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Train – Bruises (feat. Ashley Monroe) Lyrics 12 years ago
This song encourages domestic violence. I love it.

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Lisa Hannigan – Passenger Lyrics 12 years ago
I get the feeling this song uses the metaphor of taking on a funeral urn on a 'road trip' and eventually burying the urn instead of spreading the ashes...

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Bob Dylan – Just Like a Woman Lyrics 13 years ago
Adolescence.

"Lately I see her ribbons and her bows
have fallen from her curls.
She takes just like a woman,
She makes love just like a woman,
And she aches just like a woman,
but she breaks just like a little girl."

Not yet a woman. Yet, not entirely a child anymore too.
Just my two cents.

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Butthole Surfers – Pepper Lyrics 13 years ago
People like you should be forbidden to listen to music!

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Laura Marling – All My Rage Lyrics 14 years ago
Stole my children, left my son
Of all of them, he's the only one who did not mean that much to me
I tip my cap to the raging sea

Oh cover me up, I'm pale as night
With a mind so dark and skin so white
Is this the devil having fun?
I'd tip my cap to the raging sun

Now all my rage been gone
Now all my rage been gone
I leave my rage to the sea and the sun
I leave my rage to the sea and the sun

Stole my children, left my son
Of all of them, he's the only one who did not mean that much to me
I tip my cap to the raging sea

My daughter, she's the pretty one
I married her off to the reverend's son
Now she lives in a sin-free world
Tip your cap to the brave old girl

Now all my rage been gone
Now all my rage been gone
I leave my rage to the sea and the sun
I leave my rage to the sea and the sun

Now all my rage been gone
Now all my rage been gone
I leave my rage to the sea and the sun
I leave my rage to the sea and the sun

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Laura Marling – My Friends Lyrics 14 years ago
My friends, my dear friends
And lovers, oh my lovers
I'd leave you for them

They got a hand on my back

Mama has money now and Mama has friends
She's making rags for some uptown hags
With their money in bags
And why are you so sad?

Why are you always so sad?
Why do I not understand?
Why don't I see what it is you see?
Why can't I live and just be?

I'm full of guilt
I am full of guilt
You're very tall, you're very handsome
You have it all, your skin smells like man

And I, you never know how I ache
You will never know how I ache

Ever considered the sea?
I heard you had to be strong
Why not float around with me?
It won't take you so long

You can go where I'm at
You can hang around with me

A few good men will go where they all
Where they all not be
And a few good mothers go for what they,
What they all not teach

I long for a touch or reminder of us but,
But it must not be

And a few strong branches over water reach for what they all not reach

I hope your mother knows where it is you have been
I hope your mother knows what it is you have seen
She'd be so proud

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Laura Marling – Night After Night Lyrics 14 years ago
Darling, I loved you
I long to become you
And know what it is that you gave

We dance the sorrow
Forgive me tomorrow
And I pray night after night, day after day
Would you watch my body weaken
My mind drift away?

Dear lover forsaken, our love is taken away

You were my speaker, my innocence-keeper
I don't night after night, day after day
Would you watch my body weaken,
My mind drift away?

Dear lover forgiven, my love is driven by rage

Oh I should just leave you, instead I've deceived you
But I don't
Night after night, day after day
Would you watch my body weaken and mind drift away?

I count to no one, hold nobody's ear
I sold you my hand once and you hit me in fear
I don't stand for the devil
I don't whisper in ears
I stand on the mountains and call people to hear

It's a sudden burst of light, it's a fate foretold
It is knowing, it is knowing

He longs for the answers, as all of us must
He longs for the woman who will conquer his lust
He screams in the night, I scream in the day
We weep in the evening and lie naked and pray

Night after night, day after day
Night after night, day after day
Night after night, day after day
Would you watch my body weaken and my mind drift away?

It's a tempting communion
It's a fate foretold
It is knowing, it is knowing
What it is that you're told

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Laura Marling – Don't Ask Me Why Lyrics 14 years ago
I choose to stay far away from the ones that think
Money is money to share
Don't ask me why and I'll tell you no lies.

