| Bright Eyes – One for You, One for Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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One for the righteous One for the ruling class One for the tyrant One for the slaughtered lamb One for the struggle One for the lasting peace One for you and One for me One for the Führer One for his child bride One for the wedding One for the suicide One for the bunker One for the broadcast booth One for me, now One for you How did we get so far away from us? How did we get so far away? One for the people One for the parliament One for the weary One for the malcontent One for the master One for the protégée One for you and One for me One for the breadlines One for the billionaires One for the for the missing One for the barely there One for the certain One for the real confused One for me, okay, now One for you Now that we’ve come so far away from us Now that we’ve come too far to say You and Me, You and Me That is an awful lie You and Me, You and Me That is an awful lie It’s I and I It’s I and I It’s I and I It’s I and I |
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| Bright Eyes – Ladder Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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No one knows where the ladder goes You’re gonna lose what you love the most You’re not alone in anything You’re not unique in dying I feel estranged every now and then Fall asleep reading science fiction I want to fly in your silver ship Let Jesus hang and Buddha sit It’s on now The days are long now The ups and the sundowns And a twisting mind If I got to go first I’ll do it on my terms I’m tired of traitors Always changing sides They were friends of mine Don’t hang around once the promise breaks Or you’ll be there when the next one’s made Kiss the feet of a charlatan Some imagined freedom All the rest is predictable You can say you’re the first to know Bought a mantra to concentrate Car alarm or hissing snake I know now How its gonna turn out You’ve got to calm down Or I’ll lose my place Got to get to the center Got to get to the concert Run off with a dancer Gonna celebrate We’ll welcome the New Age Covered in warrior paint Lights from the jungle to the sky See now a star is born Looks just like a blood orange Don’t it just make you want to cry? Precious friend of mine Will I know when it’s finally done? This whole life is a hallucination You’re not alone in anything You’re not alone in trying to be |
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| Bright Eyes – Beginner's Mind Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hold on tight Beginner’s Mind The wheel is spinning too Fast to make your move The worst must be assumed Oh how they will try To pull and to pry Away what you know now Beat and beat it out Leave a drum that makes no sound A snuff film on a JumboTron for all the world to see A cocktail napkin epitaph A psychobabble telegram Message written in the sand The tide rolls in Swear you’ll do the opposite Of all those tangled hypocrites Who say that the experiment has failed Don’t go there You’re getting nowhere You’re getting nowhere Stay awhile my Inner Child I’d like to learn your trick To know what makes you tick To nurse you when you’re sick Oh how you’ve grown so cynical Hard lines carved in your face The sunshine is so cliché Just like love and pain You tried your best on the Rorschach test but there is just nothing to see Heard terabytes of perfect pitch Some universal elegance Stack the seventh and the fifth Along the grid Swear you’ll be the opposite Of all those stilted hypocrites You know what made you infamous to them, don’t you? You keep starting over You keep starting over You keep starting over You keep starting over Hold on tight Beginner’s Mind The current is far too strong It will carry you along Till you’re just like everyone Stay awhile my Inner Child I’d like to learn your trick To know what makes you tick To nurse you when you’re sick |
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| Bright Eyes – Triple Spiral Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I loved a Triple Spiral, my maiden-mother-crone I folded my devotion into an origami rose Stood at her Tiffany window, she said to look below Could I see the town was burning? Could I see the broken prison? Could I see that it was time for me to go? They looted the museum and took all that they could hold A motorcade of flatbed trucks made off with quite a haul That’s when I heard someone shout, â€�In with the new! Out with the old!â€� A dusty box of letters A rusting suit of armor A casket made of fourteen karat gold That’s the problem No sense of time She is shaped just like an hourglass there laying on her side I loved you Triple Spiral—father, son and ghost But you left me in my darkest hour when I needed you, when I needed you Now that the dream is over I want it to be known That I never saw it coming Through my little human prism How sad it is to know I’m in control That’s the problem An empty sky I fill it up with everything that is missing from my life Where did you come from? You fated sign Spinning through the centuries expanding all the time Three worlds at once that blend together Three times I cried for us but I felt better then I loved you Triple Spiral, my maiden-mother-crone You found me in this fallow state, my mind was off and stowed I heard your strange commotion and wished I could go home To live a little longer A full Indian summer Long enough to carve you into stone |
