| The Shins – Your Algebra Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i think one section of the laughing is reversed. that's a creep part | |
| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Crowd Surf off a Cliff Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i wrote the first stanza as a note to someone when they broke my heart and left me for whatever reason they weren't telling me. They didn't understand it. "cursed with a love that you can't express/ not for a fuck or a kiss" You love someone because of love, not for the physicalness of it. That's irrelevant. You harbor those feelings for the person long after they have discarded you, and therefore you can't express them any more. "the life that you thought through is gone" You had it all planned out, everything is fine and then that person has taken it from you. Pretty straight forward. "the ending outlasting the mood" And the truth of the matter, that it is over, outlasts the grief that it caused you. maybe. "if you find me hide me i don't know where i've been" Something in this feels like you just threw yourself into something that maybe you shouldn't have. If it ended so suddenly, or you didn't have time to "get over it" befoe it was done, maybe you were just a fool. You don't wnat to think that, so you want to be hidden. A lot of the lines I feel are pretty straight forward. I dont know this song needs more comments. So fucking good. I never connected the chorus with the fans aka crowd. I think songs can be about more than one thing, Lord knows mine are. Not always connected, but she's a pro, so maybe she has it down better than me. |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Rowboat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It just struck me reading the lyrics that maybe the first two stanzas could be referencing that you are no one in particular, or that you are just stuck in solitude that you connect to no one and are a spec to anyone else "living a lie i've been taught all my life." I didn't realize it was "taught" Not sure if i can word that out right, or agree with it. an idea none the less. and i feel like it being about someone leaving and missing that is just too obvious for hte last part. |
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