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| The Antlers – Stairs to the Attic Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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It's odd having first heard The Antlers through their album Hospice which was so sorrowful and melancholy, hearing them so joyful and escapist here. I sort of imagine this song about (as it suggests) climbing a staircase and climbing away from all the stress, anger and fear of our everyday lives and finding relief in the fact that everything that makes up our lives is, in the grand scheme of things tiny. I know that's a bit cliche and cheesy, but that's how I see it. |
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| Ra Ra Riot – Oh, La Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I always heard this song as a story about a couple or friends who suffer some kind of tragedy, the 'crimson in the shade' and the song is about how they try to get by, they move to a different town where they hope 'things will be better' as long as they depend so much on each other. In my head I also always saw this song (even though it was probably written before the death of the drummer) as partly a rallying call about the band, they have to stick together as a band to get over the tragedy they've gone through. |
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| The Hold Steady – Stevie Nix Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I always thought this was a reference to Finn himself who, if my calculations are correct would have been about 33 when they were writing the record. |
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| The Antlers – Shiva Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I always found this song somewhat nightmarish, there's something unsettling and uncomfortable about the combination of the music and the image of your face turning into that of your dead lover's. |
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| Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I know the line 'Tramps like us baby we were born to die' is a reference to Springsteen's 'Born to Run', but is the bit about 'deserves a better class of criminal' a Dark Knight reference or is that purely coincidental? |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Pittsfield Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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For me this song is about the transition from being a child, to being a teenager. The shift from childhood idealisation of parents to growing up and coming to see them as human beings with flaws, open to questioning. 'Pittsfield' plays to me as the sparks of teenage rebellion. |
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