| Bastille – Pompeii Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Climate change metaphor, anyone? | |
| Guster – Two Points For Honesty Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is about clinical depression. The meaning is very clear to anyone who has ever suffered from it. | |
| Of Monsters And Men – Little Talks Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| In my minds eye, she has Alzheimers or dementia and is deteriorating badly, and he loves her but he's dying, and passes away by the third verse. | |
| Of Monsters And Men – Little Talks Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Probably not, since Edward Sharpe is a fictional character (like Hootie, of Hootie & the Blowfish). I'm interested though, which magnetic zeros song does this remind you of? You're not the first person I've seen make that comparison, but I don't hear it myself in the Magnetic Zeros songs I've been exposed to. | |
| Bill Callahan – Eid Ma Clack Shaw Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is a popular myth, like "you can't dream in color" and "if you die in a dream, you die for real." I have read personally read text in dreams. I remember one, in particular, back when I was in high school and I got my report card back, there were like 40 classes listed, half of which I'd received an 'F' in, and in the other half the grades were even worse, like 'Q'. The text was clearly printed on the paper and I read and understood it. (I also dream in color, and used to have dreams pretty frequently where I died before I woke up) |
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| Tunng – Woodcat Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The lyrics are pretty clear that she's been turned into a cat. A wood cat, in fact. | |
| R.E.M. – Radio Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is clearly about how being unable to leave a dying relationship is like turning on the radio to the same song you hate day after day. But, at the same time, it's about how radio stations choose one song to play day in and day out for weeks at a time, and it'll always come on if you just listen for more than 20 minutes. |
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| Harvey Danger – War Buddies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is about the relationship between Russia and the United States during World War 1 & World War 2, segueing into the start of the Cold War. | |
| The Wallflowers – One Headlight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I just wanted to say that I used to, and sometimes still do, get this song confused with "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran. | |
| Duran Duran – Ordinary World Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I just wanted to say that I used to, and sometimes still do, get this song confused with "One Headlight" by The Wallflowers. | |
| Guster – I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Alternately, this is what the other person in bed is thinking about while the first guy is having the dream from "Long Way Down". | |
| Guster – Keep It Together Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Maybe it is about the band. But I like it better thinking of it as a dreamlike situation, where they find a place the world doesn't know about, and build a nation, only to have it end up just like the old one when the rest of the world comes in. | |
| Guster – Red Oyster Cult Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's the obligatory cult song. Along with Airport Song from Goldfly and All the Way Up to Heaven from Lost and Gone Forever. |
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| Guster – I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I don't think this song is out of place with the rest of the CD at all. In fact, the lyrics directly follow "Long Way Down" "Long Way Down" is about a dream he has asleep in his girlfriend (or significant other)'s bed. "I Hope Tomorrow is Like Today" is where he wakes up, and she's still asleep next to him, and that makes him happy. Sure, it's a different singer, but when the songs are right next to each other on the CD, and the lyrics fit together like that... |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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More specifically, this is what someone is hearing upon being lead into an institution for the criminally insane. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that "First of the children." either describes him, or is what he says upon being put into his cell. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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If a cinemateque is a place where you can see cinema, an idioteque would be a place where you can see idiots. Or people who society deems unable to discern fantasy from reality. It follows that the song takes place in a mental institution. A cacophony of people who's minds are broken; who are repeating one key phrase to themselves. |
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| Guster – Love For Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is just my interpretation, and it's a fairly superficial reading, so it could be wrong, but... He's depressed, and trying to find a niche in life where people won't treat him badly. More specifically he's trying to find a place with someone who loves him, hence "I won't be there alone". He found it before, but didn't recognize it, and tried to kill himself. (Cause I bled. And you watched.) And when he tried to explain, he found out the person who loves him is too scared to be close to him now. But he knows that person will come back eventually, "because of the love for me." I can probably make this more sensible in the morning. |
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| Guster – Dissolve Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I pretty much agree with Kinger. I think the song is pretty much telling them to move on after the suicide. That they need to stop guilting themselves, because, blaming themselves for his suicide is actually blaming his suicide for everything that's wrong in their lives. It works this way: If they continue to blame themselves, they're racked with guilt. Then whenever they fall through on their real responsibilities, the guilt-depression becomes an excuse. It boils down to: they need to stop feeling guilty and sorry for themselves. |
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| Guster – All The Way Up To Heaven Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Am I the only one who sees the overt references to Heaven's Gate? | |
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