| Astronautalis – Barrel Jumping (A Man of Letters) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Wow. Actually. Yeah. thinking about it that way makes a lot of sense. It's such a beautiful song. I have listened to it pretty obsessively over the past couple of months. | |
| Marianne Faithfull – The Ballad of Lucy Jordan Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have such a dysfuntional relationship with this song. Before I could ever form an opinion, my dad told me it was his mother's favourite song, by Marianne Faithful, and, unless I am mistaken, of all time. This song is a reflection of someone trapped in 'everyday life', be it unappreciated, banal, forgettable, or just neither what she had dreamed nor what she wanted. My grandmother was someone I never met, never had the chance of meeting. She died when my father was a child. Almost straight after a hideously lengthy and depressing divorce. I know almost nothing about her, my father can barely bring himself to talk about her and I have only seen one photo in my entire life. She is this collection of 'things' to me, I can't even really put a face to the name (I can only assume I have her right name, and haven't forgotten the correct one.) She was a woman who in my vague knowledge of her, escaped to continue her life and be happy, only to die pretty much straight after. Man. Now. I sound all depressed. This song is beautiful. Sad. (when all the laughter grew too loud.) Ruined/Ruining. Listening to this song makes me feel crazy sometimes. When you really think about it, things you CHOOSE to do don't make a lot of sense. (and there were oh so many ways,for her to spend her days, she could clean the house for hours, or rearrange the flowers, or run naked through the shady street SCREAMING ALL THE WAY) |
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| Pomegranates – This Land used to be my Land, But Now I Hate Th... Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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(Dedicated) To a Friend. Who I love so damn much, and who continually makes my life amazing. (Thankyou. That's all I can say.)XO 'I'm so tired, of living in a city, and never being ABLE to see the STARS AT NIGHTS, and yes I KNOW, we are SO far apart, we're still looking together at the same night sky.' 'Had' to post these lyrics, so please inform me of any mistakes.I know 'flares all their lights at me' is wrong, but I couldn't for the life of me work out what it said. |
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| Astronautalis – Skeleton (Everybody's Favourite) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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'Last night a couple of lovers tossed each other off that bridge' The lyrics are incredible and the way all these different emotions just WORK together leaves you feeling either completely drained, or full up and feeling EVERYTHING... First song I listened to by Astronautalis. I began by thinking the chorus was slightly cheesy, got a quarter of the way through the song and BIT MY TONGUE... This song is one of those songs you can listen to for hours, and never get sick of. It threatens to tear me apart sometimes. |
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| Astronautalis – Down And Out In The Bold New City Of The South Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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CAN'T even write ANYTHING to describe how...astoundingly good this song is. LOVIN THEM LIKE I HOPE THEY LOVE ME |
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| Astronautalis – Barrel Jumping (A Man of Letters) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I can't say I agree ManifestO (but I want too)... This song just reminds me of getting everything BACK to nothing. Big bang could be taken to reference creation as well as destruction/suicide or even just plain emotion. Without it? This 'nothing'. Maybe... Else maybe just having to feel NOTHING for a while, in order to get over something big, something painful, something you never thought you could get over. I don't know. Just damn incredible song. One of my favourite songs ever, at the moment (things may change with time, I have only recently started listening to this band) but I just love how they sound, and how their music effects my moods/reflects them. Could have set you to rest, I could have told you that I loved you to death. Make a million memories, you talk in wasted breath. Wave my hat and beat my chest while listening 'til it hits, you love the mess, I'll give you one that you never forget. |
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| Astronautalis – A Love Song For Gary Numan Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I would love (and partly do) this song just for the end lines... I thought I had control, you know, The devil never needs I told you so's, You're always somewhere halfway home, It's funny how our hands seem so damn close... I can't get over this band at the moment, I have been listening to them straight for about a week, and am sickeningly addicted to the emotional pull of his lyrics and voice. and 'I dream I'm colour blind' (Because I do sometimes too) |
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| Astronautalis – Seaweed Sheets Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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We lost a lot in that hurricane, again till everything came back again... (We, we lost it all again) - Particularly topical right now, it reminds me of a disaster, or at least metaphorically speaking, losing these important aspects of your life (maybe a person, maybe your home, your lover) only to have them come back (or think they have) just to lose everything over again. The PAIN that you feel over losing something twice, especially in that aching sense of relief when you feel you have got them back again...it just reduces you to tears. (a whole lot of different voices break, and come in and out towards the end of this song, it shouldn't work but it does, and it's beautiful...) You were the best lover I never loved, Regretting. This could mean they never even loved the person, or never had TIME or opportunity, everything just went too fast. It seems that they wanted too, or they felt they could, just didn't. I guess I'm scared to wake up next to her or maybe I'm too scared to ever fall asleep. Again, this could be losing someone all over again, waking up realising it was all a dream, some sick deluded nightmare, or even the moment of realisation when you have really fucked up. The moment after you have done something, knowing it was wrong but doing it anyway, and then it REALLY hits you, and everything feels ridiculously sick. We'll never tell a soul that we kissed. (Horrible, sad, fucking beautiful line.) |
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| Broken Social Scene – Meet Me in the Basement Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Seeing this live...and that ‘feeling’, just so happy and FULL OUT. I have never liked instrumentals; but thanks to this band, I love them. I just cannot even describe how good it felt to see this band in the flesh, a million times better than their albums, and I really like their albums. End of a damn amazing concert, and feeling this contradictory mix exhaustion and hyperactivity...and not caring about whatever happened next, just feeling so good. *Number 14* (at least it was meant to be) |
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| The Rural Alberta Advantage – Two Lovers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| ‘And If I ever hold you again, I will hold you tight enough to crush your veins.’ | |
| Built to Spill – Built To Spill Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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‘some thing’s last a life time’ (Yeah) (Beautiful lyrics :P) |
