| Gnarls Barkley – Going On Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Not to be a cop-out, but I think you're all right. I think he's using death as a metaphor for leaving an unhealthy relationship., with the afterlife as a metaphor for being a better person and doing the things he wants to do in life. He never mentions death by name, but he does talk about freedom. I think he's talking about getting free of a relationship it seemed like he was trapped in, saying essentially, "I'm going to fix myself. If you ever wake up and realize you need to fix yourself too, I'll be waiting for you." |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Blind Mary Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wes Gil, how many songs about cocaine have used the word "line"? Oh whoops, Gnarls Barkley did that too. Just because it's about weed doesn't mean it can't be interesting or multi-faceted. Just like my commentary on you being condescending is at the same time a question of Cee-Lo's originality when it comes to writing lyrics, an implied notion that Cee-Lo has a conflicted view of drug use, and a fully condescending statement in and of itself. I think beyond the weed, the song has to do with how we judge each other, as others have said. By stating that Blind Mary doesn't judge him, he implies that everyone else does. But since Blind Mary is a drug and not a person, he's doing one better -- implying that *everyone* judges everyone and casting doubt on the human experience ("she has never seen the sunshine, yet she's getting along just fine"). So maybe, just maybe, it'd be better for him to lose himself in drug use than to interact with other people ("Do you mind if I follow you?" and "Blind Mary marry me"). |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Surprise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I really don't think that's what the song is about. Its about not expecting life to always be the same. About how you have to make your own life. The first verse is saying how if you're always introverted, you can't expect the love of your life to just come find you. The second is saying when you're in relationships, you can't expect the people in those relationships to always be there, so you have to work to make it as good as you can, tell people you love them, etc. Don't be surprised when they're no longer there to tell. The third is saying when you have kids, you can't hide your problems and trials from them. If you hide it all away, don't be surprised when they grow up to be just as ugly on the inside as you. The last verse is about Cee-Lo himself. He's saying how no matter what he's going through, he always looks the same, but he's admitting to not always being so wise. So don't be surprised if one day we find out his "big ol' smile" is hiding something darker. |
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| The Mars Volta – Conjugal Burns Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| You're totally right. And there I am blathering about Cedric this and Cedric that. If only there were some kind of "edit" button... | |
| The Mars Volta – Conjugal Burns Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The whole tone of the song seems to suggest that someone has finally realized something.I think it's that TMV, maybe Cedric in particular realized that Goliath is a dangerous waste of time and a drain on the band. As for the ending, I think its the sound of Goliath wishing not to be buried. "The clocks you set are they reversing. Before this visit turns conjugal, ever more." Cedric is telling Goliath that he's going to get rid of it before the two of them end up "married" to each other. This is backed up by reports that Cedric buried Goliath somewhere in secret so it can't be found. "And I'm nowhere near the place. You sent me here to breathe. But I'm drawing closer to the present. And I'll find a space with no memories. I've got a second chance to inhabit the living." This one is pretty literal. A space with no memories is the exact opposite of Goliath, which is a big collection of memories. The band has a second chance to inhabit the living, instead of constantly talking to the past. "All of this time, bedsore containment. Where am I now that the music has faded?" Either Cedric falling out of love with Goliath (hence the conjugal burns), or Goliath admitting that its been using the band and now distraught because they've left it behind. |
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| Radiohead – Faust Arp Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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finallyCLARITY, I think you've struck upon something. Faust's soul is forfeit when he says "this is the most perfect moment" (the "zenith of human happiness" according to wikipedia). Is it a coincidence that in Videotape, the last line (of the song and the album) is "Whatever happens now, you shouldn't be afraid because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen" |
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| Radiohead – Videotape Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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As much as it worries me, I think this song is a rather straightforward goodbye. The most important bit of the lyrics, I think, is the "when" at the beginning of the first two stanzas. He's not dead, and he's not being judged. But when it's all over, "this" will be on his videotape. "This", I think is "the most perfect day I've ever seen". Now here's where my notion of it may lead me astray. It seems like "No matter what happens now," and "This is my way of saying goodbye because I can't do it face to face." mean that the person is leaving something(someone) they know and love. Not going into danger, just going away. Other people in other places have speculated that this song is Radiohead's farewell to their fans. |
