| Joanna Newsom – Occident Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think 'with my no-skin' may actually be 'with my nose-skin', as in "by the skin of your nose." But I'm unsure because I don't have the CD, so if the booklet contains lyrics that say no-skin I'm wrong! Anyway, I love the syncopation in this song. Great vocals, too. |
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| Radiohead – Nude Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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When I read the lyrics, my first instinct is that it could be a cynical outlook on relationships. Don't get any big ideas, because as soon as things get good they'll just get bad again. You try to paint yourself white and pretend that everything is great, you make a lot of noise, talk it up, but there'll be something missing. And I think the last line, in this interpretation, could be saying something like optimism is dirty, there's no place for it in this world. Still one of the great things about this song is you can think of it any way you'd like, any way that speaks to you. It's funny that this meaning spoke to me because I can be pretty optimistic most of the time. Great song. |
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| The Radio Dept. – Your Father Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| There are a lot of songs by the Radio Dept. referencing gay relationships, and for some reason I got that vibe from this song too. Either way a lot of the good in their lyrics is the ambiguity, so it could be about either. However, I do think they had to hide their relationship from the 'father', while the singer's 'daddy' was more open to it. | |
| M.I.A. – It Takes a Muscle Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Such a good cover. I think I like it better than the original (Spectral Display, if anyone's wondering). Based on the original lyrics I think the current ones posted are correct except I THINK it's "the fear got in me, it got in me deep". Not sure. As to meaning it's pretty straightforward. "It takes a muscle to fall in love" is a very clever phrase. The heart is made up of cardiac muscle tissue, so the singer is saying "it takes a heart to fall in love." Since the lyrics are also about heartbreak, it has a double meaning of "it takes strength to fall in love." Sometimes love hurts you immensely, but you have to be strong and get through it. I think that's the message behind the song. It hits home. |
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| Band of Horses – Is There a Ghost Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I always thought this song was brilliant; two lines (could) say so much. To me the meaning that jumped out was that he doesn't live alone any more; someone has moved in with him. Probably a significant other; and since they moved in together he feels like he doesn't even know that person any more. They're completely gone, different, just a ghost of their former self, and it keeps him up at night. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the walls were wet because she was messing with the smoke alarm, to set them off. (Maybe he was crying too?) Broken arm could just be used because it rhymes, or to set the scene, reflect a broken feeling in himself...who knows. I think she's not supposed to because -- well, it's just not the thing to do, to get with your dead sister's boyfriend. And it's something that, as a female, I know most girls would think of as out of bounds, a way of degrading themselves, to let a guy pretend they were someone else. But I do agree with the sister missing the dead girl and them finding comfort through each other. |
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| Sleigh Bells – A/B Machines Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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From the first listen I thought this song was referring to sex toys. I mean, they're the type of machines you keep hidden away in the drawer. And that's amusing to me so I'll just keep thinking it. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Actually since he says he couldn't hear in the parrot's beak, I'm more inclined to think it's so named because she's a cheap imitation of the girl he lost, or because of the thing about her repeating the line. ;P Needs edit button. | |
| Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is incredibly beautiful and very well-written. I'm a person who listens to music first and lyrics second, and this one's strong on both counts. First off it's very obvious (to me) that the song's about a girl who's died. It's further solidified by the line "I'm beginning to think I imagined you all along". It reflects really accurately the feeling after someone close to you has passed, when you're so afraid of forgetting and therefore losing the only connection you have left to the person. It can feel like you literally made up all your memories. I really like the idea that the pirate-themed bars reflect a hunt for treasure, but that leaves the question: Since 'Cornerstone' isn't connected to pirates at all, what is its meaning? Since a cornerstone is the most important stone of a building, at the bottom, I think of it as a foundation...perhaps a foundation from which to build a new relationship with the sister. As for the other bars: battleship evokes a feeling of war, as in he's fighting to find this girl or fighting his grief in the beginning. It's followed by a rusty hook, or just a furthering of the pain he's in. And then the parrot's beak COULD be referring to a girl who talks like the dead girl or has a close voice; OR the fact that she simply repeats what the two previous girls said, like a parrot. Which is 'you can't call me her name'. The sister I take as an actual sibling of the dead girl (especially as he says 'I thought she might understand'; the sister would be missing her as well, and it would be in a strange way a connection to her for both of them). So maybe out of this longing for his dead lover, he finds a new connection to the sister and out of that "cornerstone" they build a new relationship, or a new life after their old one died with this girl. |
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