| The Mess Hall – Pulse Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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correct lyrics (from cd sleeve): i flipped from a car it split the road in two i felt something pass by made me feel brand new now i'm standing on a corner eyes kicked back in my head nothing breathing in the picture but the calling of a wolf the air is kinda rotten rotten like a fire's been through last thing that i remember i was calling out to you i hear a girl sing.. you stalk my head too as my brain seems to gather to a memory or an echo of you saying nothing else matters i'm walking here in this dim light it makes a fire of the soul i can taste a little leather leather as the air gets cold and the girls sing.. i want the sun in the sky now the rain was all i ever felt on my head and what gathered in the distance gathered north, east, south and west like a shadow staggers in a headlight it could be easy just to crawl into the next life bold as a boy can be the military standing on the sidewalk looking at me just raising my arms to a chromatic sky looking for a weapon while the devil rides high or a way, a way to move into the next life a shot cracks in a valley of fire in my head is a picture. built to decay of everything i ever had falling away i'm burning so fast like a newborn star hearing nothing but a voice just breaking my heart saying 'boy, you're bound by what you can't control, you'll see it in the daylight, and find you're waiting for your will to bend.' |
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| The Mess Hall – Keep Walking Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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correct lyrics (from the cd sleeve): looking through the cracks at the blood on the money machine well the rain came down and i found myself in a dream where the neon's pressed up against your chest and nobody's saying a thing then a wink from an eye in the broad daylight sent the whole world into a spin i'm mining in a field mining in a field mining in a field of eyes there are ways to keep walking don't get in the way just keep walking i got nothing but the taste, nothing but the smell of piss stains a rider only comes when he comes with the setting sun a girl may lie to a suit and tie for the five in the back of his jeans hanging in the air with a pinhole stare in the bowels of the pleasure machine i'm calling, i'm calling, i'm calling to say there are ways to keep walking don't get in the way just keep walkng mining in a field mining in a field mining in a field of eyes |
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| Sarah Blasko – Sleeper Awake Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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this is amazinggggggg. i think the lines about using your hands are not associated with sex or anything like that, but rather about taking action - the theme of the whole song, "waking up" from a state of insolence & hopelessness. sarah is playing on the saying to "get one's hands dirty" - to do hard work. |
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| Sarah Blasko – Hold On My Heart Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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i can really relate to atikin123's comment. i find this song very therapeutic :) in fact, the whole album has been my best friend in overcoming a very hard situation. it's really really amazing :) |
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| Little Birdy – Relapse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i adore this song, it's amazing. it reminds me of australian author helen garner's book "monkey grip", in which the protagonist is in love with a junkie. he's addicted to drugs and she's addicted to loving him, even though he has his obvious faults. and the more she tries to pull away from him, "the tighter the monkey grip". their relationship, like the one i see in this song, is a constant pattern of ups and downs, blame and guilt, love and resentment. there is a lot of inner conflict. |
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| Sonic Youth – Massage The History Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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sorry about the errors, but at least the ball's rolling, right? LOVE the eternal, it's incredible. |
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| Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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not sure what this one's about, but it's awesome to dance to! :] i think it may be about a groupie who loves the music & the band members, & who maybe wants to join the band? |
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| Sonic Youth – What We Know Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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this song is amazing. as is the entire album, the eternal. i have a feeling this song is about a guy and a prostitute, or at least a girl with a "reputation". thus they don't know a lot about each other, and so "what they know" is that he is lonely ("darkness makes the night turn cold") and she can satisfy him ("forever means the night turns gold"). |
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| Something For Kate – The Futurist Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i apologise for the double-post, but i have some lyric corrections.. listening to the live at the corner recording i've come across this clarification.. the second line is: "no cold heart likes an emotional abacus". paul says on this recording that the song is about how he "was angry at the former government", so the 'cold-heartedness' makes sense. |
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| Something For Kate – The Futurist Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i apologise for the double-post, but i have some lyric corrections.. listening to the live at the corner recording i've come across this clarification.. the second line is: "no cold heart likes an emotional abacus". paul says on this recording that the song is about how he "was angry at the former government", so the 'cold-heartedness' makes sense. |
