| Josh Garrels – SISU Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Absolutely amazing song! I know what he's talking about here... And the fact that he raps over a banjo plunking beat is pretty unusual and cool... |
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| Josh Garrels – Over Oceans Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| What beautiful lyrics! | |
| The Early November – A Little More Time Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is one of my favourite pop songs of all time | |
| Jason Upton – When You Were A Child Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Such a lovely song. The whole album 'Remember' is amazing | |
| The Decemberists – From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't know why I assume it's a woman, I just automatically do. Everyone does. Weird. Great song. It sounds very... nautical. |
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| The Decemberists – Like a Lion Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Where can you get this song free online? Or do you just mean off a P2P program? | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"and i don't even care to shake these zipper blues and we don't know just where our bones will rest to dust i guess forgotten and absorbed into the earth below" These lyrics are some of the best I've ever heard about teenage, about the excitement, the boredom, the restlessness and the emptiness and the optimism. This song IS the teenage years, from the album that is definitely the soundtrack to my teenage years. Even more so if you've seen the video. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bodies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Love is suicide". How very emo and ahead of its time! ;-) This song is so fucking angry and explosive... the last time thru the chorus which then goes into the "love is suicide" bridge... damn, it's the best angry moment I can think of in any song off the top of my head... |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Cupid De Locke Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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emotion engine, I think 'Cupid de Locke' means 'Cupid of Love'. Or possibly 'Cupid's Love'. And I'm certain that it's Billy speaking the words at the end. Absolutely stunning song, so lush and beautiful and exquisite. I agree with quietandangry's sentiment... |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – If There Is a God Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think the "he" and "she" lyrics change between different versions of the song. Personally I think the best version is the piano and voice one. Beautiful. None of the others come close | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Farewell and Goodnight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is a perfect ending to Mellon Collie, I think Billy nicked the idea off the Beatles' White Album closer 'Goodnight'. And more power to him. The piano coda at the end is...stunning and romantic and wonderful | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Tales of a Scorched Earth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I agree with the haters. This is the worst song on Mellon Collie and probably the worst officially released Pumpkins song | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Beautiful Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"i'll be here just waiting for you i'll be under your stars forever neither here nor there just right beside you i'll be under the stairs forever neither here nor there just right beside you" this part is possibly maybe my favourite passage of music/lyrics ever. somehow in the context of the album & song it seems to just sum everything up, it's so potent |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Muzzle Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is the anthem of my teenage. I'm not sure this song or this album had a totally POSITIVE effect on me but, hell, what an effect it had |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Luna Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song. It sounds so effortless and natural and perfect. But at the end, when he repeats "I'm in love with you, with you", it always sounds to me like "i'm in love with you, and you" instead of "with you". Anyone else notice this? It's kinda jarring cos here you are thinking it's all intimate and then he says he's in love with "you and you" as if he's talking to anybody and everybody. ah well. |
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| Draco and the Malfoys – Your Family Is Poor Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "Why did your parents have so many kids when they're poor?"!! i love this song!! | |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Another Day Full Of Dread Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is amazing, the chorus words and backing vox make it sound like some dark & disturbed lullaby or children's song | |
