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Points| Snoop Dogg – Drop it like it's Hot Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| If you write like that, then many, many people will assume you're a goddamned idiot. Seriously, you may be pretty smart, but you're presenting yourself as shit. Learn Standard Written English, and use it in public communication. You probably already know it. | |
| Butthole Surfers – Birds Lyrics | 3 months ago |
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Lyric correction: ---------------------------------- first time: You can never do anything that's never been done before You can try a different style, but you end up just the same as before Wasted second time: You can never do anything that's never been done before You can try a different style, but you always end up on the floor Wasted ----------------------- I wish I could sing like Gibby, without having to do all the things Gibby's done. |
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| Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballad of Broken Seas Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| The line about the "gilded sailboat of sin" is a reference to the Flying Burrito Brothers' album, "The Gilded Palace of Sin". Not sure why, but there it is. | |
| The Postal Service – Nothing Better Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| "Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures," is one of the wisest lyrics in a breakup song I've ever heard. I've been that guy, and this song has helped remind me to let a thing die. | |
| Tom Waits – Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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These are among the best song lyrics ever written by anyone, ever. I always wonder what kind of "dope" they were taking. My favorite part of his delivery is how every line is sung except for "to pay this lawyer", which is basically spoken. It's like that sentiment is so un-musical it doesn't even get a melody. Just amazing, Tom. Really great. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Prodigal Son Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| After posting this, I realized... Keith is playing the other, good son. "Hey! Why is HE being honored, for wasting all of your money and screwing up?" Good work, Keith. | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Errors in the lyrics: "But your friends are all serious ravers" (spelling) "At the church bazaar / I think I went too far" (not "nearly went") "And open fields of eucalyptus" (not "roads") ...at least, I'm pretty sure about all of those. |
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| James Taylor – Carolina In My Mind Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Wow, I've been mishearing this for years. I've always thought he sang, "Ain't it just like a friend of mine / To get me drunk or high." I can't believe it's "it hit me from behind," instead, but I listen closely, and sure enough... |
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| The Rolling Stones – Prodigal Son Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I love Keith's lyrical contribution right at the end. This is probably the least evil song the Stones ever recorded. | |
| Nelly Furtado – Turn Off The Light Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I always heard the line, "there's an aching inside my head" as "I'm dancing naked inside my head." I liked my version! | |
| Mary J. Blige – Family Affair Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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For years, I misheard the last line in the chorus, "So just dance for me", as "Soldiers dance for me". I really liked that lyric. |
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| R.E.M. – Fall On Me Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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The line "building towered foresight isn't anything at all" is an awesome lyric. It reminds me of Newton's pronouncement, "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." When you're standing up there, you're building towered foresight, each generation adding to the scientific progress of those who came before. Michael says that doing that "isn't anything at all". Maybe he's questioning the value of knowing what we CAN do, if we aren't also going to be wise regarding what we SHOULD do. This is, of course, in keeping with the environmental theme that so many people are noticing. Michael directly referenced the Newton quotation in "King of Birds" on the subsequent album, with the lyric, "standing on the shoulders of Giants / leaves me cold". It sounds like a pretty similar sentiment in both places; maybe it was part of the same train of thought for him. |
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| R.E.M. – Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Ok, my take on this one is different from all of those, and it seems kind of bizarre, but it works for me. First of all, is it really "reaping wheel", and not "repeat reel"? I think it's about a movie place, a dirty movie place. It's out of town, because "gentlemen don't get caught". You're going somewhere you won't get caught. "Cages under a cage" are viewing rooms within the larger building, little booths where you go in and view a "repeat reel". I mean, this isn't high-budget 70's stuff, I'm thinking the early days, when they were called "blue movies", and I imagine like a 5 minute clip, that's on loop. "Secret stigma" is obvious, "poster torn" is just because the place is cheap and shoddy. "Stranger to these parts" is because the place is just in town for a while, and then moves on. When it moves, we get to: "Boxcar is pulling a carnival of sorts out of town". The idea is that sometimes, the train brings in a carnival, and takes it away two weeks later. The singer wryly notes as the porn shop gets packed up and moved on, that it too is a carnival, of sorts. I have no idea why he says "diminish". ---------------------------- I don't know if this is what anyone ever meant by this song, or if the scene I'm seeing is even realistic in this universe, but it's what I hear. I love R.E.M.; those guys have given us so much. |
