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| Matthew Good Band – I Miss New Wave Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The song is a very complex song to decipher, but this is what I notice about it. New wave was the same as punk a new wave of music to come in and change everything, New wave itself got popular and lost its soul to some degree. New wave seems to be some Ideal to look up to but is irrevocably flawed in some way that the narrator doesn't want to see "movies about losing/just the parts where its a-okay/miss scratches on my long plays/just the parts where its okay" If you notice about the song after each verse where he withdraws and talks about what he misses about new wave, his world gets smaller and smaller "gonna fly to hawaii/gonna to drive to la/gonna die in coquitlam" Coquitlam is where matt grew up. I think each time the world "screams" he loses something until everyone walks away. |
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| Matthew Good Band – The Rat Who Would Be King Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while" is pure frustration, possibly about never actualy finding love, the entire song is something someone would say at the end of a relationship, a rat being king shows the kind of subjects he leads, most likely other rats, longing for typhoid or ashes and being alone, would seem like others may have been interfering in the relationship and if they could be alone maybe it could work. He in essence has stood aside been silent all this time, and with his final words a grenade, ends the relationship, remorsing that love is not enough, never enough. |
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