| The Cure – Lullaby Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| He possibly said it was based on a nightmare because he didn't want to admit what it was actually about. Possibly drugs, although when I first read the lyrics I thought of sexual abuse/molestation. It's a little worrying that we jump to these horrific conclusions so quickly. | |
| AC/DC – Moneytalks Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Chicks who marry wealthy men for the money = Prostitutes. | |
| AC/DC – The Jack Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Her Deuce was wild But my Ace was high Fuckin brilliant! |
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| AC/DC – The Jack Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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On the live album the lyrics are a little different. Same meaning though. She gave me her mind She gave me her body But she gave it to anybody But I made her cry And I made her scream Then I took her high(?) And I curdled her cream But how was I to know That she'd been there before She told me she was a virgin She was number 999 (?) On the critical list And I had to fall in love With that damn bitch She's got the Jack She's got the Jack ... |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The first verse makes me think it's about how stupid organised religion is. And he did say himself before performing it live recently that "This is a song about Devil worship". Darragh: are you talking about Oxegen? That's where I heard him say it too. | |
| Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The first verse makes me think it's about how stupid organised religion is. And he did say himself before performing it live recently that "This is a song about Devil worship". Darragh: are you talking about Oxegen? That's where I heard him say it too. | |
| Tim Buckley – Song To The Siren Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Best ballad ever written. Tim's really emotional singing of it makes it one of my favourite songs of all time. First discovered it after downloading This Mortal Coil's cover of it from the Lost Highway soundtrack. Good cover but nothing compares to Tim's voice. |
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| Thin Lizzy – Whiskey in the Jar Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Always assumed Molly/Jenny was a hooker. | |
| Metallica – Hero of the Day Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure it's about war. More specifically the fact that when a lot of veterans return from war they find it hard if not impossible to return to a normal life - to put the things they've seen behind them. "Now deservingly this easy chair But the rocking stopped by wheels of despair ... But now the dreams and waking screams that ever last the night So build a wall behind it crawl And hide until it's light" The idea of keeping a candle or fire lit to guide soldiers home has also been around for a long time. This was a popular song during World War 1: Keep the home-fires burning, While your hearts are yearning, Though your lads are far away They dream of home; There's a silver lining Through the dark cloud shining, Turn the dark cloud inside out, Till the boys come home. Reminds me of another song: Light In The Window ~(Doro Pesch) ... Keep a light on in the window Say a prayer for me my friend Keep a light on in the window Don't give up on me cause I'll be back again ... Keep a light on in the window Don't give up on me cause you're the only one It's hard to get back once you've been there Oh heaven knows how hard I've tried It's hard forgettin' what you witness Once you've seen the other side So hard to forget Keep a light on in the window |
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| Metallica – St. Anger Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Shit. Pure tripe. Drumming fucking annoys the hell out of me. Waited patiently for so long, and for what? This crap! | |
| Metallica – Master of Puppets Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Fuck me sideways. Silly fuckers arguing passionately about the same fucking thing. Loosing your soul to the devil. Losing it to drugs. Same fuckin thing. "chop your breakfast on a mirror" If you can't guess the main themes of this song from that line then you probably should stop listening to Metallica. beastieboy: I realise your probably about 15 given the average age of most people on this fucking site and the fact that you called yourself beastiboy, so I won't rip on you like I would if you said that shit to my face, but i'm pretty sure you're mistaken in the last comment. |
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| Metallica – Enter Sandman Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It was originally about cot death. They had to edit the lyrics in order to release it because the material was seen as too explicit as it was. I think the song was edited so much that eventually it became something else. | |
| Metallica – Creeping Death Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Silly little fucks. You don't have to be a practicing Christian to read the damn bible. Hell, you don't even have to have faith to read the bible. There are some damn good stories in there! Fun for everyone. To enjoy and draw inspiration for music, art or whatever. Creeping Death refers to an event in Exodus called the "Passover". In a bid to kill the Pharoahs first born son The Angel of Death came upon the land, killing all first-born sons - except for those homes that had lambs blood on their doors. Blood Lambs blood painted door, I shall pass |
