| Brian Eno – Lay My Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| "A few days ago... the other day". Sorry guys, that's what I get for editing without proofreading. | |
| Brian Eno – Lay My Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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A few days ago I read an interview with Brian Eno the other day and he talked about this song. He said that he realized he had never said "I love you" in a song so he wanted to write a song that started with "I" had "love" in the middle and "you" at the end. Thus, "I will lay my love around you." He also said he thought the lyrics were very autobiographical. Having said that, I have always heard it as kind of like a love song to the world from a Buddha. "I live beyond interpretation", "I am the wheel", "I need no fact or validation". And then "I was concealed. Now I am stirring. And I have waited for this time. " Anyway, apparently that's all wrong because the man himself said so but I thought I'd throw it in there anyway. :) |
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| The Beatles – Revolution 9 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is how I hear the song: I think it's John's attempt to aurally recreate how his life felt. When the baby cries, I always hear it as him being born. The part where you can hear a band tuning up (the Beatles starting) and then the crowd noise gets louder and louder until it peaks and then it starts to sound ominous and John goes "Waaaaaaah!". :) And then the crowd chanting starts, perhaps to reference the counterculture. So I think the song is just supposed to be an abstract aural "painting" of how John felt the 60s changed him. With a bunch of random shit thrown in for good measure, no doubt! :) |
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| Talking Heads – Give Me Back My Name Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think this song is referencing schools of thought like Zen and Taoism. It's about how we confuse the symbol with what is symbolized. The narrator wants to find out what his "real" name - even though it cannot really be expressed in words. | |
| Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This could all be completely wrong but it's how I see this song in my head: I look at this song as being an interpretation of the way your typical Westerner was looking at the world in 1980. It's a world that was "born under punches" (2 worlds wars, a depression, etc) and now all anybody wants is stability ("to breathe"). But the only way to really achieve stability is to be a "tumbler" because the world itself is not a stable place. I think a "government man" is sort of a characterization of someone who has found (or at least feels like they have found) such stability. I agree that the drowning and the fire are references to other Talking Heads songs, especially the burning building bit. |
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