| OK Go – The Writing's on the Wall Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think it's clearly about "The writing on the wall", a metaphor often used to describe an omen or premonition of doom. There are all these illusions that people build around a decaying relationship to keep it alive, which they brilliantly expland on by using the music video for this song. Lots of things just don't appear to be what they once were; Emotion seems to be lacking in most aspects of this relationship, making them " less than a zero-sum game now". Furthermore, they "both know that's not how it's supposed to be". "It seems like forever / since we had a good day", he says. At that point, in that kind of ending relationship, sometimes you really just want to get high with that person and "just want to see some pleasure in [their] eyes." Sex (and yes, sex while high) between long-time lovers is filled with emotion. In the video, the words "I understand you" morph into "but I don't". This is a desperate plea that we have all thought about when a relationship is over, but emotionally, it doesn't feel that way yet. Since "the mind has no say on affairs of the heart", the sex they have is a replacement for the love which has clearly withered. Clearly a super dancey tune, with a ridiculously sad song. |
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| Mos Def – Auditorium Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Buying apples, I'm breakin' [?] You take everything why not just take the damn food black master!? I don't understand it, on another planet? Fifty months of this stuff how I'm gunna manage? |
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| Mos Def – Auditorium Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Buying apples, I'm breakin' [?] You take everything why not just take the damn food black master!? I don't understand it, on another planet? Fifty months of this stuff how I'm gunna manage? |
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| Mos Def – Auditorium Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Buying apples, I'm breakin' [?] You take everything why not just take the damn food black master!? I don't understand it, on another planet? Fifty months of this stuff how I'm gunna manage? |
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| Mos Def – Auditorium Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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pretty sure the line is "You take everything why not just take the damn food BLACK MASTAH" which is why he (a black soldier) says "I don't understand it, on another planet!?!?!" The irony of being the colonizer, the oppressed being the oppressor. |
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| Dan Deacon – Snookered Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| If you haven't done so, I recommend going to youtube and finding the video for this song (which is just the cover of the album and this song playing along). Someone decided to let anyone leave comments over this song and I think an amazing thing happened: Among all the retarded and hilarious comments made about the teepee, I felt there was something expressed that explains this song, in an abstract but really great way. | |
| Devendra Banhart – Carmensita Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| no, it means red...it's just a latin american thing (to say "pelo/barba/cielo colorado/a" instead of "pelo/barba/etc rojo/roja") | |
| Mos Def – Mr. Nigga Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it's well explained within the song. If white boys doin it, well, it's success When I start doin, well, it's suspect I think it's not just about brown, it's about "not from here" --> whatever that means to the haters. Immigrant, Black, Brown...it's never success, it's always suspect. |
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| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Brother Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This is poignant to me, since i lost my brother. But apart from my brother, I've lost friends (figuratively and literally) so it can be a song for anyone who misses a person close to them. | |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Om Nashi Me Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I cant believe no one has commented on this song, even though it's amazing and a great closer to the album. As far as meanings go...In the Ima Robot Forums, being the singer's previous band, the phrase apparently means "Oh Infinite Nakedness", I guess in sanskrit. I mi Nashi in Japanese means "No Meaning", which in zen would be an infinite nakedness of sorts. It's a buddhist chant, maybe made up by the singer, but one that references that feeling of universal love, compassion and literally no boundaries (nakedness). Just bathe in it and feel what it transmits! There's no better "meaning"! |
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| Wolf Parade – I'll Believe in Anything Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I meant panic attacks. I just happen to think its a very beautiful song for someone who has had a troubled time, whether its cancer, manic depression, drug addiction...its about loving them and wanting to take them to a place where they can feel whole again, by almost channeling them. The fire from the wire/water seems to be from Krull, as an impossible feat for love. But the song gets personal (and really in tune with what Im saying, literally, if you've ever seen someone who goes on a panic attack) when he says: And I could take another hit for you And I could take away your trips from you And I could take away the salt from your eyes And take away what's been assaulting you And I could give you my apologies By handing over ideologies And I could take away the shaking knees And I could give you all the olive trees Oh look at the trees and look at my face And look at a place far away from here the end is like trying to calm someone..."oh look at the trees, look at my face, look at a place far away..." and come back from this horrible sickness. |
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| Wolf Parade – I'll Believe in Anything Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Ok, has no one seen the connection to pain attacks/bipolar episodes? Like, loving someone who suffers them, and wanting them to feel better and take all the bad things away from them? | |
| Animal Collective – For Reverend Green Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think that its about all of the above. Clue's reverend green is, as described by wikipedia "mobster or corrupt business tycoon, complete with a cigar, greasy suit, and sweaty sort of paunch. Mr. Green represents the very essence of greed (possibly because green is the color of American bank notes), fitting nicely with his new stock persona." So, it's about the music industry, staying together and staying true to their sound, and greed. and the clue game. and smoking pot. |
