| Kishi Bashi – Wonder Woman, Wonder Me Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| kishi's onomatopoeia game is on point. | |
| Kishi Bashi – It All Began With A Burst Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| great song. i like his live versions of this song more tho tbh....they both have their merits. | |
| Panda Bear – Jabberwocky Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| these lyrics speak volumes to me personally. walking day to day, preparing a face to meet the faces that you meet, living idealistically to a fault; at any moment things can fall apart and your true self can spring up. and you might not like what you find. | |
| Connan Mockasin – Faking Jazz Together Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The music video for this is probably my all time favorite, definitely top 10 music videos imo. The music as a whole is genius itself: if you havnt listened to Forever Dolphin Love go do it! Conan Mockasin is on another level. | |
| Panda Bear – Take Pills Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I love how the train track sample at the beginning correlates with the general beat/sample...the bass hits right as the train track makes a lower sound, and the other train clicks seem to correlate with the tambourine and woodknocks. that always caught my ear, and i think its a great methodology to use. | |
| Panda Bear – Alsatian Darn Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[LcdDream:126] thewhole damn thing is off | |
| Panda Bear – Slow Motion Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Superguppy:124] now lets edit the damn thing! | |
| Animal Collective – From a Beach Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| makes me miss the beach so much...strange no comments yet. | |
| Animal Collective – Alvin Row Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Did You See The Words and Cuckoo Cuckoo seem to have similar themes, but we all could be reading into it too much, especially given that this is years before Avey and had a wife (i think...). I wish I knew if they had a miscarriage experience, as that would be telling. Even if they didnt there are definite themes of loss and growing all throughout their works up through the feels/sungtongs era. | |
| Animal Collective – Cuckoo Cuckoo Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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After reading the comments from Have You Seen The Words?, I'm convinced this is about severe loss, and it all seems to add up to a miscarriage or death of a baby. If someone could confirm that Avey and his wife did indeed have such tragedy, I think it would confirm my thoughts. But that's sensitive information, so idk how I feel about prying into their private lives. Anywho, to start, "how I lost my boy" seems to show he lost his son. The next verse, "The King in I died, he kept floating past my eyes, singing his songs, life was good but death's all wrong" is the father lamenting how he was preparing mentally to take on fatherhood, but suddenly was stripped of his good song singing life by "death's all wrong". \ Next verse, "cant feel a thing, no heart flutters in late spring, you just drift and pray for sun-kissed golden days" shows us a numbed man starting to lose his libido, even in spring when everyone is doing it. All he and his wife can do is pray for better days, despite their drift. And these lines are most convincing to me: "I can't hold what's in my hand Don't do any good to say this isn't what I planned." He never planned for a miscarriage, and he seems to be breaking down, unable to carry the weight that burdens him. "Little kids sliding down the steel park slide And little kids can't play with things that have died Sometimes all I want is is one favorite song. Two to three minutes doesn't seem that long." If only he had one moment with his child, he could have played with him, sung a song for him. And here I think the child is crying out: "Where's my mom I want to hold her tight. She's so far away from crowded nights. I'm going cuckoo cuckoo. We're all going cuckoo cuckoo." And the couple is deteriorating into craziness. Again, from the unborn's perspective "I said please stay You can see me, don't go away I can't see the landscape Please describe its amaranthine haze" The Father responds, "It's odd where I am They're people you're not like them They just look away for rain-quenched golden days" The dad is uncomfortable with the people around him trying to shrug the reality of what happened off into golden days, when really they are always surrounded by suffering. "And my tears quench five feet along" -father mourning "And I can scream but cannot yawn" -refers to both baby screaming but unable to yawn and sleep in life, and possibly also to the father's extreme frustration and inability to sleep. "And people gonna come and people gonna cry We just hope it's worth the age we die" -funeral and contemplating the age of death. "Don't try to erase what you have done Put your fingers in a mouth and kiss it if it wants" -not sure about these lines, seems to refer to denial of the tragedy and the deep desire for a child. "And where's my friend, I want to hold him tight he's so far away from mountain light" -father just wants his son to experience the world. I've listened to this track for years, and never understood what was going on. But in light of all this, it is all the more moving. Granted, this is all theory, and could be completely off the mark. I have not looked too much into other songs around this time, but Did You See The Words? seems to correlate with this overall theory. It'd be nice to know if any other songs refer to this tragic loss. |
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| Panda Bear – Comfy in Nautica Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| i think the nauttica part refers to nautical drifting...not sure how that fits into your interpretation but i think he takes comfort in letting go, as the taoists say, wu wei: take comfort in the nautical life of leaving attachments behind and exploring new horizons. dont fight the flow, meander with it. though i could be totally off. | |
