| Lady GaGa – The Queen Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is undoubtedly also about showing encouragement for queens--drag queens and just very flamboyant gay guys. Gaga could not be more explicit about her love for her gay fans and gay culture, and with lyrics such as "The lady I have become" and "Come inside me like never before" it seems quite clear that this song is about queens in the gay slang sense as well as some broad sense of Gaga being The Queen--probably of pop. | |
| Lady GaGa – The Queen Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Killer Queen" is one of Queen's biggest hits. Hell, the song's named "The Queen" and the next track on the album, "You and I" features Queen guitarist Brian May. As far as the reference in the music, I think he's probably referring to the harmonized guitars towards the end. Heavily layered, harmonized lead guitars is one of Brian May's trademark moves. |
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| Lady GaGa – The Queen Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I can't believe you missed the Queen reference in the actual lyrics: "The Killer Queen inside of me is coming to say hello." |
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| St. Vincent – Save Me From What I Want Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I like the play on words in the "wash away" pre-chorus part. Going with the cheating angle, it seems this woman this is in a very stifling and repressed marriage. The keys rattle her husband away because he doesn't want to rock the boat by confronting her when she leaves for her late-night trysts (this is also a double entendre with the word "awake"). She's a wife in watercolors in that she can disguise the emotions she shows on the surface--not let on her feelings about the affair to her husband, just as she doesn't let on her dissatisfaction about their relationship to him. But, though she can wash away her surface emotions (watercolors), she can't wash away her deeper urges even with seventeen cold showers and, thus, the affair. |
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| St. Vincent – Save Me From What I Want Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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OOPS. Pwned. I was going more based off of what I thought made sense at the time, but re-reading the lyrics and reflecting on the song's meaning, "fiery escape" actually makes more sense. And it's probably also meant to be a double entendre--based on the context and her pronunciation. |
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| M.I.A. – Teqkilla Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is ENTIRELY speculation, but given the fact that the line about wanting "To kill'a" is followed by the Gaga diss, perhaps Ben Bronfman and Gaga were romantically involved before him and Maya got together? Maya also dissed Gaga in an interview not too long after the release of this album. She seemingly has a pretty bad grudge against her. While I can't find anything in the media about Bronfman and Gaga being romantically linked, Gaga is notoriously tight-lipped about her own sex/love life. |
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| M.I.A. – Teqkilla Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is ENTIRELY speculation, but given the fact that the line about wanting "To kill'a" is followed by the Gaga diss, perhaps Ben Bronfman and Gaga were romantically involved before him and Maya got together? Maya also dissed Gaga in an interview not too long after the release of this album. She seemingly has a pretty bad grudge against her. While I can't find anything in the media about Bronfman and Gaga being romantically linked, Gaga is notoriously tight-lipped about her own sex/love life. |
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| Nelly Furtado – No Hay Igual Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think during the chorus, a more accurate approximation might be: "I only want you Nothing's the same I hope that my body smells like you after you've loved me I want nothing else It's not the same." I think what's throwing a lot of people off is that the sentence construction is so drastically different than it would be in English. It really doesn't translate at all into a manner that fits the rhythm and meter of the chorus. |
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| Nelly Furtado – No Hay Igual Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think during the chorus, a more accurate approximation might be: "I only want you Nothing's the same I hope that my body smells like you after you've loved me I want nothing else It's not the same." I think what's throwing a lot of people off is that the sentence construction is so drastically different than it would be in English. It really doesn't translate at all into a manner that fits the rhythm and meter of the chorus. |
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| Arcade Fire – Crown of Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think laurelinwyntre is onto something. I suspected this song had a religious element to it, and that reference she found in the song definitely goes along that line. What first caught my ears and made me think the song had a religious element to it is the end, the lines, "You got to be the one, you got to be the way, your name is the only word that I can say." In this interpretation, he's asking for Jesus' forgiveness, not that of an ex-lover. He's weary of romantic/lustful love and is instead turning to faith. The "you" he refers to changes throughout from a(n) ex-lover(s) and Jesus; he's an adolescent, and is conflicted about both his spirituality and his lustful feelings/feelings of infatuation. |
