| Bon Iver – RE: Stacks Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Anyone who has played poker even semi seriously will understand this song. It's about losing your mind (and all your money, which is contained in 'stacks' of chips) at the table. This is a phenomenon known as 'tilt'. It is a crushing soul destroying thing, something that can't really be appreciated by those who don't play. But hey, that's the beauty of the song. The lyrics of the song are sufficiently vague that it's capable of a million and one interpretations and the audience are free to impress your own interpretation of the song on to it. So, it means something uniquely personal to every one. To quote the late, great Jeff Buckely: "and what do i want people to get from the music? Whatever they want, y'know...Whatever you like." |
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| Oasis – Bring It On Down Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'll be scraping your life from the soul of my shoe tonight ---- Brutal. Brilliant. |
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| Ray LaMontagne – New York City's Killing Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Finally. A song by someone involved in music that doesn't try and convince you that New York City is the greatest and coolest place in the world. I mean, it's not for everyone is it? It's nice to have a lovely, lovely song written from the other side. this was the first song to grab me on the new album, perhaps the lyrics, perhaps the melody, perhaps a combination of everything. Yeah. |
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| Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling into Place Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Easy to understand. He's just describing a night, where he gets drunk, meets someone, goes to the Nite Owl for some food and has sex 'animal noises'. And listens to music. Absolutely fucking brilliant. |
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| The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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the way the singer says 'sweet' at the very start of the song reminds me so much of another song that has a vocal note exactly like that and i can't think what it is. it's driving me mental. i keep expecting something else. anyone know what i'm talking about? probably not. i'm probably pretty insane. anyway any help is appreciated. |
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| Jeff Buckley – I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Kind of fitting that Jeff would perform this song, as it was written by his father about abandoning Jff and his mum, Anyways, when doing this song live way back in 1991 at a tim buckley tribute gig, Jeff actually inserted his own verse to his fathers song. it goes "my love is the flower that lies among the graves, my love is the thousand souls that it saves And all the insane madmen tell me i'm not as love behaves Lay me not in lands of men, just spread my ash along the way' I wanna feel the tide pull through me, like a women drunk as sin I wanna feel the fish swim through me, let the water tag my skin Wrapped around the pebble that you choose to warm your hand Just as i dream everyday As i pray you'll understand" Comes after 'oh flying fish' verse. thought it might be nice to share Jeff's poetry with you lovely people. |
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| Guillemots – Trains to Brazil Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is the way i see it. I believe this song is about a childhood friend/love losing her life in the London bombings and Fyfe trying to stay positive. It's mentioned earlier that the London bombings happened on a Thursday. If he sits and writes a song that at 1 o clock late that same Thursday night, it would technically be 1AM Friday morning. Hence: 'It's 1 o'clock on a Friday morning' and 'It's 5 o' clock on a Friday morning' 'Trying to keep my back from the wall' To me, a clear reference to me of him trying to keep his head up and not to be cornered or defeated by the fear of terrorism. 'I won't get me down' even though he resigns himself to the fact that these erroneous fools will one day blow him away. He also bemoans also the death of innocence, a time they were carefree and happyvia nostalgically referencing happy childhood memories with the girl: "Darling they remind me of when we were at school Nothing really mattered when you called out my name Nothing really mattered at all" and "And I still think of you on cold winter mornings Darling they'll still remind me of when we were at school When they could never have persuaded me that lives like yours were in the hands of these erroneous fools" 'One hundred telephones sit and ring One of them’s from someone who knew you' Note the past tense. The phonecall he got to tell him off the death in the London bombings of the girl. One hundred phones is perhaps a reference to all the phones that were going off in the country with the same horrible news awaiting whoever answered them. Long comment I know, I'm sorry. |
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