This song is about Joe Biden's second presidential campaign leading up to the time he dropped out of the race when everyone realized the media was gas lighting us about his mental acuity.
This song is about Joe Biden's second presidential campaign leading up to the time he dropped out of the race when everyone realized the media was gas lighting us about his mental acuity.
Fun and catchy. This song balances the darkness on much of this album. Jesus comes to save us from all the suicidal themes and nuance.
Fun and catchy. This song balances the darkness on much of this album. Jesus comes to save us from all the suicidal themes and nuance.
Great song but I feel a lot of the interpretations here are too literal and focus too much on one or possibly two potential relationships described in the verses that are possibly inconsequential. I believe the song is about trying to find your identity and SV really tries to focus on this in the lyrics by emphasising the changing lyric. This song was written by SV in her early twenties in New York. This is a time that is very chaotic, ego-focused and, I imagine, like the chorus seems to suggest, may have ended with a high "body count" for...
Great song but I feel a lot of the interpretations here are too literal and focus too much on one or possibly two potential relationships described in the verses that are possibly inconsequential. I believe the song is about trying to find your identity and SV really tries to focus on this in the lyrics by emphasising the changing lyric. This song was written by SV in her early twenties in New York. This is a time that is very chaotic, ego-focused and, I imagine, like the chorus seems to suggest, may have ended with a high "body count" for her. I feel the song is sung through the lens of Marlene Dietrich but in the way that a twenty something is trying on a personality and reflecting on her current way of living with this new lens. This song is SV trying on her interpretation of Dietrich like a hat and some of the detached and potentially cynical things she may have said when looking at her own life. It actually ends up being more Buddhist than Dietrich may have been (still alone, why I should be leaving) and, in this way, through trying on this personality starts to reveal something to SV about herself. That's my take!
Personally I think this song is about leaving a toxic, controlling relationship and refinding/reconnecting with yourself. Could be with a person or a substance.
Personally I think this song is about leaving a toxic, controlling relationship and refinding/reconnecting with yourself. Could be with a person or a substance.
To me the combination of the song title and lyrics make me think that way.
To me the combination of the song title and lyrics make me think that way.
First off the name is "Minus". That is an indication of getting rid of something for me personally. I do not associate that word with adding something like drugs or love to your life.
First off the name is "Minus". That is an indication of getting rid of something for me personally. I do not associate that word with adding something like drugs or love to your life.
"Drug me, infiltrate my neverland. Like the floodtide drowning the shore. Drug me, you’re all over me. You watch my blood begin to boil."...
"Drug me, infiltrate my neverland. Like the floodtide drowning the shore. Drug me, you’re all over me. You watch my blood begin to boil."
To me the above lines describe a negative controlling relationship. Pretty much every action is described as an external force driving it. "Drug me" someone else does it to you.
Words like infiltrate and drowning are also rather negative and forcefull. Infiltration is basically unauthorized entry. Drowning is rather final and a bit suffocating.
"You watch my blood begin to boil" my blood is boiling is an expression of anger. That makes me more inclined to think the lines before that are ment in a negative way.
" I love that lullaby, start me up again. Electric spine - open mind."
This part is about remembering the past, wanting a change, find courage and see with clarity.
"I leave you negative behind. Watch me all in flames. On a butterfly I ride."
This here is cutting the negative out and embracing live. Living it your way. For all to see, especially that what was holding you back.
"Inhale the light, relax for some time The world outside stays numb tonight Free your mind, express the forgotten The world inside is yours tonight"
If you have ever been in a toxic relationship then you proberbly would have had a feeling that you are not allowed to be yourself, your emotions don't matter and your opinions are unwanted. To me "The world outside stays numb tonight" is a statement that the negative no longer influences what you think, feel. Your inside world is yours again.
"Please me, deliver the insane In the chaos I find peace Please me, remind the gods of my name I believe there is one seat left for me ."
To me this is about that you matter and that you are allowed a place of equal importance in the world. When the negative was holding you back, the rest of the world felt like gods, beings above you. But no longer, there is a seat for you now among them.
Here are the full lyrics (I don't know how to suggest a lyrics edit on this website):
Here are the full lyrics (I don't know how to suggest a lyrics edit on this website):
Last night's gone, we're moving on Highways call out loud I bring them in with their eyes of sin It's a down drinkin' freaky crowd
Last night's gone, we're moving on Highways call out loud I bring them in with their eyes of sin It's a down drinkin' freaky crowd
I chew you up and I spit you out Never want to know your name Don't want to know you Sure want to show you Never will forget I came
I chew you up and I spit you out Never want to know your name Don't want to know you Sure want to show you Never will forget I came
Oh, the world's all mine White lightning and wine Came on so fast, when did I last Feel this fine? Ooh, yeah Ooh, white lightning and wine, yeah
Oh, the world's all mine White lightning and wine Came on so fast, when did I last Feel this fine? Ooh, yeah Ooh, white lightning and wine, yeah
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Sweet little one, let me love you some Take me or leave me alone The gooder they come, the harder they fall Turn around, you are a nasty joke Ah, yeah, we all laugh ah, hah, what a gas! Watching you chew on the bones
In the morning light you didn't look so nice Guess you'd better hitch hike home
Well the world's all mine White lightning and wine Came on so fast, when did I last Feel this fine? Ohh
Ooo, well the world's all mine White lightning and wine Came on so fast, when did I last Feel this fine? Yeah, yeah
Ah huh, drinking white lightning and, ah Ooh, white lightning and wine, yeah Ooh yeah
Aah, hey Alright Hey, hey, hey, hey Alright Alright Alright Uh uh uh uh, yeah Alright
"White lightning" may be a metaphor for cocaine, popularly mixed with alcohol, or in this song's case, "wine." They made her "feel fine." Then she had a one night stand.
