| Phil Collins – Another Day In Paradise Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's pretty self-explanatory, really. That's probably why there hasn't been many shots at interpretation. It's not the homeless dream of paradise... it's that we're in paradise by comparison. | |
| Abandoned Pools – Start Over Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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We can start with all the things that turn us out And we can go right down the list and throw them out The way he sings those two lines reminds me of some other song. I just can't remember which. |
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| Abandoned Pools – L.V.B.D. Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think it's the lyrics that does it. They're definitely the sort of thing Billy used to write. You can imagine exactly how Billy would have sung it. Even the solo sounds like a Pumpkins solo. Maybe Billy should cover it? He seems to be branching away from the Pumpkins sound though. |
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| Pink Floyd – Us and Them Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Gunmetal seems to have missed out the last two words in the header of this reply box. Anyway, if it's war, all war, and nothing but war, explain these lines: out of the way, it's a busy day I've got things on my mind for want of the price of tea and a slice the old man died |
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| The Doors – Crawling King Snake Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| JLH isn't credited. Not on my copy of LAW anyway. | |
| The Who – Sally Simpson Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| rushmore, I'm pretty sure it was the doctor who told Tommy to go to the mirror and the mother who smashed it. That's what the liner notes say. They're not lyrically perfect but I think we can rely on them to get characters right. | |
| The Who – Pinball Wizard Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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As far as I interpret it, Tommy was never ACTUALLY blind, deaf and dumb, just completely withdrawn after witnessing the murder of his mother's lover. We know he saw and heard it from what he says in 1921. Seeing something like that when you're four or five. (which I think was his age then) is bound to have an affect on you, but it doesn't give you physical disabilities. Rather, it created an almost instantaneous emotional wall (If you'll pardon the Pink Floyd comparison) So, not being physically blind and deaf, it's not so amazing for him to end up being so good at pinball. |
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| Pearl Jam – Dirty Frank Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This ain\'t the only Peppers connection. Future Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons was one of the founding members of RHCP. | |
| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The first three lines seem like a crack at the rest of the band. From some things I've heard, the band was planning on dropping Syd for a while before that time when they just didn't pick him up, and they might have left him standing more than once before hand. | |
| Pink Floyd – Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Little by little the night turns around Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn Lotuses lean on each other in yearning Under the eaves the swallow is resting Set the controls for the heart of the sun Over the mountain, watching the watcher Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine One inch of love is one inch of shadow Love is the shadow that ripens the wine Set the controls for the heart of the sun Witness the man who raves at the wall Making the shape of his question to heaven Whether the sun will fall in the evening Will he remember the lesson of giving Set the controls for the heart of the sun |
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| Queen – Was It All Worth It Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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There is a good chance that this was written because of, but not written about, Freddie having HIV. It would have made a good farewell song if they hadn't managed to record another album during Freddie's lifetime. Notice how in the CD re-release the song is followed up by the B-Side Hang On In There (Don't let go/Don't lose your mystique/Wait a little longer/Tommorow brings another feast) - it's like a statement saying "Hang on! We weren't quite finished yet!" |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Cheek, have I? Why? I interpreted it as I have the freedom to do so. That first verse DOES fit, as I've made all to obvious. You say it;s an epitome of despair - wouldn't the knowledge that you're just a component of some greater machine... that you're something with no personal freedom or real individuality... fill one with despair? I'll stress that I'm ONLY talking about the first verse. Any similarities dissolve after that |
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| Queen – Mother Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| No. Not the last one he wrote. The last one he recorded - as in sang on. The last one he wrote was A Winter's Tale. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Funnily enough the first verse fits very well to The Matrix. "You have your very own number" You're just another component in the system - nothing more than 'another number' to the machines "They dress your cage in it's nature" Those trapped in the Matrix see an environment that they see their own - that of 20th century Earth, yet they are still caged here by their oppressors. It's all an illusion. "Once you roared now you just grunt lame" Before the machines came the human race ruled the earth. Now they are condemned to simply imititate everyday life "Pace around pathetic pound games" The main activity in most people's lifes - making money. In a capitalist society it's necessary for survival, whether you get it through work or dole payments. But in the Matrix it is just a game - nothing actually matters because nothing is real |
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| Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Why shouldn't he have been? Why does it bother you so much? | |
| Queen – The March Of The Black Queen Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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You should really hear it before you comment on it. In fact you should here it anyway. It's one of those rare gems that's even better than Bohemian Rhapsody and perhaps the best Queen song ever written. As for an analysis, I point to this page: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/4425/tmotbq.html They explain it better than I ever could. |
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| Queen – Hang On In There Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Originally, this, I believe was a B-Side. It was added as a bonus track on The Miracle on CD. My guess on why it was included is this: When the Miracle was released, Queen knew it might be the last album they released, so they finished it up with the brilliant "Was It All Worth It", a look back on their careers and a worthy 'Farewell' song. However, Freddie managed to hang on long enough to see the release of Innuendo and record some vocals for Made In Heaven. So by adding this song, it turns from "Farewell and goodnight. It was a brilliant show." to "It was a brilliant show... but hang on! We're not gone just yet!" The song itself, is, of course, saying to not give up... you still have more to fight for. |
