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Beirut – Cliquot Lyrics 11 years ago
It's a pretty clear reference considering the context of the album and its French influence.

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CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share Lyrics 11 years ago
I don't think it's necessarily "earth" in particular, but whatever it is that binds us as humans - the universe, god, spirit, music, whatever you want to define it/call it.

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Man Man – Head On Lyrics 12 years ago
I think you're on exactly the right track. The line "I need new skin for this old skeleton of mine/because this one that I'm in has let me down once again over time" also suggests that the protagonist recognizes that he needs to break from that thought pattern before it destroys him. The previous stanza:

"Is it all a game of bait and switch your brains/And follow your leaders to hell
Is it all the same vein of insane /As drinking from a poisoned well"

Also seems to suggest he's contemplating futility and his own perception, respectively. Here again, recognizing what he's become and what depression has potentially turned him into. And the chorus comes in to tell him not to give in and let it destroy him.

This stanza when read together as it should be also indicates the same themes, and may well sum up the entire song:

"It's an old episode/Of trying to put the lightening on the monster
Of the life you have lead that is always a mess"

To "put the lightning on the monster" is an allusion to reanimation, most famously the Frankenstein monster of Mary Shelley's fiction. So he's referring to present and past attempts by the protagonist to revive his life, or reclaim his happiness. And again, the chorus reminds him not to give up and let it take him over.

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Man Man – Head On Lyrics 12 years ago
This track is very reminiscent of the "Doom-Wop" from Honus' work on Mister Heavenly

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Man Man – Born Tight Lyrics 12 years ago
Great song, but they lifted the piano riff from their last album. It's Piranhas Club note for note.

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Passion Pit – Take a Walk Lyrics 13 years ago
Lol. I love the references to "right wing rhetoric" while you're spouting a bunch of lefty talking points about class warfare and lack of opportunity. Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot.

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Newsboys – Lost the Plot Lyrics 13 years ago
Vocals are great, but they aren't Pete Furler. John James was still on lead vocals for this song. Pete took over full time lead vocals on the album following this one.

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George Barnett – Light A Fire Lyrics 13 years ago
When asked on Twitter whether this song was for or against the London rioters, Barnett said:

"Both/Neither- Although I found it a relief to see people finally regaining oomph it was the wrong way to go about change..."

And

"Hard to explain in 142 characters, but the song is just a comment & an attempt to capture the upset... if that makes sense?"

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George Barnett – Light A Fire Lyrics 13 years ago
When asked on Twitter whether this song was for or against the London rioters, Barnett said:

"Both/Neither- Although I found it a relief to see people finally regaining oomph it was the wrong way to go about change..."

And

"Hard to explain in 142 characters, but the song is just a comment & an attempt to capture the upset... if that makes sense?"

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Built to Spill – Alarmed Lyrics 13 years ago
It's "By a die I didn't cast", not "Vie or die I didn't count". He's referring to decisions made by fate or chance. "Vie or die I didn't count" is incoherent, and the lyric doesn't sound even remotely like that.

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Man Man – Ice Dogs Lyrics 14 years ago
These lyrics are a bit off from the album version of the song. Correct lyrics are:

Am I supposed to close my eyes as you walk away from me
Am I supposed to blind myself so I'll never have to see
You walking side by side with a different kind of man
Who'll redefine your body in ways I know I...

What if I don't want to go now
Will you come put these eyes out

So don't go and blame your mother for what's your father's fault
Or all of your daughters will turn out just like you
Bent on destruction and burning through your beauty
And looking beyond your years by the time you're only...

What if I don't want to go now
Will you come put these eyes out

Oh c'est la vie please don't go and abandon me
When the bridge burns down and the bad blood tastes like wine on the wind
(And they say) Beware of the man in shades, beware
Beware of the man in shades, beware

I stutter step my way across desert lakes to try to sweat the ghost of the past
So I can lay my anchor at last at your feet

(As they say) Beware of the man in shades, beware
Beware of the man in shades, beware

I am the man in shades, yes I am
I am the man in shades, yes I am
I am the man in shades, yes I am (and this ship will sail, and this heart wont die)(x5)

Oh c'est la vie please don't go and abandon me
When the bridge burns down and the bad blood tastes like wine on the wind

I am the man in shades, yes I am (and this ship will sail, and this heart wont die) (x3)

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Owl City – Strawberry Avalanche Lyrics 14 years ago
"If you were a beautiful *sound*" Sorry, typo.

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Owl City – Strawberry Avalanche Lyrics 14 years ago
These lyrics are a bit off. Correct lyrics are:

This is a world of dreams and reverie
Where I felt the stars explode around me
A grass blade flashed with a gleam as it slashed open a moonbeam
And I stared back breathlessly
As mountains of fruit tumbled out I barely had the chance to shout
Oh strawberry avalanche, crash over me

Staying awake that night was rather hard
Deep in a sleeping bag in your back yard
When we woke up buried alive beneath the fruity landslide
We both laughed hysterically
It could've been just another dream but I swear I heard you scream
Oh strawberry avalanche, crash over me

Hope is a citrus constellation in the galaxy
Scratched on the back of both my eyelids
That I've been dying to see

If you were a beautiful in the echoes all around
Then I'd be your harmony
And we'd sing along with the crowds beneath the candy coated clouds
Oh strawberry avalanche, please crash over me

This is a world of dreams and reverie
Where I felt the stars explode around me

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