| Vampire Weekend – Everlasting Arms Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Don't worry about it! I saw Hokum on a couple sites and it does sound like he says it! Easy mistake for VW! Ezra's style leads syllables to blur together sometimes! :D | |
| Vampire Weekend – Hudson Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I completely agree with this interpretation. This is a great ending song for Vampire Weekend because it immediately catches your attention when listening to the CD. It is eery, haunting, yet beautiful! | |
| Vampire Weekend – Everlasting Arms Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This album seems to have religious tones for those out there that are religious. Although I think all VW songs have dual meanings for audiences. I believe this one is straight forward, someone struggling with religion and seemingly a loss. Uses the word Hokum, which is the worst thing you can call religion essentially. Something that is supposed to be impressive but is actually nonsense. This is one of my favorites on the new album so I thought it needed a comment! |
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| Vampire Weekend – Diane Young Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I agree with most of this, including the Kennedy part. But, that particular verse most likely refers to Ted Kennedy's car accident. In which he shamefully drove a pregnant woman and himself home drunk and off a bridge. She died as he escaped, swam out ad went home. He slept before he ever called the cops. All Kennedy's had really bad luck, but Ted's was of his own design. | |
| Citizen Cope – Sideways Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I can see people taking this song in many different ways. A lot of emotion is the uniting factor of all of us in my opinion, which is why the song is so great. My take is it is about a guy who is falling in love hard with a girl, someone who is has dated for a short time and may be thinking she is the one. His past relationships, the feelings have always subsided for one reason or another. But this time they aren't because it is a more true, pure love. There are no words that describe this new deep that he has fallen into, in French or English. Diamonds fade is a metaphor saying even marriages have love that fade, especially if the diamond size is a part of the decision. But the love behind a rose given to a lover is more pure, flowers constantly bloom, so does his love, there is no end to his love. Every time he thinks his feelings will go away, there is a new flower, his love or appreciation, sprouting instead. The end of the song is just a more gushy, less informative part. These feelings are knocking him over every time he sees her. He becomes "weak in the knees" each and every time he sees her or she is in the room. But they never do, he thinks that in time this will soon pass, like all the rest, but for some reason, they never shake. Could be and probably is different from most opinions, but it is my interpretation, hopefully he continues to rock it, love all of his albums! |
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| Modest Mouse – Out of Gas Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| "Either that or* some religion" | |
| Modest Mouse – Out of Gas Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this song definitely is not about drugs or alcohol even though it seems like that is what people generally go to. Either that a some religion or lack there of is what people try to make out of it. It is about a guy who is down on his luck or is just tired of taking everyone's shit. He says you will come down soon. (Self explanatory) You will come down, too soon. ( Just a way of speaking. Like saying you will come down. And it will happen all too soon.) That said, everyone is free to their own interpretation! |
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| Phantom Planet – Always On My Mind Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I agree with who said its someone he cant stop thinking about, but the girl cant see him being as more than a friend, this happens all too often. Feelings always change though, so eventually the girl will think of him if he gets the courage to say what he feels, the thing is, will he have found a girl who appreciates him when he wants her, then that girl may realize she missed a chance. So goes the circle of life, haha | |
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