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| Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| WindCriesMary: Enough said girl. Quality analysis | |
| Green Day – Holiday Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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[Read the facts and see if you can guess who they are attributed to...] Taken from "When Democracy Failed" by Thom Hartmann Published on Sunday, 16 March 2003 by CommonDreams.org His government received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed on a larger scale. The man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference. "You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion - "a sign from God," he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion. Two weeks later, the first detention centre for terrorists was built to hold the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation's now-popular leader had pushed through legislation - in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it - that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wire-tap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people's homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism. Immediately after passage of the anti-terrorism act, his federal police agencies stepped up their program of arresting suspicious persons and holding them without access to lawyers or courts. Playing on this new nationalism, and exploiting a disagreement with the French over his increasing militarism, he argued that any international body that didn't act first and foremost in the best interest of his own nation was neither relevant nor useful. He then negotiated a separate naval armaments agreement with the United Kingdom to create a worldwide military ruling elite. His propaganda minister orchestrated a campaign to ensure the people that he was a deeply religious man and that his motivations were rooted in Christianity. With his number two man - a master at manipulating the media - he began a campaign to convince the people of the nation that a small, limited war was necessary. Another nation was harbouring many of the suspicious Middle Eastern people, and even though its connection with the terrorist who had set afire the nation's most important building was tenuous at best, it held resources their nation badly needed if they were to have room to live and maintain their prosperity. He called a press conference and publicly delivered an ultimatum to the leader of the other nation, provoking an international uproar. He claimed the right to strike pre-emptively in self-defence, and nations across Europe - at first - denounced him for it, pointing out that it was a doctrine only claimed in the past by nations seeking worldwide empire, like Caesar's Rome or Alexander's Greece. It took a few months, and intense international debate and lobbying with European nations, but, after he personally met with the leader of the United Kingdom, finally a deal was struck. After the military action began, the Prime Minister told the nervous British people that giving in to this leader's new first-strike doctrine would bring "peace for our time." [Beginning to sound familiar...? ] Thus it was that Hitler annexed Austria in a lightning move, riding a wave of popular support as leaders so often do in times of war. The Austrian government was unseated and replaced by a new leadership friendly to Germany, and German corporations began to take over Austrian resources. In a speech responding to critics of the invasion, Hitler said, "Certain foreign newspapers have said that we fell on Austria with brutal methods. I can only say; even in death they cannot stop lying. I have in the course of my political struggle won much love from my people, but when I crossed the former frontier [into Austria] there met me such a stream of love as I have never experienced. Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators." To deal with those who dissented from his policies, at the advice of his politically savvy advisers, he and his handmaidens in the press began a campaign to equate him and his policies with patriotism and the nation itself. National unity was essential, they said, to ensure that the terrorists or their sponsors didn't think they'd succeeded in splitting the nation or weakening its will. In times of war, they said, there could be only "one people, one nation, and one commander-in-chief" ("Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer"), and so his advocates in the media began a nationwide campaign charging that critics of his policies were attacking the nation itself. Those questioning him were labelled "anti-German" or "not good Germans," and it was suggested they were aiding the enemies of the state by failing in the patriotic necessity of supporting the nation's valiant men in uniform. It was one of his most effective ways to stifle dissent and pit wage-earning people (from whom most of the army came) against the "intellectuals and liberals" who were critical of his policies. Nonetheless, once the "small war" annexation of Austria was successfully and quickly completed, and peace returned, voices of opposition were again raised in the Homeland. The almost-daily release of news bulletins about the dangers of terrorist communist cells wasn't enough to rouse the populace and totally suppress dissent. A full-out war was necessary to divert public attention from the growing rumbles within the country about disappearing dissidents; violence against liberals, Jews, and union leaders; and the epidemic of crony capitalism that was producing empires of wealth in the corporate sector but threatening the middle class's way of life. A year later, to the week, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia; the nation was now fully at war, and all internal dissent was suppressed in the name of national security. It was the end of Germany's first experiment with democracy. As we conclude this review of history, there are a few milestones worth remembering. 