| The Gaslight Anthem – Stay Lucky Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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@jajgoodrich: Yea, it most likely is. I think U2 are a fairly big influence on them. I'm definitely hearing som Bono in Brian's voice, especially in 'We did it when we were young' |
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| Lucero – Bikeriders Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Here's the story it's based on: Last year my girlfriend called me up and she asked me to come down to Grand and Division. She needed some money. And she said it was a bar. She says that the guys are havin’ a meeting there. Well, I didn’t know the guys or anything, so I went there and I never felt so out of place in all my life. I walked in there and had white Levis on, I had a sweater on. And I looked and the first guy I seen was Corky, with an earring hanging out of his ear, his belly button showing, like half naked. To me it was like half naked, you know? And here he’s hootin’ and hollerin’ and he scared the livin’ shit out of me. So I sees my girlfriend and I goes over to her and I sits down there and I’m takin’ everything in. And all these guys kept comin’ up to me sayin’, you know, different stuff like you need a man, or you want to come live with me? And I was about ready to just run. So I says to my girlfriend, well, I gotta go. And she says, oh, they’re not that bad. Just sit here. So all of a sudden I seen Benny and he was standin’ at the end of the bar. And I says to my girlfriend, boy, who’s the good lookin’ blond guy? I says, he don’t look like the rest of these guys. She says, oh Kathy, you don’t want to go out with him. She says, because nobody wants to go out with him. So she ordered me a Coke and I sat there and was shootin’ the breeze with her, and all of a sudden Benny came up behind me and he started talkin’ to me. And I says, well, I gotta go home. So I walks out the front door real nice, bein’ grabbed about five times, so that when I got outside, I could see on my slacks were just hand prints all over me. So I’m standin’ on the bus corner, almost in tears, thinkin’, oh my God, something’s gonna happen to me yet. And they all come chargin’ out of the front door. They had Benny start up the bike and they grabbed me and they took my purse and they put me on Benny’s bike and they told him to take off. They’d meet him on the expressway. He takes off. He goes through the stoplights and everything, so that I wouldn’t jump off. And I wouldn’t have jumped off anyway ‘cause I was scared shitless. I never was on a motorcycle in all my life. So we went to the Green Duck out on River Road. But before we got there I’m sittin’ on the bike real nice. I figure, you know, at least he’ll get me home. All of a sudden he takes his hand, he puts it on my back like this. I said, whatta you doin’? He says, I’m just checkin’ so you don’t fall off. I says, OK, like an idiot you know? I thought he was really checkin’ it out. So the second time it happened, I says, don’t worry about me, I says, I won’t fall off. He says, okay, and he was real nice about it. Five weeks later I married him. I ain’t real sorry. The only thing is I thought I could change him, you know? Every woman thinks that she can change a guy. Not to her own ways, but to be different. Not to be different, but to be, I don’t know. Like he’s wild. I used to think he’d get over that. But he don’t. And he’s got a vicious temper. He’s got a temper that all you have to do is say two words and he’ll knock you on your rear end. And I ain’t used to that. And I ain’t gettin’ used to that, ‘cause like I told him, I don’t look good in black and blue. And I know the bleeding stops, but still, one of these days. I ain’t got that much blood left. Were you at the Spotlight when he got worked over that time? You shoulda seen him. His whole head was black and blue, his kidneys were kicked in. His back had scabs on it. He was bleedin’ all over the place. He just stood there. You know what the guys in the club said? Well, one thing we gotta say about Benny, he’s the only guy that stood on his feet from the clubroom all the way out to the street without fallin’ down. And there were guys hittin’ him with stools and blackjacks and everything else. That’s the only thing they say. When he got in trouble once before he put his fist through a window on Broadway and Belmont and the guys, well, he got into a fight and he missed the guy and he went right through the window. His whole hand was wide open, and he was still fightin’. And the first thing the guys said, well, Benny doesn’t give up. He sees a little blood, he doesn’t pass out. They like him because he’s a fighter. And that’s just what they need in that club. - Kathy, Wife of Benny, Member of the Chicago Outlaws. ___ The Bikeriders Danny Lyon Chronicle Books LLC 2003 ___ Source: http://historyofourworld.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/the-bikeriders-danny-lyon/ |
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| Phosphorescent – The Mermaid Parade Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Phosphorescent – The Mermaid Parade Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I read an interview with Matthew and he was talking about this song, and I kinda got the impression that it was just a good story (link to interview: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/05/phosphorescents.php) But then I read a few old interviews which made me think that it's most likely autobiographic (at least some of it) with him having lived in LA, where he was seeing a girl, and then moved to New York: http://gothamist.com/2007/11/07/matthew_houck_p.php http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CtOMe2D7q7wJ:www.theredalert.com/features/phosphorescent.php+phosphorescent+interview+los+angeles&cd=2&hl=da&ct=clnk&gl=dk&client=firefox-a Just some useless info, it's a great song no matter what :) |
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| Brand New – Millstone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with some of what you've said, but I don't think he's calling out for God to come save him. He's calling out for someone to save him, yes. Does he have very much faith in God at this point? No. It doesn't seem very rational to think that someone you have little faith in can save you. Then again, religion isn't very rational... Also, like all realationships, a relationship with God isn't necessarily eternal. |
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| Brand New – Millstone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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lol, that's really funny. How about this: God can't do shit. Everything went sour - that's why he lost faith in God. Why would he lose faith if everything was going great? He "..used to pray LIKE God was listening" but now he's questioning if God ever listened. It's not like one day out of nowhere he thought to himself "Fuck this shit, I'm not gonna be a christian anymore" and all hell broke loose... |
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