| The Mountain Goats – The Only Thing I Know Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Because JD doesn't re-record anything. I don't think I'd ever want to hear any Mountain Goat song re-recorded. | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This has always been one of my favorite songs of their's, but thanks to Arrested Development it will always be stuck in my head. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Until I Am Whole Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| In an interview with Marc Maron, JD said he has been telling audiences that it's about "the yoga of self-mutilation". | |
| The Mountain Goats – Alpha Omega Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Cairo is only about 30 miles from Tallahassee, and they grow a lot of peanuts around there, and they sell boiled peanuts on the side of the road, so it's very likely he had picked some up from a roadside stand. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Alpha Desperation March Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I consider Alpha Omega to be the actual end of the the Alpha Couple since it's about the Alpha female leaving, but this feels like an epilogue or something. They're no longer a couple, and the Alpha male tracks down his former wife and demands this $8000. Whether this $8000 exists or not can be questioned, since the narrator doesn't seem particularly stable in this song. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is what John had to say about it before playing it in Seattle recently: This song is about a unique friendship between two guys. One of whom is tied to a chair and will be dead by the end of the song, and the other who has no name, and won’t ever have one. |
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| The Mountain Goats – New Chevrolet in Flames Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I prefer the literal interpretation that it is, in fact, about two people burning a car. | |
| The Mountain Goats – The Sign Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is pretty great, but John has grown to hate this one. I have a concert bootleg and he reluctantly plays this song and describes this song and himself as the real life Alpha couple. | |
| Ben Folds Five – Best Imitation of Myself Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is Stephen Colbert's interpretation of the song: When I first heard the song just a few years ago, I just thought he had written it for me. But then when I listened to it more, I thought it’s just a beautiful expression of how we are toward each other as people. We don’t think that we are sufficient for each other - that no one wants to know the real me or the whole me. I just want to give you the part of me that I think you expect to see from me. And almost as if that little part of me is more than the whole of me because I don’t want to give you any of the poison. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – For You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| By using the phrase "hits way too close to home" he is saying that the themes of this song are frighteningly close to his current situation. | |
| Ben Folds – Picture Window Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| These are the lyrics from the demo version of the song. | |
| 8in8 – Because the Origami Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Such a heartbreaking song. It appears to be a story of concerned parents begging to their missing son to come home. Absolutely brilliant. | |
| The Insyderz – Rat Race Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Haha yeah. What about it? | |
| Jonathan Coulton – Chiron Beta Prime Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What a great Christmas song. I love the Soylent Green allusion. | |
| Fastball – Out Of My Head Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I also thought of this from the best friend angle, and you wrote exactly what I was planning on doing. This is my favorite Fastball song. I especially like this song at the moment because I'm currently coming to the same realization. |
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| Ben Folds – From Above Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Sure we all have soulmates but we walk past them every day" This line sums up the entire song. Its about how everyone has a soulmate, but they don't alway wind up together. Despite this people can still live a happy life. That's my interpretation. |
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| Rainer Maria – Viva Anger Viva Hate Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I have my last AP exam tomorrow too. AP English? | |
| Tom Waits – Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is a really good song/poem. I wish I could write stuff like this | |
| Counting Crows – Anna Begins Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I always thought it was about a girl he (Adam) loved, but she didn't love him back, but I found some info about it and this is what Adam Duritz has to say: It's about denial -- how far you'll go to deny that somethings really happening because it's too complicated, too terrifying, too difficult. It's about me and Anna: The relationship was supposed to be light -- we met on vacation -- but we got further into it and it became harder and harder. It's about all the things you go through trying to, sort of squash your feelings. to sort of shut it down, and how much you can hurt other people and yourself by doing that. The people in the song are just continuously telling themselves they don't feel what they do feel, until the end when it's too late, and then they realize what they were really, really not ready for was, you know, never being able to see each other again." And this is the story that inspired the song: "There was this period where I got really really sick of playing music and I saved up some money from landscaping and I bought a backback and some boots and me and a friend got tickets and went over to Europe. Just to backpack around Europe. It was like the summer of 1989 and I ended up on this greek Island and I met this girl named Anna and I completly fell in love with her and I think vice versa.. which was a dumb thing to do in the middle of the summer on a greek island cause the girls from Australia and your from California..and the last thing, you should have is a fling, you know that the last thing you need to do is fall in love with a girl from Australia cause you don't have years you have weeks. You know and everyone goes home, and we were kids and plane tickets were to expensive. You can't change these things you know. And it was just really difficult you know because no one really wants to cop to how important they feel about it because it's a it's a hole your gonna fall into. So the song is really about denial, the characters in the song keep saying to each other "No, you know I'm not ready for this sort of thing" 'till the very end when it's too late. When they realize they weren't ready for the loss. "... And it's a terrible thing to find out because it's too late, which is what it ended up being at that point and... it's funny she's married now and she's got a kid and she still lives in Sydney. I still talk to her every once in a while, not too much but, and whenever I talk to her she says that she still loves this song, and I do too... and this is Anna Begins..." |
