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Motion City Soundtrack – Feel Like Rain Lyrics 16 years ago
Ding ding ding! I think c0unt3rfeit got it. I was about to say something very similar. There's no way (aside from an explicit explanation by the writer) to know exactly what the song was written about. But I think this is the most logical inference.

If you look closely and think about it, the theme is a cynical view that life becomes monotonous after a while. And the risks of making a change (going after hopes and dreams) aren't worth it because, well, change isn't desired (don't want to "grow up") and is a scary thing.

So that's what I think. The song is about the game of life. But "that game" he is talking about...might refer to something different. That's where the song might become more personal. But as far as the casual listener is concerned, that's the closest thing to what the song is "about." Anyone vehemently disagree?

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Tegan and Sara – Terrible Storm Lyrics 18 years ago
say what, nerfity?

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(+44) – Lycanthrope Lyrics 19 years ago
"So you can just stop talking, I get it
I hear your silence loud and clear"
the most powerful lines in the song

nobody's theories of the song meaning so far can explain those lines however

sounds like somebody dealing with some type of rejection/ cold shoulder.

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(+44) – Lillian Lyrics 19 years ago
are you guys serious? show me proof of these "interviews" where mark explains how every single friggin song on the album is about the breakup of blink 182.

"your mouth's a smoking gun"
i don't see how he could question whether or not she cheated on him....this line implies that she outright TOLD him all the things she did to him, thus her mouth being a smoking gun

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(+44) – 155 Lyrics 19 years ago
idiots nobody can get the lyrics right

I HAVE THE CD, THESE ARE THE LYRICS, MORONS:

Love
This is getting harder
And I can't seem to pick you out of the crowd
But you my dear have been discovered a liar
And I'm afraid that this is building up for far too long

And this is not the time or place for us to speak like this
Even if I had the thought I'd never dream of it
So dry your hollow eyes and let's go down to the water
In a different time or place the words could make more sense
In a perfect world the future wouldn't make a dent
So dry your hollow eyes and let's go down to the water
Even though it's the last time

Love
This is getting the best of me
And truth be told you were the start of it all
Now you my dear might end up lonely
Before you go there's something you should know

And this is not the time or place for us to speak like this
Even if I had the thought I'd never dream of it
So dry your hollow eyes and let's go down to the water
In a different time or place the words could make more sense
In a perfect world the future wouldn't make a dent
So dry your hollow eyes and let's go down to the water
Even though it's the last time

Please let's not speak
Don't breathe a word
Even though it's the last time

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Silversun Pickups – Waste It On Lyrics 19 years ago
choosing veneers over candor...

seems like this song is about superficiality, and how these people are content with not revealing their true selves at the time.

maybe it's about two people who are getting romantically involved and kind of playing each other, and they are self-creating a false paradise. maybe it's not about that at all?

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Silversun Pickups – Melatonin Lyrics 19 years ago
i have nothing to offer other that I know that melatonin is an OTC sleeping agent, and the normal dose is 1-3 mg. The max per day is at 3mg, but I usually take 6, as i suspect a lot of other people with sleeping problems do.

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Jimmy Eat World – If You Don't, Don't Lyrics 19 years ago
I feel like the same thing is happening to me

I hung out witha girl on new year's eve... we hit it off and were unseperable for the next 6 days

then all of a sudden things changed....she couldn't committ, walked away, came back to me, i feel for her again, then she walked away again


If you don’t don't know
Why would you say so?
Would you mean the
Please if it happens?

it seems like this song is about the guy wanting commitment and the girl not being sure. she doesn't want to let him go forever, so she strings him along even if she can't be perfect to him. So this girl might eventually let the relationship "happen", but the guy feels like she might agree to be in a relationship with him even if she isn't perfectly happy, and he doesn't want her to do that.

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Say Anything – Most Beautiful Plague Lyrics 19 years ago
I think that this song is kind of like "Total Revenge" in the fact that there is a girl who does not seem to reciprocate his feelings. It seems that his treatening tone is a product of lost hope, that there isn't any way this girl would willingly be with him anymore. As for the last part of the song, maybe he got attached to this girl after they had sex while the sex was only casual for the girl.

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Gin Blossoms – As Long As It Matters Lyrics 19 years ago
This is a good song that I never heard until I picked up their best-of compilation.

It's easy to explain the "as long as you're here with me now" part

..but what about the "as long as it matters" ? that's the title, after all. What is it that "matters"? What about the "mattering" does he take solace in? Who does is "matter" to - the guy or the girl??

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Foo Fighters – Everlong Lyrics 19 years ago
thank you strider, for your relevant post. that's what this site's all about. rock on

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Weird Al Yankovic – Gump Lyrics 21 years ago
"Gump" is better. And I mean this objectively an unbiased-ly. What tips the balance is the "ruuuuun" part in the bridge. That was a genious incorportation into the song. Also to add to that, Forrest GUmp was a great movie, and the lyrics to "Lump" seem kinda stupid or meaningsless. I'm sure they mean something though, and I should check it out on this site, but I'm sure nomatter what it is I'll still always enjoy "Gump" more.

What does this mean?:
"Does this Gump make lots of bread?"
I'm sure it's an innuendo and, because of that, never asked anybody in fear of it being something bad or me looking stupid...

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Foo Fighters – This Is A Call Lyrics 21 years ago
search "minicyn" on Google.com or Dictionary.com and both will ask you if you meant to type "minocyn" which is a shortening of minocycline or tetracycline, both antibiotic drugs. Both of those medications are sometimes given to (attempt to) treat acne. Unless I am greatly mistaken, Grohl was a sufferer of acne, and he might be referring to that. (A cyst is a more painful version of a pimple. Mollusks, a.k.a. snails, are slow. "The cysts and mollusks tend to barter" = the cysts stay around until they get traded away and are gone, but the trades are being performed with the molusks, so the cysts stay for a really long time and are ugly and painful and embarrassing.)

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The Smashing Pumpkins – Zero Lyrics 21 years ago
All I know is that the music to this song was inspired by Metallica. Rock on.

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The Smashing Pumpkins – Porcelina of the Vast Oceans Lyrics 21 years ago
I would repudiate any thought of Mellon Collie being a day-to-night concept album. It just doesn't make sense. The first song is Tonight Tonight, not Morning Morning. And Pyrrhic, if you do ever come back to this website again, I would like to let you know I think you are an idiot, and so are the other people who thought your idea was clever, because it's not. There are some things that you believe that are better just keeping to yourself.

What I REALLY think this song is about is Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.



HA just kidding.

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Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics 22 years ago
Here is a link so some random person's journal. This person did not come up with this. It was put on some website but now i forget what it is, and this guy must have copy-and-pasted it.

This makes mroe sense.

There are so many morons in this world. Whenever they can't figure out the meaning of a song, it must be about drugs.

http://www.pantheratigris.blogspot.com/2003_02_09_pantheratigris_archive.html

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Alice in Chains – Down In A Hole Lyrics 22 years ago
Am I the only one here that thinks this is simply about SEX???

"Bury me softly in this womb,
I give this part of me for you"
"Down in a hole, losing my soul
I'd like to fly but my have been so denied"
"Bury me softly in this womb
Oh I want to be inside of you"

As songwriting expert Rikky Rooksby says, "Needless to say, many times what appears to be a love song is, consciously or unconsciously, really about sex. Songwriters have tried all kinds of ingenious procedures to disguise what their songs are really about in this field."

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