| Minus the Bear – Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Just gonna mention that the guy posted that in '03, when Deja Entendu had just come out, and Brand New was actually still touring with bands such as – horror of horrors – Good Charlotte. Seriously, Brand New circa Your Favorite Weapon is a completely different band from the Brand New you guys are used to by now. Of course, I'm about a year late to the party here, but considering the gap between the first guy and the two responses, this post is breaking news by comparison. This is all completely off-topic, so I'll just mention that this song is excellent, and that I wish that Omni was as consistently enjoyable as MtB's previous releases... instrumentally, at the very least. As far as lyrically, tons of songs about doin' it are more or less par for the course. |
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| Minus the Bear – Drop It Like It's Hot Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Write what you know, they say. | |
| Minus the Bear – Electric Rainbow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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These are as close to the lyrics as I could get between listening to live performances and the studio version. I'm far from getting Patiently Waiting figured out entirely, though I've been trying. |
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| The Anniversary – Devil On My Side Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure it's "The spring has been frozen." | |
| Minus the Bear – Knights Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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kc accidental: This is DEFINITELY not the weakest song on the album, at least not by my standards. (That honor goes to White Mystery, with its [for the most part] disappointingly minimal instrumental arrangement and without the passion in the vocals to make the lyrics convincing.) But what can I say, I'm more of a sucker for the overall musical impacts of Minus the Bear songs than for the lyrics in most cases. |
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| Something Corporate – Only Ashes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"I can tell as you turn, I smell the sulfur so clear And fire's a beautiful sound And the wings that you burn turn to ashes my dear And ashes just fall to the ground." These lines are just brilliant. I just love the way that the first two lines are delivered, and the last two lines hold a meaning that I'm surprised no one has brought up yet. "And the wings that you burn turn to ashes my dear And ashes just fall to the ground." If you're not familliar with the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, it's about a man and his son, locked up in a tower. The man, being a bright one, fashions two pairs of wings out of feathers, string and wax. He cautions his son not to fly too low or too high, or the wings will malfunction due to the moisture of clouds or the heat of the sun, respectively. Although at the beginning, he heeds his father's advice, later in their flight to safety, he loses himself in the exhilaration of the moment, and flies upwards "as if to reach heaven". Of course, the wax melts, and his poor son plummits to his death in the waters below. Of course, this isn't really what the song lyrics alude to, but it's something along those lines. It's advising that if you constantly repress your dreams and ambitions by saying that they'll never happen, you're just doomed to fail from the start. It's a beautiful image, as well. Great song. Probably the best song on North. |
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| Something Corporate – Me And The Moon Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Despite what I thought initially, I think that it really is about suicide. "Its a good year for a murder" The first part is the clincher. People see "Murder" and assume that that's all. If you think about it, suicide is just murdering yourself. It's generally premeditated, which is the sole criterion for a manslaughter or murder 2 to be considered murder 1. "She's praying to Jesus, she's pulling the trigger There's no tears, cause he's not here She washes her hands, and she fixes the dinner" This part makes it seem like the husband figure was abusive, and that the only way that she could get away from him is to kill herself. The final line shows that as sort of a final kick in the balls, she makes her husband dinner, probably to show him how good he had it, and how he threw it away. "But soon they'll be coming, to rush her away No one's so sure if her crime had a reason" Paramedics. Then Criminal Psychologists. Self-explanatory. "Reasons like seasons They constantly change And the seasons of last year Like reasons have floated away" Just saying that many years have past, but in an awesome way. There's probably some meaning here too, but I'm too tired to think into it. "Away with this spilt milk Away with this dirty dish water, away Seventeen years, and all that he gave was a daughter" "Spilt Milk". Everyone knows this one. "Dirty dish water". I'm guessing this is a tricky way to say that her life had gone down the drain (get it?) while she was with him, and he didn't give her anything but a child, despite all that time he was with her. ""It's me and the moon," she says I got no trouble with that" The "Me and the Moon" part, as was stated earlier, might be a "Now I'm alone, and it's peaceful at last" "But i am a butterfly, you wouldn't let me die" Wow... Let's try this one out... I'll go with the literal analogy. Imagine a butterfly had an abusive caretaker. Perhaps a small child. He would bat around that fragile creature with no regard for it's safety or feelings UNTIL it looked like it was going to fly away or die. Then he'd try to take care of it until it was better, just so he could keep batting it around. That pretty much covers my interpretation of it. "And it's over, but just started HER blood stained the carpet Her heart like a crystal She's lucid and departed A life left behind, she can find in her mind gone away" This mistyped lyric is pretty much the lynchpin in the suicide argument. It's actually HER blood. Why would she be bleeding otherwise? Secondly, "Her heart like a crystal She's lucid and departed." C'mon, people. Crystal is fragile, and if you mess with it enough, it WILL break. Lucid = Clear. Departed = Gone. I interpret this as that she knew that the only way to finally become what she always wanted to be (or rather, to gain a sense of emotional and mental clarity), was to get away from the situation she was in. Her husband would never let her go, so there was only one way out. This is supported by the next line, "A life left behind, she can find in her mind" "Away with these nightmares Away with suburbia Shakedown away" These 3 lines are pretty much talking about the circumstances she's stuck in. Suburbia and nightmares. I doubt that the two are connected, but they're probably used to juxtapose two generally seperate states of being, and show how she must have felt. "You marry a role and You give up your soul til you break down" Same thing... She married into the role of a housewife, even though she wanted more for her life. However, the mundane life, coupled with the abusive relationship led her to give up all her dreams for her life, and left her nothing but a shell of the person she once was. "But what do you say we go for a ride? What do you say we get high?" No clue. "But I'm so tired of days that feel like the night." Simply stating that she is sick of living out her life in the darkness of her own personal oblivion. That might more thoroughly explain the suicide angle. A great song, and among my favorites of all time. |
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| Something Corporate – Space Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Home, Is this a quiet place where you should be alone? Is this where the tortured and the troubled find their own?" This is one of the most thought provoking of Something Corporate lyrics. Not because it's overly poetic, or that it secretly eludes to some other meaning; but because it's a good question. I would answer yes to the both of those questions. Let's break it down, shall we? "Is this a quiet place where you should be alone?" Home should be a place where you know you can do what you want and think what you will without fear of persecution. If out with friends, and you decided to lie down on the table at the diner and think about the future for an hour or two, they might flip out at you, and tell you that you'll miss the movie. When you are at your home, you can do anything you please, with certain legal limitations. You can leave your home whenever you please, but no one from the outside can come in unless you want them to. In a way, your home could be likened to your mind or heart. You can express your feelings freely to the world, but it's up to the occupants thereof to decide whether to let those feelings into their own "homes". You have those same decisions to make, and that's what makes the entire concept so great. Now that I have chattered on endlessly about that, let me move to the second section. "Is this where the tortured and the troubled find their own?" A bit less metaphorical than the last question, but still a valid one. Let me first say that I shall be discussing this (for the most part) in the metephorical sense from the first question. Some people treat their homes (and "homes") as places where they can block everyone out but those who are like them. This leads to closedmindedness, and on the same tangent, a distorted worldview. You would have only had exposure to ideals identical to your own (by your own choice, no less), which would lead to many others seeing you as a "troubled" soul. Hence, the second parallel I am drawing. I couldn't hope to go into the rest of the song without having my fingers cramp up, but suffice it to say, the song has great meaning. Let me conclude by saying that, when you truely think about it, the beginning word of the song always makes the most impact. In this song, the impact can truely be felt, mostly due to the minimal musical backdrop, and the seperation from the rest of the beginning. For this reason, and more, this song always sends chills down my spine when I listen to it. EVERY time. Something that can be appreciated. |
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| Moneen – Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"They try to stop you from dreaming, They're there to make your life hell." I guess you could see this part as criticizing the proverbial "Man". However, the rest of the song is pretty self-explanatory, except for: "Stop stand down wait, I don't want to go. Send me somewhere warm." I still can't figure out how to explain that part, but I think everyone kind of knows the feeling of knowing that you like where you are right now, and being apprehensive about changing your personal status quo unless you know it'll be for the better. That's my take on things. Moneen is a great band, but I still like "The Rise and Fall of Maximus Hughes in the Key of F Sharp Minor" the best. That's probably because I'm a sucker for instrumentals, and that one is awesome. 'Tis all. |
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| Good Charlotte – A New Beginning Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Well, honestly, I don't like Good Charlotte much. However, this song is pretty awesome. It starts off sounding like something that Philip Glass would have composed, or at least something along those lines. The guitar that comes in at 0:37 is almost unnessecary, but it kind of segways into the rest of the CD. It all goes downhill from there, musically speaking, except for a slight pickup at the end of My Bloody Valentine. This, however is only my take on the MUSIC, not the lyrics, which I think are pretty uninspired. Some of them are OK, but the music behind the words should speak just as loud as the words themselves. On a sidenote, Iron Maiden's sarcasm was a much needed wakeup call to those pop-punk devotees who think that nothing better has come up ever. It's time to look around, guys. Stairway to Heaven is probably one of the best songs ever written, behind, in my opinion, Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles. KisMyAss- "Good charlotte sucks ass"..."and stupid people who like them are just mindless sheep" And you aren't, because you hate GC with no logical reason, just like the thousands of other "true punks" out there who hate GC because "teHy sUcxX0rz!!!1one" I don't see you doing any better. Take it or leave it, but I think that there aren't too many other people who will actually say what they mean here. I did. |
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