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| Le Tigre – Fake French Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| After the part that goes, "oh oh oh oh oh oh oh got to move....." she says, "I've got cunt got cunt got cunt got cunt got cunt got cunt got cunt got." | |
| St. Vincent – The Apocalypse Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I do too, and I'm not trying to hate on him, just offering my interpretation of what St. Vincent was trying to say with this song. | |
| Lady GaGa – Paparazzi Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Good summary of the video, but the lyrics do not tell that story at all. | |
| St. Vincent – The Apocalypse Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It seems to me like she's mocking (or, more politely put, criticizing) a religious fanatic for denying facts ("You wake with the stitches over both your eyes") and his conservative social views, particularly when it comes to sex ("You'll deny me my body and all earthly delights;" "All of your prayers amount to just warm breath/Please keep your victory but give me little death.") Registentionalism, I agree with your interpretation, but only as it applies to the line about "little death." The song really seems to be about much more than sex. We can all probably speculate as to who this religious fanatic is. Just take a quick look at who she's played music with in the past ... |
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| St. Vincent – Save Me From What I Want Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it actually goes, "Keys are in my pocket They rattle you awake Seventh floor apartment And a fire escape." |
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| of Montreal – Triphallus, to Punctuate! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The actual line is "What do you think, I ain't got caller ID?", rather than "You think I've got caller ID? | |
| Camera Obscura – The World Is Full of Strangers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's a bonus track off of "My Maudlin Career" that's available exclusively on the iTunes store. | |
| Camera Obscura – Careless Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Haha. I didn't mean to. I think what happened was I had all of the lyrics typed up in Word, but then accidentally submitted them on here without first pasting the words. It wouldn't let me edit until after my submission had been approved, and it then took me a while to remember to edit this. (Weird that they actually approved it without any lyrics ... I think I accidentally did something similar before and it wasn't posted.) |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – My Mirror Speaks Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I would speculate that those lines you cite are more just general themes and motifs that Ben's using again, rather than conscious references. But still an interesting observation. |
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| Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| And you are correct. I've got the CD and the lyrics booklet says "lucid." | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – A Diamond and a Tether Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song was written during the recording sessions for Narrow Stairs. I think that's around the time that Ben and his ex-girlfriend Joan Hiller split. So probably not about Zooey ... It's somewhat speculative on my part, but it seems like this EP and much of Narrow Stairs is about Ben's problems committing to Joan. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – The Stars of Track and Field Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song's written from the perspective of some sort of journalist/track and field talent scout. He talks about a boy he "never rated" Then he talks about writing a piece about her now that she's made it. I think it's ambiguous as to whether she's a lesbian or not. The third line, "They never know it," could refer to her being a lesbian or simply her being rather promiscuous/sexually deviant. "She never needed anyone to get around the track But when she's on her back she had the knowledge to get her into college." She's an accomplished track runner, but it seems she doesn't do well in her studies, so she uses sex to advance her academic career. Seems she probably uses it to advance her social standing on the track team as well. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – The Stars of Track and Field Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have one correction – the requiem continues: "'She never needed anyone To get around the track But when she's on her back She had the knowledge to get her into college But when she's on her back She had the knowledge to get her what she wanted.'" |
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| Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I am certain that there are mistakes here, but I listened and re-listened and still couldn't figure several parts out. The parts I'm least confident of have the (?)s. Please leave any corrections you have! This post was really just meant as a starting point for people with better ears than mine. |
