| Tom Waits – Day After Tomorrow Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| To the guy who said the Paul Appleby version is "better," I don't understand how you can say that when he leaves out the entire section about God, refused prayers and the desire to not die in war. It's the whole crux of the song and removing it completely changes the meaning. In other words, it ruins the song. | |
| They Might Be Giants – Damn Good Times Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Story I've heard is that it's about a girl "with keys and a token" and plays Dance Dance Revolution. She's a natural and even maintains a conversation on a cell phone while she does it. She chooses not to play the Karaoke game, because either she considers singing a "real" ability and dancing is just for fun, or she's anti-song for some reason, or she's just on her cell phone. Regardless she's inflexible on the issue of playing the karaoke game. Then she leaves, and everyone applauds. But I hate DDR so I kind of hope this isn't it. But it's always made too much sense for me not to think it's correct. |
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| They Might Be Giants – Aka Driver Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Because you can say the name, but putting a trademarked image or name on the album cover is a kind of "branding" and opens up the potential to trademark infringement. It's the same way Hootie and the Blowfish sued Best Buy in the South when they put their Cracked Rear View album cover on a promotional lunchbox in the mid 1990s. | |
| They Might Be Giants – Hovering Sombrero Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I've always assumed this song was about putting your life in perspective. When I was young and got upset I was told "is this going to matter in 5 years?" and the answer was almost always "no," and I'd stop worrying about it...eventually. The titular sombrero in the song seems to me to be the Sun. The lines: Time is flying like an arrow and the clock hands move so fast they make the wind blow and it makes the pages of the calendar go flying out the window one by one Till a hundred years are on the front lawn and the old familiar things are mostly all gone but the old sombrero just keeps hovering on hovering sombrero hover on jive with the thought of "things come and go, but the Sun is always there." The Sun may only do one thing, but it does it well and it does it all the time, and it will do it longer than we'll ever be here. "Don't be burdened by regrets Or make your failures an obsession Or become embittered or possessed By ruined hopes..." because one failing, or even many doesn't stop you from being important during your lifetime. The sun looks like a giant hovering sombrero, but it is much more. You may fail or be upset by a missed opportunity, but you're still much more. |
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