| Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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It’s June 2020 and I’m stuck on this song. We’re on a plateau with COVID 19 as the markets crash and our zany president tries to make America racist again. They only need one Cadillac to get where they’re going, but they don’t need smokes or chicken. |
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| Spoon – Tear It Down Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| This song is amazing. To me it’s about feeling connected to someone in a dream or trance like state, but I could see it applying to someone with whom you had a close relationship. | |
| Spoon – WhisperI'lllistentohearit Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| A song for the lonely and displaced. | |
| Spoon – I Ain't the One Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| This structure of this song reminds me a whole lot of The Agony of Lafitte. I think it really kicks in the last minute or so of the song. | |
| Father John Misty – Nancy From Now On Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[LoserNo1:31811] “Oh pour me another drink” sounds like “oh poor me, another drink”. He’s beating himself up so you might as well punch him in the face and call him a Nancy boy since nothing you do to him will ever hurt him as much as he hurts himself. |
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| Father John Misty – Nancy From Now On Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I just love the rolling piano that comes before the chorus with those sparking notes afterwards that sound just like rolling, sunlit waves. | |
| Father John Misty – Nancy From Now On Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[prettybird:31810] his symbol is the stamp on his hand that allows him reentry at the bar if he goes outside to smoke. | |
| Spoon – The Delicate Place Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[lovelikeoxygen:31809], this happened to me decades ago with powerful instant chemistry. I never thought of this song that way, but it fits. | |
| Jack White – Temporary Ground Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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On a floating lily island Moving over slowly sideways Rest the temporary creatures Spending all of their days Waiting for the floor to Buckle down below their belts Crashing into yet another Drifting continental shelf We're nothing more than temporary creatures inhabiting a constantly shifting and changing planet that could open up and eat us at any moment. Moving without motion Screaming without sound Across an open ocean Lying there on temporary ground This makes me think the song was written on an airplane. Just in general we're always moving, even when sitting still, in our natural functions and rhythms and planetary orbit. Temporary ground in this context makes me think of high and low tides and how ocean levels are changing. The old explorers had it easy They discovered nothing new But returned on home with answers Of sad existent clues All the creatures have it hard now Nothing but God is left to know And why he left us all here hanging With an illusion of a home. The dichotomy of the ease of the old explorers and difficulty of modern folks is playful because it's completely counterintuitive. We can hop on an airplane and go anywhere where they had to endure long ocean or land voyages into uncharted terrain. I know there's a lot more to discover in this world beyond religion, but he makes a good point. |
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| The Raconteurs – Steady, As She Goes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I saw Jack White in concert last night. After the 'When you have completed...' verse, as he repeated 'Then you'll settle down,' he made the exaggerated motion of putting a ring on his ring finger, really twisting it on. I was there with my husband and it made me uncomfortable like he was sending him a private message to dump me. Silly, I know, but the ''marriage is a trap" message of this song was sent loud and clear. | |
| Spoon – My First Time, Volume 3 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I'm so excited this song is up here. I love it. I've always thought it was about a guy who was brought back from the dead three times. A bad car accident that injured his spine, a brain injury, and a heart attack maybe. I just love the way he sings, "Can you feel that?" later establishing such a mood. |
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| Roky Erickson – Burn the Flames [*] Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I love this song so much. It's a masterpiece. | |
| Spoon – Mountain To Sound Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Well i guess i better change that interpretation if some ghost came by to downcote it. mountain to sound mountain to sound (person sitting next to him at a boarding gate is sitting still as a mountain listening to really loud music on headphones) time's so slow it's barely in person barely there, so down (time is ticking by at a snail's pace) we've been at the airport so long now (stuck at a terminal) we've gone back to sound (listening to music that someone else is listening to at the gate) it'll come back to you it'll come back to you soon (he'll remember the name of the band or song) come right back to you it'll come back to you (one day mountain will be sitting next to someone in an airport for hours on end listening to their loud/obnoxious music) and I think I am losing this hard-on (mountain's hot) that's okay (but mountain's music volume is annoying) all the noise you're playing after hours sounds like hot shit to me (mountain has good taste in music) all the noise you're playing after hours you could turn it down (mountain needs to turn down their music) I've been at the airport so long now (he's never going to get where he's trying to get to) mountain to sound (nothing changes) |
