| Shugo Tokumaru – Parachute (Japanese and English Lyrics) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One of my favorite experimental pop songs ever. He says he writes his songs according to dreams he has. | |
| Fleet Foxes – He Doesn't Know Why Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I meant to fix this: it is My brother you were GONE not born. |
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| Fleet Foxes – He Doesn't Know Why Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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What started out as a coincidence has become what I'd love this song to be about. We can try to cut this song apart and cross reference everything, but the truth is: This song reminds me, oddly, of the movie Into the Wild or the main character, Chris McCandless (the movie was based on his life). Here's why: "Penniless and tired, with your hair grown long I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong Memory is a fickle siren song I didn't understand" Chris would be penniless as he burned all of his money and donated his savings to charity. His hair is long because he's been homeless (willingly) for a long time. His face in his last ever portrait is really thin and sick looking, as it is theorized that he ate a poisonous seed which caused his death. This song would be sung from the point of view of his sister, Carine McCandless. "In the gentle light as the morning nears You don't say a single word of your last two years Where you were or when you reached the frontier I didn't understand, no" I don't think he ever contacted her, and he was gone for two years (and subsequently died in Alaska, definitely a FRONTIER). She didn't understand why he had to do all of this. "See your rugged hands and a silver knife Twenty dollars in your hand makes you hold so tight All the evidence of your vacant life My brother you were born" He would need a silver knife to live in the wild, and I'm sure his hands would have shown some wear-and-tear. No idea what the money would be, as I have never researched his life... I know he worked some odd jobs to get pocket change (like 20 dollars?) for supplies. He's vacant as he owns no fixtures or furniture, and he was finally how he wanted to be (in the wild). "And you will try to do what you did before Pull the wool over your eyes For a week or more Let your family take you back to your original mind" The last verse, to me, is that he is trying to cope with his parents' messed up marriage and their bad job in raising him and his sister. He pulls the wool over his eyes, meaning to hoodwink or deceive. He's tricking himself into thinking he wants this. She tells him to let his family take him back to being sane, basically. "There's nothing I can do There's nothing I can do There's nothing I can say There's nothing I can say I can say " There was nothing Carine could have done, as they had no idea where Chris was. Chris died in August after ingesting (theory, of course) poisonous seeds which caused his insides to basically betray him. His body was found in September by some hunters. |
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| Grand Archives – Torn Blue Foam Couch Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is almost too beautiful. | |
| Ben Folds Five – Boxing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Ben Folds is genius. To think that he wrote this song at around the age of 19 is just insane. The beauty of this song, instrumentally and lyrically, is beyond staggering. | |
| Andrew Bird – Two Way Action Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Who is the woman on this track? I love it. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Bixby Canyon Bridge Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I was so sure that he was saying "It's hard to want to stay AWAKE" since the next couple lines are talking about sleep and whatnot. I still think that's what he's saying :D |
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| Sondre Lerche – Human Hands Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is great (and from Dan in Real Life). This is basically a song about reassuring someone that, yes, they still like them. It's sort of a feel good song about that awkward phase of "I like you, you like me, but we aren't together-- yet. I hope we will be..." You know? |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Cath... Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Amazing. | |
| The Dismemberment Plan – Sentimental Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sigh, that was dumb. Anyway, I think that the song doesn't really need much analyzing, read the lyrics, they're extremely straight-forward. |
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| Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire – Dora Goes to Town Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Honestly, the thing I love most about this CD is that it sounds like the band just had a great time making it. It seems very fun, and maybe even full of inside jokes that we'll never get at our analyzing views. | |
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