| Coldplay – The Hardest Part Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Some of the lyrics sound weak played next to the other instruments, but when you look at them they are deep lyrics. For a second, having someone wonderful playing a role in your life, and then the connection is cut off. And just thinking, what's the point of it all. What is the meaning in life with all these cruel tricks in place. That guitar is great in this song, gets that heavy-hearted emotion across. | |
| Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Hill Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I believe it's both. I'm not sure about the lover part, but think about it. The Ministry tried to make David Kelly an Unperson. He's gone but it was a sloppy job. Everyone knows he's dead and used to be alive. But it was covered up in a way, masked as suicide. I think this song reflects both 1984 and David Kelly's death. Because it may be happening. Ingsoc may be looming. | |
| Metric – Speed The Collapse Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I saw on Youtube someone saying this was about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, and at first it struck me as weird. But it does seem to make sense in a way...beautiful song. | |
| Radiohead – Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I interpret this song as an answer to that goddamn spooky image on google that says 'go to sleep'. OH GOD. The monster that waits for you to go to sleep so it can sneak up on you unhindered and savage you. Basically being afraid to go to sleep because you're afraid of what will happen when you sleep, be it ridiculous nightmare monsters sneaking up on you or realistic, really awfully bad political changes that make the world an absolute nightmare to live in, like 1984 or something. There's also the thought that when it comes to the world, so many people are asleep to these kind of real dangers. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago. If you're aware, its even harder to sleep and relax thinking about the threats to our peaceful lives, because you might be one of the only ones on watch. Then, sleep is so comforting. Its just a better world. So if the monster comes along and makes sure you never wake up, who gives a shit? You're at peace forever. Some prefer to have peace. Some prefer to fight. This song looks at both. By the way, never search 'Go To Sleep' on Google Images. You won't sleep for a while. |
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| Radiohead – Bodysnatchers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me it's largely about a near death experience. Kinda easy really. Most people who've had one has never wanted to go back to Earth. When you slip out of your body, and go into the tunnel, it's generally a wonderful feeling. I haven't personally experienced it, but I've read a lot of detailed first-hand accounts. This might not be all the song is about, but this is how I reckon it ties in. The beginning is someone coming across someone having the death experience. 'Check the pulse, blink your eyes'. The experience is indescribable, or ineffable, so the person who died but came back can't express the experience properly 'No idea what I am talking about'. He feels trapped in his body, because in the NDE you feel so free and comfortable. The body is just there for pain, and other petty things. The 'move back home' part is moving up to the heavens in the experience, where heaven always feels to be your true home. 'The edges sawn off' means he doesn't know he has to go back down. The rest of the song is the aftermath, where he has to face the confusing and frightening future on Earth. He loses the hope the experience gave him. He isn't quite working with everyday life. But he's seen death. He's seen them coming. The bodysnatchers. |
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| Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| to me it's like a couple deeply in love, exploring nature in places extremely separated from civilization, outside the earth. It's like Thom is fantasizing about it, with lucid lyrics like the part where he talks of falling off the earth. Thinking of someone he loves deeply and desperately, and dreaming of following her away from everyone else, into the far reaches. Indulging in beautiful escapism. He gets lost in his fantasy, as his feelings for her eat at him like worms and weird fishes. Hitting the bottom and escaping might be him going into an emotional breakdown, where he collapses as spectacularly as the music in that part. Then his feelings hit rock bottom, and he's done being cut up. Thing about that point is that your emotions are used up. You're out of hurt. So you don't hurt anymore. You escape. Thom hit the bottom and escaped. | |
| The Jezabels – Trycolour Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Doesn't seem dark to me. Seems to be like an eruption of energy to me. A celebration of something. | |
