| Guy Garvey – Unwind Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song for me creates an image of someone escaping troubles back home and escaping to New York (the skyline scene). There the "escapee" is sitting in a cafe and they see a beautiful woman (a mystery overseas, and a stranger with a perfect face), and imagine being with her, in every sense of the word. The parachute they're wrapped in in verse 2 refers to this escaping it all, the troubles back home and "parachuting" out of them, and also the bed sheets around them as they lie there together. |
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| Guy Garvey – Angela's Eyes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Guy says about this song; "The song is about abandoning faith in everything but the woman you love. I'm actually quite hopeful for the future but I couldn't resist the chance to have a pop in a pop song." There are particular references to religion in verse 1 and David Cameron and the British Conservative government (Eton Mess) as well as the Houses of Parliament in general (house full of robbers and thieves), in verse 2. |
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| Muse – Drones Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Matt said about this song that: "It's a lament for the victims, it ends on this ghostly chorus of the forgotten, they will never see justice, and they have been killed by a robot, there's something inherently tragic about humanity there". | |
| Muse – Reapers Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song is about not having any empathy at all. | |
| Muse – JFK Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Matt says about this track that: "It talks about the human spirit, freedom and independence kind of stuff" and this is "where everything does a transition" and that "The JFK speech, at that time it was talking about the rise of communism and stuff, when you heard the words he said it's so relevant to the world even now". This was a speech made by resident John F. Kennedy at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City on April 27, 1961. He was of course talking about communism. Applied these days it sounds much more applicable to the superpowers, especially the USA. And to the NWO/globalists. |
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| Muse – The Globalist Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Firstly, it is very odd how the lyrics I submitted are different than the ones now shown above? There are a lot of word/spelling errors above that I certainly didn't make. "Now you finally have good" for example! As PorcTree says, this is the final act of the protagonist about which Drones was written.Essentially this song is about the rise and fall of a psychopathic dictator. |
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| Turin Brakes – Bye Pod Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| A song about growing and being old. | |
| Bell X1 – Amsterdam Says Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[misty11410:3034] Paul's wife, Amy, is Dutch. | |
| Villagers – Hot Scary Summer Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Conor says about this song : Hot Scary Summer was really weird because I don't really sit down and think I'm going to write about this. It kind of happens in steps. When I wrote Hot Scary Summer I was in Japan and we were asking the crew, that were helping us pack our gear down, how to say, thank you for your hard work. [The translation sounded similar to, hot scary summer]. Thank you for your hard work is the first line of the song now. It kind of reminded me of what it feels like at the end of a relationship. My experience of relationships ending are all tied in with memories of being threatened with violence on the street. I've had very homophobic experiences. It just all started to tie in. Whenever I start to sing about the negative aspects of relationships and love, that kind of instantly came into my head. So I was like I can't leave this out if I'm going to be honest about this. So it just kind of went in there. |
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| Villagers – The Soul Serene Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Conor of Villagers says : I remember writing that song and I was trying to relay the feeling of; you're on your own suddenly, you're by the sea and there's loads of space around you and you're like "whoa, where am I, who am I and what am I doing?" It's like a moment of change in your life. It's a song about being at peace with that change and trying to let it in. I kind of like the line "I go walking on the shore, wonder what I'm walking for and I find chameleon dreams in my mind". I kind of like the idea of changing colours and being ok with that and allowing those colours to change. Being at peace I guess, step into the soul serene. It's nice to have that song on the album because it's kind of like a centrepiece to the album for me because it sort of encompasses the aims of the rest of the songs in that they are all trying to find some sort of piece but then this one is about actually being there you know, being in that moment. That might be my favourite. |
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| Villagers – Courage Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think this song is about the refreshing feeling of being out of a relationship that took everything out of you, but one whereby it was easier to stay in than leave. Leaving such a situation, a going back to being free, takes courage even if it makes you extremely sad in the process. |
