| Okkervil River – White Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Since LyricFind is stupid and messed up the lyrics, here are the lyrics again, from the Silver Gymnasium booklet: We crashed through crazed glass in the white-hot burst of the fiery blast. We flared through choked air, in the deafening blare, in the scattering ash. We said, "Summer's here and I'm gonna crack crack crack." We sort through shocked quartz like a jewelry store -- while your sister and dad consort with kept courtesans, while the whole world sits in ruins. We laugh, "Summer's here and I'm gonna crack! Summer's here and I'm near a heart attack or flash of real feeling, teeth gnashing, and blasting and reeling through black." Because, kids: When I first saw your mom, I was right and she was wrong about just the type of man she was bringing back. And when I first met her dad, I felt good and he felt bad. But, kids, you'll find that, over time, you're just trapped. And spring is gone and you're gonna gasp gasp gasp. And, friends: When I first saw the groom rise from the darkness of the tomb, I was unnerved (though, overall, I was wowed). And when I first saw the bride, the look inside her eyes just cried, "If someone has some cause to stop, say it now!" But now fall is here, and the leaves all go down. And then winter's here, and it's too cold to drown, and I'm nearly whited-out, snowblind, like it's no business of mine if life doesn't want me around. |
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| Okkervil River – All the Time Every Day Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I went to edit the lyrics and found that they have to be approved by the "licensor", which I guess is LyricFind. But LyricFind's lyrics are, frankly, "incredibly wrong", like kkaleds said. I submitted a correction, but considering that three other people did before me, I don't think it will go through. So even though christinemunn did a wonderful, near-perfect job of transcribing, I guess I'll just post the lyrics from the booklet here. These are them as they are in the booklet, with two very slight additions where extra lyrics are sung (but I left in the extra stuff in the last answer, because it's cool and should have been sung!)...except for one spot that I inserted a "you" that was obviously mistakenly missing from the print. There are also a couple words italicized for emphasis (along with all the "A:" answers), so I guess I'll put asterisks around those, since this is just a comment. Q: Do you stop and stare, struck dumb, hands shaking, washed by this constant panicked wishing for what's lost? As you're standing on some curb, waiting to cross, would you say you feel like some weak leaf, wind-turned and tossed? A: All the time. Every day. Every day, all the time. All the time. Every day, every day. Q: As the streets sail by the seats inside your car, does each face outside collide against your heart? As you watch them blaze, or fade into the dark, do you want to scream that you're so pleased with who they are? A: Every day, all the time. All the time, every day. Every day. All the time. Every day. Q: When that moment arrives (oh, that sweet and tender pain...) do you think how there will come a time when you'll never feel it again? Do you try to make it right by thinking that if someone *else* feels it, it's real, and it won't go away? Do you? A: ... Q: Do you fall so short of all that's in your heart when your friends, that you should pull up, you instead pick apart? Do you watch the world get cold, and crushed, and small? And when you could do so much, do you do fuck-all? A: All the time. Every day, every day. All the time, all the time, every day, every day. Q: And, considering all this, and agreeing that it's true, is it harder each time just to feel something new? But do you sometimes wish *not* to feel anymore? To wall it off? To make it all go away? To just put it to an end? A: No question. Any day. All the way, every time. Any day. Any time. All the way, all the day and all the night. All the way every time. All the pain, every day all the same... Q: When you pray for grace to come, were you born yesterday? Are you dumb?? Are you insane??? Don't be ashamed; I'm the same. Yeah, I'm that way. But I try, every day and all the time. |
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| Okkervil River – All the Time Every Day Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[kkaleds:3221] I have no idea what happened to the lyrics that I posted, but I honestly copied them from the album booklet. Ha. Someone screwed them up HORRIBLY. Either that, or it was automatically done with whatever LyricFind is?? I'll go ahead and fix it with the correct lyrics. |