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| Something For Kate – Down the Garden Path Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i've been listening to the version of this song at SFK's live at the corner album, & i've had some clarification on some words that aren't so clear on the original recording. .. "we walk the TIGHTROPE again". "walk the top up" never quite made sense to me haha, but tightrope definitely does. and i think "a promise kept on days to put in light" is actually "a promise kept on day's departing light". |
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| Garbage – I Think I'm Paranoid Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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thankyou heaps craz4life for the correct word for word lyrics, they're a real help :]. i love shirley's performance of this song, it's sexy & dynamic. i think it's about a girl who is a constant contradiction - at onces she's forthright & strong (first verse), but then she allows herself to be walked all over, used, "bent", "broken" & taken advantage of by a guy, as long as it appears that he & others like her - she's paranoid that people don't like her & she's willing to do anything & everything to change this. |
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| Red Riders – In My Sleep Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i love this song, red riders are wonderful. i think this song is about living & experiencing all your desires & secret hopes that might not be possible in real life.. retreating into your dreams, where everything is possible :]. |
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| Adam Arcuragi – 1981 (Or waving at you as we part at light speed will look like i'm standing still) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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this song makes me happy when i listen to it :]. although the lyrics seem to suggest something dark.. no idea what it's about though. perhaps it's about accepting things that are beyond your control? either way i like it :]. at the very start adam's voice reminds me so much of beck. haha. |
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| The Church – Under The Milky Way Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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reading these comments, i am kind of wishing this song wasn't in Donnie Darko. i've never seen that movie before, i am australian and know this beautiful song for simply what it really is - not "that song from donnie darko", but as an Australian classic; the thinking-man's unofficial national anthem, if you like. i really really desperately hope that this is what the song will be remembered as. because it's beautiful and deserves more than simply a film reference.. |
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| Something For Kate – Hawaiian Robots Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i can't believe this song has NO comments. it's amazing!! i think to be saying that you're "better off as a robot" is saying that it is better for you to be incapable of human interaction and deep emotion and relationships. & to "be better off in Hawaii" is saying that you should be cut off from the world, from everybody else, be somewhere far away. so it seems to be that this person has caused damage to others, or some damage has been inflicted upon him, by way of other people. i'm not sure what the verses mean, though, but it's beautiful songwriting nonetheless. |
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| Something For Kate – The Futurist Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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paul is an amazing songwriter & singer! i really like the power of the backing vocals in this song too, by fellow aussie talent bertie blackman. :] yeahh i definitely agree with myhysteria92, this song really gets me in a positive mood when i'm feel disillusioned. for me it makes me feel better because it eludes to a common disillusionment & yearning, that everybody is looking for 'a little patch of green where the future never comes', everybody wants to simply escape & dream. except 'the lovers', who are positive even in tough times - they 'glow in the dark'. this might elude to loneliness as well, & the belief that things wouldn't be as tough if we all simply had somebody. & i think this is what paul finds in his subject, they 'open the door' for him, where simple things such as flowers, symbols of love & support & care, mean so much - they are the difference, perhaps, between coping & not coping. |
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| Josh Pyke – Fill You In Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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this song is stunning. although it does seem about losing & then finding new love & new hope, this song resounds with me personally in the context of my depression. worse than feeling awful things like rain & wind, i felt transparent & numb - like everything "went through me". the animals symbolise not positive things, but the constant depressive feelings, digging and tunnelling both into & through me. but i got better, i found hope, the 'bough' grew into something beautiful. :] but it leaves a lasting, indelible impression on me still - "the hole in the ground where i used to lay down" is that place before the depression that i can't quite seem to return to. & yeah. so even though this song is quite dark & sad, for me it reminds me of hope & growth. :] |
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| My Bloody Valentine – You Made Me Realise Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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this song is wonderful, very sonic youth-esque (silver rocket anyone?). not sure what it's about. i get the feeling that it's being sarcastic, taking the piss out of some person who's really negative ("might as well commit suicide") & always desperate for sympathy, & then when the narrator doesn't buy it the person "hates them".. but that's prob a long shot. :P |
