| Panda Bear – Selfish Gene Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Similar to "Tropic of Cancer," this song's about how genes try to continue and survive, and how that influences the decisions we make and impulses we have. Obviously, sex is part of it. "Selfish Gene" is an anti-love song—I'm talking about the Hallmark-card version of love. I'm a big fan of romantic love in general, but the song's about the weird mind games we get into in relationships that aren't particularly healthy. The song is trying to wade through all that. -Noah Lennox, 2015 |
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| Alvvays – Your Type Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| "so, you're tellin me there's a chance?" | |
| Fleet Foxes – Icicle Tusk Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[lucamilne:27180] cite your source? | |
| Beach House – 10:37 Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[Envy337:27051] just the first time? ;) | |
| Fleet Foxes – Third of May/Odaigahara Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Via Pitchfork: The third of May is an important date in Fleet Foxes history. Six years ago, on that day, they released their last album, Helplessness Blues. In the time since, the band’s members have released solo music, started side projects, or departed the group altogether. Less obviously, May 3 is also the birthday of founding member, guitarist Skyler Skjelset, who is the focus of Fleet Foxes’ new song “Third of May / Ōdaigahara.” The band’s first single from their forthcoming record Crack-Up is a sober reflection on how Robin Pecknold and Skjelset’s relationship has endured success. With this issue serving as a guiding subject, Fleet Foxes present their longest and most experimental number yet. Though it’s full of all the qualities Fleet Foxes fans savor (sprawling crescendos, bellowed introspection, bucolic imagery), it feels evolved. What begins as a traditional Fleet Foxes song slowly transforms into a mournful, mystical instrumental. They retain the grand orchestration of their past work, but rather than sticking to one tone, the track dissolves into several acts across its nearly nine minutes: contemplation, melancholy, chaos, and resolution. Meanwhile, Pecknold’s lyrics take a similarly elaborate turn: “Aren’t we made to be crowded together, like leaves,” he sings. To him, their long friendship is as innate as seasons changing, but its absence is dire (“If I lead you through the fury, will you call to me?”). Fleet Foxes songs have certainly been devastating before, but never has their sensation of warmth been so wrapped in uncertainty. The world has changed drastically since the days of Helplessness Blues. How do Fleet Foxes fit into a musical landscape where Bon Iver can make an electronic record and the Lumineers can sell out MSG? Fleet Foxes are literally out of the woods now that Pecknold resides in New York City, but they still choose to embrace nature’s aura. Instead of sounding like anachronisms, Pecknold and Skjelset dig into the past to find a way forward. On “Third of May / Ōdaigahara,” Fleet Foxes show that they can open themselves to an expanding world without losing themselves in the process. |
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| Fleet Foxes – Third of May/Odaigahara Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Ōdaigahara-san or Ōdaigahara-yama (大台ケ原山), also Hinode-ga-take or Hide-ga-take (日出ヶ岳) is a mountain in the Daikō Mountain Range and on the border between the prefectures of Mie and Nara, Japan. The mountain is the highest in Mie. In 1980 an area of 36,000 hectares in the region of Mount Ōdaigahara and Mount Ōmine was designated a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve. | |
| Deerhunter – Ad Astra Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Favorite song on the album. What a trip <3 | |
| Phantogram – Bill Murray Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Clinical depression personified? | |
| Father John Misty – Bored in the USA Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| compare/contrast: http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858788797/ | |
| Father John Misty – Misty's Nightmares 1 & 2 Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Great song. I read it as this being a narrative of his worst nightmare. He loses his hand in a fireworks accident then takes his life. What's really cool is the second half of the song is like he's narrating as if he's dead and his ghost is seeing what's going on. All his girlfriends coming into the funeral home while he is lying there.. he can't do anything.. he just watches along as a confused, motionless ghost. it's truly a mess. so dark FJM is amazing |
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| Flake Music – The Shins Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I absolutely love this song. So Shins! The way James Mercer re-released Flake Music in 2014 was amazing. I was a big Shins fan, and fan of 90's rock in general, to have this album whisk the airways 20 years later is a breath of fresh air. So uplifting. | |
| Lana Del Rey – The Other Woman Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Do you think Lana is 'the other woman'? | |
| Flake Music – Faded Polaroids Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This is not James Mercer singing this song. Does anyone know who is? | |
| Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| love this song... loved it so much I covered it: http://youtu.be/7QbKxVUJFts | |
| Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| love this song... loved it so much I covered it: http://youtu.be/7QbKxVUJFts | |
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