| Man Man – I, Manface Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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You're missing some lyrics between the first stanza and the second. They're a little foggy, but here's a shot: These eyes went bad Trying to see light God I'm drunk And I fell on my knife |
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| Cake – Sheep Go To Heaven Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Er. I'm not sure I, or anyone else for that matters, care about Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, or any of those little drama-soaked emo bands. But, here's some insight into the song: John talks about pan pipes and the like, and no one has mentioned it yet, but it seems like a direct reference to the Greek god Pan. He was half man and half goat, going with the theme of heathens [goats] vs. sheep [followers of religion]. That's where the term 'pan pipes' came from. Pan as a god enjoyed time with the ladies and getting shit-faced drunk, which makes sense, considering the context of McCrea preferring a life of happiness than ultimately conforming to religion. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Well, Neutral Milk Hotel tends to be extremely... Abstract. For example, the 'feed you tomatoes and radio wire' line I can't make any sense of unless it becomes a metaphor, in which the tomatoes represent the soft and nourishing aspect of the parental unit, and the radio wire representing the strong and hard part. It'd make sense that Mangum would be just as abstract in an earlier stanza, specifically in the tongue in your teeth line. 'How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth' means that he'd like to get in arguments with his father as a metaphor, much like what 'tongue tied' means. Tongue tied means you're getting your words mixed up, 'tongue in his teeth' means that the words are getting lashed against rebelliously - not accepted but defied. Rather than swallowing his father's words, he's biting down on them. Or at least that's what he wanted - the stanza says that he'd want to have fights with his dad, just to have the experience of having a father, unlike most kids that take their dad's company for granted. This then continues into the 'Finding secret songs' part, explaining that the boy would want to see his father as a human being rather than a disciplinary figure, like many kids do. Further explaining another part, 'In my dreams you're alive' means that the boy is dreaming about his father, and dreaming what he'd want him to say and do, almost as if he's speaking for his father through his own mouth. The fifth stanza, in my opinion, proves that the song can't be about religion, because it seems to speak of God as if he's non-existent. "When we break, we'll all wait for our miracle" - in my explanation of the song, the boy is waiting for his father to return, for his brother to come to his senses, something that will bring his family back together again. Then "God is a place where some holy spectacle lies... God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life" seems to explain that we keep on praying to God to give ourselves some sort of hope, and this God, this 'place', we will continue to wait in for our miracle, even though he'll never answer our prayers. 'He' is just an abstract idea created to help us get through pain and misery rather than something that will truly help us. Just trying to connect the dots with parts I don't feel I explained thoroughly enough. |
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| They Might Be Giants – Dr Worm Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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| Modest Mouse – Bankrupt on Selling Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think the song is about human beings as a species acting in self interest no matter what. The apostles part is quite obvious, saying that, despite the morals of love and compassion that those historical figures stressed, they still want material things like the rest of us. The 'businessers' part expresses how this urge to buy and sell and get more money will never ever lead to satisfaction. It's an eternal hell, just make more money, make more money, but in the end 'you're sick of it all, and bankrupt on selling.' I'm not completely sure about the angels part, but I've always thought that it's saying that humans have corrupted the pure. At one time they cared about eachother, but now they want the same things that we do. The last two parts don't seem to fit in with the rest of the song, because I think it's more about the writer reflecting on himself through witnessing how corrupt the human condition really is. The 'college' part explains that he wants others to hear his opinions on them, but the only way is to improve himself by their standards, the standards that he hates. And, finally, the last part has something to do with compassion, it seems as if he's trying to leave this point of love for the stiff materalistic world, but in the end, he can't do it, and he might just be as blind as everyone else. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I've always thought of this song as a story about a family that lost the father figure. All that is left are two young boys and a mother. The boys handle it in different ways [One becoming emotionally detached and angry at his late father, the other sentimental and unable to cope with both the loss of his dad, and now the abstract loss of his brother]. The song is in the view of the sentimental boy. My favorite line is 'How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth', referring to the fact that the angrier child wants the arguments with his father that other boys his age spend so much time complaining about. The wings line [Blister please with those wings in your spine] refers to the fact that the boy wants his dad to feel the pain in Heaven that the boy is feeling still trapped in this tragedy. I think spines are just a pretty poetic thing, the central part of every person, connecting the body to the brain, and that's why NMH concentrates on 'em so much. And the last part is talking about the boys' mom. It states that she'll take care of them, bringing them up to be both loved and strong men ["She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires" referring to both a motherly and fatherly upbringing.] The part that hit me the strongest was 'But don't hate her when she gets up to leave' which is referring to when she dies, the boys shouldn't react the same way as they did to their father's death [With a hatred of sorts] but rather accepting and caring. The title implies that there are two boys raised the same way and very alike are treating the same situation differently, giving them one body but two heads, metaphorically. Wow, that was a long post. |
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