| Radiohead – Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The doors seem to be paths of life, yeah. Rotations in our life, we are revolving doors. Its true. I wanna focus on the music and that. There's that constantly cycling drum beat, and every 20 seconds it repeats a little more noticeably. Like deja-vu. And those parts where the music goes into trippy spirals, it's like the interesting and dramatic parts of life that interrupt the grinding cycle of day. This could focus on one person, or maybe society as a whole. The trapdoors part could be a bad choice by someone that didn't seem too big, then cascaded into a huge disaster, on an apocalyptic scale. That would be why it goes all spooky at the end. The cycle of life, coming to an end. Maybe. |
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| Radiohead – Nude Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Couple of quotes Thom Yorke said which I think highlights what the song means. 1."I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state." 2. "The sad thing is, if an issue is laughed at and patronised by mainstream media, then it's up against it big-time. I read some journalist recently lecturing the anti-globalisation lobby, saying, 'This is the way capitalism works, all capitalism is exploitation and to make it try and do something else, it's never gonna happen.' And it's like, yeah, but where does that leave us? This is somehow God's will? All this? It's God's will that we sit in traffic? It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not! It's like some deranged sacrificial altar, the high priests of the global economy holding up these millions of children each year, like (Arms aloft) 'We wish to please you! Oh Gods of free trade!' It's like... give us all a fucking break! If there is a Devil at work, then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we're all utterly powerless, that's the Devil at work." These lyrics are the powers that be talking. That's what the institutions stuff into your heads, that you can't change the world around you. That message is one you've gotta fight. Thats how I see it anyway. The song still drives me to tears. |
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| Radiohead – Fog Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It relates to me like, missing out on a childhood, growing up too fast, and throughout your whole adult life drifting back to the childhood you missed. The childhood you wanted. I entered the world of heartbreak at 10 years old, and 6 years later I miss the childhood that ended there. That's how I relate to it, that the pain of missing out on that childhood and the pain of loving girls and never being loved back leaves scars and stains that never wash away. And the kids growing up in lands of war, who feel that kind of pain raw, who find themselves killing their first enemy at 12 or so, who turn into war-torn veterans before they would be old enough to vote in the western world. I myself have a lot more freedoms in daily life that they do, but I'm still trapped in a world of hurt. It's all so sad, in both worlds. Theres no way out, we never leave. Those are my connections with this song. | |
| Queens of the Stone Age – A Song For The Dead Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I see it like staying alive and getting the most time out of it, like staying longer than you were meant to. The end does this in such a cool way. And maybe just being interested in death for most of your spare time. It does sound like the Grim Reaper talking too. Think of this. A song for -the dead-. 'the dead' over the times is about 100 billion people. And we're all going to join them. 'Just a track in the line Fuck it' |
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| Radiohead – Pyramid Song Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This seems to be the buddhist nirvana, losing one's identity, ego death. In that state you have no sense of personal perspective, and have not a personal worry in the world. Nothing to fear, nothing to doubt. This song seems to be a precursor to The King of Limbs, it has that emotionless feel which in a sense is a wonderful feeling when you get into it, but doesn't sound like good music when you're outside of that state. If you're an emotional wreck from a break-up, or breaking down in fear of death, this song will not appeal to you at the time. You can only appreciate this song when you have found peace, or are trying to find it. When you can get into that self-less state, this song is transcendental, it's wonderful. |
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| Radiohead – Cut a Hole Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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this is the lyric version i agree with better; Wish that i could come out of your phone Superhero powers Burst out of the sound With a bunch of flowers and you just say the word Apparition comes With a long and winning handsome smile Wish we could connect Step into the void off the diving board Blend into the light Down the cable-lines Run under the earth re-forming on the wind Two places at once Taste the air with you Undo all ties wish that I could flip one of those eyes Lift this all away See that stretchy smile go right across your face cut a hole |