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| Okkervil River – Rider Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I think of Rider as a weird kind of lullaby. I know that sounds really, um...distressing. But I just picture this sort of, like, some kind of viking-like figure who is kind of like bashing his way through the countryside, just raping and pillaging, you know, just destroying everything that he touches. And then he comes home to his kid, and he's like, "Oh, you know, my kid just woke up. He had a bad dream. Let me sing you a lullaby really quickly." And the kid is just thinking, "My dad's so strong and big and powerful." You know, somehow, that's what I think of when I think of Rider." -Will Sheff http://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2011/06/10/okkervil-river-live |
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| Tegan and Sara – Clever Meals Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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SweetCheeks2, forget about what you're SUPPOSED to think and think for yourself. (Talk about propaganda.) I understand having superficial friendships with people, but this "sin" is inextricably essential to the "sinner", just as your heterosexuality is to you. Christianity is not the victim here but the very thing (well, one of the major ones) proclaiming a natural minority characteristic as being evil and worthy of hate, for NO OBJECTIVE REASON. The words "marry" and "marriage" are broad, social terms that have nothing to do with religion. I don't know where people keep getting the idea that Christianity has exclusive rights to them. It never did. I love this song and was just listening to it, but I was never sure what it was about. I also like your interpretation a lot, underfeetlikemine99. :) I'm not sure how the "cleverly planned meals" bit fits into it all, considering that it's in the title. I suppose it could be in reference to how they have to plan their lives carefully to fit into the social environment. |
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| Tennis – Take Me Somewhere Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I made an attempt at transcribing the lyrics below. There are some parts that I'm unsure about, because they don't seem to make a lot of sense, but I think this is an improvement over what is here. :P As for meaning, it seems to me that the song is just about missing sailing while on land and wanting to get back out on the water. It might be partially metaphorical in a sense similar to what swatz93 said. I also considered that it might be from the point of view of a boat, maybe abandoned, neglected, or replaced, but I'm unsure about that. I’ll get the two, you get the line Crystalline water with man to a shine Now, these ships wheel and dip Soft rangers’ lives, clean and sleek Does the main sheet remind you of me? Do nautical things make you miss the sea? Make fast the lines, please don’t waste any time Oh, I feel the wind blowing Start you in the summer, he don’t know if you would captain me Take me somewhere Take me somewhere Take me somewhere Why don’t you take me somewhere? Sitting in the sand, waiting for you to return to land Sitting in the sand, waiting for you to return to land Take me somewhere Take me somewhere Why don’t you take me somewhere? |
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| Tennis – Bimini Bay Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I tried to transcribe the lyrics to this song. I'm sure that some of it is wrong, but maybe it will help! Annie stood a-breeze, in tassel and tears A passage maker anxious to leave And ask of one line, we’re making good time We make and fall back down Well, aren’t you glad you came along? Sail me away to Bimini Bay, oh Sail me away to Bimini Bay, oh Sail me away to Bimini Bay, oh We’ve been gone for so very long That we’ve forgotten where we are from We forgot for so very long That we’ve forgotten where we are from |
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| Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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No, that's a very good point, ForeverHere10! I agree with you, at least now, and I think I did when I wrote my previous post too. :) When I said that there was something wrong with being miserable, I meant that it's not what people desire, even if it's what they prefer. It's kind of hard to explain...like everyone would want to be happy in a vacuum, not considering any other factors; but due to complications in life, sometimes, we choose to be miserable, because it's preferable. So like I said before, I think it's tragic that we can't all be happy. But I do agree with what you and TheLostDirector expressed. We do want to be sad or even miserable a lot. We have good reason for it, and no, there is nothing wrong with those decisions. We're just being ourselves, and I actually think it's beautiful. I just talked with my brother recently a little about that idea, that what people truly want is ALWAYS what they choose (and vice versa), at least in the moment. They might regret it later, and sometimes it's due to stuff that seems stupid after the fact, like being too shy or afraid at the time, but there are always reasons for what we do. And like you said, we often doubt our decisions. (I know I do!) But yeah, we learn from our mistakes. There's no changing the past, so forge ahead, and if you truly want to decide things differently in the future, then I guess you will! Anyway, thank you very much for the response and the compliment, ForeverHere10. I just randomly thought of this and checked to see any new comments on the song, and yours made me smile and think. |
