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Face it, the band you've been waiting for all these years is The Shins. Not convinced? Give me a moment to introduce you the Miracle of the Great Southwest. The vast deserts of New Mexico are anything but barren, at least from a creative standpoint. Our story begins in Albuquerque circa 1992. The Grunge Invasion has swept out of the Northwest and into the ears of every kid with a pawn shop guitar. It affects everyone differently. For The Shins, there comes to pass a monumental distillation of post-punk garage rock, the indie sounds of Chicago and a healthy dose of pure, unadulterated pop from a time when Brian Wilson was at the helm. Melody is key. Hooks are aplenty and then some. Some stars are born. Call it a natural progression. Nine years, 10 records, acc More... (Submit New The Shins Lyrics) (Submit New The Shins Lyrics) Review about The Shins Looking at it the wrong way | Reviewer: Dan ------ About the song Australia performed by The Shins I don't see why everyone's so obsessed with finding the right meaning to the song. I think it's best to find your own meaning, and attach your own memories and experiences to a song, it's much more enjoyable that way. somber lyrics for such a beautiful song | Reviewer: anne onimous ------ About the song Red Rabbits performed by The Shins I think this song is about a love affair from the eyes of the man that the woman is cheating with. Their affair leads to her getting pregnant with several children and she decides to get an abortion. this event takes an emotional toll on both of them and the husband is oblivious to the whole ordeal. new slang... | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song New Slang performed by The Shins I agree with the last review that this song is far from optimistic, moreso focused on the stasis and lack of movement for mankind during life in general. However I doubt the author is considering that in detail here, like most songwriters they are most likely to be drawing ideas from there own personal experiences. So I think the song can be read either pessimistically or optimistically depending on how the listener is actually feeling a that point in time. The song can be a love song talking of how relationships can mend your life or as the world being a living hell for us all to endure, yay for hell on earth! Personally I love this song and the album 'Oh, Inverted World' and think we should all agree 'Garden State' kicks ass (watch it if you haven't!!!), and we should all hail Zach Braff as our God and make yearly sacrifices to appease him. :) my interpretation | Reviewer: luke ------ About the song Turn On Me performed by The Shins i believe that the song is about someone who is irrevocably in love. first verse: man disillusions himself into believing he has a chance with her, but realizes otherwise. first chorus: he knows that she knows about his feelings, and, although she wants nothing to do with him, she "masked [her] disdain." she also used him and toyed with his feelings, leading him on. second verse: he starts to mull over his feelings. he wants to stop loving her, but at the same time is still in love. he hates her and loves her at the same time. he realizes that he should be strong enough to break away. second chorus: he is all broken up, and will never heal from the hurt that loving her has left him. he's given her so many chances, and was so nice to her, but she still treated him poorly. this is just my interpretation, as this way it really relates to my life... "falling in love is like wearing clothes on your face; it makes us such buttheads." SEES | Reviewer: butternutsquash ------ About the song Caring Is Creepy performed by The Shins I'm in love and it's the newest and scariest concept that has ever crossed my mind. This song brings me down to reality that every person is different. and to really love is to be able to say that I love you and I know that you're not perfect no one really is and I love you for it. this song makes me want to stay up until the street lights have no say... i love you!!!! R.M. | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song So Says I performed by The Shins Anyone who takes this song as nothing more than an attack on communism is really seeing only one side of it. The song's saying that whatever system we try, we humans are just doomed to fail. In communism "our lust for life had gone away with the rent we hated," but in capitalism "the big ones just eat all the little ones." All our attemps at Utopia fail and in the end "we are a brutal kind." light and luscious | Reviewer: marree ------ About the song Sea Legs performed by The Shins falling in lust- sweet, and airily warm. this song is all about Cavan and trying him for the first time. very imaginative and risky. the music floats and dips. this album is very different from their earlier stuff, but wonderfully deeper. My interpretation of some of the song. | Reviewer: mr. marshmellow man ------ About the song Australia performed by The Shins I feel like the song is about life, boredom and pain, but you can do something about it to make it fun. All you want is one more saturday/buy time - People who feel like they have to wait a whole week for their one day to have fun, and they're letting the world take the rest of their days from them. Window Pane is another name for acid, "so let's jump out the window" cartwheels, crawling - You put everything in to what you do, and yet it's not enough? Society? what i think | Reviewer: jake ------ About the song New Slang performed by The Shins haha i think everyone is being way to optimistic about this song having some