| The Birthday Massacre – Play Dead Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Making sure I don't double post again: Could this song be considered the prequel to "Shallow Grave" with a different narrator? Play Dead: The cliques want me to be as brain dead as they are, but I'm going to ignore them and be an individual. Shallow Grave: That freak tried to be different from us, but we managed to beat her into submission (one way or another). |
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| The Birthday Massacre – Shallow Grave Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Could this song be considered the sequel to "Play Dead" with a different narrator? Play Dead: The cliques want me to be as brain dead as they are, but I'm going to ignore them and be an individual. Shallow Grave: That freak tried to be different from us, but we managed to beat her into submission (one way or another). |
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| The Birthday Massacre – Play Dead Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Um, how did I just double-post? | |
| The Birthday Massacre – Play Dead Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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While I feel everybody has already covered the gist of what I was going to say, I would like to add some details: Possibility 1: "a magic where everybody plays dead forever" refers to the narrator deciding that, if everybody is going to play dead to themselves, she's going to ignore them and let them be dead to her, not influencing her life in the slightest Possibility 2: The narrator is a villain protagonist, like the one (hearing voices?) in "Happy Birthday," and has decided that if everybody else has decided to play dead, than she is going to kill them so as not to let them "bother" her |
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| The Birthday Massacre – Play Dead Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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While I feel everybody has already covered the gist of what I was going to say, I would like to add some details: Possibility 1: "a magic where everybody plays dead forever" refers to the narrator deciding that, if everybody is going to play dead to themselves, she's going to ignore them and let them be dead to her, not influencing her life in the slightest Possibility 2: The narrator is a villain protagonist, like the one (hearing voices?) in "Happy Birthday," and has decided that if everybody else has decided to play dead, than she is going to kill them so as not to let them "bother" her |
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| Rihanna – Disturbia Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| What the heck does Freemasonry have to do with the Devil??? | |
| The Offspring – Defy You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"You may push me around... So get out of my face" "You cannot stop us... We are alive" "The wind blows... So get out of my way" "All my will... Start again" "You cannot stop us... We are alive" "All my will... Start again" "All my will... Start again" "Can you leave it all behind... You can't go back" "You cannot stop us... We are alive" "We are alive" |
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| Blue October – Schizophrenia Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I don't really have anything to say that hasn't already except: could "Jesus resting on my thumb" be Justin's character praying on a Rosary for help with the proverbial demons? | |
| Harry Chapin – Flowers Are Red Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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First off, this song is blatantly reminiscent of the Soviet/NKorean brainwashing techniques: isolate the subject for extended periods and humiliate them during their only human contact, then finally offer the hand of friendship while still enforcing the philosophy/dogma, such that the dogma being imposed is associated with salvation from the torture, and surprisingly many POW's would return from Korea/Nam to the West as die-hard Communists. Secondly, this song could also be used as a metaphor for the gay rights movement (not just the obvious reference to rainbows): There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one You have to do something this way because everybody else does (having been coerced by the same argument), and if you tried to do something different then allegedly everybody else would have to, so you must do as they do so that they are still allowed to, even though if brainwashed such you will be part of the "everybody" used to brainwash the next people. You won't actually be able to brainwash a homosexual into being attracted to the other gender any more than you can brainwash a straight into being gay, but you can convince a gay that they are evil and disgusting, they until they possibly commit suicide Here's a paraphrase which won't catch on: "Boys marry girls, and girls marry boys/There's no need to see marriage any other way/Then the way it always has been seen" Thirdly, I would like to note the result of raising children to only obey orders given to them without thinking about it: pedophiles, slavery, Nazism/Communism, Kool-Aid parties, etc... |
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| James Blunt – No Bravery Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I don't think you wrote the chorus completely: The whole thing is And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore. Only sadness And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore. Only sadness Only sadness but you only put And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore. Only sadness |
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| James Blunt – Billy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Why not? | |
| James Blunt – No Bravery Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| were you intending that pun? "war in general?" | |
