submissions
| Vampire Weekend – Unbelievers Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
|
Either it's about religion (which I think is fairly obvious I mean look at the rest of the album) but someone mentioned to me that this whole album feels like it's about a girl, with VW being about the start of the relationship, which makes perfect sense, Contra being the almost-perfect interval with some fights, like Giving Up the Gun, and then MVOTC is Ezra realising he was wrong, and this is kind of an apology, in particular, Step and Everlasting Arms, and he almost wants her back. |
submissions
| Frightened Rabbit – Backyard Skulls Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
He said in a small live performance that this song is based on a book and is about infidelity, which would make sense, the backyards skulls are the secrets they hold between each other.
Great tune, too |
submissions
| Frightened Rabbit – The Woodpile Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
Goddamn this song is me at parties
Stand in the corner and talk to two or three people because everyone else is scary/annoying/drunk off their face |
submissions
| Macklemore – Thrift Shop Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
I think this song explores a really interesting theme about life and death.
Regardless of who you are, we all spend time frittering life away buying and selling things we never need in the first place, just to fill that void between birth and death. The fact that it was 99 cents and he still hasn't washed it reflects that he may be poor, but he still wants to fit in with the cool people in the club, hence arriving with the line 'whatup I got a big cock'. The fact that he's poor is reiterated when he mocks the people who spend 50 dollars on t-shirts when he is smart and gets them cheaper. He cleverly realises that we wear clothes for a stupid reason and is saying if you're going to cover yourself up for the simple reason that 'everyone else does it' why not do it as cheap as possible?
The reference to family 'your grandma your mammy etc.' is saying that everyone is so conformist and they really should just chill, because everything gets passed on anyway. |
submissions
| Frightened Rabbit – The Modern Leper Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
|
Also, I think the lyrics are "a cripple walks amongst you all you tired human beings. He's got all the things a cripple has not, two working arms and legs" which would support your interpretation of that line |
submissions
| Frightened Rabbit – Nitrous Gas Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
I think he's so unhappy he just wants to wallow. He really doesn't want to be happy. I think it's a stigma attached to depression. If you're depressed and you laugh people question if you're actually depressed and you end up feeling shitter than you did before you laughed.
I think he just wants so stay unhappy because if he is any other way people won't believe that he was, but if he uses nitrous gas, he can say that's why he's laughing, he's still depressed but he has a reason to laugh. |
submissions
| Frightened Rabbit – Holy Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
This song is about two people in a relationship, as are many FR songs. He's talking about how someone wants these things (new testament) and is being 'nice' to get them (fake benevolence). Because he's still in this shit of a relationship, he's lost his pride.
He wants to be alone, and is cynically saying that everything he does is wrong whilst everything his partner does is perfect and holy.
Regardless of what he does, however, he will always have this part of him that is "a sinner" and he can't escape this, but he still wants to get out, despite how damaged he is.
He wants to be "spared the brimstone" and doesn't want to kick up a fuss, he just wants out and to be alone and happy for a while. |
submissions
| Frightened Rabbit – Poke Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
|
I think this song is quite possibly the most intense song I have ever heard (the other one being 'About The Future'by Yves Klein Blue. This song gives me goosebumps every time I hear it, especially after "and I never hated you". Gets me every time. Great tune |
submissions
| Frightened Rabbit – Acts of Man Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
I am guessing you are female, and honestly, I don't know anyone who thinks this way. I think the song is a lot more positive than that, I think the first stanza refers to the more dickheadish men of this world, the exception to the rule. I think the second verse shows how a majority are part of the average (duh) and are not like the person in the first verse."Let's promise every girl we marry we'll always love them when we probably won't" refers to the idea that we say things we don't mean, but that doesn't make them any less true. If you're in love with someone, even when they're totally unbearable, you still love them.
The next two verses, I think, again reveal the dickhead nature of some men (and women, for that matter), but the 'hiding a coward's heart in a lion's chest' is referencing the idea that bullies are cowards, like these people are dickheads but that's because they're cowards.
I LOVE the last verse, because whilst most of the song, I agree, explores the darker sides of human consciousness, this one shows how a vast majority of us, men and women, are trying to improve.
I really hope you don't hold that view of the world :) |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.