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| Villagers – Dawning On Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This is a song about love. | |
| Muse – Dead Inside Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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From Matt: "This is where the story of the album begins, where the protagonist loses hope and becomes 'Dead Inside', therefore vulnerable to the dark forces introduced in 'Psycho' and which ensue over the next few songs on the album, before eventually defecting, revolting and overcoming these dark forces later in the story." To me though, it also reads like it was written at and about the break up of a relationship. |
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| The Slow Show – God Only Knows Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| A song about growing old with the people you love. | |
| The Slow Show – Brother Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song is written about Rob's (lead singer of The Slow Show) Grandfather who one day told him that in his teens he'd lost a 16 year old brother. | |
| The Slow Show – Augustine Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Written from the perspective of a dying man. | |
| The Slow Show – Bloodline Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Written about a family member of Rob Goodwin, lead singer of The Slow Show, who went searching for relatives and her family roots. | |
| Damien Rice – Long Long Way Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Parts of this album, especially this track, seem to link Damien's past and present. This song seems as if Damien is addressing himself - about his past - and asking himself the 4 questions, as posed by Byron Katie (she is thanked in the credits for the album). To ask yourself the four questions, propose a statement about a problem in your life, for example; "She is ignoring me". Find someone in your life about whom you have had that thought. Then take that statement and put it up against the four questions and turnarounds as follows : Question 1 Is it true? (Yes or no. If no, move to 3.) Question 2 Can you absolutely know that it's true? (Yes or no.) Question 3 How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? Question 4 Who would you be without the thought? According to Byron, and Damien it seems, this is a way to analyse life and the issues we face. The song also ends in an extremely similar (nay identical) fashion as "Cold Water" from 0, and "Sleep Don't Weep" from previous album 9. Is this a message to Lisa perhaps? Or just a continuation of a spiritual theme? |
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| Damien Rice – Trusty And True Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this is, in part, addressed to God, or whatever supreme being or thought you happen to believe in. It's an admission of guilt but a plea; we tried our best, it hasn't quite worked, can we start again please? |
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| Coldplay – Always in My Head Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Most certainly and obviously a straight forward break up song. Chris has said he wanted to start the album with this song as it lays his heart on his sleeve straight away. The last verse is actually : "This, I guess Is to tell you you're chosen out from the rest" Which speaks for itself in the context of this being Chris' breakup album - but with a positive, hopeful slant. |
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| Coldplay – Always in My Head Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Coldplay – A Sky Full of Stars Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this song is written about someone wonderful, and that nothing is every truly black and white. That even during the dark times (or the night) there can still be light (stars). And sometimes regardless of the situation you have to appreciate that light, or that person. | |
| Coldplay – Oceans Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is about needing to embrace the dark times in life as well as the good times. Everything that happens to you as a person is meant to happen. And once you accept that then maybe life becomes more enjoyable, or calmer. There is a Japanese art form called Kintsugi. This is where bits of pottery are broken up and then put back together again, but with gold. The last refrain "You've got to find yourself alone" essentially details this; that everyone at some point needs to be broken up to realise that once you're put back together again, you can be better - and life goes on. |
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| Coldplay – Magic Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is about the magic that exists between two other people that exists despite all of the other bad things that go on, both to them individually, to them as a couple, and to everyone else. It is, of course, a break up song. It is ultimately a hopeful song though, with redemption at the end; "And if you were to ask me After all that we've been through "Still believe in magic?" Well yes, I do Oh yes, I do Oh yes, I do Oh yes, I do Of course I do" This celebrates the fact that sometimes the hurtful things in life, or the dark things, are just as important as the light. And regardless of what happens you still have to believe in that special magic between two people. Because the bad things are meant to happen - just like the magic. |
