| Failure – Wet Gravity Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| who was the woman poet who drowned herself? with rocks in her pockets... | |
| Failure – Dirty Blue Balloons Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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yeah I don't know about the 'scrapping from my nails' home cooking project. he says 'the scrapings from my nails' nobody is going to cook up a broth from their toenails and fingernails, at least nobody in this band. the imagery in this song is quite blatant. how about the bit in the middle where you can hear a match being struck, firing up, and then the gurgle of something boiling...kind of takes the beastie boys and their audio bonghits to another place... |
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| Failure – Bernie Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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what a song! what amazing imagery! from what I heard, Bernie was a gal that turned somebody on to a certain black viscous substance that could be smoked or snorted. the park could be macarthur park. could be another park. this experience feels so good we could do it all the time, why wait until nightime? "smashing nobody's headlights" what a fantastic description of the joys of numb vandalism. "pelting wings stuck to quicklime" always made me think of the fable of Icarus and flying too close to the sun but that doesn't seem to fit. Anyone know what this lyric refers to? |
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| Jane's Addiction – Mountain Song Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Eric Avery's thumping bass line is what really get this song started. The whole 'nothing's shocking' album owes a lot to his bass lines, they toss perry's vocals around like a raging sea. | |
| Jane's Addiction – Ocean Size Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Perry loves to surf! he loves the ocean! Ever see that video footage of him getting barrelled at Zuma beach? I forget what video it's on but it's a nice wave and he's got some good speed on it. |
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| Jane's Addiction – Jane Says Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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oh yeah, "she takes a swing, she can't hit!" always thought that could have the double meaning of she can't find a vein, a condition that happens for many heroin addicts, they get tapped out as their veins recede over time from the agitation of a needle. Lovely, huh? |
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| Jane's Addiction – Jane Says Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"she gets her dinner there" "she pulls her dinner from her pocket" jane's buying drugs. she doesn't need to eat because she gets all her sustenance from the heavy drugs she's doing. she buys her dinner on the corner, heroin comes in little balloons. when she gets home she pulls the balloons, her dinner, from her pocket and prepares it. this song is so wistful and right on because it captures the dreamy melancholy of a day/life spent on drugs. there is the vague wish for a better life, a tomorrow, but for now the lure and pull of the dope is just too all encompassing. |
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| Sublime – April 29, 1992 Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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since that day my living room's been much more comfort-full!! free furniture on Slauson |
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| Sublime – Greatest Hits Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| ha ha thanks for the tip about Bert Susanka. I never what the hell bradley was singing! | |
| Sublime – 40 Oz. To Freedom Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"life is one big question when you're staring at the clock" It's the middle of the night/early morning. Our narrator is amped up on something and can't sleep, maybe some lines of crystal. He's banged his girl and she is blissfully asleep. He's still going, staring at her, staring at the clock, unsatisfied and THINKING. He needs to come down. He's looking at his bedroom window and the early morning condensation from the humidity around his not far from the beach apartment is coming on as light approaches. This guy needs to drink more alcohol. He's on a runs, he's not going to sleep anytime soon. His path to serenity for now is paved with more alcohol. He's waiting until 7:00 am when he can kick the girl out or she has to go to work and he can go buy a 40 at 7-11 which can now legally sell alcohol again. He knows he has one in the freezer which is good but that alone won't do the job. "I'm not going back" As the earlier poster wrote this refers to county jail. In Sublime lyrics many time in the chorus another line is slippped in that gives a twist to the intent. In this case I don't have the song to reference but doesn't he slip in a "I'm not coming back" If you hear this it supports the theory that throughout sublime lyrics there is an underlying self-destuctive, nihilistic, punk-rock streak or mention of impending death. This can also be viewed positively as a spiritual flight from an imperfect, troubled world to a place where addiction, poverty, inequality do not exist. Brad Nowell hits all the marks. His lyrics are matter of fact, good times, down to earth on one level. And yet he often manages to capture much bigger themes and dilemnas, not neccesarily to offer answers but to sensitively describe the circumstances he finds himself in. |
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