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| Queen – Cool Cat Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well, sir, you are an ass. So even if I was a loser I'm still one better than you. Who says I have to like a song to read the comments? As a matter of fact, I do like it, though only because of Freddie's vocal performance. I was only saying that there are better songs to comment on if you want to find real fans, even if it would take a real fan to know it. This is especially true if you define a real fan as "rather than just people who have heard the beat to a couple of songs at a sports event and think that they are Queen's biggest fan." Heck, almost any other song on Hot Space would have been better, save for Dancer and Body Language - too crap - and Under Pressure - too popular. Also, almost any song on Queen II, the lesser tracks on the Miracle (Rain Must Fall, Was It All Worth It? or Hang On In There) or perhaps the rest of News of the World after WWRY/WATC, but don't quote me on that one. Another thing, why are you flaming me and not gmandi1708 , who stated the point in the first place anyway? |
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| Queen – Cool Cat Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I have to agree with qmandi1708: all those great Queen songs, never been released as singles, and you pick this one? What were you thinking? | |
| Queen – We Are The Champions Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think you can blame Allmusic.com for all this "WATC = Freddie's gayness" ****. But where they got the connection to WWRY from, I'll never know. There's only two Queen songs where I see any links to homosexuality: Get Down, Make Love and Body Language, and both are pretty unknown (and very bad anyway). | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Today Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Nah... Billy never did attempt suicide. Because if he had, he knew he would succeed. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Where Boys Fear to Tread Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The song's about fickle teenage relationships: how people cling on to each other, call it love, when really they don't feel for each other at all. Either that, and/or it's written against shitty girlfriends: "candy cane walks down" Here she comes... the girl of your dreams for the next few weeks "to build a bonfire, to break my fall" Breaking your fall on a bonfire- ie, she gets you out of deep shit now... maybe gets you back on your feet when you're depressed of something. But at the same time, she's planning to really screw you over. "my baby, my sweet thing" Generic, clichéd love comments - everybody shows how much they love someone by imitating the rest of the world "just maybe we could lose ourselves this time" Losing themselves in each other - a constant hope that she could be the one, even though it has happened to him before and he should know better (this time) king of the horseflies, dark prince of death his tragic forces are heaven sent in sweet things, in a lovers breath in knowing this was meant to be the last "a go-go-kids, a go-go-style" It's the way of the teenage world: everybody does it. Also, people with the right style- fashion ect- are much better at pulling these girls. "a suck suck kiss, a suck suck smile" The show they put on in public - lips clamped together at any possible chance ect. "as always, in young need a velied promise to never die" They try to convince each other that it'll last forever, because right now, they tell each other, it's the only thing they have to cling onto. But they now damn well it won't- and it's likely one of them at least (and I think Billy's pointing his finger at the girl) is preparing for that eventuality. "on dead highways, her black beauties roam" There's always more people around to screw you over- they look fair and compassionate and whatever (beauties), but really they are thoroughly evil (black) "for june angels, so far from home" Billy seems to have had a fascination with the month June: it pops up in quite a few of his songs. So far from home = the life he was used to - ie. with that last girl to screw him over- has left him. He's lost and confused. "for a love lost, a faded picture" Love lost speaks for itself. The faded pictures = photographs he has of all his past girlfriend- deteriorating just as the relationships did. to tread lightning, to ink the lavender skies "so get on the bomb get back where you belong" I haven't interpretated every line... Billy uses a lot of symbolism- I don't know what he means by 'King of the Horseflies.' What I can translate, though, does fit. And also, I'm interpreting it as the girls always screwing the guys over. Now, I have nothing against girls (the shitty screw over type aside), and I know guys can do it as well. I just put what I thought Billy was saying. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Zero Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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snafu287: I don't think this song was written about GatMoG. Rather, I think GatMoG was in some ways based on this song. There's definitely very strong parallels, ie: My reflection, dirty mirror: Symbolises June, Glass's love interest who is really just a reflection of himself- his other side There's no connection to myself: June is Billy: she is created from Billy's life but, like said before, she's his complete opposite - his doppleganger, if you like I'm the face in your dreams of glass - Glass and Zero are the same man. So save your prayers for when we're really gonna need 'em - Religion peeping in. But it's Zero talking, not Glass, so he's a bit mocking towards religious beliefs Wanna go for a ride? - Foreshadowing of June's end in a road accident (I think she fell of a cliff) Emptiness is loneliness and loneliness is cleanliness and cleanliness is Godliness and God is empty just like me - shows Zero/Glass being brainwashed and turning insane from this voice that he is convinced is God: Emptiness = he is not his own person any more, just a shell controlled by the I of the Radio, Loneliness = the alienation from his former fans/colleages/girlfriend ect, Cleanliness = he is pure - he is the only truly 'clean' person there: he know's exactly what God (the I of the Radio) wants, God is empty just like me = Strengthening the idea that this I of the Radio might not be God at all: empty imaginations and delusions are turning Zero into an empty mind. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Glass + the Ghost Children Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The Machina Story, Glass and the Machines of God, is really just a big pisstake. Billy wasn't being serious. He was just having fun. Hey, with all the little bits he's thrown out all over the place - music/booklets/handouts from shows/artwork/a web cartoon that's down now ect, it's probably still only Billy who know's exactly what the story is. The Machina Duology is kinda concept albumish, but it's probably more of a subtle parody of a concept album. |
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