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| Coldplay – O Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The first part of this song was originally called "Fly On" with the second part being "O" by the band decided to dispense with double song names. I think the first part is a statement of unconditional love and a goodbye. It is Chris, saying to his ex-partner, "you know what, you're an amazing person and you need to go off and be amazing but I need to change my life. Maybe one day I'll be as amazing as you.". |
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| Cherry Ghost – Sacramento Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| A song based around postcards sent by Maryann Carver to her husband, poet and writer, Raymond Carver. | |
| Elbow – My Sad Captains Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is a hymn to drinking friends long gone and mourns the fact that you can't go drinking every night with them when you're older like you once could before responsibility. The lyric: "Another sunrise with my sad captains, with you I choose to lose my mind" comes from a line in Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. It's adapted from when Mark Antony speaks about his drinking partners: "Come, let's have one other gaudy night; call to me all my sad captains; fill our bowls; once more, let's mock the midnight bell." The line "we only come this way but once" is a bastardisation of William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania). He was talking about realising you only have one life, realising your own mortality. |
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| Elbow – New York Morning Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song was adapted pretty directly from a entry in Guy Garvey's diary whilst he was staying in New York after his split from his long term girlfriend. | |
| Elbow – Fly Boy Blue/Lunette Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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When Elbow frontman Guy Garvey split from his longtime partner Emma Unsworth, he felt he had to get away. Having developed an affection for New York, he upped sticks and moved to the Big Apple. The imagery and characters of this song are adapted from scenes he observed at JFK airport lounge as Garvey flitted back and forth between New York and his home city of Manchester. "In an airport lounge, the whole world is going its separate ways, under this cloud of anticipation that exists in all airports," he told The Independent. "It throws up where you're going, where you've been, what you like, what you don't, and it gave me an opportunity to create some new characters in Red Bob and The Ivory Host, who were a man with high blood-pressure desperate for a drinking-partner in a plastic Irish pub in JFK airport, and our very pallid but austere barman." The Lunette part of the song is a love song to three things; smoking, drinking and a woman. |
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| Elbow – This Blue World Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is about the singer feeling like everything in life so far has been leading up to the day he meets the girl in question. However the end of the song is written by Guy Garvey about his split with long time girlfriend Emma Jane Unsworth. Garvey says; "It's almost saying, everything from the beginning of time was leading up to the day we met. So that's very romantic, but something I'm fond of doing, when I'm offering a huge romantic gesture, is to point out the realities as well." After the break-up though he admitted that the song that he thought "was about this mythical mix of ex-girlfriends, it's really about her, it's this prophetic thing. I added some lyrics at the end, about imagining her going on and having a family without me, which is tough to swallow." |
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| Elbow – The Blanket Of Night Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song deals with the journey, both physical and spiritual, of two immigrants attempting to flee where they're from and head somewhere safe and new. Garvey says; "It was written in between enormous humanitarian disasters. It was a general sort of… I think it's crazy that depending on a person's income or social status they can or cannot be ignored. As if we're not all immigrants at some point or another. Look at New York: the centre of Western capitalism on the one hand, but a city built by immigrants and lived in by immigrants on the other hand. That's what can happen when you open your arms to the world and get your ideas together. I just think, we made a deal. I met a girl who worked for Kofi Annan, many years ago, and I asked her, what was the point of everyone agreeing to find refugees a home after the Second World War? She told me those laws were eroded and bypassed little by little. Countries were looking for excuses not to accept refugees. And the arguing and politicking from both sides [in the UK] – there's no empathy, no humanity. It was bugging me. So I wrote that song." |
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| Elbow – Real Life (Angel) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song deals with a friend of Garvey's who was absolutely heartbroken. As the Elbow songwriter and lead singer says himself; "It's a heartbroken friend. It's very much about someone close to me who was heartbroken. It's me talking about them, giving them advice, telling them to dance it out. It's basically saying this is who you are; I am your friend; we are your friends. Do whatever you have to do to get through it, namely, dance away the heartaches." |
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| Ben Howard – Everything Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| For me this song is about nature overriding and surviving us all through a process of regeneration. Whilst everything within our heads stays the same, nature is forever changing and renewing things, even after we're long gone. | |
