| Beach House – Common Girl Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| From the Men's Journal article Demystifying Ayahuasca: "You face jaguar woman, and as you suckle at her breast, she throws you off into a pit of vipers." After you survive this journey you feel changed. You are changed. But as you continue on with your life you realize your existence is just as mundane as it was before. Throughout your daily routine you see the jaguar woman's totems everywhere you look, but you know you're in the same common town and you are the same common person that you were before you faced her. Ultimately it falls on you to fulfill the promises she made to you in your dream journey. | |
| Beach House – She's So Lovely Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| This should be the theme song of the The Women's Visionary Congress. | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Five Easy Pieces Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Yes, this song alone proves this album is definitely underrated. But I submitted this edit to the lyrics: Rimbaud SAMO Those lyrics make this song even better. |
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| Cat Power – We All Die Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Here you go sayin’ that she's out Here you go, marriage and kids and drug addiction All the lies aside I believe I am the luckiest person alive Hell, we all die sometimes Hell, we all try somewhere Money always sees Money always draws the lines Hope you can see through the beggars and the pleaders Do you happen to know where I am from? I'm lost and left sore far from home Far from home Do you happen to know where I am from? I'm lost far from Mom All the lies aside I believe I am the luckiest person alive Hell, we all die sometimes Hell, we all try somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, somewhere Stand on my knees so I can see yours, standing on my hands I found my way home, standing on my head… This song is about someone ending an adulterous relationship because they realized that it made them feel lost, sore, and dead. But now they feel lucky because they were able get out of the demeaning situation. They turned it upside-down and found their way back home. |
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| Sky Ferreira – Omanko Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Pitchfork: "Omanko" is one of the more dissonant songs on the album. How did that one come about? SF: Justin and I were messing around, and we were like, "We like Suicide, let's do a Suicide song for fun." Then we were like, "Wait, it's actually kind of good." So we put it on the record. Pitchfork: That song takes its title from Japanese slang for female genitalia—are you worried about people thinking that you're just going for shock value? SF: Oh, I'm sure. People take anything I do the wrong way. [laughs] I tend to bring out the love/hate thing with a lot of people. It's fine. |
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| Panda Bear – Tropic of Cancer Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Noah Lennox really loved his dad. Noah said this about him in an interview, "He was a surgeon, but in 2002 he got brain cancer and died. My first solo record, Young Prayer, was all about him. He was the biggest influence on my life and his death still affects me now." Dave Portner, Noah's band mate, directed the video for Tropic of Cancer. It's like Animal Collective re-shot the last scene of the 1982 movie "White Dog." But instead of the dog representing racism, the dog in the video represents cancer. It's owner, whom I presume to be Death, let's the dog loose and it literally tears the panda family apart. But Noah and Dave depict the heartbreaking event in a beautiful, serene manner. The parade is over but I don't think there could be a better eulogy for Noah's dad than this song and video. It's easy to be bitter about losing a family member to cancer. In a weird way, listening to the lyrics of this song and watching the video has brought me a little more peace. | |
| Seu Jorge – Chatterton Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Here's how the Internet translates the lyrics: Chatterton, suicide Kurt Cobain, suicide Vargas, suicide Nietzsche, crazy And I I am not going any better Chatterton, suicide Cléopatra, suicide Isocrates, suicide Goya, crazy And I I am not going any better Chatterton, suicide Marc-Antoine, suicide Van Gogh, suicide Schumann, crazy And I Holy shit! I am not going any better ... I just hope Seu Jorge didn't intend this song to be foreboding. |
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| Cloud Control – Dream Cave Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think during the last 170 seconds of this song I heard the sounds of his (wet) dream for his darling. | |
| Glass Animals – Cocoa Hooves Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The narrator is the old goat. He just woke up. He packs a fat oom paul to jib and make home-baked perfume. You know how he feels... sooooooo good... like his hooves are made of pure cocoa. He's straight up jibbin'. Now what? The kitchen. He heads downstairs, reheats yesterday's coffee, and sits there in his pajamas sipping the brew. It's doing the job and everything's comfy. His woman walks in. She's fixing up her hair in some silly hipster fashion. But he's digging it. Uh oh. She's riled up about the plumbing again. "Those damn plumbers didn't fix the faucet!" Her whining is killing his buzz. All he's concerned with right now is her boobs. He wonders, "Why doesn't this hermit-woman play with bows and arrows no more? Where's the passion?" Yeah, she's right at home in this quiet domestic life. But he knew her when she was a freak. They'd get so crazy in his little apartment playing cowboys and Indians. When the futon started knocking against the wall she would hush him for the sake of the neighbors. Now they've got this nice quiet life. But he's not down with it. He wistfully stares out the window at their dewy lawn. Man, they had some wild times... A century passes and he snaps out of it. He looks back at her and thinks about how she still makes him want to dance like an invalid. But she's still bitchin' about the plumbers. He wants her to get worked up over him, not the plumbers! She idly touches her chest and he loses it. He wants her to dominate him right there on the kitchen floor. His eye is huge now. He's flying high but he'd let her burn his wings right off. C'mon hermit... | |
| Leonard Cohen – A Street Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This man comes up with the greatest lyrics. To me this sounds like he's reminiscing about his lost American idealism (post-Vietnam), or his lost true love (post-sobriety). Regardless of what he's yearning for, this poem hits home. I'd raise a glass with Leonard any day. | |
