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Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes Lyrics	9 years ago
i once learned a song as a little girl that went something like "a palindrome, a palindrome, a hippidy, dippity, palindrome, from the front to back and all the way home, its a palindrome .... emordnilap, emordnilap ..."

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Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes Lyrics	9 years ago
i don't think this pretentious... esoteric, yes... cryptic, perhaps, but why the hell would anyone spend thirty minutes writing an obscure review critiquing something that you don't really understand. I mean it makes perfect sense to me. Apparently Walt Disney felt left out of the cartoon blues project, right?

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Simon Joyner – The Arsonist Lyrics	13 years ago
the line "you're alone and you can't go home again" is a reference to thomas wolfe.

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The Horrible Crowes – Last Rites Lyrics	13 years ago
the piano in this song is very similar portions of devendra banhart's "i remember." its such a beautiful melody.

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Conor Oberst – Moab Lyrics	13 years ago
I've always thought that the 'less than five' part was a reference to Plato.

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Bright Eyes – Lime Tree Lyrics	13 years ago
in addition to the obvious, i.e. similar titles, there are many parallels between this song and Coleridge's "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison," as well as Coleridge's life around the time that he wrote Lime Tree.

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Bob Dylan – Man in the Long Black Coat Lyrics	13 years ago
...indubitably inspired by the life of Nietzsche, particularly evidenced by the line "somebody is out there beating on a dead horse." Later in his life Nietzsche suffered a severe mental breakdown after watching a man beat a horse to death, he never recovered. this is one of top five bob dylan songs

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Papercuts – Take the 227th Exit Lyrics

13 years ago

I've always wondered about his use of the # 227. I noticed the other day that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn makes it a point to use the number 227 several times throughout the Gulag Archipelago - even when it contradicts other parts. Obviously there is no connection between the book and the song. I dont know, for some reason this number haunts me... It is also the number of days that Pi was at sea in the Life of Pi.

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Leonard Cohen – The Partisan Lyrics	13 years ago
...at least in part, anyway

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Leonard Cohen – The Partisan Lyrics	13 years ago
I always imagine this song is about Walter Benjamin.

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Bob Dylan – Roll On John Lyrics	13 years ago
The last verse is a reference the William Blake poem, "Tiger, Tiger." Dylan references his work a lot... such as Little Boy Lost in Visions of Johanna "TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

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