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Generationals – Ten-Twenty-Ten Lyrics

13 years ago

I've googled the numbers a few times, and nothing seems to correlate. The only thing that seems to make sense to me would be that it's a date. Either 10/20/10 (10/20/2010) or 10/2010. That goes to say that if it's a date, it might refer to the 20th of October in 2010 or the month of October in 2010 altogether. Maybe they didn't have a title for the song, so they just named it the date they wrote it, or something significant associated with the meaning of the song took place then.

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The Killers – All These Things That I've Done Lyrics

13 years ago

I have very little doubt in my mind that this is another Brandon-talking-to-God songs (a la "Why Do I Keep Counting"). The first verse begins in describing his distance from God, asking to be considered another son (Jesus being the first son he refers to). He sort of dismisses God when he says "I want to stand up, I want to let go. You know you know, no you don't, you don't". He's sort of dismissing Him as not knowing Brandon's pain and struggling since God is supernatural. The chorus goes on to show Brandon in desperation-mode, pleaing with God to help him out and begging to not be put "on the backburner". He wants God to be present in his life

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Passion Pit – Take a Walk Lyrics	13 years ago
"And she'll never flaunt around an empty purse" "Once my mother lacking" (his mother comes to live with him) And it is "Honey, it's your son" which makes sense on account of the above line but the "make love like we're kids" is still creepy. Though it could be the husband saying that their is a problem with his and his wife's son. "We could rip apart those socialists"

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James Vincent McMorrow – Sparrow and the Wolf Lyrics	14 years ago
I agree with jono13. Definitely seems to be about divorce. The kid involved seems to make sense as evident in the first verse with the issue of love in the second. "She turned in to him, begged for the love to remain,but plans have been made, all the furniture sold." The chorus seems to fit this divorce mold as well.

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Sufjan Stevens – Vito's Ordination Song Lyrics

14 years ago

I'm gonna say that this song is probably about a man who gets married, has a child, then gets divorced. This song is the man talking to his child and basically saying that while he (assuming the kid is Suf) has lived most of his life with his mother, the father still loves him and welcomes his child to him any time ("Rest in my arms, sleep in my bed,there is a design to what I did and said"). This might be a connection to Sufjan's song The Mistress Witch from McClure where the kids find their dad having an affair. I don't know enough about Sufjan's personal life to assume that his father and mother got divorced because his dad had had an affair, but if both of these songs are evidence, then I think it's a decent guess. Seems like something he might write about if it actually happened too.

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Say Hi – Take Ya' Dancin' Lyrics	14 years ago
The first line is "Admiring the dark, dark fallout of you" I'm pretty sure but he kinda says it like "Eedmiring". Great song though.

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Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius Lyrics

14 years ago

It sounds like on the first of the two, he says "Follow me now or follow me not" and on the second he says "Follow me now or follow me down". I think that this part, following Caveman7's interpretation is God speaking to Sufjan to either follow Him or to not (if we wanna get really biblical look at Revelation 3:15-16) and Sufjan then responds with "Why does it have to be so hard" referring to the decision between God and secular ideals.

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Matt & Kim – Daylight Lyrics	14 years ago
Matt Johnson (singer) does actually wear glasses so while it could have that literal meaning of wanting to see the world without glasses, I think he's more of referring to as Trying2BMeaningful put it want to "see life differently" and seeing things without the limited view that life gives us.

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