| The Clientele – Since K Got Over Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Nice theory Owen. But unfortunately, i live really near this band (often in my local pub) in west london, and almost no one does ketamine in london. It just isn't done. That doesn't rule out the drug reference, but if you met these guys you might be a little doubtful of your theory, as they're lovely, but far too St Martin's for ketamine. | |
| The Clientele – Since K Got Over Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Nice theory Owen. But unfortunately, i live really near this band (often in my local pub) in west london, and almost no one does ketamine in london. It just isn't done. That doesn't rule out the drug reference, but if you met these guys you might be a little doubtful of your theory, as they're lovely, but far too St Martin's for ketamine. | |
| Kings of Convenience – Parr-Á-Pluie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My very schoolboy french gives me: I hold you Warmly in my arms Listening to the rain which beats On the windows I have lost The power of solitude The invincibility of a heartless man Now i'm scared Because of you I am weak as if in a dream Of the softness (gentleness) of my future With you. I hold you Warmly It's better, isn't it? And outdoors it's cold Why do you leave? |
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| Spoon – Me And The Bean Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm not sure but it seems to me that this song is about Kurt Cobain's daughter; Frances Bean Cobain. For a start this is an incredibly Nirvana-like song (for spoon) britt daniels is doing a very good cobain impression and the musical arrangement (bar keydoards) is entirely lifted from "Lithium", down to the "Woah-oh-oh-oh"s in the chorus of both songs. The lyrics are quite obviously in referance to a man's feelings towards his daughter. She's young, so doesn't know anything, is beautiful to him, and "reading (his) tarots cards"; she represents his future. He describes protecting now she is young, and hopes she will care for him when he is old. In the final verse he in emphatic with the child; remembering in himself how the world must seem to her. Then, right at the end, he pronouces clearly the relationship he has been speaking of. He is her "shadow in the dark", he will constantly stand behind her, out of the limelight, throughout her life. And finally, he tells us it is truely a familial bond, for he "has (her) blood inside (his) heart", showing he sees her as a continuation of himself. Since, as mentioned above, Britt daniels has no children, the unmistakably nirvana-like feel to the song, and the very fact that Cobain's daughter's middle name is bean, i think the song could well be daniels singing in the shoes of cobain, someone whose influence on the band is well acknowledged. Interestingly, if the song is truely about frances bean, the line "i am your shadow in the dark" serves to predict cobain's suicide and his constant presence as a dark shadow she can never escape as she grows up without him. |
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| Beck – Nobody's Fault But My Own Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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When the moon is a counterfeit, better find the one that fits, better find the one that lights the way for you. These lines are so soft and poignent, they utterly make the song |
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| Spoon – The Way We Get By Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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How can you all have missed this? Shake Appeal, Some Wierd Sin and Down on the Street are all Iggy Pop (The Stooges) songs. This song is about being young and blissfully idle, and how the music you listen to forms a soundtrack to your life. This group of young people, self made bohemians, have created a carefree lifestyle for themselves, while listening to iggy pop. They (Britt Daniel) are saying, this is what we like, what we do, what turns us on, in this life we have made. |
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| Interpol – Evil Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My name is Rosemary. "Rosemary; thats for remembrance"-Ophelia No doubt a significant choice. I'm not terribly keen on Interpol; it's all a bit turgid for my liking. I can see why you all like them though. |
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| Kings of Leon – Milk Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song, as mentioned, is simply about an exgirlfriend who cheated on him with someone he knew, a friend or somesuch. The chorus is about the girl and her different appealing, although decidedly adolescent, qualities. I basically agree with MaxQQQ on this point. HOwever, the "She saw my comb over, her hourglass body" is confusing. What is this comb a euphemism for? Does he literally sweep it over her body? Or is he simply listing things: She saw my comb-over (n.). Her hourgalss body. I presume he doesn't refer to his hair with come-over, he is a little too young to be balding. The first two verses are reminiscent of their initial happiness, telling jokes, drinking in the afternoon (presumably at the matinee film at the cinema), and possibly being caught by an usher;" the spotlight showed what i chased away" implies the usher's torch highlighted not only their indiscretion, but just how much he valued his relationship with this girl, who he apparently chased away. He first says "salty leave", possibly showing how he had to leave her i.e. to go on tour. Then "stay for me" as in : stay faithful to him. And lastly, "kill me" after he has discovered her promiscuity. The final verse is the crux of this. He suspects she is with someone else, someone he knows, but is away, perhaps on tour, and cannot prove it. He calls the man he suspects, who claims to be by himself, but as his repeated calls go unanswered, he becomes certain they are together, but blames himself, convinced he has driven her away. |
