| American Football – Never Meant Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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haha, tastemaker: well, by chance I'm checking this many many years after I posted that original comment; well, I still feel about the same way. Yes, I know this is, like, 7-8 years later? Incredible what a bored night of reclaiming internet accounts can yield! cheers |
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| Animal Collective – For Reverend Green Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| oh, and it's about losing touch with the self | |
| Animal Collective – For Reverend Green Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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First, someone should really change the listed version as the lyrics are terribly, horribly wrong (refer to the correct ones on page 2). Secondly, I don't think there is much of a case for this song being about money in a broader sense, save for the reference to a child's dollar, and the arbitrary 'Reverend Green', which presumably refers to Al Green (has AC ever needed a reason for anything?). ---- A running child's bloody with burning knees A careless childs money flew in the trees A camping child's happy with winter's freeze A lucky child don't know how lucky he is ---- The running child runs because the joy of running supersedes the hurt of bloody knees; A careless child's money flies in the trees because the child isn't consumed with protecting it, because it's only a piece of paper, because while it might be upsetting for a second, the child has some innate understanding that the man-made things we buy are only worth a meager little piece of man-made paper which could just as easily burn, tear, dissolve, or disappear into a tree (unlike joy, creativity, family, etc.); A winter's freeze doesn't bother a child who is simply happy to be outside in the elements, free of disappointment and expectations (an adult would curse the Gods for ruining their rare leisure time); Kids are lucky simply for not realizing how lucky they are, a baby smiles easily (and cries just as easily) because babies live in the moment and aren't weighted down by anxiety and bullshit of tainted adult souls (at least not yet). The chorus/refrain represents relief from the anxiety of adult-life and celebrates the simplicity of singing a song, playing music with friends, breaking from the morbidity of life to live in the present and take things as they come, like a child (sometimes we don't feel human; it's not a disorder, it's the natural reaction of a sensitive being to our modern insensitive state of being). At least two members (Avey and Panda) are new parents, which explains quite a bit of this album and this song in particular. They've probably been reminded, through interaction with their children, how simple and innocent life should be, and how much joy we can find in those basic elements we cannot change, as long as we maintain the right perspective: good-humour, patience, curiosity, unbridled enthusiasm for what we love, etc. Most likely the song is about losing your childlike innocence and growing older into the disappointments and drudgery of adult life. But it's a celebration of the simple things. To get biblical, those who enter Heaven are the ones who have the faith of a child: that things will work out, that they aren't as bad as our world makes them seem. And truly, considering the world we live in, this is a pretty wise observation. To transcend the bullshit we have to find a way to live outside of it, like children, like artists, like pure human beings. |
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| Animal Collective – For Reverend Green Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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addriennaline - thank you animal collective has done all of the work for you guys (all thirty-plus who cared to comment). why continue to make shoddy stabs at something with an attainable answer? |
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| Animal Collective – For Reverend Green Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| the album was recorded in arizona (yes, they're from NYC). don't you people read interviews/biographies/liner notes? | |
| Animal Collective – Cuckoo Cuckoo Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| these lyrics are incorrect. if you had purchased the actual album (whose lyrics are in the liner notes) you would know that. instead of guessing, get it right please. | |
| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i don't think it has anything to do with teasing someone you're obsessed with... from what i gather, it's a lament; waiting for morning to wake the ones you love is all you've got left. It's too late to call, so we'll trust that in the morning that the people we care for will still be alive. but at every occasion, and at any time you're prepared for a funeral, prepared for the age when your loved ones start to die off. |
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| The Dismemberment Plan – The Face of the Earth Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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HOLY SHIT, 66exeter! YOU ARE A DUMBFUCK, STOP POSTING BAD LYRICS! Someone re-post as follows: as kisses go, it wasn't anything out of the ordinary, the alkaline lips, the fingers hooked around my belt. she had to go, she took a step back in and then she started to smile, i heard a funny sound and then everything seemed to shift... A crazy wail, a funny shutter of a bad magnetic event, a ghost ran through us, Moving like a shadow of a cloud... I wasn't sure, I thought that something happened but I didn't know what, the moment seemed to fade, And I turned my eyes back to her.. t hat's when I saw, I freeze the look of pre-alert and study it still, her smile starts to loosen, her pupils yawn wide and then she's blown... from the face of the earth. There wasn't any wind, no noise, no nothing just a body jerked skyward, limbs flailing like an unloved marionette, at impossible speed, receding away like a far away dot...I can see her still, scream for help but no one answered... she turned end on end like a long lost astronaut, I felt the summer air reclaim me, the chirp of a bird, the whisper of leaves, And I was frozen... to the face of the earth. I never really knew the way she lived her life, I thought that something happened but she never called back, I didn't know her family or friends at all... With no one to call, summer turned into fall, I gave up... It's been a couple years and I guess I'm fine with it, It's not like we were married It was three or four months, And nothing's really different Though it seems like I've spent My life in planes, Which is kind of strange, But I don't know....... yeah, yeah, yeah, No, no, yeah |
