| The Format – Oceans Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it's more: Nate: "I don't believe in God/formal religion." Girl: "I do. Firmly." Nate: "Cool, I guess this is just difference we'll have to deal with." --a while later-- Girl: "I'm moving to California. I want to be an actress/singer/starlet and do the devious things they like to do out in LA." Nate: "I thought you were a Christian." Girl: "Lol fame is more fun." Nate: "You need to stand firmer to your beliefs, whatever they are. Leave." --later yet-- Nate: I miss her. |
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| fun. – Benson Hedges Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Also in Oceans, he mentions that California, where his ex-lover moved to, is "blue" (read: colored blue on election maps), enforcing the democrat/liberal leanings his songs have. Which is fine by me. | |
| fun. – Barlights Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love the Rebel Without a Cause reference (rich white kids fighting, the outsider kid wanting to take him on, the immortal young love mentality). More than that, I love how he finishes the Dean reference with the lyrics about his life and death. Hell, the song's about living life while young, Dean HAD to be included. | |
| Public Enemy – Fight the Power Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| True dat. I felt so bad for Sal, I was torn between feeling pity for him and pity for Buggin' Out. I mean, BO died, but Sal's dream died, and he was betrayed by Mookie and Jade. I mean, Sal was a good guy. He loved his customers and thier culture, just like he loved his own culture. He wasn't racist, if he were, he would have left Bed-Stuy. But Spike Lee probably meant for the audience to be a bit torn. He's a directing genius. | |
| Against Me! – Baby, I'm an Anarchist! Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| yeah, race, gender, class, etc. haven't been around forever. they've only been around since humans were evolved enough to move out of caves and settle into agrarian societies. some people got more power than others, whether by their personality or by job skills, i don't know. but the point is that class happens. as long as there are clothes, vocabulary and places to live, class will exist. you can say all you want that anarchy will break down boundaries, but it won't. guys will be more prone to fights, girls to feelings. excuse me for being blunt, but it's true. and, as for race, we have eyes, have we not? as long as we see people who look similar, be it redheads, asians, hispanics, or short people, we'll think of other people with those characteristics, however subconsciously. it'd be grand when we as a human race are civil enough and ethical enough to function without government, but we're not there, and, due to an innate need for stucture and control, we'll probably never be there. so whine all you want about our capitalistic society- i hate the greed and corruption as much as the next person, but know that, in crying out against the system, you won't fix human flaws. you can help people realize we need change, but, like a clock pendulum, change will swing back the other way. no one has the exact same goals, and this keeps the world interesting. | |
| fun. – Benson Hedges Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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not entirely sure, but nate is a democrat, and he's said in "oceans" that he doesn't believe in god, also in his line here "I don't care to be forgiven, i just want to be forgotten", so i feel this song may be directed towards christians and republicans "holy ghost, when will you come out to play"; "mr. o'reilly"- bill o'reilly of fox news. i believe he wants people to stop trying to save him or bring him to the straight and narrow, and that people should love us for who we are, not who we should be, as he says in the last stanzas: " Now I receive a call from my family and what they started to say brought me home. (you're beautiful) They think I'm beautiful (for all your big mistakes) They think I'm beautiful (you're beautiful) for all my big mistakes. " |
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| The Format – I'm Ready, I Am Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"and you should have seen the looks i just received." love that line, it sounds like he's on top of the world and not even someone's haughty looks can bring him down. great song, great band. fun is good, too, nate's new band. |
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| The Format – Oceans Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Say its blue, at least that's a plus" should be "THE STATE IS blue, at least that's a plus" as in, his girlfriend moved to california, a liberal state, a blue state, and got swept up in it and threw away her conservative ideals, thus "You traded in your cross For a chance to dance with stars Now nothing is sacred ". |
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| The Format – Give It Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i heard, i could be wrong, that the guy adam was a friend who was caught in an accident on a night out with friends... getting "something to eat" possibly? don't quote me on it, though. | |
| The Format – She Doesn't Get It Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| this is probably the meaning, and i definitely see the fake myspace culture thing, "all the girls pose the same for pictures, all the boys got the same girl's hair." | |
| The Format – The Lottery Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| criticism of american traditional sex roles, values? | |
| The Format – Dead End Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the girl in the song "oceans" went "somewhere in the sand", the girl here is going to the waves, where she tries to wash away his love. he is left with a broken heart, "there's a hole in my heart" and will sing about it later in "oceans", when he says "i'm sending you a note, on how i hope that you're happy, i hear you're somewhere in the sand, and i wish that i was an ocean, maybe then, i'd get to see you again". | |
