| Animal Collective – Crimson Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I hear "Put your pamphlet in the open". Not sure I can make much more meaning out of that but that sounds a little more likely to me than "But you backflip in the open" | |
| The Dodos – Acorn Factory Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Agreed, it's most definitely "but your kid I am not" | |
| The Dodos – Company Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Instead of "To this full company", the correct lyrics are "We did this for the company", and in the first verse, instead of "Which cause amends" I think it's actually "Which cause lament" | |
| State Radio – Gunship Politico Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i now have read canarylite's take on the begging man.. and i totally get it now. the scene described in that verse i thought was jail escapees or criminals or something. so i guess it's actually depicting poor men, and keeping time with their spare change cups... got it. NOW i'm fairly confident of the meaning |
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| State Radio – Gunship Politico Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"One stands in defense in a broken sentence Ask[s] not to be shot" this is the beggar, i'm fairly positive. as for his "keeping time with his cup", i'm kind of blind-firing at the meaning.. but i'd say the literal translation there would be that he was just trying to show his willingness to have a chance at living out the consequences, rather than dying as an unnecessary alternative "his honor['s] in his chambers still washin' his hands You know he's been fiddlin in his room all day Just trying to wash all his conscience away..." this, i think, is indeed a sign of guilty conscience. added to that, i think there's deeper reference there. i read 'macbeth' this year in my high school english class. there was a point in which the wife of macbeth had done a lot of illegal and somewhat barbaric things so to gain wealth and power through macbeth's kingship. she was found near the end of the book washing her hands in her chambers. she states at one point that she was trying to wash the blood of the people she's caused the death of off of her hands. soon after, she killed herself, proving the strong guilt. i'm fairly confident of the meaning of the song through these interpretations, please someone reply if you have something to add/fix |
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