| Cloud Cult – It's What You Need Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It is, in fact, what you need. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Necessary Evil Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I've always heard "fingers first/crossed" as "Feeling goes first", and took it as a reference to "since feeling is first" by ee cummings. I like it this way better. |
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| Art Brut – People In Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is possibly a perfect rock song. Simple, beautiful, with a good hook. | |
| The Mountain Goats – No I Can't Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think the key to this song is going to be relating the title to the content. | |
| VNV Nation – Kingdom Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is basically exploring the ideas in modern satanism or luciferianism: individual strength, rejection of outside false ideals, etc: no one will be saved, because the only salvation comes from the self. Very nice use of subtle subversions of traditional christian phrasings as well, "My will be done" vs. "Thy will be done" |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Eisbär Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Rough translation for you: Polar bear, cold ice I want to be a polar bear at the cold poles Then I wouldn't have to yell everything would be so clear Polar bears never have to cry |
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| Man Man – Tunneling Through the Guy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I punch [???] I black out! When I feel the tease I black out! When I [???] I black out! Thank god [???] black out! "When I [???] I black out!" is "When they come to arrest me, I black out" |
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| The Lucksmiths – Friendless Summer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is amazing, and incredibly sad. I think the most characteristic lines for this song are "the springtime’s been and gone" and "we said goodbye like strangers For the first time in so long" So yes. As I read it, the song's about a friendly ex who's now in a new relationship while the singer is still alone, and regretting it. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Song for Tura Santana Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Anyone know if the Tura Santana in the title is supposed to be Tura Satana, who stared in "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" ? | |
| Spoon – Stay Don't Go Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'll aslo mention that I put way too much thought into that. | |
| Spoon – Stay Don't Go Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song plays with partial phrases and expectations. "Everyone needs something they can tell themselves" as a line leads to the interpretation of "Everyone needs something they can tell themselves to hold on to" as "everyone needs something they can tell themselves that they can hold on to" but this is not what the literal lyrics mean if taken without the phrasing. The ambiguitiy is likely intentional. The phrase "Because after it's all said and done..." does not find adequate completion in "confession is stay don't go", a phrase which doesn't actually make sense. Again, the phrasing is key. "Because after it's all said and done, confession is..." is fine to that point, and "Stay, don't go" is a break from that, which also plays on the possible expectation of "Confession is good for the soul", which differs only by one syllable count and has very similar assonance. "Ooh, it is" requires the completion of the "confession is" phrase, which we have not been granted, and "Ooh, now stay, don't go" is the interruption again. The second verse has similar ambiguity. "And it's the wrong words that make you pick up your ears" readily applies to the same time frame as "Sometimes telling the truth is the best way out", implying a contrast between the best solution and an individual's tendency, "the wrong words" being dishonesty, but "And it's the wrong words that make you pick up your ears, when later alone" shifts this to after the time when it's best to tell the truth, casting what exactly "the wrong words" are into doubt. Further, it's possible to take "When you're later alone..." as a phrase like the end of the first verse, and try to find it's completion in "Confession is (good for the soul/stay don't go)", which goes well with ideas of honesty and falsehoods. so, my interpretation of all this wordplay is this: This song is sung by a guy to someone close to him, possibly a girlfriend. Their relationship is at risk, and "Keep believing in the things that you tell yourself", is about the sort of attitude needed to make the relationship work. You need to believe it will in order for it to. Both interpretations of the second line work in this context, "Everyone needs something they can tell themselves to hold on to" being tell yourself to hold on to the relationship and "Everyone needs something they can tell themselves that they can hold on to" getting at a broader scope than this, something that a person can hold on to whatever happens. "After it's all said and done, confession is" gets at a greater need for honesty, which runs counter to the notion of beleiving in things to make them work, and the singer interrupts this with a plea instead: "Stay, don't go." "Sometimes telling the truth is the best way out" implies using the truth for a dishonest end, the easy way out, but also in the context of a relationship that's in trouble, telling the honest truth could be the final nail in the coffin, so to speak. "When later alone" makes perfect sense in the context of such a relationship, and "It's the wrong words that make you prick up your ears" could be either the person being addressed's tendency to find a new relationship in bad ways, the wrong words catching her attention, if taken in context with the "when later alone" or, if taken on the same time frame as telling the truth, it could be a tendency to focus on the negatives within the relationship. Leading in the chorus, "When later alone" is clearly the same as "When it's all said and done", both after the end of the relationship, giving the chorus the same interpretation as before. |
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| Mindless Self Indulgence – London Bridge Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'll point out that london bridge and goddamn bitch sound remarkably similar. | |
| Mindless Self Indulgence – Dicks Are For My Friends Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I sense no sarcasm, only dicks. I mean, what. also: lol what do you think it means hey guys hey I think it's about the fall of the berlin wall. I hold this to be selfevident, and therefore give you no explanation. Discuss. |
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| Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The jokers who will soon be the new kings indeed. Go Finland. | |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra – The World That He Sees Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Amazing song, I love symphonic metal. | |
| Emperor X – Raytracer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well, Either/Or is the album by Eliot Smith, for one. | |
| The Unicorns – Jellybones Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Repeated at the end: But this is love so we'll survive Definitely about love, being weak-kneed. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's important to remember the folk aspects of this music. People here seem obsessed with the religious and fantastic aspects of it, but like mendingchaos pointed out, Illinois has a strong steel industry, so rather than superman or a religious figure, it can also work as a song about the working class. On that level, there's a tension in this song between the working class and the middle class, the refrain and the verses, respectively. The speaker in the verses has money for things like a summer home, but his lines are much more sullen than the refrain, which glorifes the working class and is overall positive. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Good Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| If you listen for it, you can hear the g on the end of suggesting. It does almost sound like sadistic, but it's definitely suggesting. Additionally, I think the bitch makes sense even without it being a woman. The term can apply to guys, albeit with slightly altered meaning. | |
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