| Blackalicious – Chemical Calisthenics Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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i know of no better mc's than gift of gab. whoever transcribed those lyrics did a great job - its fucking tough to understand everything he says - but i'm pretty sure NO2 is "laughing gas used by a dentist". cheers. |
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| The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?? Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| god, its just wonderful. i can't see many other bands being able to write something that looks so hokey on paper and make it so trancedentally good in song. | |
| The Dismemberment Plan – The City Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| i love this song... pretty straightforward but oh so evocative. the "since you've been gone..." the song just climbs, stalls, and then dives back in again... my favourite ever break up song. | |
| At the Drive-In – Arcarsenal Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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"you just really don't care about the suffering of others"? the anti war stance is usually based on preventing the suffering of others as well - its more a differing opinion about whether starting a war will cause more problems than not starting one. but anyway: i like ATDI and all, but i really don't think that much can be read into their lyrics. most of the time they seem to be written purely for effect without much meaning - they're certainly evocative, and it's possible that cedric or whoever had something in mind when they wrote it - but it doesn't really "mean" that much to me. |
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| Modest Mouse – Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I like how he simultaneously identifies himself as an atheist while allowing the existance of a heaven - even such a workmanlike one. It sort of reconciles the contradictory idea of being a rational atheist while retaining religious ideas on some sort of irrational level. I can identify with that. It also echoes something earlier on the album - "I was in heaven, I was in hell - believe in neither but fear 'em as well". The styrofoam boots are an interesting image as well... |
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| Modest Mouse – Heart Cooks Brain Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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i'd always had trouble figuring out the buffalo line; thinking about it now I'm sort of seeing it as the flipside of the "brain's the burger and my heart's the coal" bit. The heart cooks the brain and the brain trips the heart. "my brain's the weak heart and my heart's the long stairs" is my favourite though... |
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| Modest Mouse – Dramamine Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| hmmm... even without the reference to dramamine the song (hell, the whole album) does have a pretty trippy feel. I've always felt it was about dramamine tripping more than a relationship thing - but what somebody said about it being "about the different up and down motions of a relationship" makes sense too - I'd never really thought about it that way before. | |
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