| The Tallest Man on Earth – Little Brother Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Few mistakes in above lyrics, correct below with one unknown sentence: --- Why are you thinking again little brother When you know there's a story for every wrong Well I won't be around in the morning Can only pray there's no harm in me moving on To the trials in your unknown Now there's a legion of wolves in the forest And what might have been lost it is there I know Where the crazy (old names loving ??) I'll feel useless when I have to face alone All the trials in my unknown If you could just walk on by With signs just flying around And if this storm was just emotion Of your kid just trying out If you could only lose these miles Now there's a terrible light on the shading Where you threw your insanity's sum upon Well I can see where the dark hits the summer I said I believe you forever but you said don't It's a trial for all that grows If you could just walk on by With signs just flying around And if this storm was just emotion Of your kid just trying out If you could only lose these miles Why are you drinking again little brother When your ramblings the hard part of loving you You say the creek and the fogs wanna drown you But there are deeper wells where we're going to There's no drowning this unknown If you could just walk on by With signs just flying around And if this storm was just emotion Of your kid just trying out If you could only lose these miles And when your memory's lost on a hillside And a wind takes you further and forward now And your world is a kite in the weather Gently tied to your hand that is pointing out There's a sky in this unknown If you could just walk on by With signs just flying around And if this storm was just emotion Of your kid just trying out If you could only lose these lies |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Not sure how people aren't getting this song, but anyway: The first three verses describe a 'dream' he had where he'd found this perfect girl and they had an amazing time together just walking around the streets. He awakes in the final verse expecting for it to have been wishful dreaming, but he "feels [her] warm and near" and he realises that this amazing love he is dreaming of is when that he has actually got. He kisses her with his "grateful tears" and can then only say "I love you". It's a very happy, grateful love song. |
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| The Antlers – Epilogue Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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You guys realise that the album isn't literally about a bone cancer patient and a careworker who fall in love, right? The entire thing is a big, well-executed, emotional metaphor about the cancerous relationship between an emotionally unstable woman, perhaps a Borderline Personality Disorder (the cancer patient), and the man who tries to love her unconditionally and look after her. In many of the songs on the album he talks about how she grows abusive to him as her sickness worsens. The cancer is metaphorical for her emotional problems, whatever they may be. As she grows more paranoid, crazy and emotional, she turns on him. That's why, in this song, he talks of them being "buried alive together" and "sleeping in the morgue". He talks about how "You've been gone for quite a while now" because their relationship has finished, this is the epilogue to it, but says that "my arms sometimes, they weight too much to lift" and "I think you buried me awake". he's saying that, when their relationship died, it took so much life out of him trying to look after her that a little piece of him died too. It's a beautiful album that hasn't yet got the plaudits it deserves, but in the future I have a feeling more and more will discover it until it becomes a classic. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Candy Says Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song reflects some of the nihilistic ideas of the Velvet Underground. "Candy says I hate the quiet places that cause the smallest taste of what will be." ie, she hates being alone and confused, not least because of an overwhelming fear of the nothingness of death. |
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| The Tallest Man on Earth – Tangle in This Trampled Wheat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Love this. Shivers when he says "I'm not leaving alone" the second time. :) | |
| Great Lake Swimmers – Concrete Heart Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Looking back on a beautiful, but short-lived, relationship. | |
| Noah and the Whale – My Door Is Always Open Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think you've got it basically. I think it's I'm the dust I'm the dirt I'm the flowers in the earth Time to leave oh |
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| Bob Dylan – Man of Constant Sorrow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"If I had known you'd treat me bad honey I never would have come." Love this song |
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| Band of Horses – Infinite Arms Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Pyner55 is right- this song is a man in his last moments, thinking over his entire life. The people he loved, his family and friends, and even more 'intense' thoughts like "others came before me, others to come" ...then, before he draws his last breath, his mind drifts to his final thought. Her. Well, I believe this song is about a romantic love anyway. It could be interpreted as something else. |
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| Band of Horses – No One's Gonna Love You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It seems pretty clear that this song is about him looking at a past girl that he loved, it didn't work, and now he's watching her relationship(s) past him fail. It's looking like a limb torn off Or altogether just taken apart We're reeling through an endless fall We are the ever-living ghost of what once was This first verse is talking about her new, and now failing, relationship with some other guy. He's watching her attempt to live her romantic life without him, and there is something of a bitter happiness that he's almost being proved right in his stubborn opinion, that nobody will be able to love her like he did. He does have moments of compassion of just wanting her to be happy though "But anything to make you smile...it is a better side of you to admire" "But someone, they should have warned you when things started splitting at the seams and now the whole thing's tumbling down..." again talking about her newer, failing relationship. "We are the ever-living ghost of what once was" - as her new attempts at relationships fail in front of his very eyes, the fact that they are both still around reminds them both of how things used to be constantly. The song is summed up succinctly with the title "No One's Gonna Love You", intentionally created to sound bitter and angry, whereas the actual song is bitter but not angry, more tragic. She will never be able to find someone who loves her as much as he does, and because of this, she will always feel like nobody loves her. He's happy that he is right, and that nobody is as good for her as he was, but is bitter that it could never go back to them. |
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| Band of Horses – Evening Kitchen Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Incredible song- it's fairly self-explanatory, a bitter song about a breakup where you feel as if your time has been wasted because the girl in question took a long time to 'figure something out' which meant she couldn't be with you- all the while allowing you to fall for her and seem as if she was falling for you too. | |