| The Glove – Mr. Alphabet Says Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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From the reissued CD liner notes: Severin remembers the sessions as, "Pretty insane. There was an ongoing 'happening' in Britannia Row [Studios]... Marc Almond's band would be there, the Associates, John McGeoch... it was like a mainline train station. We recorded from 6 pm to 6 am, then Robert and I would go back to my flat and watch video nasties!" But even the video nasties - Bad Timing, Videodrome, The Evil Dead, etc. - formed part of The Glove's master plan. The idea was that by drowning themselves in acid and junk culture the pair would produce the kind of mental disorientation essential to the creation of genuinely psychedelic music. |
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| Nirvana – Marigold Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I can't believe how much BS people try to spread here. MYTH: "Kurt played drums, Dave Bass and Chris guitar." Sorry but the home video that shows Kurt playing the drums is not proof that he played the drums on the 1993 recording. Nobody has ever claimed that Kurt is on the 1993 recording of this song. If he was you'd think Dave or Krist would set the record straight but Dave only says Kurt worked on the harmony with him. Anyway, I hope the following information pushes the discussion of this song a little closer to reality... Lyrics of the original 1990 recording as heard on disc 2 of the 2013 reissue of “In Utero”: She's there in case I want it all He's scared because I want She's there in case I want it all He's scared because I want All in all the clock is slow Six color pictures all in a row Of a marigold From Wikipedia: "Marigold" was originally recorded by Dave Grohl during a session at Upland Studios in Arlington, Virginia with producer Barrett Jones on December 23, 1990, taking place just several months after Grohl joined Nirvana. The session was executed in a similar way to how the Foo Fighters debut album would later be conceived, with all vocal and instrumental parts done solely by Grohl. With “Late!” as the moniker, the session was combined with four songs recorded in the summer of 1991 to create the album Pocketwatch, released on Simple Machines in 1992 as part of the labels Tool Cassette Series. In February 1993, Grohl entered Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, Minnesota with bandmates Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic to record what would eventually become In Utero, the third and final studio album from Nirvana, produced by Steve Albini. Towards the end of the session, Grohl decided to re-record "Marigold," this time with a more detailed arrangement including bass and drums. Like the “Late!” version, lead and backing vocals and guitar were done by Grohl who also recorded the drum parts. Although Novoselic contributed bass, it has been said that Cobain was absent during the production of "Marigold" despite exhaustive rumors insisting his involvement singing backing vocal and playing either drums or guitar. From David Fricke’s 9/24/13 interview of Dave Grohl for Rolling Stone (http://rol.st/1CqWamP): D.F.: Were you surprised that Kurt wanted to record your song "Marigold" during the In Utero sessions? It is the only original song on a Nirvana record that he didn't have any hand in writing. D.G.: I wrote that on the four-track machine at the house. He was in his room. I didn't want to wake him. So I would record things, whispering quietly into a microphone. I was recording the vocal harmony to the chorus of that song, and the door opened. He goes, "What's that?" "It's just this thing I wrote." "Let me hear it." We sat there and played it a few times. I would do the high harmony, he would do the low harmony. It's funny writing songs with other people. I've never done that. I write songs [for Foo Fighters] and then the band plays them with me. But sitting face to face with someone, that's another trip. I don't know if he had ever done that either. It was like an uncomfortable blind date. "Oh, you sing too? Let's harmonize together." I was kind of shy back then too. I was very flattered. But I remember, I think it might have been Steve [Albini] who said, "'Marigold' should maybe be on the album." I was terrified [laughs]. No, no, wait. It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? "Hey, I wrote a song." |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The lyrics of "Push the Sky Away" remind me more of "Fight" by The Cure. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I did cocaine once; never again. I can definitely relate to this song, especially: Doctor, Doctor I'm going mad This is the worst day I've ever had I can't remember Ever feeling this bad |
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| Fleetwood Mac – When I See You Again Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This must be the saddest post-breakup songs ever. "So she walks slowly down the hall There are many doors in the hallway And she stares at the stairs Ooh there are many things to stare at these days" I imagine this part is about her remembering how he packed up all his stuff that was in the rooms and he walked up the stairs and out the door, leaving her alone in the hallway... and I also imagine it is a metaphor for how she has many options, or doors, to pursue in her life now, but she's so depressed that she just wants out, only contemplating the "exit." |
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| Kings of Leon – Wait For Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Lyrics from the CD booklet: Cut open my heart right at the scar and loosen up Gonna do what I'm told go where I'm told and loosen up Take a shot in the rain one for the pain and loosen up I tried all the way Wait for me, wait for me It's all better now, it's all better now Wait for me, wait for me Going to soften the blow soften the blow and give it up I saw the surprise the look in your eyes I gave it up Gonna be who I am be who I am and give it up I tried all the way To me this song sounds like a guy is trying to deal with a problem he's been avoiding by drowning it in alcohol. Maybe he's been dealing with depression/anxiety/stress by drinking. He admits he used to take a "shot" for the pain, but he's promising that he'll take people's advice and be sober. He asks for patience; it takes a long time to earn back the trust of your loved-ones who are hurt the most by your alcoholism. |
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