| Fields Of The Nephilim – Trees Come Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I like the Trees Come Down AD version better, even though it is considered unoffical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTEunB_AWI It clearly is about war, could be a nuclear one: "Worship the Sun", people going insane in the Armageddon like surrondings. |
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| The Clash – Career Opportunities Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Really Good one, a good reminder of the 1970s, nice law to force ordinary youngsters to open presumptive letter bombs... | |
| Bad Religion – The Handshake Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I disagree, really, that the lyrics are sub pair. There is a lot of truth in these lyrics, I like them a lot. But there is not much to say about interpretation, it is pretty clear what it is about. | |
| The Sisters of Mercy – Temple Of Love (Extended) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is so filled with symbolism that you can get almost anything out of it. For example: "In the black sky thunder sweeping Underground and over water Sounds of crying weeping will not save Your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar All your prayers must seem as nothing Ninety-six below the wave When stone is dust and only air remains" That isn't exactly spelled out. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "My kill-hand is called E.V.I.L.", his Red Right hand... | |
| Iron Maiden – Brighter Than a Thousand Suns Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| @SpiralArchitectX, I just want to fill in - in support - that the test site is called "Trinity Site". | |
| Backyard Babies – Minus Celsius Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Not the greatest lyrics, but a really hard hitting piece of music. It is about loss of girl/guy, a bit like "Nine While Nine" (SoM) |
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| Backyard Babies – A Song For The Outcast Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yes this song is so hard, fast paced and really straight forward, with good lyric s too!! | |
| The Cure – Disintegration Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have commented above too, but yes I see it sort of that way: It is partly about self loathing, at least a strong undercurrent of it, and with no respect for yourself, then you can really indulge in total disrespect of the other part in the relation too. |
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| Depeche Mode – Pipeline Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The key part is "Taking from the greedy Giving to the needy" That is the only parts which reveals intentions. "Taking" is redistribution of wealth by other means than consent. "Greedy" and "needy" is subjective but should realistically mean that does that have less will receive from those who hoard wealth. "Pipeline" is not to be taken literary. I can be any mean with which you can fulfil the quoted two lines. It can be an organisation, a mean of transport, subversive activity on the Internet or in papers, ethermedia, or why not the sack and the crowbar of the sterotype burglar. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Ruiner Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Gj Whisafur, I agree but I want to amend a bit. The following lines is about the storyteller/TR being turned into something he don't like, but which makes him dangerous to the Ruiner. The Storyteller himself has become a hater, he don't like it at all, but he also indulges in it: "maybe it's a part of me you took it to a place i hoped it would never go and maybe that fucked me up much more than you'll ever know" After that you get the strong chanting about: "You didn't hurt me", it is the avenger, the destroyed and twisted, but dangerous storyteller which returns. One come to think about school shootings, domestic violence and such horrid things when hearing this from this perspective. |
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| Iron Maiden – For the Greater Good of God Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| @angvs That's a real fan: "Iron Maiden are not atheists. They are superior to religion." :) | |
| Kent – Sundance Kid Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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For some reason I come to think about those political engaged, rightist, well dressed, well to do guys in my high school when I hear these words. Neo liberal to the bone, but then they became older, and disillusioned. The following part fits so well on some of those guys: Swe: Vi visste allt pojkars övermod Ett farligt vapen var vår blinda tro Eng: We knew everything, the presumption of boys A dangerous weapon were our blind belief This part is about disillusionment Swe: Ambitionen var ett långsamt gift Du höll ut länge men du föll till sist Och jag den svage, jag står ensam kvar En sista rest av en utdöd art Eng: Ambition was a posion slow You lasted long but fell at last And I, the weak, stands left alone A last reminder of a dead species Ambition they really had and ambitious they were, like their dads. But the neo liberalism blow away in the late eighties and the friend did leave the ideology and the main person is left alone with beliefs he don't belive in anymore. And this last part is what probably did convince me in my interpretation that it was about those other neo liberals, the free will as a teenage dream. Swe: Ammunition tog slut till sist Nu kan ni kalla mig the Sundance Kid Den fria viljan var vår tonårsdröm Men vi är bara instinkt, bara djur och allt är lögn Eng: The ammunition did run out at last Now you can call me Sundance kid The free will was our teenage dream But we are just instinct, just animals, and everything is lies He did fight it out until he was convinced he was wrong, the free will isn't as strong as he thought. Of course, this could apply to religious people too, but this was my (not The) meaning to the text. |
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| The Clash – (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| ntwjones@ the nail! | |
| The Clash – Spanish Bombs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"They sang the red flag, they wore the black one", seems to puzzle many. With all right as it is a bit cryptic. I just want to fill in that the communist part in the conflict were divided, with communists (red) killing units of anarchists (black) when there wasn't all to much fighting with the fascists. The text can be a homage to the anarchists, or just a reminder about their existence and that they were a subunit of their own. |
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| Sabaton – Wolfpack Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| http://www.veoh.com/videos/e134107G7C9fegm | |
| Iron Maiden – For the Greater Good of God Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song really grows on me, I might be the best on an otherwise great album. Bruce really uses his voice in a way that produces epic and is thoughtful at once. "Sometimes it seems more like The blind leading the blind It brings upon us more famine, death and war You know religion has a lot to answer for" Great text! |
