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| 30 Seconds to Mars – Buddha For Mary Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I relate to everything in this, at the moment, and it's funny I should think of playing it this morning without thinking about the lyrics first... coincidencey. |
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| Jefferson Airplane – Wooden Ships Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Airplane version is undoubtedly best, but the CSN version is still pretty damn good.
The lyrics at the top definitely don't fit the version of the song I'm familiar with. I always got a 'nam vibe from it, along with the feeling that whoever wrote it just wishes to retreat to a simpler civilization, away from all the BS infesting America.
'Silver people' is used to directly contrast 'wooden ships', probably to represent the infrigement on humanity, nature, and simplicity by industry and cities, or even more likely, by war.
Maybe it's just to symbolise their opposal to war? |
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| Jefferson Airplane – Today Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It reminds me.. of one of those sleepless nights, you spend thinking about a person, fantasizing about what you'll say and do when you finally get to see them after dawn has broken. Almost like an epiphany... the realization of true, passionate love that words can't even begin to express. |
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| Tegan and Sara – Like O, Like H Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song has such an uneasy vibe to it, like a sense of impending doom. It doesn't remind me so much of the struggle one as with coming out at a young age, but rather the struggle a child can have with the mystery of life. Sexuality ties into it, but it's not necessarily the whole subject. |
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| James Blunt – 1973 Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is unbelieveably catchy. I haven't a clue about it's meaning, but I do love it. |
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| Seal – Kiss From A Rose Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I believe he's comparing love to cocaine use. "won't you tell me, is it healthy baby?" = he's never known love, and it's the greatest high of his life, and the only high he's known before was from drugs, so he has to wonder if love is the same deal. |
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| Tom Waits – Step Right Up Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Yeah the 'change into a nine-year-old Hindu boy" is totally the best. Man, it must have taken him a year to write this song, really. Incredibly detailed when you think of all the sales gimmicks he had to think of. |
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| Syd Barrett – Octopus Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't get a fun vibe from it at all. Reminds me of a scary trip and those horrible octopus rides at carnivals and midways. I have bad childhood memories from those.
To me the images are twisted and confused carnival/ jungle hallucinations. |
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| Guster – What You Wish For Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I've never listened to it all the way through until just now. I never could, it always depressed me. It's helping me get along a little bit better now though, and I'm thankful for that. Helping me accept things that I could never prepare for. Sometimes it takes an epiphany and a couple sleepless nights to change your frame of mind.
About the song though, it must be about gaining back strength, coming back with more force and inspiration from whatever doesn't kill you. At least that's how it feels to me. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Silver Jet Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Thinking about if it is in fact inspired by 9/11... I was 11 then, and I remember since Bush declared war, I'd hear planes going over and feared they would bomb us. Really creepy time it was. |
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| The Tea Party – Angels Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This reminds me a bit of Marcy Playground, don't know why. Super nice song, man, I love it. |
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| Pink Floyd – Fat Old Sun Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't think it's about drugs, but the line "roll me up and lay me down" is definitely sounding like weed. It doesn't have to be ABOUT drugs just because it has references in it. Gah, language is a bitch.
All the imagery reminds me of childhood summers, and also of new love in the summertime. Weed could definitely be an influence in the mellow and happy tone of the song.
Probably just about a memorable summer evening filled with reminders of childhood bliss, while with a lover, maybe smoking a little pot and fooling around by the river- the part "and if you see don't make a sound..." asking for no one to be so cruel as to spoil their perfect, carefree moment,
ehh that's just my take on it. |
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| Arcade Fire – Windowsill Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I love this song. It's really great to have an excellent band like Arcade Fire appealing to the indie scene, while at the same expressing beautifully their political and social opinions. Also, it reminds me a bit of CCR's Who'll stop the rain. |
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| Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Heh, I used to think it said "Cannibal eve" :p
Once standing on my head against a wall, this was playing, I fell over and knocked the stereo down, and it still played. The persistence of Donovan! :D |
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| Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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well my interpretation isn't ultimate death. I wrote a poem inspired by this, and it's still hard to describe.
How they told her to scream like she was having an orgasm or whatever, and how orgasm means "little death" in whatever language, you know the story, so it's the death of childhood, and so it is the entrance to adult life.
So the first part of DS is life from a child's perspective, and sounds naive, but progresses, and in Time, and the Breathe reprise, the tone becomes more understanding of adult life, and is more mature and wise in thought.
