| Klaxons – Isle Of Her Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Oh, how nice is songmeanings that put away everything I wrote in the middle. I try again: Well, I found something else (taken from http://www.pbsfm.org.au/Documents.asp?ID=4717&Title=The+Klaxons): --- Or what about The Isle of Her, based on a short story by the French absurdist writer Alfred Jarry, Concerning the Cyclops and the Isle of Her? “It was a story about rowing towards this island that was guarded by a Cyclops with mirrors hanging from its ears, and he used to breathe out crystals”. --- I suppose that Alfred Jarry, on his own, did inspire from Odissey. |
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| Klaxons – Isle Of Her Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Well, I found something else (taken from http://www.pbsfm.org.au/Documents.asp?ID=4717&Title=The+Klaxons): I suppose that Alfred Jarry, on his own, did inspire from Odissey. |
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| Patrick Wolf – Jacob's Ladder Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| think this (http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/j/jacobs_ladder.html) could be of some interest about the meaning. | |
| Patrick Wolf – Teignmouth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't think the author had a specific topic in mind, and just wanted to give a sense of melachony and desire for escape, with some referring to love ("I saw two birds lost at sea / I caught our reflection / In that silent tragedy"). Anyway, it has nice music to support this ;-) | |
| Patrick Wolf – The Libertine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Nice song, especially about the synth string part just after the end of the refrain. Interesting words, but not that much, honestly :-/. It's all about the same story: be free, no god, etc.. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – The Jeep Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| kingyo: the very same thing about an ex boyfriend with a certain suzuki moto... I've loved this song because of this :-) | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Truce Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| By the way, since the old voice at the end of the CD belongs to this track, what do you think is that "thump thump" sound you hear between the words "Amanda, you're telling me fairy tales"? It just reminds me of some coocking instrument an old granny is using while she speaks :P | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Slide Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| According to me, it can be just another of the double sense lyrics, one of which has a sexual background, as many of Dresden Dolls' ones have (like dildo/fake love for Coin-Operated Boy, post breakup relation / 9-11 day for Truce, and so on). So, this time perhaps the aging is compared to a rape. Something like saying that aging is like being raped by the very time. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – 672 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| well, according to what I hear, is exactly "you too" non "you dying". | |
| Tori Amos – The Beekeeper Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Well, sure about his brother, but so why in the song she says: "I must see the Beekeeper I must see if she'll keep HER alive"? | |
| Tori Amos – Marys of the Sea Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "Les Saint Marie de la Mer" - that's the place where she had gone in France. | |
| Tori Amos – Parasol Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Here are my 2 cents about the song. Tori suddenly receives a phone call with extremely bad news, or anyway news which can shake her world in a definite way, and this song talks about the moments in which she refuse such a reality ("I haven't moved since the call came / since the call came I haven't moved" - the repetition gives quite well the idea of staticity she has fallen into). To do this, she stops, and starts to glare at the wall on the other side ("I stare at the wall knowing on the other side / the storm that waits for me"). On this wall, there's a portrait of a woman with a parasol, which in this song becomes a metaphore too of the construction of a protection against the menacing external world ("if I'm the Seated Woman with the Parasol / I will be safe in my frame"). Still I don't know why "may be the only one you can't Betray" - perhaps the bad news where about some kind of "betrayal"? - neither what exactly is this "silk on wool embroidery" (the "whip slash" is clearly about the bad news). |
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| Tori Amos – Toast Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well, seen from this point of view it makes a lot more sense, and it's even more touching. So, it would talk about everyday moments and other more important ones: a sunset at Easter, the fact he has been a firm point for her (the rope-landslide part) in some part of her life, a lov e of his life (the Dalhousie castle part), his capacity to move her ("Yes, you could stir"), and some moment in Barcelona. The fact it's all about a toast is not reductive, according to me, but perfectly in tone with the rest of the song, which is really familiar, and talks about t he loss just as a momentary absence, which allows her to recollect all the nice moments of their life together. Beautiful song, anyway. Like more the chorus than the verse, but fine anyway. |
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| Tori Amos – Marys of the Sea Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Ok, I got it, in Italian "Gaul" is "Gallia", which is France nowadays. What a stupid I am :-P. So, perhaps, is it all dated later than the famous events about Mary Magdalene we all know about, and here Tori talks about when she goes to France and starts the myth? | |
| Tori Amos – Marys of the Sea Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well, just a little piece about Gaul I found digging the web (at http://www.greatdreams.com/feb2001.htm): The Holy Grail Bloodline So, in September AD 33, the first child of Jesus and Mary Magdalene was born, and Jesus duly entered the Kingdom of Heaven. There is no reference to this child being a son (as there is for the two subsequent births), and given that Jesus returned three years later, in AD 36, we know that Mary must have had a daughter. It was to Gaul that Mary was said to have carried the Sangréal (the Blood Royal, the Holy Grail); and it was in Gaul that the famous line of Jesus and Mary's immediate descendant heirs, the Fisher Kings, flourished for 300 years. http://www.nexusmagazine.com/holygrail3.html |
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| Tori Amos – Marys of the Sea Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well, one of the few songs The Beekeeper is worth of. Really nice musical structure, both rhythmic and harmonical. But, what about the lyrics? The only reference I found is at http://www.aimeemann.com/messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=3765&page=2#pid39758 towards the end. I hope that "Mary Magelane" is "Mary Magdalene" (in Italian we say only "Maria Maddalena"... so...?). In this key, the song is about a love story between Jesus and her: Hey I am not in your way Hey no need to push me again I know it's your day in the sun I think it talks to the persons who want to chase her since she's a sinner. Last time I checked he came to light the lamp for everyone Talks about Jesus; the parallel is between the sun and the lamp lighted up. So, does it mean perhaps that Jesus tries to give a "day in the sun" for everyone, and, perhaps, if he can't give so much, at least he "lights a lamp"? "relax Love" he said before he left "take those hands away from your eyes from where I stand you're in my sky" So, that would clearly be about their relationship. Jesus tells her to relax (perhaps because he has given her forgiveness for her sins too?) and to take "those hands away" (it's about the men she was in affairs with?), and says that she's in "my sky" (the heaven, I think). you must go must flee for they will hunt you down you and your unborn seed in all of Gaul is there safety? Uh, hot stuff in here. Says that people will hunt her (as in fact it will happen), talking about her and her unborn seed - so, she has a child, perhaps Jesus' one? But I have not the slightest idea of what (where?) Gaul is and what it refers too. It doesn't come as a surprise - I'm agnostic and know the Bible very little. Oh, yeah, and I'm bad at geography too :-) Les Saint Marie de la Mer you will dance the ring Marys of the Sea the lost bride weeps Les Saint Marie de la Mer We will dance your ring Ok. So, why does Tori call her "Les Saint Marie de la Mer"? What does mean that she will "dance the ring"? The "lost bride" perhaps is about the fact that she and Jesus will never get married? :-/ Hey there's a new Jerusalem Hey you built a rock that's on sand For now you have hijacked the Son Last time I checked he came to light the lamp for everyone Again, I admit I have no big clues about this. Any idea? Obviously, this is simply my opinion, and the very fundamental idea can be perfectly wrong :-) |
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