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| Okkervil River – Mermaid Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I love this song sooo much. Okkervil River's long, slow songs are just incredible. A number of them, like this one; Blackest Coat; For the Enemy; So Come Back, I Am Waiting; etc. really build in intensity, and I love that. I just had Mermaid playing in the kitchen, and I didn't realize how loud it grew until I was reminded that someone was sleeping, because I was so into it. Anyway, the real reason that I'm posting is that I transcribed the lyrics to the first release of the song from the In Search of a Midnight Kiss soundtrack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybn0FIXVIwE). Unfortunately, that version doesn't get so intense, but it's also pretty amazing. The lyrics are different enough to be significant, I think, though the story and sense are essentially the same. It was the lyrics from that version that actually made me understand the story, how the mermaid escaped, so maybe they're more clear. Or maybe I was just focusing on them more because I was transcribing them. Anyway, this is what I heard: So, I said, "Men, pull her out of the water, and then, lay on hands, and we'll bind back her flippers and tail, and we'll sail into trade waters, and then, we'll feel what's human inside of her." And she's chilly and slick on her hips, where the scales meet with skin. With a sickening flick of her tail, circling, her glazed gills fill with cold, salty water, and she thrashes and twirls, freezing fins lightly fluttering. And she's pretty, I think, with her hair dark as ink and her belly bone-white, and her lips of a slight sea-shell pink lightly part as she's tonguing the tub's rusty rim. The water, the saltwater, it flows out and in. So we seize her and sail, and she'll please us from head down to tail. Then, one night, when our boat coasts right into a gale, and some wild, shrill wind lights up, starts to wail, and the lighting, it flares and ignites our small sail, and our maps blow away, and our compasses fail, then our boat takes on too much water to bail. The tub overflows. I see her float out, so thin and so pale. I see her rise out; she's so fast and so fair. My mouth fills with more panic than prayer, and my head fills with more color than care, and the waves, they weave cold seaweed through my hair, and my hands lose their grip, and my eyes lose their stare. And she's surging at me, and she's breathing the water like air. |
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| Okkervil River – Show Yourself Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm sorry for any inaccuracies, and sorry I didn't respond sooner. The lyrics that I posted were the official lyrics that came in the PDF that came with the pre-order of the album, and I copy and pasted to post them well before the album came out, before I had heard any of the songs...except a live version of Weave Room Blues, I think. Some of them are inaccurate, yes, I guess due to changes since they were written. The lyrics in the PDF are identical to the lyrics in the booklet that came with the album. Except, for some reason, the lyrics to Show Yourself are not in the album booklet (and Weave Room Blues is), but they were in the PDF, and this is what they were. I didn't know at the time, but there is a whole second part to the song that is missing in these lyrics! I will, at some point, do my best to transcribe them and add on. Of course, if anyone else wants to take a shot at it, go ahead. :) The other lyrics are mostly not far off (though there's an intriguing additional part to Lay of the Last Survivor that is not in the song, which I posted, assuming that it would be in the studio version). Anyway, if anyone has any corrections to any of the songs, they're welcome to post them, and hopefully, I will go through all of them eventually. And I want to know what's up with the songs that haven't been released at all. They better be released! I just checked, and it seems that I Guess We Lost is out now as a B-side. Must acquire. By the way, if anyone has a copy of that PDF and wants to send it to me, I would love you! Because I think I lost mine. :( My hard drive died a couple weeks ago. (PM me, and I'll give you my e-mail address next time I happen to check songmeanings.) Long story short: THERE ARE A WHOLE BUNCH OF LYRICS MISSING FROM THIS SONG THAT I DIDN'T KNOW OF AT THE TIME, AND I AM SORRY. |
