| Sloan – I Can Feel It Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I always thought the "Happy Birthday to the Best Brother in the World!" line was Patrick reflecting on a card from his sister ("At least I'm still cool to one girl")...maybe he made an ass of himself in front of the girl he liked (ie the subject of the song)? "Three's nothing out of ten" also always makes me think of cranking the stereo up to 11. Which I always want to do on this song! Possibly my favourite Sloan song of all time. |
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| Sloan – I Am The Cancer Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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From what I know about the Halifax music scene in the mid-90s (which, admittedly, isn't much), this song is Chris Murphy's farewell song to Halifax, leaving behind Matt (poss. Murphy, of The Super Friendz?), Alyson (poss. MacLeod, of Jale [who soon thereafter abruptly left the band]?) and Andrew (Scott, of Sloan, who was the only memeber to remain in Halifax post-Twice Removed...the other three moved to Toronto to be with their respective ladies). Also, I believe the last line of the first "scarecrow" verse meld in with the first line of the last verse, that is "Why would you/Stay there, Scarecrow?/Sorry I had to go, but...", not "Say there, Scarecrow". I can only speculate about the "cancer" reference in the Andrew verse, it's possible they were having issues of their own that were (presumably) resolved by Chris moving to Toronto (since the band is still happily together etc) |
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| Belle & Sebastian – A Century of Elvis Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Many compliments to let_forever_be for transcribing such a wendy windy song, you did an excellent job! There's just one nitpicky, anal retentive thing to say (besides Byres Rd, which Uber_Geek caught); in Ink Polaroids and other of Stuart David's writing, his wife's name is always written as "Karn" (or, more often, "Wee Karn"), not Karen. I have also always thought of Elvis as a cat. A very vividly, insightfully described cat, too. Great song to daydream to. I know why SD left B&S, but I think the band could use a good injection of SD's spirit right about now. |
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