| Elbow – K2 Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[Viking_DownSouth:49903] Superb breakdown of this exquisite song, thanks! I especially love the zoom out from the intimately personal to the national zeitgeist and back: "Back to the pebbles that mum’s eggs hatched in Give me her perfume, give me her prayers and advice Hands up if you’ve never seen the sea I’m from a land with an island status Makes us think that everyone hates us, maybe darling they do But they haven’t met you" |
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| Elbow – McGreggor Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"God's torment at the party As if God knew the man" should read "God's doorman at the party As if God knew the man" God's doorman being a priest, and McGreggor apparently not being overly familiar with his God. |
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| Elbow – Coming Second: Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Coming second - it's about not coming in first. That is, his partner has moved on from him and his bohemian ways and settled for a 'normal' 9-5 kinda guy. He's jealous, he's hurt and he's working hard to cover it all up, but he can't hide some yearning for the new relationship with 'some other fickle brother' to fall apart. | |
| Elbow – An Imagined Affair Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"but what means "my speach is just a gas leak" ??" It means he gets so drunk that he can't even talk beyond an exhalation of breath. |
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