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| Sonic Youth – Pink Steam Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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hottttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. :] "see you quiver", "you can come", "sweet lips are mine", "surrender".. pretty obvious. :P |
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| Sonic Youth – I Dreamed I Dream Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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update: from the recent sonic youth biography i found out that this song's lyrics are made up of excerpts from lee's journal & lyrics randomly picked out from a magazine (sung by kim), chosen at the last minute. so i'm not sure anymore whether is supposed to be any underlying meaning or deep connection, except maybe kim's fascination with popular culture and what the vox populi seems to think are important issues (wealth, sex - impotence, etc). also, lee's first line i think is the faint "edith moves with each step", not "i sleep". |
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| Sonic Youth – Sympathy for the Strawberry Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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yeah that's definitely what i first thought of when i heard this song. the lyrics about nets & strawberries - the cover image of murray street is a cute as photo of coco (their daughter) and her friend picking strawberries. :] |
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| Something For Kate – Impossible Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this song is really gorgeous, i just have a hard time deciphering what it's about. i think it is about the protagonist keeping something from this other person, so that their naiive, unrealistic ideals are not destroyed. it seems to me like the protagonist really wants to believe that this person's dreams can be realised, though. the verses are very hard to figure out, although i love them. "mood-swinging from a chandelier". i love that wordplay. i think the girl may actually know that her 'parade' is 'impossible', but she's hiding that part of herself - 'something reminds you', 'a part of you believes', to not 'listen too hard to the beating of your wings'. i think that the line 'i hit the ground' may be related to the first line ('or you might fall') - the protagonist differs from the girl and 'listens too hard' to his own opinion of the girl's ideas. the werewolf and chameleon analogies may hint at the girl or situation being very volatile - constantly changing form, 'mood swings'. mm.. tricky paul. i adore it though. |
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| Sarah Blasko – For You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this is such a stunning song. it's so different for sarah, & a wonderful quirky opener to the album. i almost always listen to this song before i fall asleep, it's like a sweet calming lullaby for me. for me, it has a sense of heightened reality about it, & i think that's what i like about it. it's a really dreamy, romantic, flowing song. it lets me float away and dream of someone special.. :) |
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| Something For Kate – Jerry, Stand Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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(why are the three dimensions lyrics included in this song?) this song seems to me like paul reaching out to jerry to discontinue the monotonous way of life he is living. it is "wasting him", and he "isn't getting any younger" - to paul, it is not the life he should be living, especially since at one point in time he was free, happy and unchained ("running, singing, crazy"). his older self has gone "missing". paul is appealing to jerry to "stand up" and take control of his life again, make it what it once was, escape from his current life, "remember himself" - return to his better days. |
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| Something For Kate – Say Something Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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fromadistantsun, you listerally took the words from my mouth. your last paragraph is like my exact situation at the moment. i am "listening for dear life" for this person to end "the days and weeks" of silence between us, but he just won't. i want to make "a breakthrough" & be close to him again, but i feel i'm simply static & unimportant to him, a "lighthouse". so i'm screaming at him to say something, so desperately.. |
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| Something For Kate – Happy Endings Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i love the chorus of this song, it's full of passion & it just begs to be sung along with. i agree with the above meanings totally, but in my current situation this songs speaks to me of persistance, & the trials of persisting with things even though you know what may result (having been "down a road before"). continuing, trying to convince yourself that the result this time might be different, despite the past mistakes and outcomes - striving for happy endings. obviously the above meanings are more accurate, but that's just what i personally get out of it. |
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| Sonic Youth – I Dreamed I Dream Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i think this song is incredible! it has that gorgeous, scratchy almost cold atmosphere to it, & the combination of kim's and lee's voices blew me away the first time i heard it. definitely about bored, unappreciated, insubordinate youth. love it. |
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| Something For Kate – Old Pictures Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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At the recent Live At The Corner recordings, Paul says that this song is about "selective memory.. what you choose to erase, & what you potentially can't erase." that sums up my ideas about this song perfectly. there is someone whose pages i want "fly away", but he's still "on every train i hear".. he is out of my life - but not my memory. there's just some parts that won't go away.. gorgeous, gorgeous song. |