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| Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Hill Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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speakupxdear, he says "Dry your eyes." And the way that its mixed in the song, the way it just flashes in the background...that's the moment in the song that really gets me. "I'm coming home, I'm coming home, to make it alright so dry your eyes..." "(Dry your eyes) Can you see me when I'm running?" |
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| Nine Inch Nails – The Great Destroyer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I disagree on the point of the disconnect of the explosions from the melodic part of the song. I think the contrast between them is one of their biggest strengths. Also, listening to it in my car for the first time (now that the cd is out), I realized the basic beat of part 2 is the deep underlying beat of part 1. Even the squidgy noises show up in places. Listen to the "hold your breath" line. Anyway, I think the song is about a suicide bomber. I never considered the idea that this might be a member of the resistance, although that makes sense now. I assumed it was an IA operative, mainly because of the first verse. "Say your name...everything gets written down" especially reminds me of the videos suicide bombers make before they blow themselves up where they state their name, etc and their dedication to their cause. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Zero-Sum Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I hear, as clear as day, a sample from The Great Below. Its the acoustic guitar line that repeats itself like rings in middle of the song. I recognize it because I have the exact sound as my ringtone and when I first heard it, I thought my phone was ringing. I think the first time it happens is behind "If we will continue at all" after 1:30, then it happens at the same point, leading up to the second chorus. What does that mean? Does it mean anything? |
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| Nine Inch Nails – The Greater Good Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I know most/all of these stories are supposed to tie explicitly to the ARG, but the lyrics (the full ones from the booklet) suggest to me that this is from the point of view of whoever is controlling The Great Destroyer. In steps: 1. Breathe us in slowly 2. Persuasion, coercion, submission, assimilation 3. welcome to your new point of view. We have disappeared into you. 4. Everything you do...anything we want... 5. Now it's all just a matter of time (6. The Great Destroyer) Still, I see how the words could tie equally as well to the view of The Administration numbing the populace with Parepin. |
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| Audioslave – Moth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with AiR7oN. This song is too inspecific to say it is indisputably about Cornell's drug addiction. I think it is quite possibly about addiction, but not neccessarily drugs. Btw, the lyrics is "(Been) Burned and fallen down too many times before" |
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| Audioslave – Broken City Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree with jaded20. It's about cities abandoned by or unable to be supported by the industries and populations that used to make the flourish. I think Detroit is the most representative city of this sentiment. It's half-abandoned and broken. | |
| Audioslave – Sound of a Gun Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It seems to me to be about the social politics that I read somewhere are hiding all through this album. I think it has to do with urbanization and white flight, especially in the second verse and bridge. In the second verse, CC wakes up in the middle of the night to hear some sound and every night it gets closer and closer. The city playground is a battleground between wrong and right. When he was young in this city, he could run around safe and unarmed, and even now he's secure in his home, but his peers keep running from the urbanization and social problems that follow them. Then in the bridge, the city is "swallowing" the town, but it's the same city CC has always known. It used to seem so free and happy and blessed before, but now maybe reality is catching up? That last bit seems to tie into Broken City. |
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| David Bowie – Word on a Wing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've read in more than one place that Bowie offered this song to Elvis first, but that Elvis turned it down. This leads me to believe that it really is just a gospel song, Bowie-style. That said, I don't think that lessens the power of the song. Can you imagine being a Ziggy Stardust fan and going to see Bowie as the Thin White Duke singing a gospel song? It's still iconoclastic. I love the "Just because I don't believe..." line, but more I love that he says "I don't stand in my own light". For someone as popular as Bowie (or especially Elvis), this would have been a really powerful statement. |
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| Kanye West – Roses Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Blck_Dymnd, Why be like that? I didn't know it until I read eatamuffin's post. At any rate, I just wanted to point out that the part where the track drops out and it's just the single, the man is singing "''I smile when Rosie comes to see me/and I'm sad when Rosie goes away/Cuz Rosie brings the sunshine..." Who is singing? I don't have the liner notes for the cd anymore. |
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| Thom Yorke – Atoms For Peace Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| eatenbytheworms, that makes perfect sense. Before I came to this pages, it seemed that the first half of the song is about telling someone depressed or anxious to stop giving themselves over to those feelings. Makes even more sense having read that. | |