| Justin Townes Earle – They Killed John Henry Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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A large art of this song seems to be that people keep "living" after their "deaths." "Yeah, but when they laid him out in that box of pine, boy They laid that hammer by his side, Lord, Lord Laid that hammer by his side" This suggests that he would be using his hammer well into the afterlife (slightly reminiscent of ancient Egyptian burial rights for Pharaohs), or that he will be swinging his hammer forever in songs. "Yeah and they killed Joe Hill, put a bullet to his name But that bullet made a martyr of the slain, Lord, Lord Bullet made a martyr of the slain" Joel Emmanuel Hagglund, aka Joseph Hillstrom, aka Joe Hill (namesake of Joseph Hillstrom "Joe Hill" King), was a labor activist falsely executed for murder (most ironic) in 1915, whose name lives on as a folk hero in songs, poems, and at least one movie. "And he died in Tennessee but he couldn't find no rest With that long road to Texas lie ahead, Lord, Lord That long road to Texas lie ahead" Even though his grandaddy died, he's not resting but still trying to get to Texas "Yessir, I ain't no great man, and Lord I expect To see a long life workin' in your debt, Lord, Lord A long life workin' in your debt" He's admitting he's not perfect and that when he's dead, God's going to keep him in Purgatory for quite a long time All in all, a person never truly dies, they always keep doing something, even if only the collective memory of their lives. John Henry will always be in songs, swinging his hammer to defeat the machine; Joe Hill will always be a martyr, falsely accused of murdering a wealthy storeowner so that somebody else could get away with it; the narrator will always be trying to get to Texas for a better life where he can keep the rewards for his work; te narrator will always be in Purgatory making up for his actions in life Again, how has almost NOBODY commented on ANY of Justin's songs? They're brilliant! (Feeling, impression: Country/folk version of Dave Matthew's "Gravedigger") |
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| Justin Townes Earle – Who Am I to Say Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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If it wasn't for the second-last line "Who am I to say that it wasn't for the better, girl?", i would think Justin was satirizing authority figures by making up a hypothetical situation in which, instead of punishing somebody for drugs or alcohol or something else, the person in power took the time to admit that he/she does exactly the same thing but there's no one to call them on it, like President (Harding?) making it no secret that he drank alcohol in the White House during Prohibition when it was illegal for the rest of the country. With that second-last line, however, I have no idea. Did a relationship with a girlfriend end because they were both abusing something and would've sounded hypocritical to stop each other's respective addictions, but there were a lot of fights when one/both were drunk/high? Or maybe one did try to stop the other person and they started fighting over perceived hypocrisy? OK, so I have an idea, never mind. Oh, but who am I to say? Maybe you had good intentions at heart Maybe you took truer aim and it was me who missed my mark But for every word of anger, left unexplained, for every time that I turned you away Who am I to say that it wasn't for the better, girl? Maybe Justin, the speaker of the addict (he could be narrating a fictional situation), is apologizing to his ex for chasing her away for trying to get him help, but he finally did get help after she left because he realized she was right and he was wrong (or out of shame of how he treated her?), and maybe they each found somebody else and are better off. |
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| Justin Townes Earle – The Good Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Again, how has NOBODY heard of Justin Townes Earle, this guy's AMAZING! Anyway, this song sounds totally like he's either being sarcastic about or in denial of the fact that he's lost everything, his wife, job, home, (self-) respect... Well since you've left I've had no place to be I'll spend most everyday doing as I please I've got pockets full of money; hear a jingle when I walk His wife left him, he lost his house (or maybe he couldn't afford his apartment after a roommate went somewhere else?), he's unemployed, the bit about pockets full of money jingling means that he's pretending to be really rich but only has coins, worth a few dollars at most Now if I walk down the street everybody knows my name They all step aside and let me go my way They all smile and snicker and some won't talk at all [i think that was supposed to be "... and snicker in subtle tones of awe"] He's so filthy that people don't dare get in his way, he's "famous" as the neighborhood unclean, everybody enjoys deriding him, which he's pretending, either to himself or the person he's mad at for leaving him on the street, is everybody respecting him Oh and all the fancy restaurants won't let me wait inside They serve me out the backdoor and never ask for a dime The fancy restaurants don't think he's "proper" enough to be seen eating there, so they shun him to the back where he won't "contaminate" their reputation through association with them; they also enjoy feeling superior to him by giving him pity meals for free |
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| Jason Mraz – Plane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Somebody may have analyzed my comment to the point that I tried not to use pronouns for "honey" except for the deliberately-ambiguous "his/her." Hey, why couldn't he be gay/bi? This isn't Talibani Afghanistan or The Puritan Colonies of America | |
