| Dappled Cities Fly – Real Love Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I'mn not sure why the band is listed as Dappled Cities Fly. As far as I can tell the name of the band is just "Dappled Cities." | |
| TV Girl – Benny and the Jetts Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Fixed: Her eyes were green Her skin glistened Talk all you want to, she never listened She'll love you for an instant but how quickly she forgets and as she drove away she was listening to Benny and the Jetts She'll walk by your window you'll only catch a glimpse She'll disappear like vapor and leave a trail of hints But all you'll really capture is that feeling in your chest And as she drove she was listening to Benny and the Jetts She's the poet’s nightmare, she'll sink into your soul She'll absorb your passion and turn it into coal Well I ain't no poet but I'll try like all the rest I remember as she drove away she was listening to Benny and the Jetts. |
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| The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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First line: "From the dusty mesa" |
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| Tiny Vipers – On This Side Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Changes made, thanks to noveltysci! | |
| Morning Bride – Time Delay Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Walking side by side, with the living dead Call this place a home, it's just another lonely bed Killing all my time by the turning of the tide Home is anywhere I have you by side Memories are wasted on me without you Baby this time delay is a crime that we have to pay for in kind, day after long day so entwined so far away Carrying this cross, that was never ours to bear I'll call this place a home, when this home is shared I've been here so long, but it's still a no man's land Home is anywhere you're holding my hand memories..... Baby this time delay is a crime that we have to pay for in kind, day after long day so entwined so far away Imaginary lines are keeping us apart in different worlds but under the same stars Photographs will fade, but I'll remain the same Home is anywhere together we will stay |
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| Morning Bride – Stepping Out in Front of Cars Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Hopefully this takes care of the apostrophe problems. A few details changed as well. Can’t stand the birdsong, Can’t stand the TV Can’t stand the radio jammed on your frequency Can’t stand my music, its every bar Cuts another scar Can’t stand the questions, X times and add Y There are no answers that could ever satisfy Can’t spit the words out to buy cigarettes I’m seeing stars And stepping out in front of cars Can’t stand my sentence, pure solitary Can’t stand my freedom, freedom is misery The cage is open, but I’m too conditioned To go too far Can’t stand the ocean, it keeps calling to me Can’t stand this city, and everything its done to me I Can’t stand still, a kiss of death Brushes my arm Im stepping out in front of cars Every back street and every corner turned Rolls a ghost scene on automatic replay Taken back, breaking back again Powerless, condemned to watch the scene unfold Can’t stand your sweet voice, whispering softly Can’t stand this silence, why can’t you talk to me? Can’t stand my telephone, nobody calls But it’s always charged I’m stepping out in front of cars Can’t face my loved ones, though they’re all there for me Can’t face the death wish of my own company Time, it stands still, when I step out In front of cars So I can wonder where you are |
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| The Swimmers – A Hundred Hearts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The word "out" should come after "ration"... "if you had a hundred hearts, you can try to ration out them" and then "without em" at the end of each chorus. you only got one heart, but a hundred people want it if a hundred people own it, they'd be putting prices on it if you had a hundred hearts, you can try to ration out them but then one by one they break them, and you'd only be without em |
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| The Swimmers – A Hundred Hearts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The word "out" should come after "ration"... "if you had a hundred hearts, you can try to ration out them" and then "without em" at the end of each chorus. you only got one heart, but a hundred people want it if a hundred people own it, they'd be putting prices on it if you had a hundred hearts, you can try to ration out them but then one by one they break them, and you'd only be without em |
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| Tiny Vipers – On This Side Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I found these, corrected some lines, and can't even begin to guess at others. Any suggestions are welcome! | |
| Bodies Of Water – Doves Circled The Sky Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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No, I think this song is about a gun battle that takes place on a prison planet in a star system threatened by intense gamma radiation. As both sides fight, they're reminded that no matter who wins, their planet and culture is eventually doomed. The existential tone of the lyrics underlines the pointlessness of the conflict, and also the bitter recognition that even in the face of annihilation, they might all be mere puppets, acting again and again on an eternal stage, in a meaningless and uncaring universe. That's what I got out of it. I don't know where the whole "religious experience" thing comes from! |
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| The Mighty Lemon Drops – Inside Out Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I'll comment, dammit! This was a great song when it came out, and it holds up. I've been searching for the lyrics now for a while, and I'm happy to see them here, finally. | |
