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Shearwater – Rooks Lyrics	10 years ago
Definitely an incredible, haunting song about the end of the world. Jonathan Meiburg loves birds, so mass deaths of birds would definitely signal the end for him.

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The National – Murder Me Rachael Lyrics	12 years ago
I agree that the narrator is jealous of his ex's new boyfriend, to the point of either imagining or actually committing murder. I always thought that Rachael was the ex, but now that I've read some of these comments I think Rachael might be a friend he's talking to, telling her to murder him because either he caused the breakup or because he killed his ex and/or his ex's new boyfriend.

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The National – Ada Lyrics	12 years ago
Just a fantastic song, I think I get the feeling he's going for here but I can't quite piece together a coherent "meaning". I agree with references to social anxiety, and the wedding/marriage theme seems to work as well.

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The National – 90-Mile Water Wall Lyrics	12 years ago
Others have touched on this, but I think the narrator is in love with a girl that doesn't love him back, she's become the "target" of his affections but never asked for them. He wants to just disappear through a trap door and escape from this situation. He mentions how she tells him she doesn't love him, that she's being serious, but he's not really listening.

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The Mountain Goats – Never Quite Free Lyrics	12 years ago
I've always interpreted this song as being about Death. You can live a good life, work through your problems and trials and come out a better, happier person on the other end, but the specter of your eventual death will always be there, breathing down your neck. We're never quite free of that fear.

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