| The Decemberists – June Hymn Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Perhaps, because it's summer and the weather is so lovely, the backyard has become a living room of sorts? Cardinals, unlike many other birds in North America, have a stark contrast to their environment, and so their bright red color does seem to be a decoration when everything else is green. If you think of a couple sitting on their porch or in the backyard watching everything come back to life, a bright maroon bird flitting through trees is very fitting. | |
| One eskimO – Amazing Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm torn about the meaning because it has some religious imagery but also some sexual imagery. The first verse, to me, totally sounds like a "first time" and/or the consummation of a marriage. It's no longer a sin. But then he comes in with the born again/life changing stuff, which to me is a little dramatic to describe sex, but who knows? XD Same with the everywhere/everyone stuff. So maybe it could even be leaving a religion and no longer confining one's behavior to what some one else has decided is okay. He feels free now that he can enjoy himself without the guilt so central to many religions. |
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| Ludo – Whipped Cream Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yeah, before I was thinking this was just a fun song, but when you consider the "creepy guys" it's a little darker and all makes more sense. Guys understand and are aware of sexual double standards, but don't consider the consequences of sexual behavior the way women do. "I know you got your reasons for keeping it to yourself, but you got plenty, honey, I don't think it's funny, gotta give it give it give it or else." It's essentially, hey, I totally understand why you wouldn't want to sleep with me, but really, you should anyway 'cause you're crazy hot and and it's driving me crazy not being in bed with you. Which totally negates the "I know you got your reasons;" he's asking her to abandon her morals just because. Later, he turns it around, demanding she agree she wants to "sit by the fire," meaning admit she wants him too. You can picture a beautiful woman sitting at a bar, looking puzzled and a little horrified as a drunk man stumbles next to her, slurring, "Ya know ya wan thiz." |
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| Rise Against – Savior Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I really don't think this is a love song, at all. He says, "if this ain't love, then how do we get out?" To mean, it's about something in between. I'm gonna speak from personal experience, mostly about the chorus, then see about the rest. I do think they WERE in love, or lust. Some combination of the two, but they were young, and immature. He didn't treat her as well as he should have, he had kind of a bad boy thing going on. He was attached to her, but he didn't want to settle down so he picked up and left, and now they're meeting again. He's realizing that he cared about her, as he notices all the features he thought he'd never forget, but somehow has. Her eyes, her scars are all new to him. She, now older and more mature, says she doesn't, she can't hate him for his childish choice, because she herself was like a child. But she does, and always has wanted to save him from the "bad boy" life style. She feels like she was the positive choice for him and he ran in the other direction. She kind of wants closure too, which is why he says he's not the answer. She wants to know why he left, because she always secretly took it personally. He's not the answer; she is. She has to know why she wanted to be with him and make choices with that knowledge in the back of her head. "And the day pressed on like crushing weights/for no man does it ever wait" is just symbolic of the passage of time. No man or woman can escape time. I think the rest of that verse is about how powerful he felt their relationship had been as he's forced to relive it all in a very short time when he sees her so many years later. He knows it was significant, because it feels so powerful. "One thousand miles away/there's nothing left to say" This is him remembering leaving. He wants it to be over and done, to move on, so he uses physical distance to try to push away the memories. "We never had a choice/this world is too much noise/it takes me under" He sees that his teen romance, by nature of both participants being teens, was doomed from the start. They had the passion but not the maturity to really love and put the other first, and now they're stuck in what they had presumed as teens to be love. It's not love, and they have to really sort out the emotions to be able to move on. By "takes me under" I think he means he's swept up in memories and emotion. All he can think of is how he told her he loved her, and all she could muster is "I don't hate you," which means he has still more maturing to do. He has to accept that he did her wrong and that she may never fully forgive him. |
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| The Decemberists – This Is Why We Fight Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't know that this is about a specific war or fight or movement. It's kind of 30STM's war: it's on the verge of undefinable, but probably a war on stereotyping and defining people by molds that don't always fit. It could also be that we all love a good war song. Love the idea that we have something to unite us against something else, and that if we all band together, we have the power to defeat it. That's something that's always created a powerful feeling in me, that us-versus-them situation where we can and will win because the war is a valiant and noble one. | |
| The Decemberists – A Bower Scene Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The fruit of her amorous ENTWINE. Not centaur. There are no centaurs in the story. There used to be confusion in Hazards 1 about whether William appeared as a fawn or a faun, but it was clarified that he appears as a fawn, a baby dear. There don't seem to be any half-man half-beast creatures running about in this particular taiga. Anyway, the father's child wouldn't really be his "fruit" in its most common definition that makes sense in context. Here, fruit means result or outcome. The pregnancy is the result of her "amorous entwine" (hook-up) The noun "entwine" means: make contact or come together; the verb can mean tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" http://www.thefreedictionary.com/entwine |
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| Every Avenue – Tell Me I'm a Wreck Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| By "been there, done that" I mean I've been that girl. I am that girl; I'm kind of needy and a little bit "the jealous type." Now I'm with someone who is the same way and it works because we both tend to act the way we'd want the other to act. | |
| Fall Out Boy – This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race (Remix) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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In Chicago, most DJs I heard used to play a Chicago remixof some sort... I haven't heard it in a long time, but I'm pretty sure it was just FOB and Kanye, because the Kanye part is the only part I recognize except for the chorus. I'd love to know if anyone else knows (of) the version I'm talking about. I'm not a fan of Kanye, but I like that FOB had the guts to let him on there and straight-up make fun of them. |
