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MGMT – 4th Dimensional Transition Lyrics 14 years ago
You're all missing the biggest point to make:
If MGMT has created something that has some sort of deeper meaning to someone else, should they be condemned? Personally, I think this song is about complete and absolute love that eventually fades and corrodes because of fear. Fear is an inky sort of acid that weighs everything down.

If they wrote this piece of beauty under the influence of drugs, then so be it. It still has meaning that I craft from that and because of that, I will not demonize it as something to be feared and hated.

Practice love and you will know all.

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Emily Jane White – Dark Undercoat Lyrics 15 years ago
We blind ourselves with these expectations and these assumptions that plague our daily lives. Sometimes, the truth is a soft and fragile light that we guard deep within ourselves until we allow another in.

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Mew – I Should Have Been A Tsin-Tsi (For You) Lyrics 15 years ago
In a way, it's almost a double meaning. You can't truly be a medicine for someone because that disrupts your ability to care for yourself. You can only help a person back on their feet and let them do the rest. If you do act as a "medicine", you're being a "fool" for the other person.

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Damien Rice – The Power Of Orange Knickers Lyrics 16 years ago
Petticoat.

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Bradley Hathaway – Look Up Lyrics 16 years ago
It's such a beautiful song. So quiet, calm, and full of introspection. It's a true "hindsight is 20/20" sort of song.

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See What I Wanna See – The Greatest Practical Joke Lyrics 16 years ago
These are the actual lyrics:

The greatest practical joke
Played on the common folk is God!
You want some mannegut?

The worst political prank
Played by the filing rank
Is Christ, Mohammed,
Buddah, Vishnu,
Joseph Smith and all his angels
To keep the poor in check.
The business offers daily masses
And threatens Hell and heck!

Look at the world
You think there's a God?
There isn't a God!
Not when you got all those criminal types
Like Henry Kissinger sneaking around
And pedaling nukes!

Look at the world! If there's a God
You'd think he'd do something
To stop all the war
And the crime and the crap
And he'd punish those son of a bitches
Who write all those stupid new TV shows!

Look at the world!
There can't be a God
Not when you got those crazy nuns
Like Mother Theresa
Who don't give those Indians rubbers
And so they have babies and babies
And everyone's crowded
And hungry and starving...
Of course, if Indian food was all I had to eat...
I wouldn't eat!

There's lots of blood you can spill
You got the right to kill for God
Eat up there's more lasagna.
You'll earn your saintly reward
Aiming your missiles toward
The heathen who do not believe in
All the crap that you believe in!
You were always a gullible dope
You keep playing dumb and baby, you'll be the Pope!

So watch your feet before you fall
For the greatest practical joke
Of all!

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Crystal Castles – Alice Practice Lyrics 16 years ago
This was originally a practice from Alice. She didn't know that a microphone was on and someone sent it to a record label that accepted them. They pretty much messed around with this one for shits and giggles.

FACE!

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Joanna Newsom – Sprout and the Bean Lyrics 16 years ago
Just a note:
In the song "Emily", Joanna sings the lyric:

"You came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in
Threw the window wide and cried, "Amen! Amen! Amen!"
The whole world stopped to hear you hollering
You looked down and saw now what was happening"

And

"In search of the midwife
Who could help me
Who could help me
Help me find my way back in
There are worries where I've been"

These, coupled with this song really support the abortion theory for me. In an interview, Joanna mentioned that 'Emily' was a "deeply biographical" song concerning her life and her relationship with her sister. It seems interesting that her "deeply biographical" song and this one both have very obvious lyrics pertaining to guilt, abortion, and worry.

Just wanted to share.

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