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| The Mountain Goats – Waving at You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"This is rather the best of the early divorce songs, written a good five or six years before I got married, drawn from — what? Some imagined hurt? A lonely Thursday night in December, maybe? Seems like it; I feel like I was having some sort of disagreement with somebody. The main thing I remember though is the riff, if you want to call it that. A fingered C chord that becomes an Am7 and then some kind of modified F whose name I don't know that resolves finally at G, this circular droning looping process that suggested a guy who's trying to break free from a pattern that's never going to let him go, because that pattern is exactly who he is, down deep where all the ghosts and jackals live. He tries at the end to shift the focus, to call his love for somebody a habit, but it's not that: it's love. It's always going to be love. So the song doesn't really end, it just gets stuck. And then I strum a chord for a long time really energetically, because I used to always dig ending my songs like that.
I can tell, listening to this song now, years removed from the night I recorded it, that I was getting pretty into the story: not from the strength of the strumming, but from the way I get real quiet during the end of the vocal. To me, that's the signal that I'm getting so involved with the plotline that I can't really tell the difference between myself and the narrator any more. That is really the point at which I feel like I've succeeded in getting somewhere. Everybody else assumes the louder I sing, the more deeply I'm feeling the emotions, and I do try to oblige, but it's the quiet moments where the shadows sort of start to flesh themselves out. " |
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| The Mountain Goats – Twin Human Highway Flares Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"There are two people in this song — or three, if you count the highway, which I generally do. They look a lot like me and the woman who would later become my wife, driving from Chicago to northern Iowa on a summer day. Only I don't think that ever happened. I know we never had any '50s road movie conversations like the one that opens the song. We weren't, at the point in time when this song would have had to've taken place for it to be true, using overnight bags. We had suitcases. And there wasn't enough backstory between us for buildings to appear as "monument[s] of desperation."
But the picture I get in my head, or got in my head when I was writing it in a Grinnell apartment circa 1996, was of my girlfriend and I heading a little ways west and digging in for a long life together. I think it's almost a symbolic scene for me in that way. On one tour we opened the set with it quite a few times, and I enjoyed it more and more each night. The characters in this song aren't keeping secrets from you; anything they don't tell you just isn't any of your business. " |
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| Okkervil River – Unless It's Kicks Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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OMG THEY ARE SELL OUTS?
the CD isn't THAT new anyway. okkervil river are a truly amazing band, just because they gain a little popularity it doesn't change that. it also doesn't make you cool just because you heard of them before other people. |
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| The Shins – Australia Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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man this song is so fun. havent analysed it yet i only been listening to the album today ^_^ |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Act of the Apostle Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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“Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
I wish that I could sing
I’d stay in a melody
I would float along in my everlasting song
What would I do to believe?”
probably the best chorus of the year so far |
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| Elbow – Station Approach Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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yep. Guy wrote is about coming home to manchester. I must admit when i first listened to Leaders Of The Free World i was about dubious, especially with this as opener but i think the world of it (and the whole album) now. Every single line has class to it. |
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| Doves – Snowden Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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i totally understand you deadeyeduck. It makes for an awesome song though! |
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| Modest Mouse – Float On Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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i have to sing this song in a week. Its gonna be hard not singing it with an accent like Isaacs. |
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| Sigur Rós – Heysátan Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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the simplicity of this song astounds me every time. Its not loud, its not too soft, its not fast or slow. Its just plain music, beautiful. |
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| Sigur Rós – Untitled 7 Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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the semi official title is "the death song" so im guessing its about death. this song is incredibley powerful. Its not quite my favourite off ( ) though. Amazing stuff. |
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| I Am Kloot – No Fear Of Falling Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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How could something simple be so dam good? I am kloot just have a certain tenacity (ok i dont really know what that means :P) to their songs i just can't get enough of. Definetly an uplifting moment this song. Just keep moving forwards people! |
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| I Am Kloot – Proof Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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well i dont think the focus is really on the lyrics on this song, its just meant to be a bit of fun. |
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| Iron & Wine – Passing Afternoon Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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some of my favourite lyrics. I particularly enjoy the last line. When it all comes down to everything we are all terrified of being abandoned and alone by ourselves, although it takes something to bring it out in us. |
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| Summoning – The Legend of the Master-Ring Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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i found out about this band by complete accident and im a huge LOTR fan so i thought id check them out. Cant say i really like the music but they certainly are interesting... |
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| Sigur Rós – Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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this song is amazing. either this or ny batteri is my favourite of agaetis byrjun. Its stunningly beautiful. Its interesting to see the translated lyrics as usual. Im seeing them in less than a month and im already pissing myself with excitement |
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| Sigur Rós – Ný Batterí Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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looking at the lyrics makes this song even more amazing. The lyrics are so painful to read, let alone hear them sung with the passion of jonsi. |
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| British Sea Power – Carrion Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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^breakfast, i never would have picked up all those historical references in the song without you!
This is my favourite bsp. Its simply amazing. The lyrics are beautiful. I think i agree about the sea references, intertwining with the passing of time. |
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| Elliott Smith – Let's Get Lost Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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what a beautiful song. "burning every bridge we cross to find some beautiful place to get lost" implies that he has to make some kind of sacrifice to get there, although its definetly not to do with drugs. I think hes just saying that we are all working to just try and find a little slice of happiness that we can call our own. |
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| Modest Mouse – Lives Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Everyone's afraid of their own lives
If you could be anything you want
I bet you'd be disappointed, am I right?
How true is this line? I know it is for me. |
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| Tom McRae – Ghost Of A Shark Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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this was the first (of many) tom mcrae songs to really grab me. There is a certain sense of mystery and emotion to this song that really makes it incredible despite its simplicity. The descriptions of leaving the city (london) life while they dont seem amazing by themselves combine with the music to make something very good. This was one of my favourite songs for a very long time, it makes me feel a certain way which few other songs can do (just like 2nd law by tom). Very good song, i wish more people could hear tom mcrae, he is a rare talent |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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wow this song is so beautiful. It is constantly in my head. It is a song about life when you are young and in love and how this is a limited privilige that will one day pass, but in the meantime everything is beautiful and happy so just enjoy it (whilst still knowing it will come to an end) |
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| Bright Eyes – At the Bottom of Everything Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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the introduction is awesome as is the whole song. Im wide awake its morning is probably bright eyes most consistent CD, every song rocks! This one is one of the best. So many good lines its hard where to start! |
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