| Arcade Fire – Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song, in the most part, is sung from the perspective of Aristaeus, a key player in the story of Eurydice and Orpheus, and details unrequited love. Eurydice claimed that Aristaeus was obsessed with her, and was chasing her - causing her to step on the poisoned snake which killed her. Eurydice therefore held Aristaeus responsible for her death in some versions of the Eurydice and Orpheus tale. The awful sound mentioned numerous times here is variously; the noise of Orpheus' music wooing Eurydice, the silence with which Aristaeus' professions of love were met by Eurydice, and the noise of Eurydice's body as it hit the ground after being poisoned. This "awful sound" has a dual meaning. It could also be the "awful sound" of modern life, therefore the first lines "You and I were born in a little town / Before the awful sound started coming down" hark back to a time of innocence and before the prevalence of the destructive modern forms of technology and communication which are recurring throughout Reflektor. Indeed the lines "I met you up upon a stage / Our love in a reflective age" are taken straight from the title track. |
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| Arcade Fire – It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Also the line "Boy, they're gonna eat you alive" refers to the death of Orpheus. Orpheus was torn apart by a group of women called Maenads under the orders of Dionysus, after Orpheus had renounced all gods but Apollo. Dionysus was the Greek god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy. Apollo, Orpheus' only god, was a god of light, the sun, truth, prophecy, healing, plague, music and poetry. |
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| Arcade Fire – Flashbulb Eyes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In some cultures it was, and still is, feared that having your photograph taken steals your spirit or your soul. This song is essentially about that. Our eyes can be seen as biological cameras, so this song (especially the refrain "You know I got nothing to hide") hints that when we look at each other, or more importantly look at our lover, are we actually stealing each other's soul? And is Win selling out by having his picture taken so much. |
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| Arcade Fire – Reflektor Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song describes modern life and our reliance on modern forms of communication as a barrier (reflektor) to actually *living* life. We are living, but not really living; communicating with each other, but not really communicating with each other; we are experiencing life only through digital images and the darkness of a white computer screen, instead of actually going out and living it. We have become words on a screen. Such modern forms of communication, like Facebook, are supposed to make establishing real connections with other people easier. Instead what they tend to do is end up reflecting the person's own individual tastes and ego thus creating an loathing barrier to real life. Indeed, towards the end of the song "Thought you were praying to the resurrector / Turns out it was just a Reflektor" expands fully on this theme of alienation through modern technology. The most well known resurrector is of course Jesus (whether you believe in that aspect of religion or not, you cannot doubt his "fame) Jesus is, of course, also known as the saviour. Internet technology was once hailed as the saviour. But here, in this song, it becomes more like a barrier; the Reflektor - the space between the living and the dead. The space between actually being alive and just being words on a screen. Incidentally, do the opening lines "Trapped in a prison, in a prism of light" refer to the NSA's PRISM programme to monitor internet communications? "We've all got things to hide" indeed. |
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| Arcade Fire – We Exist Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is about homosexuality and the struggle for equality. "They're walking around / Head full of sound / Acting like / We don't exist" - this refers to the anaesthetic of modern media which creates "sound" in everyone's heads to stop therm noticing what is going on around them. And the still-homophobic slant many media forms have, which leads many people to still refusing to accept or acknowledge gay people. "Daddy it's true, I'm different from you / But tell me why they treat me like this / You turn away, what could I say / Not the first betrayed by a kiss" - this references Judas' kiss of Jesus in a very clever way. In this song the homosexual kiss between two men reveals the protagonist as gay, it effectively outs him. The Daddy referred to here and in this song is, I suspect, God. "They're down on their knees / Begging us please / Praying that we don't exist" - refers to the intolerance religion still has towards gay people. |
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| Arcade Fire – Porno Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is about female sexuality and male sexual immaturity. And about the singer feeling both threatened by the male sexual image often portrayed these days (predatory, self serving and simplistically sexual) to the point where it makes him feel like something is wrong with him. He feels this way because when the female object of his desires cries, or screams or shows emotion he doesn't want to run like every man she knows; he sees her as more than simply "porno", that is a sexual object. The singer of the song sees the female sexuality as a heavenly gift (sacred sighs) as opposed to the meaningless porno that men (described as little boys here; men are often referred to as emotionally juvenile) indulge in. In short; this song proclaims that women are not just sexual objects. |
