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Sparklehorse – Painbirds Lyrics	1 year ago
@[painblanket:49450] there are also birds called “rainbirds” and this could be a play on that, as well. Instead of rainbirds, the speaker gets painbirds.

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Sparklehorse – Painbirds Lyrics	1 year ago
The painbirds are vultures, or carrion birds. They spiral down, like carrion birds, divide the flesh, typically finish off creatures who are still barely alive. Hopefully this gives some people more insight into this song. Perhaps somebody dying in the heat, waiting for rain. Run with it.

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My Bloody Valentine – Sometimes Lyrics

2 years ago

@[Exordiom:47915] yeah not sure where the whole "one night stand" thing keeps coming from. is this just some sort of internet interpretation that took off? same thing on other song meaning websites. there's legitimately nothing here that points towards a "one night stand" if anything this does definitely point towards unrequited love... which would go along with the entire rest of the album? the entire album is about unrequited love, to some degree. its literally called loveless. the whole thing is yearning.

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Elliott Smith – Alameda Lyrics

2 years ago

I would be extremely surprised if there were not multiple layers of meaning to this and Elliott often uses drugs as a vehicle to portray other human emotions. The thing I think everyone is missing here is that it's not about Elliott. This is one of the few times I think that Elliott is actually speaking about someone else when he says "you". The reason is because you can see he changes person a couple times in the song.. he literally says "the nightmares YOU wish could plague ME". He also says "I don't pay any attention" when talking about "she loved you for a minute or two". I think this is actually about a girl who doesn't seem to know what she wants, maybe hiding her real emotions to protect herself. So she is alone, but feels like someone broke her heart when really she's the one running.

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Elliott Smith – Alameda Lyrics

2 years ago

@[pretorben:47814] I very rarely comment, but it's not about Elliott. This is one of the few time's I think that Elliott is actually speaking about someone else when he says "you". The reason is because you can see he changes person a couple times in the song.. he literally says "the nightmares YOU wish could plague ME". He also says "I don't pay any attention" when talking about "she loved you for a minute or two". I think this is actually about a girl who doesn't seem to know what she wants, maybe hiding her real emotions to protect herself. So she is alone, but feels like someone broke her heart when really she's the one running.

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