| Pavement – Here Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is word play, and the confusion between clock and dock is the lynchpin (because casting away is something you do from a dock). Switching between two similar sounding words with very different meanings is a trademark of Pavement lyrics. | |
| Pavement – Here Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I still don't understand what a "quarter stance" is. And I have been asked for change in a pretty wide variety of cities. Incidentally, I have heard a version of the song where he subs in "I guess she smoked her last quarter randomly." |
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| Jay-Z – Friend Or Foe Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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disagree "pants is" actually makes grammatical sense, so why wouldn't that be what he's saying? for someone reason the lyrics on this site have been "corrected," but they still leave out the word "is" |
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| Pavement – Gold Soundz Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song like others by Pavement is about a turning point, action or inaction, overcoming cynicism and losing contact with the reality of a moment. The narrator expands moments by stepping outside himself and self-judging, but this kind of introspection leaves him powerless, inert. "Keep my advent to yourself/because it's nothing I don't like" Vague statement of indecision - so what is it you DO like? The narrator is questioning whether to embrace a change that has come into his life. "Is it a crisis or a boring change?" He seems to not want to decide. "Believe in what you want to do/And do you think that it's a major flaw/when they rise up in the falling rain?" In the face of the cynicism of the person he's addressing, he asks is it so awful to try to overcome stasis (rise up)? "And if you stay around/with your knuckles ground down/the trial's over, the weapon's found" If you stay to what you know and what's comfortable and don't renew your life and situation, you have no one to blame but yourself. Fait accompli, you are to blame. This song seems mostly to be an internal dialogue for the narrator, but we can't ignore that it's intermittently staged as a man talking to a woman with whom he had a relationship that is now either dying or long dead. "I've been sitting here too long." The relationship is dead; stasis must be overcome. Either a) because the childish cynicism that made for "gold soundz" in the "August sun" is no longer sustainable or b) because the old love has devolved into the kind of relationship where many discussions are about getting the "last word" in. |
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| Pavement – Gold Soundz Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Ice Cube – It Was A Good Day Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Probably something to do with Islam. He must be a pretty devout Muslim if he manages to abstain from pork on the days when his Momma decides not cook it for him. | |
| Jay-Z – D' Evils Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In the first verse: "None of my friends speak We're all trying to win, but then again Maybe it's for the best though, 'cause when they're seeing too much You know they're trying to get you touched" I think it ought to be "sayin" not "seeing". It follows from "None of my friends speak". He's talking about people trying to get him to incriminate himself by talking too much. |
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| Jay-Z – 22 Two's Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think Mariah Davis says "Dame Dash" not "Dam Deass" Don't know who that would be but Damon "Dame" Dash is the co-founder of Roc-a-fella records. |
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| Jay-Z – Friend Or Foe Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"chance is slimmer than that chick in calvin klien pantses" i think it's "than that chick in calvin klein pants IS" i don't know what "pantses" are. |
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