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| Okkervil River – This House Is Not a Home Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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No, this song was NOT released on the Bedroom EP. The track list for that EP is: 01. Dead Dog Song 02. Numbers 03. Satisfy You 04. Happy Hearts 05. Nathan 06. Blackest Coat Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20010312172017/www.jound.com/okkervil/songs.html Also, the story by Will Sheff on either Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See or Bedroom EP (I don't remember, but I think the former) on the Jound website said that a version of Dead Dog Song was the first track. What Targetpractice.v01 said was correct. I have seen that post. Unfortunately, the website is not up anymore, so you might not be able to confirm what either of us said yourself. Also unfortunately, the EP is not in circulation on the Internet, last I knew...just a track list and album art. I scoured it a while back. But at least we have remade versions of four of the tracks, which are amazing themselves. And I have Nathan. Though I am not sure that it's the same version that was on the EP, it sounds studio-recorded. The lyrics are slightly different from the official ones posted online and on this site, but that doesn't mean anything. I have never heard Numbers. :( Anyway, to get back on topic, This House Is Not a Home seems to be from a Will Sheff solo album that was released a long while back, called Song for a Ghost. The track list is: 01. This House Is Not a Home 02. Song for a Ghost - part I 03. Keepaway 04. Line of Duty 05. Hallways 06. Song for a Ghost - part II 07. Pictures 08. Overing 09. 85 Line of Duty was an old version of A Favor, Pictures an old version of Dead Faces, and Overing an old version of Last Love Song for Now. The rest of the songs have original lyrics, from what I can tell, though I don't have the lyrics for Hallways or Song for a Ghost. Song for a Ghost may have been instrumentals, but I don't know. I really, really, really want to hear Keepaway!...and all the other songs. I wonder why the first track stuck around online, but it seems like no one has the rest of them. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20010504042949/www.jound.com/ghost/ |
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| Okkervil River – Lay of the Last Survivor Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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-OFFICIAL LYRICS- *(Of course, some of them are a little different in the old live version. There is one part added.) She went out and found her father face down on the ground out in the cold. She walked her way around a hill with the sun sinking down into the snow. All the whitecaps of the waves slap like last handclaps, and the dark water dies in a crash, is sucked back with a moan. And the smoke on the coast -- oh, piled fathers, soft, sighing daughters, where does it go? -- It's a dream, now, that I'll describe: let your mind drift on down, like so, to when the world was young. A big sky, blue of a dead bachelor's tongue. A new bloom on the rose. So some line someone told says even light can get old. There's a girl, she unfolds in her cell all alone and stands, and beats her hands, and stares, and gasps and chokes, and the air scrapes her throat -- Oh, slobbering lovers, drink-clinking brothers, they don't have to tell us, because we know. -- What a way down. What a ride. What a slide spin-around. What a life to have known. What a time, and how I was singing out in a crowd of the thousand most frightening faces I've known and when the lighthouse lending us sight finally went out, what a fright we felt in that night, friends. Let's just shout it out, all the whys and don't knows, all the cries in our throats, and how right we felt, with our eyes tightly closed, holding something we broke -- and then, whimpering sisters, sobbing well wishers, it's over. Just let my hand go. |
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| Okkervil River – Walked Out On A Line Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is really close! But Will Sheff posted the official lyrics on the Okkervil River message board, and there are some differences. http://www.okkervilriver.com/bulletinboard/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5440 |
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| Okkervil River – Lay of the Last Survivor Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I don't hear that "[And]" in the live version that I have. The first missing part sounds like "bachelor's tongue". In the next part, I think it's "...drink-clinking brothers, they don't have to tell us, 'cause we know". At your next missing part, I hear, "... What a fright we felt in that night. Friends, just shout it all out, all the 'why's and 'no-no's, all the cries in your throat. And how right we felt..." You did a great job of transcribing the lyrics! Thanks for doing so. We won't know the true and final lyrics until the album comes out, though. I can't wait. :) Will introduces it with: "Well, I'm going to soldier on with the incredibly depressing songs for which I am so known and tolerated. This song is called Lay of the Last Survivor." As for the title (and possibly the lyrics), it is probably a reference to the lines in Beowulf (2247-2266, http://www.heorot.dk/beo-ru.html) that are commonly referred to by the same title. I know little about Beowulf. This is what Wikipedia told me. For some reason, at least live and acoustic, this song reminds me of I Came Here to Say I'm Going Away. I guess it's just the way it's sung. |
