| Fitz & the Tantrums – Out Of My League Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think it's fairly obvious what the song is about, but man, I really, really love both the studio and live versions of this. The live versions show off how it fits in with their previous work a little better, but my goodness, the studio version is so bouncy and fun, I can't help but want to jump around and dance to it. I know some people don't like that the sound on it has kind of skipped ahead 2 decades, but I like both decades' distinct sounds anyway so it's all good for me. Can't wait for the full album! | |
| Lucy Rose – Shiver Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I feel like this song is about someone who's with someone she doesn't feel as strongly for as another who either used to be her partner or perhaps was someone she had an affair with (though I'm leaning more toward former partner). She's with the new guy, but she doesn't feel for him what she felt for the former, she feels like things were more passionate, more perfect with that "one that got away", and, if given the chance, she'd drop her current other half for the former in a heartbeat. I think every woman has felt what I imagine is that *particular* longing shiver that Lucy sings about, and it's something that you get addicted to finding and having it happen frequently when you think of the one you care about. Of course, when relationships are over, if it ends on a non-toxic note (and sometimes even when it does), as time goes on, we remember the good times the most, the shiny silvery bits. Then, once a newer relationship has been going on for a while and the "new" wears off, you wonder if that old one that ended was much better than what you have now and thoughts like that sometimes happen, especially if said shiver pops up and rolls through your body. There's so many good songs on this album, but the sound and lyrics of this one alone may be my favorite - that steel guitar is amazing and haunting and so so perfect later in the tune. Lucy, keep the good stuff coming! |
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| Coldplay – Don't Panic Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Oh, fantastic, just cut off my comment after 10 words... | |
| Coldplay – Don't Panic Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| First heard this one the day I learned a friend | |
| Doves – Catch The Sun Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I tend to ignore the deeper lyrical meaning when I hear this song come on, especially if it's a sunny day after a long bout of rain or the first day of spring where a bit of warmth is finally slipping into the air. Such an upbeat tempo and great arrangement, I can't help but smile. | |
| Doves – Firesuite Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is a perfect example of why "Lost Souls" is my favorite "float in the water under a pale summer moon" album (or "go for a long drive under a bright full moon" album). Just so... ahhhh... | |
| Doves – House of Mirrors Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song just seriously rocks. Makes me want to press my accelerator a bit more if it comes on while I'm on a drive. | |
| Doves – Compulsion Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song has such a great groove to it. Can't help but feel like a badass when it starts. Such a fantastic bass line. | |
| Doves – Brazil Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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There don't seem to be any official lyrics out there, so I worked these out by listening to the song and with the help of a few other people's guesses online. They seem to be about as accurate as I could make out, though that "throughout" bit still doesn't seem quite right. I just can't put my finger on exactly what he's saying there at that point, it almost sounds like "drew up past that scene", but the presence of a definitive "th" sounds at the beginning of it just keeps throwing me off. I'm not going to venture into any deep interpretation on this one, but it seems like the song is describing events and thoughts occurring while on a road trip that end up helping the subject face who he truly is and, in that act, lose who he previously thought he'd been. But maybe that's just me. I just want to say that I adore the line "Seems I left my soul in a lay-by" (which is a "rest stop" here in the States), just because of the imagery and sense of long-haul travel it provides. Then again, I am a road trip addict, so losing anything, possibly even one's soul, at a rest stop is something that's totally feasible to me. |
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| The XX – Angels Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Quite obviously, the song is about adoration. What specific kind though is the tougher nut to crack here. Is the person a part of their life directly, someone that they're in an active loving relationship with? Is it a deep, heartfelt crush sort of situation, the kind where the object of desire seems almost supernaturally perfect? Is it a person that they love but is no longer on this plane of existence? Whichever way it truly is, I cannot say for certain. All I know for sure is that if this had been something that I'd stumbled upon as a 16-year-old girl with the world's biggest crush on a boy in my class, I would have been in my room listening to it on loop and swapping his name in at certain points as well. Also, I am really digging this song and it makes me very excited for the new album. New XX, hooray! |
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| Andrew Bird – Hole in the Ocean Floor Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| In an Onion AV Club interview, he actually says it's inspired by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| Andrew Bird – Lazy Projector Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ah, Andrew actually did the work for us on the meaning and discussed it at his London show in March 5, 2012. Via a YouTube clip of him discussing the song before playing it: "This song is just questioning who is the editor in our minds when we play the film of our past. Especially at the end of a relationship, for instance. You know? Who's in charge of that? Who's playing the reel?" |
