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| Built to Spill – Kicked It in the Sun Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[ckeaney:15201] I like most of your interpretation, but I feel like finding "the same things," is about inviting over his ex, having a kind-of date night. She hopes she'll find something different, he knows she won't and hopes that will be enough. |
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| The Apples in Stereo – Silver Chain Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I don't know what the song means, but I love the instrumentals and lyrics. If anybody could decipher the final lyric that I could only put a question mark as I'd love them for it. :) |
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| Beulah – I've Been Broken (I've Been Fixed) Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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The lyrics are wrong, but, at any rate, I feel like this is getting over a relationship and accepting that your ex girlfriend would rather date someone you consider to be a fool than you. |
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| Beulah – Lay Low for the Letdown Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I think this song is about reflecting on the so-called revolution after the Cold War ended. Shit barely changed, nothing seems that new, and now we have nobody (previously communists) to blame for all the bullshit in the world. |
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| Modest Mouse – Broke Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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What I want to know is how you feel about your post over 7 years later... cmon man. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The lyrics are wrong in places... it's not "we are frightened and we're scared," it's "they are" and "they're" scared. This song isn't about the music industry from above, it's about the music industry from below. I am a huge Pumpkins fan and have read about all the things they went through that I could find.
The song is basically about, like yvesp said, the Pumpkins being viewed as careerists rather than artists. The Pumpkins put out Gish on a label named Coraline, which was just a sub-label of Virgin (major label). To the untraind eye, Coraline looked like an indie label, but truthfully, it wasn't.
I'm not going to go lyric by lyric, as that's getting WAY too into a song that is pretty abstract. It's basically about how other bands, and their fans, didn't really give them indie cred for their music. Billy wrote the song as basically a "fuck you, no matter what we do you'll never respect our music." I pointed out the wrong lyric, as it's one of my favorites. "Beware all the angels with their wings glued on, cause deep down, they are frightened and they're scared, if you don't stare," I think this is a slight towards women. Not that I'm sexist, or that I feel the lyric is sexist, but you know, girls who act like angels when it's all a facade.
Awesome song, my favorite ever, this one got me into music. |
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| Beulah – Maroon Bible Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think it's about getting a hotel room with a hooker and feeling jaded about humanity after the experience, so he looks toward the "purity" of religion. |
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| Soundgarden – Zero Chance Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Probably my most far-out conclusion of what a song *might* be about, but I'm going to have a guess and say this is a song written about social alienation, and specifically, the movie "Falling Down." The one where Michael Douglas goes on a rampage of sorts after losing his job because he thinks it's his only option left...
"They say if you look hard,
you'll find your way back home,
born without a friend,
bound to die alone"
The entire movie he keeps talking about how he's "going home," and the whole movie people are fucking him over and sending him over the edge, his own family doesn't want to see him. No friends, and he will die alone.
In the next verse he's thinking about how he just wants to see his kids. Nobody knows he lost his job besides his landlord, and his wife is on a high-horse denying him the right to see them just because he can't make payments.
"Zero chance of ever turning this around"
At one point he makes a phone call to her, and he tells his wife he can't turn this around anymore because he is already passed the halfway point.
"Why doesn't anyone believe in loneliness
Stand up and everyone will see your holiness"
If people didn't judge someone just for being alone he might not have been driven to what he does in the film. On the cover, he's standing up in sort of a heroic stance, kind of like an underground hero for the common man.
Anyway, really out there explanation to the song, but that's why we come to the site, right? Seems like a movie Cornell would like, too. |
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| Pixies – Hey Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This is about pregnancy mainly with the overlapping theme of sex (which goes with pregnancy). "Been tryin to meet you," the baby wants to meet it's parents. There must a devil between the baby and the kid, because the dad is afraid of having a baby (Black Francis loves Eraserhead), and the mother is thinking about an abortion. The baby wants to know where she's going, not really thinking about her baby's livelihood. The chain is the umbilical cord. |
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| Pixies – Dead Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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You can make up whatever kinda shit you want, but there's no way in hell he is saying gimme head. You're suffocating and you need a good shed makes sense. |
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| Smog – Goldfish Bowl Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Two people moved in together because they thought they were in love. Looks like it got too close for comfort and one of them kept projecting onto the other, after witnessing the more intimate ways their partner lived. And it's driving them away. |
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| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Honestly I think it's about a guy moving from the country to the city to share his music, like Bobby Dylan. He can't shake his country roots, which maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, it could be an ever-changing mood. No matter what, he will always be from West Virginina, not New York City. |
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| Yo La Tengo – Sudden Organ Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think it's about waiting, watching, for death. Everyone is at least a little worried about it, even the people who say they don't fear death. People can become fine with not doing anything... but in the end they'll wake up and realize they've been sitting around, "watching the days go by" and they hate it.
You step on the days as they go by like ants, like they're worthless. We'll know everything after awhile, in the end. How will it stop? How will I die? Where's the sign? When will it be mine? My turn to die?
Beautiful song. :) |
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| The Dead Milkmen – Take Me To The Specialist Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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About America's drug culture and how pills are used to solve all our problems. When Nixon was in the white house, America was SUPER anti-drug, he enacted the drug scheduling act, which is what the guy means when he says "You wouldn't do this when Nixon was in the white house" |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Soothe Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It's not "almost break you up" - there's clearly no "up". And he is definitely saying "I don't wish you luck" which I think means, "I'll miss you, I won't wish you luck in killing yourself, I forgive you there is no need to do this, I don't want you to go" |
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| Modest Mouse – Long Distance Drunk Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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And long distance drunk, to be a drunk that really goes the distance with his addiction. Man I wish you could edit your comments on this website... ugh. |
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| Modest Mouse – Long Distance Drunk Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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And I forgot to touch on it, "hang it up now or never" meant to me, at least, that you have to quit drinking now before it totally consumes your life. |
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| Modest Mouse – Long Distance Drunk Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It probably has more meaning than just being a Bukowski story. It struck me as a song about being an alcoholic, to the point where it really starts to have an effect on your life. "Someone calls you on the telephone you want to be by yourself, and all alone," becoming antisocial. Not making any sense with his actions because he's always drunk. |
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| Modest Mouse – Cowboy Dan Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Always thought it was about an old cowboy who was too ground into his old ways to adjust to industrialization of wherever he's living. So he turns to alcohol... which always leads to trouble. |
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| Modest Mouse – Lounge (Closing Time) Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I always thought it was about a girl who was cheating on her boyfriend, and doing drugs with the guy she was cheating on him with.
"She was going with a cinematographer" (what he thinks)
"Everyone knew he was really a pornographer" (everyone else knows the truth, that he's fucking Isaac's(?) girl. pornographer is probably just a clever rhyme)
I'm not gonna go through all the lyrics but you catch the drift. |
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| Yo La Tengo – Damage Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Not having much to do on the weekend after a breakup... fucking awesome description man... really. |
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| Modest Mouse – Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Besides the rather obvious varied part (before he starts repeating "It's all nice on ice, alright"), I just wanted to comment on the end.
I think when he is saying "It's all nice on ice, alright" he is saying two things: One: that Jesus walking on water is nothing special, because walking on ice is walking on water. Two: When you die they put you on ice and that's it, and that's fine, because life is quite enough of a ride to not need an 'after'. |
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