| The Tallest Man on Earth – A Lion's Heart Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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How this song doesn't have any comments yet is beyond me, it's brilliant. I can't detail an exact meaning but for me it conjures up memories of an ex-lover you still think about. From "in that day there's a moment when it all goes your away" - the beginning of something beautiful To "in that day there's a moment when it all goes away" - the end "Well he lives by that memory and falls from his mind" |
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| The King Blues – The streets are ours Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's "'61 Chicago", not 69, ie the race riots. | |
| The Tallest Man on Earth – The Drying of the Lawns Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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She said I cannot tell you why, she said I'm in a rush There are softer dreams for you to think about now love Things that you have seen this night that run by this river's flow I can use you if you're in the flame, I'm a growin' old And no this is not the summer dream she said It's just the drying of the lawns I want to leave out there Well I said I've sailed the frozen corners of the dark Atlantic Sea And I drifted on the waves and the mirage beneath And never have I felt such numb and pointless searchin' true As when I set my eyes on torched up lands of the mark of you And no this is not the summer dream she said It's just the drying of the lawns I'm going to leave out there She said you follow me like sheep that think this king could do some harm But I tell you boy I'm frightened still with a sister's heart I set my eyes upon the shore whenever you wake up I'm leavin' because you don't feel what you're dreamin' of And no this is not the summer dream she said It's just the drying of the lawns I'm going to leave out there But I will stand down in the hallway with no thought to leave the set Of a movie I will sure as hell not end just yet If evenings are for romance then this mornin' is for us It will never end and our last dream will leave this house And no this is not the summer dream I said It's just the drying of the lawns that want to leave us here Oh it's the drying of the lawns that want to leave us here |
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| The Fray – Ungodly Hour Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have a slightly different idea to this song; that this song is about a guy who has had his heartbroken by a girl he loved, but he moved on to a new relationship. However, this relationship is failing or going slow because he just can't get over, and move on from, the previous girl. "Don't talk, don't say a thing Cause your eyes they tell me more than your words" This is from the girl's perspective; she can see in his eyes that something is wrong. "Don't go, don't leave me now Cause they say the best way out is through" The guy talking; I don't want you to leave me, because I think the only way I'm going to move on from her is to be with you. Please don't leave. "And I am short on words knowing what's occurred She begins to leave because of me" She leaves, knowing that he can't give her his all. "Her bag is now much heavier I wish that I could carry her But this is our ungodly hour" She'll now have the baggage of their failed relationship. He wishes he could give her everything, but it's not the right time. That's what I'm taking from the song anyway :) |
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| Take That – Said It All Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about when you try your very hardest to save a relationship, to keep the one you love, but they still walk away. And you're trying to think of something to say, the greatest sentence in the world that will make your love turn around and fall right back to you. But you've said everything. There's nothing left to say, and you have to move on. | |
| The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Load the car and write the note Grab your bag and grab your coat Tell the ones that need to know We are headed north. This stanza is obviously to me about saying goodbye. About leaving town and 'heading north' to get away from the pain that has been felt there. Perhaps he is leaving without saying goodbye to the one who has hurt him, hence he would "write the note". "Tell the ones that need to know" - evidently, there are people there who he will miss, but he cannot stay. One foot in and one foot back But it don't pay to live like that The relationship he was in has never been a fully committed one. It seems as if he himself has never been able to give her everything, and he has always been cautious of opening himself up to her. He sees now that this is, tragically, not going to work. So I cut the ties and I jump the tracks For never to return. So he leaves, to stop him from hurting the girl any more. He loves her but knows that he must leave if he cannot stop putting "one foot in and one foot back". Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in Are you aware the shape I'm in? My hands they shake, my head it spins Oh Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in. To the present, and he's driven north and arrived at Brooklyn, where he wants the city to "take me in". He's not at all over the girl, though, and is visibly a shell of the man he used to be. "My hands they shake, my head it spins." He speaks this entire song from this point, standing in the place he has arrived after running away from broken love. When at first I learned to speak, I used all my words to fight, With him and her, and you and me, Oh but it's just a waste of time (it's such a waste of time) I don't think he is literally talking about the first time he learnt to speak. I think he is metaphorically referring to when he first built up the confidence with this girl to be himself and speak/think his mind. But he did those things too much, and decided that things weren't going to work, that they were a "waste of time". Something like that, anyway. That woman she's got eyes that shine, Like a pair of stolen polished dimes, She asked to dance, I said it's fine, I'll see you in the morning time. He's thinking back to the moment they first met, where he noticed her eyes. They danced, and slept together I assume from the "see you in the morning time" bit. Perhaps even the 'dance' is a metaphor for having sex, who knows. (Then the chorus again.) Three words that became hard to say I and Love and You. What you were then, I am today Look at the things I do. End of the relationship or thing they had. Why could he no longer say "I love you"? Perhaps he didn't mean it anymore, or perhaps he was so afraid of becoming vulnerable that he couldn't let her in by admitting it to himself. It's an ambiguous part of the song which makes it very relatable for anyone who has ever left somebody despite loving them dearly. "What you were then, I am today; look at the things I do" is a beautiful sentence about how love can make you want to change into anything your love wants you to be. Chorus again Dumbed down and numbed by time and age Your dreams they catch the world, the cage The highways sets the traveller's stage All exits look the same. Feeling emotionally numb, he continues driving down the endless roads looking for somewhere he can be happy away from his love having found that Brooklyn just doesn't make him forget. He's finding that nowhere is good enough, and nowhere can shake this love he has left out of his mind. Three words that became hard to say, I and Love and You. I and Love and You. I and Love and You. So he ends the song on the tragic reminder that he still loves her, but couldn't admit it for whatever reason. It's a truly sad song about situations that can force you to leave the love of your life, and it is also about those situations where you love somebody but either can't, or aren't allowed to, tell them how you feel. So, you leave. |
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