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| R.E.M. – We Walk Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I never would have had any idea what that was if not for you pointing it out. Thank you! :D | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Mayfly Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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There's something about Jesus going on here. Cana is mentioned in verse 2, and the Bible in verse 3. According to that Bible, Cana was the site of Jesus' first miracle, when he turned water into wine for that wedding. Definitely the start of something big. What has this got to do with the song? Who knows? Maybe one of Christ's apostles has a crush on Mary Magdalene, and this song is written from his perspective? That'd be pretty cool. The "mayfly" would, of course, be a reference to mortality. |
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| Violent Femmes – Waiting For The Bus Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I really like the image of the Femmes busking on the street at a bus stop in Milwaukee, playing this song to people who are waiting for a late bus. I don't know if that ever really happened, but I hope it did. | |
| Eminem – Fack Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Dude, it's so obvious. This song is about heroin. | |
| Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Yeah, it's a great song, but seriously. What the hell is a "Buffalo Stance"? | |
| Neil Young – The Needle And The Damage Done Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Hendrix never took H. | |
| Neil Young – The Needle And The Damage Done Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| There's the well-known instance of the footage cut from The Last Waltz because of the bit of cocaine visible in Neil's nose. However, I've never heard of him using heroin, so to call him an "infamous heroin addict" seems to be a stretch of the word "infamous". | |
| Nirvana – Breed Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I've always thought this one was real clear. It's a guy having doubts about settling down and starting a family with a girl. He's into her, but he doesn't feel that they have to "breed", or "plant a house", or "build a tree". She's like "We could do all three". He doesn't dig it. | |
| Nirvana – In Bloom Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Does anyone else hear the first line of the second verse - "We can have some more" - as the completion of the first line of the first verse - "Sell the kids for food"? I've always heard it that way; I dunno. |
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| Nirvana – In Bloom Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Trendies started around the time that time started. | |
| Sonic Youth – Swimsuit Issue Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I've always heard the final lines as "I'm swimmin'". For me, that goes with the title "Swimsuit Issue" and this list of supermodels' names at the end. Kim is poking at the fact that these women are packaged and sold as "swimsuit" models, when it actually has nothing at all to do with swimming, and everything to do with objectification. It's an ironic "I'm swimmin'". That's how I've always heard it, anyway. |
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| Anal Cunt – Domestic Violence is Really Really Funny Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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A touching song, with a haunting, beautiful melody. This song is about the singer's memories of rafting down rivers in eastern Oregon as a child. From his current position as a diplomat in an exotic far-east locale, he reflects on the idyllic, carefree times he spent on the water, falling in love with nature -- and with his friend, who had always been a tom-boy, one-of-the-guys type girl, but who blossomed into a beautiful young woman one summer. The speaker recalls his innocent, burgeoning love, and opines that he would trade his current position in the world, with all of his power and influence, for one moment back on that lazy river with the girl he would always love, although he was too shy to tell her at the time. Now their lives are worlds apart, and she will never know, but he has to sing the feelings that are in his heart, or else he'll simply burst from the emotion. Truly one of the nicest, gentlest songs to come out the 1970s. The steel guitar is a particularly nice touch, as are the harmony vocals provided by the incomparable Emmylou Harris. Also, it's about heroin. |
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| Ween – Demon Sweat Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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No comments, wow! This is a great end-of-day song. It's been in my bedtime mix forever. No idea what it's about, though. |