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| Spoon – Mountain To Sound Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Britt's at the airport, a regional hub, trying to get back home and some chick (sound) is screaming at an entirely unresponsive ticket agent (mountain) which kind of annoys him and kind of turns him on but overall he's just had it and resigned himself to the fact that he'll never get out of this airport where time is so slow it has moved backwards to when people communicated through threatening sounds and grunts and screeches rather than reason and logic. | |
| Nirvana – Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam [Original MTV Version] Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I always hear some "Don't expect me to die for thee"s in there. | |
| Nirvana – About a Girl Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| That last line can't be correct. "I do whip her into line" makes more sense but I can't see him writing that unless the entire song is a send up of relationships where guys pine after a free loving woman which actually might make sense. | |
| Nirvana – About a Girl Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I do... I do... I do... All in all it's a love song. She doesn't sound quite as committed as him though. |
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| Talking Heads – Psycho Killer Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I don't know if Bret Easton Ellis has ever confirmed this, but Psycho Killer has to be the inspiration for American Psycho. This song song is like a portrait of Patrick Bateman. | |
| Gogol Bordello – Supertheory of Supereverything Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yeah, I don't see the song as bashing God, but a statement against organized religion, specifically Christianity. The idea that God has a sense of humor but the Bible misrepresents him because the disciples that wrote it were untrustworthy and the people that represent him today don't act as even the Bible says they should. I don't know enough about superconductors or string theory to comment on the science connection to the rest of the song. | |
| M.I.A. – Teqkilla Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I love this song, but it makes me think of blacked out sorority girls on Spring Break in Cancun puking all over and getting into the Girls Gone Wild van. | |
| M.I.A. – Paper Planes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It's from Straight To Hell which is about little half-American children growing up in war torn countries longing to go home to America after they've been abandoned by their G.I. daddies. It's a very appropriate selection. The song is clearly about American's fear of immigrants because she's said as much. The line "If you catch me at the boarder I've got visas in my name," is playing off of that because foreigners need a visa to live and work in America. She's playing off of all the worst paranoid fears of Americans concerning immigrants, fake papers, drug use, terrorism... pretty much everything but "they're taking our jobs". It's a genius song, just killer. |
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| The Beatles – She Came In Through the Bathroom Window Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"she could steal but she could not rob" I take this to mean that she could break into people's homes and take what isn't hers, but in a direct confrontation with someone she can't stand her ground. I see robbing more as holding a gun to someone's head and saying, "Give me your wallet!". "Now she sucks her thumb and wanders/By the banks of het own lagoon" to me is her contemplating the direction her life has taken and how she's failed at living her dreams. This ties into "Didn't anybody tell her?/Didn't anybody see?/Sunday's on the phone to Monday/Tuesdays on the phone to me." with the way that days connect and time flies so swiftly that one day you're a pretty young wealthy woman breaking into people's homes for sport and the next you're middle aged and sitting by the dismal lagoon of your own life wondering where you went wrong. |
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| Spoon – Goodnight Laura Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| One final thought, please don't hate for my stupid spelling. I don't have spell check on my 3G IPad. | |
| Spoon – Goodnight Laura Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is the explaination I got: Goodnight Laura, don't you know your bed awaits and now it's time for sleeping? G.W. isn't the president anymore so she can now rest easy out of the limelight. Goodnight Laura, close your eyes you words are meant to stop at night you know they're not for keeping She can finally close her eyes to the world and all the troubles that her husband wrought; she no longer has to think about it or explain his idiocy. If you want to fall asleep be very still and you close your eyes, and slow yourself and let the worry leave you, and let go if it all just for this evening She can clear her conscious and make peace with the world if she keeps herself and G.W. "very still", he's advising her to not medddle in national affairs and keep him out of them too. Alright Alright Go to sleep to the world and it'll be alright. You can fall asleep by being very still as you let your breath slow down and when you think your thoughts be sure that they are sweet ones they are sweet ones Try to stay positive, Laua Bush! Don't you know, Laura, you're alright? You're alright Self explainatory, you're alright, Laura Bush, not great or fantastic, but alright. Let's not think about your hubby right now, ok? Cause he clearly doesn't deserve an "alright". |
