| Julian Casablancas – River of Brakelights Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think you're right about the shop thing, that would make sense, and though you have Question marks after it I think the line: "Robot game for kids who hate sports" is correct, especially in a song about materialism. He's referring to video games and the kids who are always inside playing them. There are a few changes I would make: "We'll" makes more sense grammatically as "well" (We'll show me a super night) I'm almost positive that it's "We were born waiting in line" as apposed to "in life". I believe that "refuel and recharge" line ends with "the cause", but I can't make out what he says in between. After that I also think that "Myself, myself" is actually "My son, my son" But you seem to have done a pretty good job figuring out the lyrics, even though some parts don't make all that much sense (octopus arm?). |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Also, just out of curiosity, not out of "you're wrong, the Arctic Monkeys are the best", who would you say is the ultimate in their genre? | |
| Arctic Monkeys – Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I disagree, while I do think a lot of 'Indie' bands are exactly what you say, I think the Arctic Monkeys are different, at least when this was released. Now I don't really know, I still like their music and think they are extraordinarily talented, but they are certainly less anti-commercial and anti-fad. Maybe I'm being naive or maybe its just the fact that I want them to be who they claim to be, but I think, maybe now, but certainly when this came out, the Arctic Monkeys meant what they said in this song. Of course I'm a huge Strokes fan, and the Strokes are another big NME obsession. | |
| The Strokes – The End Has No End Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree with the points you make, but I think maybe the greatest wrinting done in this song is the music. The beggining and end mimic each other so that you feel like it's the same thing over and over again. | |
| The Strokes – The End Has No End Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is what I thought the song was about at first, but after reading this page the first line and 1969/3 make much more sense in a political context. | |
| The Strokes – Ize of the World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I don't think that what they meant, though that's what the song conveys. I think that he is acting like he just got vaporized (that's why everything stops) before he could finish his sentence due to all the awful things in the world. | |
| The Strokes – The Modern Age Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Everyone seems to agree that this song is about a one night stand, so I may very well be wrong about this, but I think this song is about war. The narrorator is a boy who went into the military who talks to his girlfriend or wife. He still grasps on two his memories of pretending to be a soldier as a kid, hence the "Start to pretend, stop pretending It seems this game is simply never-ending" He was raised in one of those families where the father was in the military, so he was brought up thinking that the army was glorius, hence the fact that he chooses to go to war and the "Oh, in the sun, sun having fun It's in my blood." His wife or girlfriend is worried about him and wants him to come home, but he says "let me go!" "Rolling in the ocean" refers to the Navy (probably a carrier ship due to later lyrics) and he is doing this, in part, to impress her (since that's how he was raised) hence the Trying to catch her eye work hard and say it's easy Do it just to please me". She know that there will soon be fighting (tommorow will be different) and wants him to leave, but he wants to stay so to satisfy her he pretends he will leave soon. "Our fears are different here" refers to the fact that in the military you are brave and have different fears than most people. I'm a littel foggy on this part, but Ava (A-v-a might be him spelling it out so it will rhyme) is a city in Burma, since burma is a country near Vietnam, I might guess that there was a training camp there and that this song is refering to the vietnam/cold war. I think by "My vision's clearer now, but I'm unafraid." he is saying that they have move past vietnam and realizes the scale of this war, but he still is not afraid. (My guess on AVA probably isn't correct and in that case I would guess it was WWII and he took a fighter to pearl harbor after realizing the scale of the war, though neither may be correct, nor my analyzation of this song) The chorus essentially repeats, but with a changed ending, this time he realizes that things are different, meaning this is really dangerous and wrong, so that is why he leaves the military. This is just how I always thought about it and I may very well be incorrect, this could be about a one night stand. Either way the Strokes rock! |
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