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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Ava Adore Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think this song is about the unreasonable and immature attitude toward relationships that some people outgrow quicker than others. The narrator is outlining his ambition/dream of finding a "perfect" woman to be with, and is unwilling to compromise, hence the implications of obsessiveness and control. For example, he wants them to "never be apart" which would only be possible if they were both devoted totally to each other and had the same interests. And of course real relationships don't work this way... |
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| Van Halen – Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I concur. The song appears to be a skeptic/freethinker's answer to religious proselytizing (specifically Christian, but it's applicable to all evangelizing religions) and to religious conservatives in general. I can relate; this very much describes my feelings about the religious community that I grew up in, though it's less bitter and resentful... |
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| Metallica – Harvester Of Sorrow Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I've always inferred that this song was about someone who's suffered horribly and perceives themselves as being wronged and even persecuted on all sides. As a result, they become bitter, unable to feel compassion for other humans, and lash out angrily and even violently. This resembles certain schizophrenia-type mental disorders (note: scizophrenia =/= multiple personality disorder), where the sufferer becomes paranoid and perceives themselves as being persecuted on all sides. The song's lyrics and its emphasis on violence, alienation, and emotional blunting best matches the development of clinical psychopathy. |
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| Collective Soul – The World I Know Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I only really found out about this song tonight (I'd heard it a couple times on the radio when I was paying attention mostly to the road), but it reminds me a bit of the way I felt waking up after semi-narrowly failing to take my own life. I remember, once what had happened had really sunk in, thinking about a few things I was glad to see, starting with my best friend, and sort of turning into a mental gush about everything that I would have missed...everything that made life worth living. The chorus, if we postulate the tears to be gladness/reverence/etc.-tears rather than sorrow-tears, reminds me very much of my state of mind when I awoke. The experience prompted me to seriously examine my worldview and attitudes and prune a great deal of dead wood, so to speak; this self-discovery and self-analysis may be part of what the songwriter is getting at in the chorus, and in the lines about words blending into one--the latter I would interpret as him putting things together and making sense of the interactions of seemingly disparate parts.
Oh, and Keystone: while the phrases you cite might indeed refer to Jesus, to claim with certainty that they must is premature at best. The attribution of "hope" as a reference to Jesus is particularly disturbing, since it would seem to imply the belief that there is no other source of hope--which anyone who's ever seriously observed those who follow other belief systems should recognize as absurd. Ditto for the "gathering of love" and, to a lesser degree, "words being read." |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Say Goodbye (Album version) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song reminds me very much of the afternoon when, after nearly losing it to a guy who dumped me a week later, I asked a favor of the guy who'd been my best friend since third grade: to help me lose my virginity with a guy who wouldn't leave or use me, who I could truly trust. It was wonderful, in a earnest, prosaic kind of way. And then the next day we "went back" to "just" our brotherly/sisterly friendship, and I didn't think too far into the implications of my reasons for this decision until more than two years later.
Man was an idiot....at least I can say that for us, it wasn't too late... :)
Hope this doesn't add twice.. |
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| Tori Amos – Raspberry Swirl Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Hmm. As far as I can tell the point is that people need to be sensitive to their partners needs and not just using them to satisfy themselves (this element is rather personal for me...), using sex as an example of this. I find some of the commentary here (stuff about women friends) a little hard to relate to because most of my close friends are, and have historically been, guys (no, I'm not a lesbian), but I do have this sort of attitude towards people dating my friends, my sister, etc., as well as the guys I've been with, and I've noticed my friends, both male and female, seem to feel this way regarding my relationships. I do notice this song seems to have a sort of one-sided approach to the issue of this sort of victimization, though it's true that the rate of guys using girls for sex is much higher than vice versa (though I've seen it happen, so don't tell me it doesn't, or that the guys involved don't mind; most did)...
Incidentally, re: baton's comments earlier..."eating pussy" is disrespectful? Why didn't someone tell me; I've been calling it that for years... ;/ Heh. What *is* obnoxious, and kind of ties into the theme of the song, is when people (almost always guys) describe women having sex exclusively in the passive tense... |
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