| Brakes – Pick Up the Phone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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THANK YOU!!! Why doesn't anyone else SEE that?! |
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| Pixies – The Holiday Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "and upended her on the sheets" ? | |
| Hum – Stars Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I was introduced to this song by an amazing friend of mine who told me to listen to it because it was an acid lullaby, that is, a song with a sweet tune but dark lyrics. I think that this song is about an abusive relationship in that the 'I' hits the 'she' all the time, she doesn't leave him because she loves him but one day he goes too far and kills her. counting stars could be a reference to being knocked out, and 'missed the train to mars' could allude to being hit, as in 'I feel like I got hit by a truck' 'holding daisies, she always waits for me' could suggest that she waits dutifully for him but the flowers suggest that it's out of love rather than necessity. The numbered paper I don't know, but I love the idea that she was trying to count the stars, kudos to whoever thought that one up. The fact that she ends up sitting naked looking dead is eerie. Maybe a suggestion that if he did beat her to death he doesn't quite remember doing it? That's my two cents on this song, and with that you can follow a similar theme in 'i like your hair long' |
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| Rooney – Sleep Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i think this song is like the Smiths Asleep. it's got the same morbid feel to it (forgetting the fact that wasisfacce hung himself to this song in the movie, but then again it has to have been chosen for the song for that part for a reason) it sounds like wanting to escape but being unable to. whatever the 'escape' takes form in is another matter |
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| Placebo – Drink You Pretty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I didn't mean the plane thing connecting it to 9/11 i meant that i think its about the mass hysteria after 9/11. because everyone's like 'aaah! oh no!' when its really just more of the same. and the whole song is about, 'fuck this, it's just more of the same' | |
| Placebo – Meds Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I always thought meds like 'the pill'. So I've always got it in the back of my mind that the songs about forgetting to take the pill and having drunk sex and getting preggers and then figuring out what to do and realising how their life has changed but i like the psychopath thing better |
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| Placebo – Peeping Tom Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song is tragically, tenderly sad. Just that the only time this person feels 'tall' is when they're looking in on the person that they're obsessed with, and the fact that this is all that person has. This song might be less touching and more disturbing and invasive if it wasn't for the 'I'm weightless... I'm bare I'm faithless... I'm scared I'm scared ' lines. Defniately grows on you, see the tour visuals for this if you have the vids DVD. |
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| Placebo – No Other God Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I read up on the woman who's song it is... the song is from her album X (roman mumeral for 10) and the songs are basically taking each of the ten commandments and twisting them. So No Other God is, obviously, about the commandment about only worshipping god, thus no other god before me. Then put that in the context of a relationship, you get this... |
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| Placebo – No Other God Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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lol, ok. you HAVE to hear this song. When I read the lyrics before hearing it, I thought it was slow but it's actually, well, kinda something like Scissor Sisters' Filthy-gorgeous, but not. Most of the song is sung by the woman who's song it is (who's name I can't remember >.<)) I THINK the song is about an obsessive, possessive lover who entirely and completely envelops the other person, cutting them off from mother, friends, family, even God, by convincing them that they're bad for that person (Her little words sick like the flu. I see the things they do to you) until all they have left is their lover, who become their 'god'. It MIGHT be more altruisitc - maybe their mother and friends really do 'drag you down 'til you can't move', but the line 'You better cut Him off. You'll have no other God before me' makes it sound more sinister. it doesnt sound like theres any love there at all, instead a desire to be the entire world, the be all and end all to someone. GREAT song though |
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| The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| You probably all know this, but no one said it, so I will. The squeaky voice is Morrisey's vocals only played at high speed and attacked by techinical thingys, but in the cover notes its credited to a woman called 'Ann Coates' who doesn't actually exist. Ann Coates is a pun on the Ancoats district in Manchester. | |
| Placebo – Hang On To Your IQ Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Ice Cube said check yourself before you wreck yourself, Placebo say hang on to your IQ | |
| Placebo – Kangaroo Died Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I'm tryin to buy a drink But the barmaid's cross-eyed Why'd they let her work here Hell I just don't know cracks me up everytime |
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| Placebo – Then The Clouds Will Open For Me Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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okay, i think I MIGHT have something, but probably not. It started when I thought about 'tan transcontinental'. I thought a tan like you get from the sun, but then it hit me, maybe its tan like the colour. So I looked to see what a transcontinental was... i was irritated when i found it was a trainline running over continents... but then I found out that a FORD transcontinental is a type of lorry thing. And then i wondered if the song wasn't about someone being left behind at home all the time while their significant other goes out to work. The person at home watches old movies where people get together (sentimental) and cries cause they dont have that even though they HAVE the one they love. Its like the person is left alone all the time, fears abandonment and dies inside.. (erk, symbolism) or it could be an actual death, maybe they grow old waiting and die. I was a little confused about the second verse though. Hmm,as far as I can see, it could be someone whos in and out of prison... the tat fits in there, frozen in space could be frozen in time (bad grasping for links here i think) covered carcass,subway, and then back to being alone, as u are when ur s. other is in prison. grave dance could be the person growing old... :s or killing themselves... the 'narcotic?' line could be one or the other or both dealing by taking drugs, and then they OD or something... They plan out what's going to happen seeing Jesus (or it could be that they're saved? maybe the person comes back?) 'I see history' they look back at everything a kind of life flashing before your eyes thing. 'sadness the name of the spike' i thought, could be both sadness cause suicide, or an overdose on an intravenous drug... and of course, mephistopheles, the devil comes for their soul. BUt, they could not die and they could leave the person whos never there for drugs instead, realise that they person is never going to be there and just keep taking them, if they come back or not. Did the last bit make sense? Anyway... thats my 8 and a half cents. |
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| The Smiths – This Charming Man Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| His character. Laurence Olivier playing opposite him in the film thingy held him at gunpoint and said he was 'a jumped-up pantry boy who doesn't know his place'. | |
