| La Femme – Tu T'en Lasses Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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A song about two people who aren't on the same page and haven't been for years. He notices her weariness toward their relationship, wonders if someone else is waiting in the wings. He's all cried out and is tired of the fighting, the uncertainty, the lack of *connexion*. She responds by tossing him out with the trash. She feels like he was too busy for her, caught up in his own world, and she's done feeling like a second class outsider. That clarinet(?) at the end is the death rattle of the relationship. Perhaps it's the last fight the two will ever had, or maybe they're crying it out together. The words disappear into sounds and emotion to carry us through the end. |
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| Fat White Family – Rock Fishes Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I'm giving this my best shot based on the lyrics and what little I know about this excellent band... I think this song is the band flexing on other "lesser" bands who churn out subpar pop music, comparing them to a rockfish, which hides among the rocks and has an unimpressive, mild flavor. The song laments the state of music today. The singer is lazing about in the shade, attempting to cure his hangover with Lucozade, and he doesn't want to be bothered. Meanwhile, the rock fishes are exhibiting to their fans a purportedly "party hard" lifestyle, but it's really just a hollow representation, evident by their flat music (give em all the pop but take away the fizz). The only line that stumps me is "Is this Rome, Babylone, or ancient Belfast", which I think alludes to general feelings of "downfall", or the waning quality of music. Tonight the band is going to eat the rock fishes, which I interpret as them showing them what REAL music is, what the REAL "party hard" musician lifestyle is. By releasing better music than those other bands and living their lives righteously, they're having them for lunch. The singer doesn't even consider the rock fishes to be competition. His songs outshine them all. I think the lines about liking where he's at and not wanting to go back South means he wants to avoid the music industry in London and its vapidity. The industry baits you with lies and uses you as a work horse while they get rich off your creativity. Again, the quality of music is on the decline. And once again, they're going to eat these rock fishes. |
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| Asobi Seksu – Thursday Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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One of those beautiful songs I come back to every few years. To me, it's very clearly about the end of a relationship.You can choose your definition of "relationship", but I see a straightforward song about the end of a romantic partnership. The song conveys feelings of hopefulness and desperation. She's entering the beginning of the end. She searches for him. She yearns for him. She's hopeful and nostalgic. She blames him for letting it all fall apart. He's "lost his way", whether that means he's strayed or he's letting her slip away. She just can't help but think of him. She turns to desperation, and some anger. She cries out for this missing person, distraught that he's not there when she needs him most. She longs to hold him again. Once again, she blames him. The music is louder and more intense to show her growing frustration. He did this, he let the whole thing falter, and yet here she is still wanting him. I'm uncertain what the final lines mean, especially since the male singer sings them with her. Is he telling her that she's just as bad as him? Is he asking for empathy? Is it he who wants *her* to whistle through her window, to call for him despite his behavior? Is he yearning for her just as much. Is she just imaginging that he feels this way? Her ghostly moans at the very end convey a sense of mourning, of acceptance. |
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| Whitey – The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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In the first verse, he's talking about a time of perceived stability. Everything is "plain", even, flat, dull. He thought he could "see the light", meaning something on the horizon. Maybe it's something he's been searching for. Or maybe it's something he's terrified of. Whatever it is, it brings with it change. He confirms that he did see that light, that "distant glow". Is he afraid of it? Is he at peace with it? Either way, he sounds resigned to the fact that the symbolic oncoming train is inevitable. What "keeps on moving on" could be these events that inevitably pop up on the horizon, barreling at and threatening his status quo. Or it maybe it's him who keeps on moving on, engaged in the perpetual cycle of change, continuing to buy the ticket and take the ride. Either way, "too long" hints at him lamenting these events and his part in them. He waits for this steadily approaching event, semi-frozen. Should he stop it? Should he adapt? Should he fight it? Anything he's tried has failed, so he gives up and accepts his fate. He can't stop this train. He repeats the second verse to show how the first train has come and gone, and now another arrives. The cycle repeats. Whatever his failures last time, he's given the next opportunity to make up for them. He doesn't comment on whether or not this is a good thing, or what he can do differently this time, but only that it is. Once again, he laments the inevitable cycle of change, of struggle, of opportunity, of uncertainty. Here is a man lost in the flux of the universe, whether he likes it or not. |
