| Bob Dylan – Idiot Wind (New York Sessions) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I love this version, it was the first I'd heard and has always stuck with me. | |
| Land of Talk – Summer Special Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| spoken's interpretation sounds pretty accurate to me. Especially with the "clean" version of the song. | |
| The Fray – All At Once Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My boyfriend and I just went on a "break" and this song is seriously haunting. "...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same" Sometimes shit happens in life and you have to give up the things that mean the most to you. But doing so is the best thing for both parties. Sucks. Seriously sucks, but it's so true. |
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| Frightened Rabbit – Snake Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| So, so sweet. I'm feeling this song 100x right now. | |
| of Montreal – Nonpareil of Favor Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It seems plausible, but I still have a hard time thinking this song is about Georgie Fruit. Maybe it's just me. |
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| of Montreal – Nonpareil of Favor Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"But we've become material" "material" = Nina and Kevin's kid? |
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| The Spill Canvas – The Dutch Courage Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Reminds me of a girl I was once best friends with. Just fucking infuriates me. What I'd give to scream this at her face and not have it seem totally contrived. A very honest song, if not a bit melodramatic. |
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| Tom Cochrane – Good TImes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Shit, this song is so awesome. Brings many many memories to mind. |
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| Panda Bear – Take Pills Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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At the beginning, it sounds a little like a skateboard on pavement. At first I thought it was a train, but now I'm thinking skateboard But at the end, it definitely sounds like a train. This song has been on repeat for somewhere around a week now. Such a great feel. |
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| Pinback – Seville Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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When I first listened to this song, I thought that maybe it was about the ghost of a little girl who was aborted or died in infancy, years later wandering around a graveyard, waiting for the anniversary of the day of her death. But now that I've read bucky1337's comment, I've changed my mind. Thanks for the history lesson! :) |
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| The Constantines – The Long Distance Four Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is excellent. Does anyone know who Naja Schonberg is? |
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| of Montreal – An Eluardian Instance Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I second "inverse of our parabola". "She answered, 'No, but yes, oh well, oh well, yes and no'" Love that line! :) |
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| of Montreal – St. Exquisite's Confessions Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Whoop! No, nevermind I hear "feeling" now. | |
| of Montreal – St. Exquisite's Confessions Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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And I'm thinking it's "Hearing voices again" |
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| of Montreal – St. Exquisite's Confessions Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Listening to this song, it makes me get the impression that he's talking about a sex change. But that might just be influenced by the whole "Georgie Fruit", highly sexual album content-thing. | |
| Plants and Animals – Good Friend Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Love this song, so much. When I hear this song, I feel it's about trying to be "human", about humanity. |
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| Pinback – I'm a Pretty Lady Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is oddly comforting to me d'yaw. |
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| Pinback – Boo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This may have been said before, I didn't look at the other comments. I feel like this song is reflecting on a failing relationship or project. When both partners or the person realizes that it's sinking, but still have a fleeting hope that it will stay afloat: "Something's tugging on my leg And there it goes Shallow water must be on the horizon" But inevitably giving in and giving up on the situation or whatever it might be: "But still too far to go Spilling blood so fast I can't keep up much more" For me, I relate this more to school and education than a relationship. The total overwhelming amounts of information and assignments, the expectations, trying so hard to get to the destination, feeling hopeless. |
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| of Montreal – Triphallus, to Punctuate! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "Far beyond this self abuse and shame" | |
| of Montreal – Mingusings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I know from past experience He never takes it easy on his readers And you become a foreign substance Lying in your familial bed" TOTALLY describing my feelings with this album. I'm almost, scared? No... Uncomfortable? Like it's too much information. Nice to know Kevin realizes he's mind-fucking his listeners! |
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| of Montreal – Women's Studies Victims Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"She draped me in a stole (what kind?) I think Malaysian mink" "Can't focus, can't stop staring at the face I used to know This life is not a prison we are always free to go Anytime" Reference to Venus in Furs? |
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| Les Savy Fav – Scotchgard the Credit Card Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| iiissssss soooo goooooood | |
| Animal Collective – I Remember Learning How to Dive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Yay! This song is great. Animal Collective makes me feel like a little kid all over again in that bittersweet kind of way. |
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| of Montreal – I Was a Landscape in Your Dream Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Oh and the "What kind of comedy is this? How can you say now you're frightened?" I think is meant in almost disbelief. "You labelled me in forty tries" adds to what i was saying above about paranoia Ok, ok I'm done. Verbal diarrhea! |
