| The Clash – The Magnificent Seven Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The first verse of this song (ending right before "Gimme Honda, gimme Sony") is my alarm for the mornings. | |
| The Horrible Crowes – Go Tell Everybody Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| On second listen, "Oh, I know nobody sees you're a fever, my first love." | |
| The Horrible Crowes – Go Tell Everybody Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The last line of the part at the very beginning sound to me like, "Nobody sees, you're a fever, my first love." I can't make out anything else from that verse. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Just realized the "sleep on the beach all night" bit in this song comes from the line "The greasers, they tramp the streets and get busted for sleeping on the beach all night" in "Fourth of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" by Bruce Springsteen. | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – Blue Dahlia Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I love this song. Whenever I hear it I think of the episode of Degrassi: TNG when Sean and Ellie are laying next to each other on the roof of the school when they get detention (that episode is pretty much Degrassi's take on The Breakfast Club) and Sean sees the cuts all over Ellie's arms from when she cuts herself, and they end up holding hands. Knowing how often Brian Fallon drops illusions to other songs and artists into songs, I'm pretty sure "Come see about me" is a reference to the song by The Supremes, and not just a coincidence of him using the line. I'm pretty sure he did it on purpose. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I don't understand the line "I wash my hands like the man with the blood on his teeth, over and over without relief." But I seem to vaguely recall reading something like that in the Bible (maybe in Proverbs? I don't remember) so if someone could explain that line or provide the Bible reference if it exists, I would greatly appreciate it. | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I like that part too but I don't understand the line "I wash my hands like the man with the blood on his teeth, over and over without relief." But I seem to vaguely recall reading something like that in the Bible (maybe in Proverbs? I don't remember) so if someone could explain that line or provide the Bible reference if it exists, I would greatly appreciate it. | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I don't think that in either song Brian is talking about LITERALLY wearing his dad's shoes. I think he just means it figuratively, like he has some of the same roles in life that his father had, and some of the same habits and character traits. | |
| The Horrible Crowes – Sugar Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Okay, my theory doesn't complete fit just right, it's not one of Cinderella's glass slippers (pun intended), but here it is: I get the feeling that in this song the guy (Brian Fallon or just a fictional person) starts out thinking that he's the girl's main guy and she's cheating on him with someone else ("I guess you need a little sugar 'cause you always wander around," "Only I know, I know you get lonely") and then he realizes that HE is the other guy ("I saw you walking with him, down the steps that I walked you in. I got hurried by midnight, with slippers of glass and perfect fits") because she's in a hurry to get back home before her husband or boyfriend does so he won't find out about her affair, and to me the chorus is the guy who was the other man in the relationship is telling her not to ask him for any more dates because he knows what's going on. |
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| The Horrible Crowes – Crush Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I was having trouble figuring out just what Brian Fallon meant in the line "God's gonna trouble the water," but just now I remembered a story in the Bible (it's right at the beginning of John Chapter 5, to be specific) in which Jesus heals a sick man who always sat by a pool that, when the water was stirred up by angels, would heal whoever was in the pool, but the man couldn't walk and had no one to put him in the pool, and other people would always get in the pool before he could drag himself in. So Jesus saw this man and asked him if he wanted to be healed, and when the man said yes, he told him, "Pick up your mat and walk" and the man stood, picked up the mat he had been sitting on, and left–walking. Long story short, the line "God's gonna trouble the water" refers to that pool that had healing powers when God stirred the water in it. However, I'm not sure why Fallon used that line in a song about a woman, but I guess he just meant that if this girl goes to heaven before he does, God will stir the water and heal him of his pain from losing her, and heal him other times, whenever he's up, down, or level with the ground. |
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| This Charming Man – Sometimes You Eat the Bar (Sometimes the Bar Eats You) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think it's "They do their best Fred Astaire [impressions] on the lawn" not "They do the best venom stare on the lawn." I love the way Brian Fallon sings this song. |
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| The Airborne Toxic Event – Gasoline Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The funny thing is though, as much as I still want my first ex back, my other ex I hung out with yesterday still wants me back too and he kissed me on the cheek as he left and then ran down my driveway to his car . . . Haha. | |
