| Mother Love Bone – Come Bite The Apple Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[piyushpie:26290] Actually, you got a lot of the lyrics wrong, too I said, how did I get here? What song did I sing, yeah? And just what have I done To deserve such a thing? You say, "I've heard all that before" So won't you give it up babe And stop using me boy, hey hey "I've heard all that before" So bring me an apple I'm cryin' I been persecuted Like a lying man The spirit provides me It'll sho' enuff make my todays, yeah The spirit it gives But it also can take away, yeah, yeah You say, "I've heard all that before" So won't you give it up baby, baby, baby Just stop using me boy, ha ha "I've heard all that before" (Take take me on the other side) So come bite the apple I'm run down... yeah Like Sodom to Gomorrah, all dead now All dead now All dead now So please stop to laugh And pity me My soul means well But I'm sorry My skin it is withered And I'm nervous, yes I am My future was in my hands 'till I washed it all away I washed it all away Washed it all away Said, get along, little sister I heard you're doin' well I heard you're doin' well I said, get along, a-little sister I heard ya doin' well, yeah, yeah Said, get along, little sister I heard you're doin' well I heard you're doin' well Get along, little sister I heard you're doin' well I heard you're doin' well I said show me to ya Send me to ya Sing me song Sing me a real real song, yeah Sing me real song Sing me real song Come on, yeah Come on, come Sing that song |
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| Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| cacambo43 - 'how can we dance while our earth is turning' is a metaphor for indifference toward suffering that is going on as the earth turns, while 'how do we sleep while our beds are burning' is one for guilt, and for "shitting where you eat," so to speak. In other words, if you burn you're own bed (where you sleep), you're only hurting yourself in the long run. | |
| Nomeansno – Beat On The Brat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm all ready to bet that you're a fucking special needs child. | |
| Nomeansno – Joy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's about joy. | |
| R.E.M. – Stand Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Haha, nebulon's teleportation theory ftw! Wow, R.E.M. thinks this is their stupidest song? I guess they're entitled to their opinion, but this is far from their stupidest song. I actually think it's clever and catchy but not in a lame, FM radio, consumerist way. I mean, if you wanna talk stupid songs, how about The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, Romance, Electron Blue, Shiny Happy People (seriously? you're gonna tell me this song has more intrinsic meaning than Stand), Everybody Hurts (yeah, I said it, the song is trite and fucking lame), and so on. Stipe's lyrics can be very heavy-handed at times, and I love Stand's simplicity. Simple=/=stupid. |
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| Fugazi – Last Chance for a Slow Dance Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Transcendent song. It has sort of a personal meaning to me (based on a lot of things that happened around the time the album came out), so I'll leave the explanation to others. But it is a beautiful, sad song - one of Fugazi's best. | |
| Fugazi – Reclamation Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Yeah, I agree with rer09. It's about women (forcefully) reclaiming their bodies and their sovereignty from moral crusaders who don't know them or anything about them. Politics and real life often require quite different approaches just to get through: "do what looks good to you on paper, we will do what we must." | |
| Fugazi – Latin Roots Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Could it be as simple as the prospect of having to meet a lover's parents? I'm not sure, I just always thought that's what the last line means. When a relationship gets to that point that each partner has to start sharing a bit of themselves... Don't worry atamata, I've noticed. I also used to think the line in "Reclamation" is "they're in my body!" till I had bought the CD way back when. |
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| Fugazi – Runaway Return Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Instead of the prodigal son getting a big hug, he gets a cold shoulder. Now that your drama party is over, get your ass out of bed and go put in some job apps. You're not special, and there was no rescue party sent out for you. You just feel kind of silly. Now time to be the adult you had always wanted to be, now you get to find out why your parents were always so cynical. Out of the ashtray, into the ashtray...like something burnt up and used. Welcome to adulthood. |
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| Fugazi – Returning the Screw Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I agree, I think it is about revenge, and revenge at that for "a fine disservice," "no simple burn," the mother of all betrayals. To put a more fine point on it, though, I think it's about the process of revenge rather than any particular reason. It's about feeding and stoking that hatred - watering a poison tree. "Screw" calls on both meanings of the word, I think: returning the screw is an image of retribution, also with a nod toward the abstract screw, as in "screwed over." | |
| Fugazi – Cassavetes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Name drops her for the hell of it? Rowlands is Cassavetes's widow and starred in half his films, you doofus. Of course, you "love" Cassavetes, so I'm sure you were already aware of this. As for the line that seems to be confusing you, let's break it down into bite-size pieces for you: 1) He (Cassavetes) 2) Was the one (it was he and only he...) 3) to send it (Garsh, what is "it," Scoob? I wonder if all this talk of Hollywood has anything to do with understanding this "pretty lame" song; I wonder if it's referring to "what [Hollywood is] needing" from the last thing mentioned in the previous line, since "it" usually is a pronoun that refers to a previous antecedent) 4) with truth (that means with no bullshit; he - Cassavetes - sent it genuinely with no pretense, authentically...you know, "with truth"). You see, there's nothing at all complicated or nonsensical about that. It says, concisely, exactly what it means, without filler or cliche to dumb it down for meatheads who refuse to consume anything that is not already pre-packaged for them. It is a succinctly and artistically stated expression of what the artist intended to say. Not unlike those made by Cassavetes, who you love. Happy? |
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| The Beatles – I Am the Walrus Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Eleven pages of conflicting origin stories for the song, with not one reference to a credible source, proves how funny and useless this website is. The song is meaningless. It is a joke. Read the lyrics to the Dead Milkmen song with the same name. They got it. All of you did not. F- for making up stories to look cool on the internet. You all must be social giants. |
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| Oasis – I Am the Walrus (The Beatles cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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When Oasis plays it it means, "Oh how I wish I had a fraction of the talent necessary to come close to John Lennon at his worst." In short, it means what all Oasis songs mean. The fact that they (or anybody) would cover this particular song is simply dumb. If you want to wear one of Lennon's intensely personal statements like a Halloween mask, at least pick a good one: "God," "Beautiful Boy," something like that. |
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| Public Enemy – You're Gonna Get Yours Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Great song, shitty car. It's about how the car you love that everyone else hates is special to you. It's kind of lighthearted for a PE song, I think. |
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| Green River – P.c.c. Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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One of the first true grunge songs. Amazing song. As far as the meaning, it's like this kind of existential motif that I notice used to come up in a lot of early Seattle/SubPop stuff (for example, nirvana's "Stain" which came out much later, and quite a few Soundgarden and Tad songs). Emotional distance from death and suffering in the world as a coping mechanism. The subject of the song drops out to avoid being the kind of bastard one has to be to get by in the world. I won't play the game if I can't win. It was distinctively Mark Arm's song, though. It's criminal how little attention Green River gets on this site. I know they're obscure, but it sucks. |
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| Green River – Searchin' Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| My favorite GR song along with P.C.C. The meaning seems pretty obvious. The song is (intensely) dark and funny at the same time. Good beat, great transition into bridge and chorus. | |
| U2 – Beautiful Day Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is so overrated. It seems underwritten to me, simple in a bad way: lowest common denominator, dumbed-down lyrics and trite metaphors for people who don't get 90% of rock lyrics. (Flame away, I don't care and probably won't see it anyway. Before you do, though, compare this with the lyrics of Achtung Baby and tell me with a straight face this is U2's best song!) | |
| U2 – Babyface Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| u2elevation, you talk about sex and niceness/sweetness as if they are mutually exclusive. "It sounds like such a nice, sweet song BUT..." For that reason, you seemed to have missed the point. Then again, maybe you had to have "been there" to understand this song. It's too bad so many of us are raised in a culture where sexual attraction is thought to be evil/sinister. | |
| U2 – Dirty Day Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| A few of these interpretations seemed to miss the point. It is through the persona of the father, and he's saying his blame only runs so far. And that time washes things away. Obviously, the topic is abandonment, but the lyrics challenge the stereotypical view of the father being a bad guy in the situation. It is very bitter, and I always wondered if it was autobiographical. | |
| U2 – Zoo Station Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Hey nothinlikesomegit, with all due respect, go bark somewhere else. The guy was stating his opinion, and he's as entitled to his opinion on what a song means as the thousands of others who make up stuff here. I agree with him - that era of U2 was LAME, and Achtung Baby brought it all back home. The buzz was back after that album, and anybody who followed U2 back then knows that. So whatcha gonna do, accuse me of being a buzzkill too? Bollocks. Grow up, maybe go post at butthurt-fanatics.com. | |
| U2 – Until The End Of The World Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Incredible song, perhaps my favorite U2 song and definitely from my favorite album. Hopefully, Edge's lyrical playing won't get lost in all this talk of Jesus and Judas. Excellent, excellent song. |
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| The Doors – Hyacinth House Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Just a suggestion, perhaps it has layered meaning (as in, "Hyacinth" is meant to mean more than just one thing), kids. Argument solved. StonedImmaculate428, ftw, though. Excellent analysis and you even were big enough to put a caveat that it is all just speculation. On a personal note, I love this song. I have a deep emotional connection to it. I tear up a bit when I hear it, it is very close to how I feel when I am drunk and lonely, and sick of the people I know, even those who are the closest to me. I wonder how Jim's twilight years might have been different if anyone understood him/cared enough to not treat him like "just" a rock star. |
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| The Doors – The Spy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Didn't know anything about music? Pretend to be a musician? Alberts179, you are a true idiot. It's amazing that you use the Sullivan performance. That was one of the best live performances of Light My Fire ever! Morrison had natural talent. You don't have to be "trained" to be a genius. But since you're freaking Mozart, how about giving us a link to YOUR discography of best-selling, musically innovative albums that redefined rock music? Waiting... |
