| The Used – The Taste Of Ink Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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| The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| She's in a bar, holding a drink - possibly literally a tonic water or a gin and tonic, or perhaps he is just using "tonic" as a generic word to describe her drink. Tonic can also mean medicine or cure, and alcohol is just that to many people. Plus, tonic water glows and shines under UV rays in bars, making it stand out. The way he describes it, to me, seems like she's holding her glass in front of her like a religious cross, warding off evil. Holding it up in front of her chest/face. possibly even toasting him or raising her glass to him from a distance. Such a poetic and descriptive way of describing something small. | |
| The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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As pointed out by other users, the song is obviously about bumping into an ex in a bar and drunkenly going off half-cocked. I think the beauty of this song is in its honesty and how untraditional it is, as a pop song. The structure, the lyrics, the story and the perspective from which it's told... the details are almost poetic. Apparently the singer/songwriter of the band wanted to be a writer at first, and I think you can tell. The way he doesn't shy away from portraying himself in a bad light is also somehow endearing and just brutally honest. One of my favourite songs of all time, without a doubt. Really powerful. |
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| The Airborne Toxic Event – All I Ever Wanted Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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200DiscChanger's lyrics are far more correct than the posted ones. This is an excellent song - I'm going to see them play live next month. I bought the tickets on the strength of Sometime Around Midnight and I'm really glad that I did now. This song is incredible. |
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| Adele – Someone Like You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is just indescribably beautiful and sad. | |
| Dashboard Confessional – Stolen Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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| Counting Crows – Round Here Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Fantastic song. It's been in so many TV shows and films... even been referenced by the Gaslight Anthem in their song High and Lonesome.... "Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand / I always kinda sorta wished I looked like Elvis" |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Film Noir Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Forgot to say that the first few lines remind me of Mary Lou by Springsteen. “Mary Lou” was about a girl who’s mesmerized by movie stars and transfers that fascination to her real life by dating guys who are only out for good times that last about as long as your average motion picture. | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – The Backseat Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Cowboys all go crazy in the heat" possibly a reference to Lorrie Morgan's Crazy From The Heat, a country song from the 60s/70s? The backseats of burnt out cars, the ferris wheel, Santa Ana etc are Springsteen references... Brilliant song. Anthemic almost |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – The '59 Sound Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Marley's Chains refers to A Christmas Carol by Dickens. In A Christmas Carol, Jacob Marley was a greedy, mean man who ended up wearing chains made of gold and moneyboxes when he died and returned as a ghost. The metaphor is that all the bad you do in your life will come back to haunt you into eternity and 'be your chains' when you die. I assume Brian references it here to mean, "I hope you had no regrets" or "I hope you aren't haunted by anything, that you are resting in peace" or similar. The song was written about a friend of the singer's and his girlfriend who died in a car accident whilst the band were playing live up the road from the scene of the crash ("And I wonder were you scared when the metal hit the glass / See I was playing a show down the road when your spirit left your body") "Did you hear the '59 sound coming through my Grandfather's radio..." - The '59 sound is the music of the late 1950s. A plane carrying Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens crashed in 1959, and that time has since been known as "The Day The Music Died" (see the song American Pie). They were at the top of their careers and invented this whole new sound that was so big in the late 50s and early 60s, which the singer no doubt heard on his grandfather's radio as a child (possibly with his deceased friend) and is remembering now as he wonders which song the friend heard as he died. "Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over? Did you hear your favorite song one last time?" - at the funeral presumably. This song is a dichotomy - very sad subject matter but one of the most upbeat, uplifting songs on the CD. Incredible. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Red in the Morning Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I can't decide if this is about a girl or a hometown. They're from NJ but I suppose Virginia is more poetic as it is also a girl's name. Hmm. | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – Old White Lincoln Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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ikickedagirl - I suspect that driving a car through the roof of the sky up above indifferent stars is not supposed to be interpreted literally. Great song, seems like a lament on a girl he once knew. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Miles Davis and the Cool Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Great analysis g4dget. This is one of my favourites by the Gaslight Anthem. It's epic, and full of wonderful little melodies and phrases and references, most of which have been pointed out... The Cool was an era or style of Miles Davis the jazz musician (although brian fallon doesn't like to call him Jazz and considers him to be soul - http://www.pastepunk.com/features.php?v=271 |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Meet Me by the River's Edge Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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LOTS of Springsteen in this track! Good song. "Pounding sweat beneath these wheels..." - Springsteen's "The Promised Land" is a story of a guy 'Working all day in my daddy’s garage, Driving all night chasing some mirage' "No surrender my Bobby Jean" - references Springsteen songs Bobby Jean ("goodbye Bobby Jean") and No Surrender ("No retreat baby, no surrender") "Our father's factories marked our cars / While Eden burned against the stars" - small factory town, think Eden is a reference like "We are the Boys from Little Eden" in "Blue Jeans and White T Shirts" to Springsteen's Sandy "Meet me by the River's edge / We're going to wash these sins away" - see Springsteen's Racing In The Street ("ride to the sea and wash these sins off our hands"), and Meeting Across The River from Born to Run. He seems to be homesick in the part with the Hollywood sign and not being sure if he can ever really go home. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – I Coulda Been a Contender Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The title is a reference to a famous line in the 50s film On The Waterfront with Marlon Brando. Terry: You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. The whole thing is a maritime metaphor for a relationship. Atlantis was a lost city under the sea according to Greek myth and legend. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – High Lonesome Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Great song. The references I noticed have all been picked up above! It's a very story-telling sort of song, in the style of a lot of folk and country, and especially in the style of Springsteen. The chorus really represents the band for me in a lot of ways - they seem to yearn for the time of old black and white movies, big old cars, outlaws and cowboys, bands... | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – Great Expectations Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is one of my favourites, if not my favourite, GA song. The above interpretations are all good but I thought I'd chuck my 2p in... The title is obviously a nod to the famous novel but I don't think the song itself has anything to do with Dickens. It's just a title that has come into common usage and can be applied to a personal situation. "Mary this station..." - There are many Marys in Springsteen's work. Could be Mary from O Mary Don't You Weep due to the Sad Songs being played... "They burned up the diner..." - again, possibly a Springsteen reference. "The diner was shuttered and boarded" from Long Walk Home or more likely Girls In Their Summer Clothes which has lines "Tonight I'm gonna burn this town down... Frankie's Diner's old friend on the edge of town". "Licking young boys' blood from her claws" - could reference a number of examples of evil characters in film, fiction and lore. "Her hair was raven..." - women are often described as 'raven-haired' or 'a raven-haired beauty' in poetry and folk songs, this seems to tip its hat to that particularly Irish tradition. "I saw tail lights last night" - I presume this is in a dream where his wife/someone else drives away from him, leaving him stood staring at tail lights in true cinematic tradition. Estella Havisham is from Great Expectations the novel. "Humming a song from 1962" - a reference to Bob Seger's "Night Moves," which has the line "Started humming a song from 1962." As mentioned above, the 1962 song Seger is referring to in "Night Moves" is "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes. "We were always waiting for something to happen" - I interpret this as how people can go their whole lives not really living, just passing the time, idling by from day to day, not taking any chances or doing anything fantastic, just waiting for the punch line, the chorus or main storyline to begin. This is sort of supported by the lines "I worried and stalled every night of my life, Better safe than making the party". I suppose you could also interpret it as they were doomed in the relationship and just waiting for the inevitable event that would end it all, something will happen and that will be the end of it. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Film Noir Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I thought the questionable line was "I lost so much blood in the fall, and I / I lit a fire that wouldn't go out..." I also thought it was "you gotta figure it out boys / and suffer the rain / and the fools in the night / and the heat of the day" I think the background lyrics go "time time ticking away... all over your face"? Moving on to what it means - the definition of Film Noir from Wikipedia is "Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations". I think that pretty much describes the song! "You're sugar and spice, and everything nice." could be based on that nursery rhyme "What Are Little Boys Made Of?", or possibly James Brown's "I Feel Good". "Monroe hips" may be just referencing Marylin Monroe, but most likely is inspired by the song "Hold On" by Tom Waits which goes, "With charcoal eyes and Monroe hips, she took that California trip". "Young boy's pride" possibly a ref to Ben E King's song "Young boy blues"? "I let my pride be my guide and then I keep those tears inside". "Don't you tell me no more lies, you lied all the time" strikes a chord with me as echoing Springsteen's eternal theme of dreams that aren't realised being lies (as seen in The River, A Promised Land, etc). This is just my interpretation though. These are all guesses and assumptions. Brian never talks about song meanings! |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think some of the above lyrics are wrong. Here's my interpretation: We are the boys from Little Eden We are the heart of Saturday night Drink from the fountains off the fireworks Sweat and bone for a better life => 'Boys from Little Eden' references the Springsteen song "4th July, Asbury Park", also known as "Sandy". His line is "Sandy, the fireworks are hailin' over Little Eden tonight". GA are actually from New Brunswick, NJ. The heart of Saturday night is in a Tom Waits song as mentioned above, but I take this to mean something like 'life of the party'. Not sure if line3 is exactly right but think this is prob just a reference to a working guy going out and watching fireworks on 4th July, trying to get the girl, as per the Springsteen song. GA reference Springsteen a lot, they're clearly big fans and from the same area I believe. We like our choruses sung together We like our arms in our brothers' arms Call every girl we ever met Maria But only love Virginia's heart ==> An image of a group of guys having a good night out in their hometown, singing and linking arms. GA do call most girls Maria, not sure if this is an American/Irish thing or a reference to Springsteen's Maria or NJ's Madam Marie the fortuneteller or maybe some other Maria. She seems to be 'every girl' like Springsteen's Rosalita, the generic girl in a load of GA songs including High Lonesome and Say I Won't (Recognize). In early versions, GA's 'Maria' was called 'Angelina'. I presume 'only love Virginia's heart' refers to the American state of Virginia and is a play on words with the girl's name. And we sing with our heroes thirty-three rounds per minute We're never going home util the sun says we're finished And I'll love you forever if I ever love at all Wild hearts, blue jeans, & white t-shirts With wild hearts, blue jeans, & white t-shirts ==> 33 revolutions per minute is the speed that a vinyl record spins at. Not sure if 'rounds' is an Americanisation of this or if it's a play on words relating to dancing 'in a round'. I can't decide if the second line is 'till the sun says' or 'till the song says'. "I'll love you forever" is another Springsteen reference - the final line in 'Sandy' is 'love me tonight and I promise I'll love you forever'. I think the last two lines just give an image of being young and free and having a good time with your friends, chasing girls and being innocent. Some things, babe, they never told you Some things papa doesn't like Spend a lifetime just to get over You always said my mama tried ==> Not sure about this bit... maybe to do with losing innocence. 'You always said my mama tried' seems to be a reference to Merle Haggard's country song. So tonight I'll call you from a fourth-street payphone But I'll sleep on the beach if I ain't got a ride Someday I'll buy you that house on Cookman We could sleep on the beach all night Sleep on the beach if we ain't got a ride Sleep on the beach all night Sleep on the beach all night Sleep on the beach if we ain't got a ride... ==> Another reference to 'Sandy' by Springsteen - "Now the greasers they tramp the streets or get busted for sleeping on the beach all night". As above, Cookman / 4th Street / beach references a specific area near Asbury Lanes. This is a great song, even if a lot of it is 'borrowed' from elsewhere! I love the feeling and image it conjures up. |
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