| Local Natives – Wide Eyes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The opening track of their forthcoming debut album...and an awesome opener is it. | |
| Bon Iver – Get Up Get Out (Justin Vernon remix) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Yes, but the lyrics are not his and thus this song (no matter what musical mix) should remain listed under The Rosebuds only, where it belongs. | |
| Bon Iver – Lump Sum Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The lyrics I posted here (in 2007) came from Justin Vernon himself. | |
| Local Natives – Airplanes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's about band member Kelcey's late grandfather. | |
| Portugal. The Man – People Say Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Considering the song is titled "People Say," I think it's a safe bet that he is singing "all the people, they say" and not "see." | |
| Grizzly Bear – While You Wait for the Others Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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While you wait for the others to make it all worthwhile All your useless pretensions are weighing on my time You could beg for forgiveness as long as you like Or just wait out the evening You’ll only bleed me dry Yes you’ll only bleed me dry So I’ll ask you kindly to make your way And what was left A perfect cleft We all fall through While you wait on the answers that I’ll pretend to find Keeping up with the motions still occupies our time You could hope for some substance as long as you like Or just wait out the evening And always ask me why Yes you’ll only bleed me dry So I’ll ask you kindly to make your way And what was left A perfect cleft We all fall through And all we want And what was left |
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| Flight of the Conchords – I'm In Love With a Sexy Lady Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Actual title is "We're Both in Love with a Sexy Lady" | |
| Passion Pit – Moth's Wings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This PDF has the correct lyrics, different from what 4sds1 has submitted here: http://www.theorchard.com/assets/release/884385485979_884385485979.pdf dear friend, as you know your flowers are all withering your mother's gone missing your leaves have drifted away but the clouds are clearing up and i've come reveling burning incandescently like a bastard on the burning sea but you're just like your father buried deep under the water you're resting on your laurels and stepping on my toes whose side are you on? what side is this anyways? put down your sword and crown come lay with me on the ground. you come beating like moth's wings spastic and violently - whipping me into a storm shaking me down to the core but you've run away from me and you've left me shimmering like diamond wedding rings spinning dizzily down on the ground but you're just like your father buried deep under the water you're resting on your laurels and stepping on my toes whose side are you on? what side is this anyways? put down your sword and crown come lay with me in the ground. |
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| Passion Pit – Moth's Wings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It is "And stepping on my toes," not "You're" as I thought, and not "Is" as you thought. | |
| Passion Pit – Moth's Wings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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No, you need to chill out, because we're both wrong. Here is an official PDF containing the lyrics: http://www.theorchard.com/assets/release/884385485979_884385485979.pdf |
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| Passion Pit – Moth's Wings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Check that... might it be "You're drifting like your father"? | |
| Passion Pit – Moth's Wings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I hear either "You're just like your father" or maybe, just maybe, "You're dressed like your father" ??? | |
| Passion Pit – Moth's Wings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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And it's "You're stepping on my toes," not "Is stepping on your toes" It seems a lot of the changes you made are *still* not right. |
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| Passion Pit – Moth's Wings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"resting on your laurels" not "pressing on your laurel" "to rest on your laurels" is a saying -- Google it. |
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| Passion Pit – Moth's Wings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| laurels, not laurel | |
| Passion Pit – Moth's Wings Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Yes, it is "resting on your laurels" -- I was just going to post the same thing. | |
| Bon Iver – Get Up Get Out (Justin Vernon remix) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is not a Bon Iver song. | |
| Bon Iver – Woods Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Does this actually repeat, or are there slight variations? While I do hear "I'm down on my mind," I also seem to hear "I'm down on my land." | |
| Coldplay – Strawberry Swing Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is probably my favorite track off Viva la Vida. I appreciate that so many visitors here find it to be uplifting and "feel good" and happy, and I understand why. But, for some reason, I find this song to be extraordinarily sad. In fact, I literally started crying listening to it today. I can't remember the last time that happened. | |
