| Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The comments about the cutting of hair and its power in terms of femininity are really interesting, as if the narrator of the song, by lamenting the loss of her "only joy," is referring to her femininity, which is often allegorically likened to the reproductive power of womanhood in many a traditional narrative, which by extension also refers to the loss of the baby. Which makes me think of ectopic pregnancies, where the fetus develops within the fallopian tube. There is almost no way for the fetus to survive, and the fallopian tube in which it is fertilized must also be removed, leading to a long and painful recovery and drastically reducing a woman's ability to become pregnant again. There is a blacksmith preparing the tools for the surgery, a shepherd to take the little baby to heaven, and a butcher boy, taking not only the narrator's baby, but also half of her ability to be pregnant again. She both hates the baby for what she has taken, but also loves her because she is her child. But of course, there is no 'right' interpretation. I personally hear what I want to and take an image of adoption out of it. |
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| Jason Webley – Icarus Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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hm. i feel like the second verse is about finding sadistic pleasure in the melding of the senses between the mind and body when ill. it's crazy i know, not quite sure how i got the idea, but it's just tainted how i see the song now. brilliant song. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Kingfisher Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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it's obstinate, not ostinate. haha it sounds like it could be metaphorical for the end of a relationship. it would thematically match the progress of the album, at least. so wonderful. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Esme Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song makes me so happy that I want to cry. I remember reading that this song is about Joanna's young neice... at least at the time it was first written/performed she was young. The careful warmth and optimism of this lullaby is ethereal. If Have One on Me was only thing song, I would have been satisfied. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Good Intentions Paving Company Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is so warm and the layered vocals so incredible I don't even care what it's saying. But then it seems to be saying a lot. The narrator is headed back home to a coastal city perhaps, certainly somewhere they consider home from somewhere they do not, contemplating their love interest, their faults, and the state of the nation to a lesser degree as a backdrop. It's a love song, as the last stanza clearly implies. The narrator is not sure why they feel how they do for their interest, trying to tie it down to words, overexplaining their feelings and thoughts. It ultimately comes down to wanting to forget what could be one's most prized and personal word, their name, for the sake of all the feelings that the narrator both rallies against, tries to tame and cannot control. It seems like a disservice to this song to try to explain it, a bit ironic even, but especially a disservice with my minimal analysis. This is a wonderful treat to chew on until the album comes out. | |
| Regina Spektor – Left Hand Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I'm sorry but the violin is grating. I wish this song could have been recorded closer to its original version. | |
| Jenny Owen Youngs – Porchrail Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the other tiny is right. This is clearly an anthem for pursuing a crush, or someone of a similar interest. It's been a good motivator the past few weeks. |
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| Metric – The Gates Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Sounds like a response to Reading in Bed a bit. So dreamy. All you want is someone to get off on is the only line that has a really coherent point, and a good one. | |
| Metric – Up In Flames Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| "ended up with enough to get it" | |
| Metric – Up In Flames Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| "A minute, an hour, and that's it" | |
| Metric – Collect Call Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Emily has funny motifs. Fire, goodbyes, moving.. The speaker of this song reminds me of Butcher's, though this has a slightly less negative description of whomever the speaker is talking to. Giving someone else the power of the relationship, perhaps in an attempt to bring about peace or at least a more palpable perception of positive feelings. I'm interested in how the bridge ("I know it's a lie..) is meant to interact with the "Somebody's got soul" part of the song. Because it completely negates the "make the move" concept, and instead gives into the passive nature that is upheld in the chorus and first verse. This is a pretty lame stab at the song, but I don't see much to go off of yet. But it sure is pretty. |
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| Metric – Sick Muse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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ahhh you beat me to it. but i finish them first! Watch out Cupid, stuck me with a sickness, Pull your little arrows out and let me live my life. You better watch out Cupid, stuck me with a sickness, Pull your little arrows out and let me live my life, The one I better lead All the blondes of Fantasies And we looked at them eleven ways You said, 'look at me', I looked away And you wrote the song I wanna play I'll write you harmony in C Everybody, everybody just wanna fall in love Everybody, everybody just wanna play the lead Everybody, everybody just wanna fall in love Everybody, everybody just wanna play the lead Play the lead Play the lead Watch out Cupid, money is a sick muse Pull your little arrows out and let me live my life. She said: I'm with stupid. Money is a sick muse Pull your little arrows out and let me live my life The one I better lead All the blondes of Fantasies And we looked at them eleven ways You said, 'look at me', I looked away And you wrote the song I wanna play I'll write you harmony in C Everybody, everybody just wanna fall in love Everybody, everybody just wanna play the lead Everybody, everybody just wanna fall in love Everybody, everybody just wanna play the lead Play the lead Play the lead I'll write you harmony in C Everybody, everybody just wanna fall in love Everybody, everybody just wanna play the lead Everybody, everybody just wanna fall in love Everybody, everybody just wanna play the lead Play the lead Play the lead |
