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Angels and Airwaves – It Hurts Lyrics 11 years ago
I took the "you're best friend is not your girlfriend" line to mean that he has started a sort of friends-with-benefits relationship with his best friend (Sherrie). He started falling for her, but he soon realizes that she is not all he thought she was. She made him feel like they could really be a couple, but she's been spinning a web of lies and deceiving him (probably cheating on him, too).

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Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Talking In Code Lyrics 12 years ago
I can see how it can be about getting high, but my first thought was that it was something to do with mental illness.

The other person (let's say she) is suffering from some sort of mental illness and he's trying to find a way out of the relationship--"i gotta go". She accuses him of cheating on her--"saying, 'i know where you've been/and i know where you go'". He's getting tired of this ritual of theirs--"i've been tired/from the moment i woke". He knows that she's not all there--"'cause if you're touring your mind/you'll get lost every time"--but he stays there in body--"i'm sleeping alone"--though his mind isn't entirely there either--"i stopped listening/the moment you spoke/and i'm long gone". She tries to comfort him to get him to stay with her--"you'll sing me sad songs/to keep me awake"--but even she realizes that it's useless--"your voice cracks". She's trying to get better to get him to stay--"you keep moving/but where are you going?"--but in the end, it doesn't work, yet they stay stuck in their cycle--"we're long gone."

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Matt Nathanson – Bent Lyrics 13 years ago
Well, the original "Am I Wrong" is by Love Spit Love. Brand New just did a cover of it. But I agree that "Bent" sounds much more like the Brand New version than the Love Spit Love version. However, both were released before Beneath These Fireworks, so it's quite possible that Matt was heavily influenced by "Am I Wrong".

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The Naked And Famous – Spank Lyrics 13 years ago
I don't remember the first time
But I think I'll survive
Probably better not to try again
'Cause it feeds it, yeah, keeps it alive

There're specific things that I have to do
Day to day just to keep it at bay
You wouldn't believe if you knew

(Oh no, this isn't real)

(Oh no, this isn't real)
Here a little secret
Here's the best part
This is gonna take me
Right back to the start
If I can keep it
If it's set in mind
Wait until it settles
Come join a second time

I don't remember the first time
But I think I'll survive
Probably better not to try to wake up
'Cause it feeds it, yeah, keeps it alive

(Oh no, (no) this isn't real)
(Hmm)

Here's a little secret
Here's the best part
This is gonna take me
Right back to the start
If I can keep it
If it's set in mind
Wait until it settles
Come join a second time

I can feel it move
Up into my head
It is in the room
Panicking in bed
I feel it coming on
Taking over you
Oh, please, not tonight
There's nothing I can do

This is bigger than me
This is in my fear
This is pedophilia
I just disappear
Swears are falling from me
Swallowed up inside
Sailed it as if it
Would make this subside

I can barely handle
I can pass the time
Staring through the curtains
Up into the sky
Where there is no
Depth perception
Keep preoccupied
Self deception

Nobody recognizes
It doesn't have a name
My brother is infected
He's acting just the same
Screaming like a siren
Up and down the hall
He just wants to stop it
He wants to end it all

I am just a child
I am nothing more
Than the basic functions
I am running from
I could run a mile
My distortion
Everything is
Disproportioned

Suddenly a break
All is back again
Everything is closer
More or less the same
And I can hear it
It's real and wild
I will just forget this
'Til next time

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Carina Round – For Everything A Reason Lyrics 13 years ago
I agree that it should probably be "brought" but at certain times it almost sounds like "born." Like at the end second verse, it sounds like "And so they say, baby, you will be born...back to me." Born referring to them starting anew; a fresh start for them.

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Polly Scattergood – Nitrogen Pink Lyrics 13 years ago
It's said that Polly wrote this song about a friend of her friend who was dying of cancer. I think the nitrogen has something to do with how they use different forms of nitrogen in chemotherapy, though I have no clue if the nitrogen mustards are pink or what the color has to do with it.

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The Streets – Going Through Hell Lyrics 13 years ago
I got tired of having no lyrics so I put the song on repeat a few times and gave it a try.


It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the fight in the dog
Let's surprise, take a slug
And if you get a knife from behind there
Know you’re nice and in front
(Do it, do it!)

I wouldn’t say a word ‘til I’ve walked a mile in your shoes
But once a mile from yous, I’ll utter what the fuck I choose
Wearing nice new shoes
(Do it, do it!)

If you're going through hell
If you're going through hell
If you're going through hell
If you're going through hell
Keep going!

