| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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seriously, don't comment unless you've read the lyrics and you've read all the other previous comments.. geezies... some people write the funniest things i've ever read on these forums.... like Pandora ashe avalie's: "maybe he pushed her over the edge of the veranda?" haha, can't stop cracking up.... a veranda is a porch... she wouldn't go very far now would she? haha. first line of the song- cliffs of dover. look it up... that's almost as funny as the notion of the baby in leslie ann levine being loged inside a chimney flue by a chimney sweep, God i love stupid people... |
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| The Decemberists – Leslie Ann Levine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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poweroutage.... if you've seen the cliffs of dovers, there is no bottom for a person to fall in. It's a sheer cliff into the ocean below. The song states that she was birthed down a dry ravine. She didn't die in her mom, but rather was actually birthed, and it was in a dry place, no way at the bottom of the cliff... And if the mother died at the bottom, the baby's air/blood/ etc supply is cut off and would have died within minutes even if it wasn't crushed by the insanly long fall off the cliffs of dover. hope that clears it up... I just have to add that otherones90210's comment was completely hysterically retarded... lol. someone obviously can not read... the notion of someone findng a dead baby only to place it inside a chimney, to then bury it later it absolutly flabergasting... boggles my mind on sooo many levels... at least thanks for cracking me up.... |
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| The Decemberists – Leslie Ann Levine Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| you seem to overlook that there are many girls named lesley ann... and that he specifically says Levine.... Not to mention this song has been VARIFIED by the writer to be the sequel to "We both go down together" which talks about the CLIFFS of DOVER. Not lesley ann downey, not the manchester moors. Many murdered people are buried in shallow graves. Perhaps Colin got the lesley ann name idea from another song or influence, but that character has nothing to do with this song. Colin likes to tell elaborate stories.... STORIES..... many of which are obvisously not true... I mean come on, it's 2006, not the 1800's. he sings about whales shallowing ships and sweeping chimeys. he's telling a very elaborate story in a VERY AWESOME way. I simply just tried putting it together. | |
| The Decemberists – Leslie Ann Levine Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Here’s how “We Both Go Down Together” and “Leslie Anne Levine” are connected… It actually makes sense, but you can’t put WBGDT right before LAL, but rather interject them together at parts…. WBDGT is slightly out of order in terms of chronological order… The songs starts at the cliffs, but the story starts at the labor camp… A young girl in the labor camp catches the eye of a rich young man. The man probably fins her to be incredibly beautiful and falls in love with her. The young girl probably does not feel the same for the man, but knows his money can save her and possibly her family from a life of poverty. So she then falls in “love” with him and willing consents to a relationship and sex, hence her weeping during the love making on the grass of the clearing. Up to this point the man could easily leave the young girl to avoid punishment from his parents, and thus does not need to go to the extreme of suicide… HOWEVER, the girl becomes pregnant, as having unprotected sex usually results in. Now the man is trapped, for he seems to honestly love the girl and their unborn baby. NOW he has to resort to suicide, knowing his “parents will never consent to this love”. He asks the girl to meet him on his extravagant porch (the vast veranda), then they travel to the cliffs of Dover. By the time the would have known she was pregnant , (because this is in the 19th century, no “First Response”, lol) she probably would have been far along enough to be showing, maybe six months or so… On the cliffs, she could have become overly excited or dizzy (thus, “Your head is spinning”) from the anxiety or nervousness of going through with impending doom of her and her child’s life. (Remember, she didn’t really love the man and would not have the same feelings of being trapped and suicide being the only way out). This could result in her going into labor… (“hold tight it’s just beginning”) The girl would not have been able to just jump off the cliffs if she was indeed going into labor… not only because labor pains often incapacitate the mother, but also because she’s not in love and does not want to end her and her child’s life. So the man delivers the baby playing the part of the “Wastrel Me sallied ” who brought the fate on LAL (a wastrel me sallied can be defined as a wasteful person, as in a rich person