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| Panda Bear – Take Pills Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/41637-please-mr-pharmacist | |
| Panda Bear – Take Pills Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Take Pills", from Panda Bear's Person Pitch, is a sample and loop-based swirl that fits squarely within the psychedelic-pop sound that his primary group, Animal Collective, is known for. Thick with reverb, dreamy harmonies, and unusual found-sound stimuli, it's a track with all the markings of a "drug song." So why does the mantra of the final section begin with "I don't want for us to take pills anymore?" In a recent interview with Dusted Magazine's Rob Hatch-Miller, Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) clarified: "That song is pretty explicitly about anti-depressant drugs, not more recreational kinds of drugs. I was on anti-depressants for a while and my mom continues to be on them. Melancholy and depression is kind of a theme in my family. The song is about appreciating what they did for me at the time but wanting to get off of them, and to try not to rely on them if I could. And that's not to say that I think nobody should be on them, like I said they really helped me out for a while. But for me personally I just wanted to try to get on with it, and it's kind of me talking to my mom about trying to get her off of them too. I used to see a psychiatrist and he was like, "You're going to have to be on these drugs for the rest of your life, it's just the chemistry of your brain." That kind of bummed me out, so I really wanted to prove him wrong. He was a nice guy, but he was wrong. The song, then, acknowledges the utility of prescription medication as a temporary fix, but reflects discomfort with it being a permanent solution, a common obstacle facing people who are recommended to go on antidepressants. As a replacement for pills, Lennox instead recommends a sort of holistic type of advice, to "take one day at a time" and "only one thing at a time," the popular idea that a temporary amount of time on medication is enough to get one's brain chemistry sorted out, and that healthy living can stand in for pharmaceutical treatments. |
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| Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I went to school with two of these kids, Rostam used to date an ambassador's daughter. | |
| José González – Down the Line Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's about a complicated relationship, or the end of a relationship. You know, those weird weeks when there is "break-up sex" or two people don't love each other anymore but can't break up because they are so used to each other.The reason why i think this is this verse: "Come on over be so caught up its all about compromise." To me that says to the person to basically ignore the problems "down the line" and do the same wrong again, which is hanging on to a relationship that shouldn't be. And there are almost no reasons to do so anymore, it's just "all about compromise". |
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| Wilco – Radio Cure Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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YankeeHotelFoxtrot is about trying to find answers inside Americana to unanswerable questions like loss, unrequited love, lost innocence and depression, by using our own little human lenses of the arts--photography (Kamera), music (Radio Cure, Pot Kettle Black), poetry (Ashes of American Flag), youth memories (Heavy Metal Drummer), and each other (Jesus, etc). This of course, deal with the fact that the band saw the crumble of the world trade center while writing it--I think it's inspired by how our decade was marked by that event, and how the reality of America being a perfect place, crumbling, collided in a personal level with the realization that nothing is, after all, perfect. I'd say, once you gotten depressed enough with something like Elliot Smith, you'll turn to this album for the nothingness and then begin filling back up with something else like Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea or even Arcade Fire's Funeral. That's the radio cure of our generation. |
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| The Weakerthans – Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Has everyone forgotten who Virtute's owner is? This is a song that is sad but at the same time unavoidable. Virtute represents a voice that tells her owner to get up from the sorrow and move on in reconstruction site, and now that she is no longer needed...she leaves. I think that the song is about Virtute leaving of course, but the whole point is that she KNEW she had to go. "I heard you missing steps...and your anger pleading" ie, if we think of this as a very smart cat, it seems that Virtute HID from the owner in purpose...she knew her work in that person's life was complete. And moved on. |
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| Paul Simon – Gumboots Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Oh come on. Meaning is simple--A guy in love with his female senorita friend who, well, loves him as a friend only. | |
| Mike Doughty – Looking at the World From the Bottom of a Well Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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cuban women are like heroin. And I know that cause I'm cuban :0) |
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| Mike Doughty – White Lexus Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is rather sarcastic, a nice little fuck you to all those people who think that enjoying life and feeling the excitement of living requires money...and a white lexus. try to feel nothing on command. their heart's down in a diamond mine. |
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| The Album Leaf – Wherever I Go Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think that the voice is just another instrument, rather than a stand-alone part of the song, like in most music. Other examples are The Notwist and obviously Sigur Ros. The lyrics are simple to let the person really involve themselves with the ocean of layers that the song has. And everything in this album screams Written From The Heart. Its beautiful. |
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| The Album Leaf – Wishful Thinking Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this songs are all so beautiful | |
| The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Prayers to summon the destroying angel Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector And you" and that, my friends, is nothing short of brilliant songwriting. |
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| Regina Spektor – On the Radio Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is a song clearly about death people. dont you know what a hearse is? | |
