| Led Zeppelin – Sick Again Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Basically, this song is not much different than the Stones' "Stray Cat Blues" in the sense that it rocks and lyrically deals with the band enjoying the pleasures of the underage young ladies who threw themselves sexually at the group members backstage and in hotel rooms. It doesn't go any deeper than that. It's a guilty pleasure track -- Page plays his butt off with those great guitar licks and Bonzo is in top form. But then when you know what the lyrics are describing, you think to yourself "should I really be admiring a song like this ?". It's especially troublesome when you are the father of a teenage daughter. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Turd On The Run Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I actually think this is a song about a gay love affair gone wrong. Look at some of the lyrics - "reached for your lapel", "hung onto your pants", "diamond rings, Vaseline, you give me disease", etc. In any case, while it has a sort of cool boogie rhythm to it, I think it is by far the weakest moment on 'Exile'. In fact, I feel it is the ONLY weak moment on 'Exile'. | |
| Radiohead – Man of War Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I think man of war means someone who is in a constant war inside his head. The lyrics mentioned about baking a cake with all their eyes, meaning that the peering eyes this person feels on his back all the time, Thom will take them and bake them into a cake. It's just generally a song about paranoia and anxiety and a constant running from things that are not there.The phrase about worms has a meaning about death and how the worms will come for him eventually, could mean that the man of war is also paranoid about death. | |
| James Taylor – Belfast to Boston Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Released in 2002, just as the Good Friday accords of 1998 were taking hold, this song is supposed to be a message from the people of Belfast to those in the Boston area to stop sending money to the more extreme groups in Northern Ireland who were against the accords. While violence was down in NI, there were still tensions and it was known that the IRA (and probably the Loyalists as well) has stashed away arms in case the violence of the Troubles resumed. Eventually the IRA turned over their arms, and while tensions and divisions remain to this day (2018), it is playing out in the political arena rather than through the constant threat of violence. | |
| Snowmine – Let Me In Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[Wakeupdamnit:27992] I am just so happy I have read your comment about the meaning of the song , you just explained it by the same way I look at it! first of all, I thank you for sharing that. I would have said the same thing you said if I checked this page before. At the first time I listened to this song , I felt that it's going with what I am dealing in my life , on the one hand the thing I WANT TO BE and the things I WANT TO HAVE and on the other hand the fail I keep receiving in order of enjoying my success .. I never felt like the song is talking about a relationship between a couple ! |
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| Opeth – The Amen Corner Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I think it is quite evident from this song, and the other songs on this record, that the woman is not finding comfort in another man, but in the Christian faith. "The celestial touch" "the icon smiles". It is quite likely that the man and the woman were atheists (or worse, given he became a ghost) before he died, and he is disappointed that she mourns him less than he probably wanted, and finds comfort not in memories of him, but in the faith. |
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| Arcade Fire – Put Your Money On Me Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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henry_j_hill - ON REDDIT I think to properly understand PYMOM, you need to understand the whole of side B preceeding it, so here goes. Electric Blue opens with the lyrics "summer's gone and so are you," not to mention the "Every single night I dream about you" bit. It's clearly a song born out of separation on a societal level, but also at a personal level. Win has described this album as a love story, which, as I interpret it, consists of a boy lost in the Everything Now culture and a slightly more disillusioned girl who struggles with depression. At this point the boy and the girl are physically separated. As the song builds and develops, a struggle develops between the song's competing themes - ie being lost in the obscurity of the world of social media (a thousand girls who look like me) and Everything Now, where one feels insignificant against a bleak and expansive sea, but having this pervasive sense of missing the other person in a way which inspires profound meaning. Electric Blue isn't just a symbolic color, it's an emotional state of depression, meaninglessness, and sedation - but the girl's love is breaking through and overwhelming the "electric blue(s)." This is displayed beautifully in the outro - which alternates between the lyrics “cover my eyes, electric blue” and “every single night I dream