| Godspeed You! Black Emperor – The Dead Flag Blues Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Seems obvious that "I open up my wallet, and it's full of blood" is obviously about money -> power -> war -> bloodshed |
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| The Shins – Turn On Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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amh1010, you hit the nail on the head. It's so strange, I just got out of a relationship EXACTLY like the lyrics describe, right when the new album came out. I heard it and it was like...telling my story. Just mind-blowing.. |
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| The Flaming Lips – All We Have Is Now Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's fairly obvious what this song is about...it's very sci-fi. If I understand it correctly, his future self tells him that something terrible will happen because of him. He says 'you and me' because it's him. He's talking to the future version of himself. And so, he has to die. Hence... "I noticed that he had a watch and hat That looked familiar He was me - from a dimension torn free Of the future" It's him, from the near/far future...and the world is in ruins, or is about to be turned into ruins. "We're not gonna make it" He explained how the end will come - You and me were never meant to be part of the future - " 'We're not gonna make it'...we're gonna die. You and me were never meant to be part of the future'...maybe he's referring to how people say that everything in life happens for a reason. Their reason was, apparently, to die. ' All we have is now - All we've ever had was now All we have is now All we'll ever have is now - ' Pretty self explanatory if you read the rest of what I wrote. He'll never see the future, because he'll be dead. Strange, because his future self has seen the future, but HE won't. Awesome song...one of the Flaming Lips' best...lyrically at least. |
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| Stars – Calendar Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the whole message of this song is... Life isn't short, and the relationships we have will last for years and years, and they could mean more than any petty problems that temporarily bring us down. Yep. :) |
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| Stars – Celebration Guns Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Gee, I wonder if this song is about war. | |
| Stars – He Lied About Death Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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If the Secret Service knew what this song was about, they would probably put Amy and Torq on some list, especially with lines like "Keep watching your back Killers always have killers on their track " |
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| Stars – Sleep Tonight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Actually, when you think about it...this song could very easily be about cunnilingus. Haha. In any case, I love this line: "with buried heads we both forget all of the past and its regret wind picks up the window shakes but we won't hear the morning break" Kinda reminds me of a double-suicide...Romeo and Juliet style. |
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| Stars – What I'm Trying to Say Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I can relate to this song...you just want to get your point across to the other person in the relationship without having to fall back on 'I love you' to settle a dispute. | |
| Stars – One More Night Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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How can this song not be about rape? "he grabs her by the hair, he strokes her on the cheek" Rough sex? o.O |
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| Stars – Ageless Beauty Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Also, if you listen, you can hear a very distinct 'T' at the end of that line...she says 'light'. | |
| Stars – Ageless Beauty Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yeah, she says 'We will always be the light'. If you see the video, she's wearing this very lustrous eyeshadow and when she says that line, she closes her eyes, and light glints brightly off of the eyeshadow. I'm pretty sure they did that on purpose. | |
| Nickel Creek – The Lighthouse's Tale Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I like the supernatural reference at the end...that despite the fact that no one operates the lighthouse, it still works....creepy...oooOOooo | |
| Gorillaz – Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Way to analyze, RTBRAND1...I think you got it right on. | |
| The Shins – So Says I Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I always thought the line "Cause if it makes them money they might just give you life this time" Was a reference to record companies who only sign bands that they think will make them money. After all, The Shins are indie. But I could be wrong. |
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| Dire Straits – Romeo And Juliet Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Juliet when we made love you used to cry You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die" That's the most beautiful and romantic lyric ever made. |
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| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Oh, and while the King was looking down The jester stole his thorny crown The courtroom was adjourned No verdict was returned" It seems that 'The Jester' is Bob Dylan throughout this song. If that is true, this line could be a reference to Bob Dylan's song 'Hurricane', which was about Rubin Hurricane Carter's being accused of the Lafayette Bar murders. The line "Oh, and while the King was looking down The jester stole his thorny crown" This could mean that while Carter was on Trial, Dylan came to the rescue and exposed the corruption behind his conviction. He's saying that Carter was a Jesus-like figure in that he was being sacrificed for the sins of others. But the Jester...removed his 'crown of thorns'. He saved him. "The courtroom was adjourned No verdict was returned" Carter's conviction was dismissed, many say, partly thanks to Dylan's exposure of the case. So there's my analysis of that small part of the song. The rest has been discussed at great length already. |
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| Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Hehe. Since we're telling our ages, I'm 20 and I love Dire Straits. | |
| Bouncing Souls – Kids & Heroes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Exactly, bugzcar. Exactly. "Hey, where have I gone? I used to be the one Looking for a hero In some far off place Blindly ever forward Never knowing all along The truth was right here In my own song" I used to be so weak, going through my life so helplessly dependent on finding other heroes, only to find that I myself have become a hero to others. I love this band. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – I'm on Fire Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Love stinks. | |
| The Corrs – Breathless Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's too bad that people don't see the Corrs for how talented they really are. They are so together musically...you can only really appreciate their talent when you see them play live. They are so perfectly in-synch with one another. It makes sense, they are all family after all.. | |