| The Mountain Goats – Going to Queens Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| well...it can also be literal. I mean, the children were playing double dutch...so they could just make it even faster. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Going to Kansas Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The one on The Hound Chronicles has a long ass silence/voiceover at the beginning and the one on Nothing for Juice has a screeching noise that leaves me deaf. As much as I love him, I can see why some people are really not that into john's music who am i kidding he's a genius. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Going to Bolivia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ok, I have to say that I dont know why but I hear the girl being off key | |
| The Mountain Goats – Going to Bogata Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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cocaine... and the sun rises over COLOMBIA. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Going to Maryland Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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but the lights are bright tonight and your eyes shine tonight on chesapeke bay... awesome |
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| Bishop Allen – The News From Your Bed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| sad sad sad and happy happy happy at the same time. hey mr whiskers! | |
| Phoenix – Rally Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| are they talking about Avalon the nightclub in new york? | |
| The Mountain Goats – Elijah Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is an awesome song, how many people can comment on Tallahassee and Sunset Tree songs and YET not listen to these songs!!!?!?! | |
| The Mountain Goats – Jaipur Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Jaipur, popularly known as the Pink City, was founded in 1727 AD by one of the greatest rulers of the Kachhawaha clan, the astronomer king Sawai Jai Singh. The pink color was used at the time of making to create an impression of red sandstone buildings of Mughal cities - and repainted in 1876, during the visit of the Prince of Wales. The city is best explored on foot and the adventurous visitor willing to go into the inner lanes can discover a whole new world not visible to the tourist-in-a-hurry. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Jaipur Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this song. I'm glad I can be the first person to post here. | |
| The Weepies – Painting By Chagall Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song is amazing. just simply amazing. And it's a song about two people who are in an impossible love. Chagall painted all these beautiful scenes that were his native village, dreams of love, dreams of freedom...and that's what this song is. It's about two people who share a common, impossible dream of being with each other. One of them is named Lexi and just got married to a man she doesn't love, and her favorite Chagall painting is "Eye and The Village". The other one is me, and we are the lovers flying above the clouds in Eye and The Villaqge...our favorite painting together...and an impossible love. I live 3000 miles from her but she still tells me she loves me and sends me this song...and how we'll always have our love live in some ethereal place...That's what this song is about. The question was: what does this song mean to you? and that's really what it means to me. |
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| Band of Horses – Monsters Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song is amazing. My favorite in the album. it inspires such hope and optimism that it makes me happy. It's funny, at first I really liked Funeral, then I loved I Go To The Barn Because I Like...but this song I think is the best in the album because of its message. It's sad but optimistic and happy. get up and be happy! |
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| Snow Patrol – How to Be Dead Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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think about this song as a fight over the phone, told from only one perspective. It makes sense right? Also, the jekyll/Hyde metaphor clearly indicates that when he's on drugs he's one person and when he's sober he's another. She can't stand that, and he victimizes himself, yet he "steps over lines"--rules she has made. Obviously, he has an addiction problem, and his relationship is going to hell because of it. |
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| Band of Horses – I Go to the Barn Because I Like the Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| wedding, unrequited love. I love how music just molds to your own personal life. You can hear anything you want in it...It's so lovely. the opening line is beautiful. | |
| Band of Horses – Our Swords Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i thought it was a song about acting with your dick -- following your sword. | |
| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I mean the video is kinda obvious. A man troubleed by his past, quite possibly a woman, drinks himself to forget and then kills himself. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Absolute Lithops Effect Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Cyrus and Jeff from the first song? | |
| The Mountain Goats – Source Decay Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Thinking about it again, Cyrus and Jeff from the best death metal band out of denton could be the two people in this song. And it could also be the couple in Jenny. Most of it this album makes me think that Denton is a lonely town that he has captured into one album through all these stories of dreams that people had. | |
| The Mountain Goats – The Young Thousands Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| it's an album about speed users. Speed is also known as methamphetamine, "Meth" or "Crystal Method", or "Glass". The crystal/glass part comes from the fact that it is sold as a crystalline powder, kinda like tiny diamonds. get it? that's where the diamonds reference comes from | |
| The Mountain Goats – Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this song is so sad and apparently it's autobiographical. I can't get it off my head. especially "held under these smothering waves by your strong and thick-veined hands" | |
| Johnny Cash – Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this song is so beautiful and it's sung by Dylan and Cash on a duet, I can't believe no one has commented on it. It makes me cry. | |
| Bishop Allen – Butterfly Nets Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I walked in to the concert today as they played this song. it was so beautiful. | |
| Bishop Allen – Things Are What You Make Of Them Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| love it, it's about a very very sour relationship. | |
| Bishop Allen – Corazon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| it's a very pretty song. Very endearing...they're great, why haven't they been given a bigger hype like Arcade Fire or such? | |
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