| Neutral Milk Hotel – Sailing Through Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Quote from Magnum on a version I have: "It's not really about sex. It always sounds like it's about sex. It's just about getting inside of people but not through...that way." |
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| Elliott Smith – Twilight (Somebody's Baby) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I always kind of saw this song as a call/response, as far as the first verse/chorus and second verse/chours go. The first is Elliott speaking to this other person, saying that they're glad to be with them, but he's already somebody's baby. The second is this person saying back, saying that they care about them and they could get through the fact that he's taken. The third verse is Elliott replying, even if this other person could be right, he's too tired to even try. He's already somebody's baby, and even if he went with this person he'd disappoint them. The somebody could very well be drugs, but could also be another person. There isn't enough evidence to support either theory, or disprove it. Both make sense, though.l |
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| Elliott Smith – Don't Go Down Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I really don't think it's about craddle-robbing. I'm not sure where you came up with that. Not saying that you're wrong, I would just like to know your explanation. Anyway, my interpretation is that of a failed relationship. He falls in love with this girl, whose parents hate him, but she moves in with him anyway. She finally realizes that this relationship isn't doing her any good, but 'he' keeps asking her to 'stay with me, baby stay.' |
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| Modest Mouse – The View Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I can't believe no one has figured out the relatively simplistic message of the lines: [As life gets longer, awful feels softer. Well it feels pretty soft to me.] - Meaning his life has certainly felt pretty long, so awful thus feels pretty soft. [And if it takes shit to make bliss, Then I feel pretty blissfully.] - A lot of shitty things have happened in his life. Thus, if shitty things make bliss, then Isaac must feel pretty blissfully. |
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| Modest Mouse – Bury Me with It Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Does anyone know what Isaac Brock is mumbling beneath the second "We are hummingbirds who've lost the plot and we will not move" section? I think it's great whenever he does that, it kills me every time, it sounds like someone trying to hold onto their sanity. But, still, I want to know what he actually says. | |
| Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I always thought this was kind of Thom's interpretation about the relationship between God and humanity "The dinosaurs roam the earth and the sky turns green where I end and you begin" suggesting that it spans all time and reality "I am up in the clouds and I can't come down" would then be a reference to Heaven. "Where you left me alone" Possibly saying that humanity has abandoned God. "I will eat you all alive and there'll be no more lies" Saying that he's thinking about getting vengeful on our asses again. Maybe a great flood that Noah Yorke will have to Sail us To The Moon out of. |
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| Modest Mouse – I Came as a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short Dock) Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| It seems to be that, on a whole, most Modest Mouse songs are just like a presentation of facts, or universal truths, or events that everyone experiences and the emotional connotations are free for everyone to interpret. Like, Isaac's just giving us the picture and telling us that it means whatever he wants it to mean. | |
| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This is a joke song. It's completely taking the piss. It's not serious whatsoever. It's just a huge joke. | |
| Radiohead – I Will. (No Man's Land.) Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Haven, you most likely got "Like Spinning Plates" which, insturmentally, IS this song being played backwards. The first few lines of which are sung backwards, too. | |
| Radiohead – Lucky Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This is just a positive song. Almost arrogantly confident. "Kill me Sarah, kill me again, with love." To me just is like saying like 'not even you killing me can ruin this for me, because it's going to be a glorious day.' It's just, the guy's on a roll and not a car crash, not a breaking up, not even the head of state calling for him by name can ruin it, because he's standing on the edge of something spectacular. | |
| Ugly Casanova – Barnacles Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Isaac Brock is very vocal about promoting hallucinagins and uppers, my dear friend Hindenberg. He's probably fried. | |
| Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Even though I am not 'trailer trash' I can still relate to almost all of this song. The line "Short love with a long divorce" hits home truthfully as well as the sentiment that "High School means nothing." One of my favorite songs off of Lonesome Crowded West. | |
| Bright Eyes – Messenger Bird's Song Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I respect the fact that some of you actually took the time out to download some Modest Mouse songs (surprised, even) and respect even more you gave them a chance. I don't respect however, that, despite the fact that I even said I will stop being an ass if someone calmly tries to make a point, that you still can't resist taking pot-shots at me. I expected both too little and too much out of this group. Oh well. |
