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Cold War Kids – Heavy Boots Lyrics 17 years ago
Yeah, it could definitely be about the economy.

But I'm still not sure.

& everytime I think about "Heavy Boots" I think of the Mafia giving people cement shoes to drown them...

Heh. Metaphor? Am I totally off? Awesome song, regardless.

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Skid Row – Monkey Business Lyrics 17 years ago
It's Skid Row talking about skid row. Hah. Love the riffs in this. Plus Sebastian's vocals rock.

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Tally Hall – Spring and a Storm Lyrics 17 years ago
I love this song. He can spin such pretty words.

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Frijid Pink – House Of The Rising Sun Lyrics 17 years ago
Love this song.

I can't decide if the house is his home with his messed up family, a casino, or a whorehouse. Other than specific details, it's pretty self explanatory.

He screwed up his life in New Orleans. He tried to run away, but his problems followed him. So he's... stuck.

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Tally Hall – Ruler of Everything Lyrics 17 years ago
Lyrics with the new MMMM:

Juno was mad;
He knew he'd been had
So he shot at the sun with a gun
Shot at the sun with a gun
Shot at his wily one only friend

In the gallows or the ghetto
In the town or the meadow
In the billows
Even over the sun
Every end of a time
Is another begun

You understand
Mechanical hands
Are the ruler of everything (ahh!)
Ruler of everything (ahh!)
I'm the ruler of everything
In the end

Do you like how i dance?
I've got zirconium pants!
Consequential enough
To slip you into a trance

Do you like how i walk?
Do you like how i talk?
Do you like how my face
Disintegrates into chalk?

I have a wonderful wife
I have a powerful job
She criticizes me for being egocentric (ha)

You practice your mannerisms
Into the wall
If this mirror were clearer
I'd be standing so tall

I saw you slobber over clovers on the side of the hill
I was observing the birds
Circle in for the kill

I've been you
I know you
Your facade is a scam

You know you're making me cry
This is the way that I am

I've been living a lie
A metamorphical scheme
Detective undercover brotherhood
Objective: obscene

Oh no, no
Oh yeah

Do you hear the flibbity jibbity jibber jabber
With an oh my god I've got to get out of here or I'll have another
Word to sell
Another story to tell
Another time piece ringing the bell
Do you hear the clock stop when you reach the end
No
You know it must be neverending
Comprehend if you can
But if you try to pretend to understand
You resemble a fool
Although you're only a man
So give it up and
Smile

You understand
Mechanical hands
Are the ruler of everything
Ruler of everything
I'm the ruler of everything
In the end

Without looking down
Gliding around
Like a bumbling dragon I fly
Scraping my face on the sky

Oh no, no
Oh yeah


Tally Hall! I love you!

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Cold War Kids – Passing the Hat Lyrics 17 years ago
I don't think he is necessarily an immigrant. He's definitely poor ("ragged coat sleeve"), and I think just a guy who's had a hard life, had to resort to criminal ways. He's ashamed, and wants to start out new. "All of the reasons that stealing has led me to leave". He steals one last time from the church so he can leave America. "I bought my ticket"

Or maybe he was an immigrant, thought America would be awesome, and was completely wrong and wants to go home.

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Cold War Kids – Tell Me in the Morning Lyrics 17 years ago
I think this is a breakup song, or they had a fight at least. After she leaves ("now that she's gone") he looks back at what went wrong. Probably the girl was fed up, didn't want to put this conversation off any loner, she was upset and wanted to guy to say something!

"I shouted questions
like a fist fight
you tried to take me by the arms
lead me to the light
I'm almost over
worrying over"

That makes me think that maybe he was going to do something stupid, and she was trying to help him out, make the right decision and see that he's wrong, but he was too stubborn. (Or the God theory fits extremely well).

"Broke the lock and pried it open
Then pretend to be stolen
I am my own thief in the night"

I think that's saying he lost his words, he can't really think of something to say.


Fantastic song.

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Tally Hall – Smile Like You Mean It Lyrics 17 years ago
Tally Hall owns. I love how they sing it so sweetly, while it seems pretty ironic since the lyrics are so sad.

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