| M83 – Claudia Lewis Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| That little bass bit near the end makes the world a better place. Am I right in this? | |
| The Mountain Goats – Lakeside View Apartments Suite Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Veins full of disappearing ink Vomiting in the kitchen sink" -Elliott Smith, A Fond Farewell |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Gravity's Gone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"If you were supposed to watch you are mouth all the time I doubt you are eyes would be above it"? That doesn't make any sense. If you were supposed to watch YOUR mouth all the time I doubt YOUR eyes would be above it |
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| The Mountain Goats – Prowl Great Cain Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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During a recent live show, a girl in the audience yelled out "My boyfriend loves you!", to which John replied somewhere along the lines of: "Well, I love him back! Does he still remember that time in Cambodia when I sold him out to the enemy to save my own skin? I still feel bad about that." Then he launched into this song. Obviously a song about betrayal and guilt, it's just the Cambodia comment adds more context for me. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Cotton Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I saw the Mountain Goats live in Wellington, NZ a year or so ago and for some reason John sang nearly everything from We Shall Not Be Healed. He does like to ramble between his songs and I got the distinct feeling from this that he was reliving some memories (he said that night he writes each set list on the night before or the day of the show based on how he's feeling). Before he played this song, I remember him telling a story of how he lived in a cheap apartment building once where there was a room downstairs that was always locked. They assumed it was a janitor room or building office. One day it was unlocked and open and he saw that it was full of old things that had been left behind by tenants that run off, left unexpectedly, or died. He said this song was inspired by that. In particular, the lines: And once there was a desk And now it's in a storage locker somewhere And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons I left in the top drawer Refers to his old belongings from his 'drug days' that are now sitting in a similar locked room in some old apartment building somewhere. |
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