| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Hello, San Francisco Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| The correct lyrics are "yeah, you've got me sweatin' celery, and never making any sense." The band has a Q&A site set up, and I asked Richard what the lyrics to that part were. He confirmed that "sweatin' celery" is correct. | |
| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Hello, San Francisco Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[firefly13000:4594] The band set up a widget where you can send in questions and Edward answers them. Someone asked about what teeth being painted green means, and he said "I don't remember!" I guess we may never know. | |
| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Hip Hip Hooray Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think this song is about a girl who was raped. "Hip hip hooray / Talk to me, and I'll be your saint." - Richard is telling her that she can talk to him about anything, and he'll be a loyal and respectful listener/confidant. "Take off your clothes, / Grave-starved ghost, / And don't be ashamed" - The girl is a "grave-starved ghost" -- she feels empty and dead inside, and yet she feels lost, unable to find comfort. Richard tells her that even though she's been raped, she shouldn't have to feel ashamed of her body when she takes her clothes off anymore, it's okay. "If I'm watching, / Don't stop talking, / Just start walking" - I think this part connects to the other talking/walking part near the end of the song. Richard tells the girl that he's there watching her and listening to her, and that she can continue to talk to him and vent to him. At the same time, he tells her that she should begin to start mentally "walking away" from what happened to her, leaving the past behind. "You sat and stared / At your grandmother's chair, / In that favorite room / And he, drunkenly, / Five [fat?] for three, / Pressing on you" - This is the story that the girl told Richard. The incident must have happened when she was young; she's at her grandparents' house. It isn't directly implied that her grandfather is the one who raped her, it could have been any other family member who was there at the time. We know that he was drunk. Everyone seems to hear "five for three" at this part, but I'm not sure what that would mean..? It does sound that way, but it also sort of sounds like he's singing "fat for three," which would make more sense to me -- he's fat enough for three people, he's drunk, and he's "pressing on" her (presumably, he molested her). "Oh darling, / Stop talking, / And start walking" - I think that here, Richard is telling her to stop talking about and reliving the horrific event that she's experienced, and instead start mentally "walking away" from it, leaving it in the past so that she can continue on with her life and not let it negatively affect her any longer. "Oh darling, / Stop crying, / And start smiling" - Richard lets the girl know that everything is okay; that she can stop reliving her assault and being depressed, and instead work towards becoming stronger and smiling again. Well, that's my two cents about this song. It's definitely been one of my absolute favorites by this band ever since I first got into them. it's a bittersweet story that delivers a powerful message overall, and the song in and of itself is simply beautiful. |
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| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Hip Hip Hooray Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[immekusaurus:1936] I do too. I think it makes sense when you look at the lyrics. | |
| Elbow – Any Day Now Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[ripelivejam:1462] Nice. I'm not the only one. | |
| Elbow – Any Day Now Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I always heard "summon my youth." I checked out their official website though, and the lyrics on this page seem to be directly copy/pasted from it, so they must be correct. Oh well. This song always sounded like it was about drugs to me. "What's got into me? Can't believe myself" could be him expressing his disgust for his personal drug abuse. "Must be someone else" - his drug habits make him feel like he isn't even himself anymore. "Anyday now, how's about getting out of this place? Any ways. Got a lot of spare time" - he wants to escape the stresses of his life by going off with a friend or something and getting high. "Some of my youth" (or "summon my youth" or "song of my youth" or whatever you hear) could be referring to feeling alive and young while high, and all of your senses really are on overdrive when doing certain drugs. And then, I'm guessing the part about falling asleep at the wheel while playing Coltrane is a personal reference to his own life (seriously guys, stop getting upset because you don't understand this part - he wrote this song for him. Of course there are going to be personal references to stories we've never heard in it). In any case though, and continuing with the drug theme, they can certainly lead to things like falling asleep at the wheel - trying to keep your eyes on the horizon, but drifting off regardless. I've also noticed him talking about drinking a lot in his songs (like, a lot). So maybe it's about alcohol, not drugs. Either way, that's my interpretation of the song - do what you will with it. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Spaceboy Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[ladyboygrrl:1106] 'Retarded" is an actual medical term. People have started to use it as an insult (which is completely stupid), but that in no way changes the fact that it's still a legitimate medical term used to describe people with disabilities. Literally, it means "slow;" you could be mentally or physically retarded, whatever it is, it basically just means you're slow to do things in that sense or are disabled. | |
| Iron & Wine – Love Vigilantes (New Order cover) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The first time I heard this song, I thought it was a sweet story about a soldier who came home after his wife had received a mistaken letter saying that he was dead, and I was like "aww that's so cute and nice." Then after a few more times I realized that he actually had died and that he returned home as a ghost thinking he was alive and "on leave," only to realize that he was actually dead. Now every time I listen to it I get this really depressing pang in my heart, because he just sounds so hopeful and happy that he finally gets to go home, only to realize that he died. | |
