| The National – Don't Swallow the Cap Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Well, I thought your interpretation was silly until I re-read the lyrics, and now it seems correct. The lyrics sort of read like someone who is having a mediocre time tripping on mushrooms at a party, and is tripping past the point he wants to be. |
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| Arcade Fire – Afterlife Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In the video a single father dreams about what it seems like is his dead wife. I agree with the above poster. The song is literally about what happens after a life ends, and how the loss of that love sends ripples. |
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| Kings of Leon – I Want You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I just wanted to pop in and say that the guitar and other effects in this song sound like the stylings of the Pixies. The vocals don't but everything else does. | |
| Jack White – I Guess I Should Go To Sleep Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I swear that you can hear whoever voices Homer Simpson mumbling along with Jack throughout the song | |
| Cloud Nothings – Wasted Days Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think the song meaning is that the lead singer thought he would be more than he turned out to be. | |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it's a commentary that people who are "zeros" turn to casual sex to feel like they're more than a zero. However, in the end they get to feeling shell-shocked and trashy for their behavior. People work in their cubicles or their offices or whatever all week, feeling like a zero, a cog in the machine. When they finally get to climb out of anonymity they may turn to sexuality to feel some sort of agency, and the sex itself is the ladder. Is it the cure? Probably not, we're just all shell-shocked and need something to feel human. |
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| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cheated Hearts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think that the song is about a woman trying to entice a married couple to have a threesome with her. I'm confused what the significance of being bigger than the sound, but it reminds me of sexuality. |
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| Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I can't shake the feeling that this is the band's feelings on the sprawl as they were teenagers, and in the same places as children that they go back to visit in Sprawl (flatland). These are the feelings they felt as teenagers, that they are alienated from now. |
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| Arcade Fire – Sprawl I (Flatland) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I feel like this song plays off of the Half-Light tracks. It's full dark now, and they have completely disengaged from the suburbs that they grew up in. It's really heartbreaking... |
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| Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Wonderful explanation. I have just one thing to add on: It seems like he is saying in times of trouble, or feeling suicidal that having to wait on a letter is a great means of getting through hard times, as you can do nothing but wait. | |
| Arcade Fire – Deep Blue Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Jesus Christ, another song on this album that just shakes me to my core. I remember watching the change of the century (and the millenium) with my girlfriend at the time in the suburbs. We cheered, we sang Auld Lang Syne, and we kissed under the fireworks. But we didn't understand. We didn't realize that the change of the century really would bring huge change to our lives. Think about 1999, people didn't have cell phones on their face all the time, they didn't feel the need to bring laptops, and IPADS everywhere they went. The reference to Deep Blue strikes me as a harbinger that our lives would get more intertwined with and dependent on technology moving forward. |
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| Arcade Fire – Month of May Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Weird how many songs on this album make veiled references to the destruction of the cities. I know that it's probably just a metaphor, but don't several songs refer to war and natural disaster? Outside of the context of what it's like growing up in the suburbs, and growing out of the suburbs the band seems to be telling a story of watching the destruction of society from the suburbs, which is apt with the other themes of the album. |
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| Arcade Fire – Suburban War Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"There's nothing to do but I don't mind when I'm with you" This line literally had me choking up. That was my last summer in the suburbs before college, I spent almost every day with a girlfriend. Just driving around, getting into mischief and being teenagers. I chose to take a path away from her, and as a result we grew apart to the point of not even knowing each other anymore. My old girlfriend, she don't know me now. |
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| Arcade Fire – Half Light II (No Celebration) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't have too much to add, except that I think the artist is commenting on the effect that the current recession is having on everyone's perception of the older generation. | |
| Arcade Fire – Half Light I Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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You can never go home again... My feeling in this song is of the artist going back to his suburban home, and everything is the same, but everything feels different. The half-light refers to the transition from young person in their 20s to an adult in their thirties. It's brilliant, and reminds me of when I visit my parent's house in the suburbs. Everything looks the same, but everything has a different feeling. |
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| The Clash – I'm Not Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think that any more input is needed on the meaning of the song, but I just wanted to point out that in this song you can really hear the influence that The Kinks had on The Clash. The opening guitar chords, and vocal stylings sound very much like something that the Kinks would have put out during their England-centric period. |
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| The Clash – I'm Not Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think that any more input is needed on the meaning of the song, but I just wanted to point out that in this song you can really hear the influence that The Kinks had on The Clash. The opening guitar chords, and vocal stylings sound very much like something that the Kinks would have put out during their England-centric period. |
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| Pavement – In the Mouth a Desert Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it's about kinky sex. The lead singer is trying to explain his need for bondage to his lover, and she's having a hard time swallowing this darker side of him. Some examples of bondage references: The trust knot: BDSM relies heavily on trust issues to excite people's interest. "You'll never get it back" A big part of BDSM lust is having your limits pushed, this is something he would say to his girl prior to debasing her. I'll see you beg like a little dog: Pretty obvious. The Ball and Twine: What he'll use to bond her up. Yeah, this song is totally about breaking a new girl into the BDSM lifestyle. |
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