| Motion City Soundtrack – A Life Less Ordinary (Need a Little Help) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think that the little vocal flourish on the end of the phrase "I'll try to work this out" is a little allusion to Cyndi Lauper--vis a vis the "that's all they really want" part of her song, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." It seems like something Justin Pierre would sneak in. |
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| Weezer – The Good Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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In some ways the narrator in this song reminds me of Dostoevsky's Underground man in Notes From Underground. The whole sugar in the tea thing. The preoccupation with growing older/age. Being denied what one wants/needs. Etc, etc, etc. But there's like a whole rockstar-edge to the lyrics. So, it's like becoming the Underground man by way of superstardom. Which really is an interesting thought, and with R. Cuomo being a Harvard grad, I don't think it's too far off. |
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| The Smiths – Cemetry Gates Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The "man with a big nose who knows and trips you up and laughs when you fall" Morrissey references is Cyrano de Bergerac (one of my personal heroes--not that you care). also, w/r/t the mispelling ("cemetry" as opposed to "cemetary") I always took it as a play on the word "symmetry" and that Morrissey feels he completes the symmetry (along with Oscar Wilde) between W. B. Yeats and Keats. Maybe that's stupid--I don't know... |
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| Dinosaur Jr. – Back to Your Heart Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think that it's "punk rock" instead of "comquat" but that's just what I am hearing... |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – The Sun Woke the Whole State (Limbeck cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Gotta say, it hits me every time. The song really has a bittersweet tinge to it that Motion City really brings out. |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Calling All Cops Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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yeah, fun fact: "The Curtain Hits The Cast" is an album from 1996 by the band Low who are from Duluth, Minnesota |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Can't Finish What You Started Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well, I think this song is about the songwriting process and feeling like you have nothing to say/can't say anything now that you're clean. It also kinda reminds me of the Coen brothers movie "Barton Fink" with the whole "self-destructive artist" who drinks when he can't write. Sadly, I think I kind of idolize that. I also think that he's coming to terms with the fact that without a vice (drugs or alcohol) the creative process is going to be harder because he's not just having words coming out of him that just flow and work. Long story short: it's hard to write something because of ridiculous amounts of self-doubt/loathing. |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Everything Is Alright Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Okay, for me this song is very personal (anxiety disorder), and I think it's about when you have a panic attack and the people around you are asking if you are okay, and you keep feeling the need to feel okay, so you say "Yeah, I'm fine" and hope it blows over, but you can feel yourself being detatched from reality. A common place to have a panic attack is waiting in line. And all the things he lists are what triggers the anxiety attacks. The self-medication thing is about coping with the anxiety through substance abuse. Also, Justin's problem seems to be OCDas well as the panic attacks. Refrencing the whole Kitchen ritual and the use of the word "Tradition" because the obsessive compulsive tendancies becomes a ritual for the person expiriencing them and you feel like something extremely bad going to happen if you don't complete that ritual. |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Bomb Pops Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's the second track on the "Kids For America" EP. | |
| Motion City Soundtrack – Shiver Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've noticed that Justin seems to revert back to the word "shiver" when describing failed contact with a loved one. "I married the madness who left me alone in the dark. I wrote her a letter I'll shiver without you tonight" -The Worst Part He does the same thing with "Contact was questioned" It appears in both "Cambridge" and "Promenade" I think "shiver" describes a feeling more that you can't put into words, so you say the first thing that comes to mind. Just an idea behind how he uses the term. Any other ideas? |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Back To The Beat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This almost reminds me of a kind of Gen X version of "We're going to be friends" by The White Stripes. I love this song. Thank you people like Justin Pierre and Rivers Cuomo who give nerds like me something to believe in. |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Monsters Invisible Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm sorry, I misread the lyrics. And after reading the book "invisible monsters" the song makes alot more sense. However, I don't believe that the lyricist is writing and describing the book, but how he, himself, fits into the character's persona. "it’s hard to believe i cannot exist without you as hard as i’ve tried i cannot confess completely these words will lament you and do sorts of likewise behavior it’s just part of the curse i’m just trying to stay alive" It's kind of funny that the main character, Shannon, can only communicate herself through a pen and paper due to her jaw being blown off, maybe he feels writing is the only way to completely express how he feels. "are you out there are you listening at all are you out there are you listening to anything i’ve said" Summed up in the line from the book "Nobody gets noticed, not anymore" "it’s hard to admit my weaknesses can consume me i search for the cure in the bottles of buried volumes the joke of it is i express myself without purpose yet you devour my smallness the madness to make believe" In the book, Shannon & co steal perscription painkillers and such from upscale houses that are for sale, to differentiate between the medications she has a giant hand book in her possesion. I think he may see himself comparable with shannon because maybe he has/had a problem with some kind of substance. "if i can pretend, i don’t depend i can deny, deny, denial yet when push comes to shove and all the above i decide to live the lie" I think it means what it says here. |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Monsters Invisible Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Maybe it's just me, but it sounds almost like a cautionary tale: "these words were not meant to induce acts of likewise behavior" |
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| Schoolyard Heroes – Blood-Splattered Sundress Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It seems kind of like a relationship that started out okay, that was before she foud out her boyfriend was a jerk and the relationship went straight to hell after that. I love the sarcastic: "I geuss that I'll be brief" used in it. | |
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