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| Nedelle – Winged Can Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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FANTASTIC song!! I love it. Can't get enough of it. I must have listened to this song 50 times before I realized the meaning.... I didn't care because it was so provoking and beautiful. It's about an airplane ride? The airplane is the winged can and Nedelle is freaking out, obviously afraid of flying, but there with someone who it sounds like she is breaking up with, or at least realizing that she doesn't love anymore. Awesome awesome awesome song. |
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| The Innocence Mission – I Never Knew You From The Sun Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It’s a Christian song about a believer’s relationship with Christ. The references to the Sun are obviously references to the Son of God. The lyric “I never knew you from the sun” means that the light of Christ was naturally within this composer and filled her life as the sun fills the earth with light. She begins by recalling her initial conversion and how close she felt to Christ—“What a time it was” –“I was befriended and was a friend”. The “Snow” represents changing circumstances which have drawn her away from that divine relationship –“where I find myself without you.” We get a hint of what those circumstances are in the line “into dark forests of piano songs.” Maybe music is her weakness. Perhaps her love of piano songs has consumed her religious devotion. But ultimately, deep within, her relationship with Christ remains –“deep into my sleeves”—“where I always reach, you are there.”
That’s my take anyway. Absolutely beautiful song.
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| Red House Painters – Void Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Great song. One of my absolute favorite declarations: "The guitar leans against the couch"
That is so vivid. When guitar players visit other places, the leaning guitar becomes the center of the room to them, even if it is in a corner of the house. |
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| Red House Painters – Katy Song Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Okay, just to be provocative, I am going to give the song another interpretation other than the obvious one offered.
Katy is in the mafia and she is selling Mark his drugs. He goes to the city park at night to pick up the stuff “by the forest of our spring” and follows the “path” that “seems the blackest but I guess it’s the soonest.” He’s looking for his rendezvous to make his purchase and goes down a quick, dark path in the park at night. He sees Katy his supplier, and is torn, does he go see her and give into his addiction, or does he walk away. Well, he realizes that without his drugs, he’ll feel like broken glass under his own shoe. Well, today is his last day to buy the drugs because Katy is going back to London to see her mafia family tomorrow and retrieve additional drugs to sell. She will pick up more drugs than Mark could ever give her. Katy leaves the park, the transaction never goes down, leaving his addiction “bleeding” “empty and bothered” and he eventually becomes “numb.”
Lessons to learn from this song: First of all, don’t do drugs. Second, beware of the mafia. Third, worship Mark Kozelek b/c he’s awesome.
And no. I don't really think this is what the song is about. And yet.... |
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| The Wailin' Jennys – One Voice Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song moves me in a way that is hard to describe. Makes me cry every time. It is a song about individuality but a song about unity at the same time. We each speak with our own voice, but it can be one voice if we join together. It is a powerful statement. |
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| Red House Painters – I'm Sorry Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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You idiots. Its so much more than a sad song. For the first time EVER in alternative rock music Mark Kozelek has put to lyric the true motivation for all alternative rock music in a single verse. "I'm sorry for the way things are in China, I'm sorry things ain't what they used to be, But more than anything else, I'm sorry for myself--That you're not here with me."
I think these are the greatest alternative rock lyrics ever written! He makes an insincere apology about China being screwed up--which we all know is true. But then FINALLY comes clean--He's sorry for himself!!! ITS SO AWESOME that the true motivation behind the song is admitted, I can hardly stand it! What courage…What gusto.
The only thing that would have made the song better is if he apologized for a bunch of things wrong with the world, like manifest destiny, starving children in Africa, colonialism, imperialism, etc....and then followed it up by saying, "but more than anything else....I'm sorry for myself."
It paints a true picture of how each of us feel. We know there are horrible problems out there, that people are suffering. Yet, each of us is individualistic and have put ourselves in the center of our universe. It is part of our human nature that our misery, no matter how it compares to the misery of others, will always be “more than anything else” in our own eyes. Sad, but true. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Adlai Stevenson Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The brilliant thing about this song is the way that it is so appealing despite the fact that all of the instruments used in it are completely non-traditional. Trumpets, flutes, banjo and Taylorsaurus still describes the song as "rocking." There are no heavy guitars, no distortion, just band music.....music that I usually hate...and yet....I can't stop listening to the song. It's absolutely magnificent. The trumpets, flutes, and drums create political music, almost like an anthem, which….I am very surprised to say….is rocking. As far as I’m concerned, Stevens has turned lemons (unappealing instruments and political music) into lemonade (Adlai Stevens). |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Adlai Stevenson Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The brilliant thing about this song is the way that it is so appealing despite the fact that all of the instruments used in it are completely non-traditional. Trumpets, flutes, banjo and Taylorsaurus still describes the song as "rocking." There are no heavy guitars, no distortion, just band music.....music that I usually hate...and yet....I can't stop listening to the song. It's absolutely magnificent. The trumpets, flutes, and drums create political music, almost like an anthem, which….I am very surprised to say….is rocking. As far as I’m concerned, Stevens has turned lemons (unappealing instruments and political music) into lemonade (Adlai Stevens). |
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| Toadies – Possum Kingdom Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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BeatrixSteak, you moron.... Vampires stay beautiful with dark hair and soft skin because they are immortal. Anyone that doesn't realize this song is about vampires is a simpleton. |
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| Kings of Convenience – Homesick Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Angryrobot is a genius, and KOC are even more genius. I get annoyed when everyone compares KOC to Simon and Garfunkel. The only similarity is that there are two people singing with some melodic guitar. The similarities end there. S&G’s music is bland, boring, superficial…and pretty much sucks. KOC on the other hand have some real talent, some musical depth, and brilliant lyrics. Next time you compare KOC to S&G, think twice. This is one of those songs that sinks deep into my heart whenever I hear it. Everyday I also have a boy in the mirror asking me what I’m doing here—with all my previous motives growing increasingly unclear. Genius. |
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| Kings of Convenience – Little Kids Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I disagree. Underneath this song's cheery notes, and whimsical lyrics, I believe there lies a great ache of regret. I believe this song is about a chap who goes to see his old lover with whom he has at least one child maybe two—the little kids playing in the park downtown. He lets himself into her apartment or house and waits for her return. When she does, they keep the conversation superficial and light, though they haven’t seen each other for awhile—both trying to avoid the regret and past that they share. They “pretend” that they don’t have a past and are not the parents of these children or child. What leads me to believe this is the way the song lyrics run together: “Pretending in everyday life we don’t have…Little kids playing in the park downtown.” And of course, he will wake up to a life that’s hollow without the love of his old lover, and maybe without the love of his own children who are portrayed as distant, unknown characters in the song. |
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