| The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Straight Up and Down Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Why has no one commented on this! Instant classic, I'm loving BJM just now... Anyone know what its about? I guess its just about him being content struggling on with his music when the rest of the world seems intent on making him change his ways.. But does anyone know what "I love you but you drag me down" means? | |
| Let Me Run – We Bring the Booze Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Aaaahh... Best song on the album if you ask me, but what the hell is it about??? :) |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Senor and the Queen Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I came on here to say the exact same thing! Does anyone know what that expression means though? And in Paradise by the Dashboard Light" doesn't it say "blowing like the metal on the edge of the knife"? I don't have a clue what it means in either song except that a reference to "Paradise" suggests something to do with teenage lust pretty much ruining two people's lives...? |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – 1930 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It seems to me that he's singing to two different people throughout the song- one is his current lover and the other is some person whom he no longer has contact with but was very close to a long time ago.. This could be his dead grandmother, a deceased or long lost lover, or a woman he has divorced as he refers to in countless other songs such as great expectations... I think the first verse he's singing to a lover about his dead grandmother (yeah a bit wierd..)or some other passed away person who he was close to and that he is really distraught about said person's death which is backed up by the line "i'm a burning up the night she died" (although "she died" could be metaphorical if they were divorced or split up) as if he can't get it out of his head but hes gonna make one last ditch attempt to do so... It seems that she died quite a long time ago though But I think the chorus is sung to this deceased person about his lover and how he wished that the two could have met and that said person would have approved of/really liked his lover.. Then again I think the last two lines of the chorus "Mary you look just like, it was 1930 that night" are sang to the lover and that is why he is so upset.. the way that his lover is looking, lovely as she may be, is reminding him of this other person which is why he is so distraught... The second verse could have been to either... And the last bit could be quoting either as well.. perhaps both.. Epic song though... Best on the album? |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Bring It On Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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yeah i thought that too... does anyone know about Brian Fallon's personal life? Was he divorced from a someone he married when he was young because alot of his lyrics seem to suggest that... |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is possibly one of the greatest songs ever... The lyrics are astonishing and the music carries them so well... Perhaps my favourite gaslight song (although it's hard to choose!) I still don't 100% know what it's about but this song seems to speak on so many levels... I've only seen them once in Glasgow and was really upset they didn't play it! |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Ha! I was wondering why no one had done a line by line analysis of this song, seeing as it is so lyrically complex and interesting... Guess I know why now! | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That makes sense when you compare the lyrics to those of high lonesome | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| where i dont see it? | |
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