| Vampire Weekend – Step Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| No one has mentioned the joke about "step to my girl." Not only is the song about differing opinions about music, but also literally suggests moving or dancing. When Ezra says, you always step to my girl. In other words, "hey you listener, you're dancing to my music, the stuff you're listening to now." Nothing like a nice piece of self-conscious literature. | |
| Vampire Weekend – Boston (Ladies of Cambridge) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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cos when you left my room to go to the kitchen i imagined that you were dead a morbid steak runs through the whole of my family but for you i could put it to rest This is a funny stanza that speaks to the general stereotypical dispositions of New Englanders. People from New England are always thought of as gloomy, pessimistic, cranky... ...I think we're just intelligent, purposeful realists... |
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| The National – Lemonworld Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| See I always feel like I'm in a Salinger sort of atmosphere with the National. Read Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and let me know if you feel that way too. | |
| Dirty Projectors – No Intention Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This has a lot of intro to psychology terms in it... like gestalt, intention, the idea of punishment vs. reward all that stuff. hm. | |
| Animal Collective – Chocolate Girl Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| He clearly says "when ceilings smile we'll sleep awhile, and LIEEEEEE" on the pitchfork live version instead of singing silly smiles line. THe ceilings smile line repeats too. I think that they have changed a few of the songs lyrics over time, but I love the version they're playing live right now. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Emily Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Does anyone here her say "the media's just what we see" instead of meteor? Is that a sound coincidence or some kind of wordplay? I hope it's a coincidence. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Sadie Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Does anyone see a faith vs. science thing going on in this? Maybe I'm crazy... | |
| Cake – Nugget Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wow... this song is seemingly simple but there's a lot going on here. The overall value - conservative. Strange... THe first verse, as others said, deals with the government. The second verse deals with corporations. Lastly, the third verse deals with religious institutions. The verses are all sung by one speaker, while the "shut the fuck up" portions are a response to the verse's complaints. The idea is that there is someone, probably more liberal, complaining about the a conservative government cutting funding for social programs. Second verse is a complaint about hard laborers working, who get crushed in a squirrel's mouth--the upper management of the corporation who do less work but make the big money. The last is a complaint about religious institutions who portray themselves as simple but are--to the complainant signing-- really conniving and cunning. They turn "joy to sadness" rather than actually help for the verse singer. The response yelling "shut the fuck up" is telling the verse speaker to stop whining. The defense of this conservative slant about this song has to do with the double meaning of "buck." Learn to buck up... interesting... It took me awhile to figure out that its a complainer and a response--that is two different voices--because the song in its entirety is sung by one individual. Now that I've figured it out, I have to say I don't really like this songs message. But damn, it's well written. |
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