| Midlake – i guess i'll take care Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Totally. | |
| Andrew Bird – Cataracts Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I just looked this song up on songmeanings because I wondered if anyone else thought the lyrics were particularly sexual. I thought the cataracts part was about how being involved physically with others too often or without whole-hardheartedness could make someone or, what it seems like his fear is, everyone, blinded to the actual feeling of love. Maybe the references to plants are there to describe wildness. All of the plants mentioned grow quickly and obnoxiously. As for, "milk that sours is promptly spat..." I totally agree. I'm always asking, "How on earth can so few people think of more interesting songs to write about sex?" Leave it to Andrew Bird. |
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| Brandi Carlile – The Story Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song could never hit as hard as it does on 7-or-however-many big screens at midnight on surround sound. Obviously added by you to a playlist otherwise filled with absolute garbage in the one place that in some ways brought us together but in most ways will keep us apart. I should have just said something. | |
| Why? – Dumb Hummer Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Speed up when they call after youuuu. You guys should watch the video. SO good. |
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| Broken Bells – The Mall and Misery Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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TommyCreedboi is dead on. Do we really WANT to be "used to the mall and misery"? Probably not. I think a lot of people are caught in between doing all the things a person has to do in our society to survive "comfortably" and being themselves in their natural forms. We get caught between those two routes at a relatively young age...possibly an age when we should really be using who we ARE to add something the world...or just to not be miserable. There are more forces pulling people toward doing what they have to do in the conventional world than not and that's why this song exists, I think. They ARE telling people to not mute their intuitions for any reason, because so many things drown out the thoughts of individual people. |
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| Bon Iver – Blood Bank Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| He's in love with this woman who turns out to be his mother. It's from an episode of Northern Exposure. | |
| The Tallest Man on Earth – Into the Stream Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Maybe the last verse is about death. The limosine and dark ocean and whatnot. | |
| The Tallest Man on Earth – Into the Stream Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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He's talking about God in the first verse. (...with a thunder strike from my hand...) He says "to wake you up from your hollow dream" like giving people a reality check; living isn't a simple thing to do. Then he talks about human nature: Lets come all steal we will lie and cheat and turn around all their limit signs and redirect this great old boring road into the depths of a lions mouth We're greedy. We want more than simple things. We develop ways to live more easily, but doing that is harmful to us. We're going to damage ourselves, but it's the nature we were born with. Then he says "Just to see if there's something we believe" People say that life is a test to see if we are loyal to some higher idea. Our dog will drink Till the oceans gone And he will pull Till the collar breaks And everyone That he will run down Will see his limbs as they grow and bleed We'll create a monster of ourselves. We'll need all these resources to live and the things we've created will need all these resources to live. Eventually, what we have won't be enough and the damage we've done will be the end of us. "Just to see if there's something we believe..." It's just a "Why are we here?" song. Or maybe "Your idea of why we're here sucks." He was just talking about what people are doing here...maybe it's more like, "Is this really the only reason? So we can kill ourselves off and somehow be tested for our faith?" Aaaaannnnddd....the last verse is probably the most important one, but I haven't really figured it out. He talks about religion in this sort of light a lot, like in "Love Is All" and "Walk The Line". |
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