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| The Basics – With This Ship Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I'm thinking the same, the relationship's going under, and perhaps the other person in the relationship is listening too much to other people rather than her partner, and that's frustrating him.
HAHAHA. Ship. RelationSHIP. Don't know if that's on purpose or not, but I like it xD |
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| The Middle East – Jesus Came To My Birthday Party Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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From an interview in Drum Media:
On people's surprise at lead single Jesus Came to My Birthday Part having overt Christian overtones:
'We don't really care- I mean that's a pretty silly song. I think probably one of the best things about producing music is that people can think what they want about it- they can make good interpretations and they can make bad interpretations- so it doesn't really matter to me. I guess that's a part of our lives, and when you're writing songs it sometimes just comes out in one way or another. As far as I'm concerned it's not that big a deal.' |
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| Paul Dempsey – Have You Fallen Out Of Love? Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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From Dempsey interview: "There are some particularly hardcore religious types out there who basically can't wait for the end of the world to come so they can go and live happily ever after with their particular god, and all the bad people (who picked the wrong god , damn!) can go and suffer in their jocks for eternity. They knock on my door every weekend and pitch this idea like the salesmen they are. I simply wonder: can you find so little to love about the beautiful and precious planet we live on that you would rather subscribe to this violent and totally hypothetical idea? I live safe in my won view that there is no afterlife. I mean... prove it. I accept that we're all entitled to our own views, but I see no reason to believe otherwise. Just like I see no reason to believe there's a big pink elephant orbiting beyond Pluto... I just haven't seen it yet." |
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| Paul Dempsey – Bird in a Basement Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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An interview in Jmag of Paul Dempsey: "It's about words as a powerful means of escape and renewal. The somewhat whimsical idea that, if somebody gave you a small wad of cash and a plane ticket and toppped it off by saying the greatest thing you've ever heard in your entire life, then that would be all you'd need to go and live happily ever after. The 'grandmother's purse' is a childhood memory, the secret repository from which springs all things good and mysterious in the world. I thought that addressing someone as 'living thing' was funny, your name or species doesn't matter, just the fact that you're somehow miraculously alive." |
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| Paul Dempsey – Take Us To Your Leader Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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From Jmag+Paul Dempsey: "I was trying to describe the experience of being in a really big city at night where there's a buzz and electricity in the air. The feeling is that anything could happen, anything seems possible if we go out and run around and explore. The tables could be turned in so many different ways..." |
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| Paul Dempsey – Fast Friends Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Paul Dempsey+Jmag: "One possible vision of hell would be an endless cocktail party where people discuss art and music and film and politics and sport and whatever else... and opinions and personal tastes are presented as facts in an endless game of charming and amiable one-upmanship. I think we've all visited this place once or twice." |
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| Paul Dempsey – Safety In Numbness Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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From Dempsey in Jmag: "I read (Infinte Jest by David Foster-Wallace) for the first time a few years ago, and then read everything else he'd every written. I missed his writing and I missed the characters. Its so huge and so vast, I feel like I know those people and I missed them. I ended up writing 'Safety in Numbness' inspired by a particular passage." |
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| Paul Dempsey – Bats Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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From Jmag+Dempsey: "Angels and saints are supposed to represent beings in a state of purity and perfection... which is obviously completely out of whack with reality. Nobody and nothing is or can be perfect. I think it's better and more helpful to accept and embrace some flaws. I liked the idea of an 'average' angel (something that's supposed to be so holy and special being just 'average') or a misbehaving saint sitting down the end of the bed nursing a hellish hangover, comtemplating all the stupid actions of the night before and telling themselves they will try to be better." |
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| Paul Dempsey – Out The Airlock Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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From an interview of Paul Dempsey in Jmag: "This whole song is built out of typical scenes from old suspence thrillers. The hero of the story is always persecuted and chased, put through hell. And when he finally makes it home his friends or his lover never believe what he's trying to tell them, they think he's making it all up, or that he's lost his mind, or he's crying wolf. The viewer can never tear themselves away until the hero is finally vindicated... which he always is... except in this song!" |
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| Paul Dempsey – Ramona Was A Waitress Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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From the mouth of Mr Dempsey from a Jmag interview: "So this guy walks into a bar... and he sits down to have a stiff drink and he gets locked in conversation with this waitress who is actually like a 'human version 2.0' or something like that, and they start talking about love and life and death and all sorts of serious crap, except the conversation kinda starts to fall apart a bit because he's really neurotic and worried about mortality and the meaning of life etc. and she just isn't really on the same wavelength because she's like a semi-artifical intelligence in a semi-biological body and she just kinda 'upgrades' and never really has to die and... I don't know what it means but it feels right to me." |
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| Sugar Army – Building Castles Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Sounds like the dried up Australian version of the American dream at the end of WWII, when everyone wanted the latest gadgets, two kids and a white picket fence, and everyone had to be better than their neighbours. They were building unrealistic expectations of themselves, ie, building castles in the sky. |
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| Dappled Cities Fly – Fire Fire Fire Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Seems to me this song is about a guy who may/may not have been in love with someone, he had an opportunity to take it further (ie 'dance in the fire' = make love) but decided not to, he 'could have been there' but is not. Looking back now, he regrets this decision ('i regret the choice that I made') to spurn this would-be lover, maybe because she wasn't interesting enough, she wasn't 'firey' enough, or he wasn't attracted to her (didn't ignite the fires of passion perhaps?). Instead he 'burns inside and alone', he has nobody and also likely has no sex. In short, he longs for a relationship that had an opportunity to happen, but didn't happen because of a choice made by him, probably because of initial disinterest in the lover. |
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| Sugar Army – Tongues In Cheeks Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Just checked Sugar Army's facebook, and there's a link to the youtube video which has the correct lyrics posted there. So it should be all good now. |
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| Sugar Army – Acute Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i always thought the lyrics here went
We are all the same, we are, we are all INSANE, we are.
you can really hear it on the choir part (least i think so) |
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| Sugar Army – Parallels Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Be the best rat that you can, scavage friendships just don't be a man
Be the best rat that you can, scavage friendships just don't be a man
Be the best rat that you can, scavage friendships just don't be a man
Why don't you go rob a crook?
Why don't you go rob a crook?
You missed some other stuff there... just being picky :P |
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| Sugar Army – That's A Damn Fine Cliche Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I knew those parts weren't quite right!
And I agree with you there :D, the spoken word part is an awesome contrast to the rest of the song, and a standout on the album |
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| Sugar Army – Tongues In Cheeks Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I've updated the lyrics, but obviously there's still stuff missing.
The hardest song on the album to make out (and we know that's saying something :P)
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| Sugar Army – No Need For Lovers Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think this song is about the 'wheelie bin killers' in Perth, the ones who bashed a girl and hid her body in a wheelie bin. Seems an odd topic for a song... |
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