| Billy Idol – Mony Mony Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| As counterintuitive as it may be given its speed and energy, this song's about heroin. It's not even particularly euphemistic, with the exception of referring to it as "she," which obviously permitted Tommy James to release the song. (He does sing "it's all mine" at a certain point, dispensing with the allusion to a woman altogether.) The less-than-subtle references to H are throughout the track-- "Shoot 'em down turn around," "you gotta toss and turn and feel all right," "shotgun dead and I'll come on home," "don't stop cookin'," etc. The background singers sing "ride the pony" throughout the song-- again, not the most subtle of references to banging heroin. Apparently they wrote the song while on meth, which may explain why the song is so energetic despite its soporific subject matter. | |
| Father John Misty – Nancy From Now On Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it's a guy who's drinking a lot and, at an aimless point in life, fixates on the idea that the grass is greener a few states south of where he's living. I think the "symbol" he's talking about is the thing that's easy to spot on everyone and speaks to who they are or where they are in life. For him, at least at the time because of heavy drinking, it's the stamp that the bar he's in (the "concentration camp") has put on his hand to indicate that his ID has been checked and he's allowed re-entry, something all bars do, at least in the U.S. Then again, the "symbol" may be the name Nancy which, as a somewhat antiquated term for a homosexual, which would fit in with his description of his alter ego Father John Misty (on TheVine's website) as a "homosexual... drifter." |
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| Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laika) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think the song's about one of the "lost cosmonauts" who purportedly attempted space flight before Yuri Gagarin's successful mission. Among the list of lost cosmonauts are at least three men named Aleksei/Aleksey. The "great adventure" is space flight, a highly covert and classified endeavor during the Cold War that would require Alex to hide his family members' identities (i.e., hiding their names and photos on any materials associated with him.) His name should have been Laika because, like the dog of the same name the Soviets sent into space, he's not expected to survive (he's a test pilot at a phase where the government knows that the chance of success is small). Also, his name may as well have been Laika, because the Soviet government made efforts to hide the existence of these failed attempts (and, therefore, the people who were launched into space.) The "neighborhood" in this case is his country. The part about catching tears in a cup may be an imagined desparate final act in one of the lost cosmonaut stories in which the U.S. Air Force reported in 1962 that a space cabin had been orbiting the earth since 1960 without any Soviet attempt to retreive it. (Obviously, if anyone was in the cabin, they would have died of dehydration.) I'm not certain about the last part, but I think it's an allusion to the failure of the mission (a crash) and the flashing lights of the rescue/emergency vehicles. | |
| Suicidal Tendencies – I Wasn't Meant To Feel This / Asleep At The Wheel Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I also noticed that a chunk of the lyrics/monologue at the beginning of the song are missing (the entire "I Wasn't Meant to Feel This" half of the song).... -------------- (What's he saying?) Yeah...just...a little...closer... (What's he doing?) It was, I know, by the corner... yeah Sitting in the darkness... yeah I didn't see it, but I know It tries to hide sometimes, but it can't fool me... no Because I have this thing, it's the way I see The way I see when my eyes are closed A kind-of perception of misconception It's really quite a, shall we say a... A really beautiful thing! There're just certain things that I've come to find in my communications have never existed Certain understandings that I've come to realize... yeah But I don't believe it... no Not for a second! It wasn't really truthful in the ways that a, that they a, that they a, they a... They're here right now... yeah I wasn't meant to feel this... I wasn't meant to feel this... I wasn't meant to feel this way -------------- |
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| Suicidal Tendencies – I Wasn't Meant To Feel This / Asleep At The Wheel Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I can't believe that no one has posted any thoughts on this song's lyrics. Help me out here, people. I've changed my mind about what this song is about at least five times since junior high school. | |
| Animal Collective – My Girls Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I was mistaken when I said that the lyrics I wrote above came from AC's official website. animalcollective.org *looks* very much like their official website, but after reading the "About" section, I now see that it isn't. (It's a good site, but I still believe the lyrics provided there are not entirely accurate.) And now I've spent too much time on what is ultimately something about which there will always be some disagreement. I leave it at this... |
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| Animal Collective – My Girls Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In the "About Us" section of that site: "This is not an official site by any means and there really isn’t an 'about us' as this site is single handedly made by one person, with the help of various web applications (zenPhoto, paFileDB, and WordPress) as well as web resources, this site is made all in order to combine and compose a single place where all Animal Collective information could be found–even before they release their full site–for both fans and anyone who happens to drop in. Simple description about me: A guy living in Southern California." |
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| LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I hear a conversation at a funeral between the husband and ex-boyfriend of the woman who passed away. (Exes who stay "close" after breaking up is a rarity, and although I've never experienced it, I have seen it.) Although the exes weren't meant for one another (despite being nostalgic about frequent arguments in her basement), they still recognized the "great" parts of one another that drew them together in the first place, even after moving on to new relationships with others. The ex-boyfriend has never met the husband, but they probably knew about one another to some degree from the woman's descriptions of each to the other. The ex-boyfriend says that he might otherwise talk in some substantantive way about the woman with her husband if they were in the positions of normal mutual acquaintences who expect to see one another again, but because the person who is the only link between them is now gone, this will be not only the first time they're meeting, but also the last. I'm probably reading way too much into it. |