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| Every Avenue – Tell Me I'm a Wreck Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it's not necessarily about who tried and who didn't. I think it's about a girl who imagined the relationship to be way more than it was (been there, done that XD). He did care about her, he liked being friends with her... until they got together. Then her bad side showed... Nagging, whining, needy. He knows that if he really tried they could have made it work a little longer, but relationships aren't about delaying something you both know it inevitable. She's the kind of person who needs to knew she has him all to herself, but that's not his style. He is faithful, but only on his terms. (I told you when you asked / I knew this wouldn't last) He'll be a good boyfriend, but only as long he feels like it. You latched onto me / then cried I strung you along She claims him all for herself, guilts him into spending time with her, and when he finally gives up trying to maintain her extremely high standards, she claims he never cared about her, which they both know isn't true. The singer seems to have some sort of attachment issue. (Always had to have the upper hand.) Obviously, the person who is less attached/in love etc has the upper hand because they have an easier time controlling the terms of the relationship. They get to decide how much time they spend together, the pace at which they move, the way they interact with people outside the relationship. It's sad but it's true. |
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| Avril Lavigne – Goodbye Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't think it has to be about a couple breaking up. Maybe it is a couple, but she has to go away for a while. It does say "Goodbye for now." But it is a lullaby, and it makes me think of a parent saying goodbye to a child before leaving work, etc. It doesn't specify that she's going to be gone for a long time, just "for now." There's definitely an element of the separation hurting (distract me with your eyes/rhymes) but I feel like a lot of people a too quick to assume that everything is a love song/break up song/death song. Even so, this song reminds me every time I hear it that I'm eventually going to have to go to college, and so will my boyfriend, and we won't be able to be together and it breaks my heart. But then I just think of it as someone saying a temporary goodbye to someone she loves, just for a few hours or days. |
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| The Decemberists – Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The euphony of these lyrics is just amazing. The song is laden with meaning, implicit and explicit, and yet, the perfect words were chosen to make them beautiful on their own. It could just as well be a poem. Uncommon but pretty-sounding words like "boughs," "quell," "array," are so perfect, that even though some of the images conjured, like this amorous pregnant woman, beastly lover, and the swelling of her body, aren't so pretty the words themselves are. Coupled with the ethereal vocals, this song fantastic. | |
| Ludo – Whipped Cream Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is so sexy. Even if the meaning isn't necessarily sexual, the way he sings it is. | |
| The Decemberists – Down by the Water Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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These are the from the lyrics sheet that came with the c.d. See this ancient riverbed See where all my folly's led Down by the water and down by the old main drag I was just some tow-head teen Feeling 'round for fingers to get in between Down by the water and down by the old main drag The season rubs me wrong The summer swells anon So knock me down, tear me up But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup Down by the water and down by the old main drag Sweet descend this rabble 'round Pretty little patter of a seaport town Rolling down the water and rolling down the old main drag All dolled up in gabardine The lash-flashing Leda of pier nineteen Queen of the water and queen of the old main drag The season rubs me wrong The summer swells anon So knock me down, tear me up But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup Down by the water and down by the old main drag The season rubs me wrong The summer swells anon So knock me down, tear me up But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup Down by the water and down by the old main drag Down by the water and down by the old main drag Down by the water and down by the old main drag |
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| The Decemberists – June Hymn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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While it may have something to do with the fact that "This is Why We Fight" comes right after this song, I don't believe it's a literal war. Perhaps a war with oneself or one's demons. Perhaps the person spent the night awake wrestling with his demons, and while he feels he is on his way to overcoming him, he is sleep deprived, which is clearly visible to anyone who looks while he stands on his porch. He feels confident though, because he's just stepped out into a beautiful morning in a beautiful town. The beginning of summer gives him hope for a new beginning. |
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| The Decemberists – January Hymn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The lyrics packet says "O January O" Like a hymn. When he says "When I could see your breath lead where your were going to," he's referring to being able to see someone's breath when it's cold outside. If you were in a big empty field, you could probably see a person's breath streaming up above them even if they were kinda far away, marking their path. April isn't a girl; he means the month. Spring seems an ocean away because it's cold an miserable and everything is gray. |
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| The Decemberists – All Arise Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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... >_> Anyway. To me, the first stanza is about those attention-seeking girls. She wants a new reason to get attention, something else to whine about. The speaker wants to be spared the dramatic story, and so he skips to the end where she saves herself/gets saved. The second stanza is him suggesting she find another, less annoying way to get people to pay attention to her. Her looks, maybe, from the line "Better kick it from your big, brown eyes." The line after that is him telling her that people will get bored and start ignoring her if she keeps crying wolf etc. "You spit thick and you cross your heart, but the culvert's all run dry from keeping shotgun shy" She's swearing that she's not lying or blowing things out of proportion, but she can't bring herself to fake more tears, because she cries all the time to get people to have pity on her. (A culvert is a device used to channel water. It may be used to allow water to pass underneath a road, railway, or embankment. - Wikipedia) "All arise! I'll just be mine tonight." Everybody watch what he's doing, because this is the right way to deal with her : refuse to buy into her drama/go on a pity date with her. "So the dollar shop shoppers Broke the lock and they knocked you down Better call the coppers if you need someone to push you around" So everyone else finally figured out her game, and know she has to find someone else who will pay attention to her. She thinks she needs someone to create real drama, possibly actually hurt her. "But you keep on stealing..." No matter what, she's always looking for the next pity date/person who doesn't know she's an attention whore. I know that doesn't connect all the way, but I came here hoping for an interpretation and not finding any reputable ones, I decided to post my own opinion. |
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| The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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In the lyric "It's not Alabama clay / That gives my trembling hands away" I think he means there's literal blood on his hands. If you look up images of "Alabama clay," you'll see that the clay is a rusty red color that might be mistaken for blood, or vice versa. Also, when he says "I'm a dead man walking here / but that's the least of all my fears" I think he's saying that the law calls for his death, but while he's not afraid of dying, he's afraid of going to hell. |
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