about you,” which land in direct opposition to one another. The former refers to the pervasive influence of social media, which we can't seem to escape even when we close our eyes, diminishing us and our friends into little more than a profile picture. The latter, on the other hand, shows a real relationship, one that can only exist between two full people. This part shows just how internally conflicted the singer is and how powerful the competing forces of love against Everything Now are inside her. And Good God Damn it’s beautiful. Good God Damn picks up right after this, and though the characters are still separated physically, they’re both directly involved in this song. Both characters echo the earlier images of themselves built in Creature Comfort and Signs of Life, as both struggle with separation. Lyrically, there’s not a whole lot to go on here, but it’s clear that the verse pays tribute to the similar line in Creature Comfort. For the boy, we don’t get as clear of a connection, but I think this is the beginning/continuation/development of a drinking problem that we hear about across the record (e.g. Chemistry, GGD, and WDDL), hence getting “messed up.” While he gets messed up drinking, she retreats into the bathtub and contemplates suicide – and this matches the personalities we’ve seen before. Both are faced with this existential challenge of love in the age of Everything Now – like we would expect, the girl retreats into contemplative solitude, while the boy becomes further embedded in consumerism, trying to literally buy happiness (alcohol, in this case). They’re both running away from love, because neither of them know how to deal with something so profound and meaningful – it’s just not what we’re used to in the culture of Everything Now. But damn it, love transcends. Just like in Electric Blue, the characters are caught between existential meaningless and the terrifying weight of love. Only, this time there’s movement – despite the bleakness of consumerism, love gives them an overwhelming feeling of meaning, translated into spirituality. “Maybe there’s a good God, damn – if he made you.” i.e. How can everything be meaningless when I feel this overwhelming sense of purpose because of you. The sense of wonder that their love provides parallels the traditional religious experience such that it completely transforms the world view of each lover. That’s powerful. Also: “if he made you” seems to be the first line since Peter Pan that could actually be dialogue between the two characters - Everything Now separated them, but love has brought them back together again, setting us up for the main attraction, PYMOM. This song is as much a surrender to love as it is a rebellion from Everything Now. There seems to be a strong connection to Rebellion (Lies) from Funeral, with the characters fighting sedatives to escape the superficial world of consumerism. In fact, there’s even a very strong musical similarity, and I don’t think this is unintentional. In this song, the two lovers are singing to each other, and the lyrics constitute a dialogue, shown literally by the combination of Win and Regine’s vocals. I think the title “Put Your Money on Me” has two very specific meanings, and each one applies specifically to one character, which is the beauty of the songwriting. The boy was unreliable and flaky in the past, constituting his contribution to their previous separation. He is telling her, "now I’m a safe bet and I’ll always be here.” He’s telling her that he’ll never let her go, “even when it’s easy” – which is a confusing lyric. You would expect him to say that he’ll be there when it’s hard, but that’s not the problem with him. For him, he can’t bear to be without her now – in fact, he can “barely breathe” without her. Things are hard now and he has no intention of leaving. The real concern is that he’ll leave when things are easy – in the midst of the overabundance, and choice offered by Everything Now. He struggles giving up the empty shell of Everything Now for the fruits of something meaningful, and has an impulse to be free – but he’s realized that what he gains in freedom, he loses in love. But won’t let her go anyway. This hits me hard in all the rights places – the feels are real, man. Meanwhile the girl is saying the same words, but with different meaning. She’s always been reliable, even though she struggles with depression. She doesn't need to say that he can feel safe putting his money on her, it’s a plea – a beautiful, passionate plea. While the boy talks about money abstractly, in the context of a betting idiom, she asks him to take all the money, all the lust for wealth and superficial possessions and invest it into their relationship. She sees money as corrupting and offers him a way to give it up. Hence, “baby you can give all the money away.” She’s the one asking him to “tuck [her] into bed and wake [he] when [she’s] dead” which is a poignant contrast to Creature Comfort in which she struggles with death, being unsure. Here she accepts it as an eventuality, but doesn’t wish for it immediately. Her love leaves her with no fear of death, which reminds me of that Hemingway quote: “We fear death because we feel that we haven't loved well enough or loved at all.” The verses are a bit more difficult to differentiate