| Coldplay – Poppyfields Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| People talking without speaking - a line from the Simon & Garfunkel song The Sound Of Silence. | |
| Tim Finn – Forever Thursday Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Dole/pension day payment for a lot of Australians is Thursday, via www.centrelink.gov.au & the ALP. $pend it wisely & buy a CD (beats P2P anyday!) at JbHiFi & get some fast food like Gloria Jeans, KFC, McDonalds et al along the way AKA... What a Life! - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. | |
| Coldplay – God Put a Smile Upon Your Face Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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As opposed to the spiritual The Scientist, GPASOYF is an agnostic song. See the reverse psychology of the Coldplay titles...TS being 'believing' is contradictory to the traditional Science/Religion wars/debates. '...now when we work out where to draw the line your guess is as good as mine...' This is the essence of the song, as it's sung many times. In the end, all the atheists, deists, nihilist, anarchists, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Evangelicals etc et al have something of value to say, as it all tries to find the answer to the Time Immemorial (a glorious mission to find The Invisible One?/Crowded House/Neil Finn) question of whether there is a God. So in the end nobody really knows, & we all are AGNOSTIC: undecided/sitting on the fence to some degree. The opening verse is about uncertainty, there are too many choices, human beings don't know which road to take, there's too much clutter in today's rat race capitalist society. The third verse is stating the infallible human insecurity/inferiority complex/loneliness, we always put ourselves down, we devalue our opinions for fear of rejection...so when one of us works it out, finds all the questions to life problems/mysteries/puzzles...we all want to know that answer...so please share it: long live bi-polar Ambivalent Agnosticism (ala John Lennon's Imagine)...sometimes believer, sometimes skeptic. |
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| Travis – Side Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song, along with Coldplay's The Scientist & God Put A Smile On Your Face, Neil Finn's 'Sinner', The Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony, Joan Osbornes's 'what if god was One Of Us' is the Imagine (John Lennon) of the late 1990's & the new millennium beyond. They are both spiritual & agnostic/atheist anthems in one. To me the opening verse is spiritual. Heaven perhaps when we die? Some Big Brother government agency/higher force/alien entity watching/protecting over us? The second verse is Zeitgeist, the rat race pursuits of modern capitlistic society. Very existential & profound. This is the grunt of the song - the chorus. What is wrong? What is right? Does black & white exist? Or is it all one big muddle of shades of many grey. We all want to live forverver, longer, better & healthier but mortality beckons eventually. '...The circle only has one side...' This is the science/mathermatics of the song...as opposed to optimistic 'believing' opening verse. The final verse is a metaphor/extension of the themes posed in the previous two. It's stating/summarising it too. The best way I can explain it is a comparison to Neil Finn's/Crowded House's 'Driving Me Mad': '...say what lies between us? a host of everyday distractions. most of all it's MUSIC taking me...' Opening up the chord is one the most primitive/caveman human instincts, a reference to the healing powers of music & how it can cross all boundaries & unite the human race." |
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| Coldplay – The Scientist Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I believe Coldplay's The Scientist is a spiritual song compared to the agnostic God Put A Smile On Your Face. It yearns for humans to go back to it's original purity - Adam And Eve. 'Come back and haunt me' is like the ghosts of history warning, shadowing us. 'Running in circles, chasing tail - coming back as we are' is the endless mother nature human cycle, circle and struggle of good/bad, ying/yang, life/death, and for the believers: heaven/hell. The last verse is Zeitgeist. We will forever part/distance ourselves from The Gaia Hypothesis or Purity because of capitalism, science and progress. We will never return to the innocence of Adam And Eve...as the world is corrupted, money hungry, materialistic, full of divorce, hungry people and, greedy business men etc et al. |
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| Snow Patrol – Make This Go On Forever Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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A gloomy end of the world song, not in lyrics - but feeling, texture, landscape & emotional evocation. When it changes to a slower piano mode at the end, Gary Lightbody CONFIRMS it all by singing 'please just save me from this darkness'. Not the type of song you'd like play frequently, but isn't the western neighbourhood silence you encounter night after night a tribute to this song? Who would've thought mankind sacrificed trillions of brains & men in the name of science & war, only to create absurd communities that, if the individual wasn't strong or has distractions like study, work or TV - you'd go totally insane at the eerie DARK evening silence. The powers that be that have caused this are the real MADNESS. I'd rather be an animal than a thinking, living, feeling human being to be Frank. & you can throw me Nicole Kidman or Naomi Watts to marry, & I'd spit at them because IT WILL NOT END the deafening silence of The West. I wonder how it is in Africa or China etc. Maybe their collectivism is what makes the latter a POWER economy, with no trashy sleazy salacious media to play a part in what's crippling western suburbia. I'll shut up & read my newspaper now to reassure me I'm lucky & safe. |
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| Coldplay – The Scientist Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I believe Coldplay's The Scientist is a spiritual song compared to the agnostic God Put A Smile On Your Face. It yearns for humans to go back to it's original purity - Adam And Eve. 'Come back and haunt me' is like the ghosts of history warning, shadowing us. 'Running in circles, chasing tail - coming back as we are' is the endless mother nature human cycle, circle and struggle of good/bad, ying/yang, life/death, and for the believers: heaven/hell. The last verse is Zeitgeist. We will forever part/distance ourselves from The Gaia Hypothesis or Purity because of capitalism, science and progress. We will never return to the innocence of Adam And Eve...as the world is corrupted, money hungry, materialistic, full of divorce, hungry people and, greedy business men etc et al. |
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| Coldplay – The Scientist Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I believe Coldplay's The Scientist is a spiritual song compared to the agnostic God Put A Smile On Your Face. It yearns for humans to go back to it's original purity - Adam And Eve. 'Come back and haunt me' is like the ghosts of history warning, shadowing us. 'Running in circles, chasing tail - coming back as we are' is the endless mother nature human cycle, circle and struggle of good/bad, ying/yang, life/death, and for the believers: heaven/hell. The last verse is Zeitgeist. We will forever part/distance ourselves from The Gaia Hypothesis or Purity because of capitalism, science and progress. We will never return to the innocence of Adam And Eve...as the world is corrupted, money hungry, materialistic, full of divorce, hungry people and, greedy business men etc et al. |
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| Coldplay – Spies Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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| Gotye – Don't Worry, We'll Be Watching You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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