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| The Decemberists – A Cautionary Song Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Right, MorrisStephenson, but the whole point I think is to draw attention to the bizarre contrast between what sounds like a light-hearted song with its pretty nauseating subject matter. You laugh at the end because that's where the point is made most cuttingly. I'm talking about people laughing at the graphic rape scenes, which only makes sense if you are an actual pirate. |
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| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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LAL's "the girl who died with me" does not necessarily imply that the mother literally died. Instead, it is a metaphorical death -- the mother died inside when her daughter did not survive through her first morning -- which explains how LAL can haunt her fifteen years later (I don't think ghosts can be haunted). |
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| The Smiths – Ask Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is about being in a romantic relationship with someone and you think they want to do you up the butt but they are too shy to ask but you want to let them but you don't want to be like begging for it so you are like "just ask and I will let you."
It is a secret that I like this song. |
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| Morrissey – America Is Not The World Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It is not very responsible or respectful to record a song like this when we are at WAR.
I wonder how Mr. Smith would feel if somebody said bad things about BRITAIN.
Now who is the "fat pig." |
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| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is not a happy love song. It's about a privelaged rich kid in Victorian England, who had his way with some poor lower class girl. Of course he is blind to this, and lies to himself that it is real love.
The title is ironic; he is only pretending to go through with the double suicide, and is really planning on shoving her off so that word doesn't get back to his parents.
Sociopath. |
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| Elton John – Tower of Babel Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Babel was in the Old Testament, so Jesus can't save those guys by definition. Unless everyone pre-Christ was automatically saved. I forget. |
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| The Decemberists – A Cautionary Song Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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One thing I like about the Decemberists is that they put really horrible stuff in their lyrics without trivializing them. One thing I hate is that the fans don't often get the "without trivializing" part. At one show, I heard frat boys laugh at this song. What is wrong with you lunatics?
Colin needs to either stop writing about rape (the new album has at least one rape song) or start lecturing audience members who make light of the subject. |
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| The Smiths – Unloveable Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song is great, but more amusing than depressing. It's a deliberately exaggerated (think "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"...Morrissey never took himself too seriously) sendup of the mopey, angst-ridden melodramatics that characterize most of his young fans. I can't help but chuckle as I picture all the 13-year-old kids who listen to this song and take it at face value. You have to give props to a guy who can ridicule his audience and only gain its increased respect. |
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| Jethro Tull – Bungle In The Jungle Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song is very controversial. The topic of the song--anonymous gay sex between men of different races--would have raised enough eyebrows as it was, but when Jethro paints Jesus as a fellow homosexual at the end, he's asking for trouble. While the Christian right would have liked to ban this record, I'm glad it's been allowed to stick around. Mr. Tull tackles some interesting questions trying to resolve his own homosexuality with his faith. |
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| The Beatles – When I'm Sixty-Four Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song is pretty frequently misinterpreted. It's actually addressed to record companies who would wine and dine the young Fab Four. Paul is concerned that, when the Beatles become older and are no longer moving the vinyl like they used to, the label will drop them like a withered old hag. Fortunately, John's murder guaranteed lifelong fame and fortune for all of them, and we now know that the answer is a resounding "yes." |
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| Led Zeppelin – Going to California Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is another one of Zep's Lord of the Rings songs. California, as the land over the sea to the West (relative to the UK), stands in for Numenor, the land to which the Eldar, the Ring-Bearer, and the Ishtari return at the end of the Second Age.
Specifically, it is from Samwise's point of view, as he nears the end of his life, smoking his Shire leaf and drinking his Hobbit wine as an old Hobbit, Frodo long since passed. His heart aches as he thinks of leaving his grandchildren and (of course) his garden, yet he remembers the "girl out there" (Galadriel) who will be waiting for him in the West. She is also the "Queen without a king," and she has "never been born" as Men and Hobbits are due to her Elven race. |
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| Sting – Englishman In New York Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is an excellent rock song. Unfortunately, the great jazz sax solo is followed up by a few bars of an atrocious synthetic drum beat. This was not part of the original song or recording, and was added during production.
If you have the mp3, then convert it to wav, or rip from CD to wav, and use your favorite audio editor to remove those drums. You'll notice that the crash cymbal right before the drum solo lines up exactly with the one right afterward, which is the smoking gun. Now encode back as mp3 or burn back to CD.
Now you can listen to it without your ears bleeding. Enjoy! |
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| The Police – Message In A Bottle Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is a song about the distant future, when Earth has become too polluted and ravaged by nuclear holocaust to support human life. Of the billions of people of the overpopulated planet, a few brave souls step forward as volunteers in the search for a new home.
Sting is one of them.
After half a year of travelling at nearly the speed of light, he touches down on a barren, lifeless world. Living on what slim provisions he brought with him, and with a ship too damaged to return, he despairs. His only option is to send an SOS back to Earth, warning Mankind that this planet will not do.
Back on Earth, latent radiation has prevented them from hearing back from any of the scouts they sent out. They never get Sting's message, and with the oxygen supply running out, the entire population of Earth blasts off, headed to Sting's hopeless planet.
One year later, after never having heard word back from Earth, Sting awakes to see streaks of light in the early predawn sky, as billions of escape pods enter the atmosphere. He is no longer alone, but with Mankind doomed to die out in a manner of months, does it really matter? |
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