| The Decemberists – 12/17/12 Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[DontEmailMe:1385] I think you're right about the connection with Colin's son being born. However, I'm not at all sure what any of that has to do with Obama or Sandy Hook. | |
| Manchester Orchestra – After the Scripture Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Seems to be Andy wrestling with the disconnect between Christians and Christ, people claiming to follow but not actually following in action. True vs false disciples "we built a shelter While we turned the weak away" Injustice, leaving people who are hurting and weak outside of the body of Christ despite the Christian's call to love his neighbor Chorus seems to be directly wrestling with God "I hardly knew you You knew me the same" Seems to be a reference to Matthew 7:23, where Jesus distinguishes between true believers and false believers. 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ |
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| Frightened Rabbit – State Hospital Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"In the limp through years of bored schooling, She's accustomed to hearing That she can never run far A slipped disc in the spine of community A bloody curse word made pedestrian verse Spirits in graveyards and fingers in carparks She cries in the high street just to be heard |
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| Frightened Rabbit – Fuck This Place Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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| Frightened Rabbit – Fuck This Place Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Cleaned up a bit. This is what it sounds like and also what seems to fit best in context. An itch My eye Twitch like a memory of forgotten bars One of those cities One of those nights Everyone's 'darling' Everyone's 'sweetheart' Just this drink to hold my hand One glass of anything Anything cheap And I'm here just because Everyone else has come just to be seen Oh I don't know these buildings I think I am lost In the perfumed armpit of town, Develop a debt now, these people are bricks Six face stone, wrapped up in bone Such disappointment when the paper is ripped So I stand, still boring and bored Pitching my eye again Against the wall |
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| mewithoutYou – Nine Stories Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Half-mast land grants homesteading laws past Dodge Summit toward Athabasca Falls practicing our Avocets and Gnatcatcher calls Owl: I laid down my guns where the soldierfish swam & slept inside the shoe of the world's tallest man I saw Charlotte Corday with the knife in her hand (It was nothing new) I've perched on Steele Dakota's sandhill crane I flew among the Paiute before the Mormon rain I was in Virginia City for the stringing up of Clubfoot Lane but I've never seen anything like you All untied, by and by! But I'd pour the matrimony wine if you're ever so inclined while low in a lodgepole branch nearby a lovesick Barnyard an amorous eye Owl: What unprecedented gift does this afternoon provide? Walrus: What from the air now calls to water on the land? What from my seclusion does this charlatan demand? What to do now with my best-laid eremetic plans? I've been to the Arfaks where the Sicklebills fly seen Tangier's acrobatics nine stories high I was there at Appomattox back in '65 when the General arrived but I've never been in this room before! (aside) All untied, by and by! that same old dream's trapped in my mind I'm bound in ropes and on the firing line well I wake up disappointed every time To Owl: If the weather ever withers up your vine Jacob knows a ladder you can climb If that old thorn is still buried in your side Jacob knows a ladder you can climb Owl: Well if your pacific rivers all run dry their clouds will fill my loud corrupted sky and if the pleasures of your heavens ever end that very ladder just as well descends |
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| mewithoutYou – Aubergine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Sugar down the syrup in the Queen Anne's lace Shining in the light of nightshade Cultivating unsophistication in my face Trying to think of nothing to say Grapes gone sour and the spinach went to seed (it was spindly and sick from the outset) Waiting for the hour with a wherewithal to leave Patient as a dog for its master Aubergine The Labrador was locked through the promontory rock She called down, said time is an illusion An inconsequential shift as the continents drift But my confidence was crushed and I miss you regardless Aubergine Aubergine Aubergine: You can be your body but please don't mind if I don't fancy myself mine--you at 32 still tied to your poor mother's apron strings! Sorrel in the gravel and the saffron robe Sleeping like a shark in the cord grass until I saw how far I traveled down the solipsistic road I climbed out to ask for directions There was not a pond in sight and here I'm gasping like a fish In the desert with a basket full of eggplants who asked about the passage of the Bible on my wrists But I couldn't catch my breath enough to answer |