| Bon Iver – RE: Stacks Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It is kumran in the disc booklet, however, which is I got all these from. We'll see how it's listed when the album is re-released in February. | |
| Franz Ferdinand – Evil and a Heathen Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this would make a great future single. My favorite line: "Your teeth are black with wine/As you place those lips on mine" |
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| Oasis – Won't Let You Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I like this song a lot, but the laziness of Oasis lyrics might finally be getting to me. "Hate to say you're surrounded by clowns" ??? With the line following it being, "Think it's time that you came out and played/Looks to me they've had their day" maybe the line should instead be something like, "Hate to think you're surrounded by clouds" |
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| The Bravery – Swollen Summer Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This one's my favorite on the album. | |
| The Bravery – Hot Pursuit Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Why wasn't this song included on the album? | |
| Radiohead – I Am a Wicked Child Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It was recently released as a B-side. | |
| The Thrills – Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I submitted this as The Thrills, but then SongMeanings.net changed it to The Thrills (Boston Rock 80s) and added The Thrills (Ireland 00s)....but placed this song under the 80s group. This song should be moved to the current irish Thrills. | |
| The Thrills – Big Sur Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I submitted this as The Thrills, but then SongMeanings.net changed it to The Thrills (Boston Rock 80s) and added The Thrills (Ireland 00s)....but placed this song under the 80s group. This should be moved to the current Irish Thrills. | |
| Jet – Cold Hard Bitch Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| No it isn't. "Tround" should be "around" though. | |
| Radiohead – Everything in Its Right Place Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think he just got mixed up between "Exit Music (For A Film)" and "Motion Picture Soundtrack" -- both involve movies in the title, so it's a forgivable mistake! :-) "Motion Picture Soundtrack" in the context of death as he's saying does make some sense....it IS the last song on the album, and it has the line "I will see you in the next life" | |
| Marah – Float Away Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| They sound an awful lot like Oasis on parts of their latest album, especially on this track. Oasis's former producer made this album, I think, so maybe that's part of the reason why. | |
| Oasis – Born On A Different Cloud Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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HERE ARE THE ACTUAL SONG LYRICS, COURTESY OF OASIS'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE: Born On A Different Cloud Written By Liam Gallagher Born on a different cloud from the ones that have burst round town It's no surprise to me that yer classless, clever and free Loaded just like the gun You're the hero that's still unsung Living on borrowed time You're my sun and you're gonna shine Talking to myself again This time I think I'm getting through It's funny how you think It's funny when you do Lonely soul Busy working overtime Nothing ever gets done Specially when your hands are tied Lonely soul Baking up your mother's pride Nothing ever gets done Not until your war's won |
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| The Beatles – Dear Prudence Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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This song written by John is a tribute to Prudence Farrow, the sister of Mia Farrow. She inspired the song for Lennon at the Maharishi's retreat, when she would not join the activities, staying instead in long periods of medication. The others wanted her to join them and Lennon enticed her to join in. Lennon improved on the song by adding visions of world beauty. It was probably the only positive song to come out of Lennon's many visits to India. -- www.iamthebeatles.com |
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| The Beatles – Back in the U.S.S.R. Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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The recording for this song began on August 22, 1968. When The Beatles gathered together in the studio to begin, tempers flared between Ringo and Paul, and Ringo walked out, announcing he was quitting The Beatles. In his place on this song, Paul played the drums, and with John and George, the entire track was completed without Ringo. During this time, The Beatles had a friendly relationship and rivalry with the Beach Boys. The longest time spent with them was on one of their trips to Rishikesh, India to visit the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. During this time, The Beatles and Beach Boys, along with Donovan, would jam and write songs together. Paul wrote "Back In The USSR," as a medley based on the Beach Boys and Chuck Berry. It was derived from a song by Berry in 1959 called "Back in The USA." Berry's song expressed his joy of being back in America with all its drive-ins, hamburgers, juke boxes, etc. Then Paul combined this with the Beach Boys song "California Girls," changing the love interest to Georgia girls and the Ukraine, speaking of them as if it was California. It was perceived by many Americans as a song that promoted the Russians in a time when the United States was at war with the Russian supported Viet Cong. But it wasn't this at all. It was merely a parody using the USSR in place of familiar settings like California. -- www.iamthebeatles.com |
