| Chromatics – Cherry Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Cherry has issues and isn't making progress on them. There are good things insider her, though. The narrator is regretfully losing patience and doesn't want a relationship anymore. | |
| Della Reese – Don't You Know? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| In the recording I am listening to, she says "I want you so," after "Every beat of my heart keeps crying out..." | |
| Judy Garland – The Man That Got Away Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| "run off and undone you" | |
| Beach House – On the Sea Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Has anyone reading this read the novel Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson? Probably because I've been thinking about the story a lot lately, anyway, I imagine this song being sung to Ruth by her Aunt Sylvie. Housekeeping is about transience, nature (especially water), social non-conformity, and female relationships...Those are themes I pick up on when I listen to this song, also. |
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| Beach House – The Hours Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I really like the way you elaborated on the hours/towers part. I hadn't thought about "climbing the tower" much, but imagining it like that goes along with the idea that the situation in this song involves one person convincing another to love, on some level. "So that you could see..." It's so touching! However I am pretty sure the "frightened eyes" are the other person's, not the narrator's. Otherwise they wouldn't be "looking back at me," right? |
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| The Tallest Man on Earth – 1904 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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You did a good job with these lyrics, Kashika. I tried, but ultimately had too many parts I wasn't sure about... There's one line you posted that I'd change - I think it goes, "This is where robbers meet to go through my window," but, I could be wrong. Also I've gone back and forth about the first line a lot. "Some may say" or "'Son,' they say"... ??? This song reminds me of the city I grew up in and the river that cuts it down the middle. I could hear the bridges going up and the cargo ships passing by from my bedroom window at night. |
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| Beach House – Myth Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I like your interpretation, hariko17. I think of this song in pretty much the same way. In life, there's not much to hold on to. Can't hang on to your own thoughts because "It's never as it seems." Also "Can't keep hanging on to what is dead and gone." The world is always changing. A person's experience is always changing. The myth this song talks about 'building' is the story we can tell ourselves about our lives to give meaning to our experiences, to make it all more solid, and to strengthen our senses of what our roles are. But I definitely think there is an interpersonal element to the song: "What comes after this momentary bliss/ the consequence of what you do to me" makes me think it's the beginning of a relationship, and the parties involved don't know what's next, yet. "Help me to name it" seems to be an invitation to create the story of their relationship together- decide what the relationship will be - and an invitation to create the story of the narrators whole life with her. (Otherwise she'd be singing, "I'll name it myself, I'll name it myself," right?) |
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| Father John Misty – Nancy From Now On Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| He was "doing his own thing" as J. Tillman for years before Fleet Foxes started... | |
| Beach House – The Hours Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think this song is about being afraid of love or life. I don't have any definite conclusions about what the reflections/intentions/recollections/possession verse is all about, but the narrator seems to be describing someone who is worrying that the connection they're feeling with someone/something is actually a result of some projection? The end has to be one of the most beautiful moments on the new album... The narrator saying, "it's deeper than you and me" is his assurance that despite what's going on being hard to explain and unreal-feeling, it is real, love being a current that runs through everything, farther, deeper, in all the glass... Ok, that's my interpretation. I can't wait to see what other fans write! | |
| Laura Nyro – Wedding Bell Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The version of the song I am listening to has different lyrics in a way that completely changes the song for me. I think the last verse goes: Bill, I love you so I always will And though devotion rules my heart I take no bows Oh, Bill you're never gonna take those wedding vows Come on Bill Oh, come on Bill Come on and marry me, Bill I've got the wedding bell blues Please marry me Bill I've got the wedding bell blues Wedding bell blues Marry me Bill The narrator seemingly loves Bill a lot, but sees the reality of her situation ("You're never gonna take those wedding vows") and has to make the best choices she can ("I take no bows"). I love how alive and swing-y this song is. |
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| WZRD – Teleport 2 Me, Jamie Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Another excuse to listen to Desire "Under Your Spell" even more than I already do! I mean, I love Cudi's voice - especially when he says, "Somebody help me/ does anyone care/ can anyone hear me/ is there anyone there?" But I know the real reason I'm listening to this track so much... |
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| Glass Candy – Warm In The Winter Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I am listening to a version of "Warm in the Winter" that has lyrics.? Love is in the air... love is in the air We're warm in the winter Sunny on the inside Love is in the air I'm crazy like a monkey Ee ee / Oo oo! Happy like a new year Yeah yeah / Woo hoo! That's right everybody This is Glass Candy Making our way around the world Searching out a face-to-face with you One more time Looking for a heart-to-heart Whenever you're ready We want you to know If ever you should look in the mirror And wonder who it is that you are And wonder what it is that you came for WellÂ… I know the answer You're beautiful You came from heaven You came down to this place To fill out the dark corners With your everlasting light And that's whyÂ… I love you We love you C'mon shout / Hey shout Shout Yeah you I love you We love you This song is so awesome!!! I love that it is funny. Pretend monkey noises and radio caller vibes stop the song's excessively earnest lyrics from sounding too serious. "You came down to this place/ To fill out the dark corners/ With your everlasting light" are some intense lines, but still the whole feel is light/free/simple. It seems like Glass Candy was trying to send some genuine positivity out into the world, or trying to communicate what 'happiness' feels like. |
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| Sharon Van Etten – Tornado Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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“I'm a tornado, you are the dust, you're all around and you're inside,” are lyrics that make me think she's saying, in the context of an interpersonal relationship, “I'm a disaster right now because of you. What's going on mentally (inside) is horrible/stormy, and you're (around) the world my destruction (dust) is negatively impacting.” It sounds so intense. I wonder how other people interpret these lines? “I cannot make you leave your source/ 'Cause you make yourself feel like you've got grounding.” It makes me think of how in meditation practices, you're supposed to avoid grabbing for “groundedness” because it is delusional, apart from the present reality. I wonder if that kind of “grounding” is what SVE had in mind when she wrote this song. It's not a word I come across much, otherwise. I had fun contrasting this with another tornado metaphor/relationship dynamic song, Neko Case's “This Tornado Loves You." |
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| Beyoncé – End of Time Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I always imagined it was "walk with me- your love is real" but who knows... This song is a great example of what people "dream" of, when it comes to relationships. "I'll be your own little star, let me shine on your world / Be your own little universe - make me your girl" pretty much captures it. The idea that a relationship is something you can 'live in' completely and be blind to the whole rest of the world. Another "dream" in this song is the 'forever' concept. "Say you'll never let me go." It is obviously a pretty unrealistic view of relationships, but a fun song because of how effectively it brings the listener to that dreaming state of mind. |
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| Chromatics – Kill for Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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this is such a beautiful song . i think of it with my idea of this narrator reciting her faults (being undisciplined and depressed, and not taking most things in life very seriously) and expressing her general feeling that everybody else is in the same boat with her, low-level misery being default way of living. when she says, "i killed for love" she sounds proud of herself. "killing" is a such a violent word, i don't imagine that her 'love' went particularly well. but she's happy it was one thing she did genuinely, "giving it her all." |
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