| Penny and the Quarters – You and Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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*The author of this song is named Jay Robinson, not Larry Curtis Johnson. "You and Me" was discovered at an estate sale by Ryan Gosling, who begged the director of Blue Valentine to include it in the soundtrack. The lyricist and vocalists were all unknown, simply identified as "Penny and the Quarters." In 2011 the female vocalist was discovered to be a woman named Nannie Sharpe (nicknamed Penny). "It's been 40 years since I've heard it," she said, "I'm shocked and elated." The backup vocals were sung by her brothers Preston, Johnny, and Donald Coulter. Backup singers at Harmonic, the siblings lucked out one day in 1970 when studio owner Clem Price asked lyricist Jay Robinson to "polish them up." Robinson had them sing "You and Me" (a song he had previously written for the Sharpes, who had not released it) to practice their enunciation and, unbeknownst to the siblings, recorded it - in a single take. (source: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/18/blue-valentine-mystery-singer-revealed) |
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| The Antlers – Epilogue Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It's a concept album. No, it's not "literally" about a bone cancer patient and a care worker who fall in love, but metaphorically, it is about just that. The metaphor is exactly as important as the meaning behind it. | |
| Lydia – A Camera Lens and Careful Days Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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sung* wow |
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| Beach House – Lazuli Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "Stone of heaven" | |
| The Beatles – I Will Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| My mother sang this to me as a child every night before I went to bed. It's my fondest memory. This is my favorite song of all time and will always be, just for that reason. I remember sleeping over at my best friend's house and calling her before bed just so she could sing it to me. I couldn't fall asleep otherwise. | |
| Lydia – A Camera Lens and Careful Days Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "It gets so heavy on our lungs" is song so beautifully. | |
| The Radio Dept. – I Wanted You To Feel The Same Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The meaning is pretty obvious, it's about falling in love with someone who acts as if they reciprocate your feelings, then finding out they actually don't. They were only playing games with you. "It breaks my heart to say that when I was in pain/I wanted you to feel the same" I think this is the greatest line in the song. When I've had my heart broken, I wanted to make the person hurt the way they hurt me, but this ended up making me even sadder because I still loved them and didn't want to hurt them. Hurting them would hurt me even more. "I can't believe you didn't feel a thing" Sigh. I can totally relate to this song. |
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| Best Coast – Up All Night Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"You and me Too good to be Too true to be Too dumb to see *That where I live And where you live Are not the same We're not to blame Just* too crazy And far too bored* And way too lazy to make it work" |
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| Best Coast – This Is Real Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"...we'll fight in the middle of the night You come to me, and we'll talk, we'll talk it out We won't scream, and we won't shout..." That's how I hear it. |
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| The National – Sorrow Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I love your interpretation of "rag and bone sympathy." I never really got it til now. Thanks :) | |
| The National – Sorrow Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I read somewhere that Matt wrote this song for Bryan Devendorf, who has suffered from clinical depression all his life. As someone who also struggles with lifelong depression, this song is spot on - it's amazing that Matt, who says he's never been depressed, could describe so accurately what depression does to a person. You really do fall in love with your own sadness, it becomes a shield that protects you from reality. Depression touches every single aspect of its victim's life. It clouds and distorts everything and rebuilds your memories and your perceptions. "I live in a city sorrow built/It's in my honey, it's in my milk." It's everywhere. | |
| The National – Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Hah, I saw The National live last December in San Francisco and they sang this song last. It was totally unplugged - no microphones or anything, just two acoustic guitars and the audience was told to sing along. Someone somewhere behind me kept singing, "swans are for swimming" and it just killed me. WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN | |
| Beach House – Astronaut Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Faster than an astronaut / Who's coming home to what / He left long ago Perfect. |
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| Beach House – Zebra Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I always associated this song with my best friend whom I was in love with for much of my childhood/teen years. To me, the person who know him best (Don't I know you better than the rest?), he was unique and incredibly talented. But he tried so hard to fit in with people he had little in common with; he essentially "deceived" them (All deception, all deception from you). Of all my friends I believed he was the one with the brightest future, and no matter how much he tried to blend in, he was leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of us (Any way you run, you run before us). He never believed in himself, but I always did (You know you're gold, you don't gotta worry none). We were all horses - we were all the same - and he was a zebra - unique, not "domesticated" as we were - who was trying to disguise himself as a horse - or as domesticated, someone who had been broken in by society (Black and white horse, arching among us). |
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| No Age – Glitter Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think it's about rekindling an old relationship that you never really moved on from. "I don't fear nothing Unless it's broke I got it over Not till you're ahead Cause I know That's where we've been" and, obviously, "I want you back underneath my skin" |
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| Cults – Never Saw The Point Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Yeah I Could never stop loving you not Yeah I Could never sight(?) marrying you |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Landslide Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I guess this song could mean many different things, but to me it's about growing up in love with someone. And it's about how life changes and the people around you - even the person you fell in love with - change, and you have to accept it and force yourself to move on. "Well, I've been afraid of changing / Cause I've built my life around you." "Take my love, take it down / Oh, if you climb a mountain and you turn around / And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills / Well the landslide will bring it down.." Sounds like knowing you have to let go, but still holding a piece of it with you in case the person comes back. You are so in love that you can't ever move on completely. Like, "if you see my reflection" is "if you ever think of me again," and "the landslide will bring it down" is "I'll always come back to you." It's interesting to learn what the writer of the song was thinking about, but what really matters is what the song means to the listener. Oh, and the Dixie Chicks version is godawful. |
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