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| Oasis – Born On A Different Cloud Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Is it just me, or are there some references to their idol John Lennon here? "Living on borrowed time" -- John Lennon had a song entitled "Borrowed Time" "You're my sun..." -- a reference to Liam's son whom he named "Lennon"? "...and you're gonna shine" -- a reference to the line in the Lennon song "Instant Karma" -- "we all shine on" "Nothing ever gets done/Not until your war's won" -- John Lennon fought "a war" for peace ("Give Peace A Chance"/"Power To The People"/"Happy X-Mas (War Is Over)" Perhaps I'm just trying too hard to find these, though. |
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| The Beatles – Fixing a Hole Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| Drugs. | |
| Weird Al Yankovic – Polka Power! Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| Starfish, he has done a Polka song with lyrics from current popular songs on all of his albums the past 20 years. He does write his own music. | |
| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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"AMERICAN PIE" Part Five The music that he asks the man to play at the "sacred store" is this very song, "American Pie." It shows how he tried to get it published -- he goes to the "sacred store" (recording companies) and asks them to buy it, but they tell him that that kind of music will no longer cut it. It is too long, too folksy, too unclear; it was not commerically acceptable. The most familiar part of "American Pie" is the chorus. It tells that rock and roll, a pure American art form, is dying ("Bye, bye, Miss American Pie"). Another American icon is the Chevy, and one of the founding areas of rhythm and blues was New Orleans, and McLean says he went there but found no more inspiration ("Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry"). He mentions other lovers of rhythm and blues ("Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye") and links them to "That'll Be The Day," a famous Buddy Holly song ("Singing, 'This'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die"). "American Pie" is a significant song for many people who enjoy rock music because it details the people and events that contributed to the many changes that rock has had. It does it in a very unique way, using many poetic devices like symbolism and personification. These things helped make "American Pie" one of the most interesting and successful songs in rock history. THE END. |
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| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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"AMERICAN PIE" Part Four Woodstock occurred in August 1969, about four months before the Rolling Stones gave a free thank-you concert in California. Public outcry concerning the song "Sympathy for the Devil," which many thought had incited murder, caused the Rolling Stones to drop the song from their tour. Jack Flash ("So come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack Flash sat on a candlestick") is Rolling Stones singer Mick Jaggar, whom is symbolized by a Rolling Stones song and a children's rhyme. The "angels born in hell" refer to the Hell's Angels that were hired by the Rolling Stones as security guards for the concert. The "candlestick" is Candlestick Park in San Francisco, the home to the Beatles' final live concert. The "devil" alludes to the song "Sympathy for the Devil," which features the devil lurking as terrible events occur in the world. McLean thinks there is a devil behind the demise of music -- human greed and corruption. McLean is, again, an observer standing on the outside, his hands "clenched in fits of rage" because his hope of being one of "those good ol' boys" who could "make those people dance" is slipping away. He never got his chance. The final verse, like the first, slows down the beat dramatically. Both verses deal with the deaths of rock and roll stars -- the "girl who sang the blues" is singer Janis Joplin. When McLean asked her if there was hope for their music, she just "turned away." McLean has been growing up throughout the entire song. He is no longer a boy delivering a newspaper or a teenage broncin' buck, not is he standing with his hands clenched into fists of range -- he is a young man with some music to perform. (To be continued...) |