"White lightning" may be a metaphor for cocaine, popularly mixed with alcohol, or in this song's case, "wine." They made her "feel fine." Then she had a one night stand.
The great difference between Traditional Ska and that of the Two-Tone era is the influence of Punk: not simply in speeding-up the tempo, but unconsciously introducing the theme of alienation. In Traditional Ska, the artist and the listener inhabit the same universe, there is the possibility of communication and shared experience. In Two-Tone Ska, and the music of The Specials in particular, the world is a colder and lonelier place. That may have as much to do with an inherited memory within the music, of having formerly been a creation of the warm Caribbean, with its sense of community and...
The great difference between Traditional Ska and that of the Two-Tone era is the influence of Punk: not simply in speeding-up the tempo, but unconsciously introducing the theme of alienation. In Traditional Ska, the artist and the listener inhabit the same universe, there is the possibility of communication and shared experience. In Two-Tone Ska, and the music of The Specials in particular, the world is a colder and lonelier place. That may have as much to do with an inherited memory within the music, of having formerly been a creation of the warm Caribbean, with its sense of community and togetherness, and of now inhabiting an alien land, full of cold attitudes and Thatcherism as well as stinking weather. "Blank Expression" is a novelty Christmas single with all its warmth and cheer hollowed out: the narrator leaves his street on foot, because the roads are impassable to traffic, and goes in search of conviviality; but all he finds in the bar he enters is a feeling of trepidation and of being unwanted, and the girl he tries to talk to looks back at him as if to a brick wall, "as if I were a, a total stranger". They must already be acquainted, but she shuts him out and refuses to interact. Back home, "all the, the lights are out", no welcome there.
First of all, I just saw the Violent Femmes last Saturday and I was so happy to hear them play this for their encore song, as it’s my favorite Femmes song (it’s in a close tie with “Kiss Off,” but overall I just LOVE the vibe, the video, and the overall composition of this song! I feel like this is a lighthearted social commentary on America, from an insiders perspective that is sensitive to how an outsider (someone that’s not American born and bred,) may feel about America, as it’s symbolized by it’s music.
First of all, I just saw the Violent Femmes last Saturday and I was so happy to hear them play this for their encore song, as it’s my favorite Femmes song (it’s in a close tie with “Kiss Off,” but overall I just LOVE the vibe, the video, and the overall composition of this song! I feel like this is a lighthearted social commentary on America, from an insiders perspective that is sensitive to how an outsider (someone that’s not American born and bred,) may feel about America, as it’s symbolized by it’s music.
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I feel like by the songwriter describing the moon and the lake as “ugly,” they are subverting the typical belief of what a moon and lake are usually perceived as. Most of the time, I’ll look at a moon and a lake because they’re beautiful and they make me feel calm. I feel that by describing them as “ugly,” and saying that they remind me of you, and then me; they are trying to flip the concept of what America can be viewed as, especially if we can imagine the listener is not an American, but an observer looking in; and getting a glimpse of what we’re all about. (If you watch the video, you’ll get the Easter eggs and really see the context.)
So many want to come to America because they’re drawn in by its beauty, diversity of landscapes and people, and it being the land of visionaries and unlimited opportunities. So I feel like the subversion in this song is very intentional, because even things that are often viewed as beautiful can also seem ugly by an individual observer. After all, beauty is subjective. What’s beautiful to me, may not seem beautiful to YOU.
I also feel they’re trying to impart that while they appreciate America and all that it has to offer (the offering here being music,) they are also aware of all the problems within America and it’s institutions, thus the self reflectiveness of saying “it reminds me of me” juxtaposed against the shuffle of “do YOU like American music” to it’s climactic ending. Subversion is a beautiful thing, really. 😍
I think this song may be about hightened sense during and in the face of death during war, which may feel like a machine, and prehaps the thoughts of a solider who may be counted as a disciple of death.
I think this song may be about hightened sense during and in the face of death during war, which may feel like a machine, and prehaps the thoughts of a solider who may be counted as a disciple of death.
Alternatively, the 'diamond star' may be the narrator turning a bullet into something desirable or something attractive, easy to look at or be dazzled.
Alternatively, the 'diamond star' may be the narrator turning a bullet into something desirable or something attractive, easy to look at or be dazzled.
This is another cryptic song on this album with a really deep, groovy bass line.
This is another cryptic song on this album with a really deep, groovy bass line.
This song saved my life, I would listen to it over and over in a period of self destruction and tell others who were hurting to listen to it, music is the best medicine for the psyche. Mike Skinner is a modern philosopher, what can I say. Be good to each other
This song saved my life, I would listen to it over and over in a period of self destruction and tell others who were hurting to listen to it, music is the best medicine for the psyche. Mike Skinner is a modern philosopher, what can I say. Be good to each other