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| mewithoutYou – Fox's Dream of the Log Flume Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Corrections from lyric booklet Provisionally 'I' practically alive Mistook signs for signified And so since I’ve often tried To run them off a cliff like Gadarene swine and tied my thought-ropes in anchor bends wondering whether we were someone better then, or maybe just better able to pretend (and what better means to our inevitable end!) Bear: No, I don't know if I know though some, with certainty insist 'no certainty exists' well I'm certain enough of this: in the past 14 years, there's only one girl I've kissed In the blistering heat of the Asbury pier we sat quiet as monks on the Ferris wheel Until looking down at the waltzer and out at the sea I asked her, “did it ever have that recurring fantasy where you push little kids from the tops of the ride?” she shook her head no I said “oh, neither do I” and with my grandmother's ring I went down on one knee and the subsequent catastrophe has since haunted me like a fiberglass ghost in the attic my inconveniently selective memory as provisionally 'You' mercifully withdrew all the bearing points we thought we knew Day's run, days set plot our compass shot we sailed waywardly on singing out midnight archer songs until well past dawn it's still dark in the deck of our boat haphazardly blown broken bows our aimless arrow-words don't mean a thing so by now I think it's pretty obvious that there's no God and there's definitely a God! Fox: I dreamt of the rocks at the Asbury dunes, and that you jumped from the top of the Log Flume, and they gather like wolves on the boardwalk below and they're howling for answers no wolf can know -- I charged at the waves With a glass in my hand I was tossed like a ball at the bottle stand and landed beside your remains on the stones where you cold fingers wrapped around my ankle bone while maybe ten feet away was a star thousands of times the size of our sun exploding like the tiny balloons you'd throw darts at Bear: I slept until our chest was full of yarn we spun from Shetland wool in socks from where the Dorset grows sheared and scoured hours before the rooster crows Fox: the price of German silver fell threw this disused thalers down the superstition well |
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| mewithoutYou – East Enders Wives Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Corrections from lyric booklet. The line and stanza scheme is makeshift as the lyric booklet just has all the lines together in one big paragraph. We met by chance along the Roe River side our salt fire danced as our tea leaves dried she hatched our plans in the atmospheric tides Fortune Teller: Let's give up 'sacrifice' next Lent" Rabbit: Eh, that joke's long since been spent!" But as the Fool on the bagpipes played we kept cool in the parasol shade your thumb on my page at my tender age east enders wives Then hidden in the boxthorn vine We grew old as the foxtail pine sheep in the fold gilding our gold sipping our milk and water lives she packed our bags some arbitrary time (by the time he wakes up I'll be gone) then waved like a flag from the White Star Line (Queensland our next stop, he'll be gone) unmoored unwell though I seldom elegize (you still see who I once was) we've both been untrue but i'm still counting on you like an invisible rosary And as the past and our plans are undone, slowly sank like the shipwrecked sun bridges and boats burning them both burned up the sky choir sang as the Black Birch fell sorrow rang like a church yard bell an axe to the trees smoke for the bees all our dads died. |
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| mewithoutYou – Elephant in the Dock Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Corrected lyrics using the lyric booklet: Pillary stocks at the gallows tree dock the crowd grew impatient the clouds threatened rain Elephant arrived at the Constable's side, with her trunk locked in shackles, and her ankles in chains Bailiff: "All rise, all rise, his Honor presides," the Judge took the bench to the village brass cavalcade, Elephant refused to swear the oath, Elephant: "I don't know anything about truth, but I know falsehood when I see it, and it looks like this whole world you've made" Good of our chaplain to sail Kalispell Bay And now down on his marrow for this old fool to pray, "Lord, for sixty-so years I've surrendered my love, to emblems of kindness, and not the kindness they were emblems of, Trammels and rings, with the strength of old strings, and some hobble skirt spring, by the old problem caught, Children, sometimes I think all our thoughts are just things, and then sometimes think things are just thoughts," and the rabble rang Crowd: Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Elephant: A thirteen coil knot for the samovar pot! Scottish Oatcakes in haversacks each to its grave This mock trial can no more determine my lot, than can driftwood determine the ocean's waves, Brandish your ropes and your boards, and your basket-hilt swords, but what is there can punish like a conscience ignored? Yes, my body did just as you implied, while some ghost we'll call 'I' idly watched through its eyes," and the jury sang, Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Elephant: I feel it stealing now All adrift fathoms down |
