| Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| For real @Nimbus, Andgtome, indiewinrar. And Christ! the instrumental arrangements on this album are breathtaking. Reminds me of a little bit of the BQE. Frankly, this song is BAD ASS AS BALLS. I love this album and it doesn't detract from my love of Illinois at at all. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Too Much Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Writing on that makes sense in its own nice and weird way, but it's definitely "riding on that" as in the idiom. | |
| The Veils – Sit Down By The Fire Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Simply beautiful. | |
| Loveninjas – She Broke His Penis In Two Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| ACE! Catchy and fun. Love it. | |
| Kate Nash – Don't You Want to Share the Guilt? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Great song. Love the new direction of this album. Really honest. Abrasive. And just good. The spoken part towards the end is such a tip of the hat to Los Campesinos! (Reminds me most of their song "This is How Spell 'Hahaha We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux Romantics'") |
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| Darwin Deez – Radar Detector Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I LOVE THIS SONG. Why has no one said anything about their love for this song? So summertime bouncy wonderful. Really great. Adorable, really. |
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| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Little Dawn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Heard him live last night. Standing in a sea of people chanting "it's all right" is an incredible feeling. Really powerful and this inclusive feeling of togetherness. Dunno how to describe it. But he's awesome live. Go see him if you get the oppportunity. |
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| Ingrid Michaelson – Far Away Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"There's a boy next to me and he never will be anything but a boy at the bar. And I think he's the tops, he's where everything stops. How I love to love him from afar." When I heard those lines for the first time...wow. Describes my life perfectly. |
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| Born Ruffians – Barnacle Goose Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Here's my take on this... First verse indicates adolescence. Everyone is confused as a teenager and he's fed up with being himself and wants to change things and grow up, yet he recognizes this as a phase. The chorus seems like that while there's this desire to change, too many things are going on to sort through and he's losing sleep because he's trying to sort out everything. Second verse is trickier, but I think it's along the lines of getting past something, perhaps a fear. perhaps getting into college? I dunno. Maybe I'm projecting. |
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| Born Ruffians – Barnacle Goose Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think a girl is involved, but I think there's way more to it than that. | |
| The Format – Dog Problems Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love this song. It actually might be my all-time-hands-down-favorite song ever. (and I rarely declare such things) The clarinet part is simply gorgeous and wonderful. There isn't enough clarinet in music now. Represent. Plus the entire horn section is fantastic and gorgeous and I love it. Plus, this song is sooooo emotionally charged and full of little hidden meaning and it makes me so elated and yet so sad. There are jus certain parts that still give me chills even after listening to it on repeat. Brilliant song. I would analyze, but everyone has done a very thorough job...lol c: Beautiful. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is love in soo many ways. a) I've heard a fantastic cover that has been forever etched in my mind. b) The orchestration is gorgeous. c) My brother was analyzing this for a school assignment (on my recommendation) and my entire family got into a long discussion about the multiple meanings of this song and admiring the sheer beauty of this song. d) I get such great vibes and images from this song. love love love. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Decatur, or Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"The sound of the engines and the smell of the grain We go riding on the abolition grain train Steven A. Douglas was a great debater But Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator" I know everyone loves the Douglas v Linconl debate line, but I find it so much more enjoyable in context. Brief Hisotrical Context: Stephen Douglas (that's actually how you spell his name) was this political figure in Illinois/the rest of the country who was working to push Chicago as a transportation center by building a railroads through Chicago to the west. (which would explain the sound of engines line as well as the smell of grain as Illinois is well known for being the prairie state.) Douglas happened to get tangled up in this political mess about slavery (he was an advocate of popular sovereignty and brought about the Kansas-Nebraska Act), but he didn't support the Lecompton Constitution (I would explain all these things, but that literally would make this an essay...) so the South hated him. He wasn't an abolitionist per say, but the South viewed him as one (they were very touchy about slavery which would explain the "abolitionist grain trian" line). During his bid for the presidency, he and Lincoln had debates (hence the line "the great debater"). Douglas was not elected President. Lincoln was. He however, was not an abolitionist either, he was anti-slavery (which is not the same thing as an abolitionist). Lincoln staunchly denied for years during the Civil War that the war was not being fought for slavery, but to re-unite the Union. (however, yes, he did give the Emancipation Proclamation, hence the line "the great emancipator" I really love this song because it is so rich in history.Every time I think of these lines, it jolts my brain which might come in handy when the AP US history test rolls around...and that power that it has over my memory makes the song much more rich to me. ps (I'm sorry if their are any historical inaccuracies...I'm only a student) |
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