| Dirty Projectors – A Labor More Restful Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Surprised no one has wanted to give their piece on this masterpiece. The whole moral of it all may be summed up in the first verse but in the second it gets more in depth. There's the sense of an overworked population, of complacent people who have stopped looking and therefore created all of the banality in the world. There are constructs of 'uniqueness' but they are just that- ideas, something created by our minds to fit into this world that was banal to begin with when we were born. At the same time there's the sense of this being directed at someone almost. Like a fellow day dreaming friend who would soul search with Dave. In that sense it almost sounds like a cautionary tale to the friend, warning that when you stop looking, when you become ignorant to what you'd rather not be part of you can find yourself blindly serving it. |
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| John Vanderslice – Hard Times Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The lyric is "And you re-read, and you re-read." As this song is making reference to the novel by Charles Dickens (I have not read said novel.) And so it would seem that the love interest of the protagonist was obsessed with this novel leading up to her leaving without any explanation. In order to understand why his love interest would leave him stranded in this manner he gets a copy of the novel and reads it only to 'end up deeper still, In Hard Times.' Which is a clever double entendre. He spends a year searching every sentence of this novel trying to understand her and then becomes her without realizing. So she too was mourning a loss when they were together and was searching for solace in the novel. At least I would make that assumption. There was not much to get out of the content of the novel, it was a total red hearing that led him on because he thought that the separation was a person a front to him- a stance which I can relate very deeply too. | |
| Dirty Projectors – Dance for You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure the line is, "I knelt beneath one hundred saints..." Not 'beneath what congress is." | |
| Beach House – On the Sea Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Also instead of 'Our bodies stopped' I'm pretty sure it's actually 'Our bodies stunned.' | |
| Beach House – On the Sea Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I hear: "Anyway human nature can shape you just the same," at the end but maybe that's just my ears. | |
| Tune-Yards – My Country Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Some corrections (as best as I hear it from live performances and such): "...if only I could forget but memory's my favourite game." "I've got you, you've got me, like a baby's got a bumblebee, I told myself I'd have to jump high if I was gonna get over your shit." "Oh yes there's a place for you but that place is underneath a cushion of my mind." |
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| Beach House – On the Sea Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I get images of a birth, of not knowing where a child ends and the mother begins hence, 'In hind of sight no peace of mind, where you begin and I'm defined, daughter of unconscious fate, time will tell in spite of me.' Who knows who we are in life or what makes us who we are, we know for a fact time is going to change us and in birth separate the mother from the child- but we all end up in the same place and in death we are swallowed up back into the womb. We become undefined by time again, by a name, we realize our place in the world as indivisible from everything and one else. | |
| Dirty Projectors – Irresponsible Tune Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Actually I saw that tablet of the lyrics in an interview ha-ha and it said violence (my eagle eyes caught it) so never mind my previous comment. But it totally sounds like either/or... | |
| Dirty Projectors – Irresponsible Tune Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I hear 'vile winds,' myself. | |
| Patrick Watson – Man Like You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This may not be entirely correct but when I break the song down verse by verse this is as close to exact as I can get to what he is singing in the song. "I knew a boy that was swallowed by you sky, by the flashing lights, I knew a man that got lost in the big dull brew, and came out alive, I knew a boy, I knew a man that looked a lot like you I knew a time you could stand still beside, never rushing by, I knew a place you can go where your head do explode, into a piece of mind, I knew a time, I knew place that felt a lot like you, I knew boy, I knew a man who looked a lot, lot like you, Just like you, I knew a friend that would hold on to the flames, keep them from burning you, I knew a smile that could see through all of the stones, that the world had thrown, I knew a smile, I knew a friend that looked a lot like you, I knew a boy, I knew a man who looked a lot like you." |
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| Beach House – Lovelier Girl Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The lyric is, "long nights of pasty faced moons" | |
| Fleet Foxes – Bedouin Dress Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It would seem he took his life for granted and carelessly stole everything then when imprisoned he realized he had stolen his own freedom away as well. | |
| Fleet Foxes – Bedouin Dress Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| You obviously missed the boat on the first lines of the song it's much more playful than you have interpreted. It's something you would say when embarrassed about yourself, trying to soften the impact of the words so instead of saying "I've stolen my whole life," he says, "Well, if borrowing is taking and not returning..." Ya dig? and the second verse really is him saying I would have returned all that I stole just so I wouldn't have to pay the debt of my youth by being imprisoned. | |
| The Tallest Man on Earth – Little River Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Great I can't delete my previous message as it seems it was mentioned in the second comment. However to put my interpretation on display, it seems to be about the faults of escapism as a path to joy- or better yet that when taking a path there deceptions that come along with it. Especially the line, "Is it honest like a fallen log to dream of things like a little river to the golden ground?" the characters of the song mentioned seem to be asking for an easy way to joy, an easy and clear path or sign that will lead them somewhere without there being deception. | |
| The Tallest Man on Earth – Little River Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| There's an error in your lyrics at least I'm pretty close to certain the line is "Is it honest like a fallen log"- not "is it on this lack of fallen luck." | |
| The Shins – Pressed In A Book Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Seems to start with how our lives begin, and how it is forgotten us. That we all are born in the same manner, parallel to each other (this is the imagery that the lines, "Doted on like seeds planted in rows, The untied shoelaces of your life" bring to mind) but we never put two and two together, we never tie each other, or connect. We have forgotten to do this because we are groomed into individuals, we are set aside as individuals separate from one another. The stanza's afterwards, starting with the line "They just make plans in the dark," refer to what happens when you act from a place that you don't really recognize, you can't because you don't know the point from which you started from. The speaker throughout this seems to be attempting to convince a loved one that they are no different from each other, that they forget sometimes ('an old woman's jewelry lying unadorned'), but will come together just as they were born, this is shown in the last stanza "Two fallen saplings in an open field, Snow padding gently on an empty bench, An old woman's jewelry lying unadorned ,Cold nesting robins allied for the first time, I know when you hear these sappy lines, You'll roll your eyes and say: "Nice try." " Obviously by the last "Nice Try" the person the speaker is trying to convince, does not buy any of this because unlike the speaker they have forgotten how everything started, how they first began to be around eachother, they were together. |
