, He'd better start looking today. -Nate's not big on religion, but he lives in a place where a lot of people are. People who claim to have been "found by Jesus." Nate's planning on leaving so he's joking that if he is going to be "found" the Lord needs to start looking soon, because he's about to leave Last week my baby hit the slopes. I spent the weekend setting traps in the road. I should have been cutting out my eyelids, you'll never guess what baby did when she got home. -Nate's girlfriend (who i believe lived in NYC at the time) went skiing over the weekend, something fun and exciting whereas in Arizona, where Nate lives, there's not really anything fun to do. Instead he's planning his move to NYC which, because it's so far away requires several stops or "traps." The second two lines are about how boring Nate's life is compared with his girlfriend who did something else exciting when she got back from skiing. So I drove until we both broke down. -both him and the car I was stranded in a border town believing the motel TV would bring me to safety, but between MTV and Mr. O'Reilly I've come to find, that I can't be defined so I turned it off, now convinced I would cross Took one last look at the gold as it shattered on a mountaintop -at a motel in the middle of nowhere he turned on the tv hoping to find something comforting but found only things like MTV (reality shows I imagine) and the O'Reilly factor which, although they both have huge groups of fans, Nate doesn't have any interest in them and now any last doubts he had about leaving Arizona for NYC have vanished and he looks out at the mountains (Appalachians?) and sees the sun set or shatter over one of them. -Now any last thought that he might not want to make the move |
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| fun. – Be Calm Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Does anyone else think that the events that Nate's describing in the song happened while he was on drugs? (not judging by the way) It's the "all the treetops turning red, the beggars near bodegas grin at me..." part that seems very psychedelic. And that the wave of panic that's inspiring to him to tell himself to "be calm" was caused by a bad trip. That was kinda the feeling I got. | |
| Something For Kate – Hallways Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I doubt that this was what they intended (being that the band is from Australia), but to me the song speaks to the high school football (American Football) subculture in the United States. Where high school football is life for most of the people living in small towns. To me the line "they bow their heads to pray for friday night to save their lives and then they go on through life armed with a scale from one to ten" speaks to the nature of the players on the team who live their lives as jocks rating all the girls (on a 1 to 10 scale). Then the part about "we'll scare them off with word play and sweep them under the rug" is about how the jocks treat the rest of the world. And it seems like the song is written from the perspective of someone caught in the middle of these two aspects of life. Again not what I think SFK meant, but just how the words speak to me |
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| Something For Kate – Electricty Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think it's interesting that there are several "green" references in the song. The whole concept of wanting to "move cleaner than transit will allow" and in contrast the second verse is "I watch the people and the cars, it's slow motion they're beautiful like breaking glass, not yet broken." I'm not saying this was their intention, but it could be seen as an "environmentally friendly" song | |
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