| The Mountain Goats – The Bad Doctor Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think it's a metaphor for drug use. But I guess that's the easiest interpretation. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Going to Alaska Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is about being a state in which the beauty of the world around only hurts you. He's looking at how vibrant the blossoms in the jacaranda trees are and he can't appreciate them because their beauty only wounds him. So he's going to Alaska where things are simpler, because there you have to fight to survive and there are legit things to hurt you, such as polar bears and the cold. Where he is now there's too much history ("old blood and relatives") and it's too complicated ("everything is growing in a thousand different ways"), but in Alaska he would have a clean slate. | |
| The Nextdoor Neighbors – Magic vs. the Machine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song reminds me of the movie "Blade Runner." Especially these lyrics: "Now I heard man-machine say, 'We're just tears in rain.' " Which echoes the android in the movie who says, "All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain." Also, all the references in the song to memories, which were a major part of the film. The lyrics "I know there's a way To keep these gears from rusting But my memory grows dusty And the muscle falls away." seem to describe the search of the androids for a way to extend their four-year lifespan, even as they are dying. Is this a coincidence? |
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