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| Okkervil River – Red Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Interesting idea. "Yellow" is sort of like that too, but about a failing romantic relationship and the unconditional support and love of family. In "Black", I can't imagine much family love, but considering that the daughter forgives her father, maybe that is so. And "Grey" aka "Savannah Smiles" is a similar theme to "Red", but with the father feeling confused as to his daughter's becoming involved in such business, opposed to the mother feeling responsible for it in "Red", whether "Red" is about Shannon Wilsey or not...which I doubt was the intention when it was written, but I don't know. | |
| Bishop Allen – Ghosts Are Good Company Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Um, lindseylavish, I'm pretty sure that this wasn't a The Moldy Peaches song but that it's a Bishop Allen original. In trying to find if you were right, I found an alternate version online, but it's definitely still by Bishop Allen. Maybe they sound so similar because they're the same band? In that alternate version, they have that so-called screamy part that Ludo142 mentioned...before I heard it, I had no idea what was meant by that, haha. Because the Charm School album version doesn't have that. | |
| The Dodos – God? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I love it. I basically agree with tugboat! But I like what harvardlawlz said too. The song seems to be about how the world has so many bad things in it, along with the good things. Faith in a god is supposed to be positive and optimistic, and the god is supposed to be good. The faith is in that everything happens for a reason, for the larger good. But the hope that religion brings doesn't help anything in the big picture, and in fact, it causes some violence as opposed to being positive all the time ("You give us hope and give us strife," "You give us strength and make us fight," "You lift us up then let us down"). The overall message of the song, I think, is basically a wondering of how a supposedly good god could let such horrible things happen to the everyday people that He (for convention) created and loves and cares for. If you believe in God and in fate and in a larger plan, I imagine that it's hard to see all the suffering and death and misery and starvation and oppression and murder and hate and prejudice in the world and not have that faith waver. You'd think that all that would be minimal. Instead, you see people killing and hurting others, sometimes in the name of God. |
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| The Dodos – God? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Well, goodness is relative. If you eat cake all the time, it'll get ridiculously boring. The only reason that it tastes good is because it's sweet, and we're generally wired to enjoy sweetness for practical reasons. I enjoy a little cake like most people, but personally, I get sick of sweet things after not that much of them, particularly cake. I've known people who do not like cake at all, and that's just because they taste them differently. We're not all the same. Of course, this doesn't refute your saying that there is no good without evil; however, I don't think either really exists in the sense that you mean. We can enjoy or not enjoy certain things, and we can be nice or mean, and we can be pleased or hurt, and we all understand those ideas, but every particular thing is relative and based on our personal perceptions. As for your second point, seriously?? Are you really taking The Bible as fact? Even if you are deluded enough to believe in a personal god and a superhuman Jesus, you can't say that The Bible doesn't consist of stories, including accounts that contradict each other. It was written long after all these events supposedly occurred by multiple people and is not historically accurate. I'm not saying that you're wrong (because of this) but that your argument is invalid. You can't take everything literally. By the way, considering goodness to be relative, I don't see how anyone can be perfect. But I suppose that understanding that requires agreeing with my first paragraph and not having blind faith in the first place that God/Jesus is perfect. |
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| Flake Music – Mieke Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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OK, so after some recent Googling and digging around on the Internet, I found out that the old version of Deluca that I have was actually titled Loncie on that split single. So I suppose that point I made was useless and incorrect anyway. That's the correct track order from everything that I've seen, though. On the other hand, I acquired a really old 1993 version of Mieke, Flake's first single. It sounds so much different! Most of the lyrics are different, too, except for the first two lines, but they're way harder to make out, and I'm not even going to attempt it. Take a listen: http://www.lo-budge.com/lo-budge/not_me/flake_mieke.mp3. |
