| Boards of Canada – Olson Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This reminds me of being a kid in Boulder Colorado | |
| Owl City – Super Honeymoon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love that this song talks about Denver, and even calls it glamorous lol I live here, so I think it's cute that he thought of it and the millionaire-girl that way :) |
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| Boards of Canada – The Devil Is in the Details Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Creepy .......ass...........shit. I'm never listening to this song... | |
| The Knife – We Share Our Mother's Health Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song to me is a commentary on the economic issues Scandinavia is headed for in the coming century. Statistics on GDP show that the welfare state structure that the Scandinavians have always used ("we share our mothers' health"/ "red wine, food for free, a possibility") has caused poor job mobility, retarded population growth, and exhausted wage brackets which will stagnate their GDPs and possibly cause unrest as in Iceland ("you know what I fear, the end is always near!"). Countries such as Ireland and England will surpass them economically within 100 years. I think Karin and Olof are kinda scared about what will happen in their home country of Sweden, as well as with the other Scandinavian people in their respective countries. |
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| The Knife – The Captain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is just a comment on the resource crisis (particularly clean water issues) rhR the world is going to be facing in about a century. They are basically saying in this song that those countries that have the ability to fight for it and act the most smug and have the most power will end up with the resources. "We have all this water" "We turn the other cheek and we win" "Coming home after a long long war, coming home after a dozen other wars" |
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| The Knife – Still Light Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I just get the feeling of long Scandinavian winters where it's just twilight all the time. I think that's all I'll say was the point of this song for now: to convey that feeling. (instead of pinpointing a specific situation.) Giving us the feeling of what a Scandinavian winter is like is perhaps all The Knife wanted to do with this, seeing as the title is Still Light. |
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| The Knife – She's Having a Baby Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I just hear a sad situation in which a dad isn't told about his daughter's pregnancy. I would be pretty confused and bummed too, just like the voice! |
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| The Knife – Forest Families Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I really like this song. From first hearing it I thought it was about some situation where a family that lived in the city at one point is embarrassed by accusations against their daughter being a Communist so they move out into the rural communities where the daughter feels oppressed. "I had to wear a mask", "You shouldn't show you can read" The line "we came to breathe clean air" sounds to me like their parents line they feed to the other people in the community when they ask why the family has come to live here. "Music tonight. I just want your music tonight" just says to me that the speaker, the girl, is just wanting something beautiful, not creepy or rural or boring or totalitarian. The thing I love about this song is that there seems to me to be something creepy going on in the village among the women. "What the mothers did, I didn't know." "Nature left a safe oasis, and the mothers walked toward the forest"....it seems like they're up to something occult leading into "music tonight" this time referring to some esoteric meeting among the women with music involved that the girl heard and it ends with that. Ultimately, I wonder if the family went into the mountain town to hide their daughter and themselves from embarrassment, to begin being involved with the occult, or both. |
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| The Knife – The Cop Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| this track grosses me out! I always skip past it haha | |
| The Knife – One for You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song, I think, is speaking about a death and someone consoling the mourner as mentioned here a few times already. I think it's sad though since I think the comforter is saying that as many times as "we" (the people consoling) try to comfort you don't believe what we say about a heaven or a God because we're just trying to make it easy and you'll hurt yourself more by trying to trick yourself into believing that there's some hope of further life for whoever died. "If we say there is something above the mountains if we say that there is something we can't see promise you will never believe me cause I guess I'm just trying to make it easy" This song kinda depresses me since that line completely goes against my personal views on death and a higher power, but I can see the reason for the lyric. |
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| The Knife – Girls' Night Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I can actually see the pagan feeling that someone else mentioned on here, moonlight and all. Maybe that's hearkening back to the idea of a witch's coven when they would gather in the moonlight ("and we laughed at the moonlight"). Could also be referring to the heathenesque/pagan idea of releasing all inhibitions and self-control to have fun at night. I mainly think of this as a night gone wrong. The beginning part reminds me of an ambulance or emergency siren of some type. The lyrics sound like the description of one of the "girls" to an emergency responder of what happened as she is in panic over one of her friends' injury of some sort. People panic and don't speak clearly, but you can' make out what they're trying to say: "We were looking for a room we were looking for a hotel we were in between we were a few chosen somewhere to fit in something that's fitting after one day it started itching and we rubbed until it was bleeding " etc. I like the line "we were a few chosen". I hang out with teenage girls and they do think they're somehow "chosen" or something really elite and special. I also really like "somewhere to fit in". It gives the slight anxious feeling in the song that maybe not all of the girls or any of them wanted to be doing what they were doing (getting STDs etc.) but they just wanted to fit in. It's the unspoken mantra of every teenager. Add that with the voices in the background chanting (out...night out....)and it's buckets of peer pressure! |
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| The Knife – Pass This On Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think these lyrics are really interesting in that they're not as "occult" as other lyrics by The Knife. I actually saw the video of this song the first time I heard it, so I'm biased in thinking that maybe this song is sung/said by a guy who is into cross dressing or some alternative culture or lifestyle ("does he know what I do?") who likes his friend's brother. He's written some note or something for her to give to the brother because he's embarrassed ("pass this on") and he doesn't want to seem creepy or too straight forward ("Is he willing?", "I wasn't looking for more than just some company on the dance floor"). The age part could just be that this sister and {we'll just say gay} friend are older and this brother is younger. Something VERY interesting about this song is that Karin sings it. In the video a transvestite sings it BUT according to the lyrics, it seems as if Karin is still singing it: Olof and the transvestite are dancing ("and when you two danced, oh what a dance") hence they are the brother and sister while Karin is the girl watching and falling in love. We see Karin at the very end staring dead on at Olof and the transvestite...which brings up tons of ideas of incest haha I think The Knife are just being their highly creative selves by setting up the video that way though, I don't think there's anything going on :) |
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