| Phoenix – Lisztomania Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Lisztomania refers to that particular type of hysteria, the swooning, screaming violence of wild infatuation with a celebrity or performer. Just based on that, I think it's refering to a specific relationship, but where one party has a kind of insane, swooning infatuation, akin to Lisztomania. ie-"this person is so beautiful I could die just looking at them." |
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| The National – Mr. November Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Wow, not one of these explanations occured to me, but they're interesting as hell. You guys are so smart. | |
| A.C. Newman – Come Crash Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow, Christine might be dead. you guys are right--it had never occured to me. For some reason, Christine is a very vivid character. Obviously she has a sense of humor. Dead or not, after a horrible, violent accident, her reaction is still in the vein of "oh shit, that was a close one." Also, planting a kiss on his chest very vividly describes someone very petite. I don't know about the possibilities of drug use. I think it makes it less interesting, though. I think there is something very aching about this song--even though they've been through something traumatic together, they are still platonic. No matter how close, supportive or in love they may be, it's still "hey buddy, crash on the couch. I'm here for you. In the next room." so close, so far. |
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| Julie Doiron – Consolation Prize Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This smarts especially if you have just ended a high profile relationship-for example, splitting up of friends and being the subject of gossip. "The hard consolation prize" is one of the most elaborate and profound contradictons ever ever. This song is not only charmingly chirpy for Doiron's work, which is fun, but for that it is all the more brutal. |
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| Modest Mouse – Bankrupt on Selling Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| been there exactly, eerily. | |
| Julie Doiron – Will You Still Love Me In December Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I had a lover who I listened to this song with and wept--I recieved a letter in class proclaiming that "it was december and we were still fucking in love." Lesson: December might be a metaphor, accepted. But they don't mention june and july etc. -"Will you still love me in August?" -"eh, maybe. so long as you don't get flabby on me." |
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| Ani DiFranco – Untouchable Face Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is obviously a very very understandable song. Who has never felt like the author of this song? The incredible and undeniable marriage between "FUCK YOU" and "I WANT YOU" this is a song I listen to and just shake my head at the absurdity of my (and everyone's) emotions. |
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| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Caterwaul Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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okay, this is all super, guys---but what is the song about? What could force someone from silence and serenity to feral howling? "caterwaul" is a pretty intense word. here's a shot in the dark--is someone pregnant? "how was I to know?" this might have no merit whatsoever |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Abraham Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I feel like this is a beautifuly earnest telling of a story that is, like so much of the bible, a metaphor. What kind of asshole god asks a follower to kill his kid? What kind of test is that? The story to me a about obedience to a power you trust-but above all, you owe obedience to your own conscience. No "Angel" came to stay Abraham's arm. the Angel is a metaphor for Abraham's own inherent sense of right and wrong-that exists inside everyone, and should ultimately take priority over orders. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Pink and Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The baby isn't nine days old. It's been nine days since the bombing | |
| Arcade Fire – Keep the Car Running Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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it's difficult to forget what they tell cancer survivors-once you've had it, it knows your name. I'm surprised that no one has brought up addiction. Some of the lines don't make sense with this interpretation, I'll admit, but some of the lingo is hard for me to ignore. "The weight that's pressing down" sound to me like an recovering addict who is terrified of a relapse. "If some night I don't come home, please don't think that I've left you alone" sound to me like he's apologising to his partner in advance for the relapse he sees coming. "You can't climb across a mountain so high" is perhaps his resignation to this. And like cancer, addiction has his name "since I told it to them" (an admission of guilt?) and could come for him at any time. |
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