| Jason Mraz – Plane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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OK, that wasn't my most intelligent/relevant post, so let me try something more in depth: In the first stanza, Jason says "Well, I'm nobody," while using the pointless if not outright unhealthy security extremes to suggest sluggishness, depression, just murking his way through life. Also, as he does throughout the rest of the song, he's telling "honey" that he can see his/her house from here and will remember where the love was found, but this time it's fairly melodramatic, empty, blase, casual, like he's in a dead-end relationship that they're both pretending is still romantic. In the next stanza, "You make me somebody," while sounding more upbeat, more happy and excited about the airport than last time, implying that he found somebody to be with, even temporarily, that he felt a deeper connection with. This is also when he start saying "I can see your house from here..." with more emotion, like this relationship he just started (behind his soon-to-be-ex's back*?) is so much more meaningful than his last one. (*Gracefully unnamed and feeling guilty for the luck/ and the look that you gave me: feels guilty about cheating but empowered by not being able to be found out?) Next stanza, "Here I'm tumbling down for you," while using images on being cut up, eaten and crawled through to suggest that his new relationship is worse than his old one, as in actually damaging to him instead of simply pointless. Also, he mentions toward the end that "maybe I'll build my house on your cloud," giving the impression that he fantasizes about the relationship surviving but that it is impossible in a real world, that his last resort would send him crashing to the ground from miles in the air. (He also starts saying "If the plane goes down" a LOT more.) Also, while he says d*** about every other word for most of the song, this becomes the first time he says d*** YOU, implying the relationship has gotten incredibly aggressive, antagonistic, confrontational, and then never says "I'll remember where the love was found" again. |
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| Jason Mraz – Plane Goes Down Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| it does say quilt one time and ground one time, but this person has it backwords | |
| 3 Doors Down – Away From The Sun Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| See my reply to "take it 2 the limit's" comment | |
| 3 Doors Down – Away From The Sun Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| WHy do you have to keep religion OUT of everything? This website is for anybody to say what a song means TO THEM, not a place for everybody to get together to agree with you. | |
| The Proclaimers – Cap In Hand Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| FRREEEEDOOOMMMMMM!!!! | |
| The Proclaimers – I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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(Notice everything I will make fun of you for applies here to. Just throwing that out there now so i'm not accused of hypocrisy. Have seen that happen all of the time when somebody attempts self-deprecating humor.) 1) Beam me up Scotty, there's no life on this planet 2) I know it's "INTELLIGENT life," i was just using a (Scottish!) SciFi reference to say you have no life 3) You were doing such a good job alphabetizing everything what happened?? You misplaced advertising films, agricultural reaping machine, latent heat, Pneumatic "tyres," Kelvin scale, percussion powder, ALL of the Ma's, paraffin, hollow pipe drainage, radar defense, refrigerators, solitons, cure for insomnia, most of the T's, breech loading rifle, EVERYTHING ELSE AFTER THAT... 4) Show-off |
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| Sting – We Work The Black Seam Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Now that you and Balti mention it, modern man has been around for 11000-13000 years and seems to be on the verge of collapse. Maybe our deadly 12000 years are closing? (Now that that's said, somebody'll start a 2012 post and get 100 replies. Go figure) | |
| Blue October – James Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is Justin's toilet singing about Justin getting food poisoning at a fast food place and throwing up all night. NO FOOLING!! I seriously heard that Justin went to a fast food joint where the name involved James, the so-called servers have the SAME dozen-odd words they repeat to EVERY patron, and Justin got food poisoning and spent an entire night kneeling before his toilet; next time you listen to this song, imagine that Justin is throwing up and his toilet is talking to him. SERIOUSLY!!! | |
| R.E.M. – It's the End of the World as We Know It Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| like "the news" by jack johnson | |
| Jason Mraz – Plane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Has anybody seen the final destination movies? SciFi channel seems to love them, so i've seen FD2 and the first half of FD1. I'm just thinking that since "Highway to Hell" from AC/DC was amazing/perfect on the radio right before the huge pile-up in 2, was this song mentioned before the plane explosion in 1? | |
| 3 Doors Down – Going Down In Flames Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| reminds me of "let me be myself" (same album right?) | |
| O.A.R. – Love and Memories Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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While i get where everybody else is coming from with the stuff about relatively normal "relationships" or lack thereof, the impression i keep getting from this song (i actually started listening by accident: it was right after "Heard the World" on my iPod) is that of a stalker, somebody who hasn't gotten over the fact that his "interest" (translate: prey) is not the artificial construct he has created for her, and interprets her trying to get away from him as a fact that he needs to step up his efforts to control her. "Lovely, your always lovely. A vision, you were the one:" "What was important to me was not the person you are, but rather an artificial construct I created about who I believe you should be, and we continually fight as my illusion conflicts with the real you trying to be expressed despite my machinations to make you the perfect 'match' (possession) for me" "You forgot about our destiny, you buried me": "You forgot that you belong to me and will be who I want you to be, you dared to have your own life" "I watched your eyes glaze over, stare down at the floor": "I don't care that I wasn't showing you as much attention as I was myself, I'm more important than you are" "But here, we go, again": "You may be this close to escaping me by getting the police involved, but my will shall prevail over yours and you will belong to me" This is just the feeling i get from this song, which i guess says something about my character but i've done a lot of research on stalkers; i have absolutely no problem with other people getting different impressions, this song does not "belong" to me, i cannot force my opinions on other people or swear at them for disagreeing with me. |
