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Modest Mouse – Never Ending Math Equation Lyrics	15 years ago
It's about the world (i.e., your parents) telling you to grow up, be a man, take life more seriously, and you not wanting to, you've always been happy doing what you're doing now, so why change for the rest of the world.

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Modest Mouse – Interstate 8 Lyrics

15 years ago

It's all about internal conflict. Sounds like a struggle with addiction to me. You start headed down a path you think is straight and narrow, trying to escape the pain, but the road curves on both ends and brings you back around to the addiction you're trying to flee. You're both the angel and devil on each shoulder, one driving you to good, to do better, the other bringing you back to the bad. You drive and drive, and end up in the same damn place, you have to be smart enough to get off the road entirely.

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Local Natives – Who Knows Who Cares Lyrics

15 years ago

It's a story about two people who are taking a break from life while they're at a crossroads, to do the little things they want before real life begins. "...Took a van down to Colorado where we ran into the Dead...", I had friends in college, that just after graduation, took a van up the East Coast following the Grateful Dead, something they'd always wanted to do. For that small span, about two weeks, they did what they wanted, when they wanted, how they wanted, with no cares, and no worries, letting off the last of their irresponsible steam before making a life on their own.

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Built to Spill – Aisle 13 Lyrics

15 years ago

I've been listening to Built to Spill since they were new, I remember and still listen to The Tree People, and this is by far the best song my boy Doug has written. This song is about the dark corners of our minds, where we stuff away the bad memories, all those hurtful things in life we'd rather not face, the skeletons in our closet. He equates the mind to a library, the reference section, an aisle. The number 13 signifies the missing 13th floor in high rise buildings and hotels, the floor we'd rather not think about, the one we pretend doesn't exist. We all know the 14th floor is a misnomer, but, as long as we're not going to the 13th floor, all is good in our world.

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Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer Lyrics

15 years ago

As I listen to BT's Wild Mountain Nation, I read the replies and want to add my own. The song is about a sociopath in either the late 1800s or early 1900s when police work and evidence were shot in the dark luck. The girlfriend was the original, the first, and I wholly agree he remembers her screaming and pleading during the murder and that's why her mouth was sewn shut. He was thrown in jail on suspicion and no evidence, what he would describe as a whim. As he went along, you notice the murders occur in places with no witnesses and he was arrested more as a stranger than anything, but, again, no evidence, so he is continually let go. The name of the song comes from the last verse, the baptism, the washing away of his sins, into a river obviously blackened by those sins washed away. He has no intentions to stop killing, he just has a nagging in his mind that something's wrong, yet his obsession with murder and his sociopathic personality don't allow him to recognize his feelings of guilt, as he has no true conscience, he's just acting the part.

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Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer Lyrics	15 years ago
Signifying this song and this band as country is like listening to Seamus by Pink Floyd and saying it's a country song. This is not country, it's prog rock, and, like their original predecessor, the aforementioned Pink Floyd, they have their own style, their own sound, and fit well into a what is but should not be a very small genre. Really, country?

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