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| Cocteau Twins – Lazy Calm Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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Let's face it - I've been listening to this song for nigh on 40 years and have never known the lyrics - that actually make it more beguiling but I am going to email Liz Fraser and beg her to tell me what they are. Because it's an astonishing piece of art xx |
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| Michelle Shocked – Anchorage Lyrics
| 7 months ago
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"Was on me and Leroy's wedding day
What was the name of that love song they played?
I forgot how it goes
I don't recall how it goes"
That's interesting to me, wonder what that means - is she so involved in her life that she forgets her wedding song, presumably the first dance song? It's a song that seems really quite sad to me x |
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| The Wrens – She Sends Kisses Lyrics
| 9 months ago
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I love this song and I absolutely respect and admire the artists intention and their art. Gotta say though, it's so filled with local and specific references that me, a Scottish guy simply doesn't understand without looking it all up. But, fair enough, I love The Wrens music x |
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| The Shins – Phantom Limb Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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I'll be honest, I love this song and have listened to it for years but reading the lyrics I had no idea that it was about two lassies from a small town. I am a bit thick when deciphering metaphors and stuff so it's on me, but I just didn't get it. |
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| The Shins – Sleeping Lessons Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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After listening for 20 odd year it's about revolution. We need huge change, the old guard offend and have nothing to offer. It's obviously quite literal but surely that's the message. We need to change this bullshit world order we are under. Great song. |
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| Rickie Lee Jones – Rainbow Sleeves Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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Possibly my favourite RLJ songs. Written by Tom Waits I understand but just listen to it,it blows me away, it destroys me every time and I have been listening to this for over 30 years regularly. It's just an absolute masterpiece xx |
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| Pinback – Bloods on Fire Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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Looks like I posted 16 years ago but I repeat, the last verse is poetic heartbreak, and I have lost many in the intervening years which makes it even more poignant and emotional. All the best to everyone - the lyrics that kill me:
"Its not in the dead shocks that dropped underneath us,
When we used the car.
Its not in the strings we didn't pull, to move you around the floor.
Where are you now?
Pacing a faceless maw, somewhere vague.
You're not outside, you're not inside, you're not anymore.
Where did you go?
Here's to the pranks we never pulled,
Never will." |
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| Pinback – Bloods on Fire Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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Looks like I posted 16 years ago but I repeat, the last verse is poetic heartbreak, and I have lost many in the intervening years which makes it even more poignant and emotional. All the best to everyone - the lyrics that kill me:
"Its not in the dead shocks that dropped underneath us,
When we used the car.
Its not in the strings we didn't pull, to move you around the floor.
Where are you now?
Pacing a faceless maw, somewhere vague.
You're not outside, you're not inside, you're not anymore.
Where did you go?
Here's to the pranks we never pulled,
Never will." |
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| Lou Reed – Perfect Day Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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It's great listening to all the various interpretations of this masterpiece, for that is surely what it is, but it is most certainly about the use og heroin and the effect that does have to enable a "perfect day" or whatever the time may be, perfect hour, two.......it's a classic song x |
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| Rickie Lee Jones – Night Train Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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A mother getting her child back from care? First verse indicating she went astray but then has gotten things in order and is now reunited with her kid. |
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| The Innocence Mission – Sweep Down Early Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Sublime x A lesson anyone reading this or who has any passing interest in The Innocence Mission - never underestimate a single song of theirs, there is just beauty and magic in abundance, never "samey", never a repeat, just unique, beautiful, wistful songs and poetry of sheer love x |
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| Tom Waits – Rainbow Sleeves Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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A beautiful, beautiful, poetic song I have been listening to all my life and will do so until I die. It's just the most moving, delicate, heart-rending song, an absolute masterpiece x |
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| The Innocence Mission – When Mac Was Swimming Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[ice:44600]-9 I agree, it seems like a child's birthday celebration, "nobody knows how they're loved" - the child doesn't know, because he/she is a child but this is also a nod to all of us adults - we never know how we're loved. And then the line, "the flowers that grew, the things that happened" - adult things in their lives that didn't impinge on the childhood of the kid, or something like that.
And the last line, it's a hopeful - wistful maybe - but a hopeful, positive, bright future is ahead. |
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| The Innocence Mission – Birdless Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Fuck sake man, sorry for swearing, this song does me in every single time - I need to ration it it's that emotional for me. Been listening to this for years and it never, ever loses it's sheer beauty and heartache. Devastating poetry, there's nothing else to say, absolutely genius x |
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| Frightened Rabbit – Death Dream Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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He died in his sleep last night
You died in his sleep last night
Absolutely heartbreaking, when a part of you, or maybe all of you dies with someone. A beautiful, beautiful song xx |
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| 10,000 Maniacs – Among The Americans Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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American high school students should all be taught this bit of the song:
"come the small black book
come the brandy cask
one strange disease
the well worded paper
signed by the drunken
hands of thieves
and suddenly
they were told to leave"
That's it, in a nutshell. All learning should stem from that x |
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| 10,000 Maniacs – Can't Ignore The Train Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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The demo version is brilliant. If anyone looks in on this comment, I can't emphasise enough that this first album of theirs is an absolute work of pure genuise, musically but more importantly lyrically. Every song is an absolute truth-telling poem of brilliance x |
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| Van Morrison – Madame George Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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One of the great pieces of art in our time. I was born in '68 and have been listening to this since I was a teenager. I will always listen to this - a genuine masterpiece x |
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| Joni Mitchell – Let The Wind Carry Me Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Magnificent and beautiful song. I remember cutting about the Brighton seafront on my bike c. 1992 listening to this beautiful album. Genius is Joni Mitchell xx |
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| Sparklehorse – Spirit Ditch Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I've been listening to this song since it was first on that album and it never, ever, ever loses its magic. Mark Linkus was a fucking genius and this is just an example of that brilliance - fantastic song lyrically and musically. Magic x |
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| The Innocence Mission – Birdless Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[dealingwith:8975] Lovely post and I hope all this time later you are ok. It's a beautiful song, I have been listening to it regularly for years and it remains a wonderful, beautiful, poignant song. Take care x |
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