| Thom Yorke – Analyse Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ok let's try this again: The song seems to follow a pattern of Thom's. He's singing about the idea that there's no higher meaning to life. "A self fulfilling prophecy..." Seems to suggest that we're using mathematics and scientific examination to tell ourselves exactly what we want to hear: "We can attain a higher knowledge of our world by careful examination, yet there's no limit to how much we can discover." "In fences that you cannot climb" The fence is a limit placed on our roaming or exploration, and our inability to climb that fence or surpass that limit gives us grounding and context. It makes us feel safe to know our bounds. "In sentences that do not rhyme" Traditionally, sentences that don't rhyme are taken more seriously than those that do. They supposedly have more gravity and weight to them. "In all that you can never change/the one you're looking for" All the things mentioned in the verse are components of the God or higher reason and purpose that we seek. We define insurmountable boundaries to give ourselves stability, value what appears to be more "grown-up" and "right-headed" simply based on its formal qualities, and look to what we actually can't effect change on as greater or more important than us and assume there must be more behind it than we have been able to fathom. Now for the chorus: "It gets you down" seems to reference the idea that knowing no boundary and having no expectation of greater context or understanding of life is a truly depressing life to lead. I don't know much about existentialism, but I think this is something related. "There's no spark..." and "You've traveled far..." seem to be blunt admonishments to give up on trying to understand everything. "There's no time..." suggests that trying to find all this great context and understanding is just a waste of perfectly good hours and years of life. "By candles in the city" This section seems to provide an alternative to life as we lead it now. When the power goes out in the city, instead of causing ourselves great stress and worry wondering what has happened, and when the power may come back, we should enjoy the chance to see the world in a new light (forgive the pun). "When all the lights are out in the city, we shouldn't be afraid, we should sleep like babies in the natural night. Then, and I find this pretty interesting (if I'm even right), Thom sings "you're just playing a part, but there's no time to analyse". It seems to me that maybe he's supposed to be softening the blow of this revelation by pretending we're just playing a part in something greater...there's just not time to analyse our role or the great machine. what do you guys think of this? am I way off? |
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| Thom Yorke – Skip Divided Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think eatenbyworms has a good idea of the song. It seems maybe like the song is about an online relationship...which would explain the vaguely electronic feel to the ambience. Two people are in love in cyberspace and then when they are to meet in real life, the anxiety they feel is detailed by this song. "i got a number and location" (ip address, a representation of the safe disconnect the internet provides) "i only got my name, i only got my situation" (the other person can't know anything about you but what you let them know) Thinking about it this way, the first verse (and maybe most of the other lyrics) suggest the singer has given up prematurely on the relationship out of fear of this meeting and curses his stupidity: "enveloped in a sad distraction", "i thought there was this big connection". But then near the end he says, "don't look into your eyes cause i'm desperately in love", so the singer may be trapped in some sort of anguish saying "should I or shouldn't I" just my disjointed thoughts |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Transformer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this song is about being able to adapt and become whatever the situation calls for. | |
| Gnarls Barkley – Transformer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Corrected lyrics: (Hook) I, I, I, I, I, I Know how to transform I transform I transform Im a transformer I, I, I, I, I, I Know how to transform I transform(I can do it) I transform(I can do it) Im a transformer Im just being myself Plus I gotta be me too Silly of me to think that I couldnt bring myself to be you Ah but behold there is benevolence Behind this but dont stare though Be careful cause ill kill you With kindness Thats why Im dressed quite neatly cause Its easy And discreetly they seek me And when they reach me they see me Then believe me completely Im a real live wire, I aint lying If its between me and you, I aint dying I can transform, I can transform, I can transform Without even trying wow (Repeat hook) Now Im someone else Now someone can be me too Behold the beautiful and bold Everyday I wake up to be new Oh but its simple but they still can't understand why I think I can, I think I can, I think I can or can I Im a microchip off the old block You know not but I was a robot And I sold rock and you would get Fo sho shot with a gold glock, boy I rode Pac It's something that you wont see again What the hell might as well be a friend I can transform,I can transform, aint no tellin who i'll have to be again (Repeat hook) |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Online Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is about cocaine. Its good. The song, I mean. | |
| David Bowie – Survive Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It sounds very much like a lost love...maybe his first wife? I don't know...just sort of cursory guesses. | |
