| Le Tigre – Keep On Livin' Lyrics | 12 days ago |
| This song means so much to me. For me, it is about depression and how you want to hide inside and everything seems meaningless. But Le Tigre tells us to keep on living, and try and enjoy the little things like that cool breeze or the buzzing of the bumble bees, and so on. I think the line "you don't need to scratch inside" etc. means that you don't need to hate yourself or self-harm because you are valuable and beautiful. This song means a lot to me, because I've been suffering from depression for over 20 years. It all started out when I was a kid and I still haven't recovered. Bikini Kill was my favourite band when I was 20, and this song by Le Tigre gives me hope and is about the essential things that you need to do when your depression tries to take the best of you. Keeping on living. Taking joy in the small things. Remembering that life has meaning and that you are worthy of love, and that your existence is good. No matter what horrible things you've experienced, there is a reason to go on. I recommend Team Dresch's "Remember who you are" on that note. | |
| Bikini Kill – Liar Lyrics | 12 days ago |
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Hi, I've just read that John Lennon was a wife-beater and even hit his son, Julian. In this Bikini Kill song, isn't there a Bridge that goes, "All we are saying is give peace a chance" and Tobi Vail screaming in the background? Isn't this a Beatles' reference? This song probably is about the hypocrisy of some men who beat and rape, and pretend that they are decent guys. I always keep wondering how rapists (including mine) can walk around on this earth not feeling a sense of shame whatsoever about themselves. It is real, and mysoginy is more real than most of us want to admit. I recommend "Prima Facie", a theater play and now a novel by Suzie Miller. It portrays how most women who report a rape that was done to them have to endure humiliating cross-examination, and how most rapists aren't convicted. Bikini Kill might be raw and too 'radical' for some people, and maybe they didn't play their instruments perfectly, but it makes me sad how there was such a backlash against them. In my opinion, they spoke the truth about what's happening ever day, still, to a lot of women all around the world. Feminism is somewhat "watered down" nowadays, cause everyone wants to conform and not be a pain in the ass, but maybe it takes something radical to change things... |
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| Radiohead – Optimistic Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| Hi... Just wanted to ask what "dropping a payload" means... I'm not familiar with that term (not a Native English speaker) and I don't have a clue what Thom means by that .. also .. this one just came out of the swamp? These are the two lines in the song that I don't get at all... | |
| Radiohead – Decks Dark Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Ohhhh I love this song and think that it's the most beautiful Radiohead song. As for the lyrics I think it is about the feeling when you reach your life's low point. |
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| Radiohead – Daydreaming Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Hello everyone I haven't received read any of the other interpretations, but I'd like to add my thoughts about the song. I think the sound of it is very beautiful, but the lyrics and the strange "snoring" at the end makes it a bit creepy/gloomy (just as most Radiohead songs have a kind of bizarre twist to them, in my opinion). Well... To me the song is just about someone being a daydreamer but taking it a bit to far and ending up in a psychiatric hospital (I can relate to the first lines where he just talks about daydreaming and how it can go to far). He already wrote about dissociation in earlier songs, I think (for example in How to disappear completely). The thing about dissociation is that you can also do it on purpose, as for example daydreaming too much and ignoring reality too much, cause you don't really want to be here (happens to me a lot). The white room in the last part of the song reminded me at first of a mental health institution, but I doubt that Thom had been in one himself. Maybe the protagonist of the song is exaggerating the daydreaming to a point of no return. Buuuuut that's only my interpretation and how I understand the song, it is beautiful but with a hint of alienation, as always. Maybe it could be a genuinely beautiful song (there are many white rooms with a window, not only in psychiatric buildings), maybe it is meant as an ode to daydreaming. Or maybe it has something to do with politics. I don't know what's going in Thom's mind. |
