| Dirty Projectors – I Will Truck Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| the part at the end is actually in french. he sings "aimez-vous" clearly enough, which means would you like ___? in french. but the rest of the sentence in french isn't as understandable. | |
| The Good, the Bad and the Queen – The Good, The Bad & The Queen Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i'm pretty sure the last line is "and the kids are never gonna be tired cause everything is so slightly CALM" |
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| Gorillaz – Hong Kong Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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two lyrics corrections, one of which makes the second line and the whole thing make a lot more sense. at the very beginning he clearly sings: Lord hear me now junk boats and english boys and also in the third verse he also clearly sings: and all the people in the dream wait for the machine to pick the shit up keep it clean and i think this helps explain this song a lot. as someone already said there is the intense waxing and waning of the piano vs. the asian string instruments throughout. and the lyrics juxtapose junk boats and british boys, the awkward military force and yet the strange boyish idealism that characterized british colonialism. when dreamlike british concepts like cultural imperialism confront the actual dirty reality of places like modern hong kong, they loftily wait for some machine - either Chinese communism or literal street-cleaning machines they have in hong kong or some racist understanding of chinese people as machine-like next to the dreaming british. in whatever metaphor they just wait around, beautiful but empty like the dj at the end, for someone else to pick up all their shit. this last part gets broader than just hong kong and historical imperialsm and starts to talk about culture and i dont wanna try to pretend to get what damon albarn thinks about culture. but this song sounds so dense and engaging right along with the dreamy subject matter that really make all the words feel so big because its all so eerie and gorgeous. |
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| Elbow – Bitten by the Tailfly Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| at the end the singer alternates "sweetness, don't be natural" with the take you home verse | |
| Elbow – Bitten by the Tailfly Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| at the end the singer alternates "sweetness, don't be natural" with the take you home verse | |
| of Montreal – Vegan in Furs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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you guys are all right so far. and yeah, this song is not about being "deeper" than other people and critiques people for shallowly considering themselves to be better than others because of their ability to use intellectual bullshit. the sarcasm that kevin has for these people is much like the sarcasm yrtlzmo got for correcting other people's interpretations so proudly. palaver is idle or misleading talk, and solipsists only believe in themselves. this kind of behavior, the over-intellectualized element of the university and academic world, drives kevin crazy and is even worse than a pretentiously titled book about one of the more pretentious books that most pretentious people love to talk about - james joyce's Ulysses. the part about ernst and his mausoleum and his rook is confusing. i thought he might mean max ernst, the surrealist, who had an alter-ego he often drew in his art called loplop, but i don't know if it looked at all like a rook |
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| Vampire Weekend – M79 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i'm pretty sure that he's not referencing new york to evoke 9/11 because the m79 is a real bus that they probably took because everyone in vampire weekend went to columbia university only forty or so blocks north of where that bus is. the khyber pass part is weird, but there's not really any other connection | |
| Vampire Weekend – Campus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| yea it is clearly "cruel professors studying romances" | |
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