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The Books – Motherless Bastard Lyrics 16 years ago
Did anyone else find that opening dialogue a bit disturbing? The distress in the child's voice makes me feel awful. The rest of the song isn't at all, but that first part...

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The Decemberists – The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing Lyrics 16 years ago
The Queen: And you have removed this temptation that's troubled my innocent child / To abduct and abuse and to render her rift and defiled

Who is she talking to if not The Rake? And how does "The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)" fit in? I admit, the introduction of The Rake says nothing about his infatuation with Margaret, but the rest of the album seems to rely on the fact that he kidnaps her.

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The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics 17 years ago
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The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Lyrics 17 years ago
I hope their child survived. If there was a slight reference in a song later on, about an orphan who's parents were drowned by a river...

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The Decemberists – The Rake's Song Lyrics 17 years ago
I think it's even better in context of the album. The last stanza is so ironic...

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The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!) Lyrics 17 years ago
I smiled when I heard this. I listened to The Rake's Song so much when it was released, and to hear such a great followup to it was really wonderful.

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Bright Eyes – It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends Lyrics 17 years ago
This is the saddest bright eyes song of all of them. All of Noise Floor is substantially sadder than anything else, and the rest is pretty sad. I guess Conor just makes these sad ones as B tracks.

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Bright Eyes – Devil Town (Daniel Johnston cover) Lyrics 17 years ago
I just took it to be about perspective, and how when you leave a place, you learn that everyone else views you differently. He was always a vampire (metaphorically), he just didn't learn it until he saw what nonvampires looked like.

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Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – As Tall As Cliffs Lyrics 17 years ago
I was listening to this today, and now I am wondering whether he is singing "I should believe in leaving tonight".

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