| Kings of Leon – Radioactive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I wonder if the song's title is referring to the radioactive elements found in a whole lot of municipal water sources at different times due to corporate toxic dumping all over the east coast "where we came from." Because that might be funny. Almost. | |
| Vampire Weekend – Walcott Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| PS a ghetto, as in an original ghetto, is like a cage. The modern day slang was made popular by its original meaning as a sometimes fenced or otherwise forcibly locked off area of a city in which to segregate and gather a minority peoples, such as the Jews in European cities during WWII, into a few small and controllable blocks, eventually making it easier to gather them for slaughter. And that is the ghetto that Hyannisport is tonight, so grab your buns and book it, Walcott! | |
| Vampire Weekend – Walcott Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Hilarious. This is totally a reference for the film of the band's namesake as mentioned previously. How many times do you just want to scream at a hero in a horror movie, "Don't do it! Don't go around the corner! Don't pull back the shower curtain! Don't close the door behind you!!!! " An entire song about that feeling. | |
| Phoenix – Consolation Prizes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Sounds like a more bitter, convoluted version of the relationship in second to none. | |
| Phoenix – (You Can't Blame It On) Anybody Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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pretty obvious. you can't blame it on anybody, some things they don't last. starts off telling us the moral of the story. it was just a ride of a relationship, there's no one to blame, it could happen to anybody, but that anybody was the "you" he's talking to in the chorus. Nice name for the song too, a song about this certain Anybody. Fallin down I couldn't notice She had some glasses on Few broken bones in the process I tried to keep my attitude So he met her by falling down, someone broke some bones, maybe he broke her glasses, and he tried keeping his cool, or his pride or whatever attitude he had. I can just imagine it, "Hey, watch where you're going! [Oops, she has glasses]" words of love in broken english they have a lonesome tone She was Italian, so they first communicated together through broken English. didn't under stand, must be italian must be good looking undressed. cultural stereotyping. lil' care & lil' practice= a little italian practice she sings light baritone in a choir with a bunch of guys out of tune as a side hobby. day is night, right is wrong, failure notice, I'm giving up I'm tired. ugh, don't we all get this way? when up feels like it's down and a relationship is just not working out and there's nothing there with a person who you thought had everything. so you declare it a failure, to yourself and her and you both give up on the relationship. love is all, love is evil. people say love is everything. but right now, it feels evil. Like a way to get you to hate someone you once loved. very confusing, very upside down. this is the way a bad "close" relationship makes you feel. You can't blame it on anybody Some things they don't last You can't blame it on anybody I thought I'd entertain you Let me take you to the heart of the city Let me misunderstand you as a recap, this type of bad relationship between two people who don't speak the same language happens. no one is to blame. at the time, he just wanted to entertain her, show her around Paris, and misunderstand her Italian and broken English. |
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| Radiohead – Fitter Happier Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I used to make these lists. Lists and lists of things in need and categories and places and prices and how to imporove myself. Losts of how to improve myself. And schedules. And topics and diagrams and room arrangements and perfect houses and perfect perfect perfect. The same types of lists over and over. It would just calm me down. I thought it was harmless. | |
| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| BTW obviously about fame hence blood will thicken hence the bends. | |
| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yes that's it. Of course that's what it is! "Artists interpretations" and "government" no no no. Maybe if you'd googled the bends to find out what it was (its what scuba divers get when they travel from high to low pressure too quickly and their blood actually boils from the excess air in their cells and it HURTS!) before convincing people.. look radiohead isn't that cryptic. Isn't that smart. They're actually fairly self-centered and slow and not punk not angry not revelutionary- because think about how much rolling in their own much they have to do before they write a song? They can't solve the problem, they can't express the problem, and now they're all just paranoid stars wrapped up in their own problems so it leads to so much oppression and down-trodden feelings that all their songs end up sounding like mucky water! Such is the condition of the rock star. And that's why they turn to drugs. (But not radiohead because Thom Yorke prefers water) so to all those people who praise their artistic geniuses and poets and make up meaning to their lyrics... I'm not saying that no one really listens to Radiohead I'm just saying their one of many bands that people like to say they like, but they convince themselves to like it through finsind false meanings because they never could listen to it in the first place. But their songs are always mono-tonal to me and it all just focuses on one emotion which makes it... not long-lasting, anti longevitied (?). Not my favorite. Maybe for the moment I like a song but I'm not going to listen to them in 10 years. Most of Radiohead's music just sounds like any OCD shmoe could write it. SO the moral of the story is don't write a meaning if it's WRONG. and if you say government or relationships it's wrong. And I don't appreciate it and I'd rather you support music you actually like because that's waht helps you grow (and helps good music get popular) until ne day you actually do like Radiohead enough to listen to their music not corrupt or miscontrue it. Yes maybe I am being judgemental, mayyyybe you really like it and you really thought it was about government. but probably not. |
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| Bloc Party – Staying Fat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's about the narrator who is some kind of tycoon or represents all the tycoons of the world. It's about the fashion industry and clothing production overseas and how it's THEM who decide what the trends are and the standards. THEY make the apropos, and decide the gowns and trainers you need to have and rely on its consumers to propell that void, that demand (to spin the treadle.) However, that's ironic because in the same song they mention the overseas manufacturing but they tell us that WE are paying for it with our empty heads and by following it we are inviting in the new world order. Although this song is specifically talking about the the false void that clothing companies create, its also generalizing about all of industrialization and society's insatiable hunger for foolish gluttony and consumerism. (A change of clothing will fill the void.) | |
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