| Ugly Casanova – Cat Faces Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[roland:23632] Holy shit, you nailed it. Thank you for putting pen to page (so to speak) so I could read this. | |
| Bear vs. Shark – Kylie Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Not an interpretation, but an experience others might appreciate to read (I myself like reading these sorts of things). Note: I always heard the line "you were walking with the angles" as "you were walking with the haters". The same girl that introduced me to this band back in 2005/6 was the one who ended up breaking my heart 2 years later. I was absolutely enamored with this person and the blow was devastating. When that all fell apart I didn't have much to lean on and I developed some substance abuse problems. The first stanza of this song made me feel connected to it because I remembered feeling like I liked these drugs and drinking too much when I was a teenager. I also felt like since we had broken up I just kept recycling thoughts over and over in my head and it was making me feel rotten. Like the words in the song "with silent ears and silent hands" she didn't have much to say about the whole ordeal and seemed to move on immediately. She took a semester off school and I had a new found fear of women and had been secluded to my guy friends and substances. 6 months after we broke up -when she was supposed to be away- I was at this party weekend on the beach that everyone in our school goes to when I had a big moment. I was completely mashed on a bunch of things and was walking down the beach late at night headed to a party. I had hooked up with the friend who I was walking with earlier that night, the first person I'd hooked up with in half a year. We were walking down the beach and I through my hazy vision I saw my ex, on the beach, "walking with the haters". The hater was one of those record shop sorta guys who are super insecure and because of that insecurity liked to make fun of everyone I saw them walking and it was clear that they saw me before I saw them and when I noticed what was going on I burst out laughing, really I was laughing like a crazy person. I couldn't control it even when my friend tried to make me stop. All these different things had coalesced and there she was walking by after so much had changed and so much hadn't and .....you get the idea. Anyways, that line "saw you walking with the haters" literally happened and it was at such a dark and memorable point in my life. A point in my life where I learned a hell of a lot about myself and about the world. Just wanted to share on the off chance someone comes by and reads this and gets a little comfort out it if they are in a bad situation. Be safe out there. |
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| Japandroids – The Nights of Wine and Roses Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Awesome info. Thanks for adding! | |
| Japandroids – Fire's Highway Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I wonder if this could have anything to do with New Orleans and it's famed "House of the rising sun". It certainly is way south of Japandroids home and plenty of empty bottles and sweaty blues to be found there. And plenty of long nights too... | |
| Japandroids – The Nights of Wine and Roses Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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So I always thought this title was funny and then last night, by random circumstances I was researching the history of this building in the city where I live. Well I ended up down the Wikipedia wormhole and ended up on the Alcoholics Anonymous page (crazy how some topics are linked). Under the "in the media" there was a movie called "Days of Wine and Roses" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Wine_and_Roses_(film). The movie is apparently a well-respected film about a couple devastated by serious alcoholism. Given the similarities in titles between the film and the Japandroids song I thought alcoholism might be an underlying theme in all of these. At first glance the "Days of Wine and Roses" appear to be the good times before they succumbed to alcoholism. Japandriods seem to be yelling that "fuck it, lets do it while we can". Maybe hoping they don't get pulled in as well. Also, just by chance I saw their music video for "The House that Heaven Built" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVCtbfuDqw) . If you watch it the video from 3:00 to 3:04 you can see Brian King (guitar, vocals) reading a book called "Alcoholism and drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature". I think booze consumption seems to be something on their minds quite a lot. Anyways, just wanted to share those observations. |
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| Against Me! – Because of the Shame Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Wow. Thanks for the info man. I probably wouldn't have found that article. Definitely adds another layer to the tune. | |
| Against Me! – Bamboo Bones Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is so good and so powerful. I definitely find that in my 20s as you move into positions of leadership etc. and you want to change things you have to be your own support system. "...push back, push back, push back, with every word and every breath." | |
| Against Me! – Because of the Shame Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Does anyone know the story behind this song? I'm interested if Tom has revealed anything about it. I've had a relationship that was crazy intimate, but looking back on how things ended I find that the line "I'm not sure what I meant to you then so I'm not sure what I owe you now" really resonates with me. | |
| Against Me! – I Was a Teenage Anarchist Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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From watching some interviews with Tom about this new record and the way AM! has gone in the past few years I think he is saying "fuck you" to his *former* friends and *former* fans because he felt that he was ostracized for insignificant reasons. Here is one of the interviews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPiRukpWybI Tom talks about people he has known for years and "Now they won't even say hi to me in a public place...because my band is on a major label." "If that's what punk rock meant, than I don't want any part of it." I couldn't agree more about that statement or those in the song. When "punk" kids (or whatever 'scene') view the world through a binary ideological lens than they become no different than those who contribute to the mainstream polarization of the two parties. It likely was a business related decision to sign to a major label, but what I think most "punk" kids don't understand is how complicated life starts getting out of highschool, especially 4 years out. You want to play music for a living and have a family, and be able to go to the dentist, and send your kid to college, or travel. You don't want to be 30 and trying to impress angsty teens about how legit you are. The lyrics "it was a mob mentality" hit the nail on the head. There is no room for individuality in ideologically driven groups (e.g. anarchists) when the principles of the ideology are so limiting that they cannot allow the synthesis of other viewpoints. More power to him (and the rest of the band) for growing up and having the strength to follow their own identities. And I dig the sound of the album too. |
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| The Everybodyfields – Aeroplane Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So I was in a band that covered a few Everybodyfields songs and I talked with Sam at a show in Ashville, NC about this song. To me, it was one of the saddest songs about suicide I had ever head and when I asked him about the dark theme of the song he responded "yeah, I was going through a real rough period in my life then" and to me the rest of his explanation seemed to be a general embodiment of introspective, suicidal depression. The beginning of the song has the air of smallness one feels in a great depression (e.g. "time will forget your name") and that if death is to come, hopefully it will be quit (e.g. the best you can hope for is to go in your sleep). The line "can you take me to the stairs" seems to bring to mind an older gent have a heart attack or becoming short of breath, while the lines "what were you thinking and were you just tired" seem to reflect introspective suicidal bedroom scene of the adolescent. Lastly, the lines "downtown, I'll see you downtown" brings to mind feelings of self-loathing or self-doubt that you know are always with you, but seem to manifest themselves when you are out drinking in a social scene. At least, to me it seems like the "downtown" line is an acknowledgement of the inevitable oncoming of those feelings when you are out on the town and supposed to be sociable. That is to say, the "what hold me up" that "burn[s] me in the turnaround" are those feeling of doubt that actually make the person seem cynical and narcissistic, something we have all seen in someone else before. This behavior seems to support you, but it is also what screws you over. That having been said, any bad event can bring about the large oncoming of these feelings you would rather not deal with on a daily basis. Whether or not I am correct about my interpretation about various faces of death, or the different images of types of death there seem to be from my own feeling of the song and talking with Sam It seems it does delve into suicide as the general theme of the song. Very powerful. Will never forget it. |
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