| Placebo – Slackerbitch Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It sounds like someone who abuses and insults some person (maybe someone they love) again and again and keeps apologising emptily. 'I just wanted to get laid' demonstrates complete selfishness. Almost like he slept with someone and then told them they were a slut and then does it over and over and over again |
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| Placebo – Slave To The Wage Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Stuck in a dead end job, but he's telling you that all you have to do is make a choice and go for it to get out. The video for this song visually supports that as well, as the woman in the office leaves in a rocket. Molko actually had a job shredding paper for a firm, but was fired after a day when he tried to shred other thigns and eventually broke the thing by shoving a ruler down it. It's a song that needed to be written really, for everyone whos job makes them want to kill themselves |
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| Placebo – Special K Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Ketamine is also used as a date rape drug. Often an impurity in E as well. But its a sucky drug to take, cause it is just a tranquiliser and is more hassle than its worth. | |
| Placebo – Spite and Malice Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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dope guns and fucking in the streets was in some newspaper article. Brian read it and started jumping about chanting it. Something about the disintegration of some law or a dismissal in the house of comons or something like that, I dont remember. But yes, from a newspaper article. I LOVE 'clubbed themselves to death'. Cards... clubs... mwahahahaha. Yea, u all got it, I have to go state the obvious... |
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| Placebo – Teenage Angst Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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agreeing> tongue in cheek... but also Shine the headlight, straight into my eyes. Like the roadkill, I'm paralysed. I was thinking this could be the oncoming lights of adulthood. |
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| Placebo – Bigmouth Strikes Again (The Smiths cover) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| francesengland: this song was on the special edition double cd of sleeping with ghosts with the covers cd. although u mighta pirated it from napster, etc b4 hand ... | |
| Placebo – This Picture Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think it starts out with a reflection of this girl. Maybe he wrote something about how he thought her mind worked and she didn't like it, or disagreed, so they split up... I agree with apc, there's definately some kind of dom/sub thing going on there, but, 'what's wrong with this picture' could also be referring to the fact that their sex life is so kinked. Dunno about that thought actually... She seems to have left his life, and the fact that she's a 'forbidden snowflake' seems to imply she's 'melted'. snow also has typical links with purity, innocence, etc. the open sores could be injuries inflicted during sex? some kind of masochistic thing? or bloodplay. broken semaphore could be confusion in their communications, which would link back in with 'put our friendship to the test'. They don't understand each other. Missing her picture could be that he misses the IDEA of her, and the whole faded disintegrated thing could be that he's forgetting exactly how it was. ON the other hand, fear of growing old suggests boredom with something... or he's disinterested in his current relationship cause its boring? Maybe he played with the whole BDSM thing because he was bored of plain ol' sex... Angelic fruitcake suggests that she was too much for him too handle. Too crazy when it came to kinky stuff that he had to let her go cause he couldnt keep up maybe. this is all speculation. It does seem to me like he tried to make a relationship with her work, maybe trying BDSM because she liked it and he wanted to keep her and their relationship interesting, (maybe also because he feels he's getting older and cant do things like that anymore) but he loses her in the end?? I dunno. I'm also wondering if the fact that Placebo before it was Placebo was called Ashtray Heart has anything to do with it... |
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| The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I LOVE the fact that he goes to a club, to find true love. An endeavour practically doomed from the start. And the long lonely walk back home... Hundred reasons also did a cover, and with the video, its pretty good. |
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| The Smiths – This Charming Man Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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jumped up pantry boy, as swiped from Michael Cane. Also, lines from Shelagh Delaney's plays (A Taste Of Honey being one) were shamlessly nicked... 'I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wear' is a paraphrase of a line from the play. Our Moz loved kitchen-sink dramas, and 'took a lot of inspiration' from them. Shelagh Delaney was a favourite, but 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' was also picked at. |
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| The Smiths – Asleep Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The thing that strikes me most about this song is its sincerity. Thinking about it- the way he wakes up night after night alone and gets so tired of it that he kills himself- would be slightly pathetic in an emo somg, but the way its crafted, the music, everything, and the bleak reality of the way he sings it makes it real. I love this song. It IS happy because he's finally getting what he wants. And someone did say somewhere, that the theme that death is just the equivalent of some kind of existential new year recurrs in The Smith's work. it's a nice way of looking at death. |
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| Placebo – Bigmouth Strikes Again (The Smiths cover) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It was The Smiths. It's an odd one to cover I think, because the lyrics were so close to Morrisey's expereiences with the press and his own image. but I agree that the way Placebo have covered it has made a difference in the meaning, because it's not so personal to Morrisey anymore, AND because they 'futured up' the lyrics. Still, gotta love that guitar in there. |
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| Placebo – Drink You Pretty Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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such a reaction to 9/11 and the terrorism thing... good lord this song is.... indescribable. DEFINATELY should be more than a b-side. |
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| Placebo – Haemoglobin Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think the line... latent strain of color blindness... helps to read it as a song about racism What gets me is the last verse. It's like, 'you're all against me, but fuck you, i'm gonna fight until you respect me and not take this lying down'. 'Brimming with defiance' also gets me the same way. |
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| Placebo – I Do Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Iwanna be a girl like you, The way you swing your hips in jeans, I wanna wear my face like you, Shisheido, Mac and Maybelline. As in the make up brand... God, the sexy sexy hips! |
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| Placebo – Commercial For Levi Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Its about a guy, Levi, the sound dude, shaking Brian by the back of his collar and saying wise up boy. pumkinhead- to choke Trojan is to give someone a BJ while they're wearing a condom |
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