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| mewithoutYou – Allah, Allah, Allah Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Seems I'm a bit late so this will probably fall on deaf ears, but....you say that Muslims and Jews believe in the same God as Christians yet they don't view Jesus as God. False. Christians believe that Jesus is God and part of the Trinity and therefore if you don't believe that Jesus is God, you don't believe in the same God as Christians do. As much as I've grown to love mwY and Aaron's lyrics, he does seem to have a heavy lean towards universalism and forms of inclusivism and with all that, I disagree. Great band though, regardless. |
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| The Twilight Sad – Nil Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think it's "And I will write your requiem the day you're dead." | |
| Oh, Sleeper – Shed Your Soul Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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From the lyric booklet: This is it and this is all that there is There is no right or wrong, no king, no throne to defend Because we are all that exists No blessing god, no judge or law There's no cost or calls from the top because we're all on our own We're on our own No sides exist in this world that we live No pagans, no prophets This is it, we are the atheist writ No preachers, no new born believers, your faith is in jest "But what if we're wrong? What if we're not alone? What if we're lost and we miss the whole point of it all? But what if we're wrong? What if we're not alone? What if our peace can never be found on our own?" But I saw God die I saw God die We're on our own If all that remains is our avaricious wit, then "an eye for an eye" is the only law that can exist So don't use your romance to soften deaft or your trophies of war to boast of your feats If you failed then you failed 'cause your body is weak and you'll never be as strong as you dream to achieve. |
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| Oh, Sleeper – Chewing the Stitch Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Sorry that I didn't break it up into lines, my keyboard is messed up. | |
| Oh, Sleeper – Chewing the Stitch Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| From the lyric book, it's "Make my voice be the proof that they need, that light beams from even the tongues unseen. "I've never felt so alive. The wind is ushering a change and I can't believe I'm alive After my attempts to feed the pain. 'You are the new sign of proof a calloused heart can still be reached. Stand and believe it's true. You hold the voice to change the sea.' All the tearing of my skin starts deserting, All the guilt and the shame of the games I played deaf to my heart starts to fade. Now I will speak for everyone of us, the rebel dogs who rejected love. Chew the stiches until you taste the blood, or find so much more when you give it up. Give it up (x3). We are monsters on our own, but banned together we'll overcome. Now that I've found you, I've never felt so alive. Don't expect us to apologize for being true to ourselves in the spot light. We want no true, no truce or compromise." | |
| Frightened Rabbit – Fuck This Place Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Small change but I think it's "Perfumed armpit" | |
| Frightened Rabbit – Scottish Winds Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The recorded version has "And the english fucking rule" Also, "Just enough to say I love you to the girl that keeps me sane" |
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| Thrice – Anthology Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| As well as Atlantic in the first verse and In Years To Come in the third verse. | |
| The Avett Brothers – Ill with Want Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Not to be a stickler but "Free is not your right to choose" not "Free is not your right to chose." One letter difference but it's pretty big. Anyway, great song. One of my favorites on this album |
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| Thrice – Yellow Belly Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| That doesn't make any sense. Reread the lyrics and you should be able to see how it's not at all about God but about evil men/people. | |
| Frightened Rabbit – Behave! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think it's "Okay stab, okay stab.....stab me and please me now." And later it sounds much more like "Leaves me with dross to bear," not "leaves me with a cross to bear." | |
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