| The Shins – Red Rabbits Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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does anyone think the "vacuum you recharge to record this" could be referring to flash on a camera? flashes use glass bulbs (vacuums) in which electrons are discharged... so maybe he's talking about her taking pictures ("catalog[ing]") of the "trees in the moonshine" as a "dark lattice" read the stanza and it makes sense: The trees in the moonshine are a dark lattice, So you catalog in the angle you notice, In a vacuum you recharge to record this, |
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| The Shins – Sea Legs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Everything makes sense to me except the "cheerless pyre we will set alight" at the end of the song. It seems to suggest they are moving on from something, burning the past, but why then is it cheerless? | |
| Andrew Bird – Souverian Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| ok there's just one problem with the idea of "souverian" being a french word... it isn't. when i first saw the name i thought maybe i had downloaded the name of the song incorrectly because i thought he was trying to say "souverain" which is a french word meaning sovereign. but it seems he got word wrong to.... woops. i love andrew bird but i'm a little tired of people randomly and ignorantly saying "oh it's french..." | |
| The Shins – Those To Come Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I want to live in this song | |
| Rogue Wave – Catform Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't see anything to suggest something about a "second family" or an affair... this song seems to be from the point of view of a discontented member of the middle class... just a regular guy who lives in the suburbs but isn't happy with his life, it kinda makes me think of the 50s and how everyone wore a tie with the wife and kids at home in their house in the suburbs, the american dream. "but as I lie in bed it’s been middle class middle thoughts, middle as C" tantric forms of intercourse- I think this is like when he and his wife get mad at each other and have make-up sex or just angry sex no divorce, drunk as a horse- he won't divorce and get out of the marriage that he feels imprisoned by, probably because he doesn't know what else to do, instead he just gets drunk and the waitress is the only one who can speak and say what she means- he envies her as I lie awake it’s been Camelot- i think this has a double reference, one sarcastically saying that this hasn't been the fairy tale i imagined and the other maybe comparing his life to the "Camelot" of JFK and Jackie Kennedy (dysfunctional) |
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| Rogue Wave – Salesman at the Day of the Parade Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think that the line "And the hardest thing that I've done/ Is laying down with someone" doesn't refer at all to cheating... that just doesn't really make any sense... maybe if it said "most regrettable" or something. I think that line refers to how it can be really hard to just commit yourself in a relationship. Beyond that I can't really figure out this song | |
| Rogue Wave – Cheaper Than Therapy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I feel like he's maybe addressing a girl who he loves who has had some sort of serious emotional problems (suicide, abuse, death of a close one, drugs, who knows) and she has taken the typical course of rehab, so she's back from some fancy rehab place that makes it seem like a vacation (based on "personal hell," "sad eyes," and "terminal health") it seems like he doubts that this way of recovery will work, he's advocating a more natural way, which for him is through song maybe whatever is upsetting her was something that both of them had to go through, but he's handling it better since he says "you'd say I'm out of my head but really I'm the only one who's bounced back" it's kind of a resigned, bittersweet song |
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| Rogue Wave – Phonytown Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| it seems every great band has some song about their disillusionment with the music industry... and I suppose this is rogue wave's. "the toast of midem" might refer to this giant music trade fair held in Cannes, France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midem). perhaps someone in the band or the whole band was there... All the lines about they'll kick you when you're down, phony town, your friend until you need her, they suggest a dog-eat-dog, vicious music industry where everyone's after money, even if it means hurting "friends" or whatever. hollywood or somewhere in LA maybe? | |
| Rogue Wave – Lullaby Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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okay well a lot of this song makes no sense to me (and probably not to anyone), but there is one part that I feel like I understand: pulling the strings for centuries/ playing a lullaby I think this refers to some group, person, or force that has been controlling the world for many hundreds of years... it sounds like some sort of conspiracy theory like "the man" or the masons or the rich or something. and the "lullaby" refers to the way that this group in power tranquilizes or pacifies the population... kind of like the matrix, where the machines are in control and humans are in their "lullaby" world of the matrix the repetition of "I don't care" seems to be referencing this, saying whatever I don't care that they're in control or perhaps it's sarcastic and saying people don't care cause we're complacent what I really can't figure out is "I don't care as long as I fall" Why would he want to fall? |
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| The Raconteurs – Many Shades of Black Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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okay so it's about a breakup, but what do the central lines mean then? There's so many ways to act and there's many shades of black This seems to be the main part of the song but I don't see what it means. IdeaS? |
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| The Raconteurs – Old Enough Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| they underestimate the wisdom of youth... honestly it seems a bit ridiculous to say that everyone who isn't old enough can't possibly know anything. yes experience breeds judgment but some of it is just built-in and depends on the person. | |
| Muse – Bliss Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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the thing that doesn't make sense about it being about God is this line: "they're watching you from above" otherwise i might agree |
