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| Bastille – Good Grief Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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At first I thought it was about a soldier who lost a companion, because of "misfire" and "watching through my fingers" (eg. hiding in trenches?). Also the line "Sleeping in the clothes you love - it’s such a shame we had to see them burn" seemed like maybe someone died in a fire (bomb, perhaps) however, it seems more realistically to be about cremation. Amazing song. |
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| The Barr Brothers – Beggar In The Morning Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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I know it's cliche, but I was thinking drug addiction. He meets someone with problems and they fall into that. Perhaps they also sell drugs to support the habit ("It makes me rich and it makes me poor"). "Belt is loose / Trigger is tight" is that he is easy on himself (belt), but tougher on others (gun). "Beggar in the morning / King at night" would be struggling to make ends meet, and then experiencing euphoria at night. Maybe that is too literal. |
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| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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People don't like aging (flesh sags) or weighing a lot, but those things happen because of gravity, without gravity you'd just float away... good can't exist without the bad, yadda yadda |
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| Mother Mother – Omen Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This song is brilliant. Finding peace in a destructive, violent world... or maybe it's how people ignores its problems? |
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| John Foxx – The Garden Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This song is hauntingly beautiful. Always felt it was about missing the past, fading memories, trying to hold onto them but losing them inevitably... We've been living in the past, we remember things as being more perfect than they were, kind of like a garden where it isn't nature's chaos but rather man's cultivated landscape. |
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| IAMX – The Stupid, The Proud Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Had a feeling it was about the dangers of arrogance... Then it seems to hint that society encourages arrogance (masquerading as confidence/bravery). "Exalt yourself, Do it to stay alive." Then "everything you know is not enough to survive" saying you can be intelligent but it is not as important as dedication to your beliefs no matter how ludicrous. |
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| Smile Empty Soul – Eraser Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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It's a conflict, he doesn't know weather to embrace or erase the person. Maybe a family member, I'm thinking, because they are the most difficult to cut yourself off from; they're your roots, your childhood. "It feels like I'm infected by my dad's disease", his dad's "disease" could be self-destructive behaviour like running away from problems ("I'm hiding from the battles I don't want to fight") and/or clinging to those who hurt you ("feed me pain"). |
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| Beck – Go It Alone Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think this song refers to... being close to people who you don't really like, maybe old friends you only share a time with... a friend who is becoming a negative energy, an extremely difficult person to be around... The song describes adventures in solitude. "On a makeshift road" = Dealing with his situation, getting by, because he had to to move on. You don't want to cut yourself off from an old friendship, but sometimes it's the healthiest thing to do. "Strike a match on a bathroom wall - Where my number was written" I think that symbolizes erasing the past, moving on to a new life sans this poisonous person. |
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| Queen – All Dead, All Dead Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song is so underrated. I suppose the meaning is simple; Brian (?) was contemplating life/death when his cat died... Cats die, everyone and everything dies :( |
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| Radiohead – Gagging Order Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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When I heard "I'm not your property" I immediately thought of a relationship with parents. How they want you to be something, they have a fantasy that you're supposed to fulfill. My mother was devastated that I wanted to change my name, but it wasn't who I was and I am my own man. Maybe then this person would be taking pills, or some sort of vice, to be able to function in society. |
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| Dan Mangan – Robots Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I can believe the cell phone thing. Personally, texting people is my initial connection to my friends, even though I don't see or talk to them much. |
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| TV on the Radio – Will Do Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I like the xylophone (?) at the beginning. The singer wants the person he loves to make an effort for him, anytime will do... |
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| Antony and the Johnsons – For Today I Am a Boy Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Pretty simple: Someday (sometimes) I'll have to be responsible and mature, but today (at the moment) I am free. Free from guilt, shame, anxiety and everything that comes with adult expectations. It's okay, I can relax. This is beautiful. |
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| Mother Mother – Sleep Awake Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is so dark. I think it's maybe her boyfriend asked her to kill him (due to depression/disease/something like that), and she did... |
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| Mother Mother – Chasing It Down Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This is a really good song, kinda obvious... singer has problems and "chases it down" to feel better. As for the "shagra" thought that was just a sample or something... -shrugs- |