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| Amon Düül II – Archangels Thunderbird Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Hello!\n\nI\'ve came across this song because The Breeders covered it on their album "All nerve".\nI\'m a German-speaker, too and the lyrics at first sight still don\'t make a lot of sense to me.\n\nBut, I thought about it and translated some words that I didn\'t know and what I get from the song is kind of a story or description of an image about humans believing in a God who says "I\'m the emperor of the sky", but I think that the authors are critizising the people\'s believes and say that there is no God and ask themselves why people aren\'t revolting against a ruler (God) that was forced upon them.\n\n"When the everywhere-eye\nAsks you\nWho is the emperor\nOf the sky\nTake the Archangel\'s Thunderbird"\n\nThat reminds me of a story I once read in the bible.\nUnfortunately I don\'t know anymore what the guy\'s name was, but there was a man who doubted God and said to him: "Why do I have to suffer so much? Why do you let this happen?" God answers: "I am the almighty God and I\'ve created everything, including you. So don\'t doubt me." (At least that\'s what I remember)\nSo God asks in this line: Who is the emperor of the sky? and expects humans to worship him and recognize him as their emperor.\nI don\'t get what the author means by the word \'Archangel\'s Thunderbird", unfortunately.\n\n-I don\'t get what they mean with the Edgar Allan (Poe) thing, bc I have never read Poe. Does he write about religion, maybe?\n\n-I don\'t get what they mean with the Cape Cod thing, but a lion is often a symbol in Christianity for God.\n\n"There is no elevator to Eden\nBut a hole in the sky"\nMaybe the author means that you can\'t go to heaven, because there is no heaven. And in reality there\'s only a hole in the sky (the ozone hole)\n\n"In shock-corridors\nPeople are standing\nWith their eyes in their hands\nBut they don\'t understand\nWhy their confessional folding-chairs\nGo into the narcotic flight of stairs"\n\nI think this describes earth and humanity\nEyes in their hands??? Maybe they don\'t see the truth because they don\'t want to?\nConfessional folding-chairs could be like a confessional box in church and they mean that going to church and confession doesn\'t lead to anything other than some kind of "narcotic" state that makes us forget our troubles while they are still there and that\'s denial, or something. And we forget, we could get up there, up the flight of stairs, and revolt against our "emperor".\n\n"Baiting soldiers are sleeping\nIn the melting House of Wax"\n\nSoldiers who are sleeping:\nThat means that anyone could just go past them up the flight of stairs to heaven (metaphorically)\n\n"Why is the audience not taking\nThe insurrection-axe"\n\nWell, they think that "the audience" (e.g. audience of religion and its stories) (=humans) should "take the insurrection-axe", which is a pretty Germanized English and I think they mean that they ask themselves: Why the hell don\'t people revolt/start a revolution against this emperor who appointed himself as such (in the first line).\n\n"Thousands of windows burst open\nAnd the alarm bells are broken"\n\nOk, so the humans, as in an asylum, are kinda locked-in in the building (=earth), but all the windows are open and the alarm bells are broken, so they could easily escape (metaphorically of course) and start a revolution against God and religion, and be free without their self-appointed emperor who watches over them.\n\nYeah, that\'s just my opinion and the vibe I get from this song (at least The Breeders version).\nIt would be interesting to know if there are any allegories in Poe\'s literature or the bible, to understand more about what the band means with "The House of Wax" (which is melting, so maybe the belief in God is melting and religious believers become less over history??), "the Archangel\'s Thunderbird" and "the tower of sleep" and "sailing to Cape Cod" and so on... I think these are some allegories and metaphors from literature or the bible or sth.\n\nSorry for my probably bad English, as I said, I am not a native speaker of English. | |
| Placebo – Nancy Boy Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I think it's about role playing while having sex with a rather feminine man. The singer probably was out and had sex with many different people and on one night he found the best lay he ever had with this "nancy boy". There are no rules and they could do and be whatever they want, no "feminine" and "masculine" part per se, but everything they desire. I love this song very much and I think it is about sexual liberation from traditional role models. |
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| Placebo – Bionic Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Why should this song be about a woman fucking a dildo? It could be about many different situations and ways of sex or masturbation (and not only in the heterosexual sense). 'None of you can make the grade' could refer to how no-one has the right to judge different kinds of sex, but it's a very personal preference thing. But I certainly like the idea that the song is about robot sex ^.^ |
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| Placebo – Bionic Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Why should this song be about a woman fucking a dildo? It could be about many different situations and ways of sex or masturbation (and not only in the heterosexual sense). 'None of you can make the grade' could refer to how no-one has the right to judge different kinds of sex, but it's a very personal preference thing. But I certainly like the idea that the song is about robot sex ^.^ |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Gravity Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I also thought it was about drunk driving. Otherwise it could also be about a prostitute taking revenge on the men who she slept with... |
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| Veruca Salt – Pale Green Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[AnnaMG:13653] Or maybe the friend is actually sleeping and "dreaming of a place somewhere else" and Louise is the only one who is still awake. No-one is there for her and she feels miserable from the withdrawal of drugs (and alcohol?) |