| Portishead – Deep Water Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| i like both this interpretation and the psychedelic one...either way the metaphor of deep water as a kind of belly of the beast/collective unconsciousness holds true: in a trip, if you give in to fear then ego-death, or any sort of enlightened state, is impossible to attain. In life, if you give in to fear/ignorance and rationalize a way to reject altruism and hold onto your ego, you will end up a selfish mess akin to hellish ways. The kingdom of heaven is here and now, we just have to let go of our attachments and fears and then things will become somewhat clear (we cant get the full picture, we are all just like fingers pointing to the moon that is the whole of reality; as humans, we cannot grasp the ultimate metaphor that we commonly associate with the divine). In the same way, the Buddha promotes enlightenment in the intimate, in-between moments of the present movements of life and death. And so, try not to struggle this time, for you will weather the storm. If anyone wants to learn the uke tabs message me! i learned my own version of it, idk if its accurate or not though. :) | |
| Teen Suicide – Salvia Plath Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Salvia Plath, Teen Suicide, Julia Brown, Starry Cat....Sam is a musical genius. The last lines make me laugh :) |
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| Dan Deacon – True Thrush Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| The music video for this song is reminiscent of an old child's game i cant remember the name of. You would make a circle and whisper some random thing once and then the next person would have to whisper the same thing, and so on. In the end, it was always something completely different. This whole album demands some respect, yo. All in all, this dude is a creative mastermind. | |
| Avey Tare – Opis Helpus Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| not sure what its about, but its gotta be one of my favorites off their album. i can particularly relate to the "officer we were just politely drinking" part. brilliant. | |
| Pavement – You Are A Light Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I dont know where else to find such amazing trippy breakdowns...mars volta has some similarities (i bet they listened to pavement back in the day), but its just not the same. anyone have examples they could show me? it would be greatly appreciated :) | |
| of Montreal – Our Love Is Senile Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Our love is senile Like a blind child bumping into walls Say it's not guilt keeping us together How can we support each others' wills? Our love is senile Like we don't recognize each other Somehow we relapsed to being strangers We're scaling black tiles in our sacred realm best lyrics ever for someone who has been left broken and confused. |
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| Animal Collective – Rosie Oh Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| hey i dont mean to be too much of a critique, but in rosie oh, he refuses a ride in the glades and then later refuses homely comforts: "said 'no, id rather not', said 'no, id rather not step in'" this kinda changes alot of things according to your interpretation. but no matter, i like your general lines on thought, id just pay more attention to the lyrics so you dont end up misquoting something into what it isnt. cheers! | |
| Lake – No Wonder I Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| bmos happy song has quickly become my own. <3 the sun inspired silver lining...even with the darkest of clouds the sun still persists in lighting up and inspiring us to better ourselves. im obsessed with plato's therepublic, so the sun metaphor always makes me smile. may we all see the quality of everything in light of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness! peer into the divine madness, and you might go blind; acclimate yourself with brief glimpses of the sun's outline, and eventually the light will become warm instead of blinding. fears will dissolve as ignorance dissolves, and viceversa. peace, my friends. | |
| Gauntlet Hair – Top Bunk Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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this song is amazing...i want the complete lyrics!! help me! for a start... "We spent the most of our years, I bet shed turn up bented for sure" i shall add more when i get time :) |
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| of Montreal – Gronlandic Edit Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"the surrealists were just nihilists with great imaginations" this is very important, because it seems to indicate that he's struggling in his artistic endeavors to find some sort of value/quality/beauty. |
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| Panda Bear – The Preakness Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ok i know i might have said something earlier in a post about deakin's track being my favorite, but after many many listens this piece by panda bear is just breath-taking. its lyrically complicated but not too complicated..idk i cant really explain his genius but his use of piano/synths towards the end just gives me pandachills all over. "See your hopes become my hopes" aaahh so good the way he can make a seemingly simple sentence and complicate it up with his vocals. and btw, I hear: "we'll all get there some day" instead of what is posted, what think you? |
