| Jay Jay Pistolet – Hooked Up On Us Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The first lyric is actually 'I really miss drinking chocolat chaud' (as in French for hot chocolate). | |
| Emmy the Great – Absentee Lyrics | 16 years ago |
|
Here are the correct lyrics: One goodbye for everyone Old pair of shoes the last place they were left Out by the door where they always were kept Brown laces We stand in line to hear the news We’ve not been together since Christmas last year Room full of children all sad in the ear Small faces And church music playing, playing Our parents sleep and sleep They don’t remember the ones they have left We find the magazines under your bed Strange pictures I play out in the street And trip on the sidewalk all covered in blood Tears not allowed, I pick myself up No stitches Absentee kyrie ilasion Your memory like disease holds on The fallow has grown out again And all, all the fields are yellow Your CDs, car keys, diaries My family kept these secretly Your memory like disease Absentee kyrie ilasion, ilasion, kyrie ilasion I think this song is about her brother dying in the army when she was young. “One goodbye for everyone” — funeral “Old pair of shoes the last place they were left” — things are still as they were before he was gone “We stand in line to hear the news” — waiting to hear whether he is one of the ones who has been killed “We’ve not been together since Christmas last year” — being on leave only for Christmas “They don’t remember the ones they have left” — as a child, she is kind of ignored because her parents miss the brother so much — “Tears not allowed, I pick myself up” “We find the magazines under your bed / Strange pictures” — finding porn under the brother’s bed when they go through his stuff after his death “Your memory like disease holds on” — the parents are totally stuck on the memory of their lost son “The fallow has grown out again” — time keeps passing, the feelings about the brother don’t change “Your CDs, car keys, diaries / My family kept these secretly” — they kept the things that belonged to him still |
|
| Emmy the Great – We Almost Had a Baby Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The first six or seven lines suggest to me that this isn't about abortion, but about her thinking she was pregnant after having unprotected sex - 'You didn't stop, when I told you to stop...' / 'There was a month when I wasn't sure' / 'I would have liked to have something above you'. It doesn't have the sadness that songs like Tori Amos's 'Playboy Mommy' have that would suggest miscarriage, and I don't think there's anything to suggest abortion because it's all about what she's going to do if she IS pregnant or she IS going to have a baby. | |
| Laura Marling – Blackberry Stone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
|
This B-side track can be downloaded for free here: http://stereogum.com/the-gum-drop/song.php. Laura Marling, former member of Noah And The Whale and ex-girlfriend of Noah And The Whale frontman Charlie Fink appears to reference Noah And The Whale's song 'Hold My Hand As I'm Lowered' with the repeated lyric, "I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered". This article, taken from Stereogum and viewable on their site via the link above, is Laura's own comments on the song: Laura Marling - "Blackberry Stone" Laura Marling Take a listen. It's difficult believing Laura Marling just turned 18 this year, but it's true: The assured, sharp British folk-pop singer-songwriter's full-length debut Alas, I Cannot Swim, which came out in the UK in February, is just getting its Stateside debut this summer (its out via iTunes now, Astralwerks in August). In this week's Drop we have "Blackberry Stone," a haunting, lo-fi UK B-side you won't find on the album proper. We asked Marling a few questions about the track. Can you give some background on the song? I recently moved and for the first time in ages I've been able to have my mics and recording gear set up all the time, so I've been messing around with a sound for the next album ... and so came "Blackberry Stone." Do you consider it different than the songs that ended up on Alas, I Cannot Swim? Yes, it's in the same mindset as the songs I have been writing recently, as opposed to the songs I was writing at the time of the first album. Is the song about a specific person/situation or is it a hybrid? Or a fictional narrative? It is whatever it is to whoever listens to it. I couldn't possibly say ... Sorry, lame answer, I know. Either way, what's the significance of the blackberry stone? The song itself is pretty self explanatory, but it is quite vast on whatever that emotion is of loss, and I wanted the song to resolve into something small and simple that I adore as much as whatever it is that was lost. In your mind, what makes a good love or falling-out-of-love song? Something that can't be used in a a hollywood rom com. |
|
| Noah and the Whale – Hold My Hand As I'm Lowered Lyrics | 16 years ago |
|
Laura Marling, former member of Noah And The Whale and ex-girlfriend of Noah And The Whale frontman Charlie Fink appears to reference this song in her song 'Blackberry Stone' (available for free download from Stereogum here: http://stereogum.com/the-gum-drop/song.php) with the repeated lyric, "I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered". This article, taken from Stereogum and viewable on their site via the link above, is Laura's own comments on the song: Laura Marling - "Blackberry Stone" Laura Marling Take a listen. It's difficult believing Laura Marling just turned 18 this year, but it's true: The assured, sharp British folk-pop singer-songwriter's full-length debut Alas, I Cannot Swim, which came out in the UK in February, is just getting its Stateside debut this summer (its out via iTunes now, Astralwerks in August). In this week's Drop we have "Blackberry Stone," a haunting, lo-fi UK B-side you won't find on the album proper. We asked Marling a few questions about the track. Can you give some background on the song? I recently moved and for the first time in ages I've been able to have my mics and recording gear set up all the time, so I've been messing around with a sound for the next album ... and so came "Blackberry Stone." Do you consider it different than the songs that ended up on Alas, I Cannot Swim? Yes, it's in the same mindset as the songs I have been writing recently, as opposed to the songs I was writing at the time of the first album. Is the song about a specific person/situation or is it a hybrid? Or a fictional narrative? It is whatever it is to whoever listens to it. I couldn't possibly say ... Sorry, lame answer, I know. Either way, what's the significance of the blackberry stone? The song itself is pretty self explanatory, but it is quite vast on whatever that emotion is of loss, and I wanted the song to resolve into something small and simple that I adore as much as whatever it is that was lost. In your mind, what makes a good love or falling-out-of-love song? Something that can't be used in a a hollywood rom com. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.