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| Andrew Bird – Lazy Projector Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Oh Andrew, bringing back that "time is a crooked bow" line from "Armchairs"... I love you for that, but you have to start confusing my meaning by throwing an "archer" reference into the line before, you violinist you. That said, I adore this tune. Would love to hear what others make of it. It's still too fresh for me to get a good grasp on deeper meaning, though Andrew pontificating on the forces that we can't perceive which seem to sometimes control life (and relationships) and the way that when we revisit in memories later in life, they can be distorted and altered to meet our preferred point of view seems like a good place to start. Oh, that forgetting, embellishing, lying machine. |
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| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Just going to chime in with my (way late to the game) opinion on the "crooked bow" business. While initially I was thinking a bow & arrow kind of bow (since I love archery), I quickly remembered that it's Andrew Bird here. C'mon. When a violinist talks about just a bow with no mention of arrows, then they're most likely talking about the kind they use to play their instrument. The old bow getting very crooked is fantastic and I didn't know about that at all, but what I took away from it is that, with a new, straight bow, when you pull it across the strings, you get precisely what you expect. Yet, if the bow is crooked, you pull it across the strings and it totally isn't playing by your rules at that point. You have to adjust for it, you have to change because it's a force outside of yourself that has altered the playing experience. Much like time (or time passing in life) - as it goes by, you think you know what's coming up & try to prepare for it, then as it passes, it throws you a curveball, something totally unexpected, and you have to adjust to that. In short, you may think you know what you're going to be doing in the future, you may have it all planned out to the letter, yet time, well... time's got other plans for you. I think I was brought back to this song once "Break It Yourself" came out since he uses the exact same phrase again in "Lazy Projector" (which is quickly becoming one of my favorite tracks on that album). |
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| Lana Del Rey – Video Games Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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According to an article posted on the website Dazed Digital: At the same time, she was dealing with the fallout from two broken relationships, so she took Parker’s template and wrote down what was on her mind. “The verse was about the way things were with one person, and the chorus was the way that I wished things had really been with another person, who I thought about for a long time,” she says, breaking into an acapella of the song. “‘Swinging in the backyard, pull up in your fast car, whistling my name’. That was what happened, you know? He’d come home and I’d see him. But then the chorus, ‘Heaven is a place on earth with you, tell me all the things you wanna do’ wasn’t like that. That was the way that I wished it was — the melody sounds so compelling and heavenly because I wanted it to be that way. The verse is more matter-of-fact because that’s how it was. It’s a mix of memories and the way I wished it could have been. Just because things happened a certain way doesn’t mean that that’s the way that they are. It really is what you choose to think about. Bad things happen every day but you’re not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don’t think about them. I don’t have that luxury any more. Some people say that ‘Video Games’ stops them in their tracks; it’s that kind of song. It’s just really sad." |
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| Sahara Smith – Tin Man Town Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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There's a few things incorrect in the lyrics there. She has a style of singing that sounds like it adds "L"s where there shouldn't be, but being a Texan, I'm accustomed to such things. ;) It should be: "Hey, oh where, where'd you put that heart of mine, Hey, oh'd you leave it back on Texas Time?" "Gave me my ancient eyes and taught them how to cry all night." "Hey, oh where, where'd you put that heart of mine, Hey, oh'd you leave it on the railroad line?" "And hey, oh where, where'd you put that heart of mine, Hey, why'd you leave it so damn far behind." |
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| Arcade Fire – Sprawl I (Flatland) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I lived from '92 to '97 in a similar kind of suburb of DFW. Same situation - mere years after we moved away, the little 5-street neighborhood I grew up on had been expanded to an endless maze full of cookie-cutter tract houses, the fields behind my house and the woods behind my best friend's house, where we'd spend hours, days exploring, making treehouses, daydreaming, playing, enjoying nearby nature, all gone, all replaced by more people, less childhood. | |
| Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Oh yes, also, the internet has this to say from a band interview: "Songs can be triggered by a simple act. In this case Win Butler was sent a photograph of an old school friend of his, who was standing with his daughter sitting on his shoulders 'at the mall around the corner from where we lived.' Said Butler: 'The combination of seeing this familiar place and seeing my friend with his child brought back a lot of feeling from that time. I found myself trying to remember the town that we grew up in and trying to retrace as much as I could remember.' At the same time, other Arcade Fire band members of a similarly suburban origin across Canada had revisited their childhood environs and, in some cases, found there was not much left: buildings were boarded up, if they still existed at all; new roads and rivers had magically appeared, altering the landscape that now only existed in faded photographs. When they reconvened, this was the first song they wrote." |
