| Why? – Bad Entropy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In La Kesh Means: "I am another you" or "I am another yourself". (Mayan) These words are spoken with deep reverence as a recognition of the divine within another person... it is similar to the phrase Namaste. |
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| Why? – A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| how the fuck does one shoe horses under the sky? | |
| Why? – The Vowels, Pt. 2 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Filming my own fake death" "Faking suicide for applause" i think this is about how he vicariously creates and lives and plays out scenes through poetry and song, many pertaining to his own death like in these few presidents. reminds me of nico when she said "And if I seem to be afraid to live the life that I have made in song it's just that I've been losing so long." he gets up to perform his "fake suicides" and then people clap. but i hope he doesn't feel like we, his audience, resemble the food courts of malls, although sometimes i feel like applause is entirely innappropriate and the audience didn't "get it". "As I stood there in awe, I noticed I was blissfully unaware of anybody around me - including Yoni Wolf, the main guy behind WHY? Then I began to think about him as a REAL person instead of just this superstar type persona; all the experiences he must have went through, his whole life history, all the fucked up shit that life brings to people like him who then chew it up and spit it back out in the inveitably and intensely personal form of song and then stand up in front of hundreds of young people, very few having truly listened deeply and sincerely, and basically share a very intimate experience of live music with them. And then they clap like it was some trick, maybe even a bit funny. But it's nothing like that. We don't take walks by the ocean and then realizing how beautiful it actually is, start clapping and cheering like it's a fucking parade. But, like Yoni had courageously announced, "Your face never forgets a cry," and we were only being polite little clones. What else can you do but give the fans a timid and smileless "Thanks?" Nevermind the confusion and pain behind the memories his song had graced us with that night." does anybody know what the fuck he means with "am i an example of a calculated birth," ? |
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| The Books – Smells Like Content Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@ nerdfiles "it is highly offensive to any sort of dogmatic believer, any sort of non-thinker" i don't think you meant it to come across this way because of your first comment but i think non-thinker should be removed from your list of people who would be offended by this song. "These lyrics suggest the path to nothingness we will eventually find ourselves." |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I believe this line "This time we ride rollercoasters into the ocean we feel no emotion as we spiral down to the world" is an allusion to the song Nowhere Fast by the Smiths. morrisey sings "And if the day came when I felt a natural emotion, I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump in the ocean." Because there's some lives you live And some you leave behind It gets hard to explain The gardenhead knows my name Perhaps the gardenhead is a reference to the hedge at the end of the garden from the Zen story? |
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| The Books – An Owl with Knees Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| it's owsley, not owlsey. but that is an outstanding speculation, juswah! | |
| The Books – A Little Longing Goes Away Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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our minds are empty like we're too young to know to smile incredibly profound these beautiful worlds reveal the incredibly enlightened yet so obviously true and simple perspective the books take on life and the human mind simply beautiful the books are bodhisattvas in the form of music |
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| The Books – None but Shining Hours Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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living on the fat of the sweet sun shining i thought this meant that we need nothing more than simple and beautiful things such as the sweet sun shining to keep us not only physically alive, but happy and in complete awe. chance will leave the sky bedizened never is the start of a clever lying (lieing?) the beginning of the universe. scientists have come up with a the most impossible thing, the very limit test of credulity, and based their whole theory of the creation of this universe and the laws that govern it on this clever lie. if you can believe it possible that the whole universe sprang from nothing in a single instant, than what will you find impossible? nothing is more impossible than that. we don't need this clever lie to give us a bedizened sky. staring at the black of the blind spot hiding the universe's private bower this reminds me of my experience of meditation. the blind spot hiding from you is so hard to see because it is you. |
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