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| The Dismemberment Plan – Come Home Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this 66exeter guy is a douche. what the fuck kind of transcription is that? fucker. | |
| The Dismemberment Plan – 8.5 Minutes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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the nukes were launched because the sun died: "kickstart something", with the heat and the energy of nuclear power. He's not a scientist, he's a musician; whether 8.5 minutes is or isn't an accurate figure is entirely irrelevant. Further proof: "On the other hand, oh, it's fucking freezing..." -- no sun? exactly. Travis certainly has a way with words, it's true. |
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| Owen – Gazebo Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I'm glad that someone recognized the Salinger reference. I was struck immediately as soon as I read the short story, I could hardly believe the parallel. | |
| Les Savy Fav – The End Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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nothing to do with women and relationships. Les Savy Fav has a modern decay theme, this is about scientific advances enabling the old to become young again (for only the price of happiness) |
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| Les Savy Fav – One Way Widow Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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terrible interpretation. It's about an old, wealthy widow trying to preserve her youthful appeal through artificial means. "The end result is still the same, you can't go back the way you came." - Impending death, you'll never return to the glorious days of fresh beauty and smooth skin. It's about aging gracelessly. |
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| Les Savy Fav – Dishonest Don, Pt. II Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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it's about white-collar, middle-class america. believing what you're told and questioning nothing other than, "how much?" "praying to mary...hoping she'll take us back for the very last time" - begging forgiveness for every misdeed, but reoffending ad nauseum, etc. |
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| Les Savy Fav – Asleepers Union Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i think it's about a deadly virus being transmitted via human contact, and the sheer chaos that would ensue. + social statement. | |
| Hot Snakes – 10th Planet Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I can't help but think it's in reference to people such as leahtard, using internerd scene phrases like, "this song is sex." Rick Froberg doesn't give a fuck about your dueling swallow tattoos or which cosmetic paste you blackened your hair with, kthnx. This song is best listened to in tandem with "I Hate the Kids". | |
| Hot Snakes – I Hate The Kids Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Only 20 and I feel these guys' frustration. If fashioncore dies down, no one will shed a tear. | |
| Broken Social Scene – Stars and Sons Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| those lyrics are totally fucking wrong. they're cryptic because they make no sense grammatically. | |
| Black Eyes – someone has his fingers broken Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Hardly. It speaks of intolerance in modern day america/world. Whether in the desert or in the city, the reactionaries are the same. Secret kiss = adultery (infidelity) second sex = sexual deviancy public faith = declaration of an off-kilter creed second skin = stealing identities. test results = tests? AIDS perhaps, etc. People die for no reason, here in America. Here in everywhere. |
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| Modest Mouse – Bankrupt on Selling Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I like when someone (blurppi) offers a great explanation, and then someone else (are you in) offers a terrible one despite what they should have just read. Long story short, we're material beings. We're fundamentally greedy and essentially selfish. The rest is assumed, in lieu of the aforementioned. ultimately, I think the song is about the entropy of human priority (devolving, as it were). All of us, even the educated and informed, are just products of the type of environment we've been weaned on. And it's just a facade based on our expectations and standards (life cumulative). Who needs it? It's all bullshit, and bullshit makes us unpleasant and angry, drives us to drown the anger with a bottle, etc. |
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| Modest Mouse – Convenient Parking Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song is obviously not about migration, at least in the conventional sense. It's about a blacktop world, and our viral chains of traffic bleeding out onto the highways that are crowding out the life that once occupied our land like. Our vehicular lifestyle is like a disease spreading through the veins and overpowering the white blood cells. It's more than evident, through other lyrical examples (cowboy dan, for one), that Modest Mouse is opposed to development and sprawl. This song is just an ironic take on the concrete jungle we're creating here in our "Modern World". As the parking lots grow larger and spew the traffic out onto roadways in some circuitous attempt to move human cargo, our hearts constrict and become smaller, and our minds absorb less life and more automation (no pun intended). |
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| Modest Mouse – Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Fuck off, cock-suckers. There is the literal world, then there is the metaphorical/figurative world. His inclusion of another person is just an addition to his already confusing life. Tying the noose too tight probably refers to getting himself into hot water with those around him. | |
| Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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that "one person" was me. Damn, I nailed that shit. And it IS issaquah. I live in snohomish. It's nice, but I'm sure S.A.D. is a problem with younger children in this area. |
