| Carissa's Wierd – September Come Take This Heart Away Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| You know, anyone could just pop in and claim they're Heather Rhodes. Is there a way you can think of that might help convince us that you are who you claim to be? | |
| Grandaddy – Pre Merced Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| (living? no! leaving!) | |
| Grandaddy – Pre Merced Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I imagine this song to be a farewell poem to someone who is living for another town (Merced), painting a general picture full of classic Grandaddy nostalgia.. mom doing dishes, sister talking to dog.. i dont know how these guys do it but they always transport me to my own childhood. I love you Jason. I a dude kind of way. Not that way. Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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| Grandaddy – Guide Down Denied Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I concur with you guys. I've always thought of this song as a nice corollary to "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot". Jason is always so brutally earnest about his fears and apprehensions, and about the duality within us all of wanting success but at the same time fearing all of its scary consequences. Jason Lytle is, easily, the best rock-and-roll lyricist of the past years. |
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| Grandaddy – Skateboarding Saves Me Twice Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Haha, you guys break me up. Yeah, it's clearly an ode to the sport of skateboarding and the profound influence it's had on Jason's life. Actually, the meaning is quite clear if you listen to the version found on the "What Happened to the Fambly Cassette" album that you can get from Jason's site, jasonlytle.com. And now, for posterity, the lyrics from the aforementioned version: "The name of this song is Skateboarding Saves Me Twice And I named it this because When I was a little kid skateboarding saved me from becoming a meathead or a jock Or a stupid jerk bully that beat up people and it made me a nice kid La da La da la da da So that was the first time that it saved me (when I was a little kid) The second time it saved me is when I grew up to be older 'Cause every time I wanted to go out and get into some trouble I decided it would be a better idea maybe to go skate somewhere And if I'm too hungover it's too hard to go skateboarding So it makes me not wanna do things that make me get hungover So that's pretty much the main reason why I named the song Skateboarding Saves Me Twice When actually it saved me a whole bunch of times but the song is about how it saved me twice" |
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| Grandaddy – The Animal World Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Heh. No comments yet. But really, who knows what they were trying to say with this one? FWIW, let me add that this is one of their (many) songs that send shivers down the proverbial spine. Whenever it comes up, it conjures in my head images of old black-and-white films, and of an old run-down amusement park filled with life-sized realistic animal representations. Oh, and I am the only one that, upon first hearing this song, thought the lyrics went "Hey guys and girls, it's the end of the world"? |
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| Grandaddy – Summer... It's Gone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| (ugh, I meant to say "I see this song as representative of my feelings at the end of my own "extended childhood") | |
| Grandaddy – Summer... It's Gone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Not necessarily about growing up, I think. I see it as a goodbye song for the end of an era. In Jason's case, it might be about the "seasons in the sun" spent in Modesto, just living it up and hanging with everybody. But now everyone's gone, and there are no specific plans to do anything else. As for me, I love this song because I see it as the end of my own "extended childhood"; those years after finishing college, spent hanging with friends, drinking, smoking, screwing.. one of my seasons in the sun. But suddenly everyone's gone, off to work or marriage or whatever, and the feeling of "now what" starts to creep in. And all I can see is crowds of fools who fight with phones, obsessed with business and making money, who hate the sun and the idea of just living without a care. Jason has a way of putting into words the malady of our times. Of my times, at least. |
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| Grandaddy – Our Dying Brains Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Oh yeah, that's pure Jason right there! Try listening to the Glastonbury session that guatemalan guy mentioned. Whenever I think about Jason's voice, I always remember a line I read somewhere "that guy's voice is fucking AMAZING!" | |
| Grandaddy – Levitz (Birdless) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, it's about longing. More correctly, reminiscing, about an ended relationship. "wrong to say i'm giving up, right to say i ain't showing up".. great line. Even though one says the final goodbyes, one never gives up in one's heart. You always remember, you always want to "live again those joyous scenes" in your mind. This one hits really close to home, for me. Even though a relationship is over, it doesn't mean that it doesn't live on forever in your mind. There are always laughter and follies locked in your head. |
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| Grandaddy – Kim, You Bore Me to Death Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This album is one of my favorite by Grandaddy. I love the raw energy and the "to hell with it all I'm doing what I want" attitude.. something that gradually went missing in their latter stuff, but was replaced by improved musicianship and artistry.. a win IMO! And this song rocks balls. As others have pointed out, the lyrics are very poignant in exposing a vain person's mediocrity. It reminds me of the cheerleader in the American Beauty film.. utterly ordinary! But the best part for me is the guitar work. It really has to be listened as loud as you can for maximum enjoyment! |
