| Beach House – Saltwater Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| "Dream I'm in the saltwater" - anyone know if this means something? | |
| The Strokes – Barely Legal Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Agreed. Sexy. | |
| Radiohead – There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I only read pages one and six, so I don't know if I missed an epic discussion on this song and Joseph Heller. I will, however, say that I also immediately thought of Yossarian from Catch-22. I won't give the end away, but when Snowden spills his secret - just read the book - Yossarian's only reply is "There, there. There, there." And I think the refrain "Just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there" is a good example of major themes in the novel. Hey, if they can use 1984 I would not put it past them to do Catch-22. 1984 is a dystopia, right? But C-22 is like a contemporary (as of WWII) dystopia. Know what I mean? | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Kill Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love Sufjan Stevens. This song creeps the shit out of me. | |
| Gorillaz – Left Hand Suzuki Method Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with poisoncandygram as well. I play violin in my community, and all private teachers teach the Suzuki method. Being the only one in the program right now who wasn't raised on the method, I find the idea suffocating. The kids are so robotic, it's ridiculous. It does produce great long-term instrumentalists, but not many are long-term, and not many really enjoy it. "Left hand", to me and all violinists, means concentration on intonation, vibrato and shifting methods. Right hand deals with the structure and beauty of tone, which is usually not really focused on in most Suzuki students/books. Sounds like a clear statement to me. (Down with Suzuki!) Also... bongs make sound? |
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| Arcade Fire – Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Never mind, it's an instrumental. :) | |
| Hole – Violet Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Wow, all this debate is wonderful, but what's this song about? | |
| Arcade Fire – Burning Bridges, Breaking Hearts Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Does anyone know if the lyrics here are the same as the lyrics on the song they just released as a free download? | |
| The White Stripes – The Big Three Killed My Baby Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The first thing I thought was the Ramones song, "The KKK Took My Baby Away". Probably doesn't help, though. | |
| The White Stripes – This Protector Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Perfect close to an unbelievably perfect album. I started listening to the Stripes when Icky Thump came out, and hearing this album has blown my mind. Going from this to his work with the Raconteurs, Jack is just so talented. And nice, I hear. I live about 4 hours from Detroit - next time he's there, I might just have to kidnap him. Oh, that sounds a bit creepy, doesn't it? | |
| The White Stripes – Jolene (Dolly Parton cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I stayed up to see this on Conan the night before ACT's. Well worth it." craigifer, how did you do? I bet your score went up a few points. :) I listened to Pixies the whole night beforehand, it was awesome. Didn't study. |
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| The White Stripes – Aluminium Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Oh, obviously. I laughed so hard when I got to this page: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Who knows what Jack meant by this song, robots or no robots (which would be really scary, though), but maybe the fact that it's so brash and ugly and AHHHHHH is the point. Maybe we're supposed to skip it when we listen to WBC, because we should hate its aluminum/techno quality. I hated it at first, but I like it because it reminds me of stuff like that - how ugly and creepy robots are, for example. I also think this is about a guy who loves a girl but can't tell her, so all he says is "ah". Or a guy who loves a guy; hence the "ah". Or a guy who smells a rat and thinks, "ah", I smell a rat. Ah. Or a robot, who is freaking creepy. "ah". |
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| The White Stripes – Now Mary Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| God, sounds like Jack has had his fair share of bad women. He does a lot of love songs for someone who's been married twice and publicly dated once, don't you think? | |
| The White Stripes – I Can't Wait Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I thought that Dead Leaves as an opening song was just like the opening song to Rush's "Spirit of Radio" album: Working Man. Badass and brash - and, sadly, without Neil Peart - and incredibly real. White Stripes. As for this one, I didn't hear anything about JW being a Nirvana fan? If so, however, that would be awesome. |
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| The White Stripes – I Think I Smell A Rat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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" this song is funny. it always makes me think of a movie called Willard, where killer rats help a troubled man on a quest to kill. " -----That's what I thought of, Willard! So creepy, so pissed off. " I think Jack may be thinking. I've been betrayed (I smell rat) and now I'm going to kill that motherfucker (walking down the street, carrying a baseball bat). " -----I think those are the perfect sentiments to describe the song. Haven't we all been walking down the street and carrying some metaphorical baseball bat before? There are many motherfuckers I'd love to kill. Also, stop arguing whether they're minimalists or good lyricists or bad ones or not, just listen to the music and feel it, I think that's what we're supposed to do. I don't sound too hippieish, do I? |
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| The White Stripes – We're Going to Be Friends Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I like just lying on the ground and falling asleep to this song. I'm becoming more and more convinced of Jack White's genius abilities - I need to go see him live before he dies or does coke, so I can brag about it to my future children. | |
| The White Stripes – The Union Forever Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is so creepy and real. I haven't seen Citizen Kane. That's my last name, though, does that count for anything? Just ignore the Christianity haters. I'm an atheist, but I don't care that someone mentioned Jesus - what solid literary or creative work doesn't have a Christ figure in it? And I don't care that Jack's religious, either; I don't see why people have such a beef with that. His choice. Plus, anyone who chooses Meursault's revolver as a source for a songmeanings name has to be messed up. That book is just fucked up, man. |
