This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be hats on different bodies
After this there will be no more
Beautiful dresses
After this there will be fast cast
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no more good clean fun
I forgive you for the rest
Even the whole time I was tested
Nobody does better, baby you're the best
After this there will be no one
After this there will be so many good ones
After this there will be less interest
After this there will be no one
No one, no one.
Hey, I run down on my luck
Hey, can I have something from you
It seems I have nothing to give
It seems you have nothing to give
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no more good clean fun
I forgive you for the rest
Even the whole time I was tested
Nobody does better, baby you're the best.
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be hats on different bodies
After this there will be no more
Beautiful dresses
After this there will be fast cast
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no more good clean fun
I forgive you for the rest
Even the whole time I was tested
Nobody does better, baby you're the best
After this there will be no one
After this there will be so many good ones
After this there will be less interest
After this there will be no one
No one, no one.
Hey, I run down on my luck
Hey, can I have something from you
It seems I have nothing to give
It seems you have nothing to give
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no one
After this there will be no more good clean fun
I forgive you for the rest
Even the whole time I was tested
Nobody does better, baby you're the best.
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Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
I'm pretty sure it's about a philandering lover.
I can't believe there aren't more comments on this song! It's so...eerie. And dark! Like much of Cat Power's music. I could listen to this over and over!
I think it talks about heroin use. There is also a documentary that follows several young heroin users from the 90s or early 2000s (I wish I could remember the name of it), but this song was used in the intro.
Being a recovering heroin addict and alcoholic myself (clean almost 5 years), I feel like there are multiple examples or metaphors for what it's like for someone, typically a recreational user of softer drugs, or more intermediate drugs like Rx painkillers, coke, benzos, and then the hard drugs like heroin–most people start sniffing or smoking it–and the start of heroin use seems to be like the beginning of no more good clean fun...
But some people, like myself, can use recreationally for very cheap and still maintain jobs, relationships, go to parties and be social, keep up with hobbies, etc... but then comes the time where you're smoking or snorting more than you can afford and it ain't doing a good job anymore, and that's a decision I had to make. And it's a very fucked up decision/place to be in life that people shouldn't ever have to deal with.
And that's either stopping while you're (somewhat ahead), or you figure you're already in too deep, and so you make that decision to start shooting it. And for me and most people, that's where all that other stuff/functioning deteriorates and then goes away quickly, and then after that there really is no more good clean fun. That first one is the best, and you think that after it, there will be so many good ones... then there isn't. It just becomes a dark world of sickness and slave-like maintenance.
@JimmyMcSweeney The Documentary was called "Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of The Street". It's where I first heard this song. I've loved it ever since.
i feel like this song is about how sex can ruin a clean friendship with someone and turns it into more of a fwb type of thing, then you just end up using each other for your own desires instead of having good clean fun. But thats just my interpretation. im sure i could be wrong.
@wolfedude17 <br /> I first heard this song on a documentary by HBO about heroin addiction " black tar heroin". You do the math!