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| Uncle Kracker – Drift Away (Feat. Dobie Gray) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| i used to think this guy was telling us his favorite band: "Oh, give me the Beach Boys, etc." Oops | |
| Train – I'm About to Come Alive Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| what's wrong w/ loving zombie movies? | |
| Justin Townes Earle – Lone Pine Hill Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I cant believe nobody else has posted on this song I love it so much. About 1/2 or 1/3 of the way into the song is a SINGLE stanza celebrating war in all of it's false glory and the ENTIRE rest of the song is a disillusioned soldier's desperation to get out and return to the life he had and the woman he loves. Plus that line about how beautiful landscapes and countless living things are destroyed forever in the name of money for right now. This song is about 50% love song, 35% anti-war, 15% conservation (by my estimates at least; somebody else could absolutely come up with a different ratio). Amazing. | |
| O.A.R. – Heard the World Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Is it creepy that i started looking into this song because i only heard the refrain but it sounded like something from a Saw movie? (i've seen the second half of each of the first 2 on SciFi channel) "... world up late night, holding my breath tight, trying to keep my head on right. There's a chill in the air, nobody could care how you're, caught up in the fight of your li-ife" I also think this would be great in the soundtrack/trailer for a zombie movie (remember "Mad World" over the trailers for "The Crazies" remake?) (I love horror movies in case you couldn't tell) |
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| Train – All I Ever Wanted Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Did anybody see the time Train performed this song on an episode of CSI: NY because the lead singer was playing a homeless man who started a band (the real one) after getting caught up in an insurance scam? | |
| Jack Johnson – The News Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die?" 4% of the American population (12 mil / 300 mil) is estimated to be clinically psychopathic, physiologically incapable of feeling normal emotion like normal people. Without emotion like regret, guilt, shame, sadness, remorse, they are incapable of developing a conscience, a moral compass, sense of right and wrong. Brain MRIs and EEGs (electroencephalographs) have shown that, while normal people respond more strongly to emotionally charged words like death or cancer than to neutral words like chair or spoon, psychopaths respond just as strongly (not at all) to both groups of words. (The first time these studies are sent from universities to newspapers, they were sent back because the editors "determined" that these studies were false because these EEGs "couldn't have come from real people"). Naturally, despite "only" comprising 4% of the general American population, these "people" comprise 20-25% of our criminals, 50% of our serial rapists, and 85% of our serial killers. hypothetical newscast (i hope) :"In other news, a family was brutally murdered today in a home invasion, with each person's eyelids cut out so that they would be forced to watch each other burn alive. Now for the weather, Mike?" |
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| Train – I'm About to Come Alive Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Reminds me of how Jeffrey Dahmer claimed to have found the light of Christ in prison (yes i said the same about "I will survive"-Stephanie Bentley) | |
| Stephanie Bentley – I Will Survive Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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YAY MY FIRST POST! How has nobody else posted this song is amazing? Reminds me of how Jeffrey Dahmer claimed to have found the light of Christ in prison (yes i said the same about "I'm about to come alive"-Train) |
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| Sting – Russians Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Imagine if you replace the capitalists and communists decades ago in this song with democrats and republicans today: why don't we try to fix the country instead of throwing around sound bites for political brownie points, fiddling around while the country burns? | |
| R.E.M. – I'm Gonna DJ Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Sounds like "Heavy metal Christian rock" if such a thing exists: If death is pretty final, I'm collecting vinyl, I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world Since we only have on life in this world, I'm doing only the very best, most moral actions, so that at the end I'll be celebrating in Heaven. It's on my mind, it's in my mind, it's what i found, it's what i find, repeat Trying to be a good, holy person is everything in my entire life, every little thing |
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| R.E.M. – Supernatural Superserious Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| All of this talk about sexual freedom reminds me of my own "sexual dysfunction": my orientation is asexual, meaning I'm not interested at all in sex, porn, or dirty jokes (we are a 1% minority in America, 3 mil / 300 mil), and i got the same kind of cr** at school for not being interested at all that gays (Stipe is gay right?) get for being interested "the wrong way." Also, since neither preference really means much to me personally, I'm a bit more comfortable talking about gay rights than people who heterosexual (and probably think of gays as "weird" on at least some level), which means that all of my alleged friends quickly assume I'm gay. Seriously, I talk about it more than them because neither option means more to me than the other, so i don't think of one as more weird than the other, neither interests me. Would you ask a blind or color blind man to take sides in Jim Crow? | |
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