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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Ferris Wheel on Fire Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song has such fantastic imagery. I get the clearest image of Jeff riding, somehow unharmed, on this ferris wheel that is engulfed in flames, rolling through a cheering town as everything is destroyed. Just fantastic. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is such a soothing song, it may just be my favorite off of Aeroplane.
Also, you guys know the artwork inside of the album? Well, the one the lines the inside that has the picture that is split in half in a way with the solitary human figure at the bottom almost has to relate to Communist Daughter. As soon as I saw it I thought of the song. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Little Birds Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is so beautiful in such a twisted way. It always makes me a bit sad when Jeff starts apologizing for it before he starts the song.
Truthfully, I am glad that he only performed the song in public once. I can't imagine hearing it sung any differently from this one version, the power of his voice just amazes me here. I'm glad that he left us with this. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Little Birds Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I know you posted that comment 2 or more years ago, but I thought I would respond in case you still don't know.
I am pretty positive that he says, "And now he's underwater..." |
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| Brokencyde – Freaxxx Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The fact that people seem to genuinely like this is enough to make me renounce all of my faith in humanity and move into a house in the woods. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Worms in the Wind Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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On a live recording I have, before Song Against Sex I think, Jeff begins to sing what I think is part of this song. It went "And we once had a home that was hurling through space..." and then he says "And then the gravity that held all of our houses in place? Well, not anymore.
Anyway, I think this is a pretty little song about the end of the world. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – I Will Bury You in Time Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I would have to agree with slartibartfass. As Jeff has said, it is about either him or someone else in a hole by the beach with a rockstar, as the water begins to slide into the hole. I think that the song is about one of the two in the hole not wanting to accept that they can't get out and will drown. The person doesn't seem to care about the fact that they won't exist anymore, just that the other person won't. So, the narrator is going to take their good time accepting that knowledge, and in the mean time make out with them, love them. It's just how I see it, I doubt it is Jeff's actual intent, but I guess that is one of the great things about his songwriting. It can be interpreted in so many ways. |
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| Emilie Autumn – Ghost (Poem) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think it is about exactly what it says: A ghost, keeping a young, aristocratic woman company. I think people are looking too deep into this, and that this is a poem that should be taken at face value, not over analyzed. |
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| Regina Spektor – Long Brown Hair Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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When I read the lyrics to this song, I immediately thought it was about rape through the rapist's point of view...It just seems to make the most sense. So in my opinion, AnthonyBSmith seemed the most correct. |
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| Regina Spektor – Long Brown Hair Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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When I read the lyrics to this song, I immediately thought it was about rape through the rapist's point of view...It just seems to make the most sense. So in my opinion, AnthonyBSmith seemed the most correct. |
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| Regina Spektor – Long Brown Hair Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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When I read the lyrics to this song, I immediately thought it was about rape through the rapist's point of view...It just seems to make the most sense. So in my opinion, AnthonyBSmith seemed the most correct. |
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| My Chemical Romance – The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Jetset is my favorite My Chem tune by far, really no competition. I believe G-Man said in an interview that Jetset is about his first experience with cocaine, which even if it wasn't, it is still plain as day that the song has to do with drugs.
Also, and I'm not sure if anyone else has brought this possibility up, but I had an idea about the first few lines.
"Gaze into her killing jar
I'd sometimes stare for hours.
She even poked the holes so I can breathe."
Maybe, instead of "She" being a person, the she he was referring to was actually the drugs. Maybe the killing jar he was staring into for hours were actually the memories he had of the people the drug he was addicted to killed, and the fact that the drug poked holes in so he could breathe means that he felt he couldn't live without the drug, and that it actually helped him live? I really don't know, but meh. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Sister to Sleep Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Sorry, IGaveEmHell, but this song was written before Revenge came out, and Gerard had that talk with Brian AFTER Revenge. So, while the song doesn't necessarily have anything to do with that specific time, Gerard had been dealing with alcohol and pills for awhile before he hit his lowest point.
Anyway, this is one of my absolute favorite My Chem songs, and if I ever meet any of the guys the first question I will ask them is what happened to Sister. It's such a good song, and the bridge is just amazing.
Also, there are two different live versions of StS. The most heavily listened to version was, apparently, taken during a sound check where Gerard hadn't completely finished the lyrics. He free styled for the lines he didn't have done, and those are the lines that when recorded are hard to understand. If you listen to the other version, which was taken during that night's show, you can tell that the lyrics are more clear and easy to understand, since he had finally finished all of them. :] |
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| Regina Spektor – Summer in the City Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It's well known that a lot of Regina's songs are simply stories, they aren't based on her life. I can almost guarantee you that this is an example of one of those songs.
Sure, it could be in the perspective of a woman, but the lyrics seem more fitting from a man's perspective, really. |
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| Regina Spektor – Ode to Divorce Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song...The imagery the lyrics create, the vocals, the piano...It's all just so brilliant. Just the image of peeking out of an old lover's mouth, knowing he's making that old face you used to be fond of, to be getting ready to give that "killer kiss" he used to give you to someone else...It's all just heartbreaking.
I interpret the lines "I need your money, It will help me, I need your car and I need your love" as basically the settlement of a divorce. And the way that Regina sings this line the first time, with the first two objects she wants from him being sung loudly and almost in anger, while she sings that she needs his love much quieter than the other two things. As if anger of the other two lines were only said to cover up the fact that she still loves the man who is leaving her and wishes that he felt the same.
...Of course, I could be, and probably am, entirely wrong, but that's just how that part of the song speaks to me.:] |
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| Regina Spektor – Baby Jesus Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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In my opinion, Regina isn't bashing Christianity as a whole at all-Just about the small portion of Christians that have the mindset that all practicers of other religions deserve to go to Hell and be made to do things like eat dirt. |
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