| David Bowie – Cactus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I had no idea this was a cover! Makes great sense now...it didn't seem Bowie enough. I thought maybe Iman just had that much of an effect on him. Will be investigating the original... |
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| David Bowie – Bring Me the Disco King Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree...the first verse is Bowie talking to Death. When he was younger, he knew all about dying. Now, he knows that he knew nothing. I love how he asks death to steal him away without any warning. "Stab me in the dark, let me disappear." One thing I didn't get until now was the "dead or alive" line. I think it is supposed to symbolize Death's relentless pursuit of Bowie. |
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| Megadeth – Mastermind Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Its about an artificial intelligence destroying humanity by mind control, leaving our bodies, but erasing our minds and souls. | |
| Megadeth – I Know Jack Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is the only track on TSHF that I skip consistently. Its not like "Shadow of Deth", leading into the next song...it just feels out of place. | |
| Megadeth – FFF Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| As completely inappropriate as that was, it was even more wrong. Fight For Freedom was an early 90s group of Los Angeles community activists/vigilantes. Dave wrote a(nother) song about hating the system but loving his country and its freedoms. | |
| David Bowie – Bombers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yeah very simple...its about mutually assured destruction. Sooo good though...happy music for a dire concept. Well done, Bowie. | |
| David Bowie – Stay Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is about wanting to ask someone to spend the night and not having the tact to do it. "if I did casually mention [what i want out of] tonight, that would be crazy tonight" "right is so vague when it brings someone new" "this time tomorrow ill know what to do" -tomorrow when its too late, he'll know exactly what to say: stay |
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| David Bowie – Wild Is the Wind Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song always sounds so mysterious to me. BTW, I do believe this is a cover of a Johnny Mathis song. | |
| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't pretend to know all the underlying sentiment in this song, but here goes something... The girl of verse one is a disaffected youth who knows more about modern life than her parents (a recurring theme of bowie's). This girl in particular wanted to go out, despite her parents' vehement refusal, but her friend split on her. So she's off to the movies instead, since she's already been kicked out. However, the movie is a let-down because its supposed to be spectacular and its no more than her typical night out. Then it shifts view in the chorus, describing real life in the world...sailors causing fights, police injustice...its all a big show. If there's life on Mars, they're probably eating up this big spectacle called Earth. Now Bowie sheds the girl metaphor. I have to agree with previous ideas that Mickey Mouse is about the loss of innocence. The worker's strike is a direct link to socialism, but also in a sense, striking to get your name in the paper (since Lennon's calling for a revolution anyway). The mice do seem to be the underserved, underrepresented masses. The Rule Britannia lines seem to suggest simply that the law excludes everybody from fair treatment for one reason or another. His mother is a woman, his dog is an animal, and the "clowns" (his 'unprofessional' peers) are plain undesirable. Now back to the movie, but this time he's speaking directly about himself. The depiction of real life is boring, because he wrote ten songs about it already. And here, by finishing the last chorus, he's writing yet another song about it. |
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| David Bowie – After All Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have loved this song from the second time I heard it, two years ago. Here's what I think it means, though this may be colored by a recent Nine Inch Nails addiction: Bowie seems to be talking about how futile our searches for meaning are. "Please trip them gently....we're all very small" Explain to them gently what life is really about, they don't like to be told differently than they believe. We can't begrudge them this, we're the same way. "We're painting our faces...a secretive ball" The way we behave in our beliefs, though is no different than cavemen or "pagans" before us. Its just an update on the same eternal search for meaning beyond our senses. "Won't someone...taller children after all" We can't just hold what we believe is true to ourselves, though. The older generation is no different and no more advanced than us--they only look older--so they deserve to know what we know. "Man is an obstacle...he won't let you down." People and humanity as things we hold onto are only trouble. If we let people and humanity flow in and out of our lives, our attachments can't bring us any trouble. "Some people are marching...smaller ones crawl" Everybody is headed through life, towards death. It doesn't matter how old you are, how many people you love or align yourself with or anything else. "But some sit in silence, they're just older children, that's all." (I'm not certain about this one.) There are some people, though, who really do understand what life is and don't seek out death, but let it come to them. "I sing...with my words" The things I do are brash and unimportant "I've borrowed...nobody's children at all" You might have done more 'important' things than listen to this song, but I had to tell you, there's no God. "Live til your rebirth...bear me no ill" Don't let this all depress you...just live. There's no point in remembering all these things I've said. I didn't mean to bring you down. Overall it seems to be saying a few basic things: 1. The search for meaning is getting us nowhere. 2. Attachment is a pitfall. 3. We're all facing inevitable death. 4. There's no overarching deity. 5. My efforts are fruitless. I've read somewhere that these points, or something like them are the basic tenets of existentialism. I think Bowie puts these forth again in the song Quicksand on Hunky Dory. |