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| Arcade Fire – Ready to Start Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Anyone ever read 1984? To me the song relates to it hugely. The emperor would be Big Brother. Everyone wants to rebel but they literally cannot. To bow down anyway is better than to be alone. 'Minority of one'. Businessmen will drink your blood. The Party are the ultimate businessmen in production and destruction. I am ready to start, might mean ready to start the change. I don't know, a lot of it fits to me. Then the end of the book, I won't spoil it, but 'I would rather be wrong Than live in the shadows of your song My mind is open wide And now I'm ready to start Your mind surely opened the door To step out into the dark Now I'm ready' Room 101. |
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| Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song got me on to 1984, it's quite obvious when you read the book through. It seems to allude that we're turning to an Orwellian world. This is basically an essay, so read on if you're interested :P In Britain cameras are all over the street, like hidden telescreens. People can be followed by satellites. Sounds like that loss of privacy you see in the book. George Bush Jr was being projected over the world in 02/03, promising to avenge 9/11, almost like Big Brother since he has so much indirect influence over the rest of the world, not just over the USA. And I do believe he cheated his position, perhaps his family moving to make a faulty voting system, to continue the royalty. There's a sense we have no control. And if people like Bush can get into the top seat without public approval, we don't have a choice. Thom Yorke may be British, but he noticed it's a big sign that the world is heading to an Orwellian dystopia. We need to pay attention. If we don't, a totalitarian government may rise behind the mist unopposed. We may wake up one day and find that thinking against the ruling class is a crime, and find we have Thought Police. Then again, why was John Lennon asassinated when he was a man for world peace and equality? 'Imagine'? ARE YOU SUCH A DREAMER- TO PUT THE WORLD TO RIGHTS? Some people didn't like his criticism of the class system. Think of Goldstein's book in 1984. The ruling class was seeing world peace and equality as something to be avoided. That may be why he was killed, and I think Radiohead referenced this. The first 2 verses are doublethink, with the fear in the mind-control phrase 'TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE' leaking out the tiniest bit. The sandbags and April showers may be the destruction of the planet by mankind, which may work in favour of the government, keeping the middle and lower class in fear of the end. It's the devils way now There's no way out You can scream and you can shout It's too late now This is the point beyond no return, where none can stop the new world order, where nothing but the most cataclysmic natural disaster (i.e. dinosaur-like extinction event) will bring it down. Everything after 'paying attention' is the experience in 1984, how it's so hard to keep incriminating thoughts back (Trying to sing along-but like flies the buggers keep coming back). 'But i'm not' is reference to the Ministry of Love. 'You do not exist'. 'Hail to the thief' is back in 03, where George Bush was loved by so much while he was in a position he probably didn't earn. How a lot of people loved him blindly, thinking it was patriotism. Kinda like Big Brother. 'Don't question my authority or put me in the box/dock, cause i'm not' You can't easily push George Bush from his position until his two terms run out. Of course, Obama's there now. But Thom may have been saying Bush shouldn't be re-elected in 2004, because Bush isn't as decent as he says he is. 'Go and tell the king that the sky is falling in When it's not maybe not' Potentially a 9/11 reference, but more than likely the asteroid strike that might be the only thing to bring down the Party. I think 'Where I End And You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)' follows this, about the end of the Party, the end of thought control and the end of Big Brother. 'X will mark the place, like the parting of the waves, like a house falling into the sea' 'I will eat you alive' Waves of fire and water, eating up and destroying each Ministry and killing every Party member. 'There will be no more lies' the end of the Thought Police, end of reality control, and the survivors free to think. |
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| Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Well I agree with the God/asteroid consensus. But the verse 'in the clouds, can't come down' is very much like a neutral/bad psychedelic trip. I know cause I had such an experience. You are higher than the clouds, and after a while you would wish you could come down, but you can't until it's out of your system. Could be that Thom tripped and imagined he saw the end of the world,something he didn't wanna hang around to see. I reckon the strange sound effects in the second part of the song may partially account for the psychedelic part. He could watch the end but not be among it, alone with the God he feels is there with him. The end he might have seen would be in the asteroid strike he seems to entail, with the purification of human evils. The asteroid hits at what will be known as X. The ocean is split apart, and at/around X the oceans won't exist anymore for a few hours. I also believe the line after is 'THE SKY IS FALLING IN...INTO THE SEA' The waves of fire/the waves of water/death itself, swallowing your soul up and eating you alive. There will be no more lies, all politics, all business cheating, all hate, all human bullshit will be wiped out completely, any surviving life won't be sentinent enough to lie, or will know not to lie and to love instead of despise. And the final drop-off might be Thom coming down, contemplating the haunting experience, repeating the words to himself. I WILL EAT YOU ALIVE. Spooky. |