27 February 2003, was the 70th anniversary of Dutch terrorist Marinus van der Lubbe's successful firebombing of the German Parliament (Reichstag) building, the terrorist act that catapulted Hitler to legitimacy and reshaped the German constitution. By the time of his successful and brief action to seize Austria, in which almost no German blood was shed, Hitler was the most beloved and popular leader in the history of his nation. Hailed around the world, he was later Time magazine's "Man Of The Year." Most Americans remember his office for the security of the homeland, known as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and its SchutzStaffel, simply by its most famous agency's initials: the SS. We also remember that the Germans developed a new form of highly violent warfare they named "lightning war" or blitzkrieg, which, while generating devastating civilian losses, also produced a highly desirable "shock and awe" among the nation's leadership according to the authors of the 1996 book "Shock And Awe" published by the National Defence University Press. Reflecting on that time, The American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983) left us this definition of the form of government the German democracy had become through Hitler's close alliance with the largest German corporations and his policy of using war as a tool to keep power: "fas-cism (fbsh'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." Today, as we face financial and political crises, it's useful to remember that the ravages of the Great Depression hit Germany and the United States alike. Through the 1930s, however, Hitler and Roosevelt chose very different courses to bring their nations back to power and prosperity. Germany's response was to use government to empower corporations and reward the society's richest individuals, privatise much of the commons, stifle dissent, strip people of constitutional rights, and create an illusion of prosperity through continual and ever-expanding war. America passed minimum wage laws to raise the middle class, enforced anti-trust laws to diminish the power of corporations, increased taxes on corporations and the wealthiest individuals, created Social Security, and became the employer of last resort through programs to build national infrastructure, promote the arts, and replant forests. To the extent that our Constitution is still intact, the choice is again ours. Thom Hartmann lived and worked in Germany during the 1980s, and is the author of over a dozen books, including "Unequal Protection" and "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight." This article is copyright by Thom Hartmann, but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so long as this credit is attached. .. |
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| The Libertines – Arbeit Macht Frei Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Stupid tramp | |
| Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Its about death and the ultimate day of judgement. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts And I looked and behold, a pale horse And his name that sat on him was Death And Hell followed with him A fitting end to the song. |
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| Kings of Leon – Day Old Blues Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure a lot of the lines posted here are incorrect. "Baby with a man like a lung" ...wtf!? Is it not obvious that it's: "Baby with man-like lungs" In reference the the child crying really loudly. |
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| Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Also, I realize that Black Francis has stated that the line "This Monkeys Gone to Heaven" was just a filler to help him remember the tune of the song, but I can see some depth in it's meaning also. Whether he intended it or not. Allegedly we humans are EVOLVED from apes and thus monkeys. However, I think what also is possibly being said in this song is that we really haven't evolved that much at all. We are still no better (perhaps even worse) than our animal ancestors since we seek to destroy ourselves and our world in various ways. Pollution, killing the environment, warfare. In the writers mind we have changed form, but are still no better than monkeys. For all our technological advances, we have failed to evolve in the ways that we need to. |
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| The Strokes – The Modern Age Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think those lines should be: "I feel so different now" "We trained at A.V.A" "I wish you had'nt stayed" "My visions clearer now but i'm not afraid" |
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| The Strokes – Hard To Explain Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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anakin821 has given the only half-decent theory so far. Why do all teenagers think every song is about: a) Relationships b) Suicide Teenage angst sure is a bitch |
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| 50 Cent – Candy Shop Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Rap can be artful. A lot of it is. Public Enemy, NWA, Tupac. Quality shit. Nothing recent comes to mind though. But 50 Cent? Go fuck yourself you posing manufactured wank stain. