| Elbow – An Audience with the Pope Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I always had the line down as "she has the sweetest of kisses", no? | |
| Elbow – The Bones Of You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Correction: just a blip on the radar | |
| Elbow – Powder Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Maybe it's the syringe breaking... | |
| Elbow – Switching Off Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I normally think of this song as being sort of a question: What you hear in the song is a scene from a man's life that he wishes to re-visit. If you could, on your deathbed, re-visit a particular day from your life, what would it be? Your marriage, the birth of your first child, or maybe just a good day you had with your friends. Alternatively, it could be about suicide - you could say that if you were planning to commit suicide, then the time and place of your death would be up to you. This would give a different meaning to the line "I choose my final scene, today". |
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| Elbow – Grounds for Divorce Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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That riff... That riff... That riff could've been thought up by Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page, but the lyrics could only be Guy Garvey. |
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| Elbow – The Bones Of You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't want to sound all "state of the nation", but it really says something, I think, that The Seldom Seen Kid was just a blib on the radar for many people. This song is very representative of the album, and it's ridiculous that Elbow aren't better known and respected. | |
| Elbow – Buttons and Zips Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well, it's about "gettin' it on", innit? "We were at each other's buttons and zips in the blossom shed". Nice. |
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| Elbow – The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is an absolute Elbow classic, and if you know the band then you'd know that that's not a phrase to be used lightly! BTW In the booklet that comes with the album (it has all the lyrics in), the "dwindle, gentle rose" line is "gentle, gentle rose". |
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