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| Animal Collective – My Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Given that Taken By Trees' version is titled, "My Boys," I'm not sure it's the most reliable source for original song lyrics. | |
| Cunninlynguists – The Light (ft. Club Dub) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| While it's definitely a spiritual song, I think the overall message is about how money and its use as a means to enrich one in a superficial sense has replaced the inner riches that accompany living one's life in a positive way. I think allusions to God (the light) are only half the story, with references to drug dealing (shoveling snow) and other monetary pursuits equally important. | |
| Animal Collective – My Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I changed my mind about one line in the lyrics I offered below-- "I don't mean to seem like I care about material things, LIKE THEY'RE SOCIAL STATS." I.e., he doesn't want to get caught up in associating individual items one owns as increasing one's "life score," as it were. |
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| Animal Collective – My Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| You mean Dolby, right? I agree that adobe slabs doesn't really make that much sense, but it seems to me that singing about wanting a Dolby surround-sound speaker set for his kids would go against his sentiment earlier in the song about not caring about material things. Just a thought. | |
| Animal Collective – My Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think so. I figured out that I was wrong about at least one line of the lyrics that I believe is incorrect in the lyrics you wrote as well. "I don't mean to seem like I care about material things, LIKE THEY'RE SOCIAL STATS." This is the only way it makes sense (at least to me); he's taking about how people measure one another based on what they own. Taken By Trees didn't necessarily sing the correct lyrics; putting aside the fact that she isn't a native English speaker, she probably encountered the same situation as everyone else when she tried to track the lyrics down-- a variety of published versions and webpages filled with people trying to figure out which version is correct. |
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| The Notorious B.I.G. – One More Chance (Remix) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's definitely Coogi; one thing that always made me smile was the fact that he wore head-to-toe Coogi sweater tracksuits. There is no "Alan Coppet"-- he's saying "Island Carpet," the name of a carpet retail store in Brooklyn. A few other suggested changes: "Stop it, if you think they gonna make a PROFIT..." "Where you at, flippin' jobs, PAYIN' car notes?" "Right stroke, left stroke, WHAT'S the best stroke?" |
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| Animal Collective – My Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The following are the lyrics as provided on Animal Collective's website. Presumably this makes them the "official" source; the strange thing is, I am *convinced* that they, and other lyrics provided on the website, are inaccurate at places. In this song, for example, the lyrics from the website read: "I don't mean... [t]o seem like I care about material things, [l]ike our social status." To me, this doesn't make sense; one's social status is not a material thing, it's an abstraction. It may be (is likely?) the case that the band members have never reviewed what lyrics are posted on the website. Then again, maybe I'm just being a stubborn putz. Anyway, I still thought the website's lyrics should be posted. Isn't much that I feel I need a solid soul and the blood I bleed With a little girl, and by my spouse I only want a proper house There isn't much that I feel I need: a solid soul and the blood I bleed. But with a little girl, and by my spouse I only want a proper house I don't care for fancy things Or to take part in a pressured race. But to provide for them when they ask I will, with heart, on my father's grave On my father's grave I don't mean To seem like I care about material things, Like our social status, I just want Four walls and adobe slabs For my girls |
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| Animal Collective – My Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Because the lyrics posted for this song were so very different from what I was hearing when I first saw them, I decided to watch a few of the widely available live video recordings of AC performing it, such as this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRoHTimZKI) and this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb-8Z2TLCUo). The following lyrics are based on watching the singers' mouths and listening to the live versions. In light of Lennox's father's semi-recent death, the "on my father's grave" lyrics fit, and reflect a substantively different feeling than that of the lyrics as they're currently written. There isn't much that I feel I need A solid soul and the blood I bleed And with a little girl, and by my spouse I only want a proper house I don't care for fancy things Or to take part in a ????? ????? But to provide for the ones who ask I will, with heart, on my father's grave On my father's grave (On your father's grave) I don't mean to seem like I care about material things like they're social stats I just want four walls and adobe slats For my girls |
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| Līve – Hold Me Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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When I first heard the song, I thought it was a love song. Having read the lyrics, I'm not sure anymore. Since the lyrics are "[l]ying to you is a river of sin," and not lying to you *would be* a river of sin, it appears that he's lying to her. And he's lying when she's opening her heart to him. "Let them spew, a fall from grace would do us good today..." The fall from grace--the river of sin of his lies in pretending to share emotions together--would make both of them feel better today than the truth. He'll feign the emotion she needs ("we can love or cry"), and by declaring his love, he takes her up into a delusional happiness. They're "late" in different ways. For her, she's late in the pregnancy sense. For him, he's late in taking steps to prevent it. Now that they're going to have a baby together, they're "older," i.e., adults. And he's promising her the wedding that of the fairytale kind that some girls dream of when they're young. Which I think they still are age-wise. So I agree with the comment above that he's expressing his undying love to his partner. I just don't think he actually feels it. In my own defense, I'm happily in a relationship, and not in a post-breakup-there's-no-such-thing-as-love funk. I just think the music's upbeat lovesong feeling doesn't match the somewhat depressing lyrics. (Band of Horses' song "Funeral" is another example of this kind of intentional mismatch.) |
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