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| Owen Pallett – Lewis Takes Action Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Yeah I agree with the previous posters. I think at this point in the album, Lewis has not yet decided to fight Owen, but is still following his bidding. He only becomes disillusioned with him after "The Great Elsewhere". |
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| Patrick Wolf – Divine Intervention Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is incredible, delicate and dark and beautiful, harks back to his older songs. I wish it had been on the album instead of The City, I've started to actually hate that song -___-; Sorry Patrick. |
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| Patrick Wolf – Slow Motion Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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At the beginning the lyrics are actually "Before you, I was living in my silverfish kitchen." A silverfish is a type of bug that infests houses. It's tiny and eats things like paper. |
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| Patrick Wolf – Time of My Life Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I'm so freakin' happy! Finally some new songs from Mister Wolf hisself!
I could go into my interpretation of this song now but I think it would just ruin the sheer purity and beauty of the song. I have to wait until I've listened it to pieces. XD
And in any case, I think it's pretty self-explanatory. |
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| Owen Pallett – The Great Elsewhere Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It's clearly a religiously-themed song, but it's sort of ambiguous whether he's in favor or not. I think he wants to be, but can't bring himself to. In the lines:
Face to his face, I put my
Hand into his and I tried to tell him, "No,
I've seen his work upon the panes of cathedrals,
In the sweat of the workers and the flight of the seagulls."
...I think he's trying to affirm, or prove even, his belief in a higher power, but that higher power shows itself to be cruel in the last verse. Even though I am a religious person, I love this kind of song, because I love tragedies and it seems like the saddest thing in the world to me, to want to find your God and fail through the fault of circumstance. Beautiful. |
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| We Are Scientists – After Hours Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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A lot of people are saying that it's about death, and even that WAS said it was about death, but...well, I found this: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=10677 (lol, I really love what the bassist says near the end. The phrase "wide-eyed fish of the sea" is cool...maybe they could use it in one of their songs! Unless they have already and I'm not cool enough to have noticed it. XD ) |
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| The Shins – Know Your Onion! Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think this song is about people, in general...parts of it are, anyway. The last three lines, which seem contradictory, feel to me like they're sort of sad but loving at the same time over the nature of people. Also there are the lines in the middle, the "parking their cars" stanza...that also seems to be talking about human struggles and desires. It's got lots of "we" and "us," and in songs that usually either means a pair of lovers, which I don't think this is, or humanity. It's almost like he's saying he's too caught up in life, and how different and complicated people are, to stop for love, while at the same time he's estranged from it. (Left his friends, feels shut out and ignored, angry.) Perhaps its about his change from his original pessimistic view of people to realizing that we are all fundamentally the same, in that we are imperfect.... :) |
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| Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laika) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Something I noticed...I'm not going to read all the comments, so I don't know if this has already been said. But I think the line "Our mother should've just named you Laika" is the most meaningful. The Russian dog Laika has been mentioned. I think this line means that the singers feel that their parents are at fault in some way for the terrible life he's had and the bad decisions he's made. On the other hand, perhaps there's an even deeper meaning that we simply can't understand, because the metaphor is so obscure...I like to write poetry, and my poems often come out that the more obvious interpretation is not the one I intended. I like to speculate, but ultimately the enjoyment is more in the atmosphere the words provide than in their literal meaning. Don't you think? |
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| Gogol Bordello – Huliganjetta Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Like many of their songs, it's very rebellious. What I'm wondering is, can anyone translate the non-English bits? I'm so curious...and, also, I love besides the social commentary the sort of feeling that he's slightly crazy. :P Aren't we all? |
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| They Might Be Giants – Till My Head Falls Off Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't mean to be rude, but sometimes the interpretations I see on this site are very silly, or just really far out. Some of them are spot-on, though. I just noticed it particularly just now because people's interpretations of this song are so varied. Some of them are just different, but a few (not going to say which) made me laugh.
I agree that this song is about age, and the paranoia and forgetfulness that goes with it. I also think (something that wasn't really mentioned) the title of the song really says it all: the narrator is losing his marbles; the chorus seems to be one of his few lucid moments, where he seems desperate to say that he's not done living his life yet, not finished lecturing to his students. He won't be done until he's dead or unable to function. It seems like it's about an elderly man who was formerly a college professor. But he's surrounded by these surreal moments, almost Kafka-esque, when things don't quite match up: the missing advil (which he's just forgotten about, despite his compulsive counting), the silhouette that he doesn't recognize as his own. Despite these feelings, he wants to continue living life as a human being, functioning as he always has.
Great song. The first time I heard it, it was so surprised. It reminded me of my grandfather a lot. |
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| Muse – Thoughts of a Dying Atheist Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I love those stories!! Great point too. I think interpreting this song as anything but what the surface indicates is like trying to avoid an elephant in the room...it's not about an ending relationship or government. But we all find it difficult to discuss such a subject as this: the idea that maybe you were wrong all your life....
It gives me chills. :) |
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| The Dodos – Joe's Waltz Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I'm surprised at how few comments there are on this, it's a great song. (Although I guess The Dodos aren't amazing popular yet.) To me it doesn't speak of religion, but perceived mental illness. The beginning seems to be talking about how everyone is weak and feels alone, that it's just the way humans are, reaching out to others for something to lean on. The line "No more patient" puzzles me; other than the fact that it's not really grammatically correct, it seems that it could be interpreted as either a literal hospital patient or as a "patient person". The former emphasizes my original idea, that it's about someone who's just as weak as everyone else but is told that he needs help. The lines "Hey there young man come understand/The ways you need to heal/I see your stress come take our test/come on this shit is real" definitely sounds like psychological tests, a doctor telling someone to come to the ward, along with the "you need help" lines. I admit that the last two lines smack of religion (a really pessimistic view of it, but...), but this didn't really occur to me the first time I heard it. (Silly of me, especially with the "why don't you kneel" like.) But the first thing that struck me when I heard it was that it could almost be the theme song to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." If you've read it, keep that in mind and listen to the song again. I think you'll see what I mean. |
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