| Antony and the Johnsons – River of Sorrow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| http://vimeo.com/41327842 | |
| Perfume Genius – 17 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
"Don't sing me that song it will only prolong it" |
|
| The Weeknd – House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Doesn't anyone hear he's actually saying "You're my girl now You can stay You can stay But you belong to me You belong to me" nothing anyone else has posted would make any sense. |
|
| Xiu Xiu – Gul Mudin Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maywand_District_killings | |
| The Weeknd – The Fall Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| he just posted on his twitter, it's actually "so you can watch my love vanish in a girl with no talent but to make mula banish, call her friend for my friend, and friend's name's lexus, i'll let my niggas test it, her moral's worth a cent and best believe already spent it..." | |
| Jay-Z & Kanye West – New Day Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't get the "Me and the RZA connect" part. Can someone enlighten me? | |
| Extra Life – The Body Is True Lyrics | 14 years ago |
|
"This is about growing up as a smart, non-athletic kid which I bet a lot of Extra Life listeners can relate to. You sit out gym but you think you’re superior because you’re in all the advanced classes, getting A’s and your parents and teachers are helping you develop a sense that your mind is your self. And the mind points to abstractions, to infinity. And when you identify yourself as a mind, you lose touch with the vibe of death. But eventually the crude reality of the body and that basic fact that you’re going to die catches up with you. To be whole you have to be physical. I guess on this record I was feeling a real new found respect (well, obsession maybe) for the body." -Charlie Looker |
|
| Parenthetical Girls – Mend & Make Do (Found Drama II) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
|
it's probably "I held you how" instead of "I hold you hard" |
|
| Perfume Genius – You Won't B Here Lyrics | 14 years ago |
|
that whistle was (intended for you) it doesn't matter (who you answer to) your heart will break (whatever you do) but you won't be here (tomorrow) you might not get (what you were promised) you might be hollow (under all the dust) but you are hurting (everyone you touch) and they won't be here (tomorrow) |
|
| Prurient – Subject Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This is someone who just KNOWS something about someone, and they are trying to prove it but the proof just isn't there. | |
| Antony and the Johnsons – I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m68MEFkFGbA&feature=related | |
| Xiu Xiu – Kitten Revolution Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
Here's my take: Kitten Revolution is like the revolution of the cute, prissy and ... GAY. This song is, at heart, about being gay. I believe in the verses it is directed to a gay-basher, an intolerable and ugly person, and Jamie is shooting this one at them, whole-heartedly wishing them a punishment of some sort. Cotton Mather was a politician who had a huge role in the Salem witch trials, so he's hard and joyless himself. The log lady's log is the log lady from Twin Peaks (what other log lady is there?) and this is inferring that he will use knowledge and awareness (as the log is used as a prophet, so to speak) to bash this person's brains out. The bandana is just a personal description of what the person wears, a little jab at their character. Him finding Caralee's skin on the concrete is saying that she has been skinned in life against concrete as a gay person as well. This line is kind of akin to "a dose of your own medicine" or "an eye for an eye". Mike Hadreas is his friend, who is also Perfume Genius and is young and gay. I think the chorus is speaking to him from an elder's point of view, saying "don't get used to the acceptance of your friends," perhaps. I imagine that "Queers is pimps too," was something he might have said while drunk or in a large group, joking around, and Jamie is reading a lot into that line by declaring it as Mike's "avenging angel's battle-cry." It's beautiful in its ridiculousness, and is as funny as it is true. Queers is pimps too. "I don't know karate but I know ka-razor" is a James Brown reference, pretty much saying that "I don't know how to fight with technique but I can get CA-RAZY and kick your ass!" "you will look so dead zitted and surprised that the shadow has extended to your bashers grave" this person will be so shocked to find what he has coming to him, as a heartless queer-basher. By calling him Monsieur Hadreas in the last chorus, it's a grand and queer sounding title, also noting him of extreme importance. Maybe equally sarcastic as it is heartfelt. "Be good - inarticulate - and kissed" this is lamenting the young and ignorant enjoyment of life. And he ends by saying "Queers is gimps too," twisting the original refrain to show that queers are anybody and they can be ugly rejects in life as well. that's what I think at least. |
|
| Kayo Dot – The Manifold Curiosity Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| what about the ending? I'd like to know what he's saying. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Far from Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
I love how each chorus, usually the same lines, all have different feelings provoked by the verse that comes before it. Especially the last time, "You were my brave-hearted lover At the first taste of trouble went running back to mother So far from me" The chorus sounds so much more tender when prefaced by that nasty observation of her cowardice. |
|