| Wolfkin – These are all illusions Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Ten shots in a horseman's hide Knowledge always comes with a price It's out of my head These are all illusions that we see Drunk in moonlight you and me And it all happens in our heads Nothing's ever very real in bed Ten feet up to hangman's drive Pigs in space now worlds collide It's out of my head It's out of my head It's out of my head |
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| Wolfkin – These are all illusions Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Ten shots in a horseman's hide Knowledge always comes with a price It's out of my head These are all illusions that we see Drunk in moonlight you and me And it all happens in our heads Nothing's ever very real in bed Ten feet up to hangman's drive Pigs in space now worlds collide It's out of my head It's out of my head It's out of my head |
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| Tall Dwarfs – Meet the Beatle Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Hmmm... you think? Sure, he says "Hello, Mr. Harrison" in a song called Meet the Beatle, but I was thinking maybe it was about Ringo. | |
| The Magnetic Fields – From a Sinking Boat Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Thanks for getting these posted. The album just came out, and I'm glad to have them. This is one of the saddest songs... I love it. Short, sweet, heartbreaking. | |
| Foreign Born – Vacationing People Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Thanks for this. Very hard to find anything out there. | |
| The Lovely Feathers – Lowiza Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Thanks for posting this. I gave up trying to find the lyrics a while ago. Great to see it's here. | |
| AA Bondy – When The Devil's Loose Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure it's "razor blades in the cake." | |
| Django Django – Storm Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This was transcribed from two versions of this song. I'm sure I've got the chorus wrong ("Hold it up.."), and I have a feeling "We shoot the nest..." isn't right. I think it's an amazing song, and if anyone has changes, post them here. I'll check back and correct as necessary. | |
| Dan Deacon – Okie Dokie Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Seriously, why bother to put ONE SENTENCE from this song? Not smart, not clever, counter-productive... DUMB. | |
| The New Pornographers – Failsafe Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think "failsafe" began as an engineering term. It's a mechanism built-in to a machine (or into a system, routine, process, etc.) that in theory serves to shut-down during a catastrophic failure. In a worst-case scenario, where a human controller can't respond, where everything goes wrong, a failsafe is an automatic and last-ditch, usually preventing the worst from occuring. I suppose a failsafe doesn't always shut something down. In an jet airplane, for example, a failsafe might simply prevent a catastrophic event from happening. |
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| Barbara Manning – Big Eye Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The one thing I'm not at all confident about is the name of the saint. No habla French, and I don't know much about Catholic saints, so the pronunciation doesn't clear anything up for me. Suggestions and corrections welcome. | |
| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Optimist vs. the Silent Alarm (When the Saints Go Marching In) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure he sings "And raise a little family on Schlitz and Mickey Mouse." Schiltz being a semi-famous brand of cheap American beer... |
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| Tom Thumb – Boot Camps Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| sorry, "I've got sharp eyes that are good for this sort of thing" | |
| Tom Thumb – Boot Camps Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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correction on lyrics: but i'm too young for the physical science so i just act in full compliance with her I'm quite helpful, politely quiet I've got sharp eyes, i'm good for this sort of thing seeking out the small and insignificant things that someone had lost at night while they were throwing up safely out of sight from me Also, I think the second verse says something about "notes fell through the cracks," rather than "an old-spelt truth..." |
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| Tom Thumb – Time's Arrow Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| A song about an urgent desperate, all-consuming *need* to turn back time in the aftermath of an accident. One of the most descriptive, intense, single-minded expressions of longing I've ever heard. | |
| The Joy Formidable – Whirring Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"This much delight Fills columns to new heights" |
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| Space Needle – Never Lonely Alone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I sped this up (with pitch correction, so only the tempo increased) and it turns into an awesome pop song. Surely not what they intended, but it's interesting to hear the underlying structure of it all. | |
| Tim Fite – More Clothes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm about 99% sure he sings, "There's mustard on your titty... wipe that mustard off your titty!" |
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| Pete And The Pirates – eyes like tar Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm not sure exactly what the chorus is saying, but I think it sounds a lot like "Try, try, try, my heart is a fly." That might not be right, either, but there's no way it sounds like "Try, try, try my hardest, well I..." | |
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