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| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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"AMERICAN PIE" Part Three The Beatles made their legendary appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in February 1964, just months after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated -- America needed some cheering up, and it got it with the Beatles. The Beatles were not the only group that invaded America from Britain: the Rolling Stones, the Byrds, the Animals, and many others arrived. The social voice that came through in Dylan's folk-rock sound was now full of messages about Vietnam and nuclear war. Related to the social protest songs are summer swelters: riots, the Charles Manson murders -- which Manson claimed were connect with the Beatles' song "Helter Skelter" -- and civil rights and Vietnam marches. During the mid-1960s era, the Beatles held the biggest influence on rock music. Dylan is the "jest on the sidelines in a cast" -- the sidelines being outside of the rock music scene; the cast referring to a motorcycle accident Dylan claims laid him up. The "halftime air" that was sweet perfume points to the Beatle's landmark mid-1960s ("halftime") album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." This was the first theme album, showing great sound experimentation -- even McLean himself appeared to like it ("We all got up to dance"). But it also introduced one of the darker issues that would rule the Beatle's lives and music in the future: drugs are what was "revealed". McLean had traced rock's demise in stages: it was at its peak in the Buddy Holly era, then fell to the Fabian era, then the social protest era, and then to seemingly rock-bottom in the self-destructive era of hippies and drug use. By 1969, rock music was a medium for moneymaking and dark messages rather than the pure 1950s rhythm and blues. The generation that grew up with rock is now entering young adulthood and gathered in Woodstock ("There we were all in one place"). But McLean though that it was "a generation lost in space [drugs] with no time left to start again." (To be continued...) |
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| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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"AMERICAN PIE" Part Two The following verse begins from the viewpoint of the present (1970) and the ten years, the 1960s, before it ("Now for ten years"). McLean talks about the developing youth culture in America ("We've been on our own"). The theme of "American Pie" is established -- McLean is unhappy with what has been happening in the world of music. Moss growing fat on a rolling stone can be linked to the Rolling Stones, Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," and the saying "A rolling stone gathers no moss." The music is gathering moss, or growing stale. Dylan, dressed like actor James Dean in a leather jacket, is the jester ("When the jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean"). When Elvis Presley was drafted into the military, his crown as the king of rock was taken by Dylan's spiritual folk-rock ("While the king was looking down, the jest stole his thorny crown"). Even though Dylan had assumed Presley's place as rock's spokesman, however, the verdict was still out ("The courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned"). Hidden in the background at this time, on a distant shore, was a quartet that would change rock music forever. The Beatles were already successful in England and Germany ("The park" is Europe) before their invasion in January 1964, but it was only practice for when they arrived in America ("And while Lennon read a book on Mark the quartet practiced in the park"). But McLean was not happy with this era -- he was singing mournfully removed ("And we sang dirges in the dark"). (To be continued...) |
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| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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"AMERICAN PIE" Part One "American Pie" chronicles the history and decline of rock and roll music from the death of Buddy Holly to the end of the 1960s. The song begins as a tribute to 1950s rock and roller Holly, a young man who greatly influenced artists like Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and almost every important rock and roller to follow him. Among those was a young Don McLean. McLean was only thirteen years old, the age of a newspaper delivery boy, when Holly was killed in an airplane crash in Iowa on February 3, 1959 ("But February made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver"). Killed with Holly in the crash were "La Bamba" singer Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, the "Chantilly Lace" singer known as the Big Bopper. Holly married Maria Elia Santiago, a Puerto Rican recording company receptionist, in August 1958 and kept their marriage secret largely due to their race difference. Their six-month marriage became public only after his death ("I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride"). In the years following Holly's death, teen idols like Frankie Avalon, Fabian, and Bobby Rydell hit the scene. The youth of America, especially teenage girls, became enthralled by them ("I know that you're in love with him"). He writes about love, as shown by the line referring to the Monotone's "The Book of Love." But McLean is not like other teenage kids -- they are sock-hopping while he likes rhythm and blues; they are dancing in the gym while he, a "teenage broncin' buck," is driving around alone and out of luck (Marty Robbins' "White Sports Coat (And a Pink Carnation)"). McLean wants to be part of the music scene, but this generic music is not the kind that touches him deep inside. (To be continued...) |
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