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| Final Body – Lose Health Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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This is the second time I submitted correct lyrics and the LyricFind service posted the absolute WRONG lyrics. Somehow, Body Count - The Winner Loses got posted. The correct lyrics I posted were: Let me know that you notice me I've been roaming round your house at night I'm just a lover in the city lights Mmmm mm mm In a manner of speaking It's design As a matter of fact I reached her As a matter of fact I'm in hell Provided by distance(?) As a matter of fact I lose health Even now you will keep this secret Even though there's this confusion I feel I'm just a roaming round your city light Oooh oh oh I'm just a manner of speaking It's design As a matter of fact I reached her As a matter of fact I'm in hell Provided by distance(?) As a matter of fact I lose health Let me know that you notice me Mmmm mm mm |
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| Washed Out – Amor Fati Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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First, I think these lyrics are pretty close, with the exception of "faith" in the chorus actually being "fate" (Amor *Fati*), "forget" should be "forgive", and "thoughts" should be "flaws". But who knows, this is a very busy song, I could be way off! This song is beautiful and one of my favorites. To me, it's about embracing both the inevitability of your fate and also active role in creating it. Essentially, your fate is already laid out, but you are indeed making the choices that construct it as your life goes on. "Don't try to fight, what's not your fault" is telling the listener, off the bat, to ignore everything that's out of your control because obsessing over it won't change anything. "Let go, reach out, the choice is yours, to find" focuses your back on the actual choices laid out before you. Make this choice, or make that choice--it's up to you. "To find" is thrown in at the end to underscore the singer's belief that your choices are just as much about finding out what you're *supposed* to be doing as they are about what you think you should do based on your own volition. "Inside you've got, the light to guide, your fate decides, the world you're going, to find" again touches on the dichotomy of having your fate laid out in front of you and your role in creating its circumstances. The "light to guide" can be thought of as either the mysterious force of "fate" guiding us with its magical power or our thought processes that lead us to the decisions we make--but regardless of how you view it, these two meanings are one and the same. And from our actions a new world is created. "Relax, slow down, let hope, decide, even though he's hard to forgive, when you can't stop falling down, just know your flaws and know that, you'll be alright in time" is reassuring the listener to never stop hoping for the best even when nothing works out the way you want and you make seemingly terrible mistakes. "Know your flaws" (learn from your mistakes) and let time heal your wounds. We have no idea what fate has in store for us. It leads us down unforeseen paths to different worlds. But we dohave control over certain aspects of it, and we should focus on those aspects rather than the others over which we have no control. And when we screw up, we should learn from it rather than getting down on ourselves. |
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| Babes – You and Me Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I submitted the correct lyrics and tried to update them after finding this issue, but the admins won't change them back to the correct ones. These are not the lyrics to Babes - You and Me. Below are the actual lyrics: I am unlucky In love when I say I'm alone I can feel that you Understand What I mean 'Cause there's something Between us Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes I wasn't searching For love 'til I say you Around and I felt you were just Who I want To be with 'Cause there's something Between us Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes You could be the sun burning in my sky You could be the moon that lights up with my eye Always and always Always and always Always and always Always and always It's you and me It's you and me It's you and me It's you and me |
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| Babes – Isn't It Love Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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| Mazzy Star – Look On Down From The Bridge Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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To me, this song is told from the perspective of someone who has recently died and is traveling the "bridge" from Earth to Heaven (or your choice of skyward afterlife). She's looking down on those that she's leaving behind. The "fountains" are the tears wept by her loved ones, the rain could be literal or her own tears. Everyone wants to be free from the pain, which she compares to when someone leaves home (thus abandoning their loved ones in a way). She wants them to move on ("look away from the sky"), but acknowledges that it is indeed different, especially since she can't literally say goodbye to them. So she says it anyway, knowing that they won't hear her. She tries to cover their pain from herself by blocking them out with her hands and closing her eyes. The "light in your eyes" is the life that they still have and she's reminding them that they must go on living it, then acknowledges that they indeed know this, even if it's not a reassuring thought to them. She looks at them one more time and says that she's waiting for them, the ultimate reassurance to herself, that they will one day join her in the great beyond. |
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