| Cold War Kids – Hospital Beds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree strongly that "Vietnam" and "Fishing Trips" are separate. The narrator is looking back on life from his hospital bed: He was in Vietnam, most likely for the war but not necessarily, and he is remembering fishing trips and Italian opera. I think "put out the fire on us" is asking to be healed but "bring your nieces and your cousins" refers to people coming to visit as the narrator nears the end of their life. I think the song is about asking for healing but ultimately not getting. |
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| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – German Motor Car Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think that it was something that he knew, not a stranger. Otherwise lyrics like "All the bedroom sheets and TV screen Without you" and "I haven't a thing to do no more" are a bit out of place. I think that "I've got you" is kind of a wishful thinking where he could save her. |
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| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – German Motor Car Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think that this song is about losing someone in a car crash. It's pretty clear through most of the song, but I can't seem to make sense of "This is how you ditch someone who drives you mad..." I think it might be part of the guilt in that this wasn't a person he was getting along with. Maybe it was a romance that was going sour... and then he lost her. When he sings "I pray that you are nothing like your photo at all," I imagine a photograph of her at the scene, dead. It reminds me a lot of the "Porsche Girl" who had graphic pictures of her death scene (in a german car) posted online. | |
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