| The Front Bottoms – Twin Sized Mattress Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I thought the first story (they cut your hair and sent you away) was about a transgender friend (maybe the girl from later in the song) whose family wanted her to act like the boy they'd assigned her to be, so she took off. Could also be a gay guy, but that wasn't the sense I got from it. | |
| The Front Bottoms – Father Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I always got a really dark sense from this one, I thought it was about how he (or the narrator, character, whatever) was sexually abused by his father, because he reminded him of the mother/wife who isn't there for some reason. And this is all him escaping to his girlfriend's house but knowing it doesn't matter because he has to go back in the morning. | |
| Lana Del Rey – Radio Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think the general meaning of the song isn't too deep, but I just wanted to say, "pick me up and take me like a vitamin" is one of the best lines ever. | |
| Lana Del Rey – National Anthem Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I always thought of this song as a sort of defense for "gold-digging" (being in a relationship for money, for the five people in the world who don't know that term). It suggests that money is the most important thing in the world, and anything done to get it is justifiable. I think all the "romantic" lines are jaded, she's just telling him what he wants to hear to get what she wants. I love the transition from innocence to experience - from "I don't know how to be cool" to "I'm already coolest." |
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| Regina Spektor – Buildings Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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My interpretation of this song has been shared by several other commenters, but I thought I'd cast my vote - Obviously, the wife is alcoholic and the husband doesn't know how to deal with it. The title/chorus/hook/etc ("they build buildings so tall these days") confused me for a while until I decided the whole point of it was that it didn't mean anything. Like someone else on here said, the more things are going wrong the more firmly people will ignore it. Their whole world is crashing down around them, nothing is stable, their lives are meaningless and frightening, and both of them just keep repeating "they build buildings so tall these days" like if they act normal and sane hard enough it will be true. I think this is emphasized toward the end ("they build buildings, oh DON'T they build buildings, oh"), with an almost harsh tone, as though they're warning each other to keep up the small talk and don't acknowledge what's going on. I think the point of it is that there IS no symbolism, they're not thinking any deeper into their lives than the very surface because they're afraid of what they'd have to face. |
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