| Swirlies – sterling moss Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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well... for those who are not into car racing: Stirling Moss was an F1 driver from England. He was 4-times runner-up between 1955 and 58. He drove for teams like Mercedes, Vanwall, Cooper and Lotus, entering 67 Grand Prix in 1951-61 and winning 16 of them - including the Monaco GP twice. He also took part in 10 editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, having won it in 1956 on an Aston Martin with Peter Collins as his teammate. In 1962 he crashed his car on a race in Goodwood. Racing was pretty dangerous those times, much more than today. He went into coma and eventually recovered, but he didn't feel as competitive as before, so he decided to retire from racing. |
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| Waxahatchee – Bathtub Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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A movie I consider one of my most precious is a 1998 Koreeda movie called After Life ("wandafuru raifu" in Japanese). There's a certain moment when the filmmakers have an argument about what are the soonest memories one can recall. Takashi, the story's hero, says that one can be possible to remember how it feels to be in one's mother womb, and claims it can be proven by the comfort it brings to be totally immersed in hot water. Shiori, the heroine, hears it and ponders... and tests the theory when bathing in the lodge's ofurô (a japanese bathtub). The film is pretty and I think this scene, while not so appealing, is the one which affected me the most, I guess Well, in this song Katie sings about a lot of stuff happening in a very badly resolved - in her head - relationship... she talks about feeling guilty, about playing games, about a ruined fate, about turning her lover into an object, about repeating mistakes after apologizing... And that line "I hide from phonecalls under the hot water" - well isn't it that feeling they talked about in After Life, the comfort of a hot tub bath? That welcoming and cosy sensation? Well, but Katie adds to it the will of running away from that torrent of confusing things her relationship has been. She's comfortable under the hot water while she tries to get some courage to answer her lover's calls. |
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| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – My Terrible Friend Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| hahaha. actually, it makes more sense indeed... | |
| Asobi Seksu – Strawberries Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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just passed to romaji. akai sora no you ni butsu mata mo tsuzuku ichigo no hata no naka ni iru to hora, kikoe ni ookina koe de yonderu "wasurenaide" to sakebu (now they are) fuete iku urusai ichigo-tachi mata ichigo no hata no naka ni iru to hora, kikoe ni ookina koe de yonderu "wasurenaide" to sakebu |
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| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – My Terrible Friend Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| and it's funny how this theme is reocurrent in their sound. a lot of songs are about "friends who are so friends they fall in love". twins, this love is fucking right, higher than the stars, belong, everything with you - i interpret them as about this stuff. that's why the pains always sound so familiar to me and to many people. | |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – My Terrible Friend Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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no one has commented yet? unexpected... well, for me it's the best song on "belong". reminds me of "higher than the stars" and some poppier stuff from the cure. my english is not this good and i think i may not have caught all the "between the lines" of the lyrics, but i can only guess that this song is about having a best friend from the opposite sex. and, not enough, feeling like falling in love with her/him. maybe it's me, because i have gone through a thing like this recently (and i believe most of us, if not yet, will go through this too). in the case of the song, it's clear that, at the same time he has some physical intimacy with her, their relationship is more about complicity. when he sings "everyone's just everyone", and after this "you're the one who's breaking me", it seems that he feels himself inside this dilemma; kind of "you're perfect to me, you make me crazy. but we're just friends. you're so terrible". it's pretty. (but i don't want to be in it again) |
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| Chico Buarque de Hollanda – Construção Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Chico travels through a lot of styles, and I think he is one of the best bossa-nova songwriters, like João Gilberto and Tom Jobim, for example. But indeed, Chico is much more for one who wants to know about Brazil's culture and collective emotions, than for one who just wants to listen to a relaxing bossa-nova session. His work tends to be less conventional and more intense than the cited's works. "Construção" is a song that demonstrates it. It's almost all written in a E minor scale, with some complex chords (a lot of sixths), and its dramatic nature is emphasized by Rogério Duprat's arrangement (the traffic noise). The lyrics themselves; the three stories end up with the death of the characters. The Perrone quotation talks strictly about form. The metric matter is important because it clearly marks the song's rythmn, and the use of words that are stressed two syllables before the end of each line gives them a sense of harmonic continuity, which wouldn't happen if the last words were oxitone. For a native portuguese-speaker, it's kinda intuitive. But, in my opinion, the funniest thing about the lyrics is the fact that, in a progressive way, the three stories get completely distinct from each other by only switching the last words. I consider these stories the same, but in the first paragraph, it's told in a very linear way; in the second, it starts to get lost and subjective (as the arrangement gains strenght); and in the third, it's totally broken, almost psychedelic. |
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