| Chromatics – These Streets Will Never Look The Same Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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One of the best tracks off of Kill For Love, especially dig the segue from this to Broken Mirrors. The meaning of the track itself is interesting because it juxtaposes the end of a relationship with a generalized solitude, with a hint of the whole "technology makes you asocial" malarkey that a bunch of bands are using nowadays (St. Vincent, Arcade Fire), but with less of the heavy-handedness and much more resignation: whereas Arcade Fire believes they have a musical way out of the issues they talk about, Chromatics and Johnny Jewel succumb to the dilation of time and streaks of synth that infect their post-punk, referring to synthpop as a cultural event rather than as a musical tradition. |
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| Built to Spill – Made-Up Dreams Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| In addition to the obvious meaning of "dreams", it helps to interpret dreams as hopes and aspirations. No one wants to hear about your desires, they only want to hear what you think of where they are going with their lives, where they might end up. But fuck it, tell them anyway. You can make it up as you go along. | |
| My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I gotta say, the lyrics might not be the most important thing as jblondin said back in '05, but Kevin Shields himself said he spent more time on the lyrics with Butcher than the song structures themselves, and that "there is nothing worse than bad lyrics". Saying that they are unimportant leaves out a significant element of MBV's work. In my opinion, the lyrics refer to, as many here said, meaningless sex. Actually, I believe that "your troubles" should be "only shallow", unless I'm stretching for a name drop there. |
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| Modest Mouse – A Different City Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Oh hit the deck It's the decal man standing upside down and talking out of his pants" AKA "Oh crap, it's some salesman talking out his ass (literally) at the door." He's freaking out (hit the deck? really?) because he's probably totally absorbed in his own thoughts and just watching his color TV (I guess that's a solution to his problems, distract himself). "So rust is a fire and our blood oxidizes" Rust and fire are both forms of oxidation, but rust is a slower form of it. Our blood has hemoglobin in it, an iron-based chemical which reacts (read: rusts) the oxygen we take in. So our blood either burns or rusts, which in this protagonist's case I have to assume it rusts, referring to his sedentary lifestyle. "My eyes roll around all around on the carpet" This is a little more arch of a lyric, but if I had to hazard a guess I'd say it might be referring to how tired his eyes have gotten from all his TV watching, so tired that they've fallen out and started to roll around on the carpet. "Dripped out of the bars Someone smart said nothing at all" Bars where he drank so much that he was dripping out of it by the end of the night. Someone smart was there and saw him and the state he was in, but they didn't say anything because it didn't seem related to him. There's more here where I'm not sure, but I think that's at least a good place to start. |
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| Vampire Weekend – Everlasting Arms Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Trapped beneath a chandelier that's going down" Seems like a really dense line to me, assuming it has meaning (which I will, since MVOTC is such a well put-together album I can't believe this one line is there just 'cause) considering the reference to previous accomplishments (Self-titled debut album's cover), opulence and high-class ideas (the chandelier on the S/T was from St. Anthony House, a old wealthy fraternity/literary society), and simple materialism, along with the fear of death (you try being beneath a chandelier when it falls down). In addition, there's the wordplay on "self" "cell" (phone) and "cell" (prison? catholicism?) and the unpackable opinions of Koenig on agnosticism and free will. |
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