| John Vanderslice – Kookaburra Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| If it is a German parliament reference, I have to think it has something to do with historical suspicions that the Reichstag fire, which resulted in Hitler's appointment to chancellor (the first notable step in his rise to power), was started by Hitler himself, or at least his cronies. John seems to be of the opinion that the Twin Towers falling was no accident, either. Maybe he's throwing it out there to make a point. Although this is a completely different house established after Hitler's death, so I could just be blowing it out my ass. | |
| The Blow – The Big U Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| about a narcissist? | |
| The Comedians – Scorpio Rising Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i think that question mark line really goes like this: "some things buried deep need to stay that way" this album is too legit to quit. |
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| Jedi Mind Tricks – I Who Have Nothing Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| MAD nice. | |
| The Blow – Babay (Eat a Critter, Feel Its Wrath) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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idk, i think it's definitely about being in a relationship that has crumbled, and sticking around for long after you should have while everything just gets worse and worse. she acknowledges that it's dumb to drag out an ending, but she was just too engaged with her ~lover~ to realize that it was just not working anymore, and he was probably not being too kind about it. considering she describes being shit on and out and all those lovely things that happen at the end of relationships. and ia with typewriter's thoughts on sexual entendres. i had a sensation of that myself when i was listening. but it's already been said. |
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| AJJ – Self Esteem Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| lol yeah. i can relate to that. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – A Favor House Atlantic Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Al the Killer sacrifices himself so Ambellina (whom he's developed an obsession/love with) and with her, the 'heroes', (Claudio, Jesse, Sizer) can escape after Al drops them off at House Atlantic, for some reason. It sounds like Ambellina is trying to convince him to help them, and then he goes for the sniper rifle. This is sort of Al's first and last heroic stand, when he gets out his beloved sniper rifle and tries to pick off the URA while they're coming for Claudio, Jesse, Sizer, and Ambellina; because he is kind of crazily in love with her, he calls back to her, 'bye bye beautiful! don't bother to write.' because he knows he is dying, and he wants her to know he is dying for her. And they escape. Presumably 'are you in or are you out?' is Jesse demanding that Claudio make a decision- is he finally going to accept his destiny as The Crowing, or will he continue to hide out and run away? | |
| Coheed and Cambria – Junesong Provision Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| bam. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – Junesong Provision Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I hear (and interpret a bit on my own) that this song is partly Coheed and Cambria hijacking the Gloria Vel Vessel (taking the captain Larry and Norris the Navigator hostage) and how they fear that the ship is going to crash. Coheed is starting to feel the effects of the Monstar virus (that Mayo tricked him into taking into himself) and tries to convince himself that he is just imaging things ('Is it all you've shared with them that makes us paranoid? Is it the dream that one day you might be something you're not?') Meanwhile, Claudio, who thinks his whole family is dead and realizes he is a danger to all those remaining around him, writes a suicide note to his girlfriend Newo. Presumably in Neverender he is about to attempt suicide, and changes his mind. But he does leave Newo a note, and presumably it is the suicide one anyway. I guess just so she'd believe him dead and never be any the wiser if someone came looking for him. She would be innocent~. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – Feathers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This and the song The Running Free make it sound like Claudio is trying to escape his fate (again). Maybe the song is Claudio thinking to himself what it would be like if he just decided to go home and rekindle his relationship with Newo in the time they have left. But he second guesses his chances. She might have a new lover, a new life; he's not the same person and he can't ask her to take him back damaged as he is when she's got a new life together without him. The songs asks 'do you really want him calling, Newo? do you really think he's coming back to you?' maybe because Newo contemplates what she would do if Claudio really did come back to ask her to start over, or maybe Claudio is sort of asking himself these questions- will she still want him if he comes home a coward (i've before seen feathers used to indicate the question of cowardice vs. bravery) instead of fulfilling his destiny? complicated business. poor little crowing. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – The Hound (Of Blood and Rank) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Is this song perhaps about something that Sizer has done? Presumably, after Jesse dies in From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness Sizer takes his place in command of The Pioneers (Jesse's child army of superior IRO-Bots). However, Sizer could be struggling now with the fact that in creating IRO-Bots in the first place Dr. Hohenberger and eventually Jesse were defying God, and then he turned them all into soldiers, effectively enslaving them in a parallel situation to Supreme Tri-Mage Wilhem Ryan enslaving humans. Claudio Kilgannon too, we can guess, is some kind of an IRO-Bot, as his parents were two of the original three, KBI. And in an earlier song, 'No World for Tomorrow' there are some battle cries going on, but at the same time there's that little side dialogue of 'you've been their plaything!' If in that song someone was convincing Sizer (or he convinced himself, looking on at his brothers and sisters chanting battle cries) that Claudio, this supposed Crowing, was not going to lead them on to the freedom they should seek, but he was using them just like Dr. Hohenberger had used them, as a brute force for revenge. So maybe what's happening is Sizer accusing Claudio of betraying his IRO-Bot brothers and sisters, and that he refuses to let them be sicced into senseless wars anymore; more importantly, wars that promise them no freedom or rights after it all ends. He could either be warning Claudio of this, or just thinking of his decision to break from Claudio's and Mariah's movement and establish his own in the interest of IRO-Bots, and force will be used if necessary ('you've found the worst in me, you've got another thing coming'). It seems like at this point Sizer is fed up with being denied, and we can see where there is a rift in what was once an equal alliance ('you're no brother'; 'you're the Hound of Blood and Rank') when each character only thinks of his own best interests. y/n? |
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| John Lennon – Mother Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I don't think he was lying when he said that 'it's about 99% of parents in the world.' lol that's sort of a stupid thing to say, considering nothing in the song is SO SPECIFIC that it can only be his life. I think it's true that a lot of children grow up in home with one/both absent/negligent parents. Just because his parents weren't around for him much doesn't mean the song is just about him- it's for him and everyone else who has to live like this. A lot of Lennon's songs are about the importance of empathy and relating to other people. This is just one issue on which he himself relates to other people. | |
| Sage Francis – Civil Obedience Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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'I'm a trusted man with a company van', I think are the lyrics. It is prettyyy good. It kind of seems to be Sage's own irresponsible side, for as much as he talks about the irresponsibility of others. All about how hard it is to actually do things that need to be done while you can't sleep or focus on anything because the thoughts in your head are constantly on overdrive. And he has some difficulty being a responsible person while he cannot even compel himself to believe that there is anything worth being responsible for. So he goes around on probation (I am thinking the whole airport scene is a metaphor for probation? People on probation do 'get randomly checked', and they are sort of the law's fall guys because while there are violent crimes being committed on the daily, our prisons are packed with pot smokers) chilling with some drugs or some such regardless of the law and risks, just because it is all so fucking ridiculous; he's not really doing anything wrong (even though he's not being the best person he can be either), but he's still being shat on by the system over bullshit. But, all the same, he is never ever going to give up, because there is nothing else to do but keep trying. |
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| Sage Francis – Going Back To Rehab Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| also, in terms of switching out drugs for alcohol, alcohol, obv, is legal, so that is a big factor, too. still gotta use, just gotta use something that won't get you in trouble. | |
| Sage Francis – Going Back To Rehab Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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would Sage Francis really be a freemason? I don't know. There is a lot of contention about the meaning, but this is what I picked up on: Likely for drugs, a friend(?) is imprisoned, and Sage is still trying to keep in touch with him, help him out, but in the meantime he has his own demons to fight. Well, he is as dirty as his friend but he ends up committed in a rehabilitation program instead. Obviously, in rehab a person can actually get help, but in prison help is not the point and it's not really available. So his friend is getting older and sicker, and as Sage gets better he can't help that old friend anymore, because they are on completely different planes of addiction and experience at this point. They no longer have enough in common to stay friends and help each other in any significant way, because one went to rehab and actually started to get better while the other went to prison and just got worse. Sage is mad that he lost his opportunity to help a friend in need just because he now has a happier life, and too because he never got the experience of prison that his friend so they might still share something. Now he feels like he can't relate to his friend anymore, so he can't ask him to try to get better, talking some shit like 'well, if I got better you can!' because now their experiences are so different that doesn't apply