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| MGMT – Congratulations Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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'But I've got someone to make reports That tell me how my money's spent To book my stays and draw my blinds So I can't tell what's really there And all I need's a great big congratulations' I interpreted this stanza as the congratulations from an audience, people in the music business, and the label congratulating them because of how well received their previous album was, and that it only took 'congratulations' for them to live in that illusion of having everything under control. |
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| The Tallest Man on Earth – Like the Wheel Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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'Like a fly above is summer all day long' is supposed to be, 'That could fly about his summer all day long." |
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| Wilco – Solitaire Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I feel a little differently about this song, that is I don't think it's coming to a point where you think that happiness can occur by some action taking place in the outer world we live in. But at first I felt the same way as you Ninalapinta-but see that's it! That's the song to me. That my thoughts are your thoughts too, and how foolish of me to isolate myself from others, and proclaim myself as holier than thou. | |
| Department of Eagles – Waves of Rye Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| One take I had on this song is that the imagery of someone you confide in being drunk in a ballroom represents god. No body ever sees this ballroom, no body ever sees heaven and can confirm what it actually looks like if it's actually there, just as god is a 'ghastly protector,' a ghostly imaginary friend of a figure that passes out on you while you are trying to get him to listen and when he is awake he's rude and tells you how it is. | |
| St. Vincent – The Apocalypse Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "All your praying moments amount to just one breath" Should be changed to: All of your praying, amounts to just one breath. Atleast I'm pretty positive | |
| Noah and the Whale – Slow Glass Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Definitely about Laura Marling, with the reference to her song Rambling Man. | |
| Chad Vangaalen – Rabid Bits of Time Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| to me the whole basis of the song is focused on a general way of being that human beings take on. The line "you've been dead for years, but you never knew," is an observation of a person who is going with the motions, who aren't really living. Sure physically, they are breathing, and eating, but their existence has become a repetitive routine, and those 'rabid bits of time' represent the regret that is the consequence of never actually living out everything you wanted to in the time you had, and that regret eats at you. What he seems to be saying is, there is no distinction between life and death when one is not truly living, and when one cannot accurately predict what happens when you die. You could have been dead the whole time you were living, you could have been dreaming, no body knows what it is, it could be right now... | |
| St. Vincent – Jesus Saves, I Spend Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's a comparison between life and death. To 'save' people is to not let them experience life and to spend yourself is to live. I hear it as a realization that you can't pretend to go back in time and rewrite history and get yourself 'saved' through finding christianity. The line about a 'menagerie of saints,' is very interesting. a managerie is a place where exotic animals are kept in captivity. Arosticratic menagaries were not for research but more to show strength and wealth. Almost as to say I can create my own beauty, I am strong, I don't need to be saved. The stanza, "Oh Oh, my man my absentee, I'd do anything to please you Come my love the stage is waiting, Be the one to save my saving grace." Is her in another persons perspective and is also sarcastic. It's in the perspective of someone who is saving because the next stanza starts with, "While Jesus is saving I'm spending all my grace." |
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| Rogue Wave – Temporary Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I see this song as someone questioning their spirituality, like "how can something like this world that at times brings me down and makes me feel low, lead to a heaven or afterlife (and attic)" the line "when we come through the rain almost by design" also kind of show that he also knows that everything turns out good, that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. he just sounds like hes questioning it, but he knows that everything in the end will be good. | |
| Elliott Smith – Coast to Coast Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| after he says "and I belong in the zoo," it sounds like he's laughing, like sarcastically just "ahahahaha" | |
| Elliott Smith – A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I feel like in short this song is about how our modern world promotes Mediocrity. He reffers to everyone as being ladies and gentleman who are in between. They all act like they are above average, but they are really just mediocre people in disguise. Since everyone is brainwashed and manipulated to believe mediocre is the best they can do, the people with true knowledge can swoop in and convince them to consume a whole bunch of crap they don't need, atleast thats what I got from the lines "you disappoint me, you people raking in on the world." Stanza 5 seems to be about how we can see past the lies that are put out by the government they blind us from the truth with lies that are then spread out to the people who act as rain that we cant escape and who act as acid to break us down to their level. Elliott is really saying the only way to be free is to be on another wave length another level, so that you can see the truth. His way was to be on herion. When he wasn't on herion the people that acted as acid rain would get to him, would depress him, would rain on his heart. | |
| Ed Harcourt – Strangers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| to me, ed harcourt is saying to the person he loves, I can cheer you up, and I can mess things up, and bring you down. We can forget who we are and act like we don't know eachother anymore, but we stay together through those times, where we forget what we are even doing, but we remember why we got together in the first place, and so many have and are going through this path right now. | |
| Ed Harcourt – Rain On The Pretty Ones Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I guess to me, this song is about not making assumptions, that when you least expect someone to be a certain way they are for example,"cartoon that makes you feel sad." You wouldn't expect these things to happen or for people to be this way but thats just they way they are, or we are sometimes. The pretty people are always praised, the good comics are always the ones that we laugh at but sometimes dont make a point. Just like the "pretty people" may seem pretty but they don't have anymore than that, they don't leave anything that makes you thing, just a pretty face, that isn't realistic that isn't living. I dont know thats what I got from this song, heck Im only 15 aha | |
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