| Primus – Shake Hands With Beef Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song is about growing up in a small rural US town. He even sets it up in the second verse. Something like the movie Stand By Me, I imagine. Pull out the cannon boys, steal us some wine = hold up the liquor store Crossman = Crosman = BB gun with variable pump power for velocity control 26 pumps on a Crosman = potentially lethal force, usually for pest control Shake hands with beef = masturbation, 100%, maybe double-handed? Hits all the major elements of being a pubescent boy; doing stupid shit for kicks, getting into fights, shooting BB guns, smoking, robbing a liquor store, sexual desire, masturbation... Great song. :) |
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| Weezer – Buddy Holly Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Teenager/tween couple at a party. The boy is wearing thick glasses. He thinks his girl is gorgeous like a Hollywood actress. There's a bunch of Frat boys. They are picking fights with people. They think she's butt-ugly. Girl has been drinking beer and smoking weed. She feels ill. Girl is in the toilet feeling sick. Guy knocks on the door, but gets no response. Guy bangs on the door again, this time it opens, girl has passed out. Guy freaks out, picks her up, slouches her over his shoulder and tries to get her home. He loses his shoe leaving the party. He has likely been drinking and smoking with girl. This is the song's meaning. (^_^)y |
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| Sparta – Red.Right.Return. (Straight Into Our Hands) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Does sound to me possibly like a stab at the sheep of the world being pacified by mass media. Perhaps it's a self-commentary on how Jim feels as time goes by, he's becoming less concerned with activism than he was as a younger man...? |
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| Sparta – Splinters Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Sounds like describing the beauty, frustration and possibly a drug-fueled escape from reality. The way the guitars tear at each other in this song, over the backdrop of Hajjar's drumming, with Jim's grinding vocals, is delightful. :) |
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| Sparta – Mye Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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There's traces of class struggle throughout the song, for mine. Projects through mansion doors, Bleached hope and sandstone lies, Small flat in a smaller town, steal hope to pass around... Sounds like an affluent vs lower-middle class scenario. "Broadcast, renew this chance" sounds to me like he's saying that through making music he's given himself an out from a predetermined fate by being a poor kid from a poor town. It's certainly delivered very articulately, even if it is a rags-to-riches self-commentary. A beautifully balanced song. One of Sparta's best, in my opinion. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Mosquito Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The best lyrics are ones that leave something to the imagination, as most QOTSA lyrics do. Josh's lyrics always blend life, love and death, sometimes in a dark way, sometimes in an angry way. You've got angry and sinister songs like Song For The Deaf, then less angry but just as dark songs like this one. They touch similar themes. Josh often talks about being with the person that he loves as being a piece of meat for them to carve, and do with as they please. The Blood is Love off Lullabies to Paralyze (geddit? blood/mosquito) is a good example of this. Also take the film clip to Sick, Sick, Sick. It basically depicts parts of what he's describing in this song. People have hinted at it, my guess he's referring to mosquitoes as people that drain you and leave you. Being social animals, it's our nature to give ourselves to others, yet, by the same token, you are always presenting yourself to be carved up and drained, so in the end, we're all somebody else's food on an emotional level. You need to feed off others and others need to feed off you. Just make sure you feed off quality product. Obesity/Type 2 Diabetes is a real problem. |
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| Sparta – False Start Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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These lyrics don't sound right. They're more like this: The plan is intact From the front to the back All that's left now Is waiting for you So do what you can For blood and for land And it's alright Yeah, it's alright All that's left, is execution now Widows pray in the shadows of the south For the moment to pass Faith moves from the heart to the soul Overpowers and it loses all control We're waiting for you Come in, come in It's all within in reach And it's alright, alright, alright Get on with it It's falling at your feet Beg your conscience, but it's alright, alright, alright Head down, get on with this life Hold fast, find the place in time For the moment to last Lit fuse, running out of air False start, but momentum doesn't care We're waiting for you Come in, come in It's all within in reach And it's alright, alright, alright Get on with it It's falling at your feet Beg your conscience, but it's alright, alright, alright The plan is intact From the front to the back All that's left now Is waiting for you So do what you can For blood and for land All that's left now, is waiting for you Come in, come in, It's all within reach And it's alright, alright, alright Get on with it It's falling at your feet Beg your conscience, but it's alright, alright, alright It's alright |
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| Manu Chao – Lagrimas De Oro Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Tears of Gold. I don't speak Spanish, I speak Italian, but I know 'calle' means street, so, 'vas por la calle brotando lagrimas de oro' means 'you wander the streets crying tears of gold'. I wonder what this song's link to football is, with the commentary going on in the background... |
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| Radiohead – Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My opinion is that deryk, pixie and trearean are on the right track. Walla and the Alice in Wonderland analogy points it in the same direction. The Doors of Perception comment brought a wry smile to my face. Though, on the contrary, the analogies on choices and people may hold some truth, as 'pulk' in German means 'group' or 'throng'. Perhaps a combination of both groups is somewhere where the song's true meaning lies. People discovering themselves through others, the unwashed masses of revolving doors, the underground (well, not so underground imo) throng of people chasing highs through various means out of the boredom of their real lives, and sometimes get a bad batch and never come back from the trap doors they've passed through... Interesting song. |
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| Orange 9mm – Tragic Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think everyone knows of or has had a friend like the one in this song. If I had a dollar for every time I heard some 'hardcore' alternative freak say "I f---king hate my life and I wanna die", or "Life is s--t", "The World is f---ked"... I would have enough cash to put these rich kids in a clinic, and pay for psychologists to straighten out their hard-working parents, who really love them, and can't believe how their kids have turned out. :D |
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| Orange 9mm – High Speed Changer Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song is what I call Rock. Everything else is just a powdery substance you add water to, in order to create a Rock-like substance, that in the end, still isn't Rock. | |
| Orange 9mm – Alien Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The above is wrong! :( This is one of my favourite songs, don't go screwing it up! :P The second verse goes like this: ..Check my life's pulse it's a state of unrest My mind is so full of regrets And if heavens free do you need a ticket... Far too far ahead of their time Orange 9. Where would I be without you... (sigh) |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Parallel Universe Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Like it Alice, interesting take on it. I love the fact that just because you can't decypher a song after listening to it sober or straight, instantly it means that it's the artists' articulation of their various drug dependancies (then again, it might well be the case). If you ask me, Anthony came up with the lyrics after watching too much Star Trek. :P |
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| Monster Magnet – Negasonic Teenage Warhead Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| If you ask me, I've always thought this song was about a day spent playing a MUSH, MOO or MUD... some sort of 'puter game at least. :D | |
| Foo Fighters – Wattershed Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I don't think those lyrics are right, whoever posted them, sorry... :) I agree to a degree with the bright eyed girl though, I think he's trying to encapsulate his struggle to create something new musically, when people (in his own mind) may have expected Foo Fighter's sound to be rather Nirvana like. "Pissing on a wet wall" in particular, he's saying that he fell he's just doing what's already been done... |
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| Foo Fighters – Fraternity Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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One of my favourite songs on the album for it's simplicity and methodical approach. The lyrics, personally, isn't about your College Frats. Using the words 'armies bored in life' to me, is more about so called 'secret societies' ie. Masons and such. I'm of the opinion that these organisations may exist, probably exist, but who really gives a f--k? Countless book written about them, there's a target audience just for conspiracies these days... as far as I'm concerned, can anyone really be stuffed going to all this effort to control the world via puppet strings, hiding in Ivory Towers? I don't think so, believe what you want. Wait a sec, isn't this SongRants.com? Oops... ;) |
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