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| Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I'm surprised no one has commented on this song, as it's one of Brock's best. Amazing direct lines like "Eyes need us to see/Hearts need us to bleed" and brilliant metaphors like "In this life like weeds/You're the dirt I'll breath." I'm still trying to get a full grasp of the meaning, but to me it's a song about the obstructions in life. It seems to be saying that there are going to be obstructions in our life, things that we just can't change (our hearts are just made out of strings to be pulled). But it still reminds us that these obstructions are going to make us into what we are (In the faces you see, you'll see just who you've been). Basically, it says to me that there things we can't change, no matter how much we want to, but how we deal with it is what makes us who we are. |
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| Bright Eyes – Messenger Bird's Song Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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Woo! Someone tried to make a point, unfortunately negatyve, you failed miserably in your attempt. Anyway, I excersize my superiority complex quite a lot in the real life, actually. And besides, the whole point to having an opinion is that YOU THINK ITS RIGHT. So, yes, I think my opinion is right. I mean, honestly, do you think yours is wrong? Also, I enjoy the hypocrisy of you making all these assumptions on my life and then you tell me that I shouldn't presume to know Conor. Anyway, first off, I am not a girl. Where did you ever get that notion? And, also, I have no idea where Bright Eyes stands in the 'mainstream' as I haven't listned to the radio or watched any music on MTV or VH1 in a long, long time (read: years). I get my music exculsively by word of mouth. Also, on to your 'point' where you say the 'simplicity' of the song makes it heartfelt. The fact is, it isn't simplicity. He's trying to cover up his self-pity with, like a said, flowerly language and a twenty-scent thesarus. It's not a simply written song, he's trying too hard to sound intelligent. Also, I didn't just make an account to bash this. It just happened to be the first thing I felt like doing, yah know, to rile up some stupid people. Also, it's obvious you didn'tget the point that I will actually respect people who try to make a calm, rational point instead of trying vainly to use insults to get back at me for dissing their music. Unfortunately, you just couldn't resist trying to bash me, trying to get the same rise out of me that I seemed to get out of this collective group. |
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| Bright Eyes – Messenger Bird's Song Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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The people who are responding to my bashing in an intelligent matter (oh, that's just Supriya, my bad). I commend you. It's easy to get defensive and angry at someone bashing music you like, but it's another to give a calm, thought out reply. That being said, none of you (I'm looking at you Free Fall) have given me one even attempt at a rebuttal of my points. Come on, I just pointed out so many things, surely there must be some concise argument someone could think up. 'Yeah no one cares what you think' doesn't count, that's just a cop out. |
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| Bright Eyes – Messenger Bird's Song Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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*laughs* 1.) Isaac Brock is the lead singer to Modest Mouse, a band that garners more sales and critical praise with any single album that your shit for brains Bright Eyes has with their entire discography. If you don't know who someone is, don't try some pathetic attempt at mocking that person. It's really a backwards argument that makes you look more an idiot than I. 2.) It doesn't take much brains to think up the self-pitying moans of contrived anquish that are the lyrics listed above, I'm afraid. They might hit the heart of some pimple-scarred teenager, crying in the back of his room, but to an actual music fan, the boring cliches, the general predictability doesn't hit anything but the funny bone. Frankly, this stuff is just about as bad as Trent Reznor, instead of being blatantly self pitying, Bright Eyes just tries covering it up with a twenty-cent thesarus and different wordplay. Go away, and come back when you a.) can make a decent argument or b.) have a better taste in music. |
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| Bright Eyes – Messenger Bird's Song Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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My God, this is horrid. I don't know, maybe I'm just past the teenage self-pity stage, but lines like "Because I'm lost in the black" make me giggle until I realize he's trying to be serious. "But there was once a time when you were the one/You were the blue of the sky" is the kind of lyric I wrote when I was thirteen, thought was great, then realized was crap and flushed down the toliet the next day. "Smile at me and I will stay/Start to cry and I'll go away"? Can we add a few more sappy love cliches, please? No, really, because I think adding two of the biggest ones in history isn't enough. Also "So you made me come/Then you sent me away like a messenger bird" is one of the most juvenile analogies I have heard in my life. It sounds like something he came up with while watching Bugs Bunny at three in the morning. If you want some real lyrical genuis, try Isaac Brock or Frank Black. This 21-year-old crybaby needs to grow up and get over himself. My God, whatever happened to good emo. |
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