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| Ween – Don't Shit Where You Eat Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Does it belong in a song? You're asking this about the band that brought us songs such as "You Fucked Up", "Flies on My Dick", "Put the Coke on My Dick", "Let Me Lick Your Pussy", "The Fucked Jam", "Piss up a Rope", "Common Bitch", and many more. The phrase "don't shit where you eat" is pretty family-friendly compared to all that! |
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| Ween – She Wanted to Leave Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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"I'm not the man I used to be, now I'm one of them". This is a song about becoming a pirate after having his heart torn out an stomped on by a woman. I mean, shit, who hasn't been there? |
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| Ween – Sorry Charlie Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| This is a great song for a beginning guitar player to learn. | |
| Ween – Captain Fantasy Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I think it's about nitrous oxide. "Take a bit and go down, beneath the reaches of sound" makes sense if you're familiar with the stuff. | |
| Ween – Chocolate Town Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Beautiful song, both instrumentally and vocally. Oysterhead is correct. This is the best song I know of about cleaning up. Warren Zevon's "Detox Mansion" is second, I guess. I think the line "sail Brown Bay to Chocolate Town" is about the lifestyle (Brown Bay), and where it eventually led him (Chocolate Town). I remember when they cancelled some shows or something, and Dean explained on the website that it was due to one of the members "Alcoholism and generally brown lifestyle". The color brown has always been big with these guys. Remember the line in Mutilated Lips, "Everything is turning brown"? That's to say nothing of "Painting the Town Brown". |
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| Ween – Nicole Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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It seems that Nicole is an ex-girlfriend. I think there are a few songs on God Ween Satan about her. "Nicole" and "Old Queen Cole" are certainly the same person, as the latter name occurs in this song, and in the song "Old Queen Cole", the subject is addressed as "Nikki". It's possible that "You Fucked Up" and "Common Bitch" are about the same girl, because they also seem to be breakup songs. |
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| Ween – Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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"That Frenchman loves to party / And I know he's not to blame" This lyric is so evocative for me. It's like he's sitting there suffering with a hangover, and he thinks back to the good time he had last night. I can imagine him smiling at some memory while saying "That Frenchman loves to party", but then he looks up and his girl is NOT amused. Seeing the stinkeye she's giving him, he adds, "and I know he's not to blame." Brilliant. |
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| Ween – Voodoo Lady Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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It's a tribute to Ween's genius that this song is so smooth and catchy and musical, that it took me months to notice that it contains what appears to be a... power-tool solo? Their knack for combining a totally familiar and mainstream sound with the most fucked-up elements is what really makes this band stand out as the best music to come out of the 1990s. |
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| Ween – Mononucleosis Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Yeah, I actually tried huffing Scotchgard after reading The Pod liner notes. It gave me a terrible headache, and then I passed out for an hour. I don't blame Ween, because I was the kid stupid enough to try huffing the shit just because a band claimed they did. Stay in school, kids. |
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| Ween – Mourning Glory Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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"All they wanted to laugh at was the pumpkins." What more is there to say? |
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| Ween – Mr. Richard Smoker Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| "DARK meat". No question. Richard Smoker is a wealthy gay man who likes to party and have gay sex with boys. A real clear song. | |
| Elton John – Levon Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I think it happened this way. Bernie and Elton were getting high, and Bernie randomly said, "And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus!" Elton then laughed for, like, eight minutes, and then said, "Bernie! You have got to use that line in a song!". They were done by dawn. | |