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| fun. – We Are Young Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Main central part of the song kinda reminds me of war. Sure the first verses sound like heartbreak... It could be a young man getting his heart broken, and deciding going off to war will help him recover, and getting caught up in battle. 'The angels never arrived, but I can hear the choir, carry me home tonight' like dying in battle. And set the world on fire sounds like destructive victory, high spirits on the battlefield? This type of thing happens a lot in wartime, was just thinking. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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global warming going completely nuts, then reversing with global dimming where the greenhouse gases are so dense they block out the sun instead of holding the solar radiation in. No sun hits the earth, world freezes. Ice age. Apocalypse. That shit's legit, look up global dimming. Could be what the song's about, some guy tripping and seeing this coming (trips begin with a couple of hours of laughing, then you see stuff in this semi-insane state and some people think they're shown how the world's going to end sometimes), and this tripper's watching the businessmen freaking out when it actually comes around. Perhaps Thom Yorke's a secret tripper, i don't know. Just my interpretation,don't freak out cause I referenced psychedelics. |
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| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I believe it's the same context as Exit Music, but he's alone. He's in the car, and the exhaust pipe is redirected into the car, suffocating him alone. Handshake with carbon monoxide. A business deal for a better existence. His soul is damaged and eroded from his terrible experiences with the other evil businessmen on this planet. It's the final catharsis escaping the daily grind, and escaping, finally, the government seeking to own and harvest every part of us. And, before he closes his eyes, he notices how beautiful the physical world is, without the human evil polluting his perception. Without the hard work and everyday heartbreak, the world is a spectacular place. | |
| Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I reckon that it's about the superficiality of the world. Even back when this was written the world was steadily becoming more fake, more and more people wanting implants all over their bodies. This applies even more now. Some women are having liposuction in their ass and putting in implants to replace it. Real beauty isn't treasured any more. And the romantic guys are getting more and more ignored. I'm one of them, and I am personally getting desperate after 5 years of that romantic creativity rising in me. This album was actually dedicated to this comedian called Bill Hicks who deep inside was a romantic too. He was fucked over by women his whole life until he died young in 94, half a year or so before this song was written. Back then, and these days dramatically more so, every romantic is by definition a hopeless romantic. It's a sad world, and that's what this song connects with. |
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| Sigur Rós – Glósóli Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Reading the lyrics, I would say it's a love song, yes. But it is also incredibly spiritual. It seems to be from the point of view from a man who's girlfriend has gone missing and died long ago, yet he does not know she is dead although he's given up looking. One night he has a dream about a place he would find her, and goes on an incredible quest-like journey trying to find her. The search for her occupies him until his last breath, then he dies and awakens from the nightmarish reality he became used to on earth, and in the cosmic limbo he finds her. They become one as they always wanted to be, as all lovers want to be, and rise higher and higher until they go into the glowing sun, which is the climax of the song. The ending may be the simplification of thought and the ending of consciousness after the death experience, or being reborn in the next life. I prefer to think the latter. | |
| Bill Hicks – Anazasi Premonition Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| i'm sure this isn't the comedian, he wrote music and it's released but none of it is here.Thats a shame. | |
