| Depeche Mode – It Doesn't Matter Two Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Is it wrong that I find this song uplifting? | |
| Depeche Mode – Lie To Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This has to be one of the most cynical songs ever. In short, Martin Gore's conveying a sense that love does not exist--that it's only a "promise made for convenience," motivated out of shallow self-interest rather than devotion. |
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| Depeche Mode – It's No Good Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This has to be the single most presumptuos love song ever--so much so that I'm tempted to say it's a satire. Of what, I don't know; all I know is, this song is so hilarious that it cracks me up every time I hear it. | |
| Depeche Mode – People Are People Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The simplicity of the song helps illustrate how simple the issue truly is-- people are humans. Why do we have prejudice? Why hate? The idea that we're all human is a simple idea, and the simplicity of the song emphasizes the simplicity of the issue. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – American Baby Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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OK; I'm bored. This is my third post in a row. Anyway...appleheads. The Dave Matthews Band keeps itself and its sound fresh by constantly changing. I'm amazed at some of the narrow-mindedness I encounter concerning DMB fans' reactions to the band's last three c.d.'s. Dave's not losing his touch; he's changing it. Fletch777, I have a couple problems with your comments. 1. Your use of the term "pseudo-patriotic", the sentence "Dave is pissed and has disguised it in this song", and "im not going to sit and take it quietly and im certainly not fooled by it" make it sound like you suspect a subversive, un-American plot. Even though the song "American Baby" isn't patriotic, I consider performing that song to be patriotic; a true patriot can criticize her or his own nation. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – American Baby Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| OK I'm dumb; in "American Baby", he criticizes America's current direction, almost calling it the corruption and impurity that comes with adulthood. The song is an extended metaphor in which America's past direction was that of an innocent child. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – American Baby Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "American Baby" is about static, innocent childhood versus unstable, faithless adulthood. | |
| U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I believe that U2 wrote this song for all the bloody Sundays that ever occurred, how they were all about people begging for basic rights and governments responding with violence. | |
| Dave Matthews – Gravedigger Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is about the acknowledgment of mortality. Why does Dave ask the grave digger to make his grave shallow and allow him to feel the rain? When he's dead, he won't be able to feel the rain! | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Gravedigger Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| What does the line "nineteen forty to nineteen ninety-TWO" mean? To whom does it apply? | |
| Dave Matthews – Gravedigger Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| What does the line "1940 to 1992" mean? To whom does it apply? | |
| Dave Matthews Band – True Reflections Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It would be so awesome if Boyd could write and sing more for the band; then DMB could be a double threat like the Beatles (sure, George wrote a couple, but the band wouldn't use most of his songs...)! | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Spoon Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| C Mack- Tim Reynolds played the mandolin for the "Before These Crowded Streets" version. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Halloween Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I wonder why this is the only song without printed lyrics in the booklet for "Before These Crowded Streets"? | |
| Blink-182 – Stay Together for the Kids Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is about a couple that is staying together despite the fact that they can't stand eachother. STFTK basically says,"Don't stay together for the kids; do that and you screw the kids." | |
| Live – Waitress Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love this song so much...it is so catchy that I once listened to this song over and over for an hour! | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Crash Into Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Note to bw10185: on my copy of the "Crash" cd, the song title is "Crash (into Me)." The guitar part is so beautiful and so easy to play- mark of a good songwritier. |
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| Bush – Machinehead Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Or the song could refer to drug addiction as a machine | |
| Bush – Machinehead Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Or the song could refer to drug addiction as a machine | |
| Bush – Machinehead Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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One can appreciate great songs like "Machine Head" in a couple ways- for pure relaxation and enjoyment, or on an analytical level. Also, I want to stress that some songs have a right and a wrong interpretation. I know as a lyricist/poet that songwriters often try to get a specific message across. Anyone who thinks "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen in patriotic, for example, is mistaken. So, imagine how Bruce feels about presidential candidates using that song at their rallies! "Machine Head" can go a couple ways, though. Here's my way... There's some imagery suggesting cars. Later in the song, Gavin sings, "Got a machine head better than the rest." That is, he is ahead of other people, better than them. Our culture uses cars as a symbol of status and position, right? His own drive for success controls the 'narrator' (I don't know if Gavin wrote this song about himself or not) -"tied to a wheel," and he feels like this drive makes him inhuman, hence the phrase (and title) "Machine head." Some of the verses acknowledge the narrator's selfishness, cruelty, carelessness, and his insensitivity concerning his treatment of others-"blood is like wine, unconscious all the time," and his insensitivity, carelessness, and selfish, blind drive have made him "deaf, dumb, and thirty" to others (I guess the narrator realizes this at thirty years of age- or perhaps prematurely "old," like the saying "never trust anybody over thirty"). The narrator experiences his epiphany in the first verse- "fingers got to feel bleeding through a tourniquet smile." The narrator detects his drive to get ahead has caused some damage to himself. That's when he sees the light-"I felt you like electric light," and he chooses to "spin on a whim and slide to the right," in which "slide to the right" means the right way. "Breath in breath out" is a call against artificiality; machines can't breathe. "From green to red" means the end to the narrator's drive for artificial. He rejects artificiality in the end- "I walk from my machine." |
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| Bush – Machinehead Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Breath in, breath out" -a machine can't breath |
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