| The 1975 – Robbers Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| the lyrics should be "you look so cool." matt said this song was inspired by the film "true romance," and the movie ends with one of the two main characters saying "you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool" | |
| Ben Howard – Esmerelda Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| "before my blackened wing covered you" probably makes more sense | |
| Great Lake Swimmers – There Is a Light Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I'm surprised no one's commented on this before... I think it's sort of straightforward, he's fighting with his lover. She keeps sort of starting fights, probably has trust issues and such, and he's telling her just to stop fighting, listen to yourself, yada yada. I really like this song, anyway, it's lovely. | |
| The Decemberists – Don't Carry It All Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That was beautifully said, and it's exactly what I thought. I couldn't have possibly phrased it as nicely as you have, though. :) | |
| The Decemberists – Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Was I the only one who thought "Cold Mountain" immediately ? The stories are very similar. Love the Decemberists by the way :) | |
| The Decemberists – The Day I Knew You'd Not Come Back Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| where do you get this song? | |
| The Decemberists – After the Bombs Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| yeah, it's "calm" and "portends." it's on their site. luv the decemberists! | |
| The Decemberists – Sons and Daughters Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| what a nice album. | |
| The Decemberists – Summersong Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| exactly! | |
| The Decemberists – Summersong Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| meaning it's awesome, not that its meaning is describing one | |
| The Decemberists – Summersong Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| this song, i think, IS an orgasm | |
| The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime #2 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| yeah this totally reminds me of an ocean's eleven type deal... thing... bond-esque. mission impossible. sorry its like 4 in the morning... | |
| The Decemberists – O Valencia! Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm thinking: DEFINITELY Romeo & Juliet MAYBE West Side Story, there are many aspects that fit that MAYBE the R&J with Leonardo DiCaprio? Anybody see that? Where it takes place in modern day but with the Shakespearean dialogue? |
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| The Decemberists – The Island: Come and See; The Landlord's Daughter; You'll Not Feel the Drowning Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think this whole song is a Colin mix of the Tempest, the Crane Wife story, and the Highwayman, not a direct interpretation of any of the three. | |
| The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 3 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Colin's voice is so beautiful in this :) | |
| The Decemberists – Days of Elaine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I kind of thought that it was a mother talking to her son, too, only she's Elaine, and she's saying how when she was with this man she was herself, and never was after he left. She just drank and such, and fantasized about Alain Delon (a French actor) and her lover that she had in the "Days of Elaine." The chorus sort of could relate to a car crash, where she slammed on the brakes and turned off her brights (she laid on the brakes and she dulled the glow) and it seems like it's in slow motion (doesn't it go so slow?). The "build it up to tear it down," may refer to her driving drunk purposely, a suicide, just waiting for a crash. I dunno, that's what I thought. And 2 comments? Come on. | |
| The Decemberists – The Bagman's Gambit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I feel like this is connected to Valerie Plame, but instead of fantasizing about having a relationship with her like the narrator of that song, this one had a relationship, but it was sad. You see what I mean, how the stories are similar? | |
| The Decemberists – From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| nice vocabulary! | |
| Tarkio – Caroline Avenue Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is sort of confusing... I'm feeling that this guy has very mixed feelings of this girl. Maybe he's saying he's going down the road of his relationship with this girl, Caroline, and he's not liking it so much. Maybe it's a first date. | |
| Morrissey – I've Changed My Plea To Guilty Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Okay, I am a strong supporter of the "original is always best" theory, and I stand by it. But that doesn't mean Colin's isn't very good as well. So there. Comprimise. | |
| Colin Meloy – Barbara Allen Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Well, it looks like she sort of feels remorse for not helping him for such a silly little thing? Now she's going to die for him? I dunno, I'm bad at this. | |
| The Decemberists – Dracula's Daughter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love Colin | |
| The Decemberists – Raincoat Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| my name is caroline and i used to be just like this... I <3 decemberists! | |
| The Decemberists – I'm Sticking with You (Velvet Underground cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I believe it should be soldiers fighting *with* the Cong | |
| Lady GaGa – Bad Romance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm sort of confused by the music video. The video and lyrics don't match up... at all. The video is about sex slavery if you're paying attention, but Lady GaGa said the song is about falling in love with your best friend... hmmmmm | |
| The Decemberists – Sunshine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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On the lawn before the bouquet fell Long before we hear the ringing bell talking about a wedding, i'd presume When all I want is a good look at your underside a sexual comment Reading trash like it was Judy Blume Your paperbacks are strewn about the room Awaiting their instructions to be mobilized the person likes crappy books And everybody knows how it shakes and how it glows Everybody knows and so it goes That everybody wants their shoes in the sunshine now ? Lazy Rayna had a million bucks Changed into pennies on a hundred trucks Because linen�s legal tender for a layabout Why hold your breath until your face turns blue? A stretch of rope, you know, can do that too The truth be told, no one likes a gadabout talking about a trucker's killing a prostitute? and also about how she doesn't know what she wants to be And everybody knows how it shakes and how it glows Everybody knows and so it goes That everybody wants their shoes in the sunshine now Everybody wants their shoes in the sunshine now ? not sure what any of these things have to do with eachother. good song though. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think it's climb like she's looking up at something and was killed/died before she saw it | |
| The Decemberists – Grace Cathedral Hill Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i thought the same thing... exactly how i feel | |
| The Decemberists – The Bachelor and the Bride Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| and about the baby and the barren, i agree with pegtalay and yahtzee | |
| The Decemberists – The Bachelor and the Bride Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i think that its called the BACHELOR and the BRIDE because she's married, and he's not, and he wants her, and maybe they had a fling because she thought she wanted it, but she didn't, but he did, and when she says no, he beats and rapes her. you get all that? | |
| The Decemberists – Cocoon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"the tainted election" election day-- november??? sorry i wrote a lot of comments |
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| The Decemberists – Cocoon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I have to add this to my "Decemberists--Falling Asleep" playlist with Hazards 4... sad lyrics, sleepy song. | |
| The Decemberists – Cocoon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i like what personmanthinguy said. | |
| The Decemberists – Shanty for the Arethusa Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this is what i thought: We set to sail on a packet full of spice, rum and tea-leaves. We've emptied out all the bars and the bowery hotels. Tell your daughters do not walk the streets alone tonight Tell your daughters do not walk the streets alone tonight. meaning: we're pirates (sailors) that stole (traded) spice, rum and tea leaves. we just plundered all the bars and hotels here. now we're horny and finding some women to rape. To tell the tale of the jewess and the mandarin chinese boy He led her down from her gilded canopy of cloth. And through her blindfold she could make out the figures there before her And how the air was thick with incense, cardamom and myrrh. meaning: (in olden times, it was acceptable to call a sneaky and/or no-good-doer a jew or jewess, so) this sneaky bitch and this chinese guy worked at an opium joint, the bitch was sort of strip-dancing for us on this platform but the chinese dude gave her to us and we blindfolded her and drugged her with this smoke that smells like/was covered up by incense, cardomom (spice) & myrrh and raped her. So goodnight, boys, goodnight Say goodnight, boys, goodnight We set to sail on the clipper that's bound for South Australia The weather's warm there, the natives are dark and nubile. But if you listen, quiet, you can hear the footsteps on the cross-trees The ghosts of sailors passed, their spectral bodies clinging to the shrouds. So goodnight, boys, goodnight Say goodnight, boys, goodnight. that sneaky bitch had connections/turned us in to the police for raping her & stealing crap, so now we're sailing to prison in Australia (where Britain used to send their convicts). we're set to hang soon, and this has driven us mad with anticipation and now we see the ghosts that have been hung before us. |
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