between speakers, other than a few lines here and there, so I’ll mostly avoid doing so. I think the image of a race is fitting, but perhaps not quite so fitting as a rebellion. The lovers must fight through ether, ambien, and chloroform, all sedatives. These represent the complacency and depression of living in the empty, meaningless culture of Everything Now (see: Electric Blue and Chemistry). Love is a constant battle and a constant choice against the corrupting distractions of the world, which begin to influence you as soon as you are born. But in the end, there’s really no competition, and the race between corporations and real love and emotion is “over before it starts.” i.e. Love can break through even the deepest depressions and challenge the most alluring aspects of consumerism. Win becomes much more comfortable with religious imagery in these later songs. In effect, PYMOM isn’t so different from Peter Pan, but it feels more mature. The contrast here is clear and deliberate – while Peter Pan is a light-hearted fantasy of love in a Disney film (talk about consumerism), PYMOM shows the true depth and struggles of love by invoking religious imagery, making it gloriously out of place in the Everything Now culture. Both allude to outside material (dare I say mythology?) but PYMOM reaches for something raw, emotional, and in a sense truer than a Disney movie. This seems to be a deeper comparison, paralleling the illusion of a superficial and meaningless world, providing a mere distraction and escape from pain (Creature Comfort), but obscuring reality, which is as painful as it is meaningful and beautiful. Peter Pan wants nothing to ever change because of fear of the unknown, but PYMOM accepts the unknown as the price of a meaningful existence (love). Broken presents and promises represent the empty and temporary nature of material things, but their love/friendship extends beyond death, which seems to have ultimate meaning. His skin sheds as he begins to (figuratively) give up consumerism (money) and he finds a different but truer person underneath. And even if the Silicon Valley, the epitome of the Everything Now culture, just melts away, they have each other as an isolating force against the rest of the world. How depressing would it be if felt you couldn’t survive without Apple and Google, because they give you they only meaning that you know. If you haven’t you should definitely read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by a Czech author, Milan Kundera, because the number of influences I can find in this song are staggering. This song is a damn masterpiece and its brilliance is in its subtlety. Hopefully I was able to shed some light on it and this post wasn't too insanely long. |
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| Electric Six – I Never Fucked Her Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I think is about being friendzoned, then he gave drugs to her, then he abused her. | |
| Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss a Beat Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I heard this again today and listened more carefully than usual. As someone as comes from near where the Kaizers are from, I recognise the stereotype well enough, although it's a 10 year old one now and probably less accurate. The kids on the street never miss a beat, because they are street smart. They know the rules, and they can't be touched. They are kings of the corner, and queens of the McDonalds car park. At school it's more of the same. If they can get away with telling their parents they are going to eat crisps for tea, and not turning up to school half the time, perhaps they see that as smart too? They are winning in every way, as they see it. Our country is full of kids like this, especially in the north and the midlands. Often called chavs (a derogatory term), they spend most of their teenage years avoiding anything that seems to be aspirational, whether in sport or academics, and engaging in petty crime. They can often be found outside a local McDonalds, dressed in tracksuits, and smoking. The key point of this song is poverty of aspiration. Not only the lack of aspiration, but the idea of actively avoiding aspiring to learn or improve in any way. It's a form of rebellion, that's seen as cool by their peers. They feel they can't compete academically, so they get attention and kicks in other ways instead. In a way it makes sense - the people who are telling them to do these things for their own good (their teachers, parents, the police) aren't worth their respect anyway, many of them exacerbating the kid's problems. Finally, the highlight of their day is getting the attention of the police for some minor crime. It adds some excitement to what is otherwise a dull existence. It makes them feel important and in control. And all they need to do is keep their mouth shut, and they'll get away with that too. |
