| Beat Happening – Tiger Trap Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| According to the Shield around the K documentary, Tiger Trap had been around playing and stuff and then Calvin thought they had broken up, and since they hadn't recorded anything he stole the name for this song and then found out they hadn't actually broken up but, you know, the song was already there. That, and you know, Calvin & Hobbes. | |
| The Mountain Goats – The Mess Inside Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"looked hard for what we'd lost. it was painful to admit it, but we couldn't find a thing." This kills me. I feel like those two lines sum it up. This song also feels like an early version of what became the "Tallahassee" album, with the metaphor of a broken house and a broken relationship. Mm. |
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| The Silver Jews – Party Barge Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The line about sleeping in the park and "Chicken fried pigeon" makes me think this song is about a bunch of bums partying on this makeshift raft. I'm sure it's not really about that at all, but it pleases my mind. | |
| Why? – Good Friday Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's like a weird cultural divide...those kids who grew up going to Showbiz and those who only know it as Chuck E Cheese. Anyway, this song destroys me in the worst way. The sick, horrifying existence of memory on all of the best things that are now completely untouchable. | |
| The Silver Jews – Inside the Golden Days of Missing You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Tis no question, Thahepcat, only the gospel truth. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think Ben Gibbard has finally lost it. Plans was hinting at it, but if this is any indication of what Narrow Stairs is going to sound like (especially lyrically) then it may be safe to say that Ben Gibbard has forgotten how to write decent songs. | |
| Okkervil River – (Shannon Wilsey on the) Starry Stairs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I kind of wish this was on the album instead of "Savannah Smiles," but you know, I trust their judgment and in a little while I'll probably love "Savannah Smiles." And a lot of the time it's really, really cool when bands have really outstanding b-sides. | |
| The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Someone goes away leaving someone (or being left by someone) in the process (or is leaving to get away from it). Comes back with nostalgia, misses so-and-so, everything has changed, the city, the people, nothing is familiar and time keeps stretching on. Life is sadly transitory and nothing ever stays in its place for long. | |
| The Silver Jews – Self-Ignition Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I kind of really wish that this was on "American Water," because it's pretty much one of the greatest B-sides of all time. | |
| Guided by Voices – Huffman Prairie Flying Field Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song along with GBV closing with "Don't Stop Now" at their last live show is perhaps the most perfect way they could have gone out. | |
| Jawbreaker – Sluttering (May 4th) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I really don't know if I can think of a better song for this kind of break-up. "Ugly and forever," like Blake says. Maybe the ultimate song for the dumped, fully of bitter jealousy, mistrust, anger, fear, etc. I don't know if it's exactly about a couple bound to get married, maybe the guy thought she was a girl he could marry and she was sort of, well, you know. You get fucked over and this is what's leftover. Pretty straightforward. | |
| Art Brut – Pump Up The Volume Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Maybe some music is better than making out. | |
| Prince – When You Were Mine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love the Boyracer version of this song. | |
| Jens Lekman – You Are the Light (By Which I Travel Into This and That) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"P.K. was in the precinct house, using his one phone call to dedicate a song to Tammy, for she was the light by which he traveled into this and that." -David Berman, from his poem "Governors of Sominex" from his book "Actual Air." So not only does Jens Lekman sample music, he samples writing too! Not to knock the guy, I think it's really cool that he sampled DC Berman. |
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| Sunset Rubdown – The Mending of the Gown Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This whole song feels like a silent movie or a play being put on in a house of mirrors. Fucking in-cred-ible | |
| The Weakerthans – Relative Surplus Value Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One of Samson's more straightforward songs, this one seems to be about a big business man whose dubious tactics (probably cutting wages, outsourcing, and laying off workers in favour of personal gain) have caught up with him. The song paints this guy just like anyone else, makes him a completely sympathetic character. And maybe he isn't a total bastard, but his punishment is eminent. The girl throwing a dime in his lap is a wonderful bit of irony that endears us to this guy and by the end, when he has nowhere to go, no money, and everything is ruined he still has someone he can reluctantly call to pick him up. | |
| The Weakerthans – Utilities Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One of John K's best songs and the version on "Reunion Tour" is so frustrating! The studio version from the "Help: A Day in the Life" comp is perfectly fine and I wish they'd just kept it. Sad. | |
| Bright Eyes – I Must Belong Somewhere Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This sounds exactly like another song. I'm not sure if it's another Bright Eyes song or what, but that melody sounds jacked from somewhere. | |
