| Mimicking Birds – Cabin Fever Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song goes through 3 repetitions and changes slightly each time - the lyrics above don't quite do that justice. For instance, "Only understood certain words" changes to "Never understood every word" and finally "I understood every word". "Hard without you being here Hard without you near" Very applicable to me currently. I'm desperately in love with someone who isn't near me. It's not long distance, but she isn't here. Despite being able to make me happy with a single glance, it's so hard to feel happy without her here. The absence of her is all I can think about, and what it means, and whether it'll ever change. I have an overactive imagination, one that takes words that are potentially meaningless and twists them in any way it can, against me. "And all the rumours that I've heard I understood every word" To me, this is what that line's about; taking mumbled words, unclear messages, rumours, and turning them into final, concrete facts. "Hard without you being here Much easier with you near" |
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| Lucero – My Best Girl Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I feel very strongly about what Ben says here. Music has been a big part of my life for a long time. I don't play any instruments but I listen to music about 80% of the time I'm awake - and I leave it playing every night as I go to sleep. I've always been able to find music to help, or exacerbate (for some sort of mind-catharsis) my moods. I think some people find my obsession with music weird, but I also think that it's what attracts some people to me. For me there's nothing quite like finding someone who shares a similar music taste. I don't mean liking a few of the same bands you have on your iPod - I mean like actually knowing what you listen to. Because that's very close to what you are. It's how you feel when you're depressed, or sad, or happy. It's a way of sharing part of yourself, I think. | |
| Lucero – In Lonesome Times Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I don't find much comfort in goin' out at night Walkin' these streets underneath the bright city lights Dark country roads don't take me anywhere I'm stuck and I'm tired, and it ain't no fair" I go for walks at night. I find myself doing this more frequently lately. I used to just go somewhere, high up, and sit. I would entertain (but not seriously consider) thoughts of jumping. The fall wouldn't be enough to kill me unless I landed awkwardly. No, I might break an ankle or something, and then be faced with all the questions "what were you doing on that roof?" "why did you do it?" and then people would think I'm suicidal or something. I'm not. I just feel depressed sometimes. I'm strong enough to get over it. Anyway, I would only entertain the thoughts. Run through the scenarios. Nothing serious. Promise. I walk more and more. Further, and closer. It doesn't help at all. Isn't it supposed to fix things? Calm you down? Well it doesn't distract my thoughts, or give me a way to vent. I don't know what I expect it to fix. You're still all I can think about. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Genesis 30:3 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"For several hours we laid there, last ones of our kind Harder days coming maybe I don't mind." This part makes me think of two people lying in silence, a lot of unspoken assumptions between them, a lot of questions unspoken that they'd rather keep unanswered for now. And that they're honestly happy like that. I honestly don't need anything else. Sounds kind of dumb when I say it but it's true. I would do anything for you. |
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| of Montreal – Nonpareil of Favor Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this was the first of Montreal song I ever heard. I wasn't really into their style of music at the time - might've been Barnes' vocal style that kept me away from them for so long. It was, and is, the crashing instrumental part of this song that I love...it sounds AWFUL for so long (the kind of song you could never show your friends) but then the bass comes in, and then the last repeating line (which, for those of you who asked earlier, as it's not up in the lyric text, I hear as:) "I can't fall asleep so I'm thinking about you instead." But honestly, to have such...aural euphoria emerge from the grating sounds of like 2:05 onwards is amazing. Close my eyes. Throw myself against a wall. |
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| Okkervil River – Another Radio Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Uprisingdownfall, I enjoyed your tale & I hope everything worked out for you. P to the G your dissection of the lyrics was beautifully/brutally accurate. | |
| Bloc Party – Cain Said to Abel Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"You look up, you look over, you can see it Disappearing, disappearing, instantly Literally, literally, telling them They'll be different They'll be special They'll be better" To me, this is about being paranoid about relationships. Whenever I start one I am obsessed (but not always to the point of verbalising it) by the thought of them leaving me. Thoughts of every breakup come to you, and you have to tell yourself that it won't be the case. But you can picture it so VIVIDLY, every scenario, every realization that they were better off with their ex, every "sorry I just don't like you as much anymore", every slow drift apart, every funeral (beautiful, and with a fantastic soundtrack). You have to tell yourself that the next one will be different, special, better. (Though sometimes...you just know). |
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| Carissa's Wierd – Heather Rhodes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Saw someone today who looked exactly like you." Now I'm aware of the clear literal interpretation of this line; leaving, or being left by someone, missing someone, and seeing their face everywhere. (Maybe in places you don't want to see them). The feeling in (around, really) your heart, how it stutters and floats in your chest. That meaning reminds me of seeing you at college, after I said I couldn't see you anymore. I was messing with my iPod while walking through the crowd of students, glanced up to check I wasn't about to walk into anything, saw your face, glued my eyes back to the screen. It couldn't be you. I pretended not to see you. Walked until I could see you were stopped in the middle of the stream of people. and I looked at you. I prefer the other interpretation. Slightly more abstract. It's seeing someone you know, who IS the person, but who has changed, someone different to how you remember. The only thing similar about them now is that they still look the same. But if you see the person every day (even every few days) then surely you'd notice a change - no great change can be that sudden. A gradual change isn't noticed. Something has to make you realise, and snap back. "There was a correction, a moment of nothing, and then a loose and sudden rush, back into the real world" |
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| The Protomen – Breaking Out Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Sometimes I just want to drive until the streets run out. I want to burn until there's nothing left to burn about. All the bad things I can think of to say to you, I say them to myself in my head until they don't affect me anymore. I know how they would make you feel, because I feel the same things you do. So I will never say them to you. I don't ever want to hurt you. I will destroy myself with conversations that will never happen. I will burn myself alive with these thoughts before I let a spark catch your beautiful hair. |
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| Sparklehorse – Mountains Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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hang in there, winter star i know your heart's heavy as mountains I love the hiss and crackle of this song, and the abrupt cessations of the acoustic guitar that leads to the sharp slide of the electric. I listened to this while i was sitting next to you, pretending to work on my assignment. |
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