| Terra Naomi – Something Good To Show You Lyrics | 9 months ago |
| @[emanresU102396:53605] i'm still angry about this | |
| Tim Minchin – Prejudice Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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The first two minutes or so of the song deliberately come across as awkward and preachy. The first-time listener will, of course, assume that the word under discussion is the N-word (either immediately, or once he lists the letters), and the lyrics come across as trite, moralizing statements which clumsily dance around the actual word. (The gradual build-up in intensity also creates a certain odd tension; the song seems to be building to some kind of climax, and it's easy to guess that he intends to actually use the word at some point in the song. And, if that word *were* the N-word, such a moment would most likely come across as uncomfortable and tone-deaf at best, and downright offensive at worst.) But then the music abruptly switches from dramatic, emotional crescendo to a subdued, bluesy riff, and we finally get the payoff to this prolonged set-up when Tim delivers the song's main punchline: Only a ginger can call another ginger 'ginger' at which point the tension is released, the listener admires the clever anagram, and the remainder of the song is mostly wordplay on the word "ginger" along with a humorously melodramatic portrayal of the plight of redheads. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – I'll Be That Girl Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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transgender lesbian selfcest autoerotic asphyxiation suicide fantasy sorry i just had to get that cursed sequence of words out of my mind |
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| Barenaked Ladies – The Old Apartment Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| anyone who thinks this song is about a breakup has zero reading comprehension | |
| They Might Be Giants – You Don't Like Me Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I find this song very relatable as someone with social anxiety. The narrator wishes they could reach out and form a connection with someone (not necessarily a romantic one -- I read "friend" as being literal here), but they've already convinced themselves that it's impossible. "I know what you're thinking / I can read your mind" There's no point trying to talk to you, I can already tell you're not gonna like me. "I can see the future / Like it's in the past / You will never be my friend / You don't like me" I already know how it'll end if I try talking to you, so why bother? "You can hear me talking / Right up till I stop / When I do I'm gone to you / But you are always there" I'm just a background character in your life; you surely don't even notice I'm there when I'm not speaking. But you're always there from my point of view. "I can hear the friendly words of advice that I'd be offered / If I had a friend to offer me advice" I don't have any friends to ask for advice, but that really doesn't matter. I already know what they'd tell me, I don't need to hear it from somebody else, and it wouldn't be any help anyway. |
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