| The Silver Jews – Smith & Jones Forever Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem I wonder if this has anything to do with that. "According to Gettier, there are certain circumstances in which one does not have knowledge, even when all of the above conditions are met. Gettier proposed two thought experiments, which have come to be known as "Gettier cases", as counterexamples to the classical account of knowledge. One of the cases involves two men, Smith and Jones, who are awaiting the results of their applications for the same job. Each man has ten coins in his pocket. Smith has excellent reasons to believe that Jones will get the job and, furthermore, knows that Jones has ten coins in his pocket (he recently counted them). From this Smith infers, "the man who will get the job has ten coins in his pocket." However, Smith is unaware that he has ten coins in his own pocket. Furthermore, Smith, not Jones, is going to get the job. While Smith has strong evidence to believe that Jones will get the job, he is wrong. Smith has a justified true belief that a man with ten coins in his pocket will get the job; however, according to Gettier, Smith does not know that a man with ten coins in his pocket will get the job, because Smith's belief is "...true in virtue of the number of coins in Smith's pocket, while Smith does not know how many coins are in Smith's pocket, and bases his belief...on a count of the coins in Jones's pocket, whom he falsely believes to be the man who will get the job." |
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| of Montreal – The Past Is a Grotesque Animal Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is without a doubt the most powerful song Of Montreal has ever created. | |
| of Montreal – The Past Is a Grotesque Animal Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is without a doubt the most powerful song Of Montreal has ever created. | |
| Guided by Voices – Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The moment where this song shoots into outer space ("Ohhhhh Mesh Gear Fox") is my absolute favorite part of any Guided by Voices song. This is a great, great song. |
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| Wilco – Spiders (Kidsmoke) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I agree whole heartedly with Spacecow. I always liked the Kicking Television version a lot more than the Ghost is Born version, but honestly, actually seeing it performed live was what really did it for me. This song is fucking majestic. | |
| Guided by Voices – Ex-Supermodel Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| When he sings "So I write music for soundtracks now," I think it is my favorite moment of "Alien Lanes" | |
| of Montreal – Art Snob Solutions Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "It's Tchaikovsky, not Tarkovsky. Unless there's some famous artist out there named Tarkovsky?" and it's funny because you can't tell if they're being serious. If so lol @ u! | |
| Sufjan Stevens – John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song fills me with such strange emotions. It is one of the most beautiful songs that I have ever heard and it is about a serial killer. Sufjan is a true artist. |
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| The Magnetic Fields – Born on a Train Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Quite possibly the finest pop song ever written. | |
| Ice-T – 99 Problems Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's deep, like, philosophical deep. This track is the shit though, because no matter how raunchy it gets, I just can't stop listening. You've gotta give it up for someone who writes "I got a bitch who's fat, a bitch who's built A bitch who all her titties give out powdered milk." WHAT THE FUCK! Amazing. |
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| Jawbreaker – Friendly Fire Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Went beyond the fence layed outside our yard You took it hard Through a one way door hinged high on doubt No ins, no outs I like my clothes Don't want to grow I'll wait around 'Til you say go The lights were off when I got home Black room, blue phone Hey I know your name weren't we almost friends Guess that depends Take some benefit with all your doubt If this is principle, I'm dropping out You demonize, you don’t look so bad You wouldn't take, what you couldn’t have My back is warm With your friendly fire I know you’re trying Could you please aim it higher? So alone I wrote, I wrote this will, I will decline This fish ain't big, this pond is small, So small of mind I like my clothes Don't want to grow I'll wait around 'Til you say go You demonize, you don’t look so bad You wouldn't take, what you couldn’t have My back is warm With your friendly fire I know you’re trying Could you please aim it higher? |
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| John Vanderslice – They Won't Let Me Run Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It's a story, a good one at that. Controlled by the family that keeps you in line and they run the place. You've got everything you need at your feet to be "comfortable." Then one day, you meet this girl and "Oh it's love," you say and there's just some harmless sex, and of course, she gets pregnant and he's fucked and any chance he ever had at escaping has just flown out the door. Follows through, that is, gets married and starts the family and hates it. Tries to leave and they track him down, bring him back, and lock him away in this pursuit of happiness forever. | |
| Modest Mouse – Blame It on the Tetons Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The Tetons are a mountain range. I'm only assuming that THOSE are the Tetons of the song's namesake. Maybe it's about the absurdity of a scapegoat and looking for ANYONE or ANYTHING to blame, such as a mountain range, etc. |
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| Lagwagon – Wind In Your Sail Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Who hasn't felt this? The girl breaks your heart and you are constantly checking up on her to make sure that she is miserable, and, as pubert hit on, only doing damage to your self, putting the wind in her sail. "I live to watch you fail," kind of a pathetic existence, don't you think? Not really living at all. She won. |
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