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| The White Stripes – Little Room Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Dude, why are you calling JW's wife an anorexic bitch? Get a life, please. Now: does anyone else think that Jack's wordless spiel sounds like directions for a saxophonist or something? I mean, in the studio - it sounds like he was giving them an idea what he wanted and decided what he did was perfect as is. (Which it is.) |
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| Nirvana – Tourette's Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I like trainsvsabus's idea. | |
| Nirvana – Sifting Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Well, he was in Nirvana, so I guess he was influencing himself? | |
| Nirvana – Negative Creep Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Firstly, why hasn't anyone tracked down man on tv and assraped him? Secondly, this is what these comments have taught me: 1 - Apparently, Radiohead is grunge because they used the word "Creep" 2 - emo skeightter chick FUCKING LOVES THIS SONG 3 - Hm, nothing else. |
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| Nirvana – Swap Meet Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| AllThatIsEvil, yes, we do know what they do: they grow hair, scream, and die. Or they do the seashell thing. | |
| Nirvana – Paper Cuts Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Pretty sure aeroled was explaining that Bleach came out before Nevermind, thus the fame/Nevermind theory was inaccurate. You hole. | |
| Nirvana – School Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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hahhhh I'm still laughing at what trevor said. |
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| Nirvana – Blew Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't know if this has been mentioned before - sorry, I don't want to read three pages of fellatio-rooted arguments - but Kurdt wrote 80% of Bleach's lyrics the night before recording and on the way there. Sometimes he wrote them at the studio. They're bare, have minimal meaning, and he wanted to keep them simple because he was still perfecting the sing-and-play skill. But let's go with the oral sex, that's much more fun. |
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| Arcade Fire – No Cars Go Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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These guys are incredible live. I haven't seen them live, I've Youtubed them live, but still. When they're all shouting HEY! it's great - and the old folks, women and children part, just great. I'm so glad that there are still bands out there that are good live, let alone good. ...Go violins! |
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| Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It took me a while to think of this interpretation, though my favorite one used to be the ugly person: What if the song was about the lack of communication that the technology era brought on? I mean, how people find it harder to interact face-to-face and find it much easier to chat online or text one another. So "my body is a cage" is just that, that you can't communicate properly anymore. [I'm standing on the stage Of fear and self-doubt It's a hollow play But they'll clap anyway] - The emotional ramifications this has, and how life in this age is hollow and "clapped" at anyway. The "standing next to me" line could be how people are standing right next to one another but can't really talk. "Mind holds the key" line - being locked inside your head. [I'm living in an age That calls darkness light Though my language is dead Still the shapes fill my head] - The insensitivity we live in; the "dead language" referred to could be the lost communication, while said "shapes" could be the wanting to express emotions. [I'm living in an age Whose name I don't know Though the fear keeps me moving Still my heart beats so slow] - The obvious confusion this kind of problem spurs. ...[We take what we're given Just because you've forgotten, that don't mean you're forgiven] - Lack of ambition, and the second part of this line sounds like "you can't forgive what you can't forget" from Windowsill. [I'm living in an age Still turning in the night But when I get to the doorway There's no one in sight] - No idea. [I'm living in an age Realizing I'm dancing With the one I love But my mind holds the key] - "Realizing" you're "dancing" or interacting with someone, but you're still locked inside your mind by that generational communication block. And the "set my spirit/body" free thing is just the wishing to break those barriers. Another interpretation... body = people/cage = USA? ... Ones loved but not danced with = other cultures? I don't know, this is just the stuff I got from it. Does this sound like a bunch of crap to you too? |
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| Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman – Sparkling Diamonds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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No comments? Well, it wasn't the best song on the soundtrack - but still, it's in Moulin Rouge, so it's still the bomb. The lyrics here are from the soundtrack version, not the movie version, because there are some slight (and huge) differences. For example, in the movie, this is where Satine mistakes Christian for the Duke, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera... I love this scene in the movie, it just shows how screwy that world is and how much the dancers work to make it look effortless. Not to mention, we get to see Nicole Kidman unleash her talents for the first time. |
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| Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman – Elephant Love Medley Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Personally, I love the song and the movie. I always thought this would be great for the Forensics team at my high school, but nooooo, they don't like it. Soup for them... It's blended so well, and performed so well, I wish I could just make everyone on the planet watch this movie. And love it. Right now. |
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| Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman – One Day I'll Fly Away Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Um... I don't feel trapped when I listen to this song, but it is a bit depressing to think of what happens to Satine, even with all these hopes she has. Has anyone else heard the remix version on the second soundtrack? It's unbelievable, gives me chills. And I still can't believe she did the vocals for this - my god! |
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| Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman – Hindi Sad Diamonds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Yeah, and it's "diamonds are a" not "diamonds are the"... And does anyone have a translation for the "Chamma Chamma" portion? |
