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Wilco – War On War Lyrics 11 years ago
or this one:
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

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Wilco – War On War Lyrics 11 years ago
I've always assumed it had something to do with this word from Jesus:
Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

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Foals – Bad Habit Lyrics 12 years ago
"a still small voice" is a famous phrase from the Old Testament describing God's voice. See 1 Kings 19:11-12 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+19%3A11-13&version=KJV).
Also, the Mary thing is from the Hail Mary, a Catholic prayer. "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen"

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Billy Bragg and Wilco – Feed Of Man Lyrics 12 years ago
What a fantastic song. It's excellent how when Guthrie offers to help 'fix up' a new God, this God is the God of the Bible, much more so than the god underwriting violence. The following lines could be taken as a beautiful amplification of the commands to humanity in Genesis 1: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

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Youngland – Norse American Lyrics 12 years ago
Norsemen, yeah!!! Take that, you dirty Anglos!

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Youngland – I Wanna See the Day Lyrics 12 years ago
come again????

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The Handsome Family – Everything That Rises Must Converge Lyrics 12 years ago
The phrase "Everything that rises must converge" is taken from a short story (and was also the title of a collection of short stories) by mid-20th century Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor. She took the phrase from Catholic theologian Teilhard de Chardin

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Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Post-Paint Boy Lyrics 12 years ago
I hadn't even noticed that anteater line!! That's great!!

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Kanye West – Amazing Lyrics 12 years ago
heart disease is a serious problem in the black community. http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/features/why-african-americans-greater-risk-heart-disease

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Larry Norman – Why Don't You Look Into Jesus Lyrics 12 years ago
These are not the lyrics I submitted.
They're the lyrics to a different track on the same album.

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Art Brut – Lost Weekend Lyrics 12 years ago
"By saying something stupid like 'I love you'" is a reference to the C. Carson Parks song "Somethin' Stupid" best known as sung by Frank and Nancy Sinatra.

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Anathallo – Hanasakajijii (one: the angry neighbor) Lyrics 13 years ago
http://chestofbooks.com/fairy-tale/Japanese/XXXV-Hana-Saka-Jiji.html

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Anathallo – Dokkoise House (with face covered) Lyrics 13 years ago
With Face Covered

This song refers to the old village custom of a young man visiting a young
woman in her room at night, a clandestine meeting for which the lover always
covers his face with a towel as a disguise. Thus any stray person would not
recognize who is visiting the girl; furthermore, if he is repulsed the towel
"saves" his face so that if he meets the girl next day both may act as though
nothing had happened. (Cf. also Song 12.)

38 Dokkoise no se
Do ya ni hdkamuri
Nuchya t5 akete
Iru-wai na

The dokkoise house:
With face covered,^^
You leaving open
The door.

http://www23.us.archive.org/stream/japanesepeasants38embr/japanesepeasants38embr_djvu.txt

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Anathallo – Dokkoise House (with face covered) Lyrics 13 years ago
With Face Covered

This song refers to the old village custom of a young man visiting a young
woman in her room at night, a clandestine meeting for which the lover always
covers his face with a towel as a disguise. Thus any stray person would not
recognize who is visiting the girl; furthermore, if he is repulsed the towel
"saves" his face so that if he meets the girl next day both may act as though
nothing had happened. (Cf. also Song 12.)

38 Dokkoise no se
Do ya ni hdkamuri
Nuchya t5 akete
Iru-wai na

The dokkoise house:
With face covered,^^
You leaving open
The door.

http://www23.us.archive.org/stream/japanesepeasants38embr/japanesepeasants38embr_djvu.txt

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