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Tarkio – Weight of the World Lyrics 17 years ago
It is about drinking on a Sunday night and going to work the next day. Look at the lyrics it's obvious.

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The Shins – Sleeping Lessons Lyrics 17 years ago
In my opinion this song could be about politics, but I really think it's about an alcoholic.

Go without
'Til the need seeps in
You low animal
(Trying to stay sober)

And glow
Glow
Melt and flow
(Alcoholics have a glowing reddish face)

Eviscerate your fragile frame
And spill it out in the ragged floor
A thousand different versions of yourself

(Throwing the bottle on the floor with different emotions)

And if the old guard still offend
They got nothing left on which you depend
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood
And off with their heads
(Hurting someone in a rage? maybe? I don't know)

Jump from the hook,
You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise,
See, those unrepenting buzzards want your life,
And they got no right,
As sure as you have eyes,
They got no right,
(buzzards being the alcohol companies?)
(You don't have to drink it)

Just put yourself in my new hooves
And see that I do what I do
Because the old guard still offend
Their pudgy hearts and slimy hands
They've got nothing left on which we depend
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood
And off with their heads
(saying its hard to stay sober)

Jump from the hook
You're not obliged to swallow anything that you despise
(you don't like it, it burns, but you still drink it)

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