spending lavishly on unnecessary things, who’s in an unbecoming relationship with someone of lower class.) This explains being “birthed too soon” and why Leslie Anne would have died “by noon” being premature and being born atop a cliff. Since Leslie Anne does die, the parents would have laid her somewhere, like a dry ravine/ditch… NOT thrown her over the cliff… she loved her baby as the father probably did too, they would have laid her down somewhere and possibly bury her in a ditch, making her body “in it’s grave, in a ditch not far away”. If she died as a result of the impact of the fall, she would not have been “birthed” in a “dry Ravine,” but rather would have been killed inside the womb in a watery grave. Now that the only ting keeping the girl from jumping with the man is gone, she also feels intense anguish and takes the man’s hand then jump off the cliffs of Dover as seagulls cry out, and hence the line “We fall but our souls are flying,” (as in their souls leaving their falling bodies.) Both the man and the girl “go down Together” and there’s also “No one left to mourn” for Leslie Anne Levine. As for Leslie Anne Levine, she haunts the area near the vicinity of her death along with another spirit. The spirit is that of a young chimney sweep, (who were often young orphaned boys) who died while being “lost and logged inside a flue” (a flue is the pipe used to vent the exhaust from a fire). As for the line “clinging to the petticoats of the girl that died” with her, I don’t believe this needs to be taken literally but helps explain why she still haunts the area fifteen years later. She rightfully blames her parents, esp. her mother for her death, and thus is clinging to her. |
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| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Here’s how “We Both Go Down Together” and “Leslie Anne Levine” are connected… It actually makes sense, but you can’t put WBGDT right before LAL, but rather interject them together at parts…. WBDGT is slightly out of order in terms of chronological order… The songs starts at the cliffs, but the story starts at the labor camp… A young girl in the labor camp catches the eye of a rich young man. The man probably fins her to be incredibly beautiful and falls in love with her. The young girl probably does not feel the same for the man, but knows his money can save her and possibly her family from a life of poverty. So she then falls in “love” with him and willing consents to a relationship and sex, hence her weeping during the love making on the grass of the clearing. Up to this point the man could easily leave the young girl to avoid punishment from his parents, and thus does not need to go to the extreme of suicide… HOWEVER, the girl becomes pregnant, as having unprotected sex usually results in. Now the man is trapped, for he seems to honestly love the girl and their unborn baby. NOW he has to resort to suicide, knowing his “parents will never consent to this love”. He asks the girl to meet him on his extravagant porch (the vast veranda), then they travel to the cliffs of Dover. By the time the would have known she was pregnant , (because this is in the 19th century, no “First Response”, lol) she probably would have been far along enough to be showing, maybe six months or so… On the cliffs, she could have become overly excited or dizzy (thus, “Your head is spinning”) from the anxiety or nervousness of going through with impending doom of her and her child’s life. (Remember, she didn’t really love the man and would not have the same feelings of being trapped and suicide being the only way out). This could result in her going into labor… (“hold tight it’s just beginning”) The girl would not have been able to just jump off the cliffs if she was indeed going into labor… not only because labor pains often incapacitate the mother, but also because she’s not in love and does not want to end her and her child’s life. So the man delivers the baby playing the part of the “Wastrel Me sallied ” who brought the fate on LAL (a wastrel me sallied can be defined as a wasteful person, as in a rich person spending lavishly on unnecessary things, who’s in an unbecoming relationship with someone of lower class.) This explains being “birthed too soon” and why Leslie Anne would have died “by noon” being premature and being born atop a cliff. Since Leslie Anne does die, the parents would have laid her somewhere, like a dry ravine/ditch… NOT thrown her over the cliff… she loved her baby as the father probably did too, they would have laid her down somewhere and possibly bury her in a ditch, making her body “in it’s grave, in a ditch not far away”. If she died as a result of the impact of the fall, she would not have been “birthed” in a “dry Ravine,” but rather would have been killed inside the womb in a watery grave. Now that the only ting keeping the girl from jumping with the man is gone, she also feels intense anguish and takes the man’s hand then jump off the cliffs of Dover as seagulls cry out, and hence the line “We fall but our souls are flying,” (as in their souls leaving their falling bodies.) Both the man and the girl “go down Together” and there’s also “No one left to mourn” for Leslie Anne Levine. As for Leslie Anne Levine, she haunts the area near the vicinity of her death along with another spirit. The spirit is that of a young chimney sweep, (who were often young orphaned boys) who died while being “lost and logged inside a flue” (a flue is the pipe used to vent the exhaust from a fire). As for the line “clinging to the petticoats of the girl that died” with her, I don’t believe this needs to be taken literally but helps explain why she still haunts the area fifteen years later. She rightfully blames her parents, esp. her mother for her death, and thus is clinging to her. |