sort of redeeming message. Basically, this song is saying that life is very ordinary, plain, and to an extent, meaningless. We seek intrigue, we seek something that says that our lives are special, and that we weren't arbitrarily placed in this world. We are all bakers at dawn, trying to get a competitive edge, turn out something new, and original and inventive. However, we're indistinguishable, life is a simple process of wasting away, bleeding into our buns (our life's work) and with nothing meaningful or distinguishable to show for it. His love for the girl i dont think should be taken as literally a romantic relationship, i think hes talking about his love for life, or western culture, and how it slowly withers away little by little. How he notices the "dirt in the fries" the ugly lining around our supposedly golden picture of existence. One should also notice his tone of voice and how it doesnt change throughout the entire song. There is no verse which is emphasized, and he has a very resigned, effortless vibe, which conveys a sense that there is nothing new in western culture, no high, or low point in life. It reminds me of the "hollow men" in many ways. We die "old and bony" not valiantly or intriguingly, and how the universe ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. "New Slang" i feel conveys the idea, that we are constantly trying to reinvent ourselves as a culture. But the reality is that we are simply changing the words, changing the superficial lens with which we view ourselves, and because this process is inherently arbitrary, it is inherently meaningless.Thus, there is nothing new in western culture, just echoes and re-definied versions of the same thing. He is "too dumb to refine". we are all "too dumb to refine". Any search for originality is simply "new slang" Re: you guys are dumb.. | Reviewer: Maia ------ About the song Australia performed by The Shins Lyndsey, I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone when I say a) thanks for the link, and b) there's no need to call anyone "dumb". Cause all these "dummies" have been coming up with their own ideas about the song's meaning, something you failed to do. Nonetheless, after so much hesitation regarding the matter, I find your fanatic teenager attitude quite helpful! Evidently, none of us had ever come across this interview, and were therefore unable to reach your level of enlightment. But now that you've shown us the way, we can proudly say that we've learned the true meaning of this song. For the rest of you guys, here's the transcript: "Well that song isn't about Australia, first of all. That's from my memories of working in offices. I've had a hundred different jobs, and there is a special kind of sickness doing a job in an office. I was a bookkeeper and a secretary, and there is something so horribly boring and defeating about it. That song is also about this woman from Texas who was just awful, a racist and a miserable person. I felt sorry for her. In Australia, she's Himmler. So it's partly me wondering, 'Is this what humans are meant to be doing?' You're in this fucking cage and there's people you can see through the window and you see the gardener and you're so fucking jealous." Please Stop | Reviewer: Waldo ------ About the song Know Your Onion! performed by The Shins Nothing kills a song for me like reading the pathetically stupid and poorly conceived interpretations of idiot fanboys and girls. The song is what you want it to be. Keep it personal. Don't pour out your jejune opinions on the content or its melodramatic impact on your prepubescent, embryonic soul. A long interpretation... | Reviewer: Matt M ------ About the song A Comet Appears performed by The Shins Here is what I drew from the song: The comet features as the course of life in the song appearing from the void to a particular though, uncertain destination. Yet a comet is celestial and its path was put in motion long ago so one is merely along for the ride conveying a sense of hopelessness with this idea. A man, the protagonist, is pulled along and his burgeoning unhappiness is revealed. The source seems to be a fleeting sense of worth as he can only attain transient moments of it. There is a reluctant moment of realization in the third verse when the man recognizes his current life as only a façade. Despite all the effort and time spent until this point it amounts to nothing as it losses its meaning. There is again this fleeting sense of worth but now it applies to everything we built to support ourselves, our activities, belongings, responsibilities things that allowed us to invent our own worth but never delivered anything that brought happiness. The chorus tells the darkest aspect of the protagonist’s despair. There is a sense of inevitable hopelessness that gains on him everyday and he is keenly aware that he is losing all chance of ever find whatever his heart is telling him he needs so badly. The burning of sage refers to an old practice to keep away malevolent forces and in this way the man separates himself from what was his life and looks back to find where his errors lie. There emerge so many excuses to lay failure upon but none bring him closer to finding something to believe in. Even turning to what may seem important to others casts a feeling that it is equally artificial. The comet sheathed in beauty is only a frozen transience and inevitability it reveals itself as little more than a falling stone. This may indicate the death of the protagonist for when the comet has become a stone it is assumed to have come to an end of its journey. The chorus repeats as if only to remind that to the very end happiness