| Manchester Orchestra – La-Di-Da Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Regina Spektor – Samson Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song isn't so much about Samson and Delilah as it is a comparison. Regina is speaking of a love in a very similar fashion. "We couldn't break the columns down/We couldn't destroy a single one." It's like she's saying that although they loved each other a great deal they couldn't get through hardships together and had to break a part. This song is more of a reminiscing of love lost and what could have been. She's saying their love wasn't great enough to be in the bible, but it was still pure. |
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| The Decemberists – The Bagman's Gambit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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As much as I'd like to think this was 20's I think Meloy uses specific wording on purpose. He states microfilm which wasn't invented until the late 30's and even though he calls it Petrograd, I'd like to think it was more so due to knowledge of the city rather than time period. When I listen to this song I see a Noir type film playing out with an American who falls in love with a Russian spy. He gives her documents she needs, but she falls in love with him too. Perhaps she doesn't give the documents to her country causing them to question her loyalty. He immediately sets out to get her out of there as soon as possible. Their story of forbidden love is a beautiful but common theme in most stories especially in The Decemberists lyrics. I enjoy this song greatly and get chills every time I hear the part "At the gate of the embassy, our hands met through the bars, as your whisper stilled my heart" I love this song<3 |
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| Paper Rival – You're Right Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I will not attempt to interpret this, but I would like to step back and appreciate how great Jacob's voice is in this song. "bonn fireee" Every time I hear that line I get shivers :D (not to create a oxymoron or anything) |
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| Paper Rival – Pacing The Cage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Favorite. Why does no one appreciate this bad like they deserve? This is the tale of anyone who has been restless in their lives. They go through the motions and they find themselves changing so they want to change the things around them as well. How some days are longer then others and you'll always find yourself longing for something new 'sooner or later'. I went to the zoo and I was listening to this in my headphones when we went to the cougars and one was literally pacing the cage. We stayed there for 15 minutes and he didn't stop for one minute. It made me sad, and understand how melancholy this song really is. |
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| Paper Rival – Weak Sister Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"all we are is incomplete" Still. Minor details :D Gah, I wish I could've seen this band live before they broke up. This seems like something you would honestly write about a sibling, or someone very close to you. :) |
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| Paper Rival – The Kettle Black Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Beautiful and so very personal. I love it. |
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| Paper Rival – The Family Ghost Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure it's "Oh Elenor, since I finally found you" He mentions her again in The Kettle Black. |
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| Paper Rival – An Easy Belief Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is beautiful :) It's about religion and the centers on marriage. People get married and it's so easy to think you can be with that person forever because of marriage (including the after-life) or it's easy to just marry someone and assume that once you die you are separated for life. He's discussing the differences in opinion and how people see different things and interpret different things in religion. I absolutely love this song and Paper Rival. It's a shame they are gone :( |
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| Colour Revolt – Circus Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Awesome song. I think fashion conscience religion points to the fact that we must look as if we are doing good and doing the right thing. We have to look good by going to church, we have to look nice at church, we should look like we're praying and we should look like we're paying attention. *shrug* Genius song man. |
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| Colour Revolt – Mattresses Underwater Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I suck pretty hard at interpretations, but I figured I'd try my hand at it. In the beginning he says "there are places, some of us can't face yet" he means places in our minds. Like when we know a certain truth but we refuse to believe it, its a place in our minds we cant face just yet. Then he goes on to talk about how we see it, but we just pretend God's sleeping, like how people talk about how in the earlier years God was always around doing something, but now it seems like he hasn't done anything, so people just pretend he's 'sleeping'. "Ash to ash and dust to dust" are sayings we use to show that we go to the same place we came from when we die so we can believe what we want because we are all gonna die anyways. Then he kind of denies it himself by saying "There's gotta be something" because it's like the desperation of a human who doesn't want to face that truth even though they know it's there. The line where he says "We call it mattresses underwater, but the gutters are seeping" confused me, but my Mom made a good point by saying mattresses underwater could be a flood. I'm not too sure on it's relevance but it seems to be related to Noah's Ark and how we were promised he would never flood the earth again. I also like "another forty years for you, and yours to learn" because that makes me think of Moses in the desert and how they gained another forty years due to their inability to learn from their mistakes with the Lord. As for "love was made" I'm pretty sure that he's not talking about ideal love with a person like a relationship, but ideal love as in the way we define love as something that is perfect and wonderful. Like world peace, achieving love is nearly impossible, that's why we are like ships at bay because we never truly experience real love, at least what we define as real love. "We'll all just crash anyways" just shows that it's not possible to achieve that sense of love, like when people wish to achieve unity with God and to become one in his love, it's just not probable. He then says the line later "we should probably get used to it, but we don't" because he's saying we still try to achieve love no matter what happens. Then he says "Now I see it...." like saying that now he see's the truth even though at first he denied it. The last verse is the hardest for me to decipher, but I think that he's just observing this person now that he see's the truth and he observes her much differently then he once did. Then she says "all you ever talk about is letting us down/If you ever see me dying, just put me in the ground" Which I think means that after seeing the truth he becomes someone that constantly mulls over suffering so she gets so sick of it that if she's ever dying she doesn't want to suffer just to let her die and to put her in the ground straight away. ^^" This interpretation is probably pretty terrible, but I feel like the overall song is about our constant denial when the truth is right in front of us, that our stubbornness keeps us attempting to achieve that which we can not. |
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| The Decemberists – The Legionnaire's Lament Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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bagâ‹…aâ‹…telle —noun 1. something of little value or importance; a trifle. 2. a game played on a board having holes at one end into which balls are to be struck with a cue. 3. pinball. 4. a short and light musical composition, typically for the piano. I think Colin is using a play on words =) |
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| The Decemberists – The Legionnaire's Lament Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Paris is the city of love, of course they'd be fertile :] There were some cars during the 1850's but they were in Britain and not in France, so I think you are more correct in your judgment of WWI rather then Algeria. |
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| The Decemberists – California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song gives me shivers every time =) I love his lyrics. |
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| The Decemberists – A Cautionary Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A definite favorite. No matter how controversial. I definitely get the light hearted feeling from this. "So be kind to your mother" Makes you think twice, eh? :P |
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| Dr. Dog – The Breeze Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I can't believe more haven't commented. I love Dr. Dog. The flutes at the end of this song drive me nuts (in a great way) |
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