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| Cold War Kids – We Used to Vacation Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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voltaire: lol! and yeah, this is clearly from the pov of the alcoholic father. very poignant, yes, the lyrics hit me head on when i first heard this song. and i've been in love with cwk ever since. |
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| Soda Stereo – Te Para Tres Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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BlackDahlia: eso que dices suena interesante, nunca lo había escuchado. ¿Tienes algún link que nos puedas proporcionar? (o como dirían por ahí, "proof or stfu!") |
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| Soda Stereo – Te Para Tres Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Uno de mis sueños siempre ha sido abrir un pequeño café llamado "Té para tres"! A propósito, el título tiene un pequeño error, la palabra "té" lleva tilde en la "e". Personalmente, es la canción que más me conmueve de Soda. Particularmente la versión semi-acústica, en el MTV Unplugged. La guitarra es celestial y diabólica a la vez, los solos son etéreos. ¡Etéreos! |
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| Grandaddy – Now It's On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| argh, I meant, these lines. | |
| Grandaddy – Now It's On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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One of my favorite Grandaddy songs ever. Ubpeat, peppy, and yeah, inspiring. In a not-moronic way. Does anyone know what this lines mean: "Now that the K's in place Where the C used to be"? |
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| Snow Patrol – Headlights On Dark Roads Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song always reminds me of something i've sometimes told my friends: "if i ever die in a car crash, check if i was wearing my seatbelt. because i always wear it religiously, and if you find me dead without a seatbelt, it's because i finally found the balls to take it off and swerve onto a tree" really, you can ask them. |
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| Snow Patrol – Make This Go On Forever Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this line hits me particularly hard: "The final word in the final sentence you ever uttered to me was love" why? because the last words ever uttered to me by the girl/woman/whatever with whom i had the most intense relationship of my life were the following: "ya no te amo" |
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| Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laika) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's about sacrifice. Period. | |
| Grandaddy – Sikh In A Baja Vw Bug Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Wow! Pure weirdness! Only Grandaddy could pull this off! I love these weird awesome songs that sometimes pop out in their albums. Plus, I have a soft spot for this track, since it's kind of like the anthem for my old VW beetle! |
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| Grandaddy – So You'll Aim Toward The Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| p.s. - this guy's voice is fucking amazing. | |
| Grandaddy – So You'll Aim Toward The Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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You know, we all interpret songs upon first hearing them based on our own experiences. And I've always thought of this song as Jason singing to a loved one his final goodbyes, you know, something like "oh, so you want to soar high without me? well go ahead". Couple this song with "Miner", and you are a witness to Art, pure and simple, my friend. |
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| Grandaddy – Miner At The Dial-A-View Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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beer_good: I guess I just don't "get" the pun. "Ial-a-view"? "All of you?" Does that leave us with "Miner at dead all of you"? Sorry, I just don't see it. This is pure, undistilled nostalgia. "I dream at night of coming home someday". I for one find it impossible not to be moved close to tears by this track. And in my case, it's not about homesickness, rather, nostalgia for the other life that might have been. |
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| Grandaddy – Everything Beautiful Is Far Away Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I believe this song is basically about what I believe to be Grandaddy's main underlying theme in their music throughout the years: Nostalgia. Nobody does nostalgia like these guys. Nobody. I like to think of this one as a companion song to "Miner at the Dial-a-view", a masterpiece of homesickness if there ever was one. |
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| Grandaddy – Nebraska Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Probably my favorite Grandaddy song! I love how it's basically a big "f-you" to everyone in the singer's hometown. I can certainly relate (and I don't think I'm alone here) with wanting to just leave town forever and never having to look at anyone's face again. It's a very powerful song, rare for Grandaddy in the sense that it features heavy distortion and screaming lyrics, but all that just goes a long way in helping convey the pure anger stored deep inside. Screaming along to this song is great therapy, btw. "Me voy a la mierda!" |
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| Grandaddy – Laughing Stock Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm having a hard time interpreting this one. I'm thinking it might be about getting on the road again after playing a live show ("we'll trade the strings for the old 110"), and probably a show that didn't go too well ("everyone's cracking up but we don't care".) Any other thoughts? Also, this song really has to be listened. It's beautiful, moving, it's like a little journey. Plus, I absolutely love the "bleep" sounds that make up its rhythm base. |
