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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The first stanza is undoubtably about Anne Frank
"The only girl I've ever loved/Was born with roses in her eyes/But then they buried her alive/One evening 1945/With just her sister at her side/And only weeks before the guns/All came and rained on everyone."
Anne Frank died in 1945 around the same time as her sister Margo, shortly before the Soviet troops arrived and liberated everyone in Auschwitz. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This whole album is about beauty coming out of horrible things. Anne Frank inspired the album but this song isn't necessarily about her. I think it's definately a love song to someone with troubled parents, a mother who drinks and a father who wants to die.
The real question is this, what's a carrot flower? |
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| Modest Mouse – The World at Large Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I'm just going to sound this at risk of sounding stupid. It reminds me of Catcher in the Rye. I know, I know, everyone says that about every song by every band ever but this song really just reminds me of it. I don't even especially like Catcher but the lyrics in this song bring me back to highschool and reading it, that's all. |
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| The Shins – Know Your Onion! Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I'm not agreeing with the masturbation thing I'm afraid. I think it's about being a teenager and growing up and not fitting in. He reads books and listens to reconds and makes himself someone. Then he leaves and moves away and everyone thinks he's making a bad choice. |
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| Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I don't think this song is about Catcher in the Rye or The Great Gatsby.
I do see the Gatsby metaphors. "Tiny cities made of ashes" is quite similar "the valley of ashes" but I think it's more about politicians and how they mess up the world. I do think that it shares similar themes with Gatsby, but I don't think it's about it.
Catcher I'm just not seeing at all. Holden doesn't relate to the world but he doesn't destroy it either. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Both of the about facts are true and not speculation. The Mrs Roosevelt thing is from Jeopardy and Simon and Garfunkel explained the Joe Dimaggio thing on their own because he was confused by it. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Oh and Joe DiMaggio is a metaphor for better times. It takes place in the 30s and 40s when the depression and world war two hit so they're saying "where did the good times go", the good times being the 1920s. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song was originally called Mrs Roosevelt and was written about Eleanor Roosevelt but they changed it to Mrs Robinson for The Graduate. It really isn't about the film at all. |
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| The Postal Service – Be Still My Heart Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I like this song but the first two lines suck. I'm sorry but they just seem silly and out of place. I wish they weren't there or they were something less silly. |
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| Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think this song is about putting to much faith in dreams. When ever you sleep you see things that will never exist and that will break you heart. I think the urging people not to sleep so they won't dream is a bit tounge in cheek. |
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| Beck – Girl Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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In the first stanza, sixth line, it's supposed to be "dark sunglasses" not "cheap sunglasses" |
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| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I always feel like it's about procreation. Like two people having sex, trying to make a baby. Maybe they lost a child. It's how the world began and how the world will end. People have been doing it since the beginning of time. Also, I feel like there are references to Adam and Eve. |
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| The Postal Service – Sleeping In Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is definately mocking society. I'm still trying to completely figure out the first verse but the second one is pretty clear. It's about how rather than deal with problems in the world, people just assume it's a good thing. They think that global warming is nice, they can "swim any day in November." They say it's a reward for doing some somewhat mundane good things. The sleeping in part refers to not wanting to face the truth. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Joan of Arc Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I love this song, I love how it's like a poem. I think it's my favorite Cohen song. Up there anyway, it's hard to pick. |
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| Iron & Wine – Woman King Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think it's saying the only way the sexes will ever be equal is if women war-like and power hungry like men. |
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| Zero 7 – Morning Song Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I love the Sylvia Plath version, but this one doesn't do much for me. I don't think they're related other than title. |
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| Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I'm using this for my poetry class, you had to pick a song that was also a poem. Everyone else picked things like Sublime and Fall Out Boy. |
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| Iron & Wine – Muddy Hymnal Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I love this song, it's not as great lyrically as some of the others but its got a great melody and tells an intresting story. My favorite part is "found your children by the tavern door/ with wooden buttons & an apple core/ playing house/ and telling everyone you'd drowned"
Amazing. |
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| Iron & Wine – Free Until They Cut Me Down Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think it's probably about lynchings, because a hanging would most likely be done not on a tree but on the gallows. If a black man took a white woman home, he'd probably be hung. |
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| Iron & Wine – Upward Over the Mountain Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's definately about a mother/son relationship. Parent/child relationships are complicated.
My favorite part is "mother remember the blink of an eye when i breathed through your body?"
He's growing up, getting in trouble but he loves his mother. |
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