| Arab Strap – El Paso Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Pissed letch like me | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Company Calls Epilogue Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"When they lay down the fish will swim upstream And I'll contest, but they won't listen When the casualty rate's near 100% And there isn't a pension for second best Or for hardly moving." My take on this part; He's using the thematically relevant imagery of post marital conception to illustrate the narrator's sentiments about their actions in relation to the object of their desire. The narrator feels perhaps that they didn't do enough or they didn't follow the set way of doing things, not subscribing to this sort of social darwinism caused them to lose this person to someone did choose to act that way. |
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| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I Gave You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That was intended as a general comment rather than a reply. | |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I Gave You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The third line is: "I gave you house and you didnt haunt it." | |
| Bright Eyes – Shell Games Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Tag it on a tenement wall. | |
| Bill Callahan – All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The original post was supposed to end "... inhabitants of your mind to give way." Forgive my orthographical blunders; I'm typing all this on a phone." | |
| Bill Callahan – All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I intended to add to this, a thought I'd neglected to mention, regarding the relation to the eagle of this track and that of the albums title. In the interim I happened uponan interview featuring the following: "All Thoughts Are Prey” is quite an interesting song, lyrically: an empty tree resembling a brain with small creatures referred to as “softer thoughts” being chased away by an eagle who bemoans his loneliness. What does this eagle represent to you? What is it that chases these softer thoughts away and brings loneliness, and why would you wish we become whatever this eagle is?' 'The eagle in this story is something that obliterates all other things; that is where the loneliness comes in. But if two people could be one eagle, then things would be alright. It is what we strive for. To be an eagle alone is hard to bear, but it may be the plight of some.' The interview also featured the following "All thoughts..." related consideration: "What's with trees? There's only a couple Eagle songs that do not directly involve them, and some are very blatant in their depiction: “too many birds,” “eagles,” an empty tree depicted as a brain, “how much of a tree bends in the wind.” What do trees and birds represent to you?" "Trees. Well, ain't they a wonderful thing. Each one seems to speak its own history. "All Thoughts are Prey to Some Beast" was a poem I had around. I've only written two poems in my life. That and "Dress Sexy at My Funeral." I had"Dress Sexy" in a drawer for years and what do you do with one poem? I decided to just repeat the title as the chorus and turn it into a song. The same for "All Thoughts..." I just added a couple lines to repeat once I realized that it would fit into the tree and birds theme of the songs I was writing for the album. Birds are another story. They live a separate life that runs parallel to ours. I like the idea of the tree bending in the wind being the brain tree." Full interview @ http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/bill-callahan " |
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| Smog – Bloodflow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"On the other hand, Callahan said"Bloodflow" "came before I let my subscription to The Economist run out." - from the Lazy-I interview (www.timmacmahan.com/smog.htm) |
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| Smog – Permanent Smile Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That was supposed to begin: "Asked if the song is Callahan's personal meditiation..." | |
| Smog – Permanent Smile Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"A personal meditation on death, what inspired it, and if a spiritual thread runs through everything he writes, he replied: "The particulars of the seven replied: "The particulars of the seven stages of decomposition were taken from L'Enfer by Barbusse, and the first line ( your back) came to me when I was your back recording in a dim studio, then walked outside into the sun. Aren't all songs hymns to one spigot or another?" -from lazy-I interview: http://www.timmcmahan.com/smog.htm |
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| Bill Callahan – Eid Ma Clack Shaw Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think he's definately using that fact to fiendishly comedic effect, but also that if you go a little deeper, it's used as metaphor for the fact that resolutions which work and make sense in dreams are unlikely to translate into your waking life. | |
| Bill Callahan – Jim Cain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I thought it was sort of.... the first time you hear it it's "remember the good things I've done' which is just like an often heard sentiment, then the second time you hear it's meant like 'remember that the good things I've done have done me in.' Just one of those bleak little twists. So who is jim cain? |
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| Bill Callahan – All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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'Emptying thoughts saved for me' should be "Empty" he thought "save for me" I don't think there's a specific beast. There's that idea in the animal kingdom all predators are prey to something. So the thought/desire/ideal which is as dominating to 'lesser' thoughts [lesser in what way?] As an Eagle is to a wren is not infallible. This could be interpreted any number of ways. No thoughts are ultimately dominant, it's easy to be distracted regardless of intent, an external psychological item deemed to be of the utmost importance may not be to some minds, concentrating solely on one thing can cause the other inhabitants. Of you mind to give way... |
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| Sparklehorse – Hammering the Cramps Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The Lyric "Hey little dog can you fly" came from this hawk ML saw riding home. It had been shot. So he got a hold of it with his motorcycle gloves and carried it home, put it in a box. Called a nearby wildlife place. "Hey little Hawk can you fly." Decided that sounded awkward and changed it to "Hey little dog." | |
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