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| Bishop Allen – I Get Along Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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So I noticed that the end of this song sounds almost exactly like Vain. I don't have a problem with that, and they're both great songs. And that's a catchy bit. :) Just saying... I guess it's about traveling, away from someone in particular, certainly someone whom he cares about and misses, considering that he wants to keep in contact always. It sounds like the subject has a hard time with it, but he manages to keep it together. |
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| Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"I will live my life regretting that I never jumped in." She has resigned herself to the fact that she will NOT jump in as long as she lives. She knows this. It isn't so much a dilemma as to whether she should make an attempt but a statement as to how it is so that she cannot ("alas, I cannot swim") and how much she bemoans that fact. She will regret it, and she knows that even thinking about it now and regrets not swimming in the past, but that doesn't change who she is or how she will act. It does exactly have to do with being guarded, with having inhibitions, and probably with having ideals. She is miserable being so, but that's how she is, which is because she finds it better than the alternative. She will take what she can get that washes up on her side of the river or that she is lucky enough that will make its conscious way to her, and she will be thankful for it and settle for it. Probably, she used to be content in her way and proud of herself. But now she yearns for the so-called gold on the other side of the river, and it hurts her to see the possibilities; but that's not what she wants, not really. That's not who she is. She's not a swimmer. If it were truly what she wanted, she would most certainly jump in the river. The thing is, it is her desire to stay where she is that prevents her from being able to swim. She wants happiness and fun and wealth and love for herself like any sane person, but she doesn't want to achieve those things in the manner of acquiring the gold. Or the secure house, the beautiful garden, the potential object of her arms and heart, the kind of life that she sees herself leading in her dreams. Perhaps she feels that she is not worthy and/or that she would rather someone else have it and enjoy it. Plus, there is the idea of going outside of her comfort zone. In order to get to the gold, she has to leave her side of the river behind, to go to some new place and in a strange manner. Yes, she is scared, but this is way bigger than getting uncomfy. She would need to leave her identity behind, to do things that she has an aversion to for whatever reason, likely personal and moral and in respect for others. I also like the double negative in "There is gold across the river, but I don't want none," even if the only reason that it exists is for rhyming purposes. Considering the colloquial use of double negatives to indicate negatives, it could be taken to mean either that she doesn't want any (which is, to me, the immediately obvious conclusion) or that she does not want to be without any. And I feel that in the situation described by the lyrics, both meanings could make sense, and it is interesting if both are taken to be true. I like the duality. She lives in her misery and envies those with gold, but she doesn't want to be "held up by a golden gun," and she does "not see why [she] should please those that will never be pleased." I think there's more to those phrases than not wanting to be subject to the power and influence of others and of the gold itself. Attaining the gold, becoming wet in the process, would go against who she is, and that would be wholly unacceptable. She is subject instead to the strict rule of staying dry, and she feels that while she may be miserable, at least she does not go against her beliefs, and that is preferable. Essentially, it is not an inherent inability that prevents her from swimming, but she would rather not, and that is why she cannot. Alas. Of course, this is just how I interpret the lyrics, and it is probably because this is how I feel myself, all the time. It is quite frustrating, to want more but not to want to go for it. I do not think that it is ultimately due to the risk/fright that she does not swim, though I understand that interpretation to a degree. Individuality is certainly a part of it, but I think it's more about personality than maintaining individuality. As for what YouCantHelpIt said, yes, she most certainly is missing out! She declares that she lives in constant misery. How can you say that she is not missing out if this is the case? TheLostDirector said that there's nothing wrong with being miserable, but I don't see how that can be true. It's just that she has accepted living in misery as how she will continue to live her life. But she still wants to be happy, and she deserves to be happy, don't you think? It's kind of tragic. |