Fall down five times, rise up six
Give the good news by way of fists
The mind plays tricks on the fighter who wishes
Kindness is right and both sides wins

(Yeah, yeah!)
Push the limits of stubbornness to
Finish up above the stubbornness of silly limits
(Yeah, yeah!)
Round the ring around your finger
And build the ring around to bring it, bring it!

If you're going through hell
If you're going through hell
If you're going through hell
If you're going through hell
Keep going!

If you can't join them, beat them!
If you want more, you don’t be friends
The joy of the fight is the fight in the boy
I'm making this up now finding a point

Is it if you can’t win then run?
Becoming two fists is the fun of the thing
It’s all just lads in the normal ambience
Fall or stab and then call an ambulance

I can't resist anything (Lucifer!)
But temptation (Come here!)
Lead me not into that place
I can find it myself

I can't resist anything (Walk with me!)
But temptation
Lead me not into that place
I can find it myself
(I found it)

Your hero is only ordinary
It’s just the hero among them
More than you and me

You have nothing to lose but your chains
So it maybe might rain
And yet maybe slight pain or a daylight slaying
(Do it, do it!)

At the end of the tunnel, there is always light
It just might be a train
(Beefy!)

If you're going through hell
If you're going through hell
If you're going through hell
If you're going through hell
Keep going!

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Kid's Garden Lyrics 13 years ago
After listening to the song nonstop for the past week, I decided to look up the lyrics. Turns out every single website I found had the above lyrics, which are little help to interpreting the song. So, I tried my had at figuring out the lyrics. They probably aren't very accurate, but it's the best I could do.


Angel
There's no sense calling out your name
We look at the clue to be near

Somewhere
It's something, no, it's not the same
The haunt to curl, go tell of fears

So you say you're the angel's child
You've gone too force the storm loss
Look all around you
You'll worry about what tomorrow brings
You miss out much important
Dancing all around you
But still, it makes your life feel complete
It keeps you on the edge of your seat

Laugh in the face of the kingdom come
And now you see it's falling on all of them around you
Now you'll say that you've heard it all
And now we see who’s heading for a fall
And your loving will keep
Lay the branches down at your feet

It doesn't have to be that way
It doesn't have to be that way
Doesn't have to be that way

I never wanted to
She never wanted to
I never wanted to
She never needed love

You feel so beat
You’re condescending, can you come?
At the light to feel and come to be killed
It's good to know that you've become
The source of all in love, life freak

Once you hear not to know it all
You will learn you're headed down and for a fall
Or you can chase along with your dreams
And we can fall and life is a creep

It doesn't have to be that way

I never wanted to
She never needed love
I never wanted to
She never needed love
I never wanted to
I never want to die
She never wanted to
I never wanted to
She never wanted to
I never needed her
She never wanted love
I never knew it all
I never wanted to love you, girl

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Mew – Apocalypso Lyrics 15 years ago
This song reminds me of Effy Stonem from Skins, for some odd reason.

It's a brilliant song.

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Jape – Floating Lyrics 15 years ago
I think he's saying that being with her gives him the same floating feeling that being on drugs does. Basically, she's his drug now that he's met her.

And it should be:
"There's much in the world I don't understand
It just makes much more sense when my hand's in your hand"

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Pepper – Reverse Lyrics 15 years ago
All the lyrics I've found on other sites are completely wrong, so I tried my hand at writing it down. I'm not sure on about half of it, so feel free to correct them.

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Placebo – The Bitter End Lyrics 15 years ago
I deciphered something a bit different, but this thing doesn't let you edit.

From the time we intersected
Feels lot like suicide
Slow and sad, come in silence
(See you at the bitter end)
I walked a bitter mile

Lovers seem to run around
What is sicker now?
Wannabes, arms wide out
(See you at the bitter end)

Come and reach inside
Grab the gentleless inside

Heard a cry; six months' time
(See you at the bitter end)
In six months' time
The mess you left will end

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Feeder – Morning Life Lyrics 15 years ago
I first heard this song in Remember the Daze and it made me cry.

The lyrics and the music...it's just so powerful. I cry each and every time I hear this song. It's just absolutely brilliant.

And now that you mention it, I could see it being about Jon Lee. I had never really though of it that way, honestly.

RIP Jon Lee

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Eve 6 – Think Twice Lyrics 15 years ago
Does anyone know what they lyrics are after
"What is it you really want?
I'm tired of asking"?

I hear "You come wasted", but a lot of other lyrics sites say it "You're gone; I'm wasted". I was hoping someone could clarify that for me...

Also, the first time on the pre-chorus, it would be "Come around, I'll let you feel the burn", not "and you'll feel the burn".

