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| Radiohead – A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It makes me cry uncontrollably when I listen to it, and no song's really done that for me since I was maybe, 13 or something. It's like a train of fear straight out of his subconscious. I read the rich guys are based on him really feeling that way on a rowdy train car at some point, and he had just had a baby. It's fear and disgust, all rolled into one out of control rant. It's about inescapable fear and disgust, even when you have little babies' eyes to look into. |
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| Simple Kid – The Average Man Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's about the alienation the artist feels from the average man. The artist is looking for something greater, but what is the average man llooking for? |
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| Ben Folds – Carrying Cathy Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I know a guy who married a "cathy" and this song suits his situation incredibly well. It seems so accurate...I wonder if it's autobiographical? |
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| Neil Young – Southern Man Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"A lot of our ancestors died because of it."
ALL of my ancestors died for one reason or another...I thinkI'm gonna make a polio flag and reenact the vaccination discovery yearly!
The song has certainly demonstrated the fact that Southerners AND Yankees can't get over their own prejudices. Southerners, at their worst, are racist and polite, while Yankees at their worst are racist and rude. At least I get a "please" with my racism down here! |
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| Beck – Already Dead Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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My band may be breaking up, and our last practice was like wathing something dying. It works in all cases of loss that occurs over time, rather than suddenly. One day you wake up and it's already dead, even if it doesn't know it. |
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| Radiohead – Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's how an artist is dissected and prodded by the people who enjoy his songs, and ultimately provide his livelihood. He wishes they didn't affect him as much as they do. It's about that, and the fact that we all have our own bullets to take, and how we'd all be better off being made of kevlar. |
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| Beck – Side Of The Road Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's about changing your life and leaving your friends for a lover, then seeing what that does to you, and being unable to go back to the way you were before, and missing your friends' guidance. |
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| They Might Be Giants – We Want A Rock Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Naw...it's written from the point of view of a trend follower (or slaesman) about how cool the trend is. The middle part expresses the narrator's worries about people who make fun of trends. |
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| Beck – Dead Melodies Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Nothing is permanent, so all songs and all of us are dead already, in the long term? |
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| Neil Young – Winterlong Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's about taking time off from your passions, becoming complacent or stuck in sorrow, then waking up and realizing that your muse, whatever it may be, has gone forward without you.
My roomate just said it's about not being able to find any coke. I guess that works too! |
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| They Might Be Giants – Thunderbird Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's about being reckless and drunk in the glory days, then looking back (drunk of the same Thunderbird wine maybe?) and telling someone you're done with those days, but remember how they were. |
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| Radiohead – Morning Bell Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's about a guy freaking out in a haunted house and thinking about what happened there to leave all these ghosts. It's dark and early morning, and the ghosts wake him up and he freaks and gets into his car and drives away, looking back at a not quite empty house with the lights on. |
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| Broken Social Scene – KC Accidental Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It is about the emo bands that these guys transcend. It's about all the people that sing about their problems and emotions just to purge them, rather than express some lesson it's taught them. They dwell in narcissism, and it's killing meeeee.....
I think he named it after the old band to be ironic and jokey with his mates. |
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| The Flaming Lips – The Spark That Bled Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The bleeding is the birth of an idea..like reciprocity in most religions...that truly changes us inside. This great idea then spreads like wildfire. Often those ideas grow in us until they sort of pour out, bewildering even us. (The spark that bleeds). As the idea spreads from our initial enthusiastic outburst, as we try to share the epiphany with others (say put out a song about it) the people hear what we say, and get very excited and buzz about it, but ultimately miss the point and fail to experience the same change inside that the originator did. It's about the failure of communication in conveying complex emotional epiphanies. |
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| Ben Folds – Rockin' The Suburbs Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I think it expresses the frustration average people from the suburbs experience when they try to find something other than base emotions to sing about. |
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| Neil Young – Broken Arrow Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The verses are split in half. The first half of each verse sings about the crowds and the fame and the sensations of being in the music business. The first verse this deals with the ending of a show, and the exhilaration you feel when they call your name. The second verse deals with the feelings of what you miss while on the road, falling in love and marriage and babies. The second half of each verse deals with his feelings of being so distracted with following his own dream that he never noticed the way Native Americans only have broken dreams these days, while the other Americans are too distracted by glitz and such. The song expresses his guilt at being an American who got everything he thought he wanted, while giving little back to anyone else. |
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| David Bowie – Cygnet Committee Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It\'s about Bowie realizing the world wasn\'t going to change like he and all the other people in the movements of the sixties thought it would. It\'s about blessing people who are still fighting the power, as he prepares to leave the arena. It\'s about sitting and listening to talks of revolution and realizing that you and your friends have become part of the machine, and that the revolution will never happen. It purges the guilt, love and failed dreams of his generation. |
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| Bright Eyes – We Are Nowhere and It's Now Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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The beginning shows us the questions that reverberate and trouble the singer's head while he's on a bus not living with the people he needs to be living with. The world flies past him. His head's full of pesticides from the farmlands he passes on the road. He gets home and goes to get drunk like we all do at the end of our ropes. I have the same relationship with my bartender. His ex is a blonde and she's now his friend and wants him to get over her. |
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