| Ween – Back to Basom Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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My interpretation of this song is personal and philosophical, and most likely not what Gener had in mind writing it, but here goes: The Buddhist idea of enlightenment is about severing one's attachment to the material world of senses and objects. I hear this song as a response to that, celebrating the fact that it is precisely those attachments that bring meaning and pleasure to life. While the eventual goal is the end of suffering, along the way, suffering is inextricably linked to all our experiences. How is that in the song? Check it out: * We're talking about an idea that originated in South Asia - "Like seeking wonder from a foreign place". * ...but it's accessible to any sentient being - "It matters not from where I'm coming". * The destination, enlightenment, is in some sense inevitable - "A thread already spun". * However, the journey of being reborn over and over again - "Please believe I'm only traveling" * ...and learning lessons along the way, has to actually happen - "What you are is cooked until it's done". * Our goal is to find and eliminate our worldly attachments - "Left to locate the last trace of waste". * But, that attachment also brings meaning and pleasure - "Picked it up and it was smiling". * There's an acknowledgment that the pleasure is always coupled with pain - "Like a dancer who has lost her legs / She laughs alone but then she's crying". * The line "We sleep to tight when we're breathing" has a double-meaning. The reference to breathing addresses the practice of meditation and focusing on one's breath, as the dynamic interface between self and not-self. Also, breathing implies living in this world, which implies suffering, but nevertheless we love it in an innocent, child-like way: we "sleep so tight". * The chorus sounds like the vow of a Bodhisattva: To remain in this world - "let me fly back to Basom" - postponing enlightenment and freedom - "calm the light", don't yet pass into the light - in order to help all sentient beings reach the goal. * Basom itself, though it may be a town in New York, sounds like a earthy, worldly place, made of "base" elements. It's not a place of enlightenment, but rather the "base" from which we travel. Like I said, this is just my own interpretation, and what the song means to me. The brothers Ween are amazing musicians and writers, and their songs must speak to many people in a million different ways. Hail Boognish, yo. |
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| Moxy Früvous – The Drinking Song Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Is that correct, "Between poles"? I thought it was "between pulls", as in pulls on the bottle. Between pulls in when you'd say something. Beautiful song. Just awesome. Great harmonies, and great storytelling. |
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| Butthole Surfers – Ulcer Breakout Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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It's definitely "fall in love", not "fall above". Also, I've always thought the opening line was "Ever fall in love with A LIE", not with "the law". At least "lie" rhymes with "die" at the end of line 4. |
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| Dixie Cups – Iko Iko Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I was in Portland, Oregon, a few years ago, hanging out with my friend Aaron when this song came on. I listened to the words and said, "I really don't know what they're talking about in this song." Aaron replied, "I think it's pretty clear they're talking bout hey now." |
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| Butthole Surfers – Pepper Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This song is about being so in love with life, that you even dig the death part. It's about accepting the whole universe, with the ugliness and everything. It's about Nietzsche's "Eternal Return". "I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows / I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes / Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies" The singer is ok with all of this, taking it all as part of the deal. As Dr. Hunter used to say: "Buy the ticket; take the ride." The singer describes people who have no detachment from life, who just go all in, balls to the wall. They're not self-conscious; they're not second-guessing themselves. "They were all in love with dying, they were drinking from a fountain / That was pouring like an avalanche, coming down the mountain." "Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain / that is pouring like an avalanche, coming down the mountain." They are in love with life. They are therefore also in love with dying, because they fully accept that to live is to be dying; as soon as we're born, we start dying. The contrast of these two lines (in love with dying/in love with life) indicates that life and dying are the SAME THING. The lack of self-consiousness explains the song's most memorable line: "You never know just how you look through other people's eyes." In a way, this is trivial. Of course you never know. The point is that the characters listed in this song don't CARE. "Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes." Some people over-analyze life. They try to figure it out, as if from the outside, sifting through its ashes, instead of falling in love with it. They can't taste life on their lips, smell it in their clothes, because they're caught up in trying to understand it, which is detached. Of course the song is about drugs, as many have remarked. It's the Butthole Surfers for Chrissake. Drugs can get you past the whole self-conscious analysis that keeps you from being "in love" with life and death. The drugs intensify the experience of life, and they hasten (and sometimes resemble) death. The singer knows that these people die, sometimes horribly, but he doesn't mind the images that the sun shows him. He has experienced death and life, and he is in love with it all. |
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