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| Les Savy Fav – Adopduction Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I relate on a 'my parents being frugal with ransoms' kind of level | |
| The Appleseed Cast – Storms Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| In other words, it's a sampled voice track. | |
| The Appleseed Cast – Rooms And Gardens Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I believe they already have, one*name...I hope they didn't leave you out of the loop? | |
| Braid – Forever Got Shorter Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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haha, the Dismemberment plan was belting out creative jewels around the same time that your namesake was making legitimate music (I'll help you out...early 90's). Labels are for people with knowledge on musical history, not for cute little internet aliases (aww...you cry a lot?). You know where you stand? You must like emo music...right? I can't even stress how heinous your statement about TDP is, though. According to your list of favorites, you have absolutely nothing credible, creative, original, or even remotely emo involved. How on earth can you even compare those groups to a band of Dismemberment Plan's caliber and notoriously respectable D.C. background? Chris Carabba was potty-training when The Plan were releasing their first album...and you were probably still nursing at your mother's teat like a little chimpanzee. "i am NOT emo. i am nothing." Generally people with the DIY mindset don't label themselves according to genres. I guess it's true what they say about simple minds. You can only truly appreciate that which your mind has a capacity to absorb. Your insular viewpoints are a throbbing incentive to never return to the free-sharing forums of arcane indie-pop. And one last question: How would breaking my fingers affect my ability to verbalize opinions? You think the internet is my sole haven for bombastic reprimands? Peace...console yourself with both soft pillow and soft music. Don't be concerned with perplexity that you can't possibly ascertain (coupled with lyrical content that exceeds your plane). |
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| Beulah – Silver Lining Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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it has nothing to do with a girlfriend. the "relationship" scenario is merely a metaphor for his roots or background in music. It's about the decline of luster and popularity of punk. |
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| Q And Not U – Hooray For Humans Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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hell yeah, man. anyone with a college education and a drug-problem can write interesting lyrics. It's simply an established musical fact. But that in no way detracts from the music that is played...obviously. Just don't blindly laud a band for achieving a certain level of incoherence with their writing. He could be communicating a point, or he could be devising word structure for the strict use of aural appeal. Anyhow...my point is even lost on me, so I'll excuse myself quietly through the backdoor. |
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| Q And Not U – Nine Things Everybody Knows Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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The lyrics invoke images of the scene in Traffic where the bourgeois children of the D.C. area are all conversating while engrossed in drugs. I think it's somewhat of a social commentary on the decay of popular American culture, and the perpetual downward spiral Western Civilization is experiencing. Or it could be a blanket statement enveloping dilitant, 'aristrocrat', and politician. Dereliction is not confined simply to the impoverished sectors of the American populace, but has always been seen evident in all aspects of society. Even the rich and the noble are susceptible to suicide, immorality, and self-destruction, despite the high pedestal that so defines that particular social bracket. Well, that's my countless countless change, anyway. |
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| Q And Not U – Hooray For Humans Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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:OR: a little bit too much alcohol. But take your pick, because either scenario comes to a close with your foot on my chest and your finger in a dominant and degrading position inside of my asshole. Leave the psychoanalysis for those whom you have met face to face, rather than over white screens opposing. That excerpt was an impromptu attempt at displaying the ease of writing contrived "abstract" lyrics; so if you assumed that I had put some thought into it, consider yourself corrected. I'm just so fucking tired of people jockeying for position in the "compliment line" whenever they encounter something that they don't understand. Because it is incomprehensible doesn't mean that it is innovative and profound. They lyrics are a sweet filler, but to me, they have no particular use other than mere compliment. "You can't put a price on over-the-top bombast". One thing you can always count on are rave reviews when someone feels inferior. (or the opposite, in Joan of Arc's case) |
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| The Dismemberment Plan – The City Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| I love the pseudo-techno beat that this song is fitted to. It's so fucking different. | |
| Braid – Forever Got Shorter Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Dashboard and Something Corporate are most definitely emo, aren't they EmoKiddie? You know what you're talking about, right? Bandage your fucking mouth, you silly idiot. And they have gotten back together, under the less appropriate guise of Hey Mercedes (it's fundamentally the same band, for what it's worth, minus the kick-ass dual vocalists). |
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| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Another Morning Stoner Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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For all of you anti "EMO-kid" assholes, get it right. Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Shudder to Think, Hot Cross, Jawbox, Jawbreaker. THAT was emo. Sorry to nitpick. If you are going to be condescending, at least be correct. |