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| Arcade Fire – It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Orpheus is a figure in Greek mythology; a musician whose capabilities are so masterful that he is said to have brought his deceased wife Eurydice back to life, after entering Hades to rescue her and charming all he meets along the way with his music and song. The Gods allow him to rescue her on the condition that she walks behind him and that he does not look back at her until they have left Hades. Unfortunately, just as they leave Hades he forgets, overcome with joy, and turns to look at Eurydice, condemning her to Hades for eternity. Orpheus never has relations with another woman, remaining heartbroken forever. Indeed therefore it is Eurydice who provides the viewpoint from which the first few verses of this song are sung. Orpheus finally takes over the protagonists role in the verse "Hey, Eurydice! / Can you see me? / I will sing your name / Until you're sick of me". The lines in the second verse, "De l'autre côté de l'eau/ Comme un écho" translate approximately to "On the other side of the water / Like an echo" which probably refers to River Styx, part of the Orpheus/Eurydice story, a river (Styx comes from the Greek word stugein which means"hate") which marks the boundary between the living and the dead and which encircles Hades. Here Eurydice waited, weeping, for Orpheus to rescue her, and latterly the river would provide the block to him returning to rescue her a second time. This verse also encompasses one of the recurring themes on Reflektor; the thin pane of glass or mirror like state of being that exists between the living and the dead. This is also referred to here and in other tracks as the frozen sea, mirror-like and reflective. The chorus lines "Seems like a big deal now / But you will get over" and "It seems so important now / But you will get over" provide comfort musically and lyrically. Reassurance. Perhaps that is Eurydice reassuring Orpheus from beyond the grave. Or perhaps in these parts of the song Win is singing to Regine or to himself. Perhaps the band and being on the road and part of the music industry machine seems so important now, but now that they have a family perhaps it's time to "get over it" and leave it behind. |
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| Arcade Fire – Here Comes the Night Time II Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Another song from Reflektor that deals with religion, similar to Here Comes The Night Time Part 1. The line "I hurt myself again" is almost certainly an allusion to the opening lines of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt”, popularised by Johnny Cash just before his death. |
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| Arcade Fire – Here Comes the Night Time Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song was written mostly about Win and Regine's experiences in Port-au-Prince. As Win said; "There’s a crazy energy in Port-au-Prince when the sun goes down, because there is no electricity in a lot of the city. A lot of parts of the city are pretty dangerous, and people are rushing around trying to get home." Win says that his time in Port-au-Prince has altered the way he sees life in general, and this song is the most direct representation of that on Reflektor. The second verse is described by Win as follows; "In the airport in Haiti there are always these packs of missionaries with matching T-shirts that say "God loves Haiti." And you talk to some of these people and you're like, "Oh what are you guys doing here?" And they're like, "Oh we're going to help Haiti! We're going to paint houses!" And you're like, "Well why don't you hire a Haitian to paint the houses? I guarantee they would love to paint a house." So I don't know, it's just like this mashup of missionaries and Port au Prince and that's probably it." I think this song is about religious zealots such as those who go to an uber-religious country like Haiti and expect to teach the people there about God. When they're already one of the most Godly nations there is. |
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| Arcade Fire – Supersymmetry Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is about togetherness, in one way or another. Supersymmetry is a theory in particle physics which very, very basically says that every type of particle has one or more superpartners, i.e. other types of particles that share many of the same properties, but differ in a crucial way. No supersymmetric particle has yet been found, but experiments are underway at CERN and Fermilab to detect supersymmetric partner particles. I have two theories about this song and it's relation to this theory. The first; Win is comparing his own relationship with Regine to a supersymmetrical relationship whereby they are both so similar and so attached despite being two separate people. On another level, and my second theory, is that this song describes the loss of someone with whom the protagonist once had a relationship that could be considered "supersymmetrical", that continues beyond death. This is a recurring theme throughout Reflektor, whereby the line between life and death is described as being two sides of a sheet of glass, or the reflection in a mirror. The Reflektor. Those who are bereaved are frequently told in counselling to imagine that the person they have lost still lives within their mind, as per the first verse. |
