| James Blake – Digital Lion Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm hearing something totally different: "For what feels like months But really is days" As for the rest, I have no clue. I get lost in that bass and stop caring about the lyrics. |
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| Why? – Waterlines Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Also: When you find yourselves well *known* you learn you’re only more alone | |
| Why? – Waterlines Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Some corrections: -Talking crude a tad too verbose and way too close -Do you all? -I can’t sleep in rental cars or airlines, yo and so... -filled with ennui, indecision, and more strife Some line breaks and punctuation would clarify some lines |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| dude, chill. fall on me now makes perfect and relevant sense with a song called "vesuvius." the ash from vesuvius buried the entire town of pompeii. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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not "i fought 'em at last?" i don't know why there's such a rush to get lyrics up here after an album leaks. just wait til the album comes out and we can get official lyrics as the artists wanted them. |
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| Beach House – Norway Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| and, "the beast, he comes to you" | |
| Beach House – Norway Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| uh, it's definitely "tiny heart." the original version of the song was "tiny hands," but she changed it to heart. | |
| Why? – Against Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i actually just understood the second line: and i've seen dirt dry fires or eyes by pissing boy fountain statues. awesome. |
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| Why? – Berkeley by Hearseback Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i think the "book of numbers" is meant to have multiple meanings here, and i think that's what makes it a great line. | |
| Why? – Against Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| yeah, but he clearly says "fffs" to emphasize that he's saying halfs. he's playing on "half life." it's cool. | |
| Why? – Against Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| it is halfs. it *should* be "halves," grammatically speaking, but he's refering to half lifes here. | |
| Why? – Berkeley by Hearseback Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| what's the "slit a purse" action all about? | |
| Why? – Against Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "i've seen the rain" and "will i gain weight, and later life?" | |
| Why? – Against Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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that's right - i, like everybody else, is ashamed of asleep. i lie when a phone wakes me. amazing line. "oh were you sleeping?" "no, i was just...watching tv, what's up?" |
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| Andrew Bird – Tenuousness Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i don't care enough about this to find the article, but andrew bird said in an interview that he "invented" the word "lacrimae" by combining a word with macrimae. he's done it with other words. | |
| Andrew Bird – Tenuousness Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| something he invented? like "lacrimae" in "natural disaster"? it's the official lyric in the official lyric booklet. | |
| Andrew Bird – Nyatiti Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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From the liner notes: "Nyatiti" is based on a traditional Kenyan folk melody, author unknown. |
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| Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, But a Ghost Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Right. As far as the "encrypted numbers on bathroom stalls," I suppose that would be people leaving comments on his life, just like in the Measure for Measure blog. | |
| Andrew Bird – Anonanimal Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| just wait until people start getting their copies, and have someone who has a copy to the real lyrics upload them. these aren't correct. | |
| Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, But a Ghost Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Just a starting point, this was initially a song by Martin Dosh. It appears on his album Wolves and Wishes as "First Impossible." (Same kind of deal with Simple X on Armchair Apocrypha) As for the meaning of this song, I had no clue until I read the (amazing) article about Andrew Bird in The New York Times Magazine. It says that this song is a break-up song. Andrew had recently broken up with a significant other when he wrote it. I suppose we can assume the "war" is the mess that was the end of the relationship. The rest of the lines fall into place fairly easily given the break-up context. The article also mentions the source of the title: After the relationship was over, Andrew was unhappy and in a "robot" like state. However, when he heard a beautiful song, he no longer felt like a robot, but a ghost. The article doesn't mention Dosh's infuence on the song, but it fits perfectly - Andrew was in a "robot-like" state, and heard Dosh's song "First Impossible" and it eradicated him of that feeling, leaving him to feel like a ghost. |
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| Andrew Bird – The Privateers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| just a little note: this a lyrical reworking of "the confession" which appears on oh! the grandeur. | |
| of Montreal – Suffer for Fashion Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| sirens are sirens. | |
| of Montreal – Plastis Wafer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i'm not putting out for god - he would keep my legs shut "you know the nightmares, they don't forget about you" (this fits with several other lines throughout the album) "god damn the concierge!" "just trying to get healthy" |
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| of Montreal – Plastis Wafer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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lover face, i view you as the revolver (lover face throughout the song) your body is so wrong |
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| of Montreal – Women's Studies Victims Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"...that cheats and opens its eyes" "then" (not and) "oh come some values, photos screaming, are you one of us?" (unsure about that first part) "of course man, can't you see i've got some text reconstruction?" "I'm trying to interphase" "while walking through the wood" |
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| of Montreal – For Our Elegant Caste Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"but oh, why does chrissie disagree?" (chrissie is another alter ego of kevin's, like georgie fruit. i believe the name is chrissie, at least.) then, "i'll tell you what she sees" |
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| of Montreal – Mingusings Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"and i the assassinated candidate" "mutant love child" "trying to keep the heart in the head" "but no lessons does it all for only chaos scenarios" "and the dream that we've inherited, look, it's just random numbers" |
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| Fleet Foxes – Blue Ridge Mountains Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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yeah, i agree with these changes. why would you submit lyrics if you don't know them? |
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| Grizzly Bear – Shift Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i think it's more about having feelings for someone, but there are obviously issues with relationship (or whatever it may be). - "this is getting old" however, for some reason the writer finds satisfaction in these struggles. "i wouldn't have it any other way" it's really a story of a messed up relationship. after all these struggles person A goes through with person B, he/she will still be there when they call. |
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| Andrew Bird – The Trees Were Mistaken Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| *commisioned | |
| Andrew Bird – The Trees Were Mistaken Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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some corrections: "and with the pages distressed that you held to your chest, they were mangled and dog-eared while the rest were just mangy and gory." it's definitely "my name is a blackbird" "am i dead or am i dying or am i simply tired of crying?" i believe he's saying something about the word "nuclear" instead of "making it". also, some other notes - andrew was commisioned to write this piece for an interpretive dance piece put together by molly shanahan. each artist commision to write a piece of music was given a material object on which to base their composition, so i'd imagine that some of the seemingly nonsensical lyrics are coming from that. |
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