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| Pixies – I've Been Tired Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The "tell the tale of a girl but I call her a woman" verse is probably about Frank's stepmother. She was younger than his dad and he had some mixed up feelings about her. She appears in some other songs too, although exactly which ones escapes me at the moment. |
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| The Dukes of Stratosphear – My Love Explodes Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The "review" at the end:
"That is the most obscene abomination, that is dirt, that is filth, that is trash. What possessed you to write such a disgusting, degeneratised song as that? And I'm complimenting you by considering it a song!"
Always makes me chuckle. |
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| The Fiery Furnaces – Take Me Round Again Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I'm pretty sure most of the lyrics here are titles of old musicals and popular songs. I don't really know if it's supposed to actually mean something when put together, though. |
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| Elvis Costello – Green Shirt Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The first verse kinda seems like it's about the media's ever-increasing tendency to filter out all information that doesn't support whatever agenda they're currently working, thereby turning everything black and white. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Good Son Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Actually, I'm pretty sure this is about the older brother of the biblical Prodigal Son, the one who didn't run away, hence the good son. I guess, judging from lines like "they are deaf in the shadow of his brother's truancy" and "he curses his virtue like an unclean thing," that he's disappointed in not getting credit for being obedient and wishes he'd been the one who rebelled, since the prodigal son so unfairly gets all the love from their parents when he returns. |
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| Róisín Murphy – Overpowered Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Or it could be, y'know, a playful response to the claim that love is just a series of chemical reactions and electrical impulses in your brain. |
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| Feist – When I Was a Young Girl Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The last line should be "all wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay." It's a line from an old cowboy song called Streets of Laredo.
Then again, it does sound an awful lot like "called out the plague," so I'm going to guess Feist just misheard the lyrics when she incorporated them into this song. |
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| The Vaselines – Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's not supposed to mean "Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam," actally. It's an imperative. "Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam." See the title? They're basically saying "Sorry, Jesus, you're gonna have to find someone else to be your sunbeam, because I can't be bothered." I guess it's kind of a break-up song with Jesus, or religion in general.
Oh, and the song is kind of a response to an old Christian hymn called "I'll Be a Sunbeam" or something like that. |
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| Clor – Love + Pain Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The second verse is totally wrong, but I figured wrong was better than none. |
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| Ladytron – Sugar Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is clearly about pickled onions. It's pretty obvious, and, honestly, I think you'd have to be kinda stupid not to get it, especially seeing how every single song Ladytron have ever written is about pickled onions. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Animal Bar Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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God damn it, people, the fact that it uses a biblical metaphor doesn't automatically make it a gospel song. I'd say it's pretty obvious that it's ABOUT the Animal Bar, but it likens it to the deluge from biblical legend. Stop being such touchy pricks and enjoy the song. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Watching Alice Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Err, I'm not sure where these lyrics are from, but in my version of the song "her hair hangs down" is clearly followed by "as she brushes it one hundred times."
Coincidentally, that's the line that made me think Alice was supposed to be a princess of some sort (or at least the voiyeur sees her as such). I read somewhere that princesses are supposed to brush their hair a hundred times each day. |
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| Manu Chao – Bongo Bong Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Yes, of course it's about weed, mr. Stonerguy420. Now all we need is the seventeen-year-old who just got dumped to say it's about killing yourself, and the gay guy to say it's about how hard it is to come out of the closet, and it'll be like every other song on songmeanings. |
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| Kyuss – Lick Doo Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I wonder what the hell they were smoking when they decided to close the album with this pretty little ditty. |
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| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"Tell me what you saw
I'll tell you what you..."
This line is also in Modest Mouse's Ocean Breathes Salty. Coincidence? |
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