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| Grandaddy – Summer Here Kids Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Reminds me of the time I went to the US and we went to Disneyland in CA.. a complete letdown. Somehow, it's gotten into my head that this song is about Grandaddy's hometown, Modesto, CA, a place that's been called "a great place to live, a horrible place to visit." It may be. |
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| Grandaddy – Fare Thee Not Well Mutineer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| If you haven't seen the cute little video for this song, I encourage you to! Look for it in the u-tube kids nowadays are all crazy about. | |
| Grandaddy – Campershell Dreams Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Beautiful. I like to believe it's about rebirth, about coming back to life after a crisis, about embracing the joy that life sometimes brings. One of the most positive Grandaddy songs, to be sure. |
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| Grandaddy – Collective Dreamwish of Upperclass Elegance Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A masterpiece. Really, I don't usually throw words like that around. The whoosh-whoosh sound is particularly atmospheric. I love how it's about isolation and enjoying your own self. Simply effin' beautiful. It's hard to believe these guys didn't make it huge. Hail Lytle. |
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| Grandaddy – Disconnecty Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: no one describes nostalgia better than these modest guys. Last year, I went through a terrible depression, and every time this song came up I would think of my own mother, one of many people I had disconnected from in my dark times. And yeah, that line resonated with me: "he's disconnected but he still loves you". I can only hope that history will give this great band the recognition they've deserved since their early self-financed albums. At least I do! ;) |
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| Grandaddy – Nonphenomenal Lineage Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ever since the first time I heard this album, this song always touched something deep in me. An overly formal rejection, which sounds like a form letter. The music works beautifully with the lyrics, creating an atmosphere of loneliness and rejection. This songs moves me close to tears. |
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| Grandaddy – 50% Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I can't say this is my favorite song in Fambly Cat, but it does has a certain appeal to it. I'm not really sure what it's talking about, but if I may hazard a guess, I'd say it's about keeping your writing less wordy. Also, I think the "with nobody in my mix" may refer to the fact that after the band breaks up (which did happen in "two-thousand-six") the author, Jason I presume, will be able to write more freely. Just a guess. |
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| Grandaddy – Taster Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Argh, I meant, necessarily. | |
| Grandaddy – Taster Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Exactly. It's about sacrifice, and not necessary a voluntary one. I love its creepiness, how everyone around the taster is congratulating him as he dies. I've always felt that, in a way, the songs from their earlier albums are more, erm, edgy, than the stuff they put out later on. |
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| Pink Floyd – Pigs on the Wing (Part 2) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| You say "based from", I say "inspired". Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto, let's call the whole thing off! | |
| The Beatles – Across the Universe Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Did anyone notice how a bunch of idiot musical superstarts just fucken *destroyed* this song at the 2005 Grammys? Gah! And to think they did it in order to raise funds for tsunami aid... Personally, I think "Sending Our Love Down the Well" is a much, much better song. |
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| Misfits – Last Caress Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Actually, at first glance I felt that shadow had rounded it to the nearest ten. | |
| Wings – Live and Let Die Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think the song is about how the world can turn a person so bitter and resentful that at one point they can just forget their moral principles, and say "the hell with it ALL!". | |
| King Crimson – Epitaph Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I agree with Johnno, in the sense that it's a pessimistic view of our future. I disagree in his analysis of verse two. It speaks of how a handful of very powerful, celebrated men ("those who know and who are known") have already cast mankind's fate, and how knowledge can be dangerous if it goes unchecked (this, paired with the darkly futuristic theme, always makes me think of nuclear holocaust). For more on the interesting topic of techno-dread, allow me to recommend John Sundman's excellent article, "How I decoded the human genome" at Salon.com: http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/21/genome/index_np.html |
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| King Crimson – I Talk To The Wind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Great insight, Johnno7. I'll disagree in that the protagonist is a "traveler" or "shepherd". It's about an *outsider*, who is one not because of his profession but rather because of his different outlook on life: "Can't instruct me or conduct me / Just use up my time". I actually find this song inspiring, encouraging me to follow the beat of my own drum and ignoring the complaints of the "straight man". |
