| Bob Dylan – Idiot Wind Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| melancolley's got it exactly. | |
| The Decemberists – The Mariner's Revenge Song Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The line is definitely "and the captain quailed." The original lyrics were right. | |
| David Bowie – Space Oddity Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| bowie, man. freaking awesome. | |
| Love – Alone again or Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| As deliriumtrigger mentioned, this song is extra-awesome because it accompanies one of the greatest scenes ever (in Bottle Rocket). But I always thought the last line was "And I will be alone again tonight *with you* my dear" Am I crazy? | |
| Brand New – Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| yeah c-c-c-controversial is awesome. | |
| Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song is basically perfect. The way the lyrics are repeated while the music behind them keeps building and changing and the last stanza ("park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me") is utterly amazing. It seems like she's singing about someone she loved who changed and became just like everyone else. She's pleading for the person to quit what he's doing, fall asleep, and dream about her, so they'll "come back." Just really awesome. |
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| Brand New – Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"I'm heaven sent, don't you dare forget I am all you've ever wanted, what all the other boys all promised Sorry I told I just needed you to know " I don't think he's being cocky here - I think it's about some girl and he's letting her know that she gave up the best thing she'd ever have. It's not cockiness, it's just him realizing that he's better than she is and wanting her to know that she's not going to get the same from someone else. I agree with prayingmantis84's interpretation of the title - he wants to believe her, but he's just angry at her for not keeping "a secret" or whatever, so he wants to hurt her even though he believes her. If it is about a girl, then the rest of the song is just Jesse mocking himself. "Look, we're so handsome and smart, we have these girls going crazy about us, I have an awesome voice, only we have the power to start this craze" but he still realizes that he's writing about who he doesn't want to write about and that "it's so hard to find someone to love." It seems like he's trying to believe in the opening verse and trying to convince himself that he really feels that way, but he has doubts. So the talking about being handsome and having an awesome voice and being in a band is him just trying to console himself, not necessarily cockiness. Just my take on it. |
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| Saves the Day – Rocks Tonic Juice Magic Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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What's there to say? It's about someone he cared for and had a good time with who suddenly changed the way she felt or cheated or stopped caring, and now he just wants to hurt her as much as possible. In the beginning, he's angry and contemplating sawing her flesh off.....but "it would be all right if we could see each other sometime, if I could somehow make you mine." He hates her, but he still has hope that she'll turn back all of a sudden. As the song goes on, he realizes that she's not so great as he thought - "You're beatiful - just not on the inside" and all of a sudden her "gleaming eyes don't seem so bright." The song is pretty much the story of a breakup. Anger, false hope, anger, and then finally realization that it was bound to fail ("You and I are like when fire and the ocean floor collide"). |
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| Brand New – Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"I'm heaven sent, don't you dare forget I am all you've ever wanted, what all the other boys all promised Sorry I told I just needed you to know " I don't think he's being cocky here - I think it's about some girl and he's letting her know that she gave up the best thing she'd ever have. It's not cockiness, it's just him realizing that he's better than she is and wanting her to know that she's not going to get the same from someone else. I agree with prayingmantis84's interpretation of the title - he wants to believe her, but he's just angry at her for not keeping "a secret" or whatever, so he wants to hurt her even though he believes her. If it is about a girl, then the rest of the song is just Jesse mocking himself. "Look, we're so handsome and smart, we have these girls going crazy about us, I have an awesome voice, only we have the power to start this craze" but he still realizes that he's writing about who he doesn't want to write about and that "it's so hard to find someone to love." It seems like he's trying to believe in the opening verse and trying to convince himself that he really feels that way, but he has doubts. So the talking about being handsome and having an awesome voice and being in a band is him just trying to console himself, not necessarily cockiness. Just my take on it. |
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| Bright Eyes – Nothing Gets Crossed Out Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure it's I just want someone to walk in front And I'LL follow the leader Not "And not follow the leader" |
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| The White Stripes – The Union Forever Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It's all about Citizen Kane. The part about true love is sung by the band during Kane's party in the Everglades. The bit about oil wells and shipping and being everything you hate is spoken by Kane when he loses his empire. His second wife speaks the lines about "you gotta love me." The "There is a man..." part is taken verbatim from a song about Kane sung in the movie. But "shure"? What the hell? There's no 'h' in 'sure.' Also, it's traction MAGNATES, not magnets. |
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| The White Stripes – The Union Forever Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It's all about Citizen Kane. The part about true love is sung by the band during Kane's party in the Everglades. The bit about oil wells and shipping and being everything you hate is spoken by Kane when he loses his empire. His second wife speaks the lines about "you gotta love me." The "There is a man..." part is taken verbatim from a song about Kane sung in the movie. But "shure"? What the hell? There's no 'h' in 'sure.' Also, it's traction MAGNATES, not magnets. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Some of the best lyrics in any song: "And the poets down here don't write nothin' at all / They just stand back and let it all be." | |
| Bruce Springsteen – The River Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This song is so beautifully sad. It's about the narrator's amazing love for Mary, and how their early marriage ruined everything. Over time, they've basically become strangers, but he still thinks about how things used to be and still remembers "her body down by the resorvoir" and how they felt when they were young and they were everything to each other. I can't explain why it's so sad. It's almost like they thought they had something amazing and they had so much faith in it; even right after getting married, they went back to the river like they always had. They were so optimistic about their future, and now the narrator is trapped because he loved someone so much so many years ago and now he has to deal with that sadness and regret every day. It's a really powerful song. | |
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