| Coldplay – Harmless Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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These are the real lyrics to the full-length song: If you call and call, Your self-esteem is low. When I heard you'd called, Is there no calling? And away I go, Any way you go. I was on your tail, As clear as crystal. But it was harmless, It couldn't hurt you. Oh, you were helpless. I know you'll get through. I know, I… Chemicals are cold. See you sit down on A chemical you call, Is “like a crystal.” So I heard you say, “I got to get away.” I'm on a second trail, As clear as crystal. But it was harmless, It couldn't hurt you. Oh, you were helpless. I know you'll get through. (YouTube link to the full-length song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm8CwQrEcI8) I think this song is about a depressed lover or friend who is addicted to drugs, and although Chris is trying to help and stay close to them, they are becoming distant. I agree with osage in that the constant talk about crystals and chemicals throughout the song might be referring to crystal meth. A very beautiful, touching song. One of my favorite unreleased numbers by Coldplay. |
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| John Butler Trio – Peaches And Cream Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It's because the song is about his wife and daughter, who are his "peaches and cream". It's a very personal song. "Sunrise over sea" is just a phrase describing how he sees them, not what they actually are (it's not a very personal saying compared to calling them "peaches and cream"). However, "Sunrise Over Sea" is a more generally direct sounding and fitting title for an album. | |
| The Civil Wars – Pressing Flowers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm going to attempt to show you guys what I'VE interpreted this song to mean - take it however you'd like. The whole song, he's a bit vague about himself - who he is, where he is, what he has to say. The first line: "Meet me in the garden where the weeds grow tall, down by the gate" - he's telling her to meet him in an old, overgrown garden, evidently one that no one tends to anymore (and therefore where people used to live - people who are no longer there). Next, he says: "I got a secret that I might tell; it'll give me away" - he tells her that if she DOES go to the old garden, she might learn something about him - take note that technically, he still hasn't mentioned that he'll actually BE there, but has instead implying that through her journey to the garden, she may figure out a secret about this mysterious man. The chorus is pretty simple: "Ooh, whatever you do, ooh, keep it with you" - He's telling her that if she learns this secret, she must always remember it and keep it close to her. Now, for the next verse: "Meet me on the back porch where ivy climbs, where they sat on the swing" - note that he says SAT: past-tense. This implies that whoever used to live in this old house, with its ivy-ridden porch swing and unkempt garden, no longer is there. This is also an important factor in my conclusion (along with the fact that he hasn't mentioned actually BEING there - he's just telling her to go to those places). The next line: "Soak up the color of the midday sun, while the ocean sings" - this is basically just a poetic use of imagery - telling her to hear the sounds of things around her, soaking in the warmth of the sun and the sound of waves crashing - and he's telling her to feel these senses because they were the same things that the people who one sat on the old porch swing had felt so long ago. The next change in lyrics is the bridge: "You and I, well, we're just pressing flowers. They die, but they're ours" - he tells her that they're both the same, living out their lives (he uses "pressing flowers" to refer to this) as any normal person does. But then, he twists this around by telling her that these flowers (lives) eventually wither and die - but they're theirs (basically, what he's saying here is that lives eventually wither and fade - and wither she likes it or not, hers is one of them). The lyrics for this last verse are actually (I am 100% positive about this): "Meet me in a poem of an iron bed Wipe the dust away Meet me in the tintypes from long ago Trace the lines of my face" A tintype is a photograph taken as a positive on a thin tin plate. So, basically, he's asking her to remember him as he was long ago, when the tintypes (very old types of photographs) were taken. This whole verse is basically a metaphor: "Meet in a poem of an iron bed, wipe the dust away" - he's telling her to go to the bed, inside that old house, that used to be his, but hasn't been used in so long that it's covered in dust. Next, "Meet me in the tintypes from long ago, trace the lines of my face" - he's telling her to look at the very old photographs with him in them, tracing the lines of his face, remembering (this is key). My conclusion is simple: He's dead. The man singing this is not living. this is basically a message from a soul that has died YEARS ago (hence the old, withering house, old versions of photographs, and references to dying/death in the bridge). He's telling her - even though she may or may not be hearing this song - to go to the old, abandoned house that he had lived in years ago and remember him: remember how he used to sit on the porch swing (with either her - which would imply that she is very old and widowed by him - or anther woman - which would imply that both the man AND the other woman have died, and the identity of the girl the song is written to is unknown, although by the poetic descriptions of certain things, the girl the song is written for may be his daughter - a little girl who would notice things such as the weeds growing tall and towering over her, and being able to close her eyes and feel the senses that the man and his wife had felt all those years ago. "She" could also be some random girl who just so happened to stumble upon the old house, which would make sense, too), remember how his garden used to be neat and tended to, remember the bed he used to sleep in and the tintypes that he's in. The "secret" that he mentions in the beginning? It's either the fact