| James Blunt – Out Of My Mind Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It does seem to me to be about his career. I've heard that he wrote poetry for a while, and his lyrics also have that kind of style - you have to really take the lyrics apart and search for the meaning. "I won't be your concubine; I'm a puppet, not a whore/ I just need this stage to be seen." Those lines, to me, seem to sum up the general gist of this song - he's prepared to put up with the crap that the music industry puts you through in order to do what he loves, which is to make and perform music. It's sort of a statement that he's going to try not to be changed for the worse by the commercialism and the 'back-stage' politics of music executives - or organ grinders - but that he will use these people as much as they are using him to get what he wants. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Coin-Operated Boy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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*start rant* There's this thing that can happen where lyrics can have more than one meaning. And when that happens, often the person who wrote the lyrics meant for that to happen. It's called artistry. It's also called 'open for interpretation', so don't completely dismiss anything here - I think there're about 5 comments here I don't agreee with at least partially. As for giving Amanda more credit - is it possible that accepting the sex-toy interpretation as well as the emotional one gives her even more credit than you are? *end rant* |
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| Rufus Wainwright – Memphis Skyline Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| He uses the Orpheus myth to great effect. This is such a painful song. | |
| Rufus Wainwright – Gay Messiah Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"Someone will demand my head and then I will kneel down and give it to him looking down" Does he exploit lexical instability or what? Fantastic |
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| Rufus Wainwright – Go or Go Ahead Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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'crucify this unholy notion of the mythic powers of love' Another powerful Wainwright song, and the mesh of mythology and contemporary is shattering. Stunning. |
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| Rufus Wainwright – Go or Go Ahead Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Like most of the songs I like, I never really went to look at the lyrics until after I'd been singing along to i badly for quite some time. This one just shook me - the lyrics are so powerful; the language and the references all make one seriously jolting and moving picture. I adore it. |
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| Melissa Auf Der Maur – Taste You Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Is it just me, or is this about anal sex? It's probably jus my perverted mind... | |
| Franz Ferdinand – The Dark of the Matinee Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think It's about being in college/university/'academic factory', skipping classes and going to the matinee films with your crush and daydreaming about making it big because it seems so much more real than lectures and files. | |
| Franz Ferdinand – Auf Achse Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The Jesus thing is an extended metaphor, kids. It's about unrequited love, and how it feels so bad to know that she'll (or he'll) never feel the same way; it feels like the end of the world and like you'll never be able to pick yourself up and love someone again - 'never will I rise again'. The Jesus metaphore - it's using the fact that in the scriptures Jesus 'so loved the world' and yet they let him die. This girl in the song just doesn't know or care that the guy is so in love with her. 'She's not so special' - he's trying to convice himself to move on, and he wishes she'd 'never come back here again': out of sight, out of mind. That's my opinion, anyway. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Darts Of Pleasure Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It's about one night stands. | |
| Franz Ferdinand – Come on Home Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think it's about leaving the person you love so you can both fufill your dreams, but keeping your love alive so that when it's possible you can be together again. The last lines: "So come on home But don't forget to leave" seem -to me- to indicate that it's really important to the narrator that his lover does what they need to do, and recognises that before they can be together again they need to be apart. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Michael Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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As a straight female, I personally find this song as sexy as hell and find myself singing it all over the place. Of course, I find Franz Ferdinand as sexy as hell and still don't care if /they're/ gay - it's just something I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Does it really matter whether is it or isn't out-of-the-closet or if it belongs there in the first place? They have made an explanation for it that Dae788 has written about, so I'll leave that, Just... I really find it sexy and fun. And a great song. |
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