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| Something For Kate – Truly Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i have just discovered this song. i'm so amazed it has no comments, i think it's incredible. paul's voice is everything, it's so emotive.. it's hard to put my finger on what the song is actually about though. i think it might be about an erratic relationship between two people. not in eachother's lives, but not out of their lives either - falling, and coming back again. they care for eachother, truly, but the barriers and wrong dynamics between them still exist.. but paul's lyrics are so cryptic, i could be totally off the mark. i guess it's still a gorgeous song, no matter how you choose to interpret it. =] |
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| Josh Pyke – House At Pooh's Corner Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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so gorgeous and dreamy =] "back to the days of pooh": dreaming of younger, sweet, innocent days.. |
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| Josh Pyke – Sew My Name Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. makes me think of someone i'd rather not admit is "sewn under my skin".. |
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| The Killers – Tranquilize Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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wow mm99, great pick-up on the alternative meaning for "bush's/bushes".. it definitely could be a reference to the biblical story of the burning bush. in it, god told moses, through an angel in the burning bush, his mission. this can represent many things - enlightenment, purpose, obedience.. all of which can be applied to interpretations of the song. |
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| Something For Kate – Three Dimensions Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i agree with the above comments, that's the gist of the song. but i think it's funny that he should say that he's simultaneously "bored with" and "in love with" this mundane, limited world of which he speaks.. maybe he admits that he's bored with it, but loves it because he isn't able to spread his wings - put himself out there, risking failure, embarrassment, disappointment & breaking out of his safe routine.. |
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| World Party – Ship Of Fools Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i think this song is painfully underrated. it's incredible songwriting and composing for a one-hit wonder.. some call it a prophecy, that sadly is ringing true.. something for kate did a gorgeous cover of this song on their live at the corner album. |
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| Something For Kate – Pinstripe (acoustic) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i definitely think that this gorgeous song is about optismism, and the choice involved with perception. to me some of the lines elude to paul addressing a person who is bored with the mundane routine of everyday life and how the general population is caught up in their routine, i.e. like trees standing in a line, & 'liking concrete better than grass'. it's about choosing to see things in a better way. =] |
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| Pearl Jam – Nothing as It Seems Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this song is a bit personal for me, as it makes me think of my brother, who has a mental illness (not down's syndrome but). it definitely could be about down's, mental illness, drug addiction, or homelessness. but the general theme is somebody who is an outsider, who is trying to be understood by others. they are not what they seem on the surface, and to them nothing is what it seems on the surface either. mutual misunderstanding, perhaps. |
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| Sonic Youth – Shadow Of A Doubt Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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yeah, i'm definitely going with the hitchcock film reference here. the lines 'met a stranger on a train' and 'you kill him and i'll kill her' definitely elude to it. but without prior knowledge of the film, the other ideas (infidelity, etc) are very plausible. this is my favourite song of all time. i am not sure why, either. it is just so intense and beautiful, distant and intimate at the same time. it is unlike anything i've heard before, and i never ever get sick of it. kim's voice is amazing. her whisper holds so much emotion and power, just the right amount for this kind of song. and the instrumention is so minimal, but i adore it, there's atmosphere, intensity, urgency and desperation. |
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| Bloc Party – Banquet Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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sex. i think we've established that, haha. i think that yeah, it is about being broken-hearted, and finding a rebound lover, a sexual object, who is a virgin. taking their innocence, "becoming adult". gorgeous song. i love the remix almost as much as the original. it's fast-paced and powerful and gorgeous. it also has a slight sense of distance about it, a sense of not being personal. which could relate to the impersonal way in which this guy takes this girl's innocence, the way in which she is used and corrupted by the broken-hearted guy. |