| Antony and the Johnsons – Cripple and the Starfish Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| it is not pathetic. | |
| Bon Iver – Brackett, WI Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't think these lyrics make any sense. I'd like to think he's singing something else entirely. | |
| Perfume Genius – You Won't B Here Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| oh and it's definitely "under all the dust" instead of "after all the deaths" | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't think it's a disappointment. They just never know if they are the one that he's been waiting for. Perhaps it can be alluding to that feeling of disappointment, I think the lines about the stars would evoke a different feeling in everyone. For me they were saying just the opposite; the stars exploding would be their love burning out and dying. But the stars haven't burnt out yet, and the last verse reiterates how his desire continues to grow. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
I never thought of reading into the situation that the song comes from as much as most of you have. To me this song is about the strongest emotional and sexual desires. There is no conclusion, this is just a moment of longing. And also, this is one of the most touching and moving songs I've ever heard. |
|
| Horse the Band – Rape Escape Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
You missed these lines: "I will wipe the sweat off of your brow! Right now! I will take the tears out of your eyes! Right now!" |
|
| Xiu Xiu – Kangaroo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
I feel like he changes some of the lyrics. "That same joke Doing a cool cool jerk" |
|
| The Mountain Goats – Broom People Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
"Friends who don't have a clue Well meaning teachers But down in your arms, in your arms I am a wild creature." That throws the whole song into context. Some of my favorite lyrics. |
|
| The Velvet Underground – Some Kinda Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
I think these are some of the best lyrics I've ever heard or read, especially because everyone would respond to them differently, but the theme is always present. I love the lines about doing what "makes you recoil" but "makes your eyes moist" Kinky and beautiful and philisophical and very hard to explain with any other words - it speaks for itself and if you don't quite understand it don't think about it too hard and come back to it later I think. |
|
| Xiu Xiu – This Too Shall Pass Away (For Freddy) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Oh but the Stevie Smith thing may also be a reference. Double-sided perhaps. | |
| Xiu Xiu – This Too Shall Pass Away (For Freddy) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The song was written for Freddy Ruppert, which when you listen to Former Ghosts (Freddy's project, essentially for the girl he is madly in love with) it becomes very clear. And the both of them are big Moz fans. | |
| Xiu Xiu – Suha Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
The connection between the name Suha and living in a desert makes me feel like it's in Arabia or somewhere in the Middle East. All these interpretations are valid though. It puts something very specific forward while remaining vague in all the perfect (in my opinion) ways. |
|
| Xiu Xiu – Hyunhye's Theme Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I see the "love to diaspora" line more as wanting to escape her culture because she feels trapped by it. A controversial line imo. | |
| Antony and the Johnsons – Poorest Ear Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
Very hard to decipher these lyrics. I found another interpretation somewhere else: "Lain all dry My saddest day Hung till Poole, when worn, ran away It came cold, feels so good Treats my soldier for I should And I cry, they laugh My soldier’s dead Took all people poor instead And I cry, they laugh My soldier’s dead Took off, be born a boy instead Poorest, poorest ear Alone for so many years Slightest chance of falling grace But so long till you’ll be found Poorest, poorest ear" |
|
| Extra Life – See You at the Show Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
AHHHH RHYME SCHEMES You better fan out, fan out over the abyss If you want to make the hang with my childish kiss Tell the booker that the looker he knows cut his own skinny wrists But his rad new ghost is on the list See you at the show Awesome commentary on city music scenes. This probably goes over tons of kids heads when he played it live which makes it even funnier/powerful. |
|
| Angels of Light – Destroyer Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
here's a good interview with Michael Gira actually: http://www.furious.com/perfect/michaelgira.html he's asked if the song is written about Kali and he says "Not really. The song was written during the build up to the war in Iraq, and it just struck me that the world was again, inevitably, convulsing with violence. I'm not passive, but it's inevitable. It's in all of us." |
|
| Parenthetical Girls – Someone Else's Muse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
"The rabbit's den and she easily led" |
|
| Morrissey – Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
Hey, I'm young and lonely. This song is right up my alley. |
|
| Antony and the Johnsons – My Lord My Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
*Crippled cry |
|
| Perfume Genius – You Won't B Here Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think the first line sounds like "that was always intended for you" | |
| Antony and the Johnsons – Child of God Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Originally written and performed by Millie Jackson. I love Antony's version though, he really got to the core of the song. | |
