| Supermatic – Water Into Wine Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Hm. Maybe I should put it there instead! Thanks so much. | |
| Guided by Voices – What Are We Coming Up To? Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I forgot how to delete incorrectly threaded comments, oh well | |
| Guided by Voices – What Are We Coming Up To? Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Thank you. Just here, nowhere else really | |
| Guided by Voices – What Are We Coming Up To? Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Thank you. Just here, nowhere else really | |
| Guided by Voices – What Are We Coming Up To? Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| it's called "collaboration" because half of this is cribbed/revised from a friend | |
| Guided by Voices – Supermarket the Moon Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Thank you; it's from the Jean Giraudoux play Ondine, which was my favorite of all the plays I had to read in high school, and expresses very well what it is like to feel out of place in the world. There's a good synopsis on wikipedia if you aren't into reading the whole thing | |
| Guided by Voices – Bottoms Up! (You Fantastic Bastard) Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Thank you, thank you. In short: regret, ambivalence, fear, longing, resignation | |
| Guided by Voices – Bottoms Up! (You Fantastic Bastard) Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Thank you, thank you for reading | |
| Guided by Voices – Bottoms Up! (You Fantastic Bastard) Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Thanks. I've been going through a fallow period but am slowly coming out of it, maybe. | |
| Flesh Field – Cyberchrist Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| (and you are the same) | |
| Guided by Voices – Do They Teach You To Chase? Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| but for real, love u | |
| Guided by Voices – Do They Teach You To Chase? Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| (and you are the same) | |
| Pedro the Lion – Rapture Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| ohh good, looks like i was writing drunk again | |
| Pedro the Lion – Rapture Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| nye texts hurt me because i realized i had been replaced...but i do realize i should dispense with the confessional now | |
| Pedro the Lion – Rapture Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| also: drunk | |
| Pedro the Lion – Rapture Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| binary staaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrz | |
| Pedro the Lion – Rapture Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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it's still true though, that when i look at pictures of you the first thing i look at is the way you hold your mouth it seems like a lost cause at this point but i just wanted you to know i never forgot you. |
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| The Exploited – Boys In Blue Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| why u troll so hard? | |
| Don Huonot – Manimania Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| wow, i was really angry not that long ago. it feels like i'm reading someone else's journal, not my own | |
| The Exploited – Barry Prossit Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| damn. wish I had the words to describe how this makes me feel, but they've been just out of reach for a good two years now. | |
| Don Huonot – Iidus-linnun Kootut Selitykset Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think I meant "cure it all," but it was like 4am and I was pretty drunk (surprise!) | |
| Angra – Reaching Horizons Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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ugh, i wish i could say that i was fucked up when i wrote this, but i wasn't (at least not any more so than is baseline for me) i wish i could stop telling you the stupidest things |
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| Angra – Reaching Horizons Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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jesus, i'm just as bad as they are (almost) |
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| Rolf Harris – Wool-O Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Wow. I know exactly what you mean. | |
| Obsessive Compulsive – Love Is Pain Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| maybe i should shut the hell up though, for reasons i have elaborated many times over the years. | |
| Ladytron – The Way That I Found You Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[sjtm:2238] Yes, it is; I'm pretty sure it's also "SAD, in the crowd" | |
| MAP – Dead And Buried Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Ok, I give up. Apologies for accidentally spamming you. | |
| MAP – Dead And Buried Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Uhh, let me try again (at 1:02 if it doesn't automatically start there) |
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| MAP – Dead And Buried Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Is this a reference to Valley of the Dolls? It makes me think of the scene where Ann is finally addicted to pills. http://youtu.be/dsR5PYTLYBY?t=1m2s |
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| All – Honey Peeps Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| ...and the heartbroken think everything's about love. What's new? | |
| The Bollweevils – Suzy's Revenge Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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high and drunk wrote this in ten minutes apologies for banality |
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| Lake of Tears – Sweetwater Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Haha, that's hilarious, dude Just let me be sad. No one's forcing you to read my nonsense. |
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| Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure it's: "I can't sleep at night And I can't eat a bite" |
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| Tori Amos – Bells For Her Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Nishiki is a brand of bicycle; her friend is riding away from her. | |
| Unsung Zeros – Friends Come And Go Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| one of their best. I love this song. | |
| Sebadoh – Careful Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Careful as a soldier we're so strong" This goes right along with "watch out for my bullshit, everybody's got it." He's full of shit. He doesn't feel strong at all and is trying to convince himself that he is, which is partly why the line is repeated more than anything else in the song. Probably also trying to convince himself that he is as careful, calculating, and reasoned as a soldier might be, when he's really a wreck and is afraid he's going to do something really stupid. Safer to sit "_beside_ the truth (beside you)" |
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| The War On Drugs – Come To The City Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"I've been drinking up all the sweet tea it was made just for me" |
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| The Cure – Let's Go to Bed Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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He often says six instead of three when they play it live. Both times I've seen them, in 1992 and 1996, he said six instead of three. I don't think it has much significance; I think he's just making a little joke, like "You guys were expecting me to say 'three,' but we're going to stay up even later! Wink-wink, nudge-nudge" |
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| Junior Boys – Last Exit Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I suppose I should mention I am aware that most of the ways "You will never be able to escape me" can be interpreted are not positive | |
