| Matt & Kim – Lessons Learned Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Tape holds things that cannot stick and keep leftovers in the fridge while lessons learned go down the drain I can't believe in everything all the bad names gone and the good ones were all wrong For me at least, this song is about how we are supposed to do what we can, as if that will make things the way we want or need them to be in life. Tape holds things you need stuck together, even though they're not really supposed to stick in the first place. We put leftovers int he fridge so they won't go bad, we can eat them later, kind of motherly advice, something a parent would say to their son/daughter when they get their own place for the first time. Yet, even when you do the right thing, what you're supposed to do, we don't always find fulfillment or satisfaction and these life lessons lose meaning or significance and we start to let these things go as what you expected reality to be life comes apart at the seams. You can't believe everything you were told, not just because it might not be true but because it might not make things whole or satisfying to you. People tell you to give things time, that you will get used to change or that things will get better but I feel like they are questioning this. Thinking about tomorrow, that things will become satisfying or that things will get better, does not help you in the present. Eventually you need to find what makes you whole, what satisfies you and makes your life the way you want and need it to be. |
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| Los Campesinos! – To Tundra Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this song is heavily referencing cremation. And in a hazy day dream Our bodies married the stream And we grow down into pebbles and silt The water ran from the fields Until the oceans we filled And found the sea-bed the comfiest quilt There was more life in the weeds than in the few hundred seats I think its talking about being sprinkled into the river which carries the ashes throughout nature which is serving the purpose of almost an after life. The end says "take a body to water take a body to tundra just take me with you as well" wherever they plan to bury the dead is irreverent the significant other just wants to meet the same fate. |
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| Los Campesinos! – The Black Bird, The Dark Slope Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think anyone who has ever struggled with depression can related very well to this song. For starters "The black bird sits atop my guts and spreads its wings for flight" is most likely refering to the stomach aches and loss of appetite common in depression. As the depression begins to get worse it leads the author to do and say things they would normally not do leaving them empty and alone "when he flies me to the top there's nothing but the fog." The heart of stone is the cold hopelessness and eggshell bones are the instability that comes with being depressed leading you to become lost from a sense of self and solid ground. It is in the end a general slope of mental decline. "The black bird dips its beak in blood and writes its thoughts in cursive 'cross The bones that are its jailer and my ribcage And when you turn me inside out, believe in me without a doubt The words were all of his and none of mine" I think this could be referring to either a suicide note that was written purely out of crippling depression, or possibly words of spite the author may have said to someone that they now regret saying and maintain these words as their biggest regret but beg either way that the reader hold true this is not the actual opinion/ mindset of the author but the depression driving them mad. |
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| Los Campesinos! – I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The man's desire to for his love interest reaches deeper than a fling "Just let me be the one that keeps track of the moles on your back" As in how some couples would check each other for moles that could prove to be cancerous the author is extending interest in protecting her in even the most simplistic forms. Although he is able to come to the realization that his attention is unwanted, the truth is still difficult to accept "... But this one sentence bludgeons me over the head... I'm a little bit drunk and I mean just a little bit" |
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