| Extra Life – Bled White Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Some of the best imagery I've ever heard in song lyrics. Especially within this rhyme scheme. I love love love Charlie Looker's lyrics. | |
| Antony and the Johnsons – River of Sorrow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The song is written for Marsha P Johnson who was an African American transgender activist and who died in 1992. The name Antony & the Johnsons is also an homage to her. | |
| Antony and the Johnsons – Man Is the Baby Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Also it's interesting to compare this song lyrically to For Today I Am A Boy. It seems to be the flip side of his emotions relating to the same subject of identity. One hopeful, one despaired. | |
| Parenthetical Girls – Oh Daughter/Disaster Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Ever think of Twin Peaks while listening to this song? | |
| Xiu Xiu – Dangerous You Shouldn't Be Here Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is the most unsettling and upsetting song ever recorded. I don't think a piece of music has ever affected me as much as when I listened to this song for the first time. I can hardly ever to stomach listening through it. | |
| Xiu Xiu – Don Diasco Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
Crossing his heart is definitely making promises to others and crossing his wrists is most likely cutting himself. He just wants things to change. I believe Miya is another friend of his. Either she's suffering similarly to him or she has already suffered and he is self-conscious around her because she's already gone through a lot and she is sighing because he's being over-dramatic and she thinks he should just get over himself (or he thinks she thinks that). Cathartic to the max |
|
| Xiu Xiu – Apple for a Brain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
Jamie: One of the songs is about being overly obsessed with these two particular cartoon characters and, as an adult, feeling kind of really weird about that. I believe this is that song. |
|
| Perfume Genius – Mr Petersen Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| In an interview I just read he said about the song "It is about a teacher I had in freshman year. I hadn't thought about what went down for a while, I hadn't thought about a fucking actual thing in a while. But I got flooded, that song came out. " | |
| Morrissey – Children In Pieces Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
I always feel like he's going to say "You say you want to go home. You don't want to stay." |
|
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Lime Tree Arbour Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I see this song as a man only having solace in his one true love. This being about her death is plausible but I think it is not the main point. He says "there will always be suffering, it flows through life like water" and after that verse everything leaves. The boatman is gone and the loons are hiding and the scene that he described has passed but her love still remains. If she has gone than that is even more romantic imo for her love remains with him and protects him from the pains of life even after she has left him. However he just stays in the Lime Tree Arbour just to remember her and relive it; it's equally sad. | |
| Parenthetical Girls – On Death & Endearments Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Also "Shame is not even worse" should be "shame is not remorse" | |
| Parenthetical Girls – On Death & Endearments Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
Very small corrections but I think it makes enough of a difference: "For me I see no need" "Had half a mind to just apologize" "what to or not to do" |
|
| Xiu Xiu – Falkland Rd. Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
"I read a couple of books about the sexual trafficking of young girls from Nepal into India and my band mate actually went to Nepal and did some research on it. So there’s a street in New Deli called Falkland Road where sexual trafficking of underage girls take place. Some of the lines from the song are actual quotes from the books I read where young women talk about it having happened to them. " http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=16427 |
|
| Xiu Xiu – Gray Death Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
"When I’m being self-deprecating, I then refer to myself as Jimmy. The song, for me anyway — and I don’t mean that this is the way it should mean for anybody else — is about going through a period of really intense confusion about the point of my existence, not in an existential way but more of a pragmatic way, like what the fuck am I doing? Like for a long time I felt really clear about it and like now not knowing what-so-ever, like the stress of being self-destructive. And it’s not really an intense feeling. It’s more of a gnawing, really kind of low frequency, negative pressure. You know, its not a rainbow death [laughs], if that makes sense. " http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=16427 |
|
| Parenthetical Girls – Keyholes & Curtains Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| A mother trying to repress her feelings of misery towards her life with her family. The line Safe As Houses is so clever. Houses are pretty safe physically and it should be a home of comfort but for this character the home is a reminder of her troubled past and present torment. So she is about as safe as houses in this situation; forgetting everything about her life but it's still there, still inside the house. Those walls and ceilings don't protect her, the Keyholes and Curtains can still be seen through. | |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.