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| Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Alright, to support the "pervert from their childhood" theory, I tried googling for a respectable source. This is the most respectable I could find: http://www.luckymojo.com/barrett/refs/7410freaking.html Not only is it by an *unknown* author, but it also has Syd saying "I thought 'Arnold Layne' was a nice name, and it fitted very well into the music I had already composed" and "I pinched the line about 'moonshine washing line' from Rog, our bass guitarist - because he has an enormous washing line in the back of his house." This seems to say that the perpetrator was not someone anyone from the band knew, but rather the story is a work of fiction. Plus, it's from an unknown author. And this was the most authoritative information I could find. If anyone has any sources to support their other theories, by all means share them. |
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| Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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zblade: "..the same band was able to find two of the best musicians you could ever hope for" Talent attracts talent, I guess. |
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| Interpol – Untitled Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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PLAS, actually, I'm pretty stoned out of my mind too... but at least the comments I make are about the damn *lyrics*! I am actually kind of shocked and amazed at the general attitude of the people here, who decide to comment on the music and not say a word about the lyrics. Isn't this supposed to be a site that comments *lyrics*, not music? Then again I may be wrong. Forgive me everyone if that's the case. I'm stoned, remember? |
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| King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Great analysis, Griffinfuhrer. You omitted one line from your comment: "At paranoia's poison door" I've been racking my brains but I cannot figure out what it means. Some insight, anyone? And, yall, even though I agree that the line you mentioned is particularly weak, I don't think it's because of it pretentiousness. Rather, it's the opposite: the line is too pedestrian, too ordinary, in comparison with the rest of the song. It's the most "obvious" line in there, less poetically inspired than the rest of the lyrics |
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| Joe Jackson – Steppin Out Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is a song about having the courage to face the world. About leaving the warmth of the apartment and the glow of the TV behind, and realize that there is a whole world out there. About leaving behind your childish introversion, and having the guts of facing the outside world. It's also a song about a couple that decides to abandon their bickering, and decides that a night out is just what the doctor ordered. More aptly, it's about a person who is asking, begging even, his partner to come out with him into the outside world. Hmm, come to think of it, it's probably a gay anthem designed to inspire people to "come out". |
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| Steve Winwood – Higher Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No, not about God. About a romantic partner. It *could* be about God, but judging by this line, it's about romantic love, not religious love: "I could make the sun shine from pure desire" Sounds romantic rather than religious. Still, it could be about God. |
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| Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is easy. It's a song about semen. About the importance of holding it in, and of shooting it in the right direction when you, er, "come". Also, it reminds us that, in order to keep your sexual partner satisfied, it's important to delay one's own pleasure in order for your partner to achieve a higher plane of pleasure. |
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| The Beatles – Love Me Do Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is, my friends, a Love Song. A Song about Love, Love Me Do speaks of fidelity: "I'll always be true". This is about a person who is willing to engage in a mature, two-sided relationship. Note his manners: he is asking "*Please*, love me do". He is willing to offer true love, expecting the other person to be able to offer the same thing. But he's not demanding: he politely asks his partner to, please, do the same. Politely. This is indeed one of the Beatle's most mature lyrics, as it is about a relationship that can come only from maturity and understanding. P.S. I'm stoned. |
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| King Crimson – The Night Watch Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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death-jargon: I think you are way off the mark with your analysis. This song talks of a picture of 17th century Dutch society and the prosperity they now enjoy after their struggle for independence from Spain has ended: a period called the Dutch Golden Age. When I say picture, I mean it both literally and figuratively. The author is talking about a painting of Dutch people from theafforementioned era, that he can now appreciate "three hundred years" later. I believe the precise painting to be one called "The Nightwatch", more aptly named "The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq", by Rembrandt. As a listener, you cannot help but feel as if you were standing next to the author, contemplating a three-centuries old portrait of authentic "bourgeois" society as he describes the particular feelings of the people of the era: the smell of paint, the redbrick home, the Dutch respectability, the chance to live a peaceful life again. You are invaded with an overwhelming sense of awe at the quintessential bourgeioise of the people portrayed. The word that comes to mind is contentedness, not stagnance. The portrayed men are the creme-de-la-creme of their environment, a new and prosperous society in its Golden Age, riding high on the wave of the european Renaissance and considered leaders in trade, science and art. The painting itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(painting) More reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Golden_Age |
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