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| Ben Folds – Free Coffee Town Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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It actually is just like that song. It is the b-side, if you want to call it that. Ben and his band got together for a marathon recording/writing session to write an alternate Way To Normal album, and released it online as a fake "leak" of their then upcoming album. Most of the songs were similarly named, or different versions of songs on the album.
It can be found online for free, as it was originally intended to be. The alternate version of Cologne is perhaps my favorite. |
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| The Decemberists – A Record Year for Rainfall Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Proserpina is the roman equivalent of the greek god Persephone. The story goes (basically) that Pluto (the god of the underworld) fell in love with her, and took her from her mother. Her mother (Ceres, the goddess of the Earth) searched the world over for her, but could not find her beloved daughter. Ceres then began to get depressed, and every thing she touched died. Jupiter (the god of gods) became worried and told Pluto to give Proserpina back to her mother, and he agreed to, but before she could go he had her eat six pomegranate seeds. Once she had eaten the food of the underworld she could not live in the world of the living, so Proserpina was forced to live with the living for six months, and in the underworld for six months. Every time she would leave her mother would get sad and things would slowly deteriorate (fall and winter), but when Proserpina came back her mother would become happy again (spring and summer).
This song tells the story about a girl and her boyfriend. Things in their relationship haven't been going very well, and their love for one another is beginning to fail. Colin (the lyricist) equates this girl to Proserpina who knows that it is time for this to end, and to go back to being single (the underworld). This girl is okay with this, but the guy isn't because all that he can see is the fall of something that was so very happy (the spring and summer). He is angry at her because she seems okay with the fact that it is time to go, and shrugs off everything with a simple "oh, would you look at this weather."
This girl (Proserpina) decides to look at all of the good times that they had, and to not be sad about an ending. Things had been so prosperous, after all it had been "a record year for rainfall." In order to answer her boyfriends questions she simply cleans off the surface of their relationship (the patina) to show him, and to tell him that she is as Proserpina, and it is simply time to go. He laments the fact that she has to leave, and wonders to himself what everything was for if it was always fated to end as spring and summer lead to fall and winter, and he wonders why it looked like everything was going to be so happy just before the end. (Like it was going to rain, and be prosperous like in the spring.)
This song is, basically, about how all things were meant to end, and how we should pay attention to the good things that happened and not the bad. |
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| Ben Folds – Dr. Yang Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It is a song about a guy who visits the doctor's office so that the doctor can call his "girlfriend" for him, because his number is blocked and she has a restraining order. |
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| Ben Folds – Hiroshima Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is fairly self explanatory. It is the true story about one of Ben's shows in Hiroshima where he tripped and hit his head. |
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| Ben Folds – You Don't Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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In (sort of) addition the the previous comments. I think that it is about a couple who split up. (Hence the line: "Why the fuck would you want me back?") After they split the girl realized that she wanted the boy back, but the boy wouldn't have it because he'd realized that the girl that he had fallen in love with was the girl that he had made her up to be, but that is exactly why she wants him, because of the persona that he gave her. This is suggested by Regina's tone of voice. It sounds as though she is happy that he doesn't know the real her, and perhaps she likes HIS version of her better than she likes who she really is. |
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