| VHS Or Beta – Bring On The Comets Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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i guess i interpret this literally? end of the world? like a crappy rom-com movie. "one chance in a lifetime was worth the waiting..." |
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| Thursday – Understanding In A Car Crash Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| pretty sure that geoff has said that this song is about a friend who died in a car crash | |
| Sufjan Stevens – John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| i think this song grapples with the fact that it all appeared "normal"- no one suspected anything and none of the boys expected something bad to happen to him...no one could have known, but then afterwards everyone thinks "are you one of them?"...it could've happened in any town, usa. and the victims (of the killer) could have been any one of us. | |
| Stars – One More Night Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| small thought- it might be "bleeding him empty" instead of leaving? | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – He Was My Brother Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| also, to clarify, is this what the movie "mississippi burning" is based on? | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – He Was My Brother Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| does anyone think the lyrics should be "freedom rider" ?? ...since that's what they were called, i feel like it makes more sense... | |
| Remy Zero – Fair Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| i think "all my words were bound to fail" says it all | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – The Backseat Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| for some reason i think the line is, "we rode a fever out of AUSTIN;" the song makes me thing of a road trip from texas to cali | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – The '59 Sound Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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i feel like he's asking his friend, "what's it like to die?"- as most people have a lot of anxiety over the thought- "did you hear the '59 sound" = was it like being a kid again? "did you hear the rattling chains" = were you burdened by and judged on everything you did wrong? "did you hear the old gospel choir" = was it a generic white light and 'hallelujah' moment? "did you hear your favorite song" = was it comfortable and everything you knew if would be? for some reason the line "did you hear your favorite song one last time" always breaks my heart |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Great Expectations Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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i wonder if the girl in the diner is the same girl he sings about in "here's looking at you kid"- "but i used to wait at the diner, a million nights without her/ praying she won't cancel again tonight" didn't work out in either song... |
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| Les Miserables – I Dreamed A Dream Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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the musical is based on the novel by victor hugo, set in france in the early 1800s. france went through more than one revolution, apart from the more famous one that everyone thinks of (bastille, marie antoinette, etc): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Revolution] the unabridged version of the novel is ridiculously long but amazing and well worth plowing through to get the full backstory on the characters- fantine is in love with tholomyes and she and her girlfriends and their boyfriends are all bffs and such. then the guys decide to "go back to society" and ditch their girls. unfortunately for fantine, "she had given herself to tholomyes as to a husband, and the poor girl had his child." so she's single and preggers. she decides to give her baby girl (cosette) to an innkeeper and his wife (the thenardiers) and pay them to raise her daughter in a normal life. except she doesn't know that the thenardiers are awful and are criminals and treat cosette like shit and keep scamming fantine out of more money. anyway so fantine gets fired from her job and has to sell herself (including her hair and her teeth) in order to pay for her daughter's well-being. that being said, this song is about the loss of youth and innocence, the loss of carefree days, the loss of faith in love, the loss of one's position in society...about being crushed by life being left alone. it's beautiful. |
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