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| Viktor Vaughn – Raedawn Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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one of the most underrated albums. this guy drops lyrics that you can listen to so many times and discover something new. love it. |
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| Elliott Smith – Between the Bars Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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seriously guys, i know this is "songmeanings" but cut out the crackpot theories that this song is about some girl or other bullshit. when you strip it down, this is the least mystical, least interpretive song he wrote.
it's amazing, don't get me wrong. but it's clearly about his booze bottle/flask singing to him in a seductively evil sort of way. about 75% of you get that. make comments about his more abstract songs, he has a ton of them. just don't tell the rest of us that this is a song about a girl (unless you make a REALLY strong argument.) |
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| Elliott Smith – Between the Bars Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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the other party is a bottle of booze. no doubt about it; elliott was too self-deprecating to call himself "baby" and say he was going to kiss himself. he wouldn't even say those cliches if he were writing a love song to a girl. i do agree that he could be speaking about bars; it's not evident what he's referring to, and that is the beauty of a talent writer's ambiguity. i have to be a critic, however, and say that i can't agree with you because it seems so fitting when you make the booze the "first person" and the alcoholic the "second person." i understand your emphasis on it being a solitary "monologue" as opposed to dialogue, but this is because it's supposed to feel solitary, and semi-constructed. he's self-aggrandizing the bottle and self-loathing himself as he talks about the bottle in a love/hate kind of way... he knows it's bad, and he personifies it as a kind of draining evil, but he knows he loves it, so he paradoxically personifies it as a lover that shows a certain affection. it's an amazing song, and one i can personally understand. |
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| The Moldy Peaches – Anyone Else but You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i hope you're clean off you're meth habit "cyrus and jeff." even it's 3 years late, you made the most insanely unintelligible interpretation of a song, because your "meaning" diffused into an overtly personal relation to your real life emotions, and however hard you tried, you failed to connect anything to the song and what your asinine interpretation of it was. if you had a college education (or a high school education that might've prepared you for college,) you would have used textual examples in your argument. yours failed to meet the minimum standards of even a "song meaning," and i suggest you delete that comment before you embarrass yourself more.
you and i both wrote these comments drunk, the difference is i know how to actually write. you are some starry-eyed pseudo-philosopher that thinks they need to go online every time they eat three caps of mushrooms. your shitty epiphanies are boring and tired, as so are you.
truman capote could write drunk. ernest hemingway could write drunk. rimbaud could write drunk. you, however, cannot write drunk. delete your stupid fucking comment please. |
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| Eminem – 3 A.M. Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i think i speak for everyone when i say this:
"UHHH DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" |
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| Frightened Rabbit – The Twist Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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uhh duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
it's all about wanting to fuck someone because you're lonely and just need the physical presence of another body. if any of frightened rabbit's lyrics confuse you or seem vague, you're probably too young to understand them. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Emily Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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not really sure where you're coming from ineffabilliken...
"i promised you i'd set them to verse so i'd always remember: that the meteorite..."
she sets to verse the meteorite/meteor/meteroid jingle as a mnemonic to distinguish the one from the others. that part seems to be one of the least controvertible parts of this song to interpret. |
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| Viktor Vaughn – Ode To Road Rage Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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fucking doope song. vaudeville villain has been in my music for like 6 straight years now. wayyyy longer than anything else. i hope doom puts out a new vik album soon... he's my favorite persona. |
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| Eminem – Stay Wide Awake Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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LOL WUT
i agree. the misinterpretations are pretty hilarious. but it's actually more constructive to write corrections so the poster can change.
it's "i compose all like the ghost of mozart"
there's probably more, but that's my contribution. |
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| Eminem – 3 A.M. Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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corrections:
It's almost 4 in the mornin' and your in a
to
It's almost 4 in the mornin' and you're in a (LEARN CONTRACTIONS PLEASE PEOPLE, JESUS!)
Swallowing the Calotapin while...