Sonny don't come here no more
He don't drink from this well
He's done with the world
And done with the girl
And I don't ask him why
And he tells me no lies

Those of us who are lost and low
I know how you feel
I know it's not right but it's real

I don't ask for love
And I don't beg for money
I'm just asking for grace and forgiveness now honey
Don't ask me why
I'll tell you no lies

Looking for answers in unsavory places
On the highest of mountains
And the lowest of bases
And I still don't know why
I still don't know why

Those of us wo are lost and low
We know how you feel
We know it's not right but it's real
But it's real

I took the wind from the sea
I took the blood from an arrow
I took the wisdom of spring
And I was thrown and blown and tossed and turned
Untill time found its hand
And called it an end
Me and time, we go way back when
I was a child and I always knew why

I knew my name, I knew my road
And I stayed away from heavy loads
And still I am low
Oh lord, am I low

Those of us who are lost and low
I know how you feel
I know it's not right but it's real
But it's real

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Laura Marling – I Was Just A Card Lyrics 14 years ago
I was just a card, caught up in the stars,
Looking down to Mars.
You know, you know
I know, I know something
About you that you don't want me to know.

Never found a solid hand till I found that man,
Till I found that man of mine.
You were looking at me, thinking,
"Who is she?"

Never knew the sky was white till I took that flight,
Till I took that flight to him,
Tonight.

I was just a card, caught up in the stars,
Looking down from Mars.
You know, you know
He knows, he knows something
About mr that I don't want him to know.

Could've sworn I had that man when he took my hand,
When he took my hand down near you.
You were looking at me, thinking,
"Who is she?"

Didn't even see the night till I said goodbye,
Till I said goodbye to him,
Tonight.

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Laura Marling – The Muse Lyrics 14 years ago
God's work is plans
I stand here with a man that talked to me so candidly
More than I choose.

My lips once roosed
I feel again the blues of longing, ever longing, to be confused

He wrote me a letter
Saying he would love me better
Than my poor sons begetter the rules

Spoke of love like hunger
He at once was younger.
Younger, ever younger, in my hunger for a muse

Finest man that I've seen ever since my eyes have been
But his honesty did gleam me blind

Keep those thoughts from sight
Follow me into the night
And you can call on me when you need the light

You know what I need
Why won't you give it me?
Must I fall down at your feet and plead?

Don't you be scared of me
I'm nothing but the beast
And I'll call on you when I need to feast

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Laura Marling – Sophia Lyrics 14 years ago
Oh I have been wondering where I have been pondering
Where I've been lately is no concern of yours
Who's been touching my skin
Who have I been letting
Shy and tired eyed am I today

I'm wounded by dust
Oh, I have been wondering where I have been pondering
Where I've been lately is no concern of yours
Who's been touching my skin
Who have I been let in
Tried and tired I am now today

Sometimes I sit, sometimes I stare
Sometimes they look and sometimes I don't care
Where they I weep, some times I must
I'm wounded by dust

When the bell toll, when the bell gon' chime
You better call for your woman up high
And when the bell tolls for your last day,
You'll be getting down on your knees to pray
I'm a good woman and I never did say whatever it was that you did that day
I'm not a woman that is going to place that claim but you said that it was coming on judgement day

Now Sophia
I'm wounded by dust

Now, when the bell toll, when the bell gon' chime
You better call for your woman up high
And when the bell tolls for your last day,
You'll be getting down on your knees to pray
I'm a good woman and I never did say whatever it was that you did that day
I'm not a woman that's going to place that claim but you said that it was coming on judgement day

Now Sophia
I'm wounded by dust
Now Sophia

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Laura Marling – Rest In the Bed Lyrics 14 years ago
There lies a man of my heart
A fine and complete work of art
Here, I his woman, his home, and his heart
And proud to be playing that part
And proud to be playing that part

Rest in the bed of my bones
All that I want is a home
And all you can do is promise me bold
That you won't let me grow dark or cold
As long as we both shall live

The bite will come and you'll feel your call
As a sound as I believe in you

The first year was the hardest I'm sure
All shadows come to the shore
Know that it's you and I till the end
And all I want from life is to hold your hand

All that I have are these bones
And all that I want is a home
And all you can do is promise me bold
That you won't let me grow dark or cold
As long as we both shall live

The sirens come, they always will
But the dart between my heart and his
Is as good as a diamond chain

Rest in the bed of my bones
All that I want is a home
And all you can do is promise me bold
That you won't let me grow dark or cold
As long as we both shall live

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Laura Marling – The Beast Lyrics 14 years ago
Where did our love go, you will never know
How did you get home, you will never know
Did you catch yourself in the mirror?
It's a sight i understand
You consider it all for a second
And put it down to slight of hand

You know I've been running 'round for hours
Calling my Egyptian blood to bear me flowers
Calling Sophia, goddess of power.