was still just a distant thought. Unbelievable Lyrics, So true and relevant to me it's scary | Reviewer: Tyler ------ About the song Girl Sailor performed by The Shins Wow, this song is simply amazing. It's so relevant to my life at the moment that it’s hard to believe. What everyone has said has been superb! Just for the hell of it I thought I would add my 2 cents- She is not the only girl on the scene, in some sense she is just like the rest. However, she is only one that seems to appeal to him, and it is not from beauty or materialistic reasons, but from real, meaningful attraction from deep inside. All that he wants to do is care for her, make her smile, make her happy! But for some reason that just doesn’t seem like enough “Can you help it if plain love now seems less interesting?” She enjoys the flattery the situation brings, but can sometimes be a bit pretentious, making it appear as though she is interested. She has always been in control of the situation, the leader of the pack – “You’ve been at the helm since you were just five” but He cannot get a hold of the situation “While I cannot claim to be more than a passenger.” “You’ve won one too many fights...” referring to the fact that she always comes out on top, whenever something begins to arise from all the effort contributed by him, nothing happens due to her closed heart and unclear emotions. “You haven't changed an ounce in my eyes,” No matter what she does, he will always value her just the same. “And I cannot lecture you” It is impossible to confront her and ask why she is so protective of her emotions, because he is afraid she will get hurt. After a lifetime of effort trying to appeal to her and make something happen, it is time to give up, “Let the good times end tonight” ... “So settle this once and for all, The light no longer shows the cracks around my door, and I have no lantern to light your way home tonight” It is over. She will never fully know how much he really cared for her, and how much he still does. Bizarre But Good | Reviewer: mel ------ About the song Red Rabbits performed by The Shins It does seem like some kind suspicions of a love affair, doesn't it? The "necessary balloon on the floor" really reminds me of someone finding a used condom. But, at the same time, it seems to imply witchcraft and spells and wierd stuff. The "Red Rabbits" that get rendered into emulsion and "giving the dark side a chance". Very bizarre and interesting. i think | Reviewer: bella ------ About the song Pink Bullets performed by The Shins it's just about a memory he's got about great times with somebody he had to lose. just because they couldn't live together. they wanted to but it didn't work out. now he's losing this great times and that's not what he meant with going alone. your all right | Reviewer: Sofie ------ About the song Caring Is Creepy performed by The Shins i think all these meanings for the song are true. every person connects with this in thier own way. thats kinda why good music is good, because it is appealing to more than one way of thinking. stop trying to prove your point. the only people that know the real true reasong the song was created are James ,Dave ,Marty ,and Jesse themseleves. hello the title is australia | Reviewer: Lorne ------ About the song Australia performed by The Shins Whoa, the Holocaust reading is WAY too involved- it's interesting that the lyrics can be interpreted so widely, but I haven't seen anyone explain the lines 'And your shape on the dance floor Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes.' in the genocide theory. That is some creepy kinky stuff going on there if so. And why would they call it Australia? Hasn't it occurred to anyone that the song might be at least partly about Australia? 'All you want is one more Saturday'- a nod to stereotypical Australian apathy and enjoyment of leisure- 'your feet in fetters' -convict past... And the whole section 'sterile hands..' to '...for you to love' could be read as a lefty description of the Australia-US 'special relationship'. Probably pretty topical at the time of the Shins' Australian tour. Just saying. A Feeling | Reviewer: Audrey ------ About the song Caring Is Creepy performed by The Shins This song and album alike are equally amazing. The sound is almost euphoric, and whenever I hear this song in particular, I am simply stunned. It gives me this really deep, and weird feeling, you know? It just makes me kind of want to go do something out of the norm. just an idea | Reviewer: Carmella ------ About the song Girl Sailor performed by The Shins i think it is about an wild, idealistic, whimsical girl, who always ends up choosing people who treat her like crap. and when they inevitably hurt her, she shrinks and shrivels. i think the guy loves her, but to her "plain love seems less interesting" and she would rather sail the hard route to her destination.i think perhaps he is more a friend who wishes to be with her, or a lover she toys with. ."And I have no lantern to light your way home tonight" i think he wants to take care of her, but that isn't what she wants, because she is too dysfunctional to accept that treatment. girl sailor | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Girl Sailor performed by The Shins i think it's about a tough girl who has a hard time settling with an ordinary nice boy because she has been through a lot "you have won one too many fights" and "can you help it if plain love seems less interesting?" and he ends by saying "sail her don't sink her" possibly meaning don't destroy this relationship even though that's what you usually do. 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