| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Freak Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| agreed. beautiful boy is almost my favourite emily piece, and it's almost not even there ... | |
| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Shrine to Fast Goodbyes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i'm pretty sure there is no studio version of this .... which really is a shame, because it is beautiful | |
| Metric – Too Little Too Late Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i personally think this song is about a relationship on its way out, and all the feelings that come and go with that. what it sounds like to me is that she is really quite judgmental and fed-up with her lover in the beginning of the song. Almost sneering at him/her with their "paper fingers" and their "swollen lips" about them "shaving [their] heavy head in [her] carpeted hallway" and finally mockingly noticing their "right clothes" But then it comes down to it, and she just wants all of those things which are appearances gone; "now take them off" and maybe the reference to the band room rug is a past memory of an encounter, but then she kinda realizes she is tied to the ride. the ride being the whole process of relationship. And from those tender and somewhat nostalgic thoughts she returns to her disgust with her lover. Talking about taking a live wire into the bath, adding almost sarcastically "for a feeling you can find". Also she looks at how he/she behaves around their friends, and sees that they are just laughing "to erase the dirt on their mind". Its all fake. Then in the end of the song is where the sad kicks in, and she pines to just move out, meet a motel and just kinda let it be like it was, in the beginning. Realizing in the end its too late, but they can't say no, as in they can't just leave each other. and i wonder if the final reference to a bible is about marriage in the church? hmm maybe its about a married couple ... never thought of it that way. anyways just a few thoughts and how i hear the song |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Crowd Surf off a Cliff Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i've noticed that too. like most of metric's new album is dealing with the trouble of being famous. and as much as I love her, it almost makes me want to tell her to just suck it up, because if she doesn't want her sucess i'm sure there are about a billion other struggling artists who would love a bit of sucess. anyhoo. |
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| Brendan Canning – Hit The Wall Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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lol i was looking for take care, look up as well, if anyone has it ... but this song is also amazing. especially the bass line, so damn catchy ... |
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| Metric – Rock Me Now Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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you know as much as i adore this song, i still really have no clue what it is about. haha i almost feel as though it is not meant to be taken as deeply as everyone here is, i think it may have just been some image or something in emily's head and so she made a song. PLUS i'm pretty sure the lyric in the chorus is "rock me now, in the old time cobwebs" i've read that most places, and that's what it sound like to me. this song is also waaaay to amazing live, i remember when i saw them last summer it was one of the songs in the set that really stuck with me, especially the part about "that night her mom said the two of them and the now dead guy where the only two people who ever really lived in las vegas, everyone else just arrived, ate their complimentary shrimp cocktail, and left" lol that line PERFECTLY describes living in a tourist town. |
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| Metric – Joyride Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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lol i love this song, but there are a few lyrics in here that i definitely did not hear as that, the biggest on being "no stopping momentum" i always hear "no, stop it, momentum" as in being forlorn that there is no stopping this momentum. but anyways, can't wait for a new album and possibly official lyrics with its release to sort all this out. |
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| Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i think this song really really hits you hard once you've surpassed the ridiculous teenage years where you are struggling to find yourself. once you've made it to the other side and reconnected with who you really are and always will be this song completely bitch slaps you haha i think it is 17 (as opposed to 18 or 16 or whatever) because once you reach 18 you're an adult officially and shoved off into the adult world of caring for yourself. But at 17 you are still a child but are beginning to realize that, that part of your life is over and you see what you've become and what you've really left behind. that's my take on it, coming from a girl who has known this song since it came out, but then i was only 15 and originally i didn't really get what all the hype was about and why this song meant so much to people, but once you get to the place where you've found yourself again and can look back and see how you've changed and possibly offended some people along the way, this song means so much, and almost acts as a tribute of the loss of your childhood and innocence in growing up. |
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| Broken Social Scene – Backyards Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i always hear this songs as being about just growing up really. the whole "they lost their lives in back yards" is to me that she is describing how kids just spend time playing and growing up in their backyards without even being aware of the fact that they are loosing their lives as they know them. i especially love the line "Half way between things and times, a kill" because it just perfectly describes those moments when you are just ... i don't know chilling and contemplating the very fact that you've grown up and aren't a child anymore. just such a beautiful song, one of my favourite from BSS. |
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| Broken Social Scene – Swimmers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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it IS most definitely Emily singing it, no doubt in my mind haha and i listen to tons of metric, stars, feist ect ect ect it's definitely not Feist or Amy i also love love LOVE this song. This song always makes me think of this guy I was crazy for (and just may still be somedays haha), who for all my effort never responded in the ways I was looking for, and we'd hang out for hours and hours and hours on end but he never quite got that I was madly in love with him, that added with the fact he was always late for stuff and often sleepy haha and the "i want to bee with youuuu allll the tiiiiimee, why can't youuuu satissfyyyy?" perfect for anyone who has been in a similar situation. Despite all of that this song makes me smile every time i hear it even though it never worked out, it manages to make me think of all the great time we have, and do spend together. and yes there is definitely smile in her voice, who ever said that is dead on. |
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| Broken Social Scene – I'm Still Your Fag Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't think this song is just intended to speak to a gay audience. I think the lyrics are not intended to be taken literally (as is with most BSS songs, lol otherwise not many songs of theirs would make perfect sense) To me if anything this song perfectly describes any relationship where one person is very much in love with another, who is either uninterested or unavailable. Of course this all could apply to a relationship between a gay person and their now straight (or bi) lover, but the whole "i'm still your fag" since it uses fag, which is derogatory, gives me the perception that the singer of the song is putting them selves under the person they are in love with (no pun intended haha). It's like saying "I'm still in your power and would do anything for you". Maybe I just think all this because this song perfectly describes a personal situation, which is neither a homosexual one or related to someone's marriage, and I completely connect with the lyrics and song what ever the intention was in writing them (as cliche as that may sound ...) |
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