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Jan 11, 2015

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chewing gum
Cut off your hair yeah that&#039;s it!
If you look like that I swear I&#039;m

His ex had an immature reaction to their breakup, and cut off all her hair. He's sarcastically saying, yeah, sure, that'll make me come back.

Phoenix – Consolation Prizes

Jan 11, 2015

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on you

No

This line sounds like he's telling his ex that he's not going to try make her feel good if she doesn't deserve it.

Phoenix – Lisztomania

Jan 11, 2015

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and goes

Lisztomania
Think less but see it grow
Like a riot, like a

"Lisztomania" refers to the mass stardom Franz Liszt received as a classical composer. His concerts were sold out, and there were screaming women at his performances, so he was basically an 1800s pop star. This line seems to refer to Phoenix achieving musical success, and seeing their fame grow.

Phoenix – Lisztomania

Jan 11, 2015

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ending
This love&#039;s for gentlemen only
That&#039;s with the fortunate only
No I gotta

Only gentleman can win this woman's love, and anyone who succeeds with her is fortunate. He could either be saying that he's not a gentleman, but he needs to change in order to be with this woman, or that he is a gentleman, but he doesn't feel that that's who he truly is, and he's "gotta be someone else".

Phoenix – Lisztomania

Jan 11, 2015

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Not sentimental no!
Romantic not disgusting yet
Darling I&#039

He is trying to figure out what his relationship is with this person. Are they just friends, are they close, are they a couple? He's debating with himself.

Lorde – Ribs

Jan 10, 2015

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]
This dream isn&#039;t feeling sweet
We&#039;re reeling through the midnight streets
And I&#039;ve never felt more alone
It feels

When kids are younger, they dream of being a teenager, and throwing parties when their parents aren't home. But now that she has done it, she realizes it's not as great as she thought it was.

Lorde – Glory And Gore

Jan 10, 2015

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Oh!)
Everyone a ranger (oh-oh)
But secretly they&#039;re saviors
Glory

With the "glory" of fame, there comes a serious price, which is the "gore". The reason they're "making headlines" is because if being famous were easy, everyone would do it. They're given this sort of honour, because they go through stuff nobody should have to go through to get where they are.

Lorde – 400 Lux

Jan 10, 2015

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blue
We come around here all the time
Got a lot to not do, let me kill it with

She's hanging out with somebody else, a friend or a boyfriend, in a place that they go often. They're both avoiding things they should be doing, and they're just procrastinating together.

Lorde – Tennis Court

Jan 10, 2015

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it&#039 s not
forever

(Yeah), Baby be the class
clown;I&#039

In Lorde's song "Royals," she says "we don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair". She's saying that her music is a new art form showing people that nobody cares about the lyrics to most songs, which are all about partying and "doing the do".

Lorde – Tennis Court

Jan 10, 2015

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when;we&#039 re; smilin&#039 out of

Being famous is always portrayed as being fun and happy, from all the information we get from TV and magazines.

Lorde – Tennis Court

Jan 10, 2015

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in
flames How can I fuck with the fun again when;I&#039

It seems that she has a group of guy friends that always pick her up when she's down. They make jokes that cheer her up, or give her encouragement.

Lorde – Tennis Court

Jan 10, 2015

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ll see the veins of my city like they do in
space But my;head&#039 s filling up fast with the wicked, games up

She can't stop worrying about all the "what ifs". She's wondering if she can ever just be a normal person again and just have fun when she's famous.

Lorde – Tennis Court

Jan 10, 2015

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showing people how little we
care

(yeah);We&#039 re so

This could mean that the media portrays famous people as always being happy and having perfect lives, but in reality, most celebrities are scared out of their minds. It could describe how a common reaction (or coping mechanism) to fear is to smile.

Lorde – Tennis Court

Jan 10, 2015

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million things I
want And I am only as young as the minute

This line refers to the media. She feels like she's only as trendy, as cool, as good or as bad as the media makes her.

Zedd – Clarity

Jan 10, 2015

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High dive into frozen waves where the past comes back to life

"Frozen waves" are the events of the past. To take a "high dive into frozen waves" means that she's experiencing nostalgia of what used to be.

Gotye – Save Me

Jan 10, 2015

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thread to begin

And I could not love
Coz I could not love myself
Never good enough, no
That was all

He hated himself, and was constantly beating himself up about everything and how he was "never good enough". Because he couldn't love himself, he couldn't love others either.

Gotye – Save Me

Jan 10, 2015

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myself again

Running through all the options
And the endings
Were rolling out in front of me
But I couldn&#039;t choose a

He kept mentally going through what could go wrong, or what could go right in his life, and just generally worrying. But looking back on it, he realizes that he was so lost then that he "couldn't choose a thread to begin".

Gotye – Save Me

Jan 10, 2015

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In the mornings
I was anxious
It&#039;s better just to stay in bed
Didn&#039;t want to fail

He used to be so depressed that getting out of bed was a challenge. He didn't want to get up and face the world, because he was afraid he wouldn't live up to his own standards.

Gotye – Hearts A Mess

Jan 10, 2015

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no sense
But I&#039;m desperate to connect
And you, you cant&#039;t live like this

Love ain&#039;t safe
You won&#039

The person he's in love with has been deeply hurt by past relationships. He's saying that she's right, and love isn't safe. So she can keep her love to herself, and wait for the perfect guy (who doesn't exist). But he doesn't want to waste his love on somebody who is too scared to love him in return.

Gotye – Hearts A Mess

Jan 10, 2015

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you are
My love

Your heart&#039;s a mess
You won&#039;t admit to it
It makes no sense
But I&#039;m desperate to connect

He's fallen in love with somebody who's "heart's a mess". She can't see that she has issues ("you won't admit to it"). He knows that she has problems with relationships, but he feels like he's going crazy because he desperately wants to be in a relationship with her. "You, you can't live like this", describes how he feels like she's almost deliberately messing with his heart and mind, and it's driving him insane.

Gotye – Hearts A Mess

Jan 10, 2015

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You have lost
Too much love
To fear, doubt and distrust

The person that the song is directed to has suffered much in the past, possibly to abuse or bad relationships. Because of this, she has lost her ability to love to "fear doubt and distrust".

Gotye – Hearts A Mess

Jan 10, 2015

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Let me occupy your mind
As you do mine

This person is constantly on his mind. It's driving him crazy but he sort of enjoys it. He wants this other person to constantly think of him too.

Gotye – Hearts A Mess

Jan 10, 2015

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Pick apart
The pieces of your heart
And let me peer inside

He wants to know this person in a deeply personal way. He wants to know what she really thinks about him and how she really feels.

Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?

Jan 10, 2015

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you ever get that fear that you can&#039;t shift
The type that sticks around like summat in your teeth

He's afraid because he feels like he can't "shift the tide" of his life. It's scaring him because he doesn't like how his life is going, but he feels like he can't change it.

Passion Pit – Take A Walk

Jan 10, 2015

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will stay the rest of her life
I watch my little children, play some board game in the kitchen
And I sit

He sees his innocent children, and feels that he couldn't stand to see them struck down with the perils of being a "grown up".

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