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| Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I'm sure boss 2k meant minor compared to the war it precipitated. Historically war is usually declared following an invasion of sorts. Bosnia is in fact north of Greece. Kind of East, more central Europe. As for us "ignorant Americans", leave it at the facts and don't generalize a nation upon a few jerks you met or have been told about. There's a little more to this place than TR's "big stick", George Bush, and tourists.
Damn... You ARE American. When and why has this place become one of self-hatred?
Still, excellent song. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I'm probably wrong but I try to see this from the singer's perspective, which at least explains his mood. He was likely friends with Anthony and Hilary's boyfriend. Now he's lonely and he questions the choices of both his friends whose discontent with their old lives has left him suffering alone in the same one. In a way he's jealous of both and the peace that they found because he can't follow either one. That's where the sinister comes in. People are sometimes too ego-centric when making decisions about their own lives, they forget everything else in their lives. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strap Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Perhaps the song is actually about the singer. He's talking to himself. I saw the Shawshank Redemption a year ago, which involves the social maladjustment that happens to people who are set free from jail. He sees the London he once knew as if he were a stranger. No one will give him a job, he lacks direction, he's so used to being told what to do. As for being laid with "the boy with the arab strap", the jerk (in the song of course) is jerking off as he does later to thoughts of the waitress. |
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| Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The sunshine in a bag is left intentionally ambiguous. Whatever it it is, it can be kept in a bag and that makes it something tangible, material. This is a common Gorillaz theme, to reject the consumer capitalism around us and focus on what's really important. (Just so you know, the people who draw and sing on the behalf of the Gorillaz aren't socialists, they just dislike extreme capitalism. After all they're still running a business for profit) |
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| Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc. Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Just a thought relating to pariah's comment, the windmill representing escape, it might have something to do with Don Quixote. The windmill is the idealism, the fantasy in your head that separates you from the worldly corruption that surrounds you. Don Quixote in his sane illusion fought windmills believing that they were giants. Windmills are a good thing here, but if you merely acknowledge them as a connection to Don Quixote, the rest of the song makes a lot of sense. A song about the pure happiness that comes from pursuing your windmills and rejecting the cultural reality that surrounds you. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – For the Price of a Cup of Tea Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song reminds me of a foreign exchange student in my high school last year. She always seemed so lonely, so we'd talk on a occasion before and after school. I would on occasion have a cup of tea in hand and she would have whatever she brought and a book. We'd always talk about what one of us was reading or her home or life in America. I wish I had made a serious attempt to stay in touch. |
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