| Rage Against the Machine – Bullet In The Head Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree, it's largely on the Gulf War and how the US and to some extent the world is politically mirroring the Nazi Party. Media is just as damaging as a bullet in your head, because you lose thought. But here's something else; Bill Hicks talked of how the Gulf War isn't a war, as a war is two armies fighting. "There's no threat to America anymore! We are the evil empire. Of course excluding the countries we arm first. "Oh Iraq have incredible weapons"- "How do you know that?" - "Well...we looked at the reciept. What time does the bank open? 8? We're going in at 9." No, it wasn't the Persian Gulf War, it was the Persian Gulf Distraction. And the Elite Republican Guard, gees. They were talking about them in these hush tones, like they were the bogeymen or something. And after a few months of carpet bombing, they went from the Elite Republican Guard to the Republican Guard to THE REPUBLICANS MADE THIS SHIT UP ABOUT THERE BEING GUARDS OUT THERE. We hoped you enjoyed your fireworks show." I may be paraphrasing but that in my mind is somewhat part of RATM'S point. The Gulf War itself was part of the propoganda. The bullets flying in Iraq, then and now, are in our heads every time we support the war. |
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| Tool – Intolerance Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| To me it just says that everyone has somewhat tainted the world with their very presence. Someone said that a true environmentalist would kill himself because nothing they could ever do could make up for their environmental footprint. Cause basically humanity is going to send the entire planet to hell anyway, and what i find in this song is that those people who try to be so innocent, abstaining from sex and drugs and life, shouldn't worry about it and shouldn't give a damn, cause no one can be perfect no matter how hard they try. Society shouldn't give a fuck about the small guilts. Cause even though we say we don't do the little bad things, we all have. Don't shroud your sins. | |
| Tool – Sober Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In my view it is on alcoholism, caused by love which has gone totally wrong. Its all too common that a man gets his heart broken, mostly through no fault of his own, and has no other friend left than the bottle. He begs to start his own life over, even to start over with her, but his soul has been scarred and fouled, by the event with his ex which destroyed him. A massive hole in his personality which he can only fill with alcohol. Perhaps he was accused (pointing every finger at me)of being a creep, implied by the first verse(waiting like a stalking butler). Religion hasn't helped him (jesus won't you fucking whistle), being sober didn't help, so in desperation of some kind of warmth and affection (i want what i want)(trust me) alcohol becomes his only friend. In my mind it's followed up later by 46 & 2, where his soul is cleansed as he moves up to a higher, more meaningful level of thought,in theme of the whole AEnima album. |
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| Radiohead – Exit Music (For a Film) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| never knew it was actually used in that movie, makes me want to see it now | |
| Tool – H. Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| My personal opinion is this song is about opening yourself to love. I would think of this as a sucession to Cold and Ugly (a song about a guy relating to a girl who's scared of feeling) and one of many predecessions to Lateralus. The man has a child and forces himself to open up to love, but in constant fear he will face hurt for trusting in his child. He's comforted by the fact that he's gone through this kind of devastating hurt before, (all the times i have died)knowing it WILL happen again (I will die) but knowing he can handle it when his child pushes him away, or dies (It's all right, I don't mind). In this comfort of control, he opens up his heart and willingly connects to his child, creating a love which burns him inside (considerately killing me) | |
| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think the song relates to accepting everything about our reality, and the "over thinking, over analysing" line references to developing our understanding, knowledge and depth of thought the best we can. I think it praises it myself. Perhaps, like others have said, Maynard made deep and strong underlying connections to H, 46 AND 2,Third eye, and a lot of the songs on the Lateralus album, like a web for people to discover. But if we see it, it is our own discovery. Whether he intended us to see these connections or not. I think thats what that "over-thinking over-analysing" line means, meaning you should make whichever interpretations you can that fit what you want to hear. Think and feel as deep as you can and want. I pesonally like that line a lot because i've been accused of that in a negative way, with women and things like that. Analysing their expressions endlessly to try and unlock the secret of their emotions. I use this song to move past that comparatively superficial state of mind, and to say "screw you" to the people who've accused me of it. Just 'embrace whatever may come' :) |