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| The All-American Rejects – Kiss Yourself Goodbye Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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okay, down to business.... I think this song is about a guy (ex boyfriend maybe) who is getting tired of consoling a girl who tries to (or threatens to) attempt suicide because of a boyfriend/lover/etc.... here are my reasons why: "your colors running down"- Mascara running down from crying eyes perhaps... "It's the one you love"- the lover/boyfriend causing the suicidal thoughts "this copulated kiss, the last that you deserve"- yeah, making her feel better through sexual gratification and wanting to end it. "I've done wrong, I've been gone"- guy feels guilty for not being around. "If it was up to me, you'd cry tonight"- an alternitive to suicide maybe? "When it's up to you, kiss yourself goodbye"-meaning she's threatening to commit suicide, and it also sounds like some comtempt on the guys part, saying he won't let her use him to make her feel better anymore. "Push up Daisies"- a metaphor for dying (I'll explain for anyone who may not know this expression: When you die they put you in the ground and you become basically fertilizer, making plants like daisies grow...) "A thousand maybes, a thousand left I'm done"- all the girls excuses and threats, the "I'm done" reiterating his feelings of being used. "A white glow. just for tasting" maybe this is a youthanism for using coccain or another white colored drug... maybe how she's killing herself? i'm not sure though as i have never done drugs.. what do you guys think? "a life a-wasting"- yeah pretty self explanitory.... anyways, this is a good song.... the intro is indeed awesome... that's just my two cents, anyone got any other ideas? |
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| Bleu – Something's Gotta Give Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this song is pretty self explanitory. I went through something like that once... That period of time after a break up is the most akward because your future is undeterminable. Bleu rocks though, i sing in his choir and he once listened to me pee | |
| Goldfinger – 99 Red Balloons Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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an old boyfriend of mine liked this song so much, i personally blew up 99 red balloons and put them into his room on his birthday before he woke up. :) anyways, you guys are missing the funniest part of this song. It's by a german girl during the cold war, and SHE SOLD TO AMERICAN FANS AND THEY LOVED IT. man, we amercians can be friggin idiots someimtes.... but song does indeed kick ass |
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| Oasis – Half The World Away Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this song is my life right now. I'm away at college in a small farm town in iowa, and it really doesn't smell pretty (mostly like cows). I've been so stressed out trying to fit in this stupid school where everyone is immature and clicky. Let's just say it's not living up to my expectations. I'm half the world away from my family and friends. This school is not helping me acheive the goals and dreams that are mine anyway, my mind is running around like crazy all the time. I just turned21 and feel sooooo old, esp when everyone around here acts like 14 year old asses. Anyways, yeah, this song totally makes sense to me. i'm also a song writer and could have written the exact same thing myself | |
| Dashboard Confessional – Am I Missing Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Okay, well your all on the right track i think... As most dashie fans know, Chris's cousin justin died in a car wreck (hence the song "for Justin" very sad indeed) Note: fresh new coma, brace for the impact, was the bosy found etc... Anyways, that prolly influenced him to write this song... I believe the two "chris's" singing the different parts are supposed to represent two different people. How fortunate that for chris that emo songs can almost always have two meanings... i'm sure it was written for Justin, but can been seen in the relationship light as well... Damn you emo kids, always thinking songs are about breaking up, lol... | |
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