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Flight of the Conchords – Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros Lyrics 16 years ago
Steve is the name of the band manager in the series

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The National – Pay for Me Lyrics 17 years ago
OK, that does sound better, but Baby's gonna pay for me still does not sound right.
How come you take the conclusion of the platinum card?

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Depeche Mode – World In My Eyes Lyrics 17 years ago
Also some drugs involved, together with the love?

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Tool – Stinkfist Lyrics 17 years ago
This is my interpretation of the song, expressed with images from Requiem for a Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEREqER_dmM

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AC/DC – Thunderstruck Lyrics 17 years ago
Like practically any song of ACDC it's about sex.
See Darkenrahl up.
Women are ejaculated on, they are thunderstruck,
Them dirty ACDC-boys. I like!

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Queens of the Stone Age – Make It Wit Chu Lyrics 17 years ago
Uh milkwig
This song is about fucking

It's rock 'n roll

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Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence Lyrics 17 years ago
This song, obviously, is about shooting heroin.

Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me = He's at a down, head ache and waiting for his next shot
Pierce right through me = Piercing the needle
Can't you understand
Oh my little girl = Arguing that his drug use is not a problem
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms = Heroin in his arm vains seems all he ever wanted and needed
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
Vows are spoken
To be broken = Junkies make many promisses and break them all
Feelings are intense = a description
Words are trivial = of being
Pleasures remain = high
So does the pain = In the end drugs solve nothing
Words are meaningless
And forgettable = Only getting high counts
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
Enjoy the silence.

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Spinvis – Voor Ik Vergeet Lyrics 17 years ago
Over dementie gaat dit lied.

Hoe je langzaam alles vergeet, en hoe de toestand van een dement persoon lijkt op die wanneer je droomt, waarin je ook alles gelijk vergeet.

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The National – The Perfect Song Lyrics 17 years ago
sometimes i can feel your weight when i close my eyes
seven times i was under youi never try to find you

i hope you dont remember me
i hope your not alone
i don't wanna know what your thinking

It was a brief burst of passion, only seven nights they spent.

i'm looking out the window
just fucking drinking

shallow frame and shaky sticks but i know there's a river in me
shallow minded adult tricks but i know there's a river in me

Broken with a woman, getting drunk and depressed.
His body is a shallow frame, the shaky sticks his legs, but he knows he can be more.
The woman played him, but he can go on.

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Spinvis – Smalfilm Lyrics 17 years ago
Volgens mij gaat dit over de dood,
elk couplet slaat op een ander persoon dat op het punt staat dood te gaan. De mentaal gestoorde vrouw. De man die zijn eigen noodlot bezegeld door een fietser dood te rijden en het geheim te houden. En de persoon die nog zoveel dromen zou willen verwerkelijken, voordat hij gaat, maar hij is te laat.

Letters van naam omdraaien is trouwens: komen van de maan.


Ik ben een monoliet = de dood
ik ben de wetenschap = de dood
ik ben een grote man van 50 jaar = de dood
vandaag knipte ik een muis in twee
en die naaide ik toen mooi weer aan elkaar

De mens speelt met de dood medisch gezien.

maar soms vanuit een hoek kijken mij dingen aan
vanuit de schaduw van de kathedraal = kerkhof ligt in de schaduw van de kathedraal


De laatste sterft een natuurlijke dood, eenzaam zonder vrouw.




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Spinvis – Limonadeglazen wodka Lyrics 17 years ago
Dit gaat over een vriend die doodging:

Oh, als je hier kon zijn vandaag
Mijn vreemde vriend
En dat je nuchter was
En je geschoren had
Wat zou je lachen om mijn shirt
En mijn huis en mijn oude hoofd
Ik zou je vragen hoe het is
En ik had je niet geloofd

Het was een vreemde snuiter, terwijl spinvis burgelijk geworden was, spinvis zou vragen hoe de dood was.

het was een mooie tijd
Als ik me niet vergis
We hadden zo'n gelijk altijd
Maar ja, we zeiden niks
Je had het eerder door dan ik
Er is zo weinig tijd

Goede oude studententijd, eindeloze studentikoze politieke gesprekken, hij genoot meer van het leven.

Je zag er heel goed uit
Je deed als iemand van TV
Zo kon ik toch nooit zijn
Niet ik, niet met dat haar van mij
Een cirkel op je arm, ik niet
Want ik was veel te bang

Hij was de coole, spinvis de gewone.

Ze had de juiste naam
Ze had de juiste huid
Ze had iets prachtigs aan
Ook jij zag er fantastisch uit
Ze woonde in Madrid
Ze had een hele leuke baan

De vriendin van de overledene.

Ik had een film gezien die nacht
Ik dacht op 2
Er was iets met een oorlogsheld
Er werd niet veel gezegd
Je zag hem eerst als kind
Maar het kon ook alweer de reclame zijn

Hij lag op de bank half in slaap een film te kijken, toen hij werd gebeld met het bericht van het overlijden.