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| Paul Simon – Peace Like A River Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Well I'm with imjeffwhatever. The song is open to personal interpretation of course, but when I first heard it it felt to me like someone staring down the trials he's had to endure and still endures and somewhat making peace with the hope that a better day will come. Slavery actually was my first thought but I agree with his interpretation of it being about oppression in general. I love it because the mood to me is so free but at the same time constrictive, I really don't know how he accomplished that. | |
| Love – Alone again or Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| One of my favorite songs ever. The emotion conveyed by just the trembling strings is enough to drive me to the edge of some great cathartic outburst. Like other people here, I was haunted by this song for years before a DJ finally identified it after playing it on the radio. Such a beautiful song. | |
| Spoon – Nobody Gets Me But You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Or forgotten. Yeah, that sounds more like it. | |
| Spoon – Nobody Gets Me But You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Nope. I am universally gotten. |
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| Spoon – The Infinite Pet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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neckrug, not hairrug. I get that the theme with that is the hair on the back of his neck, that patch that most men can't cut themselves and which he apparently wants to keep warm, but I don't fully understand all that. When I got up I cut my neckrug off Resigned my name to the ranks of the blamed and the scoffed Cursing the day I met The infinite pet I sat back I put my neckshirt on Resigned myself to the fate of the failed and the conned Just like the day I met The infinite pet So I guess cutting the neckrug is shedding himself of her, making him the object of scorn and blame, most likely by her. Then the dangerous coat check, he was out with this girl and at the coat check one of the other guys she sees showed up and blew her cover and that's what makes the coat check dangerous. The neckshirt might be a kind of false identity. He's not being completely natural from now on. He's on guard and he feels conned and like a failure because she was so slutty. |
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| Spoon – The Infinite Pet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I had this idea of the Infinite Pet being like the dog that follows the kid home from school. The kid wants the dog to belong to him, but it doesn't, the dog goes where it gets the best meal. I'm not saying she's a bitch, but she seems to have loose ties to him and a few more boys whose homes she visits when she feels she can get what she wants out of them. The hair rug, coat check, and neck shirt confuse me, maybe it's a symbolic way of saying that he's cut ties with her or has taken up with her again. He knows that she's cheap and she only comes around when he "dances for her pleasure" so to speak, but he likes having her available and if he has to degrade himself to keep her around, that's just what has to be done. | |
| The Breeders – Drivin' On 9 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Yeah, I think it's about a country or desert girl that gets knocked up and marries the father of her baby even though he doesn't want to be in the picture and she's not sure she wants to marry him. I get the impression that she's leaving him as she's driving down 9, if you see the events described as backwards, it kind of makes sense. My boyfriend lived on a farm road 9 when I was in high school and this song always reminds me of him. |
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| The Breeders – Do You Love Me Now? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song reminds me of high school and heartbreak and all the bad things you'll do to get someone back or do to try and forget about them. Love it, it just burns. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Who Loves The Sun Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I had never thought that it was a burn on the Beatles but now that you mention it... I had always thought they were making fun of the Beach Boys for some reason but The Beatles makes much more sense. Love this song, the cough freaks me out and the chorus is so great. |
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| Spoon – Nobody Gets Me But You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Turns out this song was inspired by Dabney Coleman. Nobody gets him but Britt. | |
| Spoon – Before Destruction Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That's interesting, Siggy! It probably doesn't much, but I Saw the Light is also the name of an old gospel song. | |
| Spoon – Trouble Comes Running Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Why are so few people commenting on these songs? I think this is about how when he gets into a stable relationship "trouble comes running" and he gets swept up into another one. "Slaves are on the horses, princes walk the ground like they're slaves," is such a strange line. I like it but I'm not sure what it means in this day and age. Brown Sound is an actual clothing company. I guess their clothes are so hot they make people shit themselves? There. Someone commented. |