| The Airborne Toxic Event – Gasoline Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Yesterday I hung out with two of my exes (my first and third, the only two I'm still friends with) at the same time. They were hanging out together and called and asked if I wanted to go do something with them, just a spur of the moment thing. I hadn't seen my first ex since he moved away when he was in ninth grade and I was in tenth (he was my boyfriend when he was in seventh and eighth grade and when I was in eighth and ninth grade, we were together for a year and four months and that's far and away the longest relationship I've ever had. I hadn't seen my second ex since I moved out of our old neighborhood about a year ago (we were together for a few months in our senior year of high school even though we had known each other since elementary school.) Anyway, I said yes to their invitation even though I thought it might be kind of awkward hanging out with them again since I hadn't seen either of them in a long time and their both my exes and I still kind of have feelings for both of them--stronger for the first guy than my third ex, but still. It turned out to be a really fun, not-awkward-at-all day spent at the mall, but when I got home later that night after they left I started crying over my first ex as if I had gone back in time four years to when we broke up. The first few minutes when we were walking next to each other I had an overwhelming urge to grab his hand and stop him and ask to get him back, I knew I had never gotten over him, even though we're 18 and 19 now and we haven't been together in years, and there were a few times when we almost got back together but didn't because we lived too far from each other and neither of us drove. And now he's engaged and his fiancee is pregnant, so my chance is really zero now. And this song and "Sometime Around Midnight" has just been stuck in my head since yesterday. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Old White Lincoln Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I don't know how you can drive a car through the roof. I thought the line was "and your old '55 that you'd jump through the roof of." (As in, it's a convertible, so the driver can get in by "jumping through the roof" without opening the door.) | |
| Kings of Leon – 17 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| In the line that everyone else hears something about ships and sails ("Even ships that sails away," "Heaving ship to sail away," etc), I hear "Eat and shit yourselves away," like someone in the song doesn't do anything meaningful, they just waste their life. | |
| Kings of Leon – Cold Desert Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Just goes to show big things happen when religious people walk through deserts. And no, I don't mean that sarcastically or insultingly, I'm a Christian myself. |
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| Kings of Leon – I Want You Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @Soulviver Black Cat is a brand of fireworks. Black Cat fireworks are mostly available in the Southern US. | |
| Green Day – Kill the DJ Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Just a hint of The Rolling Stones in this song. "Kill The DJ" by Green Day: "Walking after dark in the New York City park" and "Someone's gonna get you, boy" (especially the way Armstrong whispers that line menacingly) "Miss You" by The Rolling Stones: "I've been walking in Central Park, Singing after dark. People think I'm crazy. I've been stumbling on my feet, Shuffling through the streets, Asking people, 'What's the matter with you, boy?'" |
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| The Killers – Battle Born Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I hate to politicize lyrics, but even though this song is named after Nevada's state nickname, the state that The Killers are from. But it seems like it could be about the United States as a whole, how we used to be such a strong nation ("When you shine, you're a hilltop mansion"), but we're getting weaker and we're in a rapid downfall ("But your boys have grown soft and your girls have gone wild") as a society. The first verse ("You lost faith in the human spirit. / You walk around like a ghost. / Your star-spangled heart / took a train for the coast") and the verse that says, "Did they break your heart? Did they cause your soul to mourn? Remember what I said. / Boy, you was battle born. / And you can't stop now" sounds like a call to fiercer action in the Middle East. Nevada is called the Battle Born State because it became a state because of the Civil War (known in the South as the War of Northern Aggression). And this country is battle born too. We didn't pussyfoot in the American Revolution, why should we do that now? | |
| Green Day – Disappearing Boy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I thought the line "I vanished from all your joy" was "I am frustrated by your joy." That's how I hear it, anyway. | |
| Green Day – Disappearing Boy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| One of the definitions for the noun "heel" on Dictonary.Com is "a contemptibly dishonorable or irresponsible person." | |
| The Killers – Daddy's Eyes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Also, the verse "But when you put it on the other hand, when you're old enough to understand, that glove will bring it all to life. I didn't say that made it right" makes me think the father is talking about condoms ("that glove will bring it all to life") and how they enable men to cheat without the consequence of pregnancy, but he advises that even when his son is old enough to be in the same situation as his father, he shouldn't go through with cheating, because even though sometimes you can get away with it, doesn't mean that makes it right. | |
| The Killers – Daddy's Eyes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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There's one line that I don't get: "And I know that you called because you never even knew that it was hurting me." The only thing I can think of is maybe the dad means that he knows his son called him because they've never been in contact with each other, but his dad doesn't want anything to do with him because it hurts too much. But I think the line might actually be "And I know that you're cold because you never even knew that it was hurting me," like the son is giving his father the cold shoulder because he's mad at him for cheating and breaking up the family, but he doesn't realize that this mistake hurts his dad, too. |