| Nickel Creek – Reasons Why Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm not particularly religious, I cannot relate to this song. I have not, nor have I ever felt anything 'missing' from my life...I think christians are just hopelessly reliant on god and are quick to blame any problems on him/her, only to find he/she doesn't exist/doesn't interfere and thus they continue to feel empty. Sad, really. | |
| Nickel Creek – The Lighthouse's Tale Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I like how he wrote the lyrics. He wrote them as if the lighthouse itself was telling the story. Very nice job...and moving tale. | |
| Frou Frou – Must Be Dreaming Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| No one gives a fuck about your girlfriend. | |
| Frou Frou – It's Good to Be in Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Good interpetation, luna :) | |
| Frou Frou – Let Go Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"There's beauty in the breakdown" That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. This is supported by the first verse, which basically tells you...the past is past. Put it behind you and move on. "it gains the more it gives and it rises with the fall so hand me that remote can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow" I don't think I need to say that this verse is about television and how it profits off the stupidity of people. It gains more revenue and power the more programming they put out...when people are feeling down, they watch TV...TV benefits. They're trying to say 'Wake up, don't be a slave to the idiot box, there's a whole wide world out there'. |
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| Modest Mouse – Ocean Breathes Salty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is obviously about religion. As people have been saying, yes, this song is about people who waste their whole lives denying their natural urges to secure a spot in the afterlife, which may not even be there. The line that gives it away the most would be the last one. "You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?" He's basically saying...you were dumb enough to waste your whole mortal life holding yourself to a set of rules, why wouldn't you waste the life you may or may not have after death? As usual, Modest Mouse's message is loud, clear, and thought-provoking. *golf clap* |
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| Jack Johnson – Flake Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Jack Johnson. Half Surfer Half Poet All Awesome. I love Jack Johnson. |
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| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song is talking to a lover, from a distance perhaps...I'm feeling rather interpretive, so here I go out on a limb. Bear with me here... First of all, I'm a DJ at a College radio station (88.5 FM for those in Central Washington), and we had this album before they got famous. We also had the single for 'Maps', and the CD cover was basically drawn out like a normal map, except in the upper left corner was an X that had text above it reading 'Me' and a dotted line connected that X to another in the bottom right with text above it that reads 'You'. Now...based on this, and the enigmatic lyrics of the song. I think I can make sense of it. I think this song is about a long distance relationship. The person singing is saying 'Come to me, they don't love you like I love you'. Maybe the person she is talking to is experiencing family/friend troubles. In essence saying 'Please, come live with me, come find me...' using map(s)? Perhaps, hence the title. Now, to dissect a little.. "Pack up i'm straight i'm not i'm say say say..............." I can't explain the 'say say say' part...however I can say, the 'pack up, I'm straight' is saying, pack your things, come see me, I'm good, I'm morally good, I'm 'straight'. (chorus) "Wait they don't love you like i love you" Maybe she's saying 'wait, they don't love you like I love you', because the person she is talking to 'assumingly on the phone', is about to hang up, intimidated by her offer. And she's saying, 'Wait! They don't love you like I love you.', or something. "Made off don't stray well my kinds your kind i'll stay the same" Maybe at this point her lover is on his/her way and she is saying 'don't stray', like 'don't change your mind and return home'. And with the line 'my kind's your kind I'll stay the same' she's saying 'the way I am is the way you want your lover to be, and I'm not going to change'. That's what I think. :) |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Sir Psycho Sexy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"On her crotch so very warm I could feel her getting wet through her uniform Proppin' her up on the black and white Unzipped and slipped "ooo that's tight" I swatted her like no swat team can Turned a cherry pie right into jam " Fucking hilarious and awesome. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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For those of you who think the song might be a reference to sex, etc...one tip: California - state in the US + Fornication - Sex outside of marriage = Californication. Just an observation...not to mention the porn references |
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| Avril Lavigne – Two Rivers Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This is a cover of some artist...anyway, she sings it really well. The song is basically about someone who died, and the person is content beccause they know they will meet in heaven, 'like two rivers flow to the open sea'. | |
| Avril Lavigne – Tomorrow Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song is talking about how...some days are just hopeless, but that doesn't mean there is no hope. Tomorrow is another day, another chance. Good message.. | |
| Avril Lavigne – Falling Down Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think this song is basically saying 'I'm young, I like to party, maybe I get in trouble now and then, but that doesn't mean I'm a bad person, or a slacker...just watch.' | |
| Pink Floyd – Fat Old Sun Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| They played this song at Storm Thorgerson's funeral not too long ago...so maybe it has something to do with death or mourning | |