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| of Montreal – I Was a Landscape in Your Dream Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I feel like this is sort of tapping into the neuroticism some people face when in a relationship. First - How during the progress of a relationship, you can "discover danger" or realize parts of a person that you feel you can't handle, have been hurt by or fear you will be hurt by in the future. How some people can become so consumed with paranoia and worry over a relationship (especially if there has been betrayal previously in the relationship) that they can't sort of "see the forest for the trees" or (this might be a stretch) but see the "landscape" and what this paranoia is doing to the relationship ("and all my mountains were on fire"). Second - Dicussing fears -whether irrational or not- about a relationship tends to go in circles (the "labyrinth"). There is no alleviating someone's paranoia, they have to do so on their own by learning to trust. "Laughing without smiling" reminds me of... Ok. You know when you tell someone something and they don't believe you, so they laugh? Kind of.. scoff? As you grow older, you realize a few things about life and your past relationships ("Age brings a sad little surprise"). While involved in a relationship, you can often become so focused on your own feelings ("calculating tears") that you don't realize the feelings of the person that you love ("my head expired"). Anyway. Sorry, that's kind of a lazy version of what I wanted to say. This is a great song. The remix on the Satantic Twins vinyl is awesome! |
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| of Montreal – We Were Born the Mutants Again with Leafling Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Our particles are in motion" Fantastic line. |
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| Les Savy Fav – Patty Lee Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"We used to be gods Now we're so plain It took ten million years Just to say my real name Back before Babylon Shit was cool Now we've all got our saddles on We trot to school If I may wax poetic I think the facts are plain I am the moon ascendant I am not soon to wane See my shadows, twice the mountain Or stretched across the desert plain Shouting sun flares up like fountains Shouting planets down like rain " Les Savy Fav are lyrical geniuses, clearly. |
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| Les Savy Fav – The Equestrian Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is so much sexier once you know the lyrics. haha I wish they would do a video for this. |
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| Les Savy Fav – Pots & Pans Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Let's tear this whole place down and build it up again This band's a beating heart and it's nowhere near its end" Man, I love this band. |
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| Land of Talk – Some Are Lakes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| *doesn't | |
| Land of Talk – Some Are Lakes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Thanks for the help! This is what I'm hearing: Still does sound totally right, though. |
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| The Dodos – Walking Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Seeing them tonight. I am absolutely ecstatic! |
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| The Dodos – Beards Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"It would grow and spark some light" Should be "It would grow in sparse and light" "And grow it out until you found your inner piece" Should be "And grow it out until you found your inner peace" |
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| The Dodos – Neighbors Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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*"Paint it over permanently" rather than "Overpermanently" I think this is a commentary on experiences most people today have with their neighbors (go figure, right?). Especially when moving into an apartment building you notice this. Everyone sees each other around, know the names of a few people. Sometimes it feels like you know them, maybe even think you know them better than they know themselves. But real relationships are rarely, if ever, formed. Hense: "I know them They know me They're the ones That I see Everyday Probably We don't smile We don't speak" |
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| Minus the Bear – Drop It Like It's Hot Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm a fan of Minus the Bear, yes. That aside, is it just me or are 95% of their songs about drinking, smoking or driving with/without a girl/girls... at what seems to be a cottage or a college bar? Just a thought. |
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| De Novo Dahl – Shout Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"makes me want to seize the day " haha it's true. |
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| Islands – In The Rushes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"...a seed I swallowed it digested quick but not enough to not make me sick, I lost it it tasted like a light going off inside my mind then suddenly I was out of harm's way forgetting the desire to remember..." Sounds like Morning Glory seeds to me. Love this sound. |
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| The Dodos – Men Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I like sweaterguest's answer. This is how I hear it: "This is the sign I use to wear This is the line, It says I care I found a reason, I found a tear Last year I am a boy; You want a man I am indifferent; You want a plan I'm getting out, I'm getting there Next year We are in love, We are at war I feed myself; You feed the poor I write the fiction; You write the lore These are addictions I've seen before And if I get out, I won't be saved You are my keeper; I am your slave You're in my thoughts, you're in my way Keep all the weakers, bury the brave. This is a game, we have our roles I am the player you have control There is an ante, there is a toll Buy in I want a space, you want a home. You need to have it, you need to own. Let's build a flower, let's watch it grow And die We are in love, We are at war I feed myself; You feed the poor I write the fiction; You write the lore These are addictions I've seen before And if I get out, I won't be saved You are my keeper; I am your slave You're in my thoughts, you're in my way Keep all the weakers, bury the brave." |
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| Animal Collective – Daily Routine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is absolutely one of my most favorite songs by animal collective. It makes me feel like I want to start a family. Well, either that or reminds me of being a kid. I'm not sure. Maybe getting the feeling from a child that you're a child again? In any case, love it. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Step Into My Office, Baby Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song makes me laugh. Amazing! Especially because my boyfriend and I work together ;) |
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