Instead I got the beast
and tonight he lies with me
Tonight he lies with me
Tonight he lies with me
and here comes to beast

You're okay now, I suppose
You're not pulled by the rope
I'm pulled by the pull on my throat
I'm pulled by the rope
I swing from the trees into the slope
Hold my head high, just by the tip of my toes
and he lies, he lies so sweet that i choke

Tonight i choose the beast
Tonight he lies with me
Tonight he lies with me
Tonight he lies with me
and here comes the beast

Put your eyes away
if you can't bear to see your old lady
laying down next to the beast
Tonight he lies with me
Tonight he lies with me
and here comes the beast

Look at yourself in the mirror
It's a sight i understand
You consider it all for a second
and put it down to slight of hand
I give you the best, the best that I can

I'd suggest that you be grateful
There's no blood on my hands
and assume yourself weaker, the fall of man.

And look out for the beast
Tonight he lies with me
Tonight he lies with me
Tonight he lies with me
and here comes the beast

Put your eyes away
if you can't bear to see your old lady
laying down next to the beast
Tonight he lies with me
Tonight he lies with me
and here comes the beast

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Laura Marling – Salinas Lyrics 14 years ago
I am from Salinas where the women go forever
And they never ever to stop to ask why
My mother was a saviour of six foot of bad behaviour
With long, blond curly hair down to her thigh

Oh my mother
Oh my friends
Ask the angels "Will I ever see heaven again?"

Late into the evening, they would take each other screaming
Looking darkly to the back of her eye

The careless beast was bleating that the air behind was breathing
That they musn't ever look up to the sky

There are no answers
There are found
Ask the angels, "Am I heaven-bound?"

Put it down to me
I, who speak awkwardly
Any word, if it is heard, is not intended to be
Not for him, not for her
Not for them, and not for me

Oh and that gun will turn before the sun starts to burn, understand

When the clouds roll in, we start paying for our sins
With a gun in my hand and my sun at my shoulder
Believe I will run before that boy gets older

Oh and that gun will turn before the sun starts to burn, understand
Oh and that gun will turn before the sun starts to burn, understand

I am from Salinas where the women go forever
And they never ever stop to ask why
My mother, she's a saviour of six foot of bad behaviour
With long, blond curly hair down to her thigh

Oh my mother
Oh my friends
Ask the angels, “Will I ever see heaven again?”
“Will I ever see heaven again?”
“Will I ever see heaven again?”

Punish them all, for they speak too much
Hate the world for what it did to us

Will I ever see heaven again?

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Bon Iver – Blood Bank Lyrics 14 years ago
The red implies she's on her period. That it, misscariage.

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Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box Lyrics 14 years ago
To me, this is about a femme fatale.
A heart-shaped box is, well, guess.
The magnet tar-trip implements the same.
Magnet meaning the narrator is really drawn to it.
Understandably.

Meat-eating orchids is a reference to the Pink Floyd The Wall-movie in which two flowers were first seen mimicing love-making and moments afterwards, the 'female flower' tried to eat the 'male flower'.

The singer is in love with her, but it's killing him.

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Pink Floyd – Sheep Lyrics 14 years ago
The sheep don't revolt in the book. They follow the pigs blindly.
The pigs started the revolution.

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Fleet Foxes – Battery Kinzie Lyrics 14 years ago
This song was earlier called 'Lorelai', though

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Fleet Foxes – He Doesn't Know Why Lyrics 14 years ago
I thought the 'Put the wool over your eyes for a week or more' is about him getting better.
Have a rest to improve.

Instead of all the negative things said earlier.

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Cream – Pressed Rat And Warthog Lyrics 14 years ago
I don't think that's it, as it was Bruce and Baker who were continually fighting.
Not Bruce and Clapton.

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Cream – Pressed Rat And Warthog Lyrics 14 years ago
To me, this is about a communist state.
Ginger Baker said after playing this at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005: "It's too late for a part political broadcast"

Why I think it's about communism is this:
In a communist state, people do not have personal property.
Now it happened that Pressed Rat and Warthog have closed down there shop,
even though they didn't want to. Because it was all that they'd got.
Then why did they close it?
Because The Bad Captain Madman (ie. dicator-like figure) had told them to stop (stop the bussines/shop. ie. close the shop).
What did they sell in the shop? Atonal apples, amplified heat and dog legs and feet.
Stuff that's quite useless/rubbish. A communist state didn't have luxery goods and had bad quality goods.
So they went round the corner and never came back, meaning they emerged with the communist state.
(A communist state is a state in which the individual is completely inferior to the state)

Just my 2 cents :-)

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