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| R.E.M. – E-Bow The Letter Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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‘I said your name’ The first CD I owned for myself, not from my parents. I love this song, it was never one that I immediately liked but after years of liking the band, I still love it. It still makes me ‘feel’ whenever I listen to it. Hurt too, remember wanting to fit in (still wanting to fit in) ‘Wrap my hand in plastic to try to look through it’ and just emotions that just make you ache and hurt inside, even though they come from other memories which don’t affect you now. ‘I’ll take you over there’ There seems so many lyrics here which apply to my life, basically from being 12 up. |
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| Architecture in Helsinki – In Case We Die (Parts 1-4) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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YELL THIS SONG FROM THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! ‘I got PROBLEMS, I’m gonna use them, I’m going to keep them from you until you cry’ ‘Got machine guns, I never shoot them, I only borrowed them in case we die’ And yes, things are wrong, and yes they were never ever right, and yes we should just keep GOING, and keep making things worse and enjoying it, and suffering and simply being and living, and FEELING. This song makes heartbreak fun :) |
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| Broken Social Scene – Handjobs for the Holidays Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| God, ever just wanted MORE from someone. Damn. It’s just going through the motions. | |
| Violent Femmes – Good Feeling Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Slowed down vocals, ‘Good Feeling, Won’t you stay with me just a little longer. It always seems like you’re leaving. When I need you here just a little longer.’ He draws out the words, slow and painful. You can hear the emotion in his voice. It makes me so sad hearing this. I think it is just about wanting good times to last. A friend of mine has this view that at least ninety percent of life is shit, and only ten percent is good. It doesn’t matter what that ten percent is, drugs, sex, simple HAPPINESS, being in love. It is just wanting things to slow down and stop for just a second, so you can enjoy it, because the good times seem to finish far too quickly. Bittersweet. |
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| The Faint – Amorous in Bauhaus Fashion Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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‘Amorous’, strongly moved by love, especially sexual love. I think this song reminds me of sleeping with someone for the first time, perhaps even losing your virginity. The people seem young (a book from school kept me wandering), and I get the feeling either things went badly (This seems so senseless) and either it did not happen like the narrator wanted, too rushed, too soon (This could have been different), or it was not the right person (where are you tonight?) It is a damn melancholy mix of desire and this kind of self-disgust (I stare blankly through her face.) I think it is beautiful. One of my favourite of theirs. As for Bauhaus? Design art desire? It reminds me of just simply ruining something...something really good. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Three Peaches Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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‘Because I’m so happy you didn’t die.’ A month or two after I broke up with my first girlfriend, she text me in the middle of the night freaked out, after having a dream where I’d died. It was a horrible break up, and something that screwed me up far more than I ever thought it would. But getting that, and knowing that whatever had happened she still cared, it was weird. In the period, I knew her she was messed up by so many different things, and she fucked me up too, and maybe I should hate her for that, but I don’t. Sometimes life is just like that, I guess. Anyway, Neutral milk Hotel are one of my favourite bands, I just love Jeff’s lyrics. They are beautiful, and they express so many different things, about life, death, love, sex, everything. Every song seems to encourage such a vivid image, feeling or emotion. ‘You seem so bruised....And you somehow survived.’ They are flat out intense. |
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| Modest Mouse – She Ionizes and Atomizes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| ‘I’m feeling empty/The real lights can make you heavy but/never ever really empty/Fluorescent lights will always equal empty.’ | |
| Modest Mouse – Path of Least Resistance Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Just Giving up. It is getting away. As other people have said in the comments, just giving the fuck up. It is like having an argument, or failing at something and the moment, you realise that you cannot win. You are just fucked. The only solution is not a solution. It is just numb. Not feeling, not doing, and not thinking. ‘The path of least resistance’ |
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| Guided by Voices – Hardcore UFOs Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree el d4nt3, about childhood. Hanging out a friend in the kind of relationship, you have with someone, that is basically family but something more special. I think it’s harder to get that as you grow up, you start to get involved in your own things, more self obsessed, less time to just hang out with people. I guess you often lose that closeness. ‘I’ll be with you, without you, again.’ Wasting an entire day just talking to someone, or listening to music, or just hanging round at their house that’s special and not always even something that exciting, but something that sticks with you, always. ‘you know why I left you for so long...’ I don’t know if this means things can’t last, or that even as you spend every waking second with someone, you still grow apart, and you still hurt each other. There is something obsessive and intense in any close relationship, something that makes you love and hate and just feel things, so hard. |
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| Guided by Voices – Hardcore UFOs Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree el d4nt3, about childhood. Hanging out a friend in the kind of relationship, you have with someone, that is basically family but something more special. I think it’s harder to get that as you grow up, you start to get involved in your own things, more self obsessed, less time to just hang out with people. I guess you often lose that closeness. ‘I’ll be with you, without you, again.’ Wasting an entire day just talking to someone, or listening to music, or just hanging round at their house that’s special and not always even something that exciting, but something that sticks with you, always. ‘you know why I left you for so long...’ I don’t know if this means things can’t last, or that even as you spend every waking second with someone, you still grow apart, and you still hurt each other. There is something obsessive and intense in any close relationship, something that makes you love and hate and just feel things, so hard. |
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| The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Fucker Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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‘If you fuck me I will fall apart’ He sounds sweet, as he rips into his (ex) girlfriend. When you love someone with your entire heart, they control how you physically feel, and fuck they can make you hurt. Reminds me of every relationship I have ever been had. No matter could much you love someone and they LOVE you back, it just seems to end up that you eventually you tear each other apart. Maybe I’m pessimistic. Hope so. |
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| Modest Mouse – Edit the Sad Parts Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Every single fucking line. | |
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