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| Jerry Cantrell – Cut You In Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think it's about being addicted or obsessed with something and spending most of your time at home because of it, a friend wants to hang out and have back how things use to be, so the addict will organize a time so they can hang out, because it's difficult for him to just stop his addiction (and be prepared for human interaction) temporarily without planning it out. Then when he is with the friend, he realizes he needs a connection to the real world, so he becomes clingy to his friend, decides to make routine phone calls, etc. "and you ain't leavin' at all". |
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| Alice in Chains – Dam That River Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The lyrics are difficult to pin to a concept- so I'd say they're specific to whatever the argument was. For example, "proving you're a fake" |
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| Alice in Chains – Hate To Feel Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Maybe he hated to feel, and that's why he used drugs to numb the feelings... but yeah for this line:
"Used to be curious
Now the shit's sustenance"
Feel like that means he used to have feelings (curiosity) and now his feelings ("the shit") are mainly "I need drugs". |
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| Alice in Chains – Brother Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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"Frozen in the place I hide
Not afraid to paint my sky with
Some who say I've lost my mind
Brother try and hope to find"
What does "paint the sky" mean? "paint the sky with people who say I've lost my mind" Do you think it refers to ignoring them, or the opposite? Then "brother try and hope to find" is this him asking his brother to find these people, or is it asking the people to find his brother? Thoughts? |
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| Wintersleep – Drunk On Aluminium Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Is it about an addiction to self-injury? First he describes the urges to hurt himself ("I feel it crawling in"), then motivation as he does it ("make it white"). Read the words and consider it. As for "aluminium", maybe it's aluminium cans? -shrug- |
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| Wintersleep – Dead Letter & The Infinite Yes Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I thought this song was about feeling meaningless, thoughts of one's purpose in a population of 6 million. Confusion about life, big questions about life and death... hard to put into words... |
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| Bad Religion – Don't Sell Me Short Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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"we don't need any more mountains" = I don't need to prove myself to yet another person
"And we are all too young to die" = judging someone and having a closed mind is basically killing them (when you're dead, you can't change)
basically about fast/fatalistic judgment
I can relate to this so well:
"I'm full of emotion
and stuff you can't contain
And you just want to
flush me down the drain
But you can't make me go away" |
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| Ladytron – Cease2xist Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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think it's about questioning your own identity while thinking about relationships. Your lover says a lot about who you are, so if it's the "wrong" one does that mean you aren't representing yourself as who you really are? "where did you come from?" is the disassociation with your lover/yourself and the song is generally confusion |
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| Ladytron – Fire Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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uh.. probably.. but thought it was about getting a chance. Opportunity is knocking, s/he needs to get over shyness or something |
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| K'naan – Dreamer Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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tbh it might be the weakest on the album.. just cause of the chorus. but it's still awesome, mostly the lyrics.. dreams keep us alive, simple as that yo |
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| K'naan – Somalia Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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agreed with all of the above. Love those lines.
just wanted to say about the line "so fuck you school and fuck you immigration" it's like governments make things so complicated, tedius, and fragile just for legal reasons and crap when it seems so simple.. and it pisses you off that you havta prove everything.. |
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| This Mortal Coil – Holocaust Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Agreed. At first it sounds like a typical depressive person, but a holocaust? Holocaust is defined as "an act of mass destruction and loss of life" ? So it makes me think of maybe someone who hurt people all their lives, and is depressed.. |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Run (I'm a Natural Disaster) Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This is damn catchy.. I picture it durin a scene in Cold Case or one of the shows, kids are involved in some sort of chaotic time to do with peer pressure and all that.. dunno if I explained that well, but just picture it. |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Whatever Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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yeah he's mockin teenagers who act like they don't care like they're all tough when infact they're really pissed off/upset. Good song but hard to listen to on repeat lol. |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Blind Mary Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Assumin it's about love, I wonder what he means by her just passin through...? The instrumental is awesome too.. I like the idea that it's about unconditional love, and learnin we're equal, like both are disabilities: blindness, and ugliness. |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Blind Mary Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Agreed 100% ! I like how the disability is bein blind, but also bein "ugly", so we both have disabilities that cancel eachother out. |
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| K'naan – T.I.A. Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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^ agreed. This is pretty obvious, talkin about poseur rappers think they're hardcore and crap.. you know |
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