| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Teehee - here I go again with my out-there interpretations (which, of course, according to me are right on the money ...). :o) I believe it is first, talking about our world. The opening lines: Some said the local lake had been enchanted Others said it must have been the weather is a reference to the view religion vs. science has of the bible. The next parts are euphemisms (sp?) for our world today and how people laugh and talk about the things that happen in it, but no one really knows what to do, and so 'the local kids would still go swimming, drinking, saying that to them it doesn't matter ...'; and the part of: "If you just hold in your breath", is that we can, and often do, blind ourselves to everything but what is happening in our own lives. WE (each of us) are 'the genius next door' who goes around doing our own thing, as long as no one bothers us and we don't have to really DO anything for anyone else or because we don't know how. And that's our secret - and if we just hold our breaths ... but we are foolsih. The next morning (every day really), television crews 'arrive' as if it is just another day of reporting, and everyone else goes around on their daily routine while people who don't really beleive anything can change, pray for change. While the genius next door [we] sleep, dreaming that the antidote for everything is love (as it well should be), but erroneously because we dream of it in a more physical, me, me, me sense. |
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| Manchester Orchestra – I Can Feel a Hot One Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow. I think I have a thing about taking the meaning of songs to be so different from the general populace. 1. IMO Manna is not a drug or he would not have said it is. (Look at his other lyrics - nothing is ever so simple); so the drug theory does not fly with me. That said, 2. I think the song itself is a lot more simple than people are taking it to be. IMO it is just about a guy and girl breaking up. They have been in a relationship and things have reached that "routine stage" (are you alright? Yes, I'm okay. What's wrong? Nothing.) and he is pretty much taking her for granted, evaluating the relationship, etc. She then apparently has this awakening, this manna from god so to speak. Possibly another guy; a new job; or as in the online definitions of manna, she begins to partake of that which is miraculously provided for her flight from him — a spiritual nourishment of divine origin which gives her the strength to leave him (the curtain reference being the ending of a show, not actually HANGING herself). And when she does tell him it’s over, he finally sees how ‘perfect’ she is. He even sees his unborn children in her. |
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| Seven Mary Three – Roderigo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Oh, I forgot to add, that the opening line: "He's a real cannibal", may seem to be a putdown, but I believe that in her eyes it is actually a compliment. A way of saying he IS strong, will devour anything in his way, will be ambitious and unstoppable. |
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| Seven Mary Three – Roderigo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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. Okay, I am a mom, and from the first moment I heard this song about 2 - 3 years back, it SO reminded me of my son. My interpretation, from that standpoint, may be skewed; I only know that it speaks so strongly to me and what it says, to ME. Here goes the meaning that I get from it. It really is about a mother and son, and the difficulty we as moms, especially single moms, have in walking that tightrope between love and correction. We want the best for our kids (I only have the one); we want them to be our version of ‘perfect’, and so we have to weigh how lenient we are and try to temper our 'hardness'. The problem, as in my case, is with a headstrong child, which unbelievably makes you love them even more, but it makes raising them so much more difficult. The rope, the 'rules', if you will, are hers, and yet while they kind of detain him, you know they won't hold him for long. Again, he is after all, this strong son. He must make his pwn way, and she is pretty much left with her rope, her rules, staining her. The next part may not sit well with many, but I do think there will be those that understand what I am saying and do not misconstrue my meaning. There is this Mother / Son relationship, and while in no way sexual, there is a measure of a love and a tie so deep, as to rival that of a man / woman relationship, so to me, the second part of the song is now that Rodrigo is gone (maybe at college, maybe just away) and this once single mom finds someone who she likes and begins a relationship, but, most of her life she has been 'leading, molding, correcting, directing this strong son of hers (“I’m the real animal she says”), and she begins to try to mold this guy into this picture of what she, again, thinks is the perfect man if you will. This guy though, he prefers to just slip away … like Rodrigo did. And so there you go — my interpretation of it. :o) |
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| Sea Wolf – The Violet Hour Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow, I guess I'm the only perv here ;o). I think it is way more sexual than anyone here is interpreting it as. The guy is obviously dying to "be" with this girl, and she is a tease with pretty much everyone, but he seems to have 'first dibs', but just as he thinks he's going to 'close the contract' (love the euphemisms), she changes her mind. She pretty much leaves him dangling and so he equates her, her body with delicious, beautiful things, but also with those that are difficult, painful, high maintenance (hot house grapes) and off-putting (snow). The only thing I don't get is why it was used in New Moon in the scene it was, unless they loved the song and wanted to use it but couldn't find a more appropriate place in the script to stick it in. |
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| Paper Lace – The Night Chicago Died Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I Agree with sportsvine; EVERY city has an east (as well as north, south and west) side. Additionally, Al Capone's men were ALWAYS in run-in's with the law and other gangsters. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I completely agree with AnsleyLC. My interpretation is that the writer dated a singer and she died. The ten pretty women (possibly part of her family), the shoulder where Death comes to cry, the lobby with nine hundred windows and the tree where the doves go to die are all in the chapel; the piece that was torn from the morning as it hangs in the Gallery of Frost is apparently a flower wreath. He still wants her of course and the chair with a dead magazine could be a memory or as he is sitting in the funeral home. I believe the 'cave at the tip of the lily' is the entrance to where they put her to rest (mausoleum), and the hallways where love's never been, is its halls. Not sure how "on a bed where the moon has been sweating" ties in, but in a cry filled with footsteps and sand, are people walking with the casket and crying. With its very own breath of brandy and Death Dragging its tail in the sea (he's drowning in drink). There's a concert hall in Vienna Where your mouth had a thousand reviews is the part that makes me think she was a singer. And it ties with the bar where the boys have stopped talking as they are all sad (blue). Mostly though it is the next verse, the: “Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture with a garland of freshly cut tears?”, because this depicts him visiting her resting place and taking flowers. Finally, the attic where children are playing, I think is heaven, where he must go to be with her soon and as another poster said, the sheep and the lilies are a reference to the Book of Solomon. |
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| Elvis Costello – Alison Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Am I the only one who gets it? ;o)~ No, seriously, IMO, when he says "My Aim is True", it is in the context of his 'aim' or 'goal'; that being of wanting to help her, is true, honest, sincere - NOT that he wants to put a bullet in her. Additionally, the first time I heard it I didn't get the lyrics: "'cause I don't know if you've been loving somebody - - I only know it isn't mine", but when I heard it again, it clicked that he is actually saying "'cause I don't know if you've been loving some body, I only know it isn't mine . . . ". I've been on the receiving end of obsessive feelings and I know some of you will agree, it only takes one chance meeting, an innocent reply to a seemingly innocent email, a 'touching base' phone call, etc. to get the obsessive party all obsessive again, and this is clearly what is happening to him in this song. It is clear she isn't overly thrilled (impressed) at seeing him Another thing is that I think it is two meetings, not just one. In the first he says (again): "cause I don't know if you've been loving somebody" and in the second alludes to her being, or having been married, so two meetings at different times, not just one. The lyrics "I'll bet he took all he could take” instead of meaning what other people seem to think it means, that the husband used her, I believe means that like the narrator, the husband too was taken for a “ride” by Alison, and that he took all that he could stand, because he too loved her. Lastly, “Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking when I hear the silly things that you say” simply means it hurts too much to even listen to her, and “I think somebody better put out the big light, cause I can't stand to see you this way” is him begging for someone / something to please end these feelings he has for her, once and for all. |
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