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| Pearl Jam – Wishlist Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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CCDevlin said: hmm! i always that it was "I wish I was a sillouette, someone who waited for me". SAME! it really sounds like silhouette to me too, but i think sailor does make more sense. i mean, how can someone wait for a silhouette? lol. i think the eddy just says the words "sailor with" kind of unclearly, a bit soft and faded. gorgeous song. i really adore the sailor line, actually, it's my favourite. the idea of having someone thinking about you, and awaiting your presence/return/arrival, is just divine. i think this song emcompasses some really beautiful things that we can all relate to; really universal feelings that are intensely personal at the same time. :) |
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| Sonic Youth – 'Cross the Breeze Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this song is incredible. in-fucking-credible. the tension and atmosphere captured in it is amazing. yeah, it sounds like a girl trying to seduce this guy.. trying to eliminate his insecurities, but at the same time pondering her own. |
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| Jucifer – Pontius of Palia Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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from the album booklet (according to GeorgieLou's stanzas)... first stanza, fourth line - "and i'm a fuse today" fourth stanza, fourth line - "that doesn't fill your need" fourth stanza, seventh line - "every second i feel myself frailer" |
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| Jucifer – Antietam Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i effing adore this song, the tension & release dynamic is amazing, especially at the start of the song. i believe antietam was a battlefield in the american civil war. many deaths, very bloody. |
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| Sonic Youth – Panty Lies Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i love it too, it's edgy & kim sounds awesome & brash. seems to be appealing to the riot grrl movement mentality - mocking women who are focused on outward image, sex-appeal, impressing men, & being stereotypical housewives. |
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| Sonic Youth – Bubblegum Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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haha same, i love how bored & sarcastic they sound. i always thought that the line was "young and so much fun", instead of "your in so much fun". that makes more sense to me.. |
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| Sonic Youth – Pipeline/Kill Time Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i love this song, it's my favourite lee song behind 'eric's trip'. i definitely picked up a story of infidelity. the two people share a deep but forbidden love, and although they are ashamed and try to end it, all the narrator truly wants is for time to stop, and their love to be allowed. he has romantic ideas about them running away, etc, but he knows they are fruitless. i see the guilt as being felt by the narrator and his lover, rather than the third party (whom i assume to be the woman's partner/husband). the line "my best friend sucked his wife's blood and shrivelled up" seems to suggest that the woman's partner has found out about the infidelity and gone insane with grief (and possibly killed himself?). it seems that the woman eventually leaves the narrator, as indicated by the line "nothing can be held in my hands for long", out of guilt and shame re her partner. in the end it seems to be about the regret, bad timing and unfortunate circumstances in which this relationship occurs. maybe i'm taking it all a bit too literally though. |
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| Sonic Youth – Eric's Trip Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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CaveatEmptor - totally agree with you there, the imagery in this song is amazing. stunning songwriting, the song, eric himself, seems to take you on the trip. definitely one of SY's best. lee's songwriting is excellent, i like his sharp, direct style and his powerful imagery. |
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| Sonic Youth – I Love You Golden Blue Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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gosh i adore this song. it speaks to me of contemplating leaving the relationship, like what TBeasley said. this person is confused about how they feel. although they do love and miss this person, they are not fully enthralled in the relationship ("i can't feel the thrill.") the lines in the last verse ("i don't glitter like the stars above, i don't glow like neon alone") could be translated in two ways - they represent this person's insecurities, or the lack of emotion/enthusiasm they have re the relationship. either way, they are reasons for this person to not continue the relationship. it's about not knowing what do to. beautiful.. |
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| Sonic Youth – Dripping Dream Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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amazing. the "that's right/he's gone" parts are sexy and edgy, i love it. the instrumentation in this song is amazing too, as joel_switzer said. the hooks & melodies are stunning. yeah, absolutely no idea what the lyrics are about. it seems pretty idealistic, but i'm getting hints of murder/crime in there: "he's gone, wrapped up, fake blood, lathe killers", etc. but yes, very abstract, could be about anything. thurston makes it all sound so cool though. =] |
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| Sonic Youth – Titanium Expose Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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sorry about this double-post, but i think on the track-listing on the back of the CD, the word 'expose' has an accent on it ("exposé") - which makes it 'a declaration of facts', as opposed to the verb enkidu stated. in this case, it is a declaration of facts about titanium. if we tie it in with enkidu's definition of titanium, the 'titanium exposé" is the guy revealing his titanium - his hardness, etc, which is brought on by the girl's return. so i think it's about sex, but love too. |
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