| Jeff Buckley – Morning Theft Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| i just had a bitch on the 'grace' lyrics page about people getting on here and professing love for a song. i take it back. this is up there with the best. i LOVE this song and jeff, you make me cry. "True self is what brought you here to me... unexamined failure". So good.. | |
| Jeff Buckley – Grace Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| suicide? whatever. does this site really have to be a platform for people to express how much they LOVE a particular song? can't we just make it a forum for interpretation of song meaning? please?? | |
| U2 – Please Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| i think you pretty right there blackwell, i don't really buy into too literal interpretations (looking at you ProudesterMonkey), but yeah this has to be about the 'troubles'. one thing i wanted to comment on is the "September... streets capsizing..." bit. I hadn't listened to this album for a while but this part had such a scary relation to 9/11 i was shocked. This is probly a good example for any of you U2 fans who think Bono is the messiah. Noel Gallagher once said of Bone "he's close to God that fucker" so you never know.. | |
| Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Amnesiac Angels: do you really think radiohead are gonna come out and say this is a direct political attack on George W. Bush? Listening to their music suggests that they are not so silly. Almost every artist who has come out and tried to say explicitly what their art says itself has been crucified. John Lennon, Sinead O'Connor, Bono, (among others) have all been subject to this. Art's value lies in its ambiguity (not that Hail to the Theif is a good example of ambiguity - it is particularly candid) and therefore, as a rule, it is better for artists - if they're wise - to just shutup and let their art do the talking. Don't you think that anecdote about a single individual really measures up to the material within the album? Your example of 'I Will' is a strong example for my argument: i will lay me down in a bunker underground i won’t let this happen to my children meet the real world coming out of your shell with white elephants sitting ducks i will rise up "I won't let this happen to my children": what? he won't let single individuals do to his children what they did to him? i don't think so. in addition, i'm sure radiohead, like myself and many others who may not live in the U.S., do give a shit about Bush because the ramifications of his actions are far-reaching and long-lasting and will be paid for by all of us sooner or later, one way or another. |
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| Radiohead – A Punchup at a Wedding (No No No No No No No No) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| ok, has anyone taken into account the title of the album when considering this song? 'Hail to the Thief' was (i thought, a pretty well known) reference to the "stolen" election by George W. Bush in 2001. not all of radiohead's songs (especially recently) are a continuation of the angst ridden, inner turmoil ilk of bends/ok days. the last two albums have seen a strong political preoccupation. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box from Amnesiac and its reference to Tony Blair (radiohead seemed to have bought into the optimism that characterised his election campaign) is an example of the political scepticism that has been cropping up a lot lately. Hail to the Thief seems to take this preoccupation and express it more overtly, the title suggests this as do the orwellian references in 2 + 2 = 5. A Drunken Punch Up at a Wedding just screams out "Fuck George Bush and fuck this war" to me. Of course if you happen to be a radiohead fan and a Bush supporter (god forbid) i don't expect you'll buy that. | |
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