| The Limousines – Very Busy People Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The iPod like a pirate ship is very obvious to me. You pirate a ton of music and then never get around to listening to it all. | |
| Stornoway – Fuel Up Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The first time I heard this song I was just about to head back home after my first semester at college for Thanksgiving. Really made me sad. Such an amazing song and very easy to understand. Depressingly nostalgic though. | |
| Interpol – Barricade Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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To me, the barricade is age and this song is about a cross-generational relationship. "How much fear can you fabricate" refers to societal taboos about such a relationship. Probably completely off-base to what Banks intended, but that's what it means to me. |
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| Interpol – Obstacle 1 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I know this song has been analyzed to death, but I've been listening to it, and by changing the gender a bit... I can form this song to be about my last boyfriend. "I wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips" This part is about a lost lover who died. He wants him back. "We can cap the old times, make playing only logical harm We can cap the old lines, make playing that nothing else will change" He's decided that he no longer wants to be emotionally involved with others. Playing being only logical harm, no emotions involved. "Nothing else will change" means that he won't have to love someone else besides his last lover. He's afraid to. "Well she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad She can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad, oh she's bad" Well, we're gay so the "she" doesn't fit. But to me this means that the men he's been involved with this can read into his mind and see that he's afraid of moving on. "But it's different now that I'm poor and aging I'll never see this face again" Fits perfectly into my interpretation. He's getting old, no time for another lover and he'll never see his lost one again. "You'll go stabbing yourself in the neck" He's saying to himself that new love will only bring more pain "And we can find new ways of living, make playing only logical harm And we can top the old times, clay making that nothing else will change But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad She can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad, oh she's bad" The only thing that's changed is the "find new ways of living" part... which means that he's found his new way of living (only casual sexual relationships) "But it's different now that I'm poor and aging I'll never see this place again You'll go stabbing yourself in the neck" "This place" could mean love... haven't found a better way to warp the song to my own meaning. But it's different now that I'm poor and aging I'll never seen this place again You'll go stabbing yourself in the neck "It's in the way that she poses It's in the things that she puts in my hair Her stories are boring and stuff" This is about his casual sex encounters, just about the bodies rather than the person. "She's always calling my bluff She puts the, she puts the weights in to my little heart and she gets in my room and she takes it apart She puts the weights into my little heart I said she puts the weights into my little heart" "Calling my bluff" is just like "she can read" means the same thing. The weights are emotions that he doesn't want to experience. "She packs it away, she packs it away, she packs it away, she packs it away" His new men have all left him for their own reasons. "It's in the way that she walks, her heaven is never enough She puts the weights in my heart She puts the, she puts the weights into my little heart" I can't figure out any way to get "her heaven is never enough" into my interp. I know it's completely off-base to what was intended, but this is what the song means to me, I hope it's understandable. |
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