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| Foals – 2 Trees Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Songs about donating blood, and things go a bit wrong: the person donates to much. I feel hospitals are a reccuring theme on the album |
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| Talking Heads – Air Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Tragically the song is absolutely right. Air can and does hurt you: oxygen is what makes you grow old! |
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| Los Campesinos! – A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters from Me to Charlotte Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This song picks up where "My Years In List" left off. The lead singer, Gareth, has said in the past how he was in a long distance relationship (brought up a lot on Hold on Now youngster) many times. The two, one of them being Charlotte, would send letters a lot to each other. I feel in this song Gareth is accepting that the relationship was always doomed, while at the same time reflecting on the tender moments between the two involving, er, bruises. |
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| The Drums – Best Friend Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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With all the songs about love, you hardly ever get good, serious songs about friendship. I'm suprised the Drums pulled it off so well, its not cheesy at all! Brillient album opener. |
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| Talking Heads – (Nothing But) Flowers Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I've always liked Byrne's different interpretations of paradise and heaven. I think here the narrator is just honest: he doesn't like this natural beauty, and he'll be damned if he's going to pretend to. Tbh, I think if I was in the world described here I would miss all the stuff we have now, and no amount of flowers would act as compensation.
I think this song may also be about how European and American cultures have built their own heaven around themselves, and filled it with conviniences that make the world around us like a paradise. We don't really need much more to perfect the manmade world around us.
Still, I suppose one man's treasure is another man's rubbish. I'm sure there are people who would rather live in the world Byrne describes than the Western "paradise". |
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| Los Campesinos! – Coda: A Burn Scar in the Shape of the Sooner State Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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For me, the "i can't believe i chose the mountains every time you chose the sea" doesn't have any deep, hidden meaning. It just represents the utter despair that a girl he's singing to always chose something different to what he chose, on the scale of mountains and the sea. This huge difference of opinions meant that they could never be together. |
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| Los Campesinos! – Straight in at 101 Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I know that talking head reference is probably a reference to the TV series, but I prefer the idea that one of my favourite bands is singing about another of my favourite bands :) |
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| The Clash – Four Horsemen Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This is about one of the Clash's biggest influences: the Sex Pistols, and how they destroyed themselves. The "four horsemen" are Jonny Rotten, Steve Jones, Sid Vicious and Paul Cook. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – The Everlasting Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think this song is about the growing gaps between classes in society (the gap that grows between our lives, the gap our parents never had). The first verse is about people who choose to ignore this problem (stop those thoughts control your mind, replace the things that you despise, oh you're old I hear you say),the last line is a reference to an excuse someone might make. The second verse is about people, probably like Nicky Wire, who can't stop thinking about it. Thinking about people who are just like them, suffering around the world. The chorus may be about when they thought there may have been a solution (Communism?), but they now realise the problem is "Everlasting".
I don't know, I'm probably wrong. Great song though. Didn't really like the album as much as Everything Must Go or anything before Richey's disappearance.
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