| Caravan Palace – Lone Digger Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song is badass. As is the animated music video. Apparently "lonely digging" is when you're out with a group and are the only one into the music, tapping your foot, nodding your head, etc. I think this song is just encouraging that. Gtfo there and dance :) |
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| Regina Spektor – Love, You're a Whore Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[margotj:13187] I know I'm eight years late to the party, but after listening to this song on repeat I'm pretty sure the lyric is: Was a bright, and sweet, and hot summer day The day I didn't love you anymore Some little KEY wound up my poor heart which had stopped As I walked to the grocery store" Thanks for posting the far-more-correct lyrics than the ones posted above! I still think she's saying something different on "All the people lingered" but I can't make out what it is... |
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| Lana Del Rey – Salvatore Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The first line should be, "All the lights in Miami," not "my attic," haha. This is one of my favorites from Honeymoon, Lana has a knack for painting vivid pictures with her music. Listening to it I feel like I'm walking through the winding streets of some Italian town in the summer. The chorus melody almost sounds like it was taken from an Italian movie score or something. (She has said of the song "Old Money" from Ultraviolence that the melody for that song was partially taken from an instrumental piece from the 1960's Romeo & Juliet film, so I wouldn't be surprised if she was inspired by another piece of film score.) Also, "salvatore" means "savior" in Italian. Which on the surface implies that he's saving or rescuing her ("I've been waiting for you"... "I've been cold without you,") but I think it really means the opposite, because the song has a kind of lonely, melancholic feel to it, she's "dying by his hand," and in the end, "Salvatore can wait." And just in conjunction with the rest of the album where she's singing in classic Lana-style these songs about being with a man but he's distant, elusive, etc. So, maybe she wants him to be her savior, yet finds herself disappointed. I don't know, who really cares. Lana rocks no matter how people interpret her songs :) |
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| Melanie Martinez – Tag, You're It Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Like most songs on Cry Baby, I’d say the meaning is pretty transparent. The singer is walking alone and is being followed/pursued by a man in his car who, after failing to lure her to him with words and questionable promises, chases her and pushes her down. She screams for help but nobody seems to hear her. Somehow, juxtaposing the childhood game of tag with the heavy experience of assault or rape makes it pack more of a punch than if she were just singing a slow, sad song about it, maybe because the “tag, you’re it” dialogue comes from the assaulter, giving us a (troubling) insight into his mindset on how he sees this as a game. The references to having candy and wanting to cut her up and make her dinner also have a kind of child predator/Big Bad Wolf-y feel. The way Martinez tells brutal, straightforward stories through the lens of a childhood theme is just brilliant. The entire album is like this and I love it! Melanie’s voice reminds me a bit of Lana Del Rey’s (Rey’s girly, breathy, Lolita voice as opposed to her deep contralto) but she imbues it with a rougher sound when needed, like the later part of this song when her voice loses that ultra-femme sheen and breaks into a more forceful, angry “Tag, you’re it! Tag, tag, you’re it!” Can’t wait to see what she’ll do next. |
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| Lana Del Rey – Mermaid Motel Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Oh yeah, not to mention the "white sweater" reference; buying a white sweater on "the last white day of the summer," definitely carries some "loss of innocence" connotations. | |
| Lana Del Rey – Mermaid Motel Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I’m not saying I’m privy to Lana’s intentions for this song and I could be way off, but this is my take: From the picture this song paints, I get a kind of seedy, amateur porno film vibe. She’s living in a motel with an unknown man, she’s buying a purple wig for her “mermaid video” -- it could be a music video, but it seems like they’re shooting in the motel because she says she walks back to the motel after she buys it, and he repeatedly tells her to “take it off,” implying her clothing, obviously. The gasps she makes after each set of “take it off”s sound almost a little surprised, like her innocence has been corrupted… with the motel on Neptune Avenue, the fact that they live there, and the almost childlike, whimsical image of the vivid purple wig all paired with her little girly gasping sounds invoke a scene of a naïve, possibly nervous young woman being persuaded or cajoled into “tak[ing] it off.” The pet names he uses for her of “Lavender” and “Sunshine” also reinforce that she’s young and innocent, and the breathy way she sings “you call me Lavender, you call me Sunshine” further suggest that she’s been/being coaxed into his dirtier, more adult world. As for the heavy metal and Americana references, I don’t know, that sounds like Lana just being Lana ;) (Or should I say Lizzy being Lizzy…?) Love the song, the whole album is great to listen to while lazing in the sun by the pool or on the beach :) |
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| My Chemical Romance – Hang 'Em High Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't know who made this, but it is AWESOME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6msLrBDwNyw Animated video to "Hang Em High", also with a big nod to "Demolition Lovers". Ch-ch-check it out! One of my favorite songs off Three Cheers. So goddamn good. |
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| My Chemical Romance – House Of Wolves Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I apologize if somebody has already pointed this out, but the lyric in the beginning, middle, and end of the song is: "S-I-N-I-S-I-N" -- which makes way more sense than "(Say it lover say it) x4" or "yes I yes I yes I am." Sounds like that a bit, though. Awesome song. Fucking love it. One of my favorites off the album. (But I say that about every other song on Black Parade...) |
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