| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| actually fuck all that, i just looked up time's arrows and Dali's "Persistence of Memory" and... well... check it out... wiki it. its incredible. | |
| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i feel that andrew bird's lyrics above all others are so incredibly and beautifully artistic and thought-packed that it would be impossible to truly understand it all. SO i think we all ought to forget our pedestrian theories and move on to a different song. If the meaning comes to somebody, or somebody gets the chance to ask the bird, himself just wtf it means, then i suppose you've got an obligation, but for the rest of us, lets just agree that it's hopeless and enjoy it like modern art: its really really cool without necessarily knowing its a picture of a house. Quisquilloso: please no more chemistry, don't open the wounds i've so tirelessly healed... however, that was really an amazing reference, Bird definitely likes Salvador Dali, thats fo sho' |
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| Andrew Bird – Plasticities Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| holy shit what a good song | |
| Andrew Bird – Scythian Empire Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i actually really like that interpretation | |
| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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and as for the "Fifty-five and three-eighths": often (and i know this from experience) artists will often use seemingly random pieces of information pulled from life experiences. lyrics don't have to be (and andrew bird's often aren't) entirely explicit. There's probably something profound and intellectual about this reference, but sometimes, it's better to just interpret it your own way. |
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| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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its just a guess, but: theres a theory (actually its almost become a figure of speech) that says that time, because of its linear properties (meaning it changes at a constant rate), can be warped or bent. This is usually used to explain time travel in science fiction novels and such, but can also be used in a far more figurative sense. I've taken this line almost as, "Things tend to come back to bite you later." |
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| The Books – Smells Like Content Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| that one might have cut off too so if you just go to google and type in smells like content lyrics, its the first page not from songmeanings | |
| The Books – Smells Like Content Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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sorry that link cut off: here it is: http://www.noolmusic.com/blogs/YouTube_Music_Videos ::continued:: _80s_90s_Rock_Pop_-_The_Books_-_Smells_Like_Content.shtml |
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| The Books – Smells Like Content Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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actaully i take that back i just saw a video and its definitely wellspring http://www.noolmusic.com/blogs/YouTube_Music_Videos_80s_90s_Rock_Pop_-_The_Books_-_Smells_Like_Content.shtml |
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| The Books – Smells Like Content Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i also believe it's twelve string | |
| Menomena – Wet and Rusting Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i agree... sexually yummy. but it goes beyond that. i'd say metaphysically scrumptious. | |
| Andrew Bird – 11:11 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think you answered your own question, butterscotch. And even before you asked it. 11:11, and any time of day of the sorts (3:33, 5:55, 12:12, etc.) commonly is a "wishing" time, if you believe in that sort of superstition, so it would make sense that a story about fate and unpredictablility is entitled accordingly. It's almost as if the odds of a such a situation actually occuring (that is, what fiddlehacks explained) are as whimsical as that symmetry superstition, or perhaps even the intentions of the wind. |
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| Andrew Bird – Armchairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is very reminiscent of "Weather Systems" in many ways, especially in its slow, slender violin introduction and its complex song structure (among other things, of course). | |
| The Books – Be Good To Them Always Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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ian said it: every soundbite. btw, i know when somebody leaves a long message like this, i tend to skip it over, but listen to this one. If you're low on the dough, and can't get any artificial means of mind alteraters, just stay up really late. being tired produces much the same effect. When you're tired, your mind stops thinking as well. When you're thinking clearly, you can see everything as it is, for example, i fell asleep last night listening to the books, but as i grew more and more tired, my brain became less and less able to decipher reality. it was almost as if you become part of the music. I was listening to the music, but still in that state of semiawareness where youre in between dreaming and full conciousness, and then i start to realize that im imagining my brother singing this song, not like picturing him on a stage somewhere, but as if the recording was a recording of my brother, or that it wasnt even a recording at all, but the music was being played all around me/inside of me. long story short, you become part of the music and im not sure if that description really does justice to what actually happens, you really have to experience it for yourself |
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| The Shins – Australia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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before, I used to think (and rather firmly as well) that the 10:00 minute mark in Menomena's "Light" on their newest album, Under An Hour, when the drums came in after the 15 seconds of buildup was literally, "The most amazing element in music ever." That title has been reassigned. The last chorus, where they all come in and shout, "Dare to be one of us, girl" is the new most amazing element in music ever. Sorry Menomena. |
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| Adem – Statued Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i think this is the ultimate love song; slow, smooth, sweet, it just presents these intangible feelings that are "love" with a warm, simplistic yet true-to-perspective view that cover you like a blanket, but in the most gentle way. | |
| Adem – Ringing In My Ear Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| jackals are cool | |
| Adem – These Are Your Friends Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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For a few years now ive been constructing a mental list of all the songs that i think have the greatest one (or two, or three) liners in the lyrics, and this is probably number one: What have you done? You're cutting your cord You're floating in space. But these are your friends, They'll be your star-map home The imagery is positively incredible. You may be right slavetothawage, however, in that context, the next line (they'll be your starmap home) doesnt really make much sense. i interpreted it differently; I think its simply a metaphor dealing with astronauts, comparing it with friendship. see, when youre in space (outside of any protective shuttle or capsule in only your suit), you have a cord that keeps you attached to whatever it is that you wish to be attached to (the shuttle and whatnot). so what have you done? youre cutting that cord (which symbolizes friendship), now youre just floating in space, separated from that ground. But your friends are there regardless of what youve done to the friendship, and they'll be the starmap to guide you back to the ground, becuase everybody makes mistakes, and EVERYBODY needs some help sometimes. |
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| Phish – Limb By Limb Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this is probably the coolest phish drum beat... o jon | |
| Andrew Bird – Banking on a Myth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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bobwronski makes a really good point there with those lyrics its saying that the fact that most of the music blows nowadays, (pop music and hip hop and such) is what these companies think that society needs, because its popular to us (which is kind of ironic in itself considering we're the ones who make it popular). it's a diet full of lukewarm sound... nothing special. the last two lines (basically) mean to me that the right people can make anything popular.. even words that have lost their bite.. i mean who used the words "my hump" before black eyed peas came along? My favorite part of that is "an imaginary pillow fight." what fine imagery, and its so thought provoking. aside from that, ive been mentally making a collective list of one or two line lyrics from all the music i listen to. its consists of either really profound ideas or really awesome imagery. and at the top of my list is: there stands a handsome bid on the weather systems, of the world possibly one of my favorite lines of all time.. especially when analyzed with the rest of the song. it really makes you think and wonder what andrew bird was really thinking about. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| .....and that certainly is quite a profound thing you pointed out there Marauder2IIC. | |
| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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First of all, I would like to say thank you to lacuna112 for letting Farhad realize how fucking stupid s/he was for making that comment about Curt Cobain's grave... Radiohead is pure genius. Absolute art. Even if Nirvana "completely revolutionized" grunge, it doesnt matter a bit. The combined musical ability of Radiohead compared to the combined musical ability of Nirvana is almost an infinite comparison. Radiohead is original and creative, while combining the use of new technology like electronic sound with their generally amazing rock, multifaceted song structure, and unique sound. Nirvana is a garage band. Nuff said. Nirvana could never right a song as dynamic as Kid A. Plus, Thom York's voice is one of the most amazing in the world. Curt Cobain could never sing Fake Plastic Trees, Everything in its Right Place, Paranoid Android, or (more pertinantly) Idioteque. So as far as musical talent goes, Nirvana doesnt even scratch the surface. And don't even start on lyrics; It is an objective fact that Radiohead's lyrics are some of the best around. And i mean come on... Rape me? There is no valid comparison between Radiohead and Nirvana. |
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| Broken Social Scene – I Slept with Bonhomme at the CBC Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is my favorite BSS song, and one third of a super extraordinary three part album opener. (I Slept With The Bonhomme At The CBC; Guilty Cubicles; Love and Mathematics) |
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| Sufjan Stevens – No Man's Land Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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yea, sufjan is a real pioneer with rhythm; "The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders" on Illinois is in alternating 5:4 / 6:4. I think it's pretty nifty that a song with the lyrics: I'm counting it out I'm working it out inside Is in 17:4 |
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| Sufjan Stevens – For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song was on the OC in it's last season during a funeral scene. It was easily the coolest thing ive ever seen on TV. |
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| Mirah – We're Both So Sorry Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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as for the meaning of this song it's fairly simple to understand, its just a large scale parallel to one of her relationships using the imagery of a medieval kingdom (and an amazingly complete parallel to add). I was always facinated with the medieval times as a kid so this song has a sort of nostalgic feel to me |
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| Mew – 156 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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wow 156 billion lightyears is a really really friggen big place -- though i thought the universe was an indefinite size, that was the point of calling it the universe, for everything, indefinite, and immeasurable. but all science aside, and without looking too much into it, it sounds like its about dealing drugs to this Callie girl: Callie if your really want me to I can always get you down If you got the money for me Callie in the summerrain You will be kept dry you see If you got the money for me That more or less tells that something is being sold, whether its drugs or sex or what-have-you. Maybe Callie actually isnt a person, just a name theyve given to those who buy. Just ideas, and it seems like theres much more to the song than that. i really dont think that 156 has anything to do with light years. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but I, as the 169th person to comment on this song would just like to say that this song has always been my favorite radiohead song, and good lord it gives me the willies... for so many reasons. | |
| Menomena – Light Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| my brother and i mutually decided that the ten minute mark on this song has one of the most phenomenally fantastic musical elements ever, in the entire history of musical elements -- right when the drums come in. Menomena does that build-up sort of thing really well. Under an Hour is an amazing instrumental album, highly recommended | |
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