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| Sabaton – Wolfpack Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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They apperently used uboat.net or the text which appear there at least. That does not take away from the song at all, quite the opposite. More bands should do research when they write their lyrics. I could actually imagine a whole album with only U-Boote lyrics! I think this song and the lyrics fits very well into each other and I am not distrurbed by the submarine sounds at the beginning. |
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| Iron Maiden – The Longest Day Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Concerning war and Maiden. I really would like to see "Sabaton" touring with Maiden, warming up the audience for Maiden. http://www.sabaton.net/index2.htm Sabaton got almost only war songs (about modern wars: 6 days war, the Falklands, Iraq2, WWI/II, Bosnia, etc), but still with much balance in their opinion, in similarity to Maiden. |
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| Iron Maiden – Brighter Than a Thousand Suns Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A reference to "2 Minutes to Midnight" is of course obvious. That song was fitting during the cold war, this one isn't equally a reference to the contemporary. But another reference is "Flight of Icarus" the sun is mentioned so much in this song that one come to think about Icarus: fly to close top the Sun and you will fall to your doom. |
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| Pink Floyd – Time Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is Essence of Life: "No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun" Either you are unaware and get caught be the loss of time, or you try to hard and waste time anyway. In the meantime life just keeps passing by with the flow of time. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tupelo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This kind of preacher man, which it obviously is who preaches, would be interesting to watch as audience. I guess he would scare me shitless. | |
| Laibach – Geburt Einer Nation Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| @ Brat moj: is is as with Leben hessit Leben for example. Exactly the same text gets another meaning when they change language and music. Maybe it says more about people in general than it says something about Laibach. | |
| Laibach – Leben Heisst Leben Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Hehe, they really did change the meaning with this song by making their own version and adding German text. It might be only me, but this part for example clearly give me post WWII associations: wir gaben alles Beste und jedermann jetzt nichts mehr hat und der Tod nun aller harrt |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Into My Arms Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@forensick: yes I do know that (even if Christians have different opinions in the matter). What I wrote was about the difference in focus: Law/Judao vs Love/Christian. Also, it is clear that Cave do not asks for intervention in anyway, but fears it as an action (not reaction) of God. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Good Warmphase, I knew that (have the book with Blake's pictures) but failed to spin on it in my previous post. @ AwwSugar: Of course, it was clear to see but I failed to see it. Well I mix your observation into mine: A Faustian God, well then we really live in a "scary" world indeed. @ Dealy. I do not agree, but I think your are at something. Ok he does not mean the actual God... or does he. I think, based on other cavian songs, that it is about the interfering God, he who interfere in the world. Either you believe in that kind of God or into the Deus Ex Machina God, who does not interfere. If there is an interfering God, according to Cave, then it is the ´figure in this lyric. A scary man. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – O'Malley's Bar Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@ GravityAlwaysWins: Haha I never thought about it that way, with the jury, it made me LOL IRL very much. Yes, indeed, what a perfect stunt for a video! The: "And I've been known to be quite handsome In a certain angle and in certain light", could be him answering in a self glorifying and vain way to a reference about his stature made by a clerk written in some record. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – As I Sat Sadly by Her Side Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I still think that it is valid what I wrote above. But I also imagine her to be the church and he being just Cave or any other person. It is a discussion between Cave and the Church. The Kitten could be God, passing between them two, finally staying by the church, symbolising the pair of them loosing the argument to the other side. | |
| The Sisters of Mercy – Black Planet Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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You can be pretty sure that it is about the third world war. the eighties were all about it. We who grow up then, lived with the nuclear holocaust as a reality, with the newest numbers of warheads presented almost daily in the papers. The likely scenario was Battlefield Europe, with both parts fighing it out in Europe, devasteting the continent in the process, both parts reluctant to bomb the other sides homeland due to M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction). That is why Europe are mentioned specifically in the text. But Eldritch had apparently (for very good reasons) that the nuclear waste and of course the constant winter predicted as an effect of a A-war would not encompass USA as well. In short, that is why Europe is specifically mentioned but why death seems to reign in USA as well. Ohh.. the song. It is a very good one, not Sister's best, but among them. |
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| The Cure – Plainsong Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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No one who perceives alienation between the loved ones? It's like the cold if you were dead", ok he is not dead as she says "like". But geradeaus (above) got good info about Plainsong being a prayer. Actually it is she who is dead but he gets contact with her through the Plainsong (prayer). She does not realise that she is dead, but thinks that the cold (coming from death) is caused by his physical absence (her absence, but that is beyond her). She compares the feeling with death, which ironically is exactly what the feeling of her's is about. And, it has been said before: this album is the best they have done and better than most other albums I have heard (I can't as a matter of fact come up with anyone album who might be better). |