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| NOFX – The Irrationality Of Rationality Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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While its true that people learn to not feel guilty at every level, and the lines reflect on all the individuals in the song not just the last woman. It is important to realize that the purpose of this song is to point out the injustice of the situation. While the CEO can screw over the shareholders without much backlash, the woman is deemed degenerate. Where the company man who makes horrible weapons that are used to only destroy, he isn't punished for it, just the same as the CEO. But the woman who does what she does in order to protect her family is of course punished. The point is that they're ALL guilty, and they should ALL be held accountable. But they're not going to all be held accountable, because weapons made for "national defense" and something crooked done in the name of "business" is alright in the eyes of the government. Leaving the only one who gets punished is the woman who is least capable of defending herself for her misdeeds. |
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| As I Lay Dying – My Own Grave Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| This is the most straightforward song this band has ever written. It's about Tim accepting full responsibility for everything he did that triggered his imprisonment, the band's hiatus, and the trauma he caused everyone as a result of his selfish actions, despite that he believed he was on the cusp of crafting an empire with his band. | |
| No Doubt – The Climb Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[seeing:27925] Haha! :) | |
| No Doubt – The Climb Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I know this is an old thread but the meaning is clear if you know anything about No Doubt. They formed in 1986 and toured college campuses and bars for almost 10 years before they hit mainstream success and blew the roof off. So, the climb is the 10-year struggle, wondering if they should give up and that shiny brass ring always seemed right there, so close they could almost reach it but the big moment never quite came (partly because Kurt Cobain and Grunge was popular early 90s) ...until it finally did come. They didn't give up. They kept pushing and finally exploded with Tragic Kingdom, which they worked on for 3 years. The Climb could also be The Grind. They made it. | |
| David Bowie – The Next Day Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[dante15119:27923] He released the album on 2013, did he know about his cancer by then? | |
| Christmas Songs – Silent Night Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| A priest wrote the song and music was put to it for the first time with a guitar because organ was broke. | |
| Sting – Mad About You Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Sting discloses the source of inspiration of this song in his Live Concert in Berlin. You can hear it from his own words in Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/3wXRezU25dKCvcm9zqKjr9?si=GpuI0zl2RQG-AYRYj97XXA |
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| Sting – Mad About You Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Sting discloses this song is inspired in the history of King David. The exact source is the Second Book of Samuel, chapter 11. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+11&version=NIV |
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| The Rolling Stones – The Last Time Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| This has always been one of their best for me as well. Listening to it just now, I thought perhaps it was because it is more in the "traditional" R&R style of the time than many of their later things. I also love Start Me Up, so ... | |
| The Divine Comedy – If... Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[the_associate:27889] pretty sure the whole song is actually about a dog | |
| Buena Vista Social Club – ¿Y Tú Qué Has Hecho? Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| What I imagine while listening to this song is a juvenile falling in love with a gal, they are in a relationship of sorts but then she leaves him, laughing, as if everything were a joke. The boy is so in love with her, wishing that he marries her and that she gives birth to his children, but after she leaves him in such a manner, all that is left is a sadness that has come to stay (the tree being the metaphor for the unchanging state the boy has come upon). | |
| Queensrÿche – London Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[Subterranean77:27879] and a "V for Vendetta" reference, outstanding movie! | |
| Queensrÿche – London Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[PeteJ2013:27877] Nice interpretation, I can see the movie now! I hadn't thought of the futuristic thing b4, but it adds a nice touch, I love sci fi, coupled with a lonely vampire in a devastated London, I'd watch that movie ;) Hey since when am I markman? my name is Dave... | |
| Queensrÿche – London Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[jakoblangley:27876] Thanks for that piece of information, I was thinking the same thing. |
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| Tool – 10,000 Days (Wings Pt. 2) Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| The first word in line 7 is Feigning, not Fading. Feigning as in "to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression : to assert as if true" | |