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| Bright Eyes – A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The People’s Key ringing through arena seats The black machine played it all from memory A fever dream, well, I’ll come back eventually To wade into the water, another and another we go Form some kind of code The bodies float And form some kind of code The bodies float Someone is out to know Papa Hobo don’t hide your eyes Mother Mountain don’t kill your unborn child His day is coming His day is coming A question burns beneath the centuries of dirt That voice you’ve heard, well, every head is a different world Where mine is concerned, I boarded up the windows A catatonic plateau, a backwards, black-faced minstrel show So just let me go The prisoner moans Oh just let me go The prisoner moans No one has to know Eva Braun went to dye her hair Little Hitler sat in his giant’s chair And dreamed of nowhere And dreamed and dreamed and dreamed The People’s Key ringing filling everything The theme repeats, thinner than the galaxy Impart to me your wisdom and eventually I’ll float into the ether, another from another we grow Form some kind of code Of flesh and bone We form some kind of code Of flesh and bone No, you are not alone History bows and it steps aside In the jungle there are columns of purple light We are starting over We are starting We are starting |
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| Bright Eyes – Haile Selassie Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Pilgrim across the water We are the same brother Hitchhiking back to Zion Hold in our tears as we flip the album What if this leads to ruin? You got a soul, use it All this despair forgiven Rolling away on a Wheel of Sevens She sings like the Queen of Sheba Voice through a blown speaker One drop and bubbling Leslie Calling me home like Haile Selassie Pilgrim beside the fire It’s been a long winter We got a lot in common Cover our heads as they split the atom All of our days are numbered I’ve taken some comfort In knowing the wave has crested Knowing I don’t have to be an exception Children they fill the bleachers One is the next Caesar Keep all their minds collected Until he comes, until he comes Hide the Omega Day in plain sight Too good to be true I’ve seen stranger things I’ve seen that tree of smoke I’ve seen stranger things happen before Pilgrim up on the mountain Barefoot and still climbing Filling the Book of Hours Day after day in the filth and squalor We are the chosen people Safe from the next evil One Love, magnetic memory Reel after reel spinning within me I had the wildest dream last night I was swimming with you In that cenote the heavens made with black fire Just woke up too soon I’ve seen stranger things I’ve seen those daytime ghosts I’ve seen stranger things happen before I’ve seen stranger things I’ve seen that tree of smoke I’ve seen stranger things happen before |
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| Bright Eyes – Approximate Sunlight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I used to dream of time machines Now it’s been said we’re post-everything As a child imagining Neck ties and Coast lines I seen the show man, what a sight Drenched us in approximated sunlight The crowd was small and mostly blind But kind, you’re too kind Now you are how you were when you were real Now you are how you were when you were real There you go again on that circular trip Lick the solar plexus of some L.A. shaman I’m out of breath I’d better sit Been living, hard living All I do is follow you around I wouldn’t waste another thought On what is fair and what is not The quinceañera dress she bought Was unstitched with bullets All the guests in the garden screamed Women and tires squealing Such opulence, such misery Unwinding, unwinding All I do is follow you around All I do is follow you around Now you are how you were when you were real |
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| Bright Eyes – Jejune Stars Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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From The People's Key digital booklet: Every new day is a gift; it’s a song of redemption Any expression of love is a way to return To that place that I think of so often but now never mention The one the voice in the back of my head says that I don’t deserve Come fire, come water, come karma, we’re all in transition The Wheel of Becoming erases the physical mind Till all that remains is a staircase of misinformation And the code we inherit, the basis, the essence of life So I go umbrella under my arm into the green of the radar How did it get so dark in the day? It’s just so bizarre, is it true what we’re made of? Why do I hide from the rain? Inside some cloudy nostalgia where there are no features We look at ourselves through a porthole, the passage of time See that sunny day that we snuck down, hid under the bleachers Kissed as the band marched, everything fell into line So I go umbrella under my arm into the green of the radar How did I get so lost? I’m amazed It’s just so bizarre all the things I’m afraid of Why do I hide from the rain? Sure I had my doubts But I know it now We are jejune stars So it starts again At our childhood’s end I’ll die young at heart So I go umbrella under my arm into the green of the radar How did it get so dark in the day? It’s just so bizarre if it true what we’re made of Why do I hide from the rain? |
