| Coldplay – Lost+ (feat. Jay-Z) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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First, I thought Martin Luther as well zephid-a triple entente, perhaps? But I find this version very good, along with the other two. I'm not one for rap personally, but thats usually for the content, not a dislike of the music itself. I still don't like rap, but I feel Jay-Z did add something to the song--thoughtful lyrics, and I do like the references he makes. This doesn't mean I prefer rap to rock or Jay-Z to Coldplay or Dave Matthews, but its interesting. |
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| Dispatch – Bats In The Belfry Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In the (better) version of this ('Bats' not 'Bats in the Belfry (Acoustic Version)') on Bang Bang, thought both are great, the lyrics are slightly different, and to be honest the difference makes the song so much better to me. Now, the verse that absolutely blows me away is, of course, the one that is hard to understand: "I have a crazy idiosyncracy Its affinity to serendipity And this eternal epiphany No hypocracy or duplicity" It basically states that the man has a tendency towards having revelations, and they are genuine...it explains why he is going crazy (or what society may call crazy), and then why he would be "Boiling Society." Here are some of the lyrics from the chorus, with my comments in parenthesis: "I've got bats in the belfry (as people said, an expression for being crazy) I'm in the kitchen boiling society (the man doesn't care about what society thinks) I'm in the open catching all the leaves (Really, I think this is just a way of expressing joy) We all see what we want (everything is up to interpretation, influenced by our personalities and culture)" The end of the second chorus is slightly different than listed, and I love it: "I've got bats in the belfry I'm in the kitchen k-k-killing society I'm in the kitchen boiling all the leaves We all see what we want" This is an absolutely beautiful difference. Not only does it enforce the next line, "We all see what we want," it also implies the presence of "Bats in his Belfry" and his "Crazy Idiosyncrasy toward serendipity (or a tendency toward revelations)". The third and fourth are the same as the first. The thing is, while this is not one of my favorite dispatch songs (Nothing can beat "Flying Horses," "Time Served," "Open Up," or the harmony in "Hey, Hey",) it does seem to have a lot to be analyzed. While Dispatch has better music, this songs that can be analyzed as much as this one are the thing that makes bands like Dispatch so much better than the average band. Wow, that was a lot. |
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