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| The Killers – Daddy's Eyes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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There's one line that I don't get: "And I know that you called because you never even knew that it was hurting me." The only thing I can think of is maybe the dad means that he knows his son called him because they've never been in contact with each other, but his dad doesn't want anything to do with him because it hurts too much. But I think the line might actually be "And I know that you're cold because you never even knew that it was hurting me," like the son is giving his father the cold shoulder because he's mad at him for cheating and breaking up the family, but he doesn't realize that this mistake hurts his dad, too. |
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| The Killers – This River Is Wild Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I love this song so much, and it is actually the theme song of a novel I'm in the process of writing. I won't outline what the story is about because I don't want to take a chance at someone stealing my ideas or anything, but pretty much in relation to my novel this song pretty much sums up how the protagonist/main character reacts to a secret about her father that changes her life in many ways and the line "I just want to show you what I know and catch you when the current lets you go" perfectly summarizes how one of her teachers mentors her based on his past experiences and becomes even more of a father figure for her after she loses most of the respect she had for her real father once his secret and its repercussions are exposed. I doubt many people will read this post, I just felt like sharing how this song has helped me creatively. |
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| The Killers – This River Is Wild Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Yeah, I agree, and I don't see Brandon Flowers's swearing in this song as a poor reflection on him, because he swears from a character's point of view, for the sake of conveying that character's anger at his mother--like saying, "Those are his words--the words of the character Adam--not mine." | |
| Brandon Flowers – On The Floor Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Haha, good one, Obviouslyman. :) | |
| Brandon Flowers – Only The Young Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Does anyone else think that "Direct me to the sun" is maybe supposed to be read as "Direct me to the Son" (Jesus Christ)? Like, maybe Brandon Flowers is pointing out that he feels he needs to be closer to Jesus and God? Or the "thunder and lightning have got me on the run, direct me to the Son" because the thunder and lightning could symbolize the enemy (the devil, demons, temptation, etc.) and he is running scared, but needs to make sure he runs in the right direction (to God, to righteousness and salvation) instead of letting the enemy lead him astray, lead him off the path of righteousness. Although, I also see how "sun" would fit, like, "Get me away from this thunder and lightning" in a more literal sense. | |
| Rise Against – Drones Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Does this remind anyone else of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury? After I read that book for English class in tenth grade, I saw a great deal of similarities to F 451. I think the first verse is pretty obvious how it could tie into F 451. "And if strength is born from heartbreak, then mountains I could move"--This reminds me of Professor Faber "And if walls could speak, I'd pray that the would tell me what to do"--the television walls and the walls of the buildings Montag burns "If you see me, please just walk on by, walk on by. Forget my name and I'll forget it too. Failed attempts at living simple lives, simple lives, are what keep me coming back to you."--This also makes me think of the way that Professor Faber must live in fear because he loves books, and the way that Faber and Montag's resistance of blindly going along with society bring them together. "No signs of life here, save the embers, the occasional flame. We know the way, but can't remember, conception to the grave."--The firemen (and the rest of society) know how life should be lived, but they have been brainwashed. "Shout confessions from the greatest heights where no one can hear. All my fears, my insecurities, are falling like tears."--Professor Faber's lifestyle again and Montag's nervousness about the books he has, his friendship with Professor Faber, etc. "The drones all slave away. They're working overtime. They serve a faceless queen. They never question why. Disciples of a god that neither lives nor breathes. But we have bills to pay, yeah we have mouths to feed!"--This perfectly sums up the mindlessness of society in Fahrenheit 451. The "I won't come back!" part is akin to Montag's separation from the rest of the firemen. If anyone would like to see a video of Drones with the F 451 tie ins, here's the link.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkLz_bM_Ljs |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – 1930 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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At first I was confused as to how the line "Nobody does it like you anymore" could be related to Brian Fallon's grandma, but the other day when Ray Bradbury passed away, I was reading things that fans had posted in memoriam of him on his Facebook page, and a quote from his novel Fahrenheit 451 stuck out to me and made me think that maybe Fallon was trying to convey a similar idea. "And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I've never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on." |
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