anymore. It's probably not about finding God at all, but he seems to be speaking pretty derisively about the 12 Steps, which are extremely Christian-centric. A huge part about going through the 12 Steps is sort of surrendering your will to God and trusting that through him everything will get better. The reference to 13 steps is probably because while the 12 Steps are used against alcoholism, the same steps apply to recovering from other drug addictions; however, what tends to happen is that drug users are on probation for possession (so it is used as punishment and also as a way to deter further drug use while the patient tries to get better) and they ultimately turn to alcohol in place of what they were using before (because alcohol is more socially acceptable). So Sage seems to be making a point about going through the 12 Steps to recover from his addiction, and then the 13th step is beginning to use alcohol. He makes a lot of references to alcohol and God in close proximity, so...that all seems to be the case. But then he ends up in rehab again. He went in once before, did his time, got clean, but the outside world he's facing is still such shit. People don't understand because they haven't been through anything like what he has, and they don't care to understand and really they don't give a fuck at all about anything, least of all his strife, because everyone expects us to just 'be better' if we're not vapid enough already, and have no qualms about telling us in their own self-righteous rhetoric about all the things WE'RE doing wrong. So he starts drinking and does himself in. When he goes back he's on the pills to take care of whatever 'depression' or 'bi-polar' or whatever the doctors came up with last time to explain away the cuts and the drug use. (It ties in with the song Slow Down Gandhi: 'all I wanted was a fucking pepsi' institutions; making you think you're crazy is a billion dollar industry.) He reflects on how much treatment is counter-intuitive, because it employs a lot of the same concepts as does drug use in the first place (you can't smoke crack but here's some prozac and klonopin to ease the pain). It sucks because he really can't relate to this friend anymore, and he know he should be appreciative of the 'better help' he got, but it actually kind of does not help at all. Really all of the will and ability to get better has to come from personal resolve, and while an environment where one is more or less forced to approach a more positive lifestyle probably gave him a leg-up over his friend, he's not really feeling any better. He's just not an addict anymore. But can he still talk to that friend, will that friend still listen, can he still help that friend get better? The way the song goes, it looks like sometimes he feels it's too late, and other times he is determined just to try. In the meantime, he is just still trying to get better himself, so if nothing else he can be a better person himself and contribute something positive to this fuck-up world. That's...about it I think. y/y? |
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| Sage Francis – Got Up This Morning Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| sounds like a song about a girl (girlfriend?) who is a complete tease. she strings him along and she fucks everyone else and makes him think he'll get some, but in the end she always turns him away sweating. the jolie holland parts seem to lend the song a little perspective though, sort of like acknowledging that he really cannot be that mad at her just for not having sex with him, but she is uncontrollable nonetheless. | |
| AJJ – All the Dead Kids Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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could he possibly be saying "so you can see 'how dim is my life' at the end there? i mean, either way it is still a song that makes me want to die every time i hear it, and that i think is essentially the genius of andrew jackson jihad. they ARE saying something, but...they're just saying. ' |
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| The Virgins – Hey Hey Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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also there are some lines totally missing in one verse. it sounds like: 'damaged like a beat cop kick it for the third time smoke a bowl and now we're done.' so i am going to go ahead assuming that is what he is saying. |
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| The Virgins – Hey Hey Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I don't think that the lyrics have that broad a meaning to simply encompass all teenage life/love- not everyone lives their teen lives like this? I took it more as a song to a girl who is pretty miserable with the live she leads, and tries to make things better with parties and drugs but gets too caught up in it all. He is just reminding her that they're not bad people for trying to make up for the shitty parts of life with fun 'wild' parts, but they do have to cool their heels sometime, or they'll never get out of the circumstances that made them so miserable to begin with. | |
| The Virgins – Radio Christiane Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| idk if I really see it as a retrospective song, but rather as a song to remind a girl he loves(?) to not be so serious and sad, and let go of her self-judgments. Compared to other songs like Hey Hey Girl, which gives the impression of a girl who feels bad about all the wild things she does, it seems like it could easily be related; he is singing to a girl who is wonderful but gets too caught up feeling bad and trying to make up for what she does. Of course, maybe the songs aren't related at all and they are completely different people/ideas, but it certainly could be that the songs are inspired by real life, and so he could easily be writing more than one song about the same person-- just urging her not to be so serious and accept herself even with her perceived flaws. | |
