| Austra – Beat and the Pulse Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Here are the lyrics, as written in the liner notes: A hundred angles lost Fleeing from the beat and the pulse. Laughing like a fool Play it for the heart and the soul. Capture something read, Paste it to the edge of your bed. Someone will be there, Someone who will know what it says. Feel it break, nothing's a mistake. Feel it break. Elevate your fingers, Motion makes it hard to write. Still words are abrasive, Yours are making me feel right. Feel it break, nothing's a mistake. Feel it break. |
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| Lana Del Rey – Video Games Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I love your comment, ManofSteel. Something that stands out for me, too, is how a lot of posters are saying that the guy is older yet obsessed with video games. (I don't see the necessity of making the video games mean sex tapes, as some here have suggested, but whatever.) She's definitely singing about a man who is an adult but acts like a teenager. He can't be a better boyfriend because he's not a better man. And, as shad0man suggests, a lot of people in our generation are not acting responsibly, being focused instead on material pleasures. I think this lack of maturity is in part because young people have been marginalized in the labour market. Watch this 45-minute documentary on CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Doc_Zone/1242299559/ID=2167363287! |
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| Austra – Lose It Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Mental is a great word for it. | |
| Young Galaxy – Long Live the Fallen World Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I have the physical album here, and I'm more than happy to make the necessary corrections: The passage is washed away The garden unloved The last wine is poisoned We're still drinking from the cup And no demonstration Feels potent enough (The chorus is correct as it's posted) We've squandered utopia We've sold out our views We've torn into secrets Bought into the cheap and new Is all my frustration Inside of you too? Is no devastation Ever enough? I want to believe that No weight is too much When will inspiration Ever be enough? You want to believe me? Then sing it with love A din has been building The world's in its throes Its feedback is drowning us And we aren't listening anymore |
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| The Knife – A Lung Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I really like your take on the song. I'm especially fond of your comment about the woman being the man's lung, not his rib. | |
| Robyn – Handle Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I hear something along the lines of, "You gotta make me feel you got my back." (Maybe too many syllables?) | |
| I Blame Coco – Caesar Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Yes, exactly; your logic is quite consistent with mine, I think, because you're using the less literal sense of the word "hopeless"! | |
| I Blame Coco – Caesar Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm also wondering if she says "hopers" rather than "hopeless," which kind of makes more sense when she says, "all you do is hope," right? I mean, what's the point of hoping without action. If all you do is hope, you're giving yourself an excuse not to do anything about the things you think are wrong. She's got some pretty intelligent allusions, I've got to admit! And Robyn is a great complement in this song! |
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| Vampire Weekend – Diplomat's Son Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I can't offer anything in the way of an interpretation of the car keys, except maybe as a symbol of his initial freedom, but I am very fond of your take on the song in general. Thanks to G1635A for bringing up the point I wanted to make! The imagery of the song really reminded me of the relationship between the two young men in Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN. | |
| The Knife – Lasagna Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Does anyone else see a possible allusion to Virginia Woolf, given Badone's interpretation that there was a suicide by drowning? | |
| The Knife – One for You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Thanks for this info; it adds a very important dimension. | |
| The Knife – Reindeer Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| My interpretation hinges on the line "The sleigh this year is heavier." The song may be about increasing consumerism as a result of globalization. Maybe that's why there's the line "It's much worse in the North." The song depicts the negative consequences for the reindeer and Santa... who represent childhood innocence? | |
| The Knife – Hangin' Out Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| When I heard it the first time, my initial reaction was that it was a blooper-type ending: like, the joke could keep going and going, but listeners get the idea, so "we stop there"? | |
| The Knife – One Hit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Like Joey McChipmunk, I also thought Karin was saying, "How how how how? Who who who who?" I really like c0intelpr0's interpretation, especially because Karin alters her voice in this song to sound like a man. Although I would like to see the line as empowering, when Karin sings "I took my hand out of my pocket up came a fist," it seems to be a kind of excuse: "I couldn't help it; hitting her came instinctively." |
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| The Knife – Like a Pen Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Could it have anything to do with pregnancy (e.g.,"Will it show?")? iDiomaReise7 suggests the album SILENT SHOUT is very personal, and although I don't know when Karin became pregnant, maybe there's someone who can either confirm or reject this interpretation? | |
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