Toen ging de telefoon
En dus ben ik toen maar gegaan
Ik had zelfs een echte traan
Want de as kwam in mijn oog
Ze had een poncho aan die dag
Als ik me niet vergis

Wat zou je lachen om die vent
Met zijn cake en die foute tune = Priester in de kerk en kerkmuziek
Maar ik zweer je
Er komt een keer geheid een dag
Dat ie het nog een keer mag doen = Wanneer spinvis zelf de pijp aan maarten geeft, mag de priester het nog s doen.

Ze had de juiste naam
Ze had de juiste huid
Ze had iets prachtigs aan
Ook jij zag er fantastisch uit

Beschrijfenis van de begrafenis.

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Spinvis – Voor Ik Vergeet Lyrics 17 years ago
Over dementie gaat dit lied.

Hoe je langzaam alles vergeet, en hoe de toestand van een dement persoon lijkt op die wanneer je droomt, waarin je ook alles gelijk vergeet.

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MGMT – Time to Pretend Lyrics 17 years ago
This song is a parody on stardom and a critique on the lifes they are supposed to lead when becoming famous.

The only true, real part of the song is:
I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone

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The National – Slow Show Lyrics 17 years ago
I think this song is about hitting on a woman, being a shy guy and all:

Standing at the punch table swallowing punch
can’t pay attention to the sound of anyone
a little more stupid, a little more scared
every minute more unprepared

Painting a picture of collecting the courage to talk to a woman, but actually getting more nervous due to postponing it.

I made a mistake in my life today
everything I love gets lost in drawers
I want to start over, I want to be winning
way out of sync from the beginning

Thinking of his former failed relations: the memories are little more than photos and stuff kept in a drawer. He does want a new girlfriend tho.

I wanna hurry home to you
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I’m very, very frightening
I’ll overdo it

He imagines how it would be if she was his girlfriend, and how she would like him for the smart funny guy he feels he can be. But still frightened.

Looking for somewhere to stand and stay
I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away
Can I get a minute of not being nervous
and not thinking of my dick
My leg is sparkles, my leg is pins
I better get my shit together, better gather my shit in
You could drive a car through my head in five minutes
from one side of it to the other

He is nervous, but horny and his mind is hectic, he even becomes drunken/clumsy and falls almost when trying to lean against the wall.

I wanna hurry home to you
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I’m very, very frightening
I’ll overdo it

Thinking it over some more, and then:

Finally he steps up to her and says:

You know I dreamed about you
for twenty-nine years before I saw you
You know I dreamed about you
I missed you for
for twenty-nine years

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The National – The Perfect Song Lyrics 17 years ago
sometimes i can feel your weight when i close my eyes
seven times i was under youi never try to find you

i hope you dont remember me
i hope your not alone
i don't wanna know what your thinking

It was a brief burst of passion, only seven nights they spent.

i'm looking out the window
just fucking drinking

shallow frame and shaky sticks but i know there's a river in me
shallow minded adult tricks but i know there's a river in me

Broken with a woman, getting drunk and depressed.
His body is a shallow frame, the shaky sticks his legs, but he knows he can be more.
The woman played him, but he can go on.

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The National – Pay for Me Lyrics 17 years ago
Imo this song is about the expectations and realities of fame.

i thought i'd come to you
and your long lazy scene
instate direction, finger on a magazine.
i'd call you when i need you
i can't get used to your new name.

Somebody he knows getting in touch with him, being famous and all, even with a new name.

send a body double over with your keys
she'll see you in an hour
everybody quiet please.
essex house is down the road
the actors want to be alone.

The distancing of him as a musician from the real world.

your room is still and soft
as a jeweler's.
incidental music coming down the hall

Music industry description?

remember when i never had to wait for you at all?
i wish my hands were yours as i lay your keys
on a magazine.

take me to LaGuardia
my baby's gonna pay for me.

My baby is the music industry, LaGuardia an airport in Barcelona, i believe, he's on tour.

bottle from the duty-free
i'll drink it all across the sea.
lay me down business class
headphones and a sleeping mask.

Going first class all on cost of the music business, a metaphor to the distancing to real important things in life.

she's gonna pay for me
she's gonna pay for me.

Business pays again, then comes the turn around of the song:

brother, i wish you were home
just tell me you're not alone
call me back; i'm on a plane
i think i'm somewhere over spain.
i'm in the dark without the stars
i've never seen a black so dark
thought i'd be above the rain
somewhere on a higher plane.

Missing his family and friends, perhaps, sort of estranged from the world on a tour across Spain, he doesnt even know, flying so much across the world.
But it's not all good, no stars, a dark black and he though he would be above the rain, that stardom would lift him on a higher plane, it doesn't.

oh brother, i wish you were home
my brother, i wish you were home.

baby, you're asleep by now
you never stayed awake for me
you never waited up for me,
no, you never waited up for me!
now there's nothing i can do
i lost you but i beat the sound
couldn't if i wanted to
The Concord doesn't turn around.

Called back to the USA to his woman, but gets mad claiming that she never waits up for his call. The Concord beating the speed of sound is a metaphor for the direction of his life, the speed with which it is going and the fact that is an unstoppable rift with home.

oh brother, i wish you were home
my baby is in a room alone.

my brother, i wish you were home.

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