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| Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman – Come What May Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Moulin Rouge. I love this movie so much, and I'm so glad to hear people who don't hate it for once. The lyrics are pretty tame, but the movie's whole theme is that love trumps everything and nothing else matters - so to me, the lyrics could be about unicorns and have that chorus and still be the song it is. I haven't seen Romeo+Juliet, or Strictly Ballroom, but I do absolutely love Baz's work on this film. As a natural skeptic of all things idealistic, this movie and song have really gotten to me on that certain level, like, throwing everything out the window for that sort of thing. This song - both versions - are so emotional and raw that I seriously listen to it three to five times every time it comes up on shuffle. All the songs from this movie seem to pin down an array of emotions and demand you feel them. The second version is just as good, if not better, than the first (get the whole second soundtrack! seriously), but the end is the show-ending right before the Duke goes all "I don't like this ending" apeshit on everyone. So in a way, the first one's better, because you get that everything-is-happy ending. Even if that's not the movie's ending. I don't know. As for the Nirvana cover, I particularly enjoyed it, and I'm a big Cobain fan. Seriously, I like Pixies and Rage Against the Machine, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Moulin Rouge and this song. |
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| Dishwalla – Counting Blue Cars Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with the interpretation that it's either a) about simple childhood innocence and/or b) about spreading the "word" of god. Verse three is definitely about a church: It's getting cold, picked up the pace : some people view churches and the life of god as emotionally "cold" How our shoes make hard noises in this place : churches are always quiet Our clothes are stained : as in, we are stained with knowledge and are no longer innocent like kids? We pass many, cross eyed people : not literally cross-eyed; crosses of church are in their eyes, etc. And ask many questions Like children often do I also agree with the fact that "her" just sounds better. If indeed Dishwalla didn't put a very deep meaning into this song, it doesn't matter because it's possible that even Mark Twain didn't mean very much by Huck Finn -- he was at best a storyteller, after all. A person could write something about Diet Coke and then the world would say it's about how the world is fizzling, or something to that extent. I think religion is the easiest interpretation point because it's so skewed. But not that I don't think that's what this song is about. P.S. Someone needs to spell-check this song, because the "It's" in the 3rd verse needs an apostrophe and the "must of"s should actually be "must have"s. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – I Can't Even Lift My Head Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I don't know, but it sounds like a revival of the title of "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Restore! Rebuild! Reconsider!)" | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Say Yes! To Michigan! Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I live in Cadillac... I was actually really surprised when I realized he said it. Cool. Too bad he couldn't just rattle off all of the cities, huh? I still feel weird when I hear "Michigan" in his music. :) | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Year of the Sheep Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I was born in the year of the sheep, I want to hear this. It's interesting how Stevens sticks to themes like this. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Opie's Funeral Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is so touching and personal. And I agree with the Pleasantville reference, I never thought like that. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Opie's Funeral Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is so touching and personal. And I agree with the Pleasantville reference, I never thought like that. | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars – 93 Million Miles Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The sun is usually about 93 Million Miles away from us. | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars – Occam's Razor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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me too... oh wait, I CAN'T FIND IT |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – Valhalla Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I was reading the comments on this, saw mine, and was thinking that whoever wrote that was an idiot. And then I saw that it was me. I know that now, anyway, and it's a great song. |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – Anarchy in Tokyo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"They say the city is safe, the keepers of faith, the bullet is safe for one and day Eclipsed by the one Don't bother to run The target is on your back You're done." Creepy. |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – A Modern Myth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. Whenever I think of life and everything as a whole, this song plays in my mind like a soundtrack. It's killer, you know. | |
| Panic! at the Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| which one is ryan? | |
| Panic! at the Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| which one is ryan? | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars – Valhalla Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| are you sure that 30stm really did this song? I don't think it's on either of their albums... hm | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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These lyrics reminded me of Styx's "Grand Illusion." Hm... |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – The Kill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The bear or dog or bunny thing was in The Shining. Looked like a blow job to me too. | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars – The Fantasy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hm. I guess I'm bad at this whole meaning thing, because it sounded like the fantasy was a dream (not like a night or day dream). Maybe like, a dream of something you want to be. A dream, like, a band? "Do you live, do you die, do you bleed, for the fantasy?" To me this was like, what would you sacrifice for the fantasy. But I'm usually wrong. :) I agree with all of the ideas here, though. They make more sense than mine. |
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