| Tom Waits – Better Off Without a Wife Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| I love this song so much. It's so funny; and it manages to be both life-affirming and a little bit wistful at the same time. | |
| Joni Mitchell – The Fiddle And The Drum Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| I listened to this a lot when the war first started. It's amazing how applicable it is even now. | |
| Garbage – Androgyny Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| I think Riko's totally right. It's about fluid sexuality. | |
| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| lifesweetlemon, I think you're right. I was thinking drinking, but drugs in general. The Bends is (obviously) what scuba divers get when they come up too fast. It's all about the ups and downs of addiction and just the emptiness of life in general. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Road Trippin' Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Another drug reference: "Fully loaded" Sweet song though. |
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| The Clash – Rudie Can't Fail Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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the only time i drank beer for breakfast i'd been up all night and it was totally regrettable beer. it's a sweet song though. it makes me feel like a rebel even though i'm completely not. |
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| Cake – Shadow Stabbing Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I originally just liked this song because it's so catchy, and that line about how "The white paint / Plastic saints / Say it all." The more I think about it, the more I think it's about creativity, and how when you're writing something, you're sort of inside yourself (that's why the MIND's inside the cell). There's a really cool artist-as-deviant/criminal/outsider thing going on. You try to express what you feel, and what you see, but you can't, because there's always something there that does it better (Steel eyes, tight jaws; it's always something unspoken that you're trying to put into words).You feel like it's your mission to tell the whole truth about the world. "Somebody has got to say it all." |
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| Cake – Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Doris Day cover) Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| Actually (*music geek*) it was originally a Spanish song ("Quizas Quizas Quizas") that someone translated and Doris Day made famous. | |
| Mason Jennings – Bullet Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I'd been singing this song to myself for days when I realized why it was so catchy. Its rhythm isn't metrical (like iambic pentameter); it's stress rhythm, so that words are stressed no matter how many or few syllables there were between the last stress, if that makes sense. That's why it "sounds happy like a nursery rhyme." :) |
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| Sam Roberts – Don't Walk Away Eileen Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| There's a 6-song disc called "The Inhuman Condition" that I spent all summer listening to. | |
| Tegan and Sara – Heavy Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I thought it was about obsessive love; making someone your God. "She says she needs a priest Wants to get closer to God I say all I need's a ladder I want to touch your sky " The "you" in the song is set up to be compared to God. |
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| Tegan and Sara – Living Room Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| Yeah, I read somewhere that that was why Tegan wrote it. I like that it's just a little dirty-sounding: "I spend the afternoon on top of you." | |
| Matthew Good Band – Apparitions Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I don't think it's about being yourself per se... I think it's about the mechanized, robotic element of modern life. We all march along in the same parade, and we all do what we think TV wants us to. That's why he talks about being stuck inside in our own machine. You also get a sense of machinery with the rat spinning a wheel inside your brain.... I could go on, but it would probably just get more and more presumptuous-sounding. Sigh. I could write an essay on it... Mmph. Us English students. |
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