| Bright Eyes – Don't Know When but a Day Is Gonna Come Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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henrycharles: "even in what is commonly refered to in common parlance as a 'fact' is merely a measurable phenomenon that has been repeatedly observed enough to be confident in the results. and that's straight from a NSAC conference. along those lines, Connor is absolutely right, there is no truth. even if there is an absolute truth underlying our experience in this universe, it is impossible to verify with 100% certainty, so any personal 'truth' is as good as any other" I feel like you're confusing the word 'truth' (the abstract, objective concept) with what humans can know to be the truth (which of course is only so much, by ourselves, what with our weaknesses and limitations). You're acting as if humans are the sole judge of what is true. All I'm saying is don't reduce truth to the four walls of your or anyone else's mind. Truth (in a practical sense) is not unverifiable, and someone's personal opinions/"truths" aren't necessarily as good as anyone else's. I've heard of people in mental asylums who are convinced they are a poached egg. Their belief -- their "truth" -- is so convincing to them that they feel just like they'd imagine a poached egg would feel like, unhindered by doubt. But, obviously, they're wrong. "of course, if this was the way the world thought we would be without knowledge or antibiotics or cell phones or central AC. it does seem somewhat playfully naive to just want to make up your own truth. then again that is the beauty of art and lyrics and they certainly ring true and beautiful (particularly on the spiritual side) and does Cherub really feel it is appropriate to criticize this?" Certainly is naive to think that way -- it's just impractical and not particularly helpful. I'm all for people expressing how they feel -- spiritually or otherwise -- thru music or whatever, but there's a difference between saying "Conor Oberst has no right to say that" (which I'm not saying) and "I disagree with what Conor Oberst is stating as an opinion that you ought to live by, for these reasons...". Just because art is pretty and makes you feel nice and think about things doesn't mean it's bulletproof or shouldn't be questioned, that's just silly. |
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| Bright Eyes – Don't Know When but a Day Is Gonna Come Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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thecomaboy: "Seeing as Conor Oberst is 25, was brought up as a Catholic but started to question religion, and is still trying to find his real place due to this and all the other events that happen around us, I think he's allowed to entertain that philosophy." I agree -- that's just my point. I think it's quite understandable that he felt that way. But I still think this viewpoint is completely wrong and actually quite destructive, and he can doubt and find truth etc without thinking this way. I think Oberst himself came around by the next album anyway -- check 'We are nowhere and it's now' -- "And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares / how come you say it like you're right" |
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| Bright Eyes – Don't Know When but a Day Is Gonna Come Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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DrinkTheColdAway: "cherub i kinda screwed up what i was saying look at what narsil said! was just making the point that we only have a limited perception of truth, and what we have only exsists in memories and what we are told. My reference to 1984 was just saying that truth can be easily blurred and spun. If no one believed in something even tho it was true, would it be? its one of those tree falling in the woods things. Im not saying ive got the answer or know better than you, but it's not as simple as u make it sound." Yeah, but you're still seeing truth as entirely limited to what we can perceive through our senses, as if humankind is somehow the measure of all things. The fact that there are so many of us people, all with our 'reality filters' (our five senses and our ability to think rationally), and we all think things through and come to similar conclusions about certain things in the world -- it seems to me that there is a world outside our minds that we are capable of understanding, to some extent. The tree that falls in the woods definitely makes a sound. Something is just as true if no one believes it as it is if everyone does. Australia always existed, even when Europeans didn't know about it. And I think it's a lot simpler than a lot of people make it sound. |
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| Trace Adkins – Honky Tonk Badonkadonk Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "slap your grandma!" ah ha ha! classic! | |
| Bruce Springsteen – I'm on Fire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is about struggling with lust and a strong sex drive. Fantastic song, so atmospheric. My favourite off 'Born in the USA' along with 'Dancing in the Dark'.. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – State Trooper Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Perhaps, Thesmellyone. Based on the context of the rest of the album I always imagine that this song, unlike the other murderer songs (the serial killer in 'Nebraska', murderers in 'Johnny 99' and 'Highway Patrolman'), is about a real monster. The other ones killed for petty reasons but this guy's left undescribed, which makes him sound like a total lunatic. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Land of Hope and Dreams Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is such a great old-style gospel rave up. I love the guitar line after the chorus. Very powerful and I imagine it unites his audiences when done live - I'd love to see him play it | |
| Bruce Springsteen – American Skin (41 Shots) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song gets irritating musically. It sorta drones on and on and is fairly simple. I don't know why people are calling it a Great (capital 'g') Springsteen song. Agree with the sentiment though, the situation behind the song is incredible and disgusting. | |
