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| Discovery – Can You Discover? Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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A beautiful recreation of the Ra Ra Riot original "Can You Tell." Since the lyrics are essentially the same, this song seems to be a cheery plea for some attention from the girl that the singer is so desperately trying to reach out to. An original fantastic song with added synth and a groovier, dancier vibe that makes the song that much more happy and perhaps even, optimistic. |
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| Beirut – A Sunday Smile Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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For some reason (to me at least), this song's meaning is way different from what everyone else has chimed in with so far. The sad tone with which he sings this song, not sad per se but slow and dreary, and my association of sunday being a day on which someone were to depart makes me think this song is about his love leaving him because she has to. The days that are coming are the days that "he can not bear" His verses are a mixture of mourning and odes to what he and his lover have done in the time that they've been together. They've adventured to the point where they've "burnt to the ground" and have not necessarily exhausted their time together, but they've really tried and lived life to its potential. The narrator is also accepting of her departure as the "all I want is the best for our lives my dear" clearly notes. Their respective Sunday smiles represent their reminiscing of their pasts, but they are also saddened by what they will not have again. The "sunday mile" could be their walking to a train station or airport or some means of transportation for her departure. It's a beautiful song that can probably be interpreted much differently as the previous posts indicate, but ultimately, to me at least it brings a tear or two... |
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| Beirut – Guyamas Sonora Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think the wedding theory makes the most sense. The narrator is torn over a lost relationship and how she's now getting married to an irrelevant other. The "church stair" is probably a loose physical reference to her wedding day and the "wind in my hair" probably connotes him running away as far as possible from the wedding. Really, the way he sings it makes the song difficult to be an acceptance of his lost love and really transforms it to being a nostalgic remorse of what he could have had. |
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