| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Everyone has a right to their interpretation; however, some works lend themselves to interpretation more than others. Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. (Gilmour has a music credit--both this and "Run Like Hell" were intended to be used on a solo album.) The song is not about drugs. It is a part of a very clear narrative about a performer who found, after reaching financial and popular success, that he had become completely alienated from his audience, from his associates, family, friends, and even his former self. On the road in America, away from his home in England, he is aware that his last meaningful relationship (with his wife) is also falling apart. He is suffering a nervous breakdown. Syd Barrett was the only member of Pink Floyd who ever did drugs regularly. The others took themselves, perhaps, a bit too seriously. The character ("Pink") certainly seems addled in his hotel room when you watch Bob Geldof's performance, but if anything it looks like some low-grade alcoholism and ennui, which fit Roger Waters much better (dour, rich, brilliant, but disgusted with what he has become--Montreal, Animals tour). At his low point, depressed to the point of catatonia, a doctor tries to revive him for the evening's concert. At his weakest, most distant moment, he is finally able to connect to his past, to his youth--to a time when, in fever dreams, his hallucinations felt the same as his current extreme alienation. As the adrenaline kicks in, Pink holds on to the fleeting memory of childhood and reflects on what has changed. In youth, meaning always seemed to be just around the corner, just out of sight, with the promise that experience and age would bring life's mysteries into focus. As an adult, having achieved his "dreams," he realizes that they were meaningless and that he has lost his soul along with his dreams. |
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| Sun Kil Moon – Glenn Tipton Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| So, this seems to be a narrative from a serial killer, a typical American maniac, with a life defined by pop culture and TV? Or is the "buried my first victim" part just a metaphor? | |
| Sun Kil Moon – Glenn Tipton Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| So, this seems to be a narrative from a serial killer, a typical American maniac, with a life defined by pop culture and TV? Or is the "buried my first victim" part just a metaphor? | |
| My Morning Jacket – Death Is the Easy Way Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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One of the best, simplest, most powerful evocations of romantic longing. Nights tick by like a long week except when you stop by. Reminds one of Jeff Buckley's "Lover, You Should Have Come Over." Listen for the whispers in the background between 3:08 and 3:38. |
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| Elliott Smith – Punch and Judy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| One of the songs in Elliott's canon that deserves the adjective "perfect." His melodies can't be surpassed. The songs are simple and heartbreaking and just could not be better than they are. Proof to all songwriters that, with talent, all you need is a four-track, a guitar and a snare drum. | |
| Elliott Smith – Punch and Judy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| One of the songs in Elliott's canon that deserves the adjective "perfect." His melodies can't be surpassed. The songs are simple and heartbreaking and just could not be better than they are. Proof to all songwriters that, with talent, all you need is a four-track, a guitar and a snare drum. | |
| Mazzy Star – Give You My Lovin' Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song requires very little interpretation. But it does deserve comment. It is a very beautiful song. The word "glad" alone makes it. What is a bit unbelievable about it is that Hope Sandoval could ever find herself in this position. I mean, have you seen her picture? I am incredulous. More likely, this is a song that someone sang to her. | |
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