| The Decemberists – I Don't Mind Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Confusing song. My first impression after reading the third verse is that the son killed his mother - why else would she be on his back? Perhaps he's hiding her body in the woods where no-one will find it, and her cries at night are nightmares or guilt eating away at him. Could also be metaphorical, but if that's the case, it's a strangely worded metaphor. I can't make head or tail of most of these lyrics, though. Is the first verse about a girl suiciding because of abuse (by a lover, her father, whoever 'his thorn' signifies)? What's the cheering all about? Maybe it's a fantasy, like jewlockss said, and she's self-indulgently dreaming of getting attention by killing herself. Maybe King George is a famous actor or something. I really like jewlockss' interpretation. Maybe "I don't mind" equals "I just don't care, stop spilling your story to me". |
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| The Decemberists – Of Angels and Angles Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| There's something really wonderful about this song that I can't explain. It does something for me that I can't put my finger on | |
| The Decemberists – The Bagman's Gambit Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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There's nothing in this song that says it occurs during the Cold War. I think the references to Petrograd and the bagman place it in the 20s or 30s, as EffulgentEnnui and Lerxs said. This song is purely in the romantic, sorta cinematic, imagery-heavy Decemberists 'zone'. Imagine it all happening in Russia in the 1920s (exotic and faraway no matter where you live) in black & white -- an old noir film with a lower-level government official falling for a femme fatale spy who (apparently, perhaps) was only using hiim and not interested at all, though the fact that she called him, and the moment their hands hold through the bars make me doubt that her heart wasn't in it. I suppose she just didn't have the option of staying with him, given her occupation. My only complaint is that the cinematic lyrics don't really seem to fit the music , which, while good, woulda been cooler if it had been 'older sounding' and atmospheric, but hey, it's pretty nice how it is, too. |
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| The Decemberists – Bridges and Balloons (Joanna Newsom cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Haven't heard this yet, but wow, talk about a perfect match lyrics-wise. This sounds just like the sort of thing Colin Meloy would write evanreyes, it's on the Picaresqueties EP (five outtakes from the album), which is only available on the double LP vinyl or on the iTunes music store... |
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| The Decemberists – The Mariner's Revenge Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I just can't take this song as seriously as most of you seem to. It's so funny! It's just not disturbing in the slightest. The bit where the whale appears and you hear the screaming and his voice gurgles and gets echo-ey as he gets swallowed -- priceless. It's just such a fun jaunty tale, I imagine it would be a lot of fun live. Along with 'The Sporting Life' it's the album's laugh-out-loud humourous counterpoint to the really sad and melancholic acoustic songs. (By the way, anyone else think the mother is a little too obsessed with revenge? I mean, I can sorta imagine the son wanting to avenge his poor mother and getting fixated on that, but she seems a little too vicious and vindictive in telling him to torture the baddie and bury him alive. I mean, it isn't like he killed a family member or anything..) |
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| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Good song, and it's really interesting to hear this new info about it from interviews/stage performances etc. I had no idea that the girl survived the song, but it explains why the song is 'We Both Go Down Together' rather than 'We Go Down Together' or 'We Both Go Down'. It's because the narrator is placing way too much priority on the togetherness of their jump, possibly because he has doubts that she'll go through with it. Musically, yeah, it's really reminiscent of REM's 'Losing My Religion' and the string hook is lifted verbatim from Electric Light Orchestra's 'Livin' Thing'. tsk tsk, naughty Colin. |
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| The Decemberists – A Cautionary Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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You really ought to be able to delete your own duplicate messages (or they should be automatically deleted), cos they're everywhere on this site. Anyway, I'm a little taken aback that people are saying this song is lighthearted and that we should get over it. Umm... did I miss something? Even if the music's peppy, the story is disturbing, all the more so for the fact that it happened (and still does). It may be catchy, light and poppy on the surface (and that's one of Colin's strategies -- 'nice' catchy sheen with dark thematic undertones) but it's still disturbing. I'd be a little worried if you didn't think so... |
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| The Decemberists – The Soldiering Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Weird how the booklet lists the second line as "the arbor wall you likened..." instead of "the call to arms you likened..." when the second is obviously what he sings. Last minute lyric change? Great song, catchy as crap btw |
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| The Decemberists – Shanty for the Arethusa Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Great opener. "Tell your daughters, do not walk the streets alone tonight"...very memorable | |
