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Arctic Monkeys – No. 1 Party Anthem Lyrics	11 years ago
It's 'collar popped like Cantona' not 'antenna.' Eric Cantona was a striker for Man Utd in the 90s who always wore his jersey with the collar popped up.

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Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Lyrics

11 years ago

I am particularly fond of the line 'all I ever learnt from love, was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya'. I see there being a double meaning tied up in the word 'outdrew', both in terms of shooting down a rival in a duel in the more literal sense, and 'out-drew', meaning someone who is better or more talented than you. I always took that line to be an expression of the phrase 'all's fair in love and war' - in the game of love you have to be prepared to play dirty, and destroy competitors who may be better than you are.

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The National – Rylan Lyrics	11 years ago
I don't inrepret 'turn blank white in a blank white house' as an euphemism for suicide, I see it more as another metaphor for being quiet and withdrawn, just blending into the background, being a wallflower.

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Wild Beasts – Pregnant Pause Lyrics

11 years ago

The use of the word pregnant here refers to the phrase pregnant with meaning. The narrator is trying to salvage the relationship he has with his lover, he's trying to communicate to her but there are long, stabbing silences when they try to talk about their problems, and he is dwelling on these moments, these 'pregnant pauses', searching for possible clues in them over how their relationship is going.

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Arctic Monkeys – Knee Socks Lyrics	11 years ago
Can definitely imagine Alexa pulling on knee socks and wearing Alex's Lacoste polo on a lazy Sunday morning for them. Just like the preceding song 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High', Alex is desperately trying to claw this former lover (could well be Alexa) back even though she has told him not to call anymore.

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The National – Squalor Victoria Lyrics

11 years ago

I find a parallel in the line here 'I'm going down among the saints' with the idea that angels 'wouldn't wanna watch' the 'uninnocent elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults' expressed in Mistake For Strangers. There is a self-loathing criticism that young graduates enter the workplace feeling they deserve to be masters of the universe, filled with self importance and expecting to become the next Zuckerberg, yet the reality is they are just another cog in the machine and drowning in the gap between reality and expectation.

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