| Junior Boys – Last Exit Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think you're mostly right, particularly with the changes "Get you through the *border*" "*Hide* you in the city" "A *silver* light begins to show" but I think also it's "As if you could prove it, a call" (not prevent) and the chorus is "When you think you're going, you can change your face again And if you think you're going, know I'll catch you just the same" which makes it a lot more sinister. As in, "You'll never get away from me. Even if you run away and disguise yourself, I will find you and catch you." Almost as if he is considering kidnapping her before she leaves him, which is why I think it's "As if you could prove it, a call." In the imagined scenario, he wants her to think that nobody is going to believe that she got kidnapped by her boyfriend/husband/lover if she calls for help because everybody knows they were together. This one is pretty dark, even for Junior Boys. But he delivers it with serial killer charm, which potentially turns it into a response to a southern belle/helpless woman fantasy/ruse: "I'm with another man and I can't do anything about it unless you forcibly remove me from my surroundings and take me away with you. So I will taunt you with promises of running away with you until you snap and actually abduct me. And then ravish me so that I am 'stained' and can't return to my former lover; then I will belong to you." Twisted, yes, a little--but nothing that isn't covered in a basic course on human sexuality. And yes, obviously, it would probably be pretty horrific if that actually happened. But it's also brutally honest and indicative of just how insane people can get to feeling if they are in a "oh, it's you again--I guess I'll see you next lifetime" sort of situation, especially if one of them isn't planning on coming back for another one. Perhaps I ventured off the deep end just now, but I really do think he's saying "you will never be able to escape me," which can be interpreted many ways. |
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| Junior Boys – Bellona Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Hmm. I hear something completely different. It's definitely not "this time I'll stay for good." I'm pretty sure instead it's "all this time I, all this time I stayed for you" and the modulated voice behind it is "well, it shines right through ya." As in, although you're trying, you can't hide what you are really feeling because it shines right out of you, or through you. But yes, I do think it's about jealousy and regret and either an affair or a near-affair (Where did that flash go? It burned my shadow gray. Where have those five days got to now?) : why did you marry someone else when I know you're in love with me--it shines right through you. These days are getting longer. The sun is gonna beat so loud You know, I think you told me you have a new name now Where did that flash go? It burned my shadow gray. Where have those five days got to now? (well it shines right through ya) all this time i (well it shines right through ya) all this time i stayed for you (x 4) I saw him in the park shade He put his hands down low What else did I see? What else did they show? You think it's so unlikely When did the city change me? Red-skied, my eyes closed The fire came so slow (well it shines right through ya) all this time i (well it shines right through ya) all this time i stayed for you (x 6) (well it shines right through ya) (x 4) ... (well it shines right through ya) (x 4) (well it shines right through ya) all this time i (well it shines right through ya) all this time i stayed for you (x 2) |
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| Junior Boys – More Than Real Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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What's posted above is mostly right, but there are some differences that change the meaning a bit. Some of it I'm unsure of, but I'm fairly certain it's "for all the things I plan until I'll be your man" and "And if I find you, I know you'll make me feel, you make me feel more than real" (not "even if they find you") Your face, it shows you are an imposter That blank snapshot still in the parking lot You're on the screen, I feel you downtown Off on the street, walk through the underground The distance makes me want you more The scent you give, that's what I'm waiting for Your birthday sign on through your family lines for all the things I plan until I'll be your man Tonight I got your number I even know your street If you could only need me, I know we're meant to meet. And if I find you, I know you'll make me feel You make me feel more than real They put you on, in the smoking glass Your dress got torn straight through the underpass The air got blue while in my closed-in room, and I'm checking off, girl, what's left to do The distance makes me want you more The scent you give, that's what I'm waiting for Your birthday sign run through your family lines for all the things I plan until I'll be your man Tonight I got your number I even know your street If you could only need me, I know we're meant to meet. And if I find you, I know you'll make me feel You make me feel more than real Tonight I got your number I even know your street If you could only need me, I know we're meant to meet. And if I find you, I know you'll make me feel You make me feel more than real --- Depending on who played this for me, I would either feel creepy stalker-violated, or weak in the knees/take me right here on the kitchen floor because it is sexy in a transgressive way. |
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| Junior Boys – Birthday Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think these are wrong all over the internet. This is what I've always thought I heard, but of course I could be mistaken: You've gone and then you missed my birthday. You've gone and left me on my own. I'm hard to take--it's cool, anyway. It's not so bad to stay at home. Is it true that it's me? You can say all the things you want to, but you don't easily if you take all this weight behind me and let it go. Now it's you. You forget all the things you want to. And you're not here in the end, so there's nothing left to say. I guess you passed me on my birthday. You slid right through the year I've grown. Now I ... can't remember anyway. Remind me to wash my hands reeeal slow. Is it true that it's me? You can say all the things you want to, but you don't easily if you take all this weight behind me and let it go. Now it's you. You forget all the things you want to. And you're not here in the end, so there's nothing left to say. You'd gone and then you missed my birthday. I know we'd do it all again. The End for cold or warm, so anyway... This time I close my eyes and really wish you'd come. Is it true that it's me? You can say all the things you want to, but you don't easily if you take all this weight behind me and let it go. Now it's you. You forget all the things you want to. And you're not here in the end, so there's nothing left to say. |
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| Wilco – Woodgrain Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I don't think he's being ironic or irreverent; I think he's just saying that wanting this person has worn him out and he's run out of eloquent or charming things to say, but he still wants her to know he's thinking about her. | |
| Wilco – Woodgrain Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I don't think he's being ironic or irreverent; I think he's just saying that wanting this person has worn him out and he's run out of eloquent or charming things to say, but he still wants her to know he's thinking about her. | |
| Chapel Club – Paper Thin Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think I hear "seraphic eyes alight" "I'll be there when life leaves your senses" "All I could have asked for, you have been... and I can't be without" He just elides the n of "been" into "and I can't be without" (I think). I have some cuckoo theories about the first part of the first verse about lavender and green ink and something to sign, but I need to hear it better to be certain before I go too far out on a limb. |
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