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| Okkervil River – Disfigured Cowboy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's not actually a live version. It's definitely studio, but, as Will says in the following link, it's rough. It definitely developed into Black Sheep Boy #4, but I like the early version of Disfigured Cowboy, too. The story of Disfigured Cowboy: http://jound.com/okkervil/disfiguredcowboystory.html. Maybe Totoro had a different, live version, but I transcribed lyrics myself, which are a bit different: Disfigured cowboy, mirror in pieces, hold the receiver, trace the police station line to my number. Number my reasons for this paranoia, for these accusations. My fear of the numbers, paired off like lovers and added together so I can’t remember my name or my nation. Disfigured cowboy, go back to Alabama. You’ve gone out of your head. Get in your battered Mustang, and the back seat will be your bed. Disfigured cowboy, pale denim phantom, if I could just piece together the ransom, I would buy back the youth that clung tight to your temples. It was chased from his bedroom and chased from his candles. My fear of the numbers, paired off like lovers and added together so I can’t remember my face or my station. Disfigured cowboy, the floor just won’t support you. You hover through the room. Get in your battered Mustang, and the back seat will be your tomb. Well, I rode into Buffalo, and I found a hotel room. And I tried to escape you, but the phone line wouldn’t go through. I looked in the mirror, and I saw you, cowboy, staring out, didn’t recognize your eyes, your mouth, or any other words that come tumbling out. Oh, I thought you were my friend, the cowboy in the mirror, the cowboy that was dead. Now, don’t come any nearer. Oh, I thought you were my hero. Now I’m begging you, go back into the shadows, the black beside my bed. Pull your features back together. Smash the mirror and you’re dead. |
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| Okkervil River – Lost Coastlines Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I just heard Lost Coastlines for the first time on their website, and it's good! I basically agree with WillG on the meaning. You must keep moving on, toughing it out, sailing into the unknown, losing the coastlines you're lovingly familiar with, though with a hope that there will also be some greatness where you're headed... I can't wait for The Stand Ins, especially after what laviebonne said. Tilly and the Wall, another one of my favorite bands, disappointed me so much with their new album, and Rilo Kiley did the exact same thing to me last year. But I have faith that Okkervil River's album will be incredible!! |
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| Flake Music – Mieke Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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In addition to what guitarroman1 said about Mieke, I have a different version of Deluca (on a split as Flake with Henry's Dress). Deluca is definitely track 6. I think the correct order is: 01. Spanway Hits 02. Blast Valve 03. Roziere 04. Structo 05. 06. Deluca 07. Mieke 08. 09. The Shins 10. 11. Vantage |
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| The Pillows – Little Busters Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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OK, no, this is ridiculous. I just registered because this annoys me so much. This song was not written for FLCL, and it is not a "FLCL song". It is not "modeled to the plot" or any such nonsense. Ride on shooting star and I think I can were, and that's it. LITTLE BUSTERS, the song and the entire album, were written back in 1998, before the show. FOR ANY PILLOWS LYRICS, please go to www.pirouzu.net, a.k.a. the fansite "instant music", not here...there are official lyrics and wonderful translations of nearly all the band's songs to date. As for the meaning, I'm not sure, exactly, and I'm honestly not going to try to analyze it at the moment. I will note, however, that Buster is the pillows' mascot, first appearing on LITTLE BUSTERS, after a stuffed animal thing that they found in London (which you can see at the beginning of the HYBRID RAINBOW promotional video, in one of the middle tile pic things in the LITTLE BUSTERS booklet, and on the front of the Hello, Welcome to Bubbletown's Happy Zoo (instant show) DVD). I think the name Buster came from somewhere else, but I can't remember off the top of my head. "Little busters" are fans of the pillows. |
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