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| Spoon – Is Love Forever? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| And I guess there's an answer in there for me. Unconditional love, like the kind you have for a child or feel for your family really is forever. | |
| Spoon – Is Love Forever? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the supermarket is a world of loving women or attractive women or both. "They won't leave without me" should be reassuring but to me evokes the feeling of panic and insecurity when you were a child and lost sight of your mom. I think I'm off on that since the supermarket of loving women who really won't leave him. "All I need's a word to get me started" is about how easily attraction can be bred by something as simple as a look, a smile, a word and how easy it is to start to fall in love. The rest is questioning the nature of love qnd lust, pretty straightforward to me. This also makes me think of Lost In A Supermarket by Clash but that's probably not relevant. |
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| Spoon – Out Go The Lights Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Lyric in the first verse should be "the call for wind and rain". I like how "one two punch" sounds like "one to punch". |
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| The Velvet Underground – Hey Mr. Rain Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Trepidation. That's the word I was looking for. It's a little ominous. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Hey Mr. Rain Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I hear staring up at the sky and fall instead of from. I love this song so much. The viola and the steady rhythm of the background instruments create the most fantastic kind of melancholy mood. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Lady Godiva's Operation Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That's what I've imagined. Lady Godiva of the song is such a libertine that she's given a labotomy to keep her "in her place". The ether leaks, she wakes, her screams echo on the walls and a gruesome portrait of a botched operation is painted. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Lady Godiva's Operation Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Yes! Love that! | |
| Spoon – Chloroform Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Maybe she faked her own death to get attention from him but it just pushed him away. I like your interpretation better,. | |
| Spoon – Advance Cassette Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I need to correct this. I've been out here for so long that I'm not sure how you wound me so tight I guess he's like a casette on the side of the road with the tape hanging out all over the place and he's not really sure not only how he's going to get it together, but how he wound up so wound up in the first place. |
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| Spoon – Advance Cassette Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Back in the day when cars had tape players but before CD players were really mainstream, some stereos had an "advance" feature or "next" button that would find the break between songs so you could fast-forward through a track. My mom had that feature in her 92 Cavalier. I had thought it was about that, advancing the casette so he wouldn't have to listen to some song that reminded him of some girl. Seeing it as an advanced copy of a casette or one of those casettes that record stores used to give out with like 10 songs from different artists would make sense. "Wound me so tight" makes it seem like he's the tape on the reel that's about to break. At the same time, I kind of feel like he's just one song on her casette reel, a sample on the compilation tape of her loves. |
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| Spoon – Nobody Gets Me But You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| One lonely night Britt Daniel was up really late. He couldn't sleep. His mind was burdened and when he closed his eyes all his thoughts raced and they were bad ones, very bad ones. Somehow in a daze he wound up on the internet, this very site in fact! In a fit of guilt-fed egotism, he looked at the comments about songs he hswlf has written. He read them all! He became so dispondant that since then, he hasn't slept a night! But some good did come from this tragic tale. As the sun peeked above the horizon the next morning, he got Jim Eno on the horn. He told him about the horrors he'd seen. Before he hung up he said, "Dude. Nobody gets me. Nobody gets me but you.". And thus, this song was born. | |
| M.I.A. – XR2 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| BBD is Bell Biv DeVoe I'm guessing. They sang, "That girl is poisooooooooon!" in the early 90s. | |
| The Clash – Inoculated City Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Yeah, the 2000 Flushes section was removed after the original album pressing because of copyright infringement. I love that sample though, it ties into "The bulletins that steady come in say those Familiar words at the top of the hour". |
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| Spoon – I Summon You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I was just fuckin' around when I wrote that stuff about the person being in jail. But I also like the metaphor of a long distance relationship being akin to being imprisoned in a mental jail. I also like the idea of this song being about serving jury duty. |
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