| Supergrass – Moving Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The lyrics to this one remind me of a musician I know who moved constantly, always running away to a new town, a new crowd and a new place to fit, but never staying in one place long enough to get care much about anything there. After a while the newness of everything grated, when nothing seemed to matter anywhere... I think this song addresses that kind of social person's loneliness very well for a throwaway bit of brit-pop. (In the end, she found gardening and it all worked out OK amid the daffs.) Weirdly, until I came here, I always thought the lyrics on the chorus were "there's a LOVE-LOVE feeling around me" and that it was just being all bitter and sneering and sarcastic (I've seen the band live a few times, and still never twigged to this, doh). Anyway, I kinda like my misheard lyrics better. |
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| Toots And The Maytals – Pressure Drop Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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An angst song? Haha - no, just... no. Lyrically, it is not jolly or playful, but it isn't exactly deep, brooding or existential now, either, is it? I saw Toots live last night, it was one of the happiest, most joyful gigs of my life. Toots was probably at his most animated for this song, clasping hands in the crowd, blowing kisses, laughing and singing with what looked to me like glee. It was an AMAZING party. |
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| Eddy Grant – Gimme Hope Jo'anna Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I adore this song! It could have been angry, bitter, or despairing, but instead it is a song that really does lift your heart and hopes. I had the good fortune to catch Eddy Grant playing the midday slot at a festival last year: in the space of just a few songs, he had turned a field of a couple of hundred hungover grass-slugs into several thousand dancing maniacs with grins like pianos. I saw The Prodigy and Rage Against the Machine that weekend too. They were awesome beyond belief, and yet, as hard as I find this to believe myself, Eddy was even better! |
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| Tunng – Jenny Again Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love this song, although it is horribly sad also. I see the viewpoint as being the imaginary voice of 'Pete' living on in the mind of his killer, as he struggles to deal with guilt and regret. The repetition of the 'don't worry, no-one saw me fall' line also pays heed to his never-ending fears over getting caught. For me, the line about 'some decisions don't thread back to being right' is the most moving part: the protagonist is ultimately unable to find his peaceful space, living with what he has done. I personally don't think that the murder is intended to be figurative allusion, although the song works either way really, as it is about the consequences of betrayal either way. ... wow... I just found the video on youtube while typing this... it is pretty much perfect. That lost look in the guy's eyes at the end, quite... deflating... |
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| K's Choice – Now Is Mine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is the most beautiful song I know, and I know 12,834 songs. | |
| Flight of the Conchords – Albi the Racist Dragon Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is about menstruation. | |
| The Ting Tings – Traffic Light Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| As I said, it is about mentruation - the line 'if you turn the key then things will be fine' is an allusion to remembering to pack a clot of tampons in your handbag before you go to the salon in the morning. | |
| The Ting Tings – Traffic Light Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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File under 'needs to be experienced live'. I was dragged kicking and screaming to see the Ting Tings play this week - this song completely changed my mind about them. A gradual build up to a delighfully joyful boingy climax, the crowd was eating out of Katie's hand by the end. And she was feeding them all happy sweets. It isn't exactly the deepest song ever written, but then that's not really the point, is it? And, of course, the subtext of menstruation is so understated that many miss it at first glance. |
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| The Ting Tings – That's Not My Name Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is about a girl in who's sped over the cliff of sanity with gusto. At the moment we encounter her in the song, she's went zonko after several years of lonely neglect, and is stalking the corridors of her school, going from class to class with an Armalite AR-10, bitterly pumping rounds into all those who would dare to call her 'darling', or 'bird'. Call me Stay-cee? BAM! Call me Quiet Girl? BAM! I'm a RIOT! BAM! Call me HELL! BAM! The horror... |
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| Muse – Map of Your Head Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't know if cornflake's explanation about the LCD alarm clock, the hangover and waking up with your socks still on was 'right' (um... 6 years ago now... wow!) in that it was what was originally intended, but as a mental image it fits so perfectly that it is exactly what I think of every time I listen to this song. The emptiness of a bad hangover laced with a certain naughty joy at whever disasters befell you the night before - spot on! Anyone else like to screech along to this in a horrible metal-grating-on-metal deafening wail that upsets the neighbours in every single direction for miles around? |
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| Extreme – Rest in Peace Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Although now I think on, I've just fallen into exactly the same trap; I've highlighted faults, picked nits, then offered little or nothing positive of my own by way of recompense. Bugger. |
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| Extreme – Rest in Peace Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've always found these lyrics a little disappointing. It's all very well to give aggro little hippies like Lennon the kicking they deserve for the hypocrisy inherent in sermonising harmony from their angry balconies, but you kind of have to, y'know, *come up with something better yourself*, or you're just leaving yourself prone to coming across as equally didactic. Super riffs tho. :oP |
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| Tom Waits – Johnsburg, Illinois Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Apparently Tom Waits' wife Kathleen grew up on a farm in Johnsburg, Illinois, and this song was a love letter to her. | |
| Chris Mills – Signal/Noise Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I agree, this is one of my favourite songs. Personally, I keep it tucked away safe in a glass case, only to be broken open when it is really needed; it is so savagely bleak and despairing. | |
| Muse – Butterflies and Hurricanes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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damn, i love this song but everything i want to say about it comes out so seriously fucking cheesy - i mean: "c'mon fellow butterflies, let's be the best!" jesus... |
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| The Beautiful South – Let Love Speak Up Itself Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "the worlds greatest mum" is a reference to a cup | |
| Mercury Rev – Opus 40 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"And scratching her wrists in the pouring rain She collapses down upon the ocean floor again" I interpret these lines as a stark description of the girl cutting her wrists while in the shower (the pouring rain), then sliding on down to the 'ocean' floor below. A very grim image. I'm not sure what the line drawn in the sand is meant to mean - a point of no return, or some kind of new hope? The last couplet about slamming her eyes and locking the door could be to suggest an acceptance of death and a final defeat. Is the phrase moonlit sands referring to anything in particular? |
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