that he's dead (if she didn't already know - implying that she's just that random girl who stumbled upon this old house), and he's trying to show that if this lost girl goes to the garden, the porch swing, the bedroom with the tintypes, she may be able to piece together that the inhabitants of the old house are long gone; OR we never learn the secret (implying that this is written to the man's wife or his daughter, and it's a secret that only someone that close to him could discover). I personally like the idea of this song being written to a random girl, better - it seems more mysterious, is in favor of some of my favorite possible interpretations, and maybe, just MAYBE, this song isn't written to some random person at all - it's written to you. The whole song, he's giving you instructions on what to do to find out the secret (that he's dead), which is why he's telling you to visit all those places in the house. So yeah, that was my interpretation of this song. Again, take it however you want, but it seems pretty accurate to me. |
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| Muse – Knights of Cydonia Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It might only be me, but since I'm such a Doctor Who - obsessed freak, every lyric reminds me of DW... Come ride with me through the veins of history - Traveling through time and history in the TARDIS with The Doctor) I'll show you how God falls asleep on the job - Going through time to save the world/other worlds from aliens/rthings that aren't meant to be, because "God fell asleep on the job" by not correcting these things himself. And how can we win, when fools can be kings? - The Doctor asking how it's possible to win when such corrupt people are allowed to be leaders (ex: The Master). Don't waste your time, or time will waste you - When traveling to different places with The Doctor, don't just stand around and waste your time, because if something's not right there, then you need to help him as best as you can, because there's danger, and you wouldn't want to let time waste you (fail). No one's going to take me alive, time has come to make things right - The Doctor Won't back down when it comes to protecting time and making things right; he'll stand his ground and will only let himself be captured by death. You and I must fight for our rights, you and I must fight to survive - You and The Doctor must fight for your lives and with your lives for justice. ...Yeah, I don't know, maybe I'm just crazy (anyone who doesn't know what Doctor Who is/doesn't watch it would probably think the same). But the moment I heard those lyrics, I was just SO reminded of DW... And hey, maybe someone else shares the same opinion. c: |
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| The Black Keys – Little Black Submarines Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm going to interpret this song in my own way, verse by verse: "Little black submarines" - I feel that, connecting to the rest of the song, this infers that he is a marine or in the navy, who may have been drafted, going out to war in little black submarines. "Operator please Put me back on the line Told my girl I’d be back" - I believe that this may mean his phone call with his girlfriend was cut short by a time limit, and he's begging the operator to put him back on the line with her. Again, connecting to the rest of the song, they may have had a fight over the phone, or, my favored opinion, his girlfriend told him that they could no longer be together, now that he was in the army. "Operator please This is wrecking my mind" - He's still begging the operator, pleading and telling him/her that he's an emotional wreck, and needs to talk to his girlfriend again. "Oh can it be The voices calling me They get lost And out of time" - While he is on a mission in one of the submarines, he hears voices calling him to duty, but in his emotional state with his love and everything, he's really distant and is zoned out, not really hearing what they're trying to tell him. "I should’ve seen it glow But everybody knows That a broken heart is blind" - There was a red emergency light on, warning him of an enemy approaching. He should have seen the light glow, but in his depression and with his broken heart, he is blinded by emotion, and isn't really thinking straight, the only thoughts on his mind being those of his girlfriend. "Pick you up, let you down When I wanna go To a place I can hide" - He feels that at first, he was loyal to his girlfriend, but when he is drafted, he feels that he has failed her in some way, and, overcome by guilt and depression, wishes he could just hide himself away from the rest of the world. "You know me, I had plans But they just disappeared To the back of my mind" - He had plans for himself and himself and his girlfriend. Maybe they were going to get married, or were going to move together. But when he is drafted, all those plans are ruined, and he stuffs them into the back of his mind. They're still lingering in his thoughts, but he knows that they'll never be a reality. "Oh can it be The voices calling me They get lost And out of time I should’ve seen a glow But everybody knows That a broken heart is blind" - Exactly the same as the first time I described the chorus. "Treasure maps fallen trees Operator please Call me back when it’s time" - Treasure maps and fallen trees may relate to his mental state, and how he's been striving to find something (treasure maps) and has torn everything apart, including his own self and mentality, to find that peace of mind (fallen trees). He tells the operator to call him back when he's finally mentally stable, but the irony of this is that this may never happen. "Stolen friends and disease Operator please Patch me back to my mind" - He refers to the army and being drafted as a disease, and that disease stole his friend, or girlfriend, away. Instead of telling the operator to wait for him to become mentally stable, he's now begging the operator to help him, lost in his own emotions. "Oh can it be The voices calling me They get lost And out of time I should’ve seen a glow But everybody knows That a broken heart is blind" - The exact same as the last choruses. Well, that was MY interpretation of the song. I don't know about everyone else, but it's logical enough to me. I hope you were able to see it through my eyes as well. |
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