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| Metric – Twilight Galaxy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Okay so now I gotta say I agree with Joey, the second verse in particular really talks to me. The upbeat nature of the upcoming album is spectacular. | |
| Metric – Twilight Galaxy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm not sure how it should be differentiated between the 2006 (or was it 2007?) version to the album version. | |
| Metric – Black Sheep Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"everyone, oo, pulls away, oo from you, you..." The latest tour finally confirms what she's saying here. I swear she's been mumbling it out of uncertainty for the past year and a half. |
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| Bright Eyes – I Must Belong Somewhere Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think while you shouldn't give into those "bad ideas," Sarah, it can also be not talking about them, keeping the pain inside and not seek release and help. I don't think there's one thing in this song that is where it belongs. Just status quo. And what's more, most of what is listed in this song (save the end, perhaps) is rarely witnessed or acknowledged by the majority of society. It's simply accepted that is it right by the virtue it is ignored. Which leads to the bridge. I find the bridge most compelling for some reason. A brilliant answer to the falling tree in the forest. Society is pretty convinced of the requirement of an audience. The speaker is offering up the irony that we are convinced that a record is necessary for something to exist. I don't know I'm lost in my own thoughts. Thing song would be hell to memorize. |
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| Metric – Help, I'm Alive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The heart beating motif is timely for me. And the battle of saving and self sustaining. It's a nurturing song. | |
| Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song was breathtaking live. Definitely worth the title of her latest album. It's straightforward and comforting, and perfect to share between friends. A-D-E-D-A, D-A Bm-A-Bm-A-Bm-D-A, D-A D-A-Bm |
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| Amanda Palmer – Blake Says Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| just gotta say, i'm glad i first heard this song before Sarah Palin was pushed onto the international stage, because i'll never be able to see the state of Alaska very romantically again. at least it seemed nice for a month or two. | |
| Metric – The Police and the Private Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's prostitution! AND DRUGS. Bag is drugs, bed is prostitution. Or selling yourself out for drugs, as my friend just said. A numb high. I never thought I'd find other people who agreed on the prostitution front. Prostitutes work for everyone, don't trust anyone, get felt up, and live in a world without love. Does anyone have an idea about the orphanage? |
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| Regina Spektor – Long Brown Hair Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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There's a lyric missing that makes a lot of difference, that I've found correct only on Wiki "her body was free wanna bet so's her love?" it's simply a woman in extreme jealousy for what she perceives as aesthetic perfection in another woman. but in this simple slurred line, she conveys a sad truth or stereotype of most people who come off so completely perfect in appearance: their sexual ease. i feel this way a lot, in jealousy of the appearance. what else can you do but ask, why wasn't i so lucky? when this is a world where people can't work towards inherent beauty, and there are many things that nothing in the world could produce better than genetics. it's the easiest way to come off favorably to the world. |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Crowd Surf off a Cliff Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think the mention of babies is in reference to how there's this vague perfect scene of babies tucked away, in some domestic wonderland of a well-adjusted nuclear family, while her and the band, and her vagrant musician lifestyle, makes her call out against it's existence, what she wants. it's another double-standard she faces when confronting the need for real intimate connection and her particular career. | |
| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Anarchy in the UK Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"waah can it be? i'm not afraid of giving everything." it makes me long for being one year younger again. since i'm still finding a cause. the visual imagery in the song is just so powerful, from casual opening remarks about subtle passive female traits, to how clean a burnout can be... for passion. |
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| Joanna Newsom – What We Have Known Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think there's a tad too much focus on the military imagery of the song. I find the opening stanza the most clear basis for the song's antithetical depiction of human "nature". Several animals of (I assume) docile natures in their habitats, holding some vague universal belief. Meanwhile, man is faced with increasing troubles that hinder our ability to relate to, or even know, [each other and] that which we were hardwired to be. So we stare at the smoke, the spectacle, accepting the absurdity of human culture, whalebones crushing the body (for who's aesthetic pleasure?), one's value being defined by their untimely death in combat without real reason. While Joanna never seems to be too "timely", the clear focus on war could possibly, just a bit, relate to the War on Terrorism the western world is obligated to be in currently. Since the song was first released studio recording in 2003, it's possible. I'm sick and my brain is stale. But the phrase, We know not now what we have known, is ringing pretty true in college right now. Why is it so hard to shake off the incongruities we're taught as custom in the teenage years and ... whatever. It starts with personal authenticity. |