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| Weezer – We Are All on Drugs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the people who have complained about this song so much have distracted others from what the song may actually mean. Each verse is like the things your parents (well, somebody's parents) would say. "Oh yeah, you think you're cool now, skipping classes, but you just wait and see." And everybody, when they were in high school, has heard that speech or been suspected of drug use by somebody...therefore, we are all on drugs. I think the song is a rallying anthem of sorts...like "No I'm not actually on drugs, idiot." or "No, drugs don't actually make these things happen to me." In a way, its the same sort of nerd/individuality identification song as they used to write. "I'm not just another bad kid." |
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| Megadeth – In My Darkest Hour Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Cherse, indeed it isn't to another dude. "Maria Ferraro, a true metal legend aptly named 'metal Maria' worked for Megaforce records. She called me the day that Cliff had died or somewhere close to it. No one else from Metallica or their management did. I went straight to the dope man, got some shit and starting singing and crying and writing this song. Although the lyrics have nothing to do with him, his untimely passing gave me this melody that lives in the hearts of metal heads around the world." (Mustaine, 2001) -thanks to Realms of Deth for the quote I think the song is trying to be clever and sound like its about God when its really about a girl...but its too transparent...probably because Dave was to distraught/drugged up to get the trick right. As a song about a girl, though its really quite good and the music...well it just can't be compared. But Megadeth is usually that good anyway. |
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| Metallica – King Nothing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The "off to never-never land" bit is an adlib...James making fun of how much King Nothing sounds like Enter Sandman. What I dont know is why Bob Rock left it in on the "squeaky clean" Load production. | |
| Metallica – 2 X 4 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Right, OneofIt. A 2x4 is a cut of lumber, just about perfect for use in a fight...and often used to that end {grins}. | |
| Metallica – Bleeding Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| DeathByAsphyxiation is half right and the lyrics are twice wrong. He says "I take the leash/that's LEADING me" and "I take the LEECH/I'm bleeding me" | |
| Megadeth – Symphony of Destruction Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Test Xtreme, you're pretty arrogant to be so wrong. According to Mustaine, 1992: "Basically what this song is about is, you take a person - a typical stereotype numbskull - and you give him the old shit, shower, and shave, throw him in a monkey suit and he can run the country. I mean, they got a monkey up there right now. As he starts to become more this political puppet, things start to get worse." and "It's about the masses being led to their own destruction by a leader who's more or less a puppet of a phantom government. Just about every leader we've had that hasn't ended up with a bullet in his head is a political puppet." Thanks to Realms of Deth for the quotes |
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| Slipknot – Vermilion Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think the "pheremone cult" is the system of human interaction that we call love...expression and reception of pheremones...a cult we call being in love. What I wonder is what does it mean that she isn't real? That he doesn't actually believe his wife is different than everyone else? |
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| Megadeth – Wanderlust Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Dave has mentioned The Good, the Bad and the Ugly when talking about this song. The other thing he talks about with it is the nature of the metal community...how there's always a new band coming up with their sights set on you and how they can outdo you and take your spot. | |
| Megadeth – Shadow Of Deth Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Dave puts a lot of war-like sounds in the background of this song. Think about it...there's a burning torch, hoof-pounding of a horse, harsh winds, and war drums. I think he's trying with the harsh voice to sound like an ancient general. So, I think this song is Dave's rousing speech before battle. To take it further (off course?) I think this may be Dave saying "I'm still here and I'm still ready to fight for metal." |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – God Is In The Radio Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think the people who say its straightforward are right. It seems to me, now looking at it yet again, that the song is about religious radio broadcasting. I don't think its just that general though. The way its contextualized with the snippets of religious broadcasting seems to say something about radio evangelism. Discussion of Christian theology isn't represented...just "preaching"...which seems to echo the "just repeating the slogan" part. The song says that radio evangelism, much like its tv counterpart has boiled down an entire belief system into a slogan that can be re-worded and repeated over and over...and as such, its both inescapable and ineffectual at once. In other words "God's in my radio...I hear him all the time...but he's not really saying anything..." | |
