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| American Music Club – Ex-Girlfriend Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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The last verse is
"Your ex-girlfriend told me you spent all yesterday crying
Now do you believe the stories you spent your whole life not buying?" |
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| Joy Division – The Eternal Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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"With children my time is so wastefully spent, a burden to keep though their inner communion, I accept like a curse, an unlucky deal..."
Remarkable sentiments from a man who was the father of a baby girl. |
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| Elbow – Great Expectations Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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"I got married once on the 135 bus to Bury. It was such a low-key affair that even the bride didn't know." - Guy Garvey |
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| For Love Not Lisa – Had A Lover Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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"Had A Lover was really the only older song on Information Superdriveway. I never loved that song but other people kept bringing it up while writing songs for the second record, so I thought maybe I’m dumb and we should just add it to the new record... lyrically it was really about dating people you should not be with, and how toxic those people can be on you." - Mike Lewis, FLNL |
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| For Love Not Lisa – Set Apart Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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"This song touched on my Christian faith and it a reference to a verse in the Bible about being set apart." - Mike Lewis, FLNL |
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| For Love Not Lisa – Play Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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"This was my tribute to Fugazi. I love them and what they stand for so I wanted though out a little love." - Mike Lewis, FLNL |
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| For Love Not Lisa – Daydream Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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"...overcoming your parents view of you. I wanted to be something they did not approve, so this was a dream for myself to just be myself." - Mike Lewis, FLNL |
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| For Love Not Lisa – Some Afternoon Glitch Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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"One of the only happy songs I ever wrote. You’re supposed to listen to this song on a afternoon drive with the windows down on a sunny day (yeah!)" - Mike Lewis, FLNL |
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| Bob Mould – Stand Gaurd Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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One of my favourite Bob Mould tracks. It rocks like Neil Young going over the top on Old Black, and lyrically it just hits the numbers for me every time. "I feel an obligation - sometimes I'm not quite sure what it's toward.." |
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| Lard – Mangoat Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I read somewhere ages ago this song was inspired by true events - an employee of Ministry's studio was arrested in the back of a supermarket after shoplifting razors and creme corn, and using the creme corn to shave his back.. |
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| Tom Waits – No One Knows I'm Gone Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Graveyard John was the nickname Charles Limbergh gave to his son's kidnapper. It's possible this song is sung from the viewpoint of a dead child..
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/sfeature/crime.html |
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| Elvis Costello – Tokyo Storm Warning Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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From Elvis's liner notes in the 1995 reissue of Blood & Chocolate: "Tokyo Storm Warning is a thug's nightmare travelogue from Narita to Heysel, from Pompeii to Port Stanley, Paris and London. It was cut on 'take one.' I then added the backing vocals, distorted guitar figure and backwards solo. In case you were wondering, a 'Japanese God-Jesus Robot' is a little electric fortune-telling toy that waves a cross to indicate whether your girlfriend or boyfriend loves you."
I also think this song and Radiohead's "Electioneering" sound very similar. |
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| R.E.M. – West Of The Fields Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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In 2007 I read an interview with Michael Stipe. They'd just dusted off this song and started playing it again for the first time in years - it'd been so long that he said he had to go online and look up the lyrics. I'm paraphrasing but he said: "Apparently, one of the lyrics is 'The animals, how strange/Try, try to stick it in.' I'm positive that at no point in my drug-ravaged early 20s did I ever write that line!" |
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| R.E.M. – Find The River Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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River Phoenix died in 1993, this song and the album came out in October 1992. I don't see how it could be about his death. Although they did dedicate it in concert to Warren Zevon when he passed away.. |
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| Ashes Divide – Enemies Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Cool song, one of the best on their album, although I'd love to hear how it'd sound with Maynard on vocals... |
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| Mogwai – Secret Pint Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The live version of this song on Government Commissions is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.. |
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