So Great Gig takes this and is symbolic of orgasm and death simultaneously- in a way that suggests perhaps one's final passing into ultimate maturity and transcending childlike ignorance.
I suppose, it's beautiful and I don't want to f*ck up the meaning...
Only Floyd know what it's about, and I don't even think they know what it's really about; the whole album is so perfectly relevant to whatever it is we think life is, I think it was just a wonderful coincidence. |
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| Roisin Murphy – Ramalama (Bang Bang) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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not as good as other Roisin songs, actually kind of annoys me to some extent, but the lyrics are great. Has an awesome beat too. A friend linked me to the So you think you can dance performance, and I thought it was pretty frickin cool. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Adrift and at Peace Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I agree with ComaDivine, I get the exact same feeling from this.
It's also this beautiful reminder of once when I was delirious on a vacation as a little kid, and they were driving me to the hospital, and even though I was so young I appreciated the love my family had for me. It somehow connects, this feeling of love, and deep compassion I get from it.
It just reminds me of love I think, like laying together with the one you love, gazing up at the sky on a summer night. Something like that.
It's beautiful. |
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| k-os – Man I Used to Be Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Don't think this is about growth, it's about a search for truth.
Really fantastic lyrics.
"It's getting hot..." that part is most likely about global warming. |
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| k-os – Valhalla Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I love Sam Roberts in this. Excellent song.
At the first, sounds like it's "mellow heaven" but that's just what I hear. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Lost Woman Song Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I'm not going to go into arguing on possibly the most intensely debatable moral dilemma of our time. But I will say this song is a beautiful and poignant demonstration of the human condition, and the quick-fix attitude of our society. Protesters can be terribly judgmental on this issue, directing their anger towards the women who have already to make such a life-altering decision. |
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| k-os – Crabbuckit Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This, along with many other K-os songs, is rich with pop culture references.
Especially the Hip reference I like (= |
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| Peaches – Downtown Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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favourite line= "you keep on pinin' for me to go dinin' "
Haha I love peaches. |
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| I Mother Earth – Raspberry Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Seems like it's the point of view of someone with schizophrenia or a personality disorder or something like that. I get the feeling of a lobotomy somewhere in this too. |
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| Stabilo – Coffee Spills Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think it's about a person who's vowed never to become like the generic blue collar zombies who most of us eventually turn into. A mundane life has destroyed her once energetic and carefree spirit. |
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| Stabilo – Rain Awhile Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't think this song is about killing yourself. I'm pretty sure it's about cynicism, and how it's alright to some extent, but you can't go too far with it. |
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| Guster – Rocketship Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Yeah, I thought of the Heaven's Gate cult too. It really seems to be about that. Great song; mellow but has a great melody too. |
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| Nick Drake – Place To Be Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song seems to be a poignant observation of growing older and suffering depression.
Really is sad. |
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| The Coral – Dreaming Of You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Such a great song, really hard to get tired of!
Great vocals on the chorus especially.
I just realized recently that the opening especially reminds me of You're the One that I Want from Grease. |
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| Sonic Youth – Peace Attack Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't think it's about war. To me it feels like peace, how it can come on so strongly and blow your mind into euphoria sometimes.
Also seems like a bit of a meditation, just a few incongruous words strung together to describe the day. |
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| Sonic Youth – Silver Rocket Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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One of the best off DN, I'd say. The riff is great, and the instrumental bridge building up to the second verse is amazing. |
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| Porcupine Tree – So Called Friend Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Perhaps the "plans" mentioned in this are the ones mentioned in Arriving Somewhere But Not Here.
"you stain the sub-terrain with sarin gas and fear" is an interesting line- WW2 reference possibly? |
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| Porcupine Tree – Where We Would Be Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is possibly the saddest song I have ever heard. I agree with the above, "Strange how you never become, the person you see when you're young" is the part that always really hits me hard.
I believe it's about wanting to return to the carefree security of childhood. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Synesthesia Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Great, great song. Synesthesia is often experienced as one is dying, if I'm not mistaken.
I was delirious with a fever once, then overdosed on medication, and was listening to this while I started slipping from peaceful numbness to panicked agony. I can feel it every time I listen.
I think it's a straightforward song, no need to look too deeply into it.
The extended version of this I like better than the original. |
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