| Andrew Bird – Banking on a Myth Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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He's talking about one person. Just one person, and the way they're changing the world. Imagine it's a reference to the same person mentioned at the end of Opposite Day. Bird is talking about that person, and how he's writing out IOUs, or blank checks to the whole world to keep it spinning. Think that since money makes the world turn round, if you had only one person keeping track of everything and wrote a blank check for everything, they are accountable for everything and puts countless back, or more than what he got. "deals in commodities of the abstract sort buys them in bulk but then he sells it short talent, genius, love, even signs of affection he floods the market, there's no price protection" So, in the nature of Bird talking about the end of the world in most his songs, this is about him and the rest of the world trusting this person and their mythical "master plan" with the present and future. Hence, "banking on a myth". A myth could be true, might not be. It's mythical. No-one knows, until, "... his master plan is unfurled there stands a handsome bid on the weather systems, of the world" ...Reminds me of a WHY? song. "Or will I spit empty threats until all that's left is a million zeros printed on a roll of ticker-tape?" |
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| Arcade Fire – Rococo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Doug, you clearly would never understand the word facetious. | |
| Why? – Sick 2 Think Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Am I sick to think I look best under fluorescent light? Or in the cramped-corpse light-blue of an airplane bathroom? In the windowpane of a well-lit city bus at night? Or in the nuclear spill of 'Don't Walk' orange on mushrooms? Who's gonna shoot me looking serious, If I don't shoot me looking serious? In the windowpane of a well-lit city bus at night, Or in the nuclear spill of 'Don't Walk' orange on mushrooms? Am I sick to think I look best under fluorescent light? Or in the cramped-corpse light-blue of an airplane bathroom? |
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| Why? – On My 19th Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song accurately describes deja vu the best, bar none. |
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| Why? – Maze Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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where he lies in the sandbox lets the blue sky diluted watercolor wash his eyes but then gets up goes inside and until he forgets what the outside smells like, then he stumbles upon a blackened window to break. |
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| Why? – Miss Ohios Nameless Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| that was a lyric correction, by the way, forgot to tag it as such. | |
| Why? – Miss Ohios Nameless Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I feel, I feel empty Fucking empty" Yoni: Killer So the kids on the internet say you're a big noise You made the message board top ten A thousand bucks to sing your verse and chorus Until their alcohol's all gone It ain't an hour to clean thorns off of roses From the florist on Piedmont. Maybe they'll say your big noise voice was golden when you're at the funeral home. Will they remember more than embers? But I guess we'll never know. If they'll remember it was more embers And you were so excited yesterday. You said you were living loud under the treetops in the forest dark But no-one knew your name at the local open mic tonight. You'll only be famous in the underground Even Miss Ohio's nameless in their evening gown and when your voice is wasted and you've lost your sound, you'll know where your plane is when it's going down. We'll barrel and bag up the falling leaves. Am I sick to think I look best under fluorescent lights... or in a the cramped-corpse light of an airplane bathroom? |
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| Wolf Parade – Same Ghost Every Night Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| To me, this seems like an interesting metaphor for society that is bred to watch tv. How people will sit inside at night, and the constant blue he refers to is the television light. He compares it to the same endless boring stretches of driving on the highway, "something familiar". "And how we love the seasons that hide in our stomachs" means despite our love for being outside and the times we spent outside, we stay indoors constantly despite the way our gut instinct tells us. The lyrics tells me he understands this, and goes out walking, wanting to find his own "breath". | |
| Wolf Parade – Same Ghost Every Night Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| To me, this seems like an interesting metaphor for society that is bred to watch tv. How people will sit inside at night, and the constant blue he refers to is the television light. He compares it to the same endless boring stretches of driving on the highway, "something familiar". "And how we love the seasons that hide in our stomachs" means despite our love for being outside and the times we spent outside, we stay indoors constantly despite the way our gut instinct tells us. The lyrics tells me he understands this, and goes out walking, wanting to find his own "breath". | |
| Los Campesinos! – We've Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'll admit I'm wrong in sight of the actual lyrics, but it does sound like that. Gareth pronounces things really oddly. | |
| Los Campesinos! – We've Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Filed it under the wrong comment type. "If it wasn't for the courage to ask for mercy what would we do?", not "If it wasn't for the current U.S. policy what would we do?" |
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| Los Campesinos! – We've Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"If it wasn't for the current U.S. policy what would we do?" ... What? It's obviously "If it wasn't for the courage to ask for mercy what would we do?" |
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| The Weakerthans – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| And to clarify, the cat's name is Virtute, but a play on virtue. | |
| The Weakerthans – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song has a double meaning for every line, almost. The song represents what Samson imagines what his cat would say to him, and simultaneously it's really him telling himself what he already knows: He's become weak-hearted, possibly depressed, and complacent with things he really doesn't enjoy (such as t.v., drinking, staying by himself and alone) instead of living his life as he know he should or wants to. Hence the cat being named "Virtue", or what he knows is right, yet not paying enough attention to his own sense of virtue, as echoed in the very first line, "Why don't you ever want to play?". I won't go line by line, but suffice to say the meaning is there if you look well enough. Truly an inspiring song. By the way, the song doesn't have to apply to any "emo" character, but just anyone who has lost reason to believe in themselves and knows they need to change. | |
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