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| Bright Eyes – Shell Games Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| these lyrics were copy/pasted from The People's Key digital booklet. | |
| Bright Eyes – Shell Games Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Took the fireworks and the vanity The circuit board and the city streets Shooting star, swaying palm tree Laid them at the Arbiter’s feet If I could change my mind, change the paradigm Prepare myself for another life Forgive myself for the many times I was cruel to something helpless and weak Here it comes that heavy love I’m never gonna move it alone Here it comes that heavy love Tag it on a tenement wall Here it comes that heavy love Someone’s got to share in the load Here it comes that heavy love I’m never gonna move it alone I was dressed in white, touched by something pure Death-obsessed like a teenager Sold my tortured youth, piss and vinegar I’m still angry with no reason to be At the Architect who imagined this For the Everyman, blessed Sisyphus Slipping steadily into madness Now that’s the only place to be free Here it comes that heavy love You’re never gonna move it alone Here it comes that heavy love Tattooed on a criminal’s arm Here it comes that heavy love Someone’s got to share in the load Here it comes that heavy love You’re never gonna move it alone No I don’t want to play It’s a shell game It’s a shell game Distorted sounds on oscilloscopes Distorted facts I could never cope My private life is an inside joke No one will explain it to me We’ll be everything that we’ll ever need Everyone on the count of three Everyone on the count of three All together now Here it comes that heavy love We’re never gonna move it alone Here it comes that heavy love Playing as the cylinder rolls Here it comes that heavy love I only want to share in the load Here it comes that heavy love I’m never gonna move it alone |
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| Bright Eyes – Firewall Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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From The People's Key digital booklet: I do my best to sleep through the caterwaul The classicists, the posturing avant-garde I bought a grey macaw named him Jules Verne He'll probably outlive me he's a bright bird Keeps me company I teach him new words I saw a hologram at the theme park She looked as real as me through the white fog Then she melted down to her ankles Turned into a million-watt candle If I knew where she went I would follow Walking through the land of tomorrow Martian trinkets, plastic Apollos In the sunshine try to act normal My veins are full of flat cherry-cola Slept on a bench by the rollercoaster Dreamt I was riding on a motorbike Lion of Judah painted on the side I'm doing fine, I'm back in the Palisades Life's a wash, a pastoral school play China shops and cold ivory towers I and I make toasts to the Caesars Forcing down the dregs of Decembers Madeline she spins in a slow bang All through the house the strong smell of burnt sage Let's make it clean and run out the spirits I know a diving bell when I hear it We're going down now under the surface Light to dark can shift in an instant Feeling close but keeping my distance On all fours she's just so insistent Fills my mind with jump ropes and slit wrists Bust through the Firewall into heaven Then I'm standing in that blinding light Crooked crossed falling from the sky Seen yeah seen by I and I |
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| Matisyahu – King Without A Crown Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i find everything about him to be attractive. he's a lovely man in both looks and his devotion to his beliefs. although i don't share his beliefs, i appreciate his music for its spiritual and cultural value. its very uplifting and almost empowering. certainly makes me feel good. this song in particular is among my favourites. | |