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| Kings of Leon – Milk Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song, as mentioned, is simply about an exgirlfriend who cheated on him with someone he knew, a friend or somesuch. The chorus is about the girl and her different appealing, although decidedly adolescent, qualities. I basically agree with MaxQQQ on this point. HOwever, the "She saw my comb over, her hourglass body" is confusing. What is this comb a euphemism for? Does he literally sweep it over her body? Or is he simply listing things: She saw my comb-over (n.). Her hourgalss body. I presume he doesn't refer to his hair with come-over, he is a little too young to be balding. The first two verses are reminiscent of their initial happiness, telling jokes, drinking in the afternoon (presumably at the matinee film at the cinema), and possibly being caught by an usher;" the spotlight showed what i chased away" implies the usher's torch highlighted not only their indiscretion, but just how much he valued his relationship with this girl, who he apparently chased away. He first says "salty leave", possibly showing how he had to leave her i.e. to go on tour. Then "stay for me" as in : stay faithful to him. And lastly, "kill me" after he has discovered her promiscuity. The final verse is the crux of this. He suspects she is with someone else, someone he knows, but is away, perhaps on tour, and cannot prove it. He calls the man he suspects, who claims to be by himself, but as his repeated calls go unanswered, he becomes certain they are together, but blames himself, convinced he has driven her away. |
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| Kings of Leon – Milk Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song, as mentioned, is simply about an exgirlfriend who cheated on him with someone he knew, a friend or somesuch. The chorus is about the girl and her different appealing, although decidedly adolescent, qualities. I basically agree with MaxQQQ on this point. HOwever, the "She saw my comb over, her hourglass body" is confusing. What is this comb a euphemism for? Does he literally sweep it over her body? Or is he simply listing things: She saw my comb-over (n.). Her hourgalss body. I presume he doesn't refer to his hair with come-over, he is a little too young to be balding. The first two verses are reminiscent of their initial happiness, telling jokes, drinking in the afternoon (presumably at the matinee film at the cinema), and possibly being caught by an usher;" the spotlight showed what i chased away" implies the usher's torch highlighted not only their indiscretion, but just how much he valued his relationship with this girl, who he apparently chased away. He first says "salty leave", possibly showing how he had to leave her i.e. to go on tour. Then "stay for me" as in : stay faithful to him. And lastly, "kill me" after he has discovered her promiscuity. The final verse is the crux of this. He suspects she is with someone else, someone he knows, but is away, perhaps on tour, and cannot prove it. He calls the man he suspects, who claims to be by himself, but as his repeated calls go unanswered, he becomes certain they are together, but blames himself, convinced he has driven her away. |
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| Wilco – Venus Stopped the Train Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| When he says "warmed the benched" he in fact means "was in a political seat"; he was part of a parliamentary party, a govenor or somesuch. Although no doubt the song intends an American, the phrase refers to British politics where MPs do actually sit on benches in the House of Commons | |
| Wilco – Handshake Drugs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is a song that so utterly exemplifies how i feel sometimes, when walking in the city, when really knowing what a loose end is, when just looking for something for something or someone to do. Mostly it means for me the achingly long summer holidays when London is gorgeous and I'm when i can go for weeks without rearing a sober head. Its that lethergy of sun bleached bones, its exactly not having washed behind your ears. | |
