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| Pain (USA) – The Man Upstairs Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think the parents went out and hired the man upstairs to babysit, the kid's imagination is running wild and he sees the man as a killer coming to get him. So he goes after the guy when the cops bust in and they shoot him instead. |
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| Muse – Micro Cuts Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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To really gain an appreciation for the song, buy Hullabaloo and listen to the live version, disc 2 track 2. To not only record this song in studio, but to then do it live, oh man. The pipes on this guy are incredible. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – 1234 1234 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I had to listen to the album about 10 times before it hit me that you really shouldn't compare the two. They're by two almost completely different bands and thus carry almost two completely different meanings. I think the SM sound makes the album a lot more about introspection and reflection than the C22 version, which is about raw emotion and feeling. It's kind of like writing about a traumatic event the next day, and then 10 years later. They're really two seperate albums, both equally great, and I personally would create a hybrid of both to make the perfect-sounding album, as there are maybe 3 tracks on the original I think sound better, this being one of them. |
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| Muse – Sober Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Finally a song that combines my two loves, Muse and whiskey. I think the two hardest lines to figure out are why he keeps calling it solid, and why he's remained unfrozen. My experience with alcoholism, it's like the only thing that keeps you from dying (or so you feel) is having that first drink of the day. He then adds the irony of it "turning on me", because in fact, the drinking is what's killing you. It's in the same vein that it feels solid, because even thought the alcohol is a liquid, it's the only firm ground an alcoholic has to stand on. |
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| The Jam – Town Called Malice Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"This song is about Maggie Thatcher. Both this and going underground are statements against England going right wing and elected Thatcher. "
I doubt that about this. There's not much reference to conservatism in this, just about the hardships of life and how you have to get over them. It's real easy to peg everything written post-80 about Maggie, but it doesn't ring as true with these lyrics. |
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| Gimp – Supernothing Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I disagree, I think the Catch 22 version carries a lot more weight and emotion with it. |
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| Stiff Little Fingers – Barbed Wire Love Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"Caught when not suspecting vice
The night was rife with wasteland life"
Sounds like "suspect device" and "wasted life", two songs on the album before this track. Even more evidence Jake is a genius. |
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| Catch 22 – Supernothing Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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All the Kalnoky projects overlap, re:
Supernothing from Gimp to Catch 22
Keasbey Nights by Catch 22 to Point/Counterpoint in Streetlight
Dear Sergio and Here's to Life from Catch 22 and Streetlight (respective) to BOTAR
They Provide the Paint... sounds an awful lot like "If and When"
He's got a style and I love it. |
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| Bad Religion – Do What You Want Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's kind of hard to be a pseudo-intellectual when in fact you're a full blown intellectual. Greg Graffin just published his doctoral thesis, you can buy it on badreligion.com...so I guess he has a reason to know big words after all, eh? |
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| Bad Religion – The Defense Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I agree this is an awesome song, it would be my favorite and the best on any other album, but for the fact that it's on this one with such awesome tracks like Supersonic, Sorrow and Epiphany. This album is their best one, I feel. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – The Big Sleep Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This was the last song they played last night in Providence, RI (last song before encore) and my friends and I got to sing the last line, it was possibly the sweetest thing ever at any concert. What a fucking show. Then they came back and played If and When which broke into the Catch 22 classic 9mm and then back into If and When. Holy Crap. |
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| Ben Folds Five – Smoke Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"Here's an evening dark with shame
Throw it on the fire
here's the time I took the blame
Throw it on the fire
Here's the time we didn't speak
it seemed for years and years
Here's a secret
No one will ever know the
realsons for the tears
They are smoke"
These are the lines that really seals the meaning as the end of a relationship. Most people describe parts of their lives as chapters in a book, and here he is throwing those "pages" onto a fire, trying to forget the pain of the split. These lines are each memory he comes across and then tosses on the forgetful fire. If it were abou the Bible, what does the line about not speaking to someone for what seems like years have to do with anything? It's too much of a stretch for someone who writes rather literal songs. |
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| Social Distortion – Under My Thumb Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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These lyrics are wrong. These are the Stones' lyrics, but Mike changed them in the Social D version. Each line following "it's down to me..." is different. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – A Moment of Silence Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I saw them play this live in Providence, RI, last week. Before the song previous to this, Tomas had said the band had been sick and a little lacking in vocals, so the crowd would have to make up for it. So they finish that and start the intro to this, and they always pause for a little bit longer than the CD version before starting the first "A moment of silence please...". Well someone in the crowd started singing before they could, perfectly in time with the studio song, and he got about 3 words out on his own when everybody else joined in. The crowd sang the entire first chorus themselves as SM just watched in amazement. Tomas then paused the song a little later and said that it was "the first time that had ever happened...and it was fucking awesome". |
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| Muse – Thoughts of a Dying Atheist Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I'm gonna agree and say it's pretty obvious by the title, Muse doesn't go out of their way on Absolution to try and hide meaning. I also feel Absolution was Album of the Year, even though it probably won't win the award anywhere, nothing else was as good as a whole piece of music this year. The whole disc ties together in a theme which is something you don't see often, and this is my favorite track off it. |
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| Muse – Blackout Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I love the way they did this song in 3/4, much different from music you hear a lot nowadays |
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| Dropkick Murphys – Tessie Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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And if you actually bought the CD, stuck it in your computer, and watched the Music Video with the SING ALONG LYRICS AT THE BOTTOM, you'd see. I didn't post that until I had done so. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – A Moment of Silence Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It is about Catch 22, if you look at this and A Moment of Violence (the two songs being named similarly and having almost the same lines in them is not a coincidence) you can see that there's a certain order to them.
Violence is more of the immediate bitterness of the split, of feeling wronged and such, whereas this is more reflecting on it and trying to put it in the past.
"i bet they think we wish we joined when we could
but we do what we want we don't do what we should
now everybody's laughing because they're thinking they in on something i don't get"
now if you take it literally then it doesn't make sense, he was already in Catch 22, why would he have missed his opportunity to join? because its about how they think that he's getting the raw end of the deal, now that
"oh! to the west, you don't know what it is you're running from"
Catch 22 is touring the country (they're from Jersey so a national tour would have to take them west) it seems like they made it big while Streetlight is a lesser-known band.
"i don't know but i'd like to think i had control
at some point but i let it go and lost my soul"
he was once Ok with being in the band but then he feels like it wasn't heading to a good place where he thought it should be and left and now with Streetlight (and soon BOTAR) its better for him. |
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| Foo Fighters – Monkey Wrench Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Anyone ever consider that he's using monkey wrench as in the old addage "Throw a monkey wrench into the works"? Perhaps he's saying that he doesn't want to be a monkey wrench because he's tried of screwing things up with someone? |
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| Dropkick Murphys – The Spicy McHaggis Jig Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It was Ken Casey's grandfather that was from Ireland, and Al Barr wasn't the original lead, it was Mike McColgan, another Boston Irishman from the Dorchester neighborhood. (Aside: Check out Mike's band the Street Dogs, really really good.) |
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