| Lifetime – 25 Cent Giraffes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That's funny, I'd always heard, "No other night in all the world could make me think of home now." But your take sounds equally plausible. | |
| Modest Mouse – Guilty Cocker Spaniels Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is entirely about the American financial mess that recently occurred. | |
| Modest Mouse – Four Fingered Fisherman Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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He's uptight 'cause he lost a finger... don'tcha think? |
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| Modest Mouse – Four Fingered Fisherman Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| ...it's a singles/EP collection that spans years.... of course it doesn't sound cohesive. | |
| Modest Mouse – Dukes Up Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Correction: "soda-fountain proud, button-up, shut 'em up, gettin' fed up now." |
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| Modest Mouse – Novocain Stain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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...(face-palm). It's a housing development named after the natural terrain feature it replaced... a brook in a meadow once called "Meadow Brook" probably. Think before you post. 5 years ago. |
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| Modest Mouse – Ohio Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I knew I'd heard this somewhere before, and found proof! The way "Ohio" is sung in this song, as "O-ha-i-yo" is Japanese for "Good Morning". http://ssa.org.ohio-state.edu/ohio_is_not_in_japan.htm Just adds another cool little bit of up-so-late-it's-early imagery to this song already laden with it. |
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| Modest Mouse – Bury Me with It Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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If I were a teacher grading this, you'd get an F for re-wording the original work without adding an iota of insight. And you definitely didn't clear anything up, these many years later. But kudos for still being interested in good music in this late century. And now, on to my own crappy synopsis/paraphrase, in two parts (just like the song)- first part is Verse/Chorus, second part is Coda ("hummingbirds"). Part 1. All Verses/Chorus "If, as I get older, I get progressively less... -free time to spend as I wish -enjoyment from simple things -of an untainted, healthy planet Earth to enjoy -attractive, skinny, fashionable -energy/health/endurance to endure the wild, fun life of the young I so loved -optimistic/idealistic about myself, others, the earth, the universe, and existence itself ... then you might as well just fucking kill me now." Part 2. Coda "Humans have lost sight of any meaningful or compelling reason for their existence. Now they just reflexively seek out drama/tragedy/sorrow/hurt and wallow instinctually in it (through the thoroughly human traits of gossip/schadenfreude/morbid voyeurism/apathy)." Ok, so that last part was a little deconstructionism on my part. But it's what I hear. |
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| Pavement – Painted Soldiers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Maybe it's just the drama queen in me, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this song is about Spiral's frustration with SM's dismissive nature about his songs/song-writing. | |
| Pavement – Zurich Is Stained Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| THANK YOU. It's really annoying to see people posting comments on THIS website, of all places, to the effect of "there is no meaning, don't try to analyze it." If you don't want to talk about what the SONG MEANING is, try another site. | |
| Pavement – Zurich Is Stained Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Doesn't matter that you were wrong; good analytic technique. | |
| Pavement – Circa 1762 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Close...: "Met her when I was a drum cadet. Sold her the skins off my second set- yes!" "Asshole- royal blue velvet rope. Castles? We never had any of those." "I was in a three piece band, but there were no strings; only winds, and skins, torn flags. The burnt, burnt match- we light the burnt match. We light the burnt match, and stick a flag on it." Does anyone else think it's awesome that this song is about the painting "The Spirit of '76" by Archibald Willard (three-piece band, no strings, only winds and skins) and is called "Circa 1762"? |
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| Pavement – In the Mouth a Desert Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Troll. | |
| Pavement – Silence Kid Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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THANK YOU! Both completely valid points- and the Iron Butterfly might as well be the prototype for Pavement's lyrical process. Anyone who has EVER done ecstasy will have no doubt as to the last stanza: 1. "Feels so warm inside" - check 2. "Five hours later" - check 3. "chewin'" - check 4. "screwin' myself with my hand" - check To the rest of you noobs: it's easy to disregard ALL meaning because you can't always parse it, but it doesn't mean that there's no meaning there. |
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| Pixies – Velouria Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Some chords/chord changes feel a bit the same, but to call "Say It Ain't So" a rip-off is just unfair. The similarities wouldn't hold up in court, for example, in a copyright hearing. | |
| Pixies – Debaser Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It took me five years of listening to Modest Mouse, as well as someone pointing it out to me, but you're 100% on the nose. Not to say they don't do their own thing, but if you ever want to hear a band that DIRECTLY influenced another, Pixies/MM is a great example. | |
| Jawbreaker – Eye-5 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yeah this song is fucking incredible. Long live Jawbreaker. NOBODY else writes lyrics or music quite the same. | |
| Superchunk – Hyper Enough Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I call BS- there of course is a definitive lyric here. Stand back as I school these fewlies.... "If it weren't for those lofty currents you're riding on, you would not exist." Read here for the account from one of the guys in on "The Laughter Guns" radio show: http://www.tubafrenzy.org/weblog/archives/2004/07/pogo_in_your_he.html |
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