| CocoRosie – Fairy Paradise Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is what I hear: He draws near the periphery In disbelief and delivery Came child from the deep inferno Crusty head of dead volcano Heartless coward, brittle beak When life's too short to speak Lilac dust of a woman's hair Wind cross the paper prayer A strong will her body lay A stack of feathers, a pile of hay A mushroom for an eyeball A mustache from the snowfall Worms weave a ring where fairies square dance Queens and kings fairies weave works with eyelash Trance music make the fairies dance From the cage of snail shells Of course their mother made evil spells Mystery flows through a wicked river Of thorn and blade and silver sliver Bending around the clover fields Their sapling stems don't break but heal Her pain inflicts no arguments must Learn to sway and unarrange As earth, she makes her final passage After humans long have ravaged Vanished with all maps for motion Upward angels last devotion One by one escort us home To leave the elementals free to roam To bathe in the last of oceans foam To beach comb The nuclear debris of plastic toys And a meadow trees on the perfect day You'll find the breeze once Blew the pollen to feed the bees Now cried the stars when upon the earth Their gaze might rush, their nostalgia burst Elements be heard through all the cosmos For the dying planet with fallen foes I'm sure that this isn't 100% accurate. As with most CocoRosie songs, the lyrics are both abstract and hard to decipher. |
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| M.I.A. – Born Free Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| just watched the video. holy sketch, David Blaine. M.I.A. has proven her brilliance yet again. absolutely amazing track with and absolutely fantastic video. can't wait to get my hands on the new album. | |
| Gorillaz – Empire Ants Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| one of the best off the album. potential single. | |
| Erasure – Always Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Press "Z" to chase your dreams again. | |
| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| brilliant song. i'm addicted. i like the drowning theory but for some reason it doesn't seem right to me. in any case, every time i hear this song i can see the whole story played out in my head like a movie. something Donnie Darko-esque. or an M. Night Shyamalan film. it's great. something beautifully incomplete. :] | |
| PlayRadioPlay! – Bad Cops Bad Charities Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| when i hear "in the alley with a box for two" i always think of Lady and the Tramp. the classic spaghetti kiss scene. | |
| Muse – Resistance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i know that this is not what the song is about but i can't help but think of Edward and Bella from the Twilight Saga. i know that Stephanie Meyer is obsessed with Muse and if any Muse song belongs in the movie soundtrack, it's this one. amazing song. amazing album. amazing band. |
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| Monsters of Folk – Dear God (Sincerly M.O.F.) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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the entire album is genius. i've been following Conor since A Collection of Songs and i've loved everything he's ever done. when i found out that Bright Eyes was breaking up i nearly cried but then a friend of mine told me she'd heard a rumor about Conor and Mike working on a side project with M. Ward. i really love this song. anyone can relate to the lyrics and their voices melding together is fantastic. :] |
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| Iron & Wine – Love Vigilantes (New Order cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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when i first heard the song, i didn't think too much of it. but after listening to it a few times i thought it almost sounded like an anti-war song. the way the narrator talks about the war almost sounds like sarcasm or as if he doesn't really believe what he is saying. the only part that sounds sincere is that he wants to get the hell out of there. and in the end, it appears that the narrator is dead which only makes one feel even less supportive of the war. just my thoughts. |
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| Sneaker Pimps – Walking Zero Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| it's told from the perspective of a girl who either is or feels like a whore. she's literally walking zero. | |
| The Mars Volta – Copernicus Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this and Since We've Been Wrong are my favorites of the new album. i think Octahedron is their best work since De-Loused. as for meaning, i'm not too sure. i'm picking up on normal Mars Volta drug references and an eerie sense of homicide and/or suicide. there is definitely a lot of pain in this song. just need more time to dissect it. |
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| The Faint – Dust Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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amazing song. i've known about The Faint for a few years but only recently got into them. always been a huge fan of Bright Eyes though, so this song is definitely one of my faves. Conor Oberst not only adds beautiful vocals but the entire song has this Bright Eyes twang to it. it makes sense that they'd work together seeing as both bands are signed to the same record label. they should definitely do more. :D |
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| The Morning Benders – Heavy Hearts Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i think some of the lyrics are off. here was my interpretation: It's been so long since I been alone I can't think of a time when you weren't lying here Breathing by my side My mother said to talk things through "Don't let heavy hearts pile up on you" But how can I when I'm too scared to speak I cried all night But I put in too much to turn away now I've been waiting for you to say That I'm better off without you anyway But we both know that's just a lie But what's said is done We're almost gone I can't see your face I can't find my way I can't count the days I can't catch a break Everyone looks the same Everyone looks the same Everyone looks the same Everyone looks the same Everyone looks the same |
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| Bright Eyes – Time Code Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ps. i may be way off on alot of my thinking but for my interpretation of the song i looked back to other albums (especially Fevers & Mirrors) for help. i've noticed that some things such as his meaning for clocks as symbolism have returned in Digital Ash. i've also noticed that he tends to use allusions in his songs that actually refer back to himself and songs that he wrote in the past. i find it fascinating. :] | |
| Bright Eyes – Time Code Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this album is amazing. i've owned it for a few years now but only recently have i started to really listen to it and appreciate it for what it is. this is a fantastic intro to a truly wondrous album. with only a few lines Conor is able to sum up the entire album. i love all of the double-entendres that are used. "crystal display, can't turn it off" sounds like he is taking crystal meth and disguising it as a computer screen, comparing our addiction to media and the digitalisation of the world to his addiction to drugs. alot of Digital Ash has to do with life, death and rebirth and the themes revolve around drugs more than once. "drink liquid clocks 'til I see God" can be ref to alcohol. Conor was raised catholic and catholics are often stereotyped as alcoholics (which everyone knows Conor is). the rest of the song just speaks of death, drugs and the way people squabble for control over things ("ant hill law"?). and of course underneath all of this repeated digital imagery we've got a wonderful melange of electronic instruments and sounds. pretty kickassery for an intro. :] |
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| Kelly Osbourne – One Word Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i've never seen alphaville but after reading a little about it i would like to. in regards to the meaning of the song, i would not doubt that it has to do with her rehabilitation. the beauty of poetry is that things are not black or white. this song can have many meanings - it all just depends on what you relate it to. and unless Kelly Osbourne herself says what the song is about, none of us will really know. so i think that it is daft and even arrogant for any one person to call another person a dumbass for interpreting music differently than themself. i myself have had a difficult time figuring out what this particular song is about. of course the first word that pops into most heads would be "love" but it doesn't entirely fit. and when i try to match the lyrics with the scenarios expressed in the music video it only becomes more perplexing. |
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| PlayRadioPlay! – Elephants As Big As Whales Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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beautiful song. i know it is about a friend of Dan's that went on the road with him a while back but it sounds almost like a love song. i still like to think of it as one because it fits my current relationship / life status. simply amazing. |
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| PlayRadioPlay! – Penelope Cover Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i don't like to think it's only about a fish. i like to think of it as a clever (and adorable) metaphor. in my opinion it is about a person that is very dear to the lyricist. it reminds me of my ex. he and i are still very good friends but lately i have been noticing alot of negative changes in him. the lines "It’s depressing me To see you struggle" && "Don't wanna see you floating upside down On the top of the bowl When I come 'round to visit you" always come to mind when i think of him. and often times i just wish there was more that i could do for him. i wish i could take him away from everything that he depends on and just keep him safe. "Take you to the forest Let you feel the raindrops falling down Seeping through your red scales Eliminate the faucet Eliminate the need for water Replace it with a safe shell" everyone has their own interpretation of these lyrics. this is just mine. |
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| Hollywood Undead – Turn Off The Lights Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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@ hllywoodundead05: why would Jeffree Star agree to be featured in a song that makes fun of him. he might be gay but he is not stupid. this song makes me laugh. it was the first HU song i ever heard and ever since i have been hooked on both HU && JStar. -CJG |
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