| Ed Sheeran – The A Team Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Class A team's obviously a reference to class A drugs - crack, heroin, coke etc. | |
| Laura Marling – Failure Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I have no idea if it's supposed to be Pete Doherty, but I think (if my memory is correct) she used to be quite influenced by him, there was a reference to it somewhere... In candle light there's the libertines vinyl playing on his shelf, but there was some other lyrical reference more specific to doherty, it's bugging me now... | |
| Los Campesinos! – We Are All Accelerated Readers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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''I think this is a dismissal of any suggestion of love. An attempted rallying cry for the lonely, because records and books and... well, not films, because films are rubbish, but things like that are far more dependable than any notion of a life partner. I hate meeting couples that make me feel like the only reason they're together is because it's easier that way, and because they can't bear to be alone.'' -gareth LC |
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| Los Campesinos! – Knee Deep at ATP Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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''A story based on my experiences of the United Sounds of ATP festival, weekend two. I met a really great person that I spent most of the Sunday with. We started speaking because of the band t-shirt I was wearing, which is pretty much the ideal 'in' I think. Basically the gist of it is once we'd both left the festival, I found out she had a boyfriend, and hadn't mentioned it. Which made me feel awful, and got me thinking that so long as I value people according to what bands they like I am making myself expendable. Because there will always be somebody who likes the same bands as me, but is vastly more attractive or can drive or is a less fussy eater. The title is ripped off from the Camera Obscura song, 'Knee Deep At The NPL', because one of the conversations I remember hearing her have was about that song, and my friend Pete's suggestion that it didn't exist. Naturally she was right. '' -Gareth LC |
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| Los Campesinos! – My Year in Lists Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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''The first verse of this is kind of a continuation of ‘…Doe Eyes’. It mentions living a love life through Royal Mail and how these methods of communication can drain anything of context, which obviously makes things problematic. It's also about how much I hate the New Year and how people react to it. I don't believe in New Year’s Resolutions. I believe in changing things when they need to be changed.'' -gareth LC |
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| Los Campesinos! – This is how you spell "HAHAHA I've destroyed the hopes and dreams of a generation of faux-romantics" Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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''Living my life through the internet, as I do, I'm aware of a lot of people who behave like the female character in this song. It's about my annoyance at the type of person who paints his or herself as a lost soul, or a poet, and spends their time cultivating a faux air of feyness or vulnerability which is essentially a method of seduction. The narrator in this is the male character from 'The International Tweexcore Underground', getting his shit together and dumping his annoying, posh girlfriend. I know it's a stupidly long title, but it acts as a good test to see which people are morons, depending on whether they reference it as being 'Fall Out Boy-esque' or 'Ballboy or Ten Grand-esque'. I like doing spoken word bits because then I'm not even pretending I think I can sing.'' -gareth LC |
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| Jose Vanders – new ride Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this reminds me loads of the nicest thing by kate nash! good though, it is. |
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| The Long Blondes – Once and Never Again Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| well, the bloke thing does make sense. he doesn't say 'i know how it feels to be a 19 year old GIRL' does he? he's sympathizing with her cos he thinks she could do better and that she should just have fun when she's that young- she doesn't need to tie herself to a boyfriend. he remembers what it was like to be young, it seems like a long time ago and maybe he wants to relive some lost youth with a one night stand, and maybe teach her how to act more her age. | |
| Alexisonfire – Happiness By The Kilowatt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i think this is about having everything you thought you wanted.. but it's still not right and doens't fully satisfy him because he's not happy within himself. he can't comprehend that everything what he's worked for hasn't made him feel fulfilled, so I think the right drapes, wrong heating bit means he's trying to rationalize and keep trying tp perfect the materialistic things and hoping thats what is making him feel like this. | |
| Imogen Heap – Speeding Cars Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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the papercuts, the cheating lovers the coffee's never strong enough I disagree with another post on here that said that this was a slap in the face to those who moan 24/7. I mean it's one interpratation, but I think the phrases have different meanings/ papercuts- little things that hurt a lot coffee not strong enough - the bad things that keep happening were never enough to wake him up and make him sober up to the real situation. |
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| Elle Milano – Girlscout Up Late Doing Her Homework Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ''You'll never get a guy 'til you gouge out your eyes.'' | |
| Cake Bake Betty – Jaws Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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got a man in a band? jamin? |
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| Cake Bake Betty – The Spine Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't really think CBB songs are meant to be interpreted, but in keeping with the theme of this site... ... it reminds me of someone who's always going out to clubs, getting gradually burntout and always waking up hungover, and going out again the next night. Then perhaps one day (a family occasion like a birthday) they take it easy, very peaceful and pure and relaxing with the innocent comfort of a kiss on the head. They get sucked into the old cycle again, but realise they've waited to long and are stuck in the same soulless existence. They hope someone else will look at them and realise there is a better, less ugly, life. |
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| Cake Bake Betty – 64 Little White Things Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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everytime I try and interpret a CBB song, I just give up and decicde to enjoy it as it is :P so I applaud you Denouement. everyone should go and buy the album SONGS ABOUT TEETH from infinitycat.com... FAN-BLOODY-TATSIC. I met her at a show once, she was so nice, she was working the merch stall herself, and still chatted to me for ages! |
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