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| Veruca Salt – Pale Green Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Clearly the song is about Louise´s (probably first?) experiences with drugs (PCP), maybe at a party. Some girl mixed a drink or something with PCP and gave it to her. She cannot sleep (I am far from sleep) until 7 a.m. and feels sick and she wants back to her parents (I want my dad) and be safe again. You're dreaming where it's storming I miss you Maybe "you" is her friend that is next to her but s/he is day-dreaming about something else and doesn't acknowledge Louise´s presence. So she misses her friend, although he or she is right there next to her. The moon lands on my feet ...describes her experiences through drugs (feeling dizzy) The song is about how as a teenager you get away from your home and make experience new things and meet new people your age, but often it is shitty and the cost is your safety. |
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| Veruca Salt – Sundown Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[AnnaMG:12897] Or maybe the "tiny hands" part means that when she started to play guitar, she had tiny hands |
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| Veruca Salt – Sundown Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think this song is about Kurt's death and how he was kind of a musical hero for all of us.... probably Lousie and Nina also knew him personally... this song processes the grief over someone who could let us dream with their songs and suddenly dying, "sinking" slowly and without anyone noticing, when he was celebrated by all the music industry but no-one paying attention that he didn't feel well... "the sun falling down" is maybe an expression how all went black when he suddenly died and everyone was shocked. also "sun" could be a metaphor for Kurt who "fell down" and who ended his life with depression and drug addiction. I'm the girl with the tiny hands Planted underground Maybe this line means how she (Louise or Nina?) who was a teenager was influenced by Nirvana and their music - and their part in the underground music scene. "Tiny hands" maybe meaning that she wasn't supposed to be the "rock cliché" of a physically strong man and Kurt brought her into music and brought to her the idea that everyone can be a rock star and that women are "the future of rock" (as he said). the idea of equality and appreciation. Good night moon, good night mush Good night lady saying Hush ...probably refers to a lullaby ("lady saying hush" meaning mother who sings a lullaby). it means how Kurt's innocence died through the tough world out there and how he got beaten by the world's cruelty... (also his parents' inability to provide a good childhood for him). and that's how a part of us all died. |
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| Veruca Salt – Shimmer Like A Girl Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[AnnaMG:12896] Shame crashing, falling off of the tracks now. Get cracking at the small of my back now. I failed you and they're beginning to talk now. I nailed you until you're walking the walk now. .................................................................................. I think this part deals with the insecurities we still have to face. she wants to have power over the guy and say him to fuck off, but there's still this nagging doubt... He still might win. It is probably about how as women we are told that we are worth less than men and how it is so difficult to fight against these inequalities and living our lives without self-doubt. To be able to be ourselves. |
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| Veruca Salt – Shimmer Like A Girl Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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yes it's definietely about a girl wanting to just be wild and herself and not think of what other people think of her - like society taught us. To be "dirty" and full of energy, just to live. But maybe "shimmer" also is a symbol for having power. maybe it is meant to ironically have 2 contrary meanings. I think "Blow it out your ass it's Veruca Salt" is the best part of their musical history. Also American Thighs and the Seether Single ("She's a brain"!)... I love them a lot, but I don't like their pop-songs/bits so much... |
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| PJ Harvey – Sheela-Na-Gig Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think the overall theme of this song is a woman taking control over her sexuality (just like a lot of other songs of PJ) and men denying it. But she just walks away from that man and looks for another who will respect her way of having the power over own sexuality. |
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| PJ Harvey – Sheela-Na-Gig Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think "put money in your idle hole" means that he rejects her through saying that she is not worth enough, too unclean for him. Hole clearly means vagina here. She offers him to have sex (maybe she is even in love with him), but he denies and degrades her. Maybe money in this case is a symbol for worth. Maybe he doesnt want a woman who is so blunt and directly says that she wants sex. "Turn the corner, another one there" could mean that she doesnt care and just will jump to another man, or that there is another man who rejects her in the same way... |
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