| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Head Up High Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Someone close to the author is leaving because they feel no one listens to them and they're afraid they wont make it far unless they just leave and say they're through. They feel that nothing stays the same, and even remedies (drugs?) are just forced happiness. But the author makes it clear that "this song is not about you, but the life that stands without you, your body and blood, you're leaving us all" (so maybe we can infer that he's singing about a relative or close friend, and that they're leaving everyone who loves them). The singer has to hold his head up high to deal with what they're going through (these true sensations) |
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| Voxtrot – Long Haul Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[erbylikewhoa:1714] "When you've known darkness you can't love the day; I've never seen it I just talk this way" I think the guy's chasing this concept of love he doesn't really understand, and has never actually known. |
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| Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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the author seems to be mourning the loss of people's sense of reason and intuition in the modern age ("all drowned in doubt and shame, and I knew that I had lost my sight"), becoming dependent on technology to guide them through the wilderness. Swing Low Sweet Chariot was a slave spiritual sung on plantations; slaves sang for the chariot to "swing low, and carry me home". Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe (and is also the GPS software brand). When he says "Swing Low, Oh Magellan" the author might be yearning for a way to find his way home, on his own power. |
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| Bibio – Haikuesque (When She Laughs) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| obvious interpretation; the song is told through a series of haikus, short, minimalist poems, the best way to describe how this particular girl laughs. | |
| Bibio – You Won't Remember... Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| guy wanted girl; girl didn't notice and forgot about him; he's still bothered by it | |
| Wye Oak – Plains Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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the song sounds like the singer is looking back on an old relationship as if it was a past life The days whispered and shouted, And everything counted The signs were around, We looked so we found And seeking a pattern, None of it mattered they saw all the warning signs that their relationship was going to implode but it didnt matter because it was unavoidable try to remember pen to the paper pushing it out what's it about the pictures are empty voices have left me ... and i am ashamed and every day is just the same The writer is trying to come to terms with this by putting it into a song, but feels disconnected and ashamed, living a monotonous life. |
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| Beach Fossils – Out in the Way Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think it's about a guy whose longing for someone, but he can only be with them in his dreams. He's nagged by this feeling that his life is just passing him by while he's wrapped up in a fantasy. | |
| Ween – Drifter In The Dark Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this song's about loneliness and wandering around just trying to find a meaningful relationship. | |
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