| Why? – Meal-Bound Boy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| If anyone knows the missing lyrics, please post :) | |
| Why? – 500 Fingernails Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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In case anyone else was curious like me, 6 months for your body to replace your whole fingernail So 2 fingernails per year per finger So 20 fingernails per year 500/20 = 25 500 fingernails = 25 years |
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| Why? – The Fall of Mr. Fifths Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| At the end it's most definitely "Don't pay any attention to me, okay? I'm fine." | |
| Jeremy Messersmith – Violet Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The last line of the second verse is brilliant | |
| Mashups – United States of Pop (Blame It on the Pop) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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*symphonic soul not "some funny soul" |
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| Pixies – Where Is My Mind? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A couple of the lyrics are off a little bit I think... not by much but: *With your feet ON the air and your head on the ground *IF there's nothing in it |
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| Citizen Cope – Son's Gonna Rise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There's a first verse to this song you're missing. It's a little different from this one, the one here is the second verse. It's: Goin' down the highway Like a rocket Got a minute to town now Can't stop it With the wheels in my hand As I stand On the floor Or the board Of this car On the road Got this woman in the backseat She's my wifey In the middle of delivery Man, she saved me To this day I don't why She picked me up When I was down on the road with the wind and the cold After that I think it's the same... |
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| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The first verse, I think should be at the end: To know you all wrong We won And the second: To know me all wrong They won And the last: The dead leaves, they are alone For they don't have trees to hang their bones Also, just a thought. The line: Every occasion a one billion day funeral I think in the context of waiting for a person with a terminal disease to die, this makes sense, because while you're just waiting each day to hear that this person has died, ready each day for their funeral, it would seem that funeral would stretch on forever... a one billion day funeral. |
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| The Morning Benders – morning fog Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| love this song, so much | |
| Cake – Let Me Go Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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While I prefer to think of this as a love song, mainly b/c I like the idea of a guy looking for a girl who isn't overly sexual and flirtatious, I also think it can be interpreted as a father singing of his daughter. If you think about it, little girls often swing their arms when they walk -- imagine a kid when she's not old enough yet to care about boys. Also, "the stars inside of her room" reminds me of those little glow in the dark plastic stars lots of kids (including me) stick to their ceilings. Also, "she wants the sun instead of the moon" -- while many adult women may long for the night, again probably a sexual reference, kids always want it to be daytime, for various reasons. They want to play, they're scared of the dark, they have to much energy to go to sleep, etc. "I've waited for her for so long" could express the idea that this guy has been wanting to be a father for a very long time. And, the "let me go" I think is an idea expressed by lots of young people... they just want their parents to let them go. This father has waited so long for a daughter that he wondered if he could hang on, but his daughter doesn't understand that -- she just wants him to let her go so she can experience life. |
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| The Mountain Goats – In Corolla Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the lyrics are *your servant, aren't they? |
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| Iron & Wine – Jesus the Mexican Boy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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garnetscar - I think there are a couple significant things... 1, I think memk is right... despite the obvious references to Jesus Christ, I think that Sam Beam is trying to separate this view of Jesus from mainstream, bubblegum Christianity. They would never approve of cards with naked ladies on the back, but I think Sam Beam wants us to rise above all of those silly rules and checklists and focus on the LOVE which is the point of this song. Jesus shows above all unending, unconditional LOVE. 2, It's totally something a couple of young boys who are best friends would do... give each other porno cards, lol. 3, it leads into, "I never knew I was given the best one of the deck," which I think is meant to show how even in the smallest little things that we might only barely remember, Jesus is giving us his best, his utmost, all his love. Also... I think the significance of Jesus being a Mexican Boy might have to do with him being an outsider, an alien, someone not quite belonging among us and yet belonging among us all the same... if that makes sense? |
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| Iron & Wine – Such Great Heights (Postal Service cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Haha, I wonder if it hurts to see your song covered and done a million times better. :P Poor Postal Service. Don't get me wrong, I love the Postal Service, but really... Sam Beam just steals this one. | |
| Iron & Wine – Bird Stealing Bread Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Actually, this song meant something entirely different to me than what you guys have gotten from it. For me, this is a brother speaking to his baby sister. It's sort of a sad sound, but to me there's not so much longing in it... Or at least, not longing for the girl he's speaking to. More a longing for the way things used to be. He used to be the one to take care of her, the one to talk to her late into the night on the front stoop, the one who had such a close bond with her that they didn't even need to speak for each to understand how the other was feeling. Now, she's fallen in love. The thing that really says brother to me is that he doesn't ask for her back, he doesn't speak about how she would be better off with him, and he doesn't seem in any way bitter about "losing" this girl. He just wants to ask her some questions. "Does his company make light of a rainy day? Do his hands in your hair feel a lot like a thing you believe in, or a bit like a bird stealing bread out from under your nose?" He wants to know if this man makes his sister happy. That is what's important to him. "Do you carry the words around like a key or change?" To me, this is asking if his sister truly loves this man. "The words" to me means, "I love you." Think about the two items he asks about. How do you carry a key? Carefully, attentively. To lose a key means to be shut out from something that is important enough to you to lock it, and you do not give a key to just anyone. How do you carry change? Carelessly, absently. Change is thrown around, and you might give it to a random stranger by the roadside. And to be honest, I'm not sure I understand the very last verse... but I know that it makes me personally imagine a small girl running to meet her brother with her arms out like a bird. On another note, this song makes me cry almost every time I hear it, not only because it makes me think of my brother, but because it took me a very long time to understand what he meant by "a bird stealing bread out from under your nose." In fact, it took until the first time I was kissed. It was really strange... it was the oddest, saddest feeling... sad, but not sad. In that moment, I understood exactly what was meant by the question, "Do his hands in your hair feel a lot like a thing you believe in, or a bit like a bird stealing bread out from under your nose?" Because it definitely felt like the latter. I almost felt as if something very small, but something I had come to take comfort in had been stolen from me, but having it stolen wasn't even an entirely unwelcome sensation. I'm not even sure how to explain it... it's more just something I understand on an emotional level, not so much an intellectual one, I think. |
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