| Sage Francis – Hoofprints In The Sand Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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'towers of babel', not 'towels', just for the record. sage francis got his shit together, is all i'm saying. |
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| Brand New – I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| also, has it occurred to anyone that this is in some ways a reprisal of the song 'failure by design?' to a certain extent he is still talking about 'as much as i want to make good music it's so hard to find the motivation to do it, and sometimes i just want to give up' but in a much more developed composition. oh, the growth! | |
| Brand New – I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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perhaps the lyrics aren't 'we won't let you IN' but rather 'we won't let you WIN.' as the following lyrics imply. it kind of makes more sense and sounds better so...having faith in brand new as lyricists, i assert that those are the actual words. |
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| Brand New – Failure by Design Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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lol this is actually the kind of song that makes me hate brand new. of course, i don't REALLY hate brand new. some of their songs are brilliant and i think they have all of the potential in the world when they apply themselves. however, songs like this-- something presumably (or really, OBVIOUSLY) pulled out of his ass probably the night before they were going to record-- only indicates that he's really not trying that hard to write songs. and i understand because as he explains in the song he does want to make good music but he is just so overwhelmed by bullshit that he has no motivation to do it. so while i think brand new is a decent band and this isn't the worst song ever, it is certainly not something to be celebrated. |
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| AJJ – Bad Bad Things Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| for those days when you just might stab someone in the eye with a shard of glass. | |
| AJJ – Cigarettes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Glass Hammer is right. It is obviously about value of time travel and encourages all of his listeners to contribute to the efforts toward designing a time machine. I know it inspired me to look into a flux capacitor compatible with a DCM-12. | |
| AJJ – Survival Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I am pretty sure the last line is actually: 'And I give thanks to all of you for withstanding the storm of how we learned how to survive.' At least, that is certainly what he is saying on the version I have, off the album People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World. Of course, either way it is the Best Song Ever, and it is beautiful how it is all at one so honest and relatable. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Send Him Away Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yeah, I thought it was "whose" as well. To me, the whole song felt like he was in love or some sort of obssession with this woman who refuses to be tied down, and prefers instead to partake in various simultaneous relationships; he is trying to act like he doesn't mind but you can see that he is actually falling apart over her. I felt like he was essentially saying "I don't care who else you've been fucking, just send him away and make it only me." | |
| The Thrills – Should've Known Better Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure he's saying 'I harbor doubts,' not 'a harbor dance.' Other than that, this song makes me feel so light and so heavy all at once. It's a romantic sort of feeling. |
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| Conor Oberst – Moab Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| He says "claro que si!" after the fist chorus, not "woo." It's Spanish for, "of course!" | |
| Coheed and Cambria – IRO-bot Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's definitely IRO-Bot, not I, Robot. Look at the story; the creatures that Dr. Hohenberger creates (Coheed, Cambria, Jesse, Chase, Sizer, etc) are all called IRO-Bots. They're supposed to help defend humans against the Mages. BAM. |
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| Man Man – I, Manface Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ahh I can't believe more people haven't commented this song! It's the first Man Man song I ever heard and I have quite an affinity for it for that reason- plus the fact that it's totally righteous. It pulls at a lot of different potential reactions; it's depressing and emotional, but violently sexual and angry. The unity of effect could be described as 'upsetting.' Righteous. |
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| Man Man – Feathers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Corectionnnsss. "She's just a flask trapped inside a fold." Like, a fold of clothing, I assume. "I won't question why the only life that you have you gave away." In any case, it's a beautiful song. Definitely one of my favorites by Man Man. |
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