| Courtney Barnett – Avant Gardener Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think this song is largely about being lazy and giving up before you even try instead of facing the fears of failure or hardwork. The song starts with Courtney lamenting how boring everything is ("oh what a wonder, oh what a waste.") We see this in the sarcastic delivery of "i wonder what exciting things will happen today" as well. The yard looking like shit is the beginning of the metaphor in my eyes. Courtney's yard is her life. It's a mess. Garbage is just piling up and she is doing nothing to fix any of it because it's too hot (40 degrees) or because she's tired (i pull the sheets back). But she wants to fix it. She really wants to turn her life around and we see that in her wanting to "amend" her neighbors perceptions of her and because life is getting too hard to live now. However, she decides to make a show of her change instead of actually changing it. She will become an "avant gardener". A gardener like no other before! She has grand aspirations about her change and talks about how great everything will be when she is done instead of just working on the change itself. She actually gets started by addressing the problem (pulling out weeds) but is immediately laid out by her struggles with breathing. This can be metaphorical for her truly realizing how big the problem before her is and how pep talking herself is not going to be enough to make the problem go away on it's own. It's going to be a TON of work and a serious lifestyle change. Courtney's relating of her symptoms is similar to that of a panic attack. Everything is falling apart around her and she's sees her decision to start gardening as being a bigger and bigger mistake as triple 0 is called and now she is going to owe the hospital etc etc. Ultimately she regrets deciding to make something of her life but is still inspired by those who have (I think she’s clever cos she stops people dying). She wishes she had just stayed in bed and avoided this whole mess of confronting her problems in the first place. She was comfortable sleeping in. Why change that? But still at the end, we see she isn't comfortable or even good at things that take no effort at all(i was never good at smoking bongs). Courtney feels trapped by not wanting to work at bettering herself because it is daunting but simultaneously not enjoying her current state of affairs. She believes she is meant for more, but is terrified of the work it will take. just my thoughts. |
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| Tool – Stinkfist Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it is really about any addiction and trying to find something real in life. The speaker in the chorus section speaks that he can't tell if he is truly alive or not. What defines life from nothingness?What makes a man truly alive, so he turns to his addiction, be it sex, drugs, or murder, whatever. However this seems to only stave off his need to feel alive and not satisfy it. Thus the line about keeping digging until he feels something. The lines spoken in the softer tone are his subconcious decieiving and in some cases trying to help him. At the end of the first chorus, the line "take my hand" is cut off just at "hand" by the guitar rhythm. This could represent him just barely missing the true answer to his satisfaction. At the end of the song, we hear the line completed and this could represent that ultimate finding of this, and judging by the connotation of "take my hand" is possibly love. All in all I believe the song to be about failed attempts at happiness and the destruction one can do on the themselves to "to breathe, to feel, to know they are alive." |
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| Brokencyde – Freaxxx Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This band is what boy bands were 10 years ago. A bunch of talentless ass-clowns that dance around like a bunch of fruitcakes and have a fan base dominated by 13-17 year-old girls. They are just a fad that will fade in time. No one remembers the Backstreet Boys(thank God) and no one will remember these guys either. They will have their 5 minutes of fame until Hot Topic drops them for the next big piece of shit to come along. | |
| Attack Attack! (USA) – Stick Stickly Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Blessthecolton: You cannot be serious. Top five bands of all time? This may be the stupidest thing I have heard in five years. And I went to public school. This band doesn't come remotely close to even the top 500 bands of all time. And this is not just my personal preference. Any band that uses autotuned vocals doesn't belong near the top of any list. |
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