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| Animal Collective – Derek Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| it's the typical story about kid and dog, when kid gets dog at a young age or parents get the dog first. the kid treats it okay, when when dog dies, kid reflects on that "first dog" relationship that hurts a lot. "so this is what i saw in you, dog. what did you see in me?" | |
| Joanna Newsom – Yarn and Glue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i can hear this song as a parade theme for the revolting proletariat/petit bourgeois, million voices strong. every line is sarcastic and biting, displaying a curt understanding of what is expected of the blind fools, happy for their gilded misfortune. through cheap neo-artifacts of hedonistic times (according to the judaic bible) ... well, hipster culture. this song deserves to be revisited for a wider audience. | |
| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Anarchy in the UK Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Haha you're everywhere! Is this a cover? Or just a blatant allusion? Either way it's straightforward and genius. Especially the "wahhh". |
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| Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Okay, I went through and didn't notice anyone else drawing the vague parallel, but isn't this song more or less perpendicular to Book of Right-On? Perhaps I'm just jumping on the similar imagery she loves to repeat, but the lines about riding people. In Right-on, she jeers at a second party about giving them a ride on her back, but in this song, she sings lightly of taking a ride on what used to ride her. And the line about reading books to interpret him connect well with the concept of a right-on book, making a science out of something a tad too pleasantly subjective. It's like this is the result of the speaker's relationship in Right-on. When the tables are turned. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Monkey & Bear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I completely agree with all ideas proposed as of far, but I'm not fully convinced that the vague final description of Bear is that which describes her as transcending societal restraints. It sounds as if she is accepting death, something which has not been suggested beyond her becoming a constellation and drowing as a direct result of the water, opposed to some other force. It seems as though her body falls apart and sinks, as if she were a doll coming apart. I truly hope I'm wrong, as she deserves much better, but the ending is far too open in stark contrast to the rest of the song which is much more simple, and I would like to know how long she lasts once the rhapsode stops singing Bear's song |
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| Metric – Butcher Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One highlight of this song is how it was written. Emily had the words and singing down, and James had the piano written instrumentally, and they just put it together. No active collaboration with the writing, and it just worked. Perfectly. | |
| Regina Spektor – Dead Rat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| her earliest work... is easily identifiable and wonderful. she connects the observation of another dead rat with the world's indifference to any loss of life in the context of a dreary night. | |
| Busdriver – Casting Agents and Cowgirls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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a lot of words for such a small amount of time. i hope he's referring to the girlfriend he had over summer. and, similarly, the rest of the specific mentions are factual. |
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| CocoRosie – Animals Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| they're so good at creating moods. the a lot of the album focuses on movement and finding small fufillment through nostalgia and family... but its hard to see if there is any solid message in there. | |
| Regina Spektor – Time Is All Around Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| easily an all-time favorite. the overused musical rifts and repetition make such a powerful tune that both mocks and glorifies... ehh. i know what it's like to be tired of loving. she has so many songs about nothing particular, nothing at all, but they're all so emotional... | |
| Metric – Butcher Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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ambivalent love, self-hate, mutual pity. i don't know. i want a relationship like this. |
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| Metric – Fanfare Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| wow. they make it perfect. | |
| Metric – Calculation (Theme) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"who put these bodies between us" A A# A. nothing as chilling, nothing so impossible to feel when you're in their arms, small circles, don't worry about where their feet are. she quotes this song on her solo artist myspace page, so it must be pretty personal. not too hard to play |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – The Last Page Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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when i first heard this song, i thought it was the most bizarre love song she could have ever written to her lover. but then i realized, it's definitely to her father. it's really person, but the ending is relatable to anyone suffering a distance (such as here and post-death) with someone so dearly loved. |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – The Last Page Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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when i first heard this song, i thought it was the most bizarre love song she could have ever written to her lover. but then i realized, it's definitely to her father. it's really person, but the ending is relatable to anyone suffering a distance (such as here and post-death) with someone so dearly loved. |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Crowd Surf off a Cliff Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| she is supposedly the former female music sex symbol of canada. and in toronto, she's one of the biggest celebrities. i guess fame would be the wrong word for it, but the lifestyle she leads takes a lot out of someone. | |
| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Doctor Blind Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i feel bad about all the typings. but thank you for being so nice about it, ode to joy. i got so excited when i found the leaked songs i didn't bother spell checking or fixing it once the album came out. nurr.. | |
| Regina Spektor – Hero Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"i'm the hero of the story, don't need to be saved..." considering she does it so little, regina makes a good opinion of the world, as in the song "consequence of sounds." i don't think this song is trying to deliver anything overly significant, but it hinges on the idea of a hero and their inevitable good luck and perseverance, despite all these media/culture/sex topics assault us without our knowing. its a nice cheer up song. and blends into Bartender so well. |
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| Elliott Smith – Shooting Star Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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he does say "shooting star" is a girl. cute nickname. shooting star imagery is widespread and wodnerful. for some reason i thought this was off his first album back in '04, before i knew about him. it has a very raw fresh sound (well the whole album does) that seems reborn like a debut album typically does. and he was entering a new phase of his life when he produce this album... but this song is amazing. i just wish he got to see its final production and made it sound how he would have wanted it to |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – The Lottery Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Wanting what everyone wanted SINCE implies she wants what feminists think all women want, equality, and [perhaps] in Emily's sense of it, rock star equality. In the eighties, women burnt their bras but obviously not while they were wearing them, but her imagery of them burning on womens shows how it was more self-destructive than liberating. the whole song goes into her personal struggle with sexual identity, with the main term to define it, sexual suicide. i guess it means something like giving up your sexual identity, killing it yourself to blend into a man's world, but it's now a cirme because of the feminist idea of pride. and emily even admits she went through a faze where she cut her hair short and dyed it black because she thought being a girl was a liability, but now she knows better. the song goes into how women will one day, from the very bras they burn, surprise the world and make our ears bleed with the wonderful music they produce. i don't understand the middle very well, except when she brings up her (assumably) friend Heather, assuring her its okay, its just the Lottery; her gamble in entering the music scene or something. and the end... well, the part about stilettos is clear. back into the idea of women, a complete circle. it creates a nice image in my head. and its funny. |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Crowd Surf off a Cliff Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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...the end of this has the song Detective's Daughter. it looked a little long. my least favorite song on the album, but it has it's good parts. Emily Haines likes to write music about how hard it is to be famous. |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Winning Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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So pretty! it's incredible. "when you talk, can i tape you?" i've thought this a lot. such beautiful voices belong to those we love, they at times are enough to sustain our wanting of them, their tone of voice enough to soothe our problems. but i think she says, "only know how to hound." it would work with the wolf reference better. she's calling out to help someone else. and this sound also has the book reference that can be seen throughout the album. and the time reference throughout all her songs. at times it sounds a little too much like Shrine to Fast Goodbyes, when that song even has the line, "got time when it isn't enough." but music works better when its a circle |
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| Regina Spektor – Belt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| has a pleasant happy tune and an amazing story. I guess it doesn't require any figuring out, as both the words and melody reflect the shallow superificial appearance the woman must keep up in order to survive the abuse her love puts her through. this one is fun to sing | |
| Metric – IOU Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i realized today this song also refers to cocaine use in the line "subtract my age from the mileage on my speeding heart, credit cards." note credit cards. those credit cards.. |
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| Broken Social Scene – Stomach Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think this is my favorite broken social scene song. they layer words in their music so beautiful, and this song just exemplifies that beauty so well with the singers having an unusual tone in their voices. a very relatable song, too. | |
| Broken Social Scene – Pacific Theme Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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my favorite instrumental ever. dance to it all the time. but i think it does have a message. how it starts slow and builts into a tropical-sounding melody that's.. well, very beautiful. but near the end of the song, monotone voices which sound like they are from the overhead speakers of an airport start to be heard, and eventually the bitter voices of many voices overtake the song in the end as it slides perfectly in the anthems song. but i think it's a theme the whole cd emphasizes, how people are everywhere. the song starts as a enviormental paradise, is discovered, then become polluted by people (their voices) as airports bring people to its perfection. most of the songs on the album end with the white noise of many voices talking and it make sense with the album title "You Forgot It In People." i understand most of it but find it hard to explain, other than this song. Easily one of my favorite bands of all time.. |
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