| The Decemberists – I Was Meant for the Stage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| They should play this song at Colin Meloy's funeral | |
| Over the Rhine – I Radio Heaven Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Great lyrics (though they're repeated once too often throughout the song): I lie in this bed My satellite dish Is there room in the universe For one last wish Really catchy, well produced musically too |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Wolverine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| What is this song about? | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Jacksonville Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Such a great song! So damn catchy | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Satan's Saxophones Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| err, whoops, it's on 'A Sun Came'. Please ignore me | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Satan's Saxophones Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hahahaa You're actually trying to interpret this as a serious song? And is this song real, anyone? |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Upper Peninsula Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song so strongly evokes a sense of time and place, it's really powerful | |
| Sufjan Stevens – In This Temple, as in the Hearts of Man, for Whom He Saved the Earth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song seems such a part of 'They Are Night Zombies!!' that I don't even notice the changeover. Sounds so ancient and mysterious. I love it | |
| The Clash – The Magnificent Seven Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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hehe brilliant lyrics and music. Just so good, one of my favs I always thought the title referred to 7am though (like the first line) - i.e. the magnificent start to the dreary day |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Nothing Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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In the context of "The Rising" it seems like a firefighter's feelings of emptiness post-9/11 (although Bruce doesn't really explain why he feels this way, so it's all a little meaningless), but I've read elsewhere that it was written a long time ago, in '94. Like 'My City of Ruins', Bruce let it take on a wholly different meaning by including it on the album The music is just lovely though. A real grower, and one of the highlights of the album |
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| The Clash – Something About England Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Who says this is something of a mess musically?? This is one of my favourite Clash songs, definitely one of the best off Sandinista. 'Timeless' is a good word for it |
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| Joy Division – Atrocity Exhibition Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"And I picked on the whims of a thousand or more Still pursuing the path that's been buried for years All the dead wood from jungles and cities on fire Can't replace or relate, can't release or repair Take my hand and I'll show you what was and will be " Absolutely exhilarating in their brilliance. It's such a pity that Ian Curtis never found the way out |
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| Fairport Convention – Matty Groves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is amazing. I love old folk music. 'Liege & Lief' is such a great album | |
| Gatsbys American Dream – A Mind of Metal and Wheels Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Fix these lyrics! "There lies the father"? What?? this is all hilariously wrong. are you on acid? A Mind Of Metal And Wheels "Far beyond there lies the vaudeville where creatures are gathering The assembly cackle and drool at a land slowly dying The monologue begins The man is abandoned He cracks a lonely smile like an oyster that's been shucked and dead The company the red posies they sprang and they whispered Sweet tragedy "There's a bird who is broken down She hunts the soil so her young can feed But the morning never stays for long And the flock will starve for needs" This is the act you see, our seeds were sown in fertile soil And the crowd all cheered as the men as beasts destroyed the crop and field Sweet tragedy The ensemble's tune of wretched abandoned Where desperate souls They litter the pavement Where beasts roam the world In arrogant fashion Trampling the harvest and spoiling the soil Great song btw. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – The Love Of Richard Nixon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| By the way, the message of the song is that no matter how many good things Nixon did in his career ("people forget China and your war on cancer"), he will be remembered solely as a crook now. It isn't really pro- or anti-Nixon necessarily, it just takes a different stance than people usually do by reminding us of the good things he did. I've read around the place that this message is intended equally towards the Manics themselves too, who are often remembered solely as "that band whose guitarist went missing". Like Nixon, people remember the one singular moment of darkness or weakness and forget everything else. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Hibernation Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Lovely song. Spoiled a tad by the sarcasm of the lyrics (which doesn't match the pure beauty of the music imho) ...but definitely worthy of being an album track, can't believe it was relegated to the b-side bin... | |
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