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Swallowing a Klonopin |
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| Eminem – Hello Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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thanks for the corrections. if anyone has any more, please inform. |
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| Better Than Ezra – Good Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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it's "it was good living with you" dumbass. i don't know where you get your information from, but like said above, look on the BAND's website. doesn't even sound like "isn't this good..." god what a failure you are paco taco. |
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| Patrick Park – Something Pretty Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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this is the song that plays in the background when seth stands up on the kissing booth and summer takes his hand and they give big smoochies in front of the student body!!! also note: the cheerleaders who look most disapprovingly at summer are butt-ugly... GAHHH! |
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| Elliott Smith – Between the Bars Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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a bottle of booze singing to elliott. it's so poignant when you know "the people you've been before that you don't want around anymore," and how with alcohol you can willingly suppress the potential of your past self (and the past is always painful to reflect upon when you realize you've lost potential... ironically i don't think elliott ever lost any of his) by drinking. |
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| Frightened Rabbit – The Twist Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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of course josh schwartz would throw frightened rabbit into the premiere of the second season of his prime time show chuck. as the oc soundtracks proved, that guy has an ear for amazing music. this is not an exception. amazing song on an overpoweringly amazing album. seriously, one of the strongest albums from start to finish i've heard in a long time. |
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| Patrick Park – Life is a Song Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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guys, these are pretty straightforward lyrics that don't really require multiple paragraphs of explanation. great song, but don't waste your time explaining the obvious... |
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| Sigur Rós – All Alright Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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his english is so difficult to understand that this might as well be icelandic or hopelandic. if you really have such a problem with him singing in english get off this site you jackasses. |
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| Okkervil River – Black Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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jamisonlikewhat... what? not about molestation? are you in denial of the reality that fathers molest their children in general or just in this song? it points to molestion on almost every line of the song.
first off, the entire first verse is alluding to one event, ONE EVENT on april 12th, that took place in a car (when NO ONE was around), one in which isn't named because perhaps it is too vulgar and disgusting to be named in the song.
secondly, abandoning fathers are bad yes. it's a saddening and frustrating thing when a father leaves a mother to parent to raise a child, and truly that man IS a scumbag. but would that kind of behavior, do you honestly think, merit thoughts and wishes of a brutal and painful and graphic death?
thirdly, yes it is almost criminal that they should allow this SCUM to foster another child, but it is ultimately the girl's decision over what to do here. and that's what makes this song's theme even more gut-wrenching. |
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| Black Box Recorder – Girl Singing In The Wreckage Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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the verses' melodies evoke memories of the rolling stones' beast of burden, and are a perfect lyrical balance of suggestive subtlety without being too impenetrable.
the song, to me, slides between a metaphoric car crash (in the lyrics here, it is important to note that "my first kiss" is actually "my first car") involving the girl singing in the wreckage, as the refrain suggests, which underlies the theme of growing out of youth. the metaphor which encapsulates this theme resounds in the line "it's my primary instinct to protect the child", which cleverly utilizes a second meaning which alludes to the theme in the word "child". the metaphor is also evident in the imagery of torn dresses, the world smashing open, hitting the ground, ETC. |
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| Okkervil River – Oh, Precious Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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i can't believe no one has commented on this song. this is one of my favorite song lyrics. not much to interpret as it is all pretty straightforward. but god, so beautifully written. |
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| Grade – Seamless Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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but chris carababa is so foine! *swoon!* any man in their 20s or 30s who sings about girls in high school is sexxxy! rawr! |
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| Matt Skiba – Good Fucking Bye Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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i don't think so miss girlwholikesmusic. i think this song follows the traditional alkaline trio themes. the line "made for a bad lover's liver" just means that the person (presumably a girl) aggravated the speaker's voice. i guess it makes sense either way, but that's my two cents. yeah.. |
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| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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i think it's about the decadence of romantic literature from a nihilistic post-modernist perspective. |
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| The Get Up Kids – Ten Minutes Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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jesus christ! do you fucking fools understand what this website is for? the text above where you type your comments asks what does this song mean to you? 'meanings' as in interpretations you crazy cunts! it's not asking for you to post unoriginal one-lined comments about it being a good song. i saw about one or two comments that disusses the meaning of this song. god, i'm glad i don't go to get up kids shows, if i was ever trapped inside a building full of fools like you, i'd choke myself with a sound cable or something. sheesh. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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i didn't know what this song was about until i went to amsterdam, holland this summer and visited the anne frank house.. then it hit me like a subway train: anne frank.. good song.. |
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