| Megadeth – Chosen Ones Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Odd as it is, El Chupacabra is right. This is the speech given at the entrance to the cave of the killer rabbit: "But follow only if you are men of valour. For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a monster, a creature so foul and cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair... therefore sweet knights if you may doubt your strength or courage come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty pointy teeth." Compare that to the lyrics of the song...wiggy. Thanks to Realms of Deth for the info. |
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| Metallica – Fixxxer Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think MetFan923 has the right idea...good hint. Load/ReLoad were written right as James' dad was dying of cancer and James' came to grips with his relationship with his mother...its interesting to see that such pure and strong emotional source material can produce two albums that people think are really, really bad. Anyway... I have a theory that the Load/ReLoad period was one of the lowest points in James/Metallica's history. As above, his parents' deaths and lives were grating on him, so he started to take more and more control...treating the rest of the band and his family badly, and falling into his addictions...and I think he just started self-loathing. So that would mean that James, in this song, is at the end of his rope. He's talking to God and saying you keep hurting me for sinning now, but can you heal me from the pain I've had before? Then at the same time, he's piling on himself talking about the "bad" things he does to be able to deal with it. Note that James enjoys hunting and was a serious alcoholic - shell of shotgun, pint of gin...They help him forget that he's effing up his life. I'm not sure which way the last bit goes...it could just be a routine ending to the song...rebelling against the oppressor (the pins). It could be James rejecting faith as someone has said...or it could be the opposite. No more pins in me could suggest no more sins..who knows? |
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| Metallica – The Outlaw Torn Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think it may be about James' mother. He wrote Mama Said as a personal song which he was persuaded to put on the album. I think this one might be his 'album track' about his mother. In Mama Said he talks about needing her to love him and comfort him and now never being able to have that. I think the outlaw moniker here suggests the recklessness that drove him away from his mother and then the searching is his endless search for her love. If you have the S&M dvd, at "the more I bless", James folds his hands in prayer. I think he is symbolizing the idea that the closer he gets to a spiritual life, the more he is reminded of his mother's spirituality (which he believed had failed her - The God That Failed). I struggled a long time with the "smash the clock" line, but now I think I have it. It means he is angry at time for continuing on past this death and then the "i'd rather die behind the wheel" bit means he would rather have lived through that time with the person who died (his mother) than escaped it (by running off with the band). Sort of saying he would have rather struggled through rough years against his mother, secretly knowing her love than to have been free of the pain so early and never get that part of the relationship. |
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| Metallica – Prince Charming Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Remember this song was written at the same time as Mama Said (Load and ReLoad being created at one time). I think that Mama Said signifies James' changed relationship with the memory of his mother (she died when he was just starting out) and now that he accepts that she loved him, he thinks "Jeez...I've been a real [expletive]." Also, Load and ReLoad were written at something of a low point in Met history. This is probably somewhere in James' lowest emotional state too. So I think this song is his way of self-loathing (he is Prince Charming) and being sarcastic in recounting all the wonderous accomplishments he and the band have made. But I could be way off. |
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| Radiohead – We Suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think its directly related to the flyer CitizenErased mentioned and the idea WolfTickets brings up. The porn industry/hollywood/political parties/anything is like the voice of this song. It sucks in all that is good and pure and full of life and uses it up, basically living on the innocence and dreams of the young, which it ultimately leaves degraded and broken. You can really tell where some of these things come from by watching the flash movies they have (had?) up on the site...random words flash up from various signs seen in LA while recording the album and they tell the story of degradation in the big city... | |
| Jamiroquai – Travelling Without Moving Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| My brother had the great interpretation that this song is about life. We're travelling through time without moving ahead in life and if we don't stop and smell the roses so-to-speak, we're just gonna end up never having lived at all. | |
| Jamiroquai – Space Cowboy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| lol...I can't believe nobody said it until Atrus. This song is so clearly about smoking out and everything mellowing out and feeling good. I know that and I've never even been to the Interplanetary good-vibe zone... ;) | |
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