And it's "I've said enough, enough by now" not "right now".

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Placebo – The Bitter End Lyrics 15 years ago
So, this is what I got (with some help from other postings) for the ending lyrics:

From the time we intercepted
Feels a lot like suicide
Slow and sad, come in silence
(See you at the bitter end)
I walked a bitter mile

Lovers seem to run around
What is sicker now?
Wannabes, arms wide out
(See you at the bitter end)

Come on and reach inside
Grab the gentleness inside

Heard a cry; six months' time
(See you at the bitter end)
In six months' time
The mess you left will end

Whether they're right or not, I don't know. At this point, I think only Brian Molko can decipher what is being sung.

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Skunk Anansie – Because Of You Lyrics 15 years ago
How has nobody commented this song yet??

This song is just utterly amazing. Just...wow. Skin's voice is so magical; I especially love when she sings the verses - the music is kind of calm. The chorus is just brilliant, the music is so heavy and emphasizes Skin's lyrics and vocals so well.

I think the meaning is pretty straight-forward. She was in a relationship with someone and when it ended, she pretty much gave up on love because it hurt so bad. She's basically blaming her ex and love for her numbness and the pain she went through.

Lovelovelove this song. (Skunk Anansie is brilliant.)

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Nelly Furtado – Fotografia F/ Juanes Lyrics 15 years ago
A few translation corrections:

"Cada vez que yo me voy llevo a un lado de mi piel
Tus fotografias para verlas cada vez
Que tu ausencia me devora entero el corazon
Y yo no tengo remedio mas que amarte"

"Every time I go away I take
Your photographs to see them every time
That your absence devours my heart whole
And the only remedy I have is to love you"

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"Cuando hay un abismo desnudo que se opone entre los dos
Yo me valgo del recuerdo taciturno de tu voz
Y de nuevo siento enfermo este corazon
Que no le queda remedio mas que amarte"

"When there is a naked abyss that puts itself between the two of us
I try to remember your silent voice
And my heart starts to feel sick again
The only remedy I have left is to love you"

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"Y en la distancia te puedo ver
Cuando tus fotos me siento a ver
Y en las estrellas tus ojos ver
Cuando tus fotos me siento a ver"

"And I can see you in the distance
When I sit down to look at your photographs
And I can see your eyes in the stars
When I sit down to look at your photographs"

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"Cada vez que te busco te vas
Y cada vez que te llamo no estas
Es por eso que debo decir que tu solo en mis fotos estas"

"Every time I look for you, you leave
And every time I call you, you aren't there
That's why I should say that you're only in my photgraphs"

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It's a sad song, about yearning for a lost love. I think Nelly sings beautifully in Spanish, though :) It definitely made this song.

Um, I'm curious though...HOW does this song help you in Spanish class???

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Apocalyptica – I Don't Care (feat. Adam Gontier) (US/Revised Version) Lyrics 15 years ago
Actually, in the original version, the chorus is "All the things you left behind." But in this version of the song, the lyrics are right.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg – The Songs That We Sing Lyrics 15 years ago
I'm not completely sure on the meaning, but I agree with Pozzi. I think she's had some bad some bad experiences and she's just saying, "Oh, well. Life goes on." She has an optimistic view of the world.

"I saw somebody who reminded me of you before you got afraid; I wish that you could've stayed that way."
She maybe saw a person who reminded her of a friend - they had some fearless, daredevil quality that her friend seemed to have lost (after possibly a tragic occurrence).

"I saw a little girl, I stopped and smiled at her; she screamed and ran away; it happens to me more and more these days."
I'm not too sure what that's about. Maybe when she stops to be polite and smile at a child, they are scared of her? I'm not sure, but that's the image I get.

"I saw a photograph: a woman in a bath of hundred dollar bills; if the cold doesn't kill her, money will."
I think the "cold" she's referring to is the stereotypical snobbish cold attitude wealthy people are depict of having. If her stuck-up personality doesn't kill her, the money eventually will (because money is the root of all evil).

My favorite line,
"I read a magazine that said by seventeen your life was at an end; I'm dead and I'm perfectly content."
I think she's referring to her own age. She's over the age of seventeen, so she's "dead" (according to the magazine) but she's content with her life being "at an end".

And the chorus, she's wondering if the music she (as well as others) makes means anything to their audience. The last line, "Tonight they do" can be her being optimistic.
At the same time, I see it as a foreshadowing. Like, usually the songs won't mean much to anyone, but "tonight" someone will have something terrible happen and they will take comfort in her music.

That's just my take on it. Beautiful song that stays stuck in your head.

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