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The Thermals – We Were Sick Lyrics	16 years ago
I always hear him saying the line as "every dirty German," which I like more.

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The Thermals – We Were Sick Lyrics	16 years ago
This is my favorite from the new album. Is it about drug use? Probably not. I feel like it has to do with living minimally, like some vagrant or something.

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Tom Waits – Cemetery Polka Lyrics	17 years ago
Saying someone is independent as a hog on ice is like saying someone is pristine of a singer as Tom Waits.

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Low – Breaker Lyrics	17 years ago
The whole album is supposed to be influenced by the Iraq war (2003). I think "debating math" fits that sense better.

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The Magnetic Fields – The Desperate Things You Made Me Do Lyrics	17 years ago
"they say when you're older you'll understand - you know it's a lie" I recently read Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals and he has a couple pages on this. I wonder if it was an influence on Merritt.

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