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| Lily Allen – Who'd of Known Lyrics
| 7 months ago
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Yeah, some lovely observations about the magical inception of a relationship. "It's as if the room got colder" captures the shivers-down-the-spine moment of the first intimate touch. I don't know what it is about Lilly's delivery of the line "Accidentally, called me baby", but I'm convinced you can hear her smile. Always makes me do the same. |
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| The XX – VCR Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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A beautiful love song. Empathy and intuition between two people are signs of a close bond. "You used to have all the answers, you still have them too." - they used to have to spell everything out, but now there's a short-hand, a private, intimate language, and some things are "just known". Lovely. |
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| David Bowie – Heroes Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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It's a haunting break-up song. A pleading, despairing love-letter. The metaphors are the singer's delusion that they can make it work against all odds. He becomes more emotional as the song continues, desperately trying to convince her that they can work things through, be heroes. Just one day together is all he needs to show her. But nothing, nothing can keep them together. |
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| Brian Ferry – Slave To Love Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[mikey14:6138] Yes, about the adrenaline-rush of falling in love. Can't sleep, can't eat, can't stop thinking about them. Beautiful song. I love how it starts dark, foreboding and inauspicious, then almost unexpectedly breaks into a delicious chord. Ferry's shaky and vulnerable voice is perfect. |
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| The Stone Roses – Tears Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Epic song. The great thing about songs\poetry is the ambiguity allows the listener\reader to project the meaning from their own lives onto it, and hence it becomes far more significant and enjoyable.
To me, this is a man in a long-term relationship ("We gotta love to last for a million years"), who knows he doesn't love her ("Our love, girl, is going through changes. I don't know if I'm alive, dead, dying, or just a little jaded"). He's once again in bad-books ("send home your hard-working jury, I'm going down this time"). He knows the relationship is doomed, knows he must end it, yet can't tell her ("So if you hear me crying, or talking in my sleep. Don't be afraid, it's just the hours that I keep"), because he knows it will destroy her ("I've seen the future in the tracks of your tears").
He thinks the only way she'll ever get over him is if he splits because of some failure in his own life, perhaps drug-addiction, then he'll never have to break her by telling her he's fallen out of love ("All I can do is hope that you will see me fall"). He knows it's coming ("I cast a shorter shadow with every passing day
... I'm just fading away"), and when he does leave her, he desperately wants her to be strong enough overcome her loss ("Do your best to smash my picture on your wall"). But he knows he means the world to her ("Some kind of magic in all your hopes and fears") and he's beset with worry that she'll never recover ("All those tears") ("I've seen the future in the tracks of your tears").
Utterly haunting and brilliant. |
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| PJ Harvey – England Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Can anyone place the traditional-sounding singing in the background at the beginning? |
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| Wild Beasts – Lion's Share Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Guilt at having taken something he shouldn't? Shagged someone vulnerable when they were asleep? Engrossing song. |
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| Foals – Spanish Sahara Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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See the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYoINidnLRQ
This song is about suicide. He is the person lying on the beach. He picks himself out of the sea. The singer and the person walking through the Spanish Sahara is the ghost at the back of his own head, "the fury" delivering him from the "horror here". Furies are "the embodiment of the act of self-cursing" - see wiki. He is talking to himself from the dead. Absolutely haunting, absolutely brilliant. |
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