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| Bell X1 – Lamposts Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Braithim uaim thú, sang during the closing crescendo, is the Irish for I miss you, or literally "I feel your absence". | |
| Bell X1 – The Ribs of a Broken Umbrella Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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She was only just a girl in a picture but he thought if I could only make her smile bhen she'd be mine He'd folded it, re-folded it so many times, He'd already lost some of her to the creases precious pieces He wondered how close he's ever been to her in this ebb and flow of the distance between us maybe she got the same bus and he left a trail of string wherever he went When he was sleepin', he tied it to his toe if she crossed it, then he'd know But he knew that all was unravelling and he was bare stripped of his skin like the ribs of a broken umbrella sticking out of a bin He'd pull his collar up against the wind, Against those who said that trying was the first step to failing Oh he was railing and filled with newfound purpose and pride, He'd make something out of this heady glow Now where would she go? But what do I know? Cos all is unravelling and he was bare stripped of his skin like the ribs of a broken umbrella sticking out of a bin But he knew how to fix it, dear Liza, dear Liza with time's great elixir, dear Liza, dear Liza She was only just a girl in a picture, But he thought if I could only make her smile then she'd be mine Oh the thought of being faced with her gave him the fear and sometimes in the morning a tent Oh Lord give him strength Cos he knew that all was unravelling and he was bare stripped of his skin Like the ribs of a broken umbrella sticking out of the bin |
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| Bell X1 – The Ribs of a Broken Umbrella Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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She was only just a girl in a picture but he thought if I could only make her smile bhen she'd be mine He'd folded it, re-folded it so many times, He'd already lost some of her to the creases precious pieces He wondered how close he's ever been to her in this ebb and flow of the distance between us maybe she got the same bus and he left a trail of string wherever he went When he was sleepin', he tied it to his toe if she crossed it, then he'd know But he knew that all was unravelling and he was bare stripped of his skin like the ribs of a broken umbrella sticking out of a bin He'd pull his collar up against the wind, Against those who said that trying was the first step to failing Oh he was railing and filled with newfound purpose and pride, He'd make something out of this heady glow Now where would she go? But what do I know? Cos all is unravelling and he was bare stripped of his skin like the ribs of a broken umbrella sticking out of a bin But he knew how to fix it, dear Liza, dear Liza with time's great elixir, dear Liza, dear Liza She was only just a girl in a picture, But he thought if I could only make her smile then she'd be mine Oh the thought of being faced with her gave him the fear and sometimes in the morning a tent Oh Lord give him strength Cos he knew that all was unravelling and he was bare stripped of his skin Like the ribs of a broken umbrella sticking out of the bin |
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| Bell X1 – Blow Ins Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Blow in" was a predominantly Australian term used to describe the Irish immigrants in the late 1940's. It's also used in Ireland today to describe a newcomer. |
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| Bell X1 – Still Selling Shoes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Corrected lyrics : We are at a crossroads The trees bow to the winds of change But where is all the dancing? Where is all the dancing? Where are the comely maidens? With their hair wraps and braiding? Here we are at a crossroads And where do we go from here? Boozy charm will only get you so far That's a card played by the underdog When the lamp went cold to our rub We turned to nurse the tiger cub Back when Rory played the blues And Ronan was still selling shoes.. Back when Rory played the blues And Ronan was still selling shoes.. Now I hear the echo of a thousand hollow welcomes Surely we can manage a sound one, a sound one? We've long closed Billy's barn doors 'Cos it doesn't rhyme with the gang goes Have we forgotten what it's like to go cos we did not have We'd say it loud and with one voice Didn't really have a choice But to tear ourselves from this land And go colonise by sleeping bag Back when Rory played the blues And Ronan was still selling shoes.. Back when Rory played the blues And Ronan was still selling shoes.. Still selling shoes Still selling shoes Still selling shoes When Rory played the blues And Ronan was still selling shoes. |
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| Gemma Hayes – Oliver Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's "With duct tape" not "With duck tape". Great song. Pretty raw. |
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| Bell X1 – A Better Band Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song details Paul Noonan's self doubt as a writer and musician. The Polly, Gillian and man in the big suit mentioned refer to Paul's musical idols; Polly Harvey, Gillian Welch and David Byrne. |
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