Don't Leave Baggage All the Way

Surfer Rosa

QUOTE (beckysioux @ Dec 18 2007, 01:51 PM)

Has anyone heard Keep It Down yet? I can't listen/download until I get home. Stupid work, grr.

ME!!!! of all people... oh god, if you need it I'll yousendit to you.

Rosa

beckysioux

QUOTE (Surfer Rosa @ Dec 18 2007, 12:53 PM)

ME!!!! of all people... oh god, if you need it I'll yousendit to you.

Rosa

Nah, but thank you. I think I can wait 5 more hours.

Is it tres bien?

Surfer Rosa

yeah, it's fine... lugubrious teenage angst I like it nonetheless

Surfer Rosa

Is anyone brave enough to attempt a transcript of the lyrics of keep it down? please?

canoe7grape

rosa, i will when i get home from work

edit to say... i will TRY...

mayonaise

I LOVE THAT SONG!!!


(basically love every song in any way related to any member of OK Go, but that's not important here... ahem)

canoe7grape

well... i didn't do as well with this as i had hoped... but here is what i got rosa... hopefully someone can help me with the ??? parts... ahah


Keep It Down

I don't want everyone to think I'm nuts
Because I'm not
I was surrounded by the Johnsons
Now I move on

Keep it down
Keep it down

You can see through the walls to my room
But not through me
My mom was crying because she could
See inside me

I've got to eat my way out of here
Away from the people
That drink their way into here

A million years of selection
To know what's prey
But for me that dead animal is
The enemy

Keep it down
Keep it down

I've got to eat my way out of here
Away from the people
Who drink their way into here
I've got to eat my way out of here
Away from the people
Who drink their way into here


edit: i edited in k and alice's thoughts too... i think we've got it

target35ghost

QUOTE (katieyellow @ Dec 18 2007, 10:26 PM)

I was surrounded by the ???

Johnsons??

canoe7grape

that's what i thought it was!!! lol but i wasn't sure if that's what i was hearing or not.

when i listen to sdr... i get this mental image of andy in an old tshirt with big headphones on over that hair of his, singing into a mic and i get completely lost.

ezorvera

QUOTE (katieyellow @ Dec 18 2007, 02:26 PM)

I was surrounded by the ???

I think it's Johnsons too.

QUOTE (katieyellow @ Dec 18 2007, 02:26 PM)

Now I've moved on (???)

It's either that or "Now I move on."

QUOTE (katieyellow @ Dec 18 2007, 02:26 PM)

But for me that animal is <(????)

It might be "But for me that dead animal is" but it's hard to tell.

canoe7grape

QUOTE (ezorvera @ Dec 19 2007, 01:13 AM)

It might be "But for me that dead animal is" but it's hard to tell.

i was trying to figure out if there was an extra word, or if he was just dragging 'that' or 'animal' out... i'll make the changes

port97page

Rosa, Thank you very much for let me know this !

Katieyellow and ezorvera, I really thank for transcript of the lyrics.
I'm really bad at English hearing. (haha, not only English hearing )

Surfer Rosa

QUOTE (yukihnd @ Dec 19 2007, 08:14 AM)

Rosa, Thank you very much for let me know this !

You're welcome!

QUOTE

Katieyellow and ezorvera, I really thank for transcript of the lyrics.
I'm really bad at English hearing. (haha, not only English hearing )

ditto to both

I could have sworn the first verse said "I don't want everyone to think I'm nice, because I'm not"... and I thought I myself was nuts cause I understood Johnsons too.

Rosa

ezorvera

QUOTE (Surfer Rosa @ Dec 21 2007, 09:29 AM)

I could have sworn the first verse said "I don't want everyone to think I'm nice, because I'm not"

Haha. That reminds me of this one time after a show when I was talking to Tim and some girls came up and asked if Andy was nice and he was like, "He's really mean" and the girls were all shocked, but then Tim said he was just kidding.

Surfer Rosa

QUOTE (ezorvera @ Dec 22 2007, 05:31 AM)

Haha. That reminds me of this one time after a show when I was talking to Tim and some girls came up and asked if Andy was nice and he was like, "He's really mean" and the girls were all shocked, but then Tim said he was just kidding.

I really like how witty Tim is... like on that interview when they're asked how does one gets one's sexy back and Tim immediately says, "make sure to keep the receipt" I mean, who thinks of such a creative answer so quickly? ...btw, what were those girls supposing Tim would respond to a question like that one?

Rosa

dollarflame6

QUOTE (Surfer Rosa @ Dec 22 2007, 08:40 PM)

I really like how witty Tim is... like on that interview when they're asked how does one gets one's sexy back and Tim immediately says, "make sure to keep the receipt" I mean, who thinks of such a creative answer so quickly? ...btw, what were those girls supposing Tim would respond to a question like that one?

Rosa

hahahaha!
And I like how Damian was totally baffled at that. Only a Tim can confuse a Damian

Tempe Arizona

To me "Keep It Down" has a very George Harrison sound; not so much for the lyrics, but more for the mystic echoes, strings, and almost Indian sound. Any Beatles fans know what I'm talking about?

canoe7grape

QUOTE (Tempe Arizona @ Dec 27 2007, 01:19 AM)

To me "Keep It Down" has a very George Harrison sound; not so much for the lyrics, but more for the mystic echoes, strings, and almost Indian sound. Any Beatles fans know what I'm talking about?

Yes!!! I agree!! I know exactly what you're talking about... especially during that first line, "I don't want everyone to think I'm nuts/nice" yes, I definitely hear it.

beckysioux

A shirt!

DJRose

LOL, yeah, I already bought mine.