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| Moxy Früvous – Gulf War Song Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Fruvous carries a lot of political themes throughout this album (Bargainville, their first). This song is very straightforward and very, very powerful. |
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| Harvey Danger – Pike St./Park Slope Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think this is delivered by someone fed up with the way things are. The world is definately messed up, definately not fair and not working like it should ("...blame it on the television..." and "A community of dabblers..."). The disenchanted narrator has finally had enough, and gets to the point where he's just done, done with it, ready to leave everything and go do something he thinks could be fulfilling but, contrary to society's values, has very little room for advancement (an independant repertory movie house can't make all that much money). And when he pitches this impulsive, undeveloped, and completely passionate idea to the one part of his old life he wants to bring with--the girl--she shoots him down.
That's some major disappointment right there, when you finally decide that you're going to go through with it, you're going to run away and forget it all and do what it feels like you should do, and part of your perfect new world refuses to be transformed with you... it drags you back to reality, you realize that maybe it won't work, maybe you really don't want to desert everything.
Which is why this song is, really, incredibly sad. |
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| Ben Folds Five – Eddie Walker Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I heard somewhere that this song is about one of Ben's friends (or someone) who admitted themself to a mental hospital. This song is about Eddie and some of his friends who have come to cheer him up going through some old photos. Could be wrong--don't know where I heard it from. |
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| Ben Folds Five – Philosophy Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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The lyrics of this song make me think of the character Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. It fits almost too perfectly to be coincidence. |
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