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| Vampire Weekend – A-Punk Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Johanna is driving into New York with His Honor, and looking at his finger starts a reverie about the ring.
The ring represents a long and complex relationship "a thousand years."
The "she" who took it from someone's lily-white hand is actually His Honor.
It was taken from someone's (dead) hand in the hospital - the "young men's ward" suggests AIDS and homosexuality, Sloan-Kettering suggests cancer but also New York. I suspect the true cause of death is murder. "No fear" is what it would take to walk in and take the ring this way.
There was another copy of this ring that was thrown into the ocean - that's why His Honor needed to take it in the hospital - he no longer had his own copy. This same situation is mentioned in Oops I Did it Again. |
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| M. Ward – Never Had Nobody Like You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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A love song from one musician to another. The relationship goes back many years and covers a lot of painful times for the speaker. The beloved has been patient through it all and it's time to say thank you and sorry. |
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