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| Tool – Reflection Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Everyone says that interpretations of Tool linked with LSD and other drugs like that are just assuming that Tool are obsessed with the stuff, but hear me out here. It seems to be a bad acid trip, which induces ego death in the guy tripping. This will be long... For a start, the first 5 minutes sound completely unnatural,somewhat alien. Then; "I have come curiously close to the end, down Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole, defeated I Concede and move closer, I may find comfort here I may find peace within the emptiness, how pitiful" I hear a troubled man who has taken acid or something similar, and it hasn't gone well. In the peak, it is pure hell, hence "curiously close to the end". He can feel his destruction coming. He is trying to act curious about it, trying to make sense of it all, but he is breaking down. He attempts to embrace it ("Concede, and move closer") but thats not working. It's destroying the light inside him, taking it away. He somehow barely understands that the flawed experience is probably part of him, old experiences which cause him pain, that he may have been trying to escape. "And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping The moon tells me a secret, my confidant As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own and A million light reflections pass over me " Here the moon seems to be actually talking to him (probably to do with the fact he is tripping balls) and those last two lines are what the moon says. A confidant is someone you trust and aspire to, and in that context it makes sense. He is told that even though the overwhelming fear he feels seems like it is ripping his light away, he is like the moon, all illumination from another origin. His soul and thoughts are not really his own, just part of a universal consciousness, and he uses this to remind himself that the fear cannot harm him. "It's source is bright and endless, she resuscitates the hopeless Without her we are lifeless satellites dreamin' dreams" This source is the universal consciousness I just mentioned. I get this idea from a Bill Hicks quote which is actually quoted in 'Third Eye'; "Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration — that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." The man has this realization and this singular consciousness becomes his source of hope in this terrifying state. With concepts taking place in mind, his state begins to change. "And as I pull my head out, I am without one doubt, don't want to be down here soothing my narcissism" He begins to touch base with the new reality he has conceived. He wants to come back to the sane world, he wants to live a new life, he wants to leave the troubles he obsessed over behind. "I must crucify the ego before it's far too late, I pray the light lifts me out" He realizes he can do this in his state, and that he needs to do it right there and then, or he may never make it out of this hellish state. He needs to confront and battle these demons or they will never leave him alone. He prays he will win and resurface from hell after... "Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away" He feels the fear that he may actually never get to see this new life. He might become a vegetable, and end up thinking he's a sunflower or something... "So crucify the ego before it's far too late to leave behind this place, so negative and blind and cynical" A simpler version of what I've said before. He needs to kill the part of him which worries so much over the superficial parts of life which made him "negative and blind and cynical", to accept the past and move on and out, because that is the only way to escape this state of mind which is essentially his old life and state of mind collapsing down onto him. "And you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable" Almost a recital of that Bill Hicks quote, he is reminding himself that in truth he cannot be harmed, he can move on and will make it out. "Just let the light touch you and let the words spill through, just let them pass right through, bringing out our hope and reason" He is using the belief of one consciousness to draw himself out, and drawing from it to help give him the strength, to endure, and to wake up. "Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away" The trip seems to fade. It seems unresolved how it ends, whether he made it out to appreciate his life like he hoped, or whether his past state of mind crushed his thoughts and he lost his incarnation of consciousness, or if he was absorbed into the singular mind, waking up from the dream leaving a shell behind. If it was biographical of MJK, well he obviously made it out didn't he? My long-winded interpretation. Beautiful music however you take it! |
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| Tool – Useful Idiot Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree with the record player joke, and the joke about adding extra meaning to nothing like we do, as Tool jokes about that a lot. But I also think that they're referencing to the pun of they're own name. I mean, after all, a tool is someone trying to please others but not knowing they are being used, or a useful idiot. My two cents :) |
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