| Okkervil River – Your Past Life as a Blast Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I feel like its a past love song, how he put so much emphasis on their relationship . . . At first it comes off as a love song but as it progresses he admits things going slightly wrong (like baby someday when we differ) and by the end he looks at how he thinks she feels (I'll tell them how I really miss him) and he says how he feels (How I really loved her). But the reason they broke up, she didn't like his brother and he couldn't handle the fact that she tried to turn him against his brother (no one, no one is gonna make me stop loving my brother, not even my brother) so he won't try to work it out. | |
| Okkervil River – Hanging From a Hit Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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In the first stanza he goes to a bar, and just lets what happen happens (What this night wants its what it gets). They go outside to smoke (Lit by cigarettes) and he tries to convince himself that its enough to just kiss her (Tonight was wild enough to order up and toss across my lips). They continue talking and she ends up spending the night with him - they have sex (she spends the night and I can hear her sighing). But when its over and she tries to roll over and go to sleep he asks about her husband - its a desperate move but he wants her to tell him that he treats her horribly and that what he did wasn't really that big of a deal. The second stanza she tells him that she plays the roll of the perfect housewife very well (I smile polite,and I tip and tithe,and I see the sights with a well-trained eye) but she's faking it because when she isn't with him she gets to be herself (I'm too much mine without him). She tells him that she loves her husband and that he takes care of her - she's (losing time without him) meaning that she isn't doing anything productive alone. Theres conflict between how she feels because she isn't sure if she loves him or loves the lifestyle - she feels like the relationship is destroying the part of her that is truly her. |
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| Okkervil River – It Ends with a Fall Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Wish I could remember why it mattered to me. It doesn’t matter to me. It doesn’t matter to me anymore. Now that you’re feeling fine, (The narrator is trying to convince himself that he is ok with being rejected by telling himself that it doesn't matter to him anymore, because as long as she's "Feeling fine" he is happy for her ) I’ll admit that — though I know it’s coming down, and see it shattering me - it doesn’t matter to me, and I’m not sadder for seeing it come. I’m not going to run. I will just come when I am called. (He's admitting to her that though everything that he was hoping for between them is ending, and that he was hurt by the entire situation that, once again, he is happy for her as long as she is happy, but when whatever relationship she's gotten into rather than with him ends horribly, he'll come when she needs him to be there for her) You want to cut me off because I took too much, but don’t leave me alone Take off your scarves, your winter coat. The night’s too cold. (He's saying that he wants to be at least friends, that he can't handle being "cut off" completely and that he still needs her in his life. In the last three lines however there is still hope - this is where I feel it loses the idea of it being his roommate because she's trying to leave and he's trying to convince her that its too cold outside for her to go and that its best if she stays with him.) When we met I should have said you’re like a sister to me, how all that kiss her just seem like puny suitors I can see through, how none will do, no not for you, how it might as well just be us two. (This part he is saying that when he met her he should have convinced himself that they were too close for a relationship, that way he could escape all the pain he's going through now. There are no real "puny suitors" its a metaphor for how empty any attempt at a relationship would be because he feels that nothing he can do for her will ever be enough for her and that it might as well just be them as friends - nothing more complicated added.) And when I pulled you by the jacket from the clattering street, you started flattering me, you started saying I was so strong. String me along, but I can’t become all that I’m called. (He's remembering how when he first started flirting with her that she flirted back and now he's looking at it as her stringing him along to keep him around - now he's starting to see the downside of just being friends and he feels like he can't even live up to be a good enough friend for her) And I can’t claim to know what makes love die or grow, but I can still take control and so refuse to just go home, back down the hall. (Now he's trying to convince himself that the relationship can still take a turn for the better, and that he doesn't know what it will take to make her love him but whatever it takes he can and will do to get her to stay with him and "refuse to just go home") And as I crawl, as finally all the false confetti blooms up in this attic room, I’m going make my stand. I want to see both of your hands put down the phone. (This part is a bit hazy to me, he's kind of battling himself through out the song back and forth and as he just decided he would do what it takes to win her over, he feels like he's already lost. He's crawling away - as he watches whatever happiness he had when he thought he could have her fell to the ground. He's accusing her of doing all of this, and he's starting an argument "I'm going to make my stand".) I won’t let you go, although the moment stole my self-control from us all and now it can only end end with a fall. (He is once again refusing to let go of her - even though he lost control when they fought over what kind of relationship they wanted to have between them. The end is ironic he's talking about how its ending with a fall - as in their relationship is falling apart because he fell in love with her.) |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Everything Must Go Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I feel that the lines about quoteing the good book are talking about hipocricy she only quotes the bible when it fits her beliefs, when its convienent to her but when she's going against it, (i.e. talking sh*t "tangled tongue") she never menitons the good book |
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| Shearwater – St. Mary's Walk Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think the songs about the awkwardness of a first love . . . | |
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