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LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great Lyrics	15 years ago
This is 100% about a stillborn child. Listen to it with that in mind, and consider that James Murphy said he would not divulge what this song is about because his wife didn't want him to.

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Beach House – Zebra Lyrics	15 years ago
Seriously, it's about a zebra. The 'your love' bit is weird in that context, but who cares? I fail to see any metaphors in this one.

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Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius Lyrics	15 years ago
So the first time my fiancée heard this song was at his concert in Kansas City last year, and she's been obsessed with the 'Suf-ee-jan, follow your heart' part ever since. Hilarious.

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Spoon – The Fitted Shirt Lyrics	15 years ago
It perfectly conveys the pleasant memories everyone has. His father's shirt hanging loosely on him as a child. It's silly things like that that often stick with us most. It's sentimental in the best possible way. Plus, they really don't make shirts right anymore...especially for thin, tall people.

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Sufjan Stevens – The Seer's Tower Lyrics

15 years ago

I didn't bother to read every comment, but many people grossly misinterpret the line about 'dividing man from brothers.' This is a fairly clear allusion to Matthew 10:34-39. "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."

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