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| Panda Bear – On the Farm Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| AAAH seriously just looking at the development of panda bear's music since he was a young lad making inspiring music like this to his brilliant work on Tom Boy and with Animal Collective is quite interesting. In his early days, he uses a mix of choir-boy vocals and experimental guitars/effects to churn out gripping masterpieces that just get better and better the more one hears it; and this song in particular represents this trend quite well: his mysterious screaming vocals on top of some rather uniquely tuned wacky guitar chords just make me smile every listen. other tracks such as O Please Bring Her Back also illustrate some pretty epic acoustic guitar use along with some very emotional and inspiring lyrics. lyrics aside, the way he sings is extremely emotive: he sings the words as if its the last time he'll be able to, and does so almost hesitantly, and so it thus comes off in a weird subtly soft and boyish tone. i just love his pre-sampling days. | |
| Panda Bear – Surfer's Hymn Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this, live at the jetty and alsatian darn give me visions of raging space sex in a room of spherical windows with mirrors floating around me. | |
| Animal Collective – La Rapet Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| why arent these the official lyrics for Song Meanings yet? i'm just wondering how one goes about making corrections..please pm me if you know how, because this song and Animal Collective's Screens (OddSac #4) need to be redone. im sure there are many others as well | |
| Deakin – Country Report Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Little did I know of Deakin's true talents...i look forward to hearing more of his stuff (be it with AC or not). I particularly like the line "Is it really a change if you're not sure?"..it seems to prove that change is the only thing left unchanged, since being not sure of something is a capricious/whimsical mood that is often susceptible to change itself. thats probably not what Deakin meant at all, but the last lines (which were really the only ones i could make out on the first listen) just made me think of impermanence. song seems to be about some relationship or something...i really do not know. but anywho, my ears are happy. |
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| Animal Collective – Screens Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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agreed. the end has two overlapping vocals, not exactly sure what it is, but sounds like "my abilities to deal with things that scream 'be careful'. Now that I'm listening to it, these lyrics seems all wrong: "If I could take my eyes away, might not get so dry now. If I could keep my hands away, might not get so dried out. And when I would feel I'd know that it is real. I'd like to stay with natural things, organic as my skin that peels. And not so often enter in outer-space that I can never touch. Back-lit and bite, fields in a mine, to turn it off, and to make sure I keep it real with myself and never let obsessions with connections to an outside source be crippling my abilities to breathe and take a step out from my usual places. Just to make sure I keep it real with my own and never let a tendency to tread in water with no target cripple my abilities to deal with things that scream 'be careful' Seeing screens with me behind it No one's between what I should and why am I seeing how to do it? (why am I seeing screens? why am I seeing screens? why am I seeing screens? why am I seeing screens?) I feel frail whenever I'm lost in so many screens that I am seeing. Screens appear behind my eyes. But I feel frail whenever I'm lost in so many screens that I am seeing. Screens appear behind my eyes. But I feel frail whenever I'm lost in so many screens that I am seeing. Screens appear behind my eyes. Why am I seeing screens ? Why am I before screens? Why am I seeing screens ? Why am I before screens? Why am I seeing screens ? Why am I before screens?" Yea i think i'm right, took a good bit of listening to figure it out so could be off, please correct where needed!! |
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| Brian Wilson – Child Is Father Of The Man Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The Rainbow, by Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. |
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| The Beach Boys – Surf's Up Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I like your thoughts and the one below (considering its brian's own words). but the Child is the Father of the Man is a reference to Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I hear something in the background during the scaremongering and mobile parts and i want to know what he's saying i think he ends in that same tone repeating "take the money..." i also hear a "this is real..." somewhere in that part. |
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| Animal Collective – La Rapet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| bleh its a c# first sorry not c#m | |
| Animal Collective – La Rapet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| for the last part i got a c#m, g#m, B, f#....listen and you'll hear 4 chord changes methinks...its a pretty simple pattern. | |
| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Yea i dont see how people can misunderstand his lyrics: who's in a bunker? women and children first. mobile's chirping, take the money and run. we're not scare mongering. this is really happening that just gives me chills: it reflects our fleeting anthropocentric tendencies that destroys our biotic community (and thus ourselves). he is ironic and yet totally serious when he tells you to take the money and run: the world is ending god damnit take everything you can get the women and children in the bunker and run. Here I'm allowed everything all of the time...I laugh until my head falls off. reminds me of a boiling, smiling frog that just gets happier as the fire underneath warms him until its too late and he's already been boiled to death there still and frozen with his smile. Even when the first bubbles appear, the frog is just too happy and warm to take notice or care until it smiles its head off. |
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