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| Laura Marling – Alpha Shallows Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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john darnielle's alpha couple songs? "alpha negative," "alpha rats nest," etc. that's what i though of. beautiful anyway. i think the twist she puts on the last lines is lovely - even if the official lyrics are "basic light," there's a nice light/lies/life ambiguity there. |
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| John K. Samson – Petition Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Petitions: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/rivertonrifle/ , http://www.petitiononline.com/TheRifle/petition.html
Whenever I think there's nothing I could like more about John K. Samson's music, he goes and does something like this. |
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| Babyshambles – Black Boy Lane Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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i always took it as about prostitution? they wrote "dilly boys" so it's not totally implausible. it does sort of work: you don't wanna go back, there's gotta be another way, you need drugs desperately but you can't figure out how to get them, then some guy calls and says "are you dancing today?" ie, are you working. "the bed you have made is the bed in which you must lay" works too, both literally and metaphorically. it's definitely about doing something you don't want to do for drugs.
it's pretty bleak, anyway. the hopeful outro makes it even sadder. |
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| Hunters & Collectors – Talking To A Stranger Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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it should be "s'amuser" not "j'amuser." it's from baudelaire: "souvent pour s'amuser les hommes d'equipage / prennent des albatros..." = "often, to entertain themselves, the men of the crew / catch albatrosses..." |
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