| Sufjan Stevens – Damascus Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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If this was a straightforward, orthodox re-telling of the story of Paul's "conversion," I think it would reference a church and not a temple. Temples, in the biblical sense, are Jewish and churches are Gentile. I think the song is from the point of view of the original Judeo-Christians who were displaced by Paul's "vision" of a gentile Christianity. "Back against the everglades, back against the out-of-state." They've been driven back into the wasteland, across the borders of the Promised Land, by a gentile who didn't even know Jesus ("Do you know the emissary, and carry, all the burdens of a people's past?"). |
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| M.I.A. – Illygirl Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Thanks. Most of my guesses are pretty pitiful, I just really want to know the whole song. | |
| M.I.A. – Illygirl Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It's pretty obvious which lines are wrong. I figured it would get rejected if it was full of question marks, so I made stuff up. Anyone want to help me fix it? Lol. | |
| M.I.A. – Illygirl Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It's pretty obvious which lines are wrong. I figured it would get rejected if it was full of question marks, so I made stuff up. Anyone want to help me fix it? Lol. | |
| Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Favorite song on the album, by far. Although I have to admit that every time I listen, it reminds me of "Heart of Glass" just a teeny tiny bit. | |
| Peaches – Show Stopper Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"I'll rock you harder than a martyr in a holy war, Can't help but engage you...." Fucking genius. |
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| N.A.S.A. – The People Tree Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Did you get these from the liner notes? I don't have them, but at the end, "'Cause before the tree can flourish seeds must first be planted in," makes WAY more sense. | |
| M.I.A. – O... Saya Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Pick up a pack on my journey Dogs run, they start to follow me." It's a pack of dogs that's following her through the streets. |
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| The Go! Team – Doing It Right Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Thank you so much for putting these up! | |
| The Go! Team – Huddle Formation Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Revolution has come! Go Team! Time to pick up the gun! Go Team!" A lot of people use that sample. It's an old Black Panther chant. |
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| The Go! Team – Huddle Formation Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Revolution has come! Go Team! Time to pick up the gun! Go Team!" A lot of people use that sample. It's an old Black Panther chant. |
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| The Go! Team – Keys to the City Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is Ninja's favorite song off Proof of Youth, and it's mine too. It kind of inspired me to get my life back together after some really difficult times. It's my victory song. Haha. "Just stick it out, records can last a lifetime, We can win, the war, so let's...." Oh, and also, I think it goes "I know you're there, don't keep me down like that..." That's all I got. |
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| The Magnetic Fields – California Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The concept is completely sonic: distortion. Surprisingly, the iTunes Review of the album put it best. "...dissonance is to melody as loss is to love. Mixed together, they make beauty of the most unearthly kind." |
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| M.I.A. – U.R.A.Q.T. Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| There's a cool mashup of this with "An Honest Mistake" by The Bravery. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – The Mistress Witch from McClure (Or, the Mind That Knows Itself) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| To me, the lines with "The Mind that Knows Itself" seem kind of ironic. Maybe "The mind that knows itself has a mind to serve the other" is something their father said to them about charity, and it's the first thing to pop into Sufjan's head when he sees their affair. He takes it from there, trying to fit his father's actions into what he knows about morality. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – The Henney Buggy Band Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| To me, it's about being selfish and doing something that's important to you, and how that idea conflicts with the idea that the only way to salvation is through sacrifice and self-denial. He's telling Father John that he has his own morality. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I know the lyrics are basically the same as the regular ones, but in the chorus right after the bridge, there is an extra layer of vocals that I can't quite figure out. I'm pretty sure the first part is "You came to take us, If I was right or wrong I, Had my friend (van?), Along the way from things that....." Can anyone help solve this mystery for me? I can't find these lyrics ANYWHERE. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The beauty of good art is that you can put it into the context of your own life. The spiritual element of this song can refer to Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, or anything, because it's a common idea and a common theme throughout all of humanity. Expressing your love by suffering for something greater than yourself is what all artists do, in a sense. Sufjan happens to be Christian, but why does that have to ruin the song for you? Why bother with art at all if you're not willing to set aside your bias and ignorance? | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Easily Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's not about an actual war. It's about the fight between your sense of self and the harmony of the universe. He's practically begging to be thrown away from his ego and destroyed, to get rid of all the materialism that surrounds him and get "thrown to the wolves" and join the order of nature. The woman on the morning of a war is a metaphor for our intuition and spirituality, which got left behind while we all fought to make something our own. He wants to be reminded why we all take part in this consumer-driven culture when we're tired of materialism. Why do we fight for our egoes if the rewards don't make us happy? How can conflict with the world possibly bring about inner peace? Almost everything in this song involves destroying singularity in order to be a part of the shared identity of all existance ("let's get carried away," "let's get married today," "throw me to the wolves," "throw me to the sky"). |
