| Porcupine Tree – Great Expectations Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Steve said in an interview that this was about a childhood friend who he lost contact with, and it was only years later he found out that this friend had been in and out of various mental situations and had generally ****ed up his own life. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Anesthetize Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| weird, last third of the song painted the most vivid picture for me. the line "I could see you, but I couldn't hear you" always suggested to me like it's almost as if our kid the protagonist has died and his spirit or ghost is still connected to this world somehow with unfinished business of some sort, presumably with his childhood love most likely. and the bit about how warm the water felt would be so much more poignant from the POV of a ghost, but anyway that's just the image I always get in my head listening to the ending, which IMO is one of the best outros SW has ever written. | |
| Blackfield – Some Day Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think I hear 'paper umbrella with some ice' instead, but cool little song nonetheless. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Piano Lessons Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I gotta agree with the posts about how the song's about Steven's origins and agenda behind his choice of becoming a musician. The whole attitude of the song is a rather angry, frustrated one, don't you think? Steven's not wrong saying that he doesn't want to be another one of those shallow pop artists who are famous for face-value, and as an aspiring musician myself I can relate to that immensely, and many others too probably can too. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Normal Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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great stuff. I guess it's fair to say this is a sister song to the more mellow sentimental. with the 'cars, phones, and televisions', you'd think the character in the stanza is doing fine in his life when he's actually not. it could be because he or she's materially satisfied but not happy or at terms with his life or himself. maybe he pursued a stable desk job, got a car, a family, and all that because that was his idea of a normal life... but maybe now he starts to question just what is 'normal' after all. in fact, the character could be one of the restless kids that FOABP was touching so heavily about, but now he's a young adult, seemingly normal on the outside but with the personal problems he had as a child still lingering on in his head. as a kid he's had a hollow life, and now wishes he has something, anything to be sentimental about, even if they weren't particularly happy memories. the chorus adds to that; maybe he sees the kids stoned and wasting their lives in the mall and they remind him of his younger, meaningless days. well that's my interpretation of the song and it's a fairly straightforward one. the new EP is awesome, as is PT. |
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