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| The Doors – The Soft Parade Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Odinflasser, it is about life, you dweeb. You can't petition the Lord with prayer to solve all your problems for you (cos God ain't listening if there is one), so you have to take what life throws you. You have to sweat and save, working for a shallow grave (all your LIFE). Read the lyrics, you nitwit. What makes you think it can't be about religion and life? But it most certainly (and primarily) is a song about life. This is about seizing the moment, and still being trapped and working your ass off for nothing. It's about all the happy-crappy shit you're taught as a child turning out to be a bunch of lies, and modern life being a shallow, brutal place. Only a person above the age of 12 (or one with an IQ above 12) would understand that, though, so that's why (most of you at least) fail. |
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| The Doors – The Soft Parade Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Ahhh, fuck, I get so tired of you people saying everything anyone wrote was just because he was tripping! You can't get the Doors without tripping, you can't get The Wall without tripping. Morrison, and Cobain, and Poe, and Rimbaud and every artistic statement they ever made was solely because they were high. Just because YOU don't understand something doesn't mean it has no meaning! And if you would actually check out what the Doors have said (the words that the actual people who were there stated in interviews), Morrison wasn't on hallucinogenic drugs nearly as much as you think. It amounted to a short while early in the Doors career. Don't believe every pop culture myth Oliver Stone has sold you! As mentioned in the post above, you obviously don't understand music, and I'll go a step further and say you don't understand art. So stop trying to act like you do, and blaming great art on "Well, he musta been trippin', cuz I don't understant it...duhhr." Just because you have no greatness in you does not mean others don't have it in them. Have you even tripped before? Try writing something while you are tripping on acid, or record yourself singing, and see how it turns out. Retards... When he says "trip," he means something greater than just an acid trip. He's talking about life. That's what this song is about...life. It's so epic. You can't just spell everything out in the simplest terms, that's not art, it's dumb-downed exposition. To try to interpret this song's imagery line by line defeats the purpose. But it's not "nonsense." Jesus, why do you think a band would put all that time into recording something that had absolutely no meaning? |
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| The Doors – Crawling King Snake Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Snake being a penis reference of course." Haha, you think? |
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| The Doors – The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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(The lyrics above are incorrect, but onto the song...) "Now listen to this, I'll tell you 'bout the heartache. I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God. I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night The meager food for souls forgot I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul." In my humble opinion, these are some of the best and most meaningful lines written in the English language, not to even mention ones written by Jim Morrison. I'm hard pressed to think of a more apt expression of loneliness in a life that at times seems to go on forever. I have been there, and Jim captures the feeling perfectly. Extremely underrated as a poem, and you just can't stop the music of the song. Killer backbeat, Robby crunching out an unbeatable riff, and Manzarek at his finest. No one, really, steals the show. This was the Doors functioning as a band and also expertly as individual members. Hands down, one of their best. |
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| The Doors – Baby, Please Don't Go Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Nope, not Van Morrison or Coltrane. It's hard to say who wrote it because it was plagiarized from other traditional blues songs (not uncommon at all). It was first performed by Big Joe Williams, then popularized by Muddy Waters. And yes, the Doors covered it. Actually, lots of bands covered it in the 60's and 70's, it was a good live tune. Off the top of my head, Ted Nugent, Them, Budgie, and AC/DC also covered it. | |
| The Doors – Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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LOL at you people who are telling these long anecdotes about how Jim wrote this song because of something that happened at the Whiskey A-Go Go, or it's and old Russian song, or bla bla. This song was written by the iconic German playwright Bertolt Brecht for Hauspostille in 1927, then put to music later by Kurt Weill for the musical Mahagonny, co-written by Weill and Brecht. Ray Manzarek had this musical on vinyl, and all of the Doors listened to it thinking it was weird and would fit their style well. So they added it to the album (without attributing it to its rightful songwriters!) The version they made is quite a bit different from the Kurt Weill version. Nevertheless, it is an amazing rock song, one of my favorites of theirs. But no, Jim did not write this, and neither did the "old Russians." (If you don't believe me, watch the VH1 Classic Albums documenting The Doors first album. Hear it in their own words.) Damn people, if you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk... |
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| Iron Butterfly – Most Anything You Want Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The meaning of the song isn't all that obscure, should be obvious from the lyrics. This is a killer song, one of Iron Butterfly's best. It's a shame the popularity of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida made them seem to many a one hit wonder because they have some great songs, this one ranking up their with early music by The Doors in musical quality in catchiness. I don't know if the song was meant to be a Doors imitation, but the great guitar and keyboard parts make it top caliber 60's rock, in my opinion. Good hooks and vocals, too. |
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