| Have a Nice Life – I Don't Love Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Wow, I didn't know my exact feelings could be summed up this accurately and concisely. | |
| Devin Townsend – Solar Winds Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This sounds so much deeper than it actually should. I love it. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – A Baby for Pree Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It's probably a placeholder name. I think the same character is mentioned in Communist Daughter and Oh Sister, and probably a ton of different songs in one way or another. She's probably based on someone Jeffy knew in real life, who was close to him. | |
| Devin Townsend – Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This sounds more like s Strapping Young Lad song than one off Terria. It doesn't fit with the rest of the album. I guess that's why he put in the bonus disk. | |
| Devin Townsend – Earth Day Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Something about this song reminds me of Deconstruction. The vocal style and the theme of the lyrics are similar to that album. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Same for me with ghost. But I think this song, as well as most of the ones in the album are about death. | |
| Devin Townsend – Ghost Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It's a shame that this has no comments. Devy said that this is his favorite DTP song. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think it's really about his brother, who killed himself. Just read the lyrics from "Holand, 1945": He didn't mean to make you cry With sparks that ring and bullets fly On empty rings around your heart The world just screams and falls apart Definitely sounds like this is the real meaning of the album. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'll just say this here: This album is about Jeff's brother, who killed himself. Jeff became obsessed with Anne Frank and incorporated her into his lyrics because following her life and death reminded him of his brother and the hopelessness of ever seeing him again. The album will now be much clearer for you. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think you're interpreting it too literally. From the order you put these verses, it really sounds like it's about his brother who killed himself. | |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Storm Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| That's exactly what I was thinking. | |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Storm Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This album was released under the name Godspeed You Black Emperor! It wasn't until Yanqui U.X.O. that they moved the exclamation mark to after the You. | |
| Devin Townsend – Heaven Send Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| He's actually saying "heaven's end", not "heaven send". The song title was just mislabeled on the CD, which is why it's the name of the song. | |
| Animal Collective – Fireworks Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"Now it's day, I've been trying to get that taste off my tongue" It is a new day and the narrator is coping with a recent shift, or perhaps a disillusionment, trying to forget something (metaphorically, a "taste"). "I was dreaming of just you, now our cereal, it is warm" Here, the narrator is in a soliloquy with his past self, reflecting on the rapid change, and his luxuries and pleasures he once enjoyed being taken away by the world. "Attractive day in the rubble of the night from before" He ironically calls the new exposed reality attractive, as he examines the remains of his destroyed mentality, the hallucinations and naïveté now obvious in the overwhelming truth. "Now I can't walk in a vacuum, I feel ugly, feel my pores" The narrator explains the sarcasm in the previous line as an attempt to remain in illusion, and create false happiness. He feels uncomfortable and incapable of living in the newly exposed world, which seems empty like a vacuum now. "It's the trees of this day that I do battle with for the light" He tries to ignore those around him, who contribute to the shattered world, in an attempt to reach the full truth and diagnose the cause of his revelation, and what makes to world so different from what he had once thought. "Then I start to feel tragic, people greet me, I'm polite" 'What's the day?' 'What are you doing?' 'How's your mood?' 'How's that song?' Man it passes right by me, it's behind me, now it's gone" He realizes the unavoidability of the nature of society, and feels overwhelmed as he tries to accept it. He notices the manifestation of this newly revealed reality in all the dialogues and actions of other people, which once seemed meaningless, and are now obviously manifestations of society. The former innocence of social interaction is "behind me, now it's gone." He is incapable of seeing things the way he was once wonted to. "And I can't lift you up cause my mind is tired It's family beaches that I desire A sacred night, where we'll watch the fireworks" He paradoxically feels incapable of consoling himself and mitigating the effects of the sudden shift in perspective, because of the very nature of the shift itself. He wants to relax and return to the previous state of childlike ignorance, which seems very recent, yet incapable of being returned to, even for one more night. "The frightened babies poo They've got two flashing eyes and they're colored why They make me feel that I'm only all I see sometimes." The children are curious and inquisitive of the workings of the universe and the reasons behind the actions of other people. The narrator observes the similar situation he was in, and how the children's wonder will ironically eventually cause them to want to return to ignorance, much like what he is experiencing. "I've been eating with a good friend who said 'A Genii made me out of the earth's skin' But in spite of her she is my birth kin," He observantly listens to the social analyses of his friend who, in the same state as he, deceives himself or herself with childish ideas, when in fact they are all obviously untrue. "she spits me out in her surely blood rivers" The friend defensively dispels the incredulous rationalizations of the narrator, refusing to accept the fallacy of his vain philosophies. I can't interpret the next part due to the inaccuracy of the transcripts. "And if they are color blind, they make me feel, that you're/I'm only what I see sometimes." He again connects the cognitive states of the children with that of his past self. There are probably terrible inaccuracies in the transcript I was using, but the basic theme of the song is the harsh transition from childhood to adulthood, much like their song "For Reverend Green". |
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