| Elbow – Great Expectations Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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First off a few of these lyrics are wrong. For instance, it's "stockport supporters club kindly supplied us a choir." and "your veil was your smile" not "your vow." Small things, but I'm picky. Still you got the idea. Look at the title of this song "Great Expectations." The character in this song amplified things, and what should have been a simple sweet sentiment of "I love you, I always will" was taken way too far. The "she" in this story told him this on a bus, and at that moment, the singer took it as absolute truth, and figured they were getting married and were going to be with each other forever. The relationship collapsed, but he still remembers that moment, and isn't letting go. You know, it's not that anyone wants to get married on a bus, and as with most Elbow lyrics, although this may have been inspired by personal experience (may have been) this is a story that he crafted, for the soul purpose of fitting the music and creating art. Beautiful song, probably one of my favorites of Elbow's. |
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| Genesis – Duchess Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Funny considering that they as a band completely sold out. Good song though. The only fault I have with it is that the end chorus thingermajig didn't have as much as an impact as I would have liked. It's certainly good, though. | |
| Damien Rice – Me, My Yoke and I Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Oh, and the entire structure of the song. The melody line is a constantly rising line that ends in a strong climax. Also, structurally, he keeps building the intensity until it climaxes, then it ends in a very calm post-orgasm state. Pretty cool, Damien. | |
| The Swell Season – Falling Slowly Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have a live DVD of them at the Artists Den in toronto, and on this song Hansard said this song is about arguing with your girlfriend the entire way to a party, and when your there, you look across the room and see a beautiful women that leaves you speechless and your instantly in love. Then you realize it's your girlfriend. Don't know if that's what I get from the song, but whatever. It's still amazing! |
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| Damien Rice – Me, My Yoke and I Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| So, just an observation, the song is based off a few chords in which a certain note he slides up an octave. Could the rising of this note be a reference to the tension inside a person as they reach an orgasm? Just a thought. | |
| Beck – Paper Tiger Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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You guys are right, the orchestra is fantastic, but listen to that bass! It's amazing! Especially the way it plays off everything else. Not much to say about the lyrics, but I must say, as a whole this song (and album) are fantastic! |
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| The Dear Hunter – He Said He Had a Story Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is sung by the Father, not the Dear Hunter, recalling his experiences with a whore at the dime. "What was your name?" Well, in all likelihood, it was a mystery, or rather, a Ms. Terri. ;-) Given The Dear Hunter's past, this gives him the proper motive to want to kill him, in addition to stealing his sons identity, to enter a new beautiful life. The boy and his innocence... | |
| Peter Gabriel – Signal To Noise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I kind of apply this song to the concept of Death that circles this album. I view it as people around him growing more cynical and the older he gets, thinking that either life wasn't worth it, that what's in front of us, all the bad, is all there is. And this kind of seems like the state where he's really starting to buy into that, into his fear of death, but he's trying to pull out of it. "And in that fuzzy picture, the writing stands out so clearly on the wall" resonates well with the lyrics in More Than This "with my head so full of fractured pictures, I'm more than right next to you." That clear picture is being covered up by the everything cynical around him. "Yet there's still something in my heart that can find a way to make a start" He has hope, and he's calling on everyone around him to help him. What makes this song so powerful is how much distress he's in. The orchestral end of the song represents his fear, death creeping in and getting louder and more clear, with few and little snippets hope that quickly vanish, until it all circles him, and then there's nothing. At least, that's how I see it. |
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| The Dear Hunter – Untitled Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think of it almost as being Ms. Leading's perspective in response to the phone call made by TDH. But I don't much care for this song. | |
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