| Wilco – Company In My Back Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree with the above, yes, it works on a relationship level, and the idea of spooning is lovely, though perhaps a little whimsical. I always assumed that "company in my back" was a suble referral to the band being unceremoniously dropped from Reprise Records after YHF, and Tweedy's stubbonness in changing his methods to facilitate commercial success. The holy shit realisation that there's a (record) company pushing him down, quashing his talent (a steady crushing hand). Now i look at it, the other lyrics do seem to refer to the songwriting process, he moves so slow, and the company wishes to rush him, concerned about spiralling costs. He attacks his work with love, he'll "curve his flight"; honing his art. Perhaps the old radiant beauty is the album itself, which he nurtures vainly in the hope we "will remember" him for it, and could better words ever be found to describe the album than "your sorrow is sunshine"? For indeed it is. What is the connection with "radiant" and "radiator"? the words are far too similar (and radiator far too random) for it to be a coincidence. |
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| Modest Mouse – Alone Down There Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is very interesting considering i took this song at face value. I think the meth explanation is the most obvious and indeed cogent, however the heaven/earth/hell connotations are intruiging. If we consider that these are two separate entities (rather than conflicting parts of himself), is it singer looking down on Earth from Heaven, or Hell from Earth? What is the significance of the flies? Dead bodies, the stigma of addiction or depression? (Wierdly, and irrelevently, this and the next line reminds me of Catch 22, and Yossarian telling Appleby that he can't see because he (Appleby) has flies in his eyes) If not a dealer, who is this devil's apprentice? However the bit I truly am perplexed by is "You ask me what size it is, not what i sell" (maniacal laughter) What's that about? How does it fit with the interpretation of drugs? He might be trying to be empathetic with someone in a bad state for some reason, and considering sacrificing something to join them "down there". However the most lucid of these explanations is that he is coming down from a trip and is looking at himself objectively, and realising that he is alone in this (self induced?) condition, and is filled with self pity. This also helps the "my name is you" conundrum. Very sorry, another interpretation jsut hit me. This is a song of two halves, perhaps the first half is sung by the malevolent side of his personality the "devil's apprentice" who feeds him lines etc. and the second, more human, wounded half is sung by some other, empathetic persona, that cares not for flies and who can't bear himself to be alone; existing only so that he is not. |
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| Modest Mouse – Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this is one of the most coherent discussions i've come across yet. Although perhaps some people were left confused by some abiguity on the part of the lyric submitter,whoever they are. I think it's: Well some guy comes in looking a bit like everyone i ever seen, he moves just like crisco disco, breath 100% listerine. He says, looking at something else but directing everything to me, "Ever time anyone gets on their knees to pray, well it makes my telephone ring". And i'll be damned, he said "You were right, no one's running this whole thing". He had a theory too, he said that "God takes care of himself, and you of you" It just makes the verse a little more understandable, although i'm not sure who says "well i'll be damned", him, or god. Also, who or what is Crisco Disco, is it an American thing (i'm english)? |
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| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I must say, while i think this song to be beautiful and questionable, i have just read the most poorly written, obtuse phial of shit about it that i've come across in all my 17years, interspersed with really insightful (not insiteful, twat) ideas. Bellyful of Swans, oh dear. Are they pecking at your brain? How could you, as a person with acceptable English, not to mention access to the internet, state that the Earth is 3/4 water? If it was, your swans would be feelling considerably waterlogged. Perhaps what you meant was that the Earth's suface is very roughly 3/4 water. Sincerely not the same thing, and consequently your point is fallacious, unless the lovely Isaac meant our skin was 3/4 water. Let's give him a little credit though. Dear god! the ensuing "baby cum angel" debate. Cum, is not an obscure word from a dead language, no, bellyful, it is really very commonly used such as in the excellent example earlier "our attic cum studio". A working knowledge of basic English might have told you that. A overlooked line is that "my boss just quit the job, says he's going out to find blind spots and he'll do it". Considering the next verse is about an onmipresent eye, and the boss is searching for "blind spots", a connection seems likely. Isaac is berating the futility, and inevitability of this quest. The eye, as God, sees all, how can there be blind spots? But the desire, intense in those who have done wrong (or fucked poepe over, we can only imagine the boss is even more adept than he at it), to find escape from God's wrath is greater than this logic. |
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