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| Camera Obscura – Tears for Affairs Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Here's my take: What sticks out first is how she says "Affairs don't win" and "you won't win." It sounds like a competition, at first between tears and affairs, and then between her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her and herself. In the first verse, she's pondering whether love makes people blind. She's upset about discovering the affair, but it doesn't make sense. He has wronged her, so he's not worth it, so what's she weeping about? The chorus is her seeing right through all of his excuses. To her, there's no excuse for what he's done whatsoever. He clearly wanted to if he drove to his mistress' house; he didn't "find it hard to" if he managed to show no remorse up until she found out. In the end, neither tears, affairs nor her ex- win. She cries in the short turn both as catharsis — no matter how certain you are that you were wronged, you're bound to get upset about the relationship ending — and also to spite him. He asks her not to cry for his sake, so she just goes ahead and cries. When this song's being written, it seems she's gotten over him and has "won." |
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| Common – Real People Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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AeonTorpor- I think for some reason he's assuming that when black men date white women, it's because they don't respect black women and, in turn, they're disrespecting their race as a whole. I really don't agree with this assumption, and it doesn't seem fair — how can he tell that about someone walking down the street that he doesn't even know? — but I think that's what he means. |
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| The Teenagers – Homecoming Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I have a few corrections. Rather than "and i met her step daughter" it's "on day one I met her hot step daughter." "I could only notice she was more than fuckable." He says "she was holding that silly pom-pom," not "her stick and pom-pom." The girl's line in the chorus is actually "It was perfect a dream came true/ Just like a song by Blink-182." At the very end, after she says "And don't forget to send me a friend request," he says "As if!" |
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| Finger Eleven – Paralyzer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's actually a rip off of the melody from "Moving in Stereo" by The Cars as well. Seriously, just listen to the two songs back to back, it is sooo painfully blatant. I think The Cars should sue them, because The Cars are actually good and this band is incredibly shitty. They seriously sounded like Disturbed to me when I first heard them, which is HORRIBLE thing. | |
| Say Anything – Woe Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think he basically determined that he's going to say what he wants, when he wants. He's facing challenges from audiences who just laugh at him and talk about how he's completely melodramatic — "That boy got woe." The girl with the pointy shoes isn't a prostitute — she's a groupie. "She took pity on me / horizontally but most likely because of my band." They're both kind of commiserating, as they're both weary and frustrated with their lives. He plans to keep pushing on through his tour and with his band, despite all this and despite the "plutocrats" (perhaps record execs) getting in his way. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see, I'd put you in the mirror, I put in front of me... Skip a life completely. Stuff it in a cup. She said, Money is like us in time, It lies, but can't stand up. Down for you is up." venus in furs- I don't really think this song is that clear or striaight forward at all. Maybe the sentiment- sadness over a relationship that is ending- is. But not the nature of the relationship, or the lines I quoted. It is so much more than a sad break-up song. That said, the lines about the mirror really intrigue me. I think he's saying that, if he were not biased towards her, and did not place her on a pedastal above himself- if he were able to understand and judge her objectively, as he does himself when looking in the mirror- their relatioship/ affair ending would be easier. I still haven't figured out a reasonable explanation of the lines "Skip a life completely... it lies but can't stand up." |
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| Say Anything – Admit It!!! Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is about elitist hipsters in general, the kind that condescend to emo kids and scene kids. Yet, at the same time Max is indicting elitists, I personally think he comes out as more pretentious and elitist than the hipsters he criticizes. Not everyone who shops at thrift stores or looks "pseudo-bohemian" or uses analog equipment is a snooty elitist. He then gets defensive and tries to make himself seem genuine and not so pretentious by stating his own unpretentious ambitions. I dislike elitists as much as anyone else, but this song is just plain mean-spirited- you just simply can't attempt to tear someone apart like he does because of material things like he does. It reminds me of the scene in Good Will Hunting in which Matt Damon walks into Robin Williams' character's office and just starts talking tons of shit about him because of the paintings and other items he sees in there. | |
| Built to Spill – Terrible/Perfect Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| ps the problem was that at the time he didn't realize she was perfect for him. Either way, incredible song. | |
| Built to Spill – Terrible/Perfect Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think he realizes she's not, nor was ever perfect, but reminds him alot of his unattainable perfect woman, so he wishes he hadn't taken the relationship for granted. The message is kind of similar to the on in High Fidelity. Although, perha | |
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