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| The Clash – (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ntwjones is right, this is in no way about petty bickering (ironically it is, but there is an edge against it: it is not the message in itself). | |
| The Clash – Rock the Casbah Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The song is written when Ayatollah Komenhi took power in Iran and banned most western stuff, including most music. The opening lines is from the manager who ones told them to drop the "raga", then elaboration. | |
| The Cure – Jumping Someone Else's Train Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Just to clarify: it is clearly top 3 on "Boys Don't Cry", but even on "Staring at the Sea I hold it as a top 3. @ Tokyo Eye, yes High School can come to mind as well. Damn, I think you can meet this son IRL at almost every stage of life (except early childhood and if you get senile perhaps). |
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| The Cure – Homesick Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Also, if you listen to the music, it is planless, searching without aim or even intent in a slow fashion. This reinforces much of what have been stated above. | |
| The Cure – The Same Deep Water as You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ok a second take Shallowness/Deepness: in people, ok. Drowning: About loss/failure in general (death ranks amongst those). But these two combined gives that people without insight or ability/willingness to reflect don't suffer that bad as those melancholy or (for that sake) ambitious people who do. |
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| The Cure – Disintegration Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| That is my interpretation too, of the "Party piece", it goes with the theme. I still hold what I wrote above as right and sound. | |
| Iron Maiden – Rime of the Ancient Mariner Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The Simpsons really throws pearls at swines! LoL, 95% of all who watches the excellent show would not make that out. | |
| The Sisters of Mercy – 1959 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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for some reason this song makes me think about Joy Division's "Day of the Lords": http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=59693 The theme about childhood and some uncanny melanchony unites them. I can see these two being performed in a context as a play or so. |
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| The Cure – Closedown Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yes the whole album is absolutely brilliant. Actually it was the first CD I bought when I got a CD player, abandoning vinyl. @ rahtwinkle: you are not alone. |
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| The Cure – Last Dance Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I imagine a meeting between me and an old girlfriend that I was with almost 3 years - a decade back. I don’t know anything about her now. But we both would be much more grown up now - totally different in a positive way I do guess too. Melancholy, lost opportunities, a part of my life lived and gone. | |
| The Cure – Prayers for Rain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song reminds me of another favourite, "Nine while nine", by Sisters of Mercy (you can check the lyrics out on this site). I just refer to the lyrics, the music are totally different. But you get the same feel of hopeless, sacrificing and destructive love in both songs. I fun reference is that in the mentioned song the person is "waiting for the train", a escape: suicide or just a means of travel. Here the (t)rain is cleansing getting away from a feeling, an escape. | |
| Eminem – Like Toy Soldiers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Good song before!? Ok, now you have officially claimed bad taste regarding music. Go away and sin no more. Mad Elibber is right, of course, it really should be no ned for writing what she wrote though (btw I like MM, PF and GR, all mentioned above - and I am still sane as anyone at Bedlam) . |
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| The Cure – The Same Deep Water as You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| You got something Mother Mucus. Some people commit suicide with less insight than others (naturally),. The question is if they did draw the conclusion with less waste of time (in a positive way) or if they were mistaken (and perhaps dead wrong in their decision)? | |
| Audioslave – We Got The Whip Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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@Jumpyjack: You gotta see and face a mistake when you got it run down your throat neocolonialism isn't cool in any respect. The terrorist always appear in the eye of the beholder, the term is never in absolutes. Torturing ppl with the means of sexual overtones and severe physical abuse is also a terrorist act, which feed even more terrorists of a different and opposed kind. Any way, this tune fits well into a contemporary context. |
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| Iron Maiden – Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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@Sucrose: One can argue about who earns the greatest general title, but Alexander goes KO with all the boys you mentioned (Bring forward, von Manstein, Gustavus Adolphus, Ceasar, Mao, and Napoleon and we will then get a basis for an argument). @OUmikeray: I am a PhD in history and I like Maidens take on history too |
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| Iron Maiden – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I have done a marathon (and more) and it wasn't always nice and dandy. My luck: I had this fine tune to think about. "Will not run again". Next day ---> On the road. | |
| Iron Maiden – 2 Minutes To Midnight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song sums up pretty much of the feeling we who were young back then had. The threat about a nuclear war was in everyones life. Period. This song is so much political now than might be percived nowadays as this tune get blured by the historical tunes they have done. This tune were not historical back then. |
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| Iron Maiden – Rime of the Ancient Mariner Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well, "opening a pair of curtains" can be a pararhrase. It is beyond any dounbt that the tune is a tribute to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's eminent poem. | |
| The Mission – Amelia Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is a great song and shows that Hussey really can write lyrics, straight in the gut message. | |
| The Mission – Deliverance Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| As being an old fan of Ronny James Dio I must admit that I like the verses too, not only the really good escalating music. The Mission succeeds in making this kind of lyrics less embarrassing than Dio, kudos. | |
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