| Frank Turner – Once We Were Anarchists Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| how can you call him a pussy? he has a whole lot more balls than you will ever have just for saying the truth about himself. he's probably been fighting his cause a lot longer than you have. you will probably end up being hypocritical when you get tired too. its human to get exhausted of fighting. | |
| Frank Turner – Nashville Tennessee Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think he is talking more about bands selling out to american record labels (based in nashville) more than he is talking about people that actually try and literally act american. I think some people miss that very basic point of the song. I don't think he likes the beatles... | |
| Circa Survive – Holding Someone's Hair Back Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| theres no question that the entire album was written about eternal sunshine of the spotles mind. Anthony's favorite movie. | |
| Manchester Orchestra – The Only One Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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As with most MO songs, i can not give a definite meaning for this song, but i will give my take on it. Andy is the son of a pastor, yet he still does ungodly things (and maybe he is losing faith). He is confused, and he thinks that maybe this makes him a bad person. But i think there is also a relationship involved. "but if it was you I don't think that it would matter." There is someone who truly accepts him no matter what he does. Also, in the last line of the first stanza "if it was true then I just wouldn't matter" i think he is saying that if his suspicions that there is no god are true than he doesn't matter(existentialism). the next stanza though does not have nice things to say about his dad. he always looked up to his dad: "i was amazed the colour and shapes you drew" but his sense of admiration to his dad turned out to be false: "a papercut for two." He calls his dad a bastard, but then says he still knows him, and maybe he still likes to hang around with his dad. WHen he says, "because it was you i called it a different story" i think he is saying that he couldn't admit that his dad did something wrong because he was his dad. the last line in this stanza is hard to grasp without knowing whatever his dad did or whatever made them to be on bad terms. "I bet you did what you did when you did it to do it again by the time you were done with it" i cant really understand this line. again i think it is talking about a specific incident. when he says, "I bet you did what you did when you did it just to tell every friend that you had that the lord did it" he is criticizing christianity(and his dad the pastor). He is saying that christians do good deeds just to try and prove that the lord is good, but really it is just the person doing, not the god. ((when i saw them live, he added "but the lord didnt do it" and then later he said "well f**k the lord")) "I finally knew that I simply couldn't matter" he is convinced that the lord cannot exist and therefore he doesnt matter (existentialism). and the passive power of the truth (of there not being a god) is something that his dad doesn't know and he asks his dad to just let him go and not try and convince him otherwise. In the end he says"if I could write another phrase we might be better off this way" reminds me of life of pi for those who have read it. The story with god is obviously the better story, but he just cannot believe it. |
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| Manchester Orchestra – I Can Feel a Hot One Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Having seen them in concert, i am gonna go ahead and say that Andy is no longer religious. At the end of the "i bet you did what you did when you did it to tell every one of your friends that the lord did it" line in "the only one", he said but the lord didnt do it. well eff the lord. | |
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