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| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Totally Natural Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| The last stanza describes the reality underneath the act. Loneliness, alcoholism, suicide, death, panic/anxiety. That is the real scenario, despite outward perfection. | |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Relative Ways Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Who the fuck wants to listen to Journey? Yeah, you should check out "Joe Schmo" from fucking White Snake. .... Trail of Dead rules ass, as do Explosions in the Sky. Some great symphonic drone rock here. |
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| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Prince With A Thousand Enemies Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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and so fucking irrelevant. Question: Why pick this particular section of the site to post that bullshit on? |
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| Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| I am pretty fucking confident that this song has nothing to do with a girlfriend or ex-relation...but then again, I don't claim to understand what occurs inside of Isaac Brock's head (the last show I went to, he was screaming "don't hate the shepard", or some variation on that, for about ten minutes after his band walked off of the stage...the guy was fucking psychotic or posessed or something) | |
| Joan of Arc – Post Coitus Rock Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| It would be much harder to get someone to listen to Joan of Arc. | |
| Koufax – Living Alone Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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OK, first of all it is "and that derives from living alone". and then it says " I'm sorry if I haven't said I'm sorry to you..." Finally, it is "and that's the only price for living alone" I don't understand your lyrical suppositions...they aren't even logical. |
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| Xiu Xiu – I Broke Up (SJ) Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I think it's cake :) and "Penguins in a dress" as opposed to engines are a mess. But I hear what I want to... Discovered these guys...who knows exactly where, but they have provided satiation in the "insane-gothic experimental death-ballad" category of my record collection. God bless inaudible background sreaming. |
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| Q And Not U – Hooray For Humans Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Rapture with mahogany tears, we'll take a breath and then murder these vocal chords with sweet gasoline and ether. Politic with the president, a sacred word with a dying heart, my eyes bleed gasoline and ignite lips, an unending dialogue with the demons on the clothesline. -- Pure skills, baby. Maybe this guy is just penning gibberish...don't overestimate the verbatum of a young band. By the way, hype aside, I love these guys like a little brother with a bad haircut...though, admittedly, I do prefer Fever Sleeves. |
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| Pretty Girls Make Graves – If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| By the way, I would love to see someone post lyrics to "Liquid Courage". That song is stupentacidular. | |
| Pretty Girls Make Graves – If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| You assume that the person the persona refers to is a male? I would think otherwise, unless "he" happens to be the "girl with the ice cream cone". Maybe he's like really into Will and Grace. | |
| Minus the Bear – Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| ahh, that would explain the "park bench that's older than my country" line. Quite an astute observation, actually. | |
| Minus the Bear – Thanks for the Killer Game of Crisco Twister Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| hahahahaha.....those guys..God I love the guitarwork. Sometimes I get up and dance, and pretend like I'm under the influence of intoxicants....(sigh) | |
| Hot Snakes – Salton City Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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The driving bassline in this song absolutely kicks my ass every time. It's a low rumble, the thunderous boom of punk being reinvented by a bunch of well-traveled musicians. |
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| The Dismemberment Plan – The Face of the Earth Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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This song reminds me of an ultra-hip art gallery, you know, a fucking chic coffeeshop or jazz club. I'm not sure where the similarities lie, but there is just this stylish vibe. The subject matter furthers my point...it's an abstract and almost 'collegiate' manner of addressing a relationship where the female simply left, with virtually no notification or explanation...like she was blown completely off of the face of the earth. The aftertaste resulted in something similar to "a quizzical expression suspended on confounded cheeks". I don't know man....it's just so fucking ethereal, the song is excellent. |
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| American Football – Honestly? Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Yeah...much like how "rap", and "metal", and "indie-rock" are also terrible names for musical genres. The POINT IS that you should at least have some sense of history and knowledge of the roots before you blatantly misuse a word the refers to a genre THAT ACTUALLY DOES EXIST!! There are specific bands who coined this categorization...it bleeds historical importance, primarily the new direction that punk and hardcore went during the late 80's and early nineties. Another thought: where would we be without categorizations? We have broad terms so that we can organize better, be more efficient, relate to others, and save ourselves the trouble of longwinded explanations (like this one) directed towards those who have no clue what a band sounds like. Sorry for this...I hate to run those with prior knowledge once more through the gamut, but I just can't stand musical ignorance, regardless of whether the larger purpose intended is "tolerance". Get it right, then make your case. This is from one music fan to others. |
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| American Football – Letters and Packages Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Nothing beats listening to this song while summer driving and having a smoke. So.Fucking.Beautiful. |
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