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| Rivers Cuomo – Longtime Sunshine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Some people believe this song is part of Weezer's unreleased space opera Songs from the Black Hole. This song is Rivers just saying that he misses his simple life, and that he doesn't really enjoy being a rockstar. I love the last stanza: 'Sometimes I wanna get in a car Close my eyes and drive real fast Keep on going 'till I get some place Where I can truly rest" I posted this on facebook, and people thought it was suicidal, but I don't think that. To me it sounds like he doesn't care where he goes he just wants to be left alone. That fits in with the way that Rivers usually thinks. He doesn't want to be famous; he wants to be alone, and happy. |
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| Lazlo Bane – Overkill Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Overkill" was originally performed by Men at Work whose frontman is Colin Hay, who rerecorded this song acoustically as a solo artist, and then Lazlo Bane covered this song. Now that's settled. I believe that JustLooking had it right as far as the meaning. It's about keeping yourself awake with thoughts that shouldn't bother you. Personally I believe all the versions are good. |
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| Lazlo Bane – Sleep Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about death, I'm pretty sure. I love the sound of the bells. I like the soft, happy sound they make against the sad, morbid lyrics. I really like the imagery Lazlo Bane uses. | |
| Cage the Elephant – Right Before My Eyes (Timber Me Shivers) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm not sure if if it is "vein" or "vain" If its name we take in vein then it definitely lends itself to drug use, and I lean towards "vein" though. Gotta love the English language. I really love this song. |
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| Counting Crows – Round Here (Live in Paris '94) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Personally my favorite version of the song. The additional lyrics, and the emotion really add something to the song. | |
| Ben Folds Five – Cigarette Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| In th University A Capella documentary Ben says that the lyrics were just a single run on sentance. I found that comically. The personcwho said it was about his wife's brain hemorage is correct, it wasn't lung cancer. | |
| The Newtones – Evaporated (Ben Folds Five cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song made it onto Ben Folds' "Univeristy A Capella" album. One of the best covers on the album. This is a great a capella group especially considering this is a high school group. | |
| Regina Spektor – Silly Eye Color Generalizations Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I like this song so much. Would green eyes fall into the "earthly eyes"? Green eyes are the best. Mine are green with gold flecks. | |
| Ben Folds – Belinda Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Ben Folds said this song was about an older rockstar who wrote a song about his ex, and he's performed this song year after year. He's gotten really sick of this song, but he can't stop performing it. If he did he'd be a "one hit wonder with no hit." While the fans sing the chorus for him, he's sing these sarcastic lyrics in his head. This song is part of the "Foldsby Project" The lyrics were written by the novelist Nick Hornby, and performed by Ben Folds. |
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| Ben Folds Five – Evaporated Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is my favorite song on Whatever and Ever Amen, and one of my favorite songs ever written. Blind man at a canyon's edge Of a panoramic scene Or maybe I'm a kite that's flying high and random Dangling a string Or slumped over in a vacant room Head on a stranger's knee I'm sure back home they think I've lost my mind I love the emotion of the final verse. It gives me chills. p.s. I also noticed this is the first lyric submitted on this website. |
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| Counting Crows – Jumping Jesus (Sordid Humor cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I believe it should be "Odessa in desert he lives with his wife and child" not life and child. Also I think it should be "big picture frames and Van Gogh's" not "vangoes" I love this song by the way. |
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| The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think the story is of a woman's battle with breast cancer and her eventual death. | |
| Ben Folds – Levi Johnston's Blues Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yes, I posted the lyrics for Picture WIndow. Since Nick Hornby is more of an author than songwriter, and the song is performed by Ben Folds I think its okay for it to be posted as Ben Folds. | |
| Ben Folds – Levi Johnston's Blues Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is pretty self-explanitory. I find the lyrics funny, and the music sounds very good.The lyrics weren't written by Mr. Folds, they were written by Nick Hornby. | |
| Colin Hay – I Don't Know Why Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is a great song, I've only heard the live, acapella version, but its fantastic. Anyway on to the meaning: Its about a guy who's girlfriend/wife left him (died?). At first he can barely keep himself together "Only if I try Can I feel the earth beneath me And as days go by I come alive" He trying to "come alive" again, but he is having trouble. "The fall of your hair the feel of your skin and The smile on your face as you took me in Now I lie and stare at the sky, still I wonder why I don't know why You said that you'd release me No matter how I try I still feel you" He wants to get over her, but he can't stop thinking about her. "I sat in disbelief..." That stanza is about how he realizes how "obsessed" with her he really was, and is determined to pull himself together. The rest of the song is pretty much him coming to terms that he will never get over her, but he won't cry anymore. He will never forget, and never say goodbye This is my first analysis of a song, so I'm not sure how right I am. |
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| Ben Folds – Fred Jones Pt. 2 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is my favorite Ben Folds song, and probably one of my favorite songs ever. I agree with the fact that Mr. Jones realizes he has wasted his life. This song motivates me because I want to never end up like Fred Jones. | |
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