| 13th Floor Elevators – She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[seasidezingst:27868] The lyrics are to a drug's spirit, maybe ushrooms spirit, because it's a popular drug and a femenine spirit is usually felt with them. He means that the "voice" of the trip drives your mind to profound states of... development or another word. Having an "illumination" or healing is the same with mushrooms than with yoga or with whatever method you use to travel your mind until going out of it: if you have no past or future, if you live everything you see, if your time is in every breath you breath, you're feeling you're alive in eternity, in a time of your own. It sounds probably about mushrooms for me also because of sentences like "the suereness of her flows" and "she clears and shares". She has leaved herself inside me when she went, now everything is different, also this song. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| This song has turned out to be very prophetic, whether consciously intended or not. In the NPR interview, Mick Jagger said the song reminds people of natural disasters, and grew out of the tensions of the time it was written. But today, the lyrics are more literally-meaningful. Storms and floods are more threatening than ever, and fires sweep out of the forests down into the streets of California just like a red coal carpet. And we have a mad bull running the show, threatening more wars, and responding with bombs to civil wars in the Middle East caused by drought. It was a preview of the results of climate change, and our reluctance to do anything about it. Plus, rape and murder is just a shot away these days too because of rampant gun violence and mass shootings, and our failure to do anything about that either. | |
| Faith No More – Evidence Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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This could be about suppressed feelings, avoiding being sincere in an attempt to avoid pain or separation anxiety If you want to open the hole Just put your head down and go If you want to try and get into my mind/heart, be my guest, investigate Step beside the piece of circumstance Got to wash away the taste of evidence But do not mind certain details, although you can open the hole in me, the idea is still to resist the true feelings, getting rid of remains of emotions, BECAUSE (I´ll keep lying): Wash it away (Evidence...got a taste of evidence) I didn't feel a thing It didn't mean a thing Look in the eye and testify; I didn't feel a thing I´ll insist that I didn´t feel, for my own safety Anything you say, we know you're guilty Hands above your head and you won't even feel me You won't feel me The detective knows the feeling is there so the person who feels admits the guilt, but that still makes no difference, emitions, sensations can keep on being denied. |
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| Genesis – I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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It`s really quite simple. The chap is the gardener at what looks like a large house or stately home. After lunch he takes his usual nap on his bench in the summer sunshine and whilst half in, half out of his snoozing he hear little mixed up snippets of conversation from the passers by which is put into lyrics for the song. Steve Lane |
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| Lacuna Coil – Self Deception Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| The meaning of the song seems pretty clear IF 1) you pay attention to which are male and female lyrics, and 2) keep in mind the title of the song "Self-Deception." What fits is obvious...a somewhat normal guy falls in love with a woman suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder (who are know to cheat, lie, and DENY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND FEELINGS -- deny the reality of a situation). They are push loved ones away with their actions...and in this song the guy has finally had enough...her behavior is beyond logical explanation, and he's leaving her. | |
| Oscar Rose – the cure to life Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| possibly my favourite song of all time! its way more upbeat than Oscars other stuff, but it rules. can't wait for the album to come out | |
| Jimmy Eat World – Cautioners Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| how has no one commented on this yet. this is the most emotional song they've done. i think its about a guy who has been dumped by his girlfriend and is feeling the worst he's ever felt. looking at pictures, watching her across the street, but never showing how sad he is so not to upset her. the vocal harmonies in this are so beautiful, it kills me just listening to it. everyone should hear this so they know what real emo sounds like. | |
| Jimmy Eat World – For Me This Is Heaven Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| this song reminds me of the greatest girlfriend i've ever had. one of the best songs off clarity, along with a sunday, lucky denver mint and clarity. | |
| MAP – Funeral Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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this is the saddest song ever because it is so true. when you lose something you feel just like it says. the writer of this song is a genius! |
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