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| The Bravery – Split Me Wide Open Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i think this song really shows the weirdness of the phrase "you look right through me..." in this context he means you can tell what i'm thinking and feeling, but when you think about it, looking through someone should mean that they are invisible to you |
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| The Bravery – This Is Not the End Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i love the bravery but they really disappointed me with the lyrics of this song... they're such cowards... they're bright enough to realize this IS the end, but they're too scared to admit it | |
| The Bravery – The Ring Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this is classic Bravery... wordplay with the expression "make an honest woman out of her" (to get married) the gender reversal seems to suggest that he feels like he's a mess, he's ashamed of himself, and he wants an "honest" girl to kind of clean him up the scene is him in what seems like his hometown, regretting that he hasn't gotten married yet or found what he's looking for- that honest girl the end of the song hints that he missed his chance with some girl from his hometown because he was looking too far (to the ocean) kind of like "where's the last place you think it would be?" |
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| Andrew Bird – Cataracts Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There's some interesting stuff going on in the main verse: When our mouths are filled with uninvited tongues of others- this suggests a kind of intrusion, possibly an intrusion of ideas like discussed by others above And the strays are pining for their unrequited mothers- intro to the image of cats who, in a kind of antithesis to the above statement, are seeking some kind of connection or "intrusion"- they are inviting Milk that sours is promptly spat- we all know that cats are intimately connected with milk Light will fill our eyes like cats- perhaps the most interesting line since cats, unlike humans, see better in the dark and more clearly in the light Cataracts- thus the blurriness of a cataract is explained by the difficulty a cat has seeing when its eyes are "filled with light" this makes for an interesting simile between cat's vision and human vision- perhaps he is suggesting the more we know, the less we know? |
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| Muse – Shrinking Universe Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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perhaps muse is referring to a time in the future when the universe is shrinking and we are all about to die. they are pointing out that nothing will matter at the end of the world, even God will be like a big fish in a small pond : can't you see it's over because you're the god of a shrinking universe |
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| Muse – Glorious Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this song is definitely about faith. i identify strongly with the feelings expressed here. faith puts a "rosy" view on reality, claiming that everything has a purpose and that despite our existence here, there is a better afterlife awaiting. and the speaker is struggling because that view seems so attractive to him, but he "wanted more," as in he had to know the truth, not just some fairy tale. he can't fool himself into believing, as much as he wants to. the "cuts and the bruises" are the emotional and existential pain of dealing with a world without god. and i understand when he says that faith "drives me away / but turns me on." when i see people so full of faith i am amused by their pretending, and yet there is something deeply tempting about it. | |
| Muse – Invincible Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| it's because of people like you, b561248 that the world is in such a state of chaos. people that know bad stuff are going on but think they can do nothing about it and make fun of those who do. i liked this song because it finally gives some hope. most muse songs are so tragic, although still brilliant. so maybe it is a little feel-good but that's not a bad thing. thank god for it, cause if everyone were like you we'd be in deep shit. at least some people are trying | |
| Muse – Invincible Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| it's because of people like you, b561248 that the world is in such a state of chaos. people that know bad stuff are going on but think they can do nothing about it and make fun of those who do. i liked this song because it finally gives some hope. most muse songs are so tragic, although still brilliant. so maybe it is a little feel-good but that's not a bad thing. thank god for it, cause if everyone were like you we'd be in deep shit. at least some people are trying | |
| Muse – Map of the Problematique Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i have heard people suggesting that this song is about the world's problems (map of the problematique being literally a map of problem areas in the world), but remain unconvinced because certain lines remain unexplained: who is he refusing to let go? and why does this cause loneliness. these lines have caused me to think maybe it is more about a girl, as others have suggested. but if i choose that interpretation, then what does it mean when he's talking about touching the other side and how we all bleed the same? perhaps there is another perspective missing? or I am missing the link between the lyrics. does anyone have any thoughts? |
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| Muse – Falling Away with You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this is a song about a relationship that has gone bad, like previously stated. i liked the comment about how instead of falling in love with her he is falling away with her. i think he's commenting on how remarkable it is that a relationship that was so good now seems entirely empty- he can't even remember one good part of it. now that it's over, he can't understand what was so great about it in the first place. in that respect it's about the power of love and how it changes our perception of the world around us | |
| Muse – Falling Away with You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this is a song about a relationship that has gone bad, like previously stated. i liked the comment about how instead of falling in love with her he is falling away with her. i think he's commenting on how remarkable it is that a relationship that was so good now seems entirely empty- he can't even remember one good part of it. now that it's over, he can't understand what was so great about it in the first place. in that respect it's about the power of love and how it changes our perception of the world around us | |
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