| The Format – Dead End Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the girl in the song "oceans" went "somewhere in the sand", the girl here is going to the waves, where she tries to wash away his love. he is left with a broken heart, "there's a hole in my heart" and will sing about it later in "oceans", when he says "i'm sending you a note, on how i hope that you're happy, i hear you're somewhere in the sand, and i wish that i was an ocean, maybe then, i'd get to see you again". | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the gay elopement is the only thing that would make sense- why else would pitchers, catchers, and san francisco be in a song about lovers? | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There are lotions, there are potions You can take to hide your shame abortion devices. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| that lazy line painter would make complete sense, and she would be asleep when they call her that, thus she would wonder about her nickname. | |
| Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I am positive that the girl in Cape Cod, Ottoman, and Oxford Comma is the same. First, let me start off with the reoccurring line in Ottoman and Cap Cod- "Feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel", suggesting that the boy in the relationship felt odd being with a girl who was into things like Peter Gabriel, while he may have been more of the reggaeton kind of guy. Next, in both Ottoman and Oxford Comma, he mentions an elite class, British by the reference of "some parliamentary hall"- Ottoman, which is backed up in Oxford Comma by refrences of The UN, as well as "English dramas". There is also the reoccurance of paintings- OC: "Show your paintings at the United Nations", as well as in Ottoman: "Begging you to sit for a portrait on the wall/ To hang in the dark of some parliamentary hall", suggesting that the girl likes to make paintings, and shows them often in elegant circles. Which makes us think that she is wealthy, a fact that is backed up in all three songs: CC: "As a young girl, Louis Vuitton"; "And the linens you're sittin' on/Is your bed made?/Is your sweater on?"; "In the colors of Benetton", all of these quotes suggesting wealth- designer brands, strict rules, even the setting, Cape Cod. This theme is touched on in OC, as well: "Crack a smile, adjust my tie Know your boyfriend (first verse)/butler (second verse), unlike other guys", which implies that the girl has introduced him as both her butler and boyfriend, an insult to his class, and the fact that she would even have a butler suggest bourgeoisie. The fact that she knows what an Oxford Comma is suggests an upper class, elite education, too. Lastly, I'll look at Ottoman: "Elegant clothes, you want to be seen with her/Under your tweeds you sweat like a teenager"; "All of the cards and all of the time it took"; "There will be six bells a-ringing and white women singing for you". Tweed is, of course, a classy fabric, which would, again, suggest propriety. Then we've got the cards and time put into the occasion, which suggests that there was maybe a party planner, something that would imply affluence. Then the white women singing solely for her suggests that she is having a major function in her name, something much more extravagant than a backyard sweet sixteen, as the lower and middle class are more accustomed to. Hopefully I've convinced you that this is the same girl in all three songs, and now I will analyze the boy's relationship with her. He obviously was dating her "Know your boyfriend, unlike other guys"; "Crack a smile, adjust my tie"; "Why would you speak to me that way?"; "Through the pain/ I always tell the truth"- all from Oxford Comma. These are obvious statements that you would find related to a couple, the last two quotes being a couple that is fighting. In Cape Cod, we see the boy say "Do you want to fuck?/ Like you know I do"- an obvious sexual attraction to the girl, but he also says "This feels so unnatural" as well as "Can you stay up to see the dawn?"; "Is your bed made?/ Is your sweater on?"- these statements implying that he feels out of place with her class, and that he is ridiculing it- the tone of "is your sweater on" is motherly, and followed by "do you want to fuck", as it is in the song, would definitely suggest mockery. This cultural gap is reiterated in Oxford Comma with the "know your butler/ boyfriend" statement. So, obviously the boy feels out of place with his lover, who is a high society lady. That's really all I have to say on this matter, except that I love all three songs, as well as Vampire Weekend, and I think they're pretty much the gods of indie rock. |
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| Metric – Combat Baby Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| most definately this is what the song is about. like, in my mind, i see a group of people that would have really heated intelligent debates, both testing the limits of their minds, and one day, for whatever reason, the "combat baby" leaves, perplexing his ex-lover, who is lost pining the diversity he brought to her life, even if it wasn't the healthiest. | |
| Dispatch – The General Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I really like the general, and i personally believe it has to do with living your life, but also to do with subordinance. i mean, the men are essentially doing what the general says, and, while this is not the main theme of the song, it is an evident one. maybe its that you should do what makes you happy, and not to follow blindly, as the men had done before the general pardoned them and said "the men could go as they pleased" and, if you must follow a path, follow an honest one, such as that of the general, a man with a "heart of gold", a guy who will tell you when he's leading you wrong instead of cowering off and letting you head down the wrong path. it doesn't have to do with god or jesus, i don't think, but it does have to do with role models as well as powerful influences, such as generals or government officials. | |
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