| Thrice – Genie in a Bottle (Christina Aguilera cover) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| why the hell would Thrice cover this shitty fucking song? | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – The Everlasting Gaze Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song is about God, and how the people who believe in god are...well...morons. It sounds harsh, and I might be wrong, but the biggest proving point I believe is the part that stands out the most in the song. (Coincidence? Nah.) "we all want to hold in the everlasting gaze enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway but underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every c.o.g. the fickle fascination of an everlasting god" In the lines, 'but underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every c.o.g. the fickle fascination of an everlasting god', He's saying here that the only way god has continued to be believed in through the years is the hopeless dependence on his followers. For as we all know, any god will 'exist' as long as people believe in it. The wheels, of course symbolizing god's survival through the years. The skulls of every cog being the people who believe in him, as a result of their 'fickle fascination'. Just my interpretation.. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Try, Try, Try Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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He's saying you can try so hard to hold on to something, an idea, a person, a goal...and maybe you get a little bit closer, a tiny bit closer...but then you realize everything else around you is dying...and it's not worth it. Beautiful lyrics from a beautiful mind. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – I of the Mourning Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Yes, I think it is a song about a shut-in, someone who refuses to acknowledge the outside world. You can tell they have people who care about them hence the lines "I peer through curtains on empty streets Behind a wall of caller ID No one's out there To hear if I care " This is saying that people do care, but he doesn't think they do. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Heavy Metal Machine Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think he's trying to convey how he loves making music and he loves that people love his music, but he hates dumb groupies and posers who like his music simply for the sake of their mainstreamed-ness. Just a guess | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Blank Page Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Blank Page's message is simple and powerful. A blank page is a statement in itself, a variation of the saying "Silence speaks louder than words". | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Blue Skies Bring Tears Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think this song is about a bombing on a city. The last verse is someone talking to someone else, asking them to hold them before they die. The rest are probably connected to this idea too...but I might be wrong. | |
| Radiohead – Knives Out Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Btw, there is quite solid proof that Albedo's interpretation is right: "If you'd been a dog They would have drowned you at birth" |
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| Radiohead – Knives Out Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I like Albedo's interpretation. | |
| Radiohead – High and Dry Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm not sure what this song is about, I was thinking maybe it's about a woman who doesn't have the ability to have children, and because of this men don't want her, hence the line... "All your insides fall to pieces. You just sit there wishing you could still make love." Of course 'insides fall to pieces' might refer to her inability to have children...wishing you could still make love, maybe it goes so far as to restrict her ability to have sex. Also.. "Oh its the best thing that you ever had Best thing that you ever ever had Its the best thing that you ever had Best thing you ever had has gone away" Maybe this refers to her first pregnancy, when she realized she couldn't have children. The best thing she ever had (a child) has gone away. Of course the first verse seems to be about Evil Canevil...I'm prolly wrong, just my interpretation |
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| Radiohead – Black Star Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think the 'black star' might be something that is definitely there, but they can't see. Maybe a bad compatibility, or something. Obviously you can't see a black star. So he's saying 'blame it on the black star', like...blame it on this, our problem...just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. | |
| Sublime – Badfish Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is all about Bradley's addiction to Heroin. "When you grab a hold of me Tell me that I'll never be set free But I'm a parasite Creep and crawl, I step into the night" He's introducing the song by saying he's addicted. "Two pints of booze Tell me, are you a bad fish too? Are you a badfish too? Ain't got no money to spend I hope the night would never end Lord knows I'm weak Won't somebody get get me off this reef?" He's basically talking to a guy when he's drunk, trying to score Heroin. "Baby, you're a big blue whale Grab the reef when all duck divin' fails I swim, but I wish I never learned The water's too polluted with germs I dive deep when it's ten feet overhead Grab the reef from underneath my bed (underneath my bed)" He's talking to someone who he does drugs with, he's saying when he's pissed off he shoots heroin. "Ain't got no quarrels with God Ain't got no time to grow old Lord knows I'm weak Won't somebody get me off this reef? I got a gun" He's crying for help, but no one will help him...so he considers suicide |
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| Further Seems Forever – Just Until Sundown Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"well just for the moment, just one more time just one more second and we'll be just fine this could be just, just in case its the last time well just for the moment, just one more time just one more second and we'll be just fine this could be the last time... just until sundown just one more day I could hold you that I could hold you" I have heard that this song is about a couple reconciling their differences on the night before armageddon strikes. Something like...they know that, despite their differences, they are the only ones who truly love each other, and they wanted to just hold each other in their arms 'until sundown', of the final day...their last day alive, they wanted to spend together. Beautiful interpretation, if you ask me. It goes to show you, that despite petty differences, when it truly matters, you will want to be with those you truly love. |
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| Bouncing Souls – Night On Earth Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| He's talking about how relationships are symbiotic. They affect both people, not just in the method that one person will love another person, but that the love that one person gives another person will make the person giving the love...love themself. Again, deep lyrics from a truly talented punk band who's out for more than changing the government, they're out for changing out hearts. | |
| Bouncing Souls – Gone Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I heard that this song is about when one of the band members was homeless, and he wrote this song...something like, he was on a street corner and he heard some kids listening to a song in their parked car when a certain song came on that gave him hope...he wanted to write a song that would give others hope. Something like that...so awesome..I love this band. | |
| The Lawrence Arms – Asa Phelps Is Dead Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| So close to dying, my mom must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her, and I felt ready to live it all again too. As is all that blind rage would wash me clean, rid me of hope for the first time. And that night alive with the signs and stars. I open myself to the gental indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself, so like a brother, really. I felt that I had been happy, and I was happy again. Happy that I was consimated. For me to feel less alone [??????] | |
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