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| Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It's very conflicting being a kid from the suburbs who has escaped, originally full of distain for what you leave behind, the monotony, the cookie-cutter ways, but at the same time realizing that the best times of your life were those when you were bored out of your gourd with your friends in your youth. The song really touched me, and I'm just going to go through it bit by bit and let you all know what it meant to me. It may not be the meaning they were going for, but it's how the song touched my soul. The way it came off to me, I don't think the verses are meant to be chronological, they're just snippets of a childhood spent in the 'burbs in the 70s and 80s. You learn to drive, your friends joke that you're going to kill them all, but who care, you're the one with the license, let's grab the keys and go. The suburban war seems more innocent to me, more like the imaginary wars you'd dream up with the kids from the other side of the subdivision - but by the time you set out all the rules and home-bases and such, that ever-present boredom struck and everyone wanted to run off and do something else. Kids do want to be so hard. They're always in a hurry to prove that they're grown up and don't want to show weakness through emotions because acting "like a baby" is the last thing you ever want to do, yet those times of unabashed joy, running and screaming through the yards are the things that stick with you for years later. Those memories are often all that there is left now, since the walls to these subdivisions and even whole sections of housing we grew up with are now being razed or are in such terrible states that our memories no longer mesh with what's present reality. All we have now are the dreams, the memories, so what was it all worth? What did it all mean? Having a kid when you're still young means that there may still be a few of those physical touchstones around while you're raising your own, show them the beauty that made up the pillars of your memories while you can... daughters may be a little more receptive to such talk, since you often have to flesh out what's there with words instead just sights, but of course, you'll do your best if you end up with sons as well. Back to the teen years, hanging out in the parking lots or under the overpasses, anywhere you can just be together away from possible parental meddling, just waiting for the time that you can get out of there, away from all this nothingness, yet that nothingness is already moving into the past, it's already gone, and you're just too young without enough perspective to realize it at the time. Sometimes I can't believe it, I'm moving past that feeling again, of finding out that everything I thought would always be there is no longer there, that everything moves on. You get to a point in your late 20s or in your 30s were it really starts to smack you in the face, constantly, over and over that this is true, and every time you move past that feeling it comes again and again. I hope to have kids before I'm just so jaded to the fact that nothing is permanent in life, so that I can still experience the beauty of a new world with them as well instead of being a dead anchor of reality, killing all joy with the fact that it's all temporary... |
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| Doves – Rise Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Absolutely my favorite Doves song. It seems more abstract, lyrically, so that one can apply their own meaning to it. Completely reminds me of being drunk on love on the most perfect summer nights, under the stars in the middle of the country during a night swim. The ultimate perfect relaxation. | |
| Doves – Kingdom of Rust Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Yeah, after listening to a lower quality version of the song (thus, making the string not quite so symphonic and allowing the vocals to stand out a little better), I thought I heard Preston in there over the weekend. Re-checked the video (since I'm American - I haven't a clue as to most UK city names, so sometimes they go over my head), saw the street sign, and pretty much came to the same conclusion. Thanks for the help! | |
| Ladytron – I'm Not Scared Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree, I think "candycakes"'s lyrics are spot-on correct. Employ, as in use, works far better than Implore, or beg. Also, the second verse's first line is missing. It sounds to me like: "Light aircraft they overfly you Instruments they veer towards you" And "veer" instead of "leer". Why would instruments be looking in a lascivious manner? Instruments flying toward you in the context of that verse makes a little more sense. And am I the only one that sometimes here "December went straight through your tires" instead of "The summer"? Maybe it's just the January bit in the earlier line has me stuck on months... |
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| Vashti Bunyan – Train Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It just has that lovely, dreamy quality to the song that I tent to adore, and I fell in love with it the instant I heard it. Simple, acoustic guitar and a few strings to go along with a tale of a love far off, but felt on the cosmic winds, so strong a sense that the song's subject must bum a train to points unknown to find it. Yes, I did first find it because of the Reebok commercial, but it's definitely not the usually American Football commercial, and seemed a very nice choice of song for the ad campaign. | |
| Wilco – Poor Places Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| On the subject of actual lines "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", here's an NPR radio story about the Numbers Stations and actually does talk about the one that is sampled at the end of the song: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5566176 | |
| The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime #2 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I really do like this song sounds different from all the other songs they've put out. And maybe it's because I'm a huge dork when it comes to 70s kitsch cinema, but I totally get the awesome 70s Crime Movie vibe off this (particularly something like The French Connection or any of the amazing Italian crime movies of that decade), and it makes me dance with joy. If all their songs sounded like this, it'd get old - fast. But just one track and the rest a different mix of styles is something I really do enjoy. I'm just waiting for someone to cut together some sort of clip movie with this song used on it. | |
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