| David Bowie – Space Oddity Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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on a tangent this song, written during the height of the space race, is more about bowie's looming alienation than space travel. this is a romanticized conception of casting out from the normal crowd and becoming something new and different. something bowie still succeeds in doing. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – The Big Come Down Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| this is the release of tension. throughout the right disc of the fragile, the narrator is in a struggle between his two halves - the half trying to overcome and move beyond the loss in the left disc, and the half that wants to give in to the grief and become lost in sorrow. the big come down represents freud's death instinct, or the instinct to take apart what has been put together. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Where Is Everybody? Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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these are some of reznor's most revealing and self deprecating lyrics. in all his music, though there is a certain self loathing, never does reznor question his own purpose or integrity. this he does in where is everybody. reznor goes so far as to call himself a liar, probably the lowest insult an artist can get. it means his work is all a piece of crap, and his work is his life. in a way, then this could be the most depressing nails song ever written. but it isn't. it balances the self loathing with ego building hatred of everybody else. verses are balanced between the "you" and the "i," and the chous taunts everybody else. this is a truly great [and, as i get the impression, underrated] song, and is a hidden gem in the beauty of the fragile. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – The Way Out Is Through Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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this song is about faith. after la mer, which is about a woman killing herself, the man she leaves behind remorses [the great below]. the second disc is about his effort to recover from the loss. the way out is through is the start of the second disc. the narrator makes a blanket resolution, determinedly stating that he's going to make it. when the song reaches its climax, however, there is a lashing out. the narrator screams exasperatedly "underneath it all/we feel so small/the heavens fall/but still we crawl." the imagery here is of god. we are underneath god, small in comparison, he resides in heaven. but, with the death of the girl, faith looses its footing. the heavens fall, because god has let down the narrator. but he continues to live in god's shadow, like job, hoping that it will pay off in the end. thus the original resolution repeats after the climax. this is all my opinion, and i do not suggest any of it as fact. it's just a way of looking at it. |
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