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| M.I.A. – Sunshowers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I really wish people would get their facts straight about the Tamil Tigers. Do any of you know anyone in Sri Lanka? "Liberation effort?" Her father pretty much invented suicide bombing, and he's the one who trained the PLO in how to use it as a successful weapon of terrorism. | |
| Say Anything – Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's not that he can't get laid on his own. He's afraid of being close to someone. He can't decide whether he wants weed, sex, a relationship.... and he knows that he's using all these things to distract himself from a real relationship, to protect himself from being hurt. That's why he's laughing. He knows that he's using these things so he can avoid any type of emotional connection or growth, but he does it anyway. Finally, he just resigns himself to the fact that hey, he's young, and he just doesn't know what he wants. There's no closure at all, he just keeps laughing because he's figured out the subconscious meaning for his destructive behaviors, and does nothing to fix it (a recurrent theme in a lot of his lyrics). | |
| TV on the Radio – Let the Devil In Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This can also be taken in a more obvious religious context. You better beg forgiveness for these mistakes from whatever power you believe in, people need to humble themselves before nature and God and the earth, like things used to be, instead of raping and pillaging it. That makes us no better than the Devil's pirate friends, and I'm willing to bet those pirate friends didn't get through the pearly gates. | |
| TV on the Radio – Let the Devil In Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Bees die when they sting you, and it's your fault that this living thing is dead because you pissed it off and it reacted. Maybe it's a comment on American's current imperialistic aspirations in the Middle East, and the spread of our culture of capitalism and exploitation into what was once a culture with deeper meaning than that. Then he remembers a joke about the people being raped for letting the Devil in, which could be a metaphor for the inherent greed of our society. We let this greed in, and these huge, largely unaccountable corporations (who wanted this war to begin with) are the devil's pirate friends who hunger for destruction because they profit from it. I'm sure you know how much the price of oil has increased since our invasion of Iraq, and I guarantee these oil companies and consultant groups with government contracts are pulling in record profits at the cost of thousands of lives, both American and Iraqi. The sentimental rant is him remembering a better time, befor industrialization and the corporation, where things like spirituality and community mattered, cooperation among your own people, self-pride. When nature was left unthreatened, and people lived in greater (admittedly, still imperfect) harmony with the world. Then he remembers, everyone has this poison in them, this greed. It's spread everywhere, and no one wants to hear about it. Mass media theory would say that this is because this idea is outside of everyone's comfort zone due the immense responsibility we all have for contributing to all of these problems, and people choose media (books, newspapers, really every means of getting any type of information) that reinforces the beliefs they already have. That's why things are so quiet that he can hear crickets yawning; everyone has just walked away and chosen a less challenging message to listen to. The ticket to heaven was left in a discarded pair of jeans, like you'd leave a receipt or a candy wrapper in your pocket. It's arguably the most valuable thing on the face of the earth, (perhaps it actually is the metaphorical equivalent of the earth) but it's obviously not recognized for its worth and gets treated like trash. When you die, you better enjoy the ride up to heaven, or enlightenment, or paradise, whatever you want to call it. You're not getting in because of what you've helped, even passively, destroy. Capitalism and corporations are destroying the earth, destroying cultures, destroying people, and destroying civilizations. So, in conclusion, you better realize the role you play in all of this, get off your ass and vote for some legislation to get this under control and realize what's really important in life (find the ticket), or the backlash is going to kill you the same way you killed everything else. |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – Hunter (Bjork cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This cover adds absolutely nothing to the original, ALL of the instrumentation is exactly the same. The only thing that's different is Jared's voice instead of Bjork's, and he sounds a hell of a lot like Bono in this one. A good cover should add the band's own unique sound to a song. With a good cover, you should say "Wow, this is a cover?" once you start recognizing lyrics. With a bad cover, you can say "Oh, this is a Bjork song," as soon as you hear the first 5 seconds. Nice job, guys. I was actually hoping this cover would be could, but I guess, relatively speaking, nothing could make A Beautiful Lie half the album their debut was. Sorry for the rant, I just think this song blows. |
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| TV on the Radio – Blues From Down Here Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Definitely love this song. I heard that it was inspired by the movie Labyrinth, but I haven't seen that movie since I was a kid and remember almost none of it, so I don't know what correlations there are. | |
| TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Towards the end, I'm pretty sure it's "There's a devil in this kiss", not "there's a curse comes with this kiss" | |
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