| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Green Eyes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| There's definitely something drunken about this song. Maybe it's just in the way he sings it. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Henry Lee (feat. PJ Harvey) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "Lit" would be a way of saying "landed." More in a small, bird way. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – By the Time I Get to Phoenix Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| He didn't leave. He's just fantasizing about doing so. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – And No More Shall We Part Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's a religious song. The Bible refers to the Church as the "Bride of Christ." I think it's about a guy who's struggled with women, loneliness, and life then achieved a forlorn salvation. He's not joyous, but he knows something is different. To bury the hatchet is a common term for reconciliation, which the Crucifixion of Jesus is. The line that the "birds would have sung to your beautiful heart anyhow" sounds referential to a passage in the New Testament that if Jesus' followers would have stopped rejoicing during the Triumphal Entry, the rocks and stones would sing instead. And the ending lines? Referential to writing of Paul. He spoke that a free man became a slave to Christ and a slave became a free man in Christ. It also refers to the idea that the unbelieving think themselves free, but a Christian knows they were always a slave. It's a religious song, but not upbeat...because upbeat is not really the kind of songs that Nick Cave sings. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – As I Sat Sadly by Her Side Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think everyone's got the "winner" and "loser" of the argument in this video reversed. He's sitting above everything, looking down on it. He thinks he's better than everyone below. He sees everyone else as looking out for only themselves. I hear sarcasm when she talks about his "benevolence." Then she talks about all the ugliness he lets pile up around him. He's self-righteous and useless. He keeps himself apart. He only speaks of the evils of the world. And all the time, he does nothing to make the world any better. But he doesn't hear her. He takes a macabre comfort from the pain and suffering of others. This is why he smiles as he sits sadly by her side. He can't even see that he's sitting in his own grave. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – As I Sat Sadly by Her Side Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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He's a hypocrit and she tell him so. She tells him that his "benevolence" is no different than the lack he sees in everyone else. He only sits there and talks about the bad stuff going on in the world instead of doing something about it. He thinks he's a righteous man. She tells him he's not. And in the end, he only hears what he wants to hear...so he remains smiling and she is crying. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hallelujah Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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He's dead, or at least dying. But he can't allow himself to die as his nurse has done so much to keep him alive and healthy. Look at it, how his pajamas clung to him like a shroud. And the house. There rose before me a little house With all hope and dreams kept within It references a line in the Bible where Jesus speaks of His Father's house. So yeah, he's dying but fighting against it. He manages to pull himself back, but can't forget what's waiting for him. |
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| TV on the Radio – Red Dress Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it's an allusion to people selling out their spirituality for material gain. The Whore of Babylon is spoken of in Revelation as being clothed in scarlet (hence, red dress). A lot of the lyrics seem to talk about how we're slaves to the things we own, with heavy allusion to fame as a type of slavery. So yeah, giving up your soul (The time of the white robes is gone) for the 'red dress' of fame, fortune and power. |
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