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Now there's a look in your eyes
Like black holes in the sky Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5

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While Syd’s mental health was declining and his behaviour becoming more erratic as he was slowly driving himself to insanity, many of the members noted him having such a look in his eyes. Blackened eyes filled with the silent madness of a tortured individual.

The look in his eyes “like black holes in the sky” also refers to the large dilation of the pupils while tripping on LSD, Giving the appearance of large and endless black holes.

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Love Interruption Jack White – Love Interruption

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“Love Interruption” Jack White’s desperate try to keep away from love, or to show how beautiful but also dangerous love can be.

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Your clerics fog will recede right before your eyes The Shins – The Rifle's Spiral

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The fog refers to the religious teachings of the long-dead cleric (religious leader). The fog lifts (recedes) “right before” the subject’s eyes as death comes and he/she realizes there’s not actually an afterlife, not actually a reward, not actually a reason to be a suicide bomber in the first place.

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New York City Cops The Strokes – New York City Cops

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“New York City Cops” is a fast-paced, punk blaster from The Strokes' debut album, Is This It. It departs stylistically from the rest of the more slowed down, almost apathetic feeling in songs such as the title track, “Someday,” and “Last Nite.” Instead, it travels through a Ramones-influenced, simpler style. Note that the Strokes eventually recorded a mash-up of some Ramones songs, as a b-side for the single Heart In A Cage:

“New York CIty Cops” was the B-side on the Hard To Explain single released in June 2001, and was included on the UK version of Is This It and the American vinyl pressings of the album, which were both released in August 2001, but when New York suffered the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, it was thought of an inappropriate subject to include on the album, due to the death of police officers in rescue missions. As a result, the song was replaced with the track “When It Started,” which delayed the American release from September 25th until mid October.

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"New York City Cops" is a fast-paced, punk blaster from The Strokes' debut album, *Is This It.* It departs stylistically from the rest of the more slowed down, almost apathetic feeling in songs such as the [title track,](http://genius.com/The-strokes-is-this-it-lyrics) ["Someday,"](http://genius.com/The-strokes-someday-lyrics) and ["Last Nite."](http://genius.com/The-strokes-last-nite-lyrics) Instead, it travels through a Ramones-influenced, simpler style. Note that the Strokes eventually recorded a mash-up of some Ramones songs, as a b-side for the single [*Heart In A Cage:*](http://genius.com/albums/The-strokes/Heart-in-a-cage-single)

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"New York CIty Cops" was the B-side on the *Hard To Explain* single released in June 2001, and was included on the UK version of *Is This It* and the American vinyl pressings of the album, which were both released in August 2001, but when New York suffered the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, it was thought of an inappropriate subject to include on the album, [due to the death of police officers in rescue missions.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_workers_killed_in_the_September_11_attacks) [As a result,](http://www.mtv.com/news/1449031/dave-matthews-band-strokes-sheryl-crow-rethink-their-music/) the song was replaced with the track ["When It Started,"](http://genius.com/The-strokes-when-it-started-lyrics) which delayed the American release from September 25th until mid October.

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12:51 The Strokes – 12:51

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The Strokes' frontman Julian Casablancas said “12:51” was about “the moment right before you fuck.”

Lead guitarist Nick Valensi managed to painstakingly create the sound of a synthesized keyboard with his guitar for this song. However when a friend heard it, he responded with crushing logic, “Why didn’t he just play a keyboard?”

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Originally titled “Supernova”.

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You should add the source to this info

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Kaputt Destroyer – Kaputt

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An ode to the old school rock-and-roll lifestyle.

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All sound like a dream to me
All sound like a dream to me
All sounds like a dream Destroyer – Kaputt

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As a part of this rockstar fantasy, Dan Bejar wants to be the main artist in the cover of a famous Magazine:

Destroyer’s Dan Bejar on the right. It might not be NME, but at least it’s something, Dan!

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In an interview, Dan talks about seeing this passage as the experience of someone “like, remembering things from the hospital bed”. The magazine names are memories, but the magazines don’t exist anymore (someday also NME won’t exist anymore). At that point the person can’t grasp what these words are, he doesn’t know why he remembers them, hence “sound like a dream”.

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Wasting your days
Chasing some girls, alright
Chasing cocaine
Through the backrooms of the world
All night Destroyer – Kaputt

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Destroyer’s Dan Bejar laying out some standard rock ‘n’ roll fantasies: hooking up with girls, snorting blow. Perhaps he’d like to do both at the same time?

About the realtion between drugs and Kaputt, Bejar told:

I can say that they definitely don’t play much of a role in my life at this point. Kaputt is a work of fiction. If drugs get mentioned, it’s because I want it to be a theme. The somnambulance was important.
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when I think of drugs I think of someone on their deathbed or on a sickbed having visions of their life, their distant past, and maybe morphine plays a roll in that.