| Bloc Party – Waiting for the 7:18 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Some of these lines are wrong. It should be "Can I still kick a ball a hundred yards?" and also "Wear the sadness off those molars". Yeah. | |
| Pinback – Versailles Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't think Pinback themselves have a WWI or WWII "fetish", as someone so misspelled. But I think their fans have a weird obsession with the World Wars. As far as I can tell, two of their song names are associated with actual battles in World War II (Tripoli and Manchuria) and one is associated with WWI (Versailles). However, these three names are part of the underlying theme of songs named after locations (Avignon, Seville, Syracuse, etc). |
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| Pinback – Tripoli Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Versailles, Manchuria, and Tripoli are all the names of places, as are many Pinback songs (Avignon, Seville, Syracuse, etc), which leads one to the conclusion that Pinback does not have an obsession with WWI or WWII. Anyways, I'm not saying the battle interpretation is wrong, but could someone elaborate on it? It seems like a rather specific interpretation to gather from relatively vague lyrics. |
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| Pinback – Tripoli Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't think this song has anything to do with a soldier in a battle, other than that it's about contemplating mortality, and how unpredictable it is. The last line, "They'll tie me up and send me off, to set me off on someone's lawn" sounds like a reference to the increasingly popular practice of mixing one's ashes with the powder in a bottle rocket. |
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| AFI – Midnight Sun Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is pure H.P. Lovecraft. Anyone who has read Lovecraft can easily pick up on it. It's got Cthulhu written all over it. "What I saw at the edge of the sea"? "What slipped out through the cracks in time"? "Who awakes tonight eternally"? All of it, the Cthulhu mythos. Read "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Call of Cthulhu". Those two stories alone should put the lyrics in perspective. |
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