| Vampire Weekend – Horchata Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Someone once told me that this song is about nyc in the winter. When I read the lyrics it makes a lot of sense. Horchata is a hot drink, balclava a ski mask, the line, Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten/Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on, is like when winter finally ends and spring comes. There is nothing specific to nyc in the song but Ezra Koenig is from new york so it makes sense. That could be the literal meaning layered over the figurative meaning of a relationship, maturing, etc. | |
| The Rubens – The Best We Got Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is about being 17. It could have been drawn from the writers personal experience or just the general tribulations of being a teenager. "Girls like me if they're younger But girls my age want guys older Guess I'm just stuck in the middle Between easies and girls unattainable " This is saying how hard it is to get girls his own age because all they want are older guys. Girls younger than him like him but he doesn't really want to go out with a young, vulnerable girl. "Yeah they say, these days are the best we got What a tragic thought And I try, and I try, not to waste this time But it just flies by, the more I try " This is saying how all adults say that being a teenager is the best time of your life and he should try to hold on to it. And he does try, but time keeps moving on and going faster and he doesn't want to waste this "precious" time in his life but he feels like he can't do anything about it. "Slow down, don't speak, say something Line up, don't cheat, stop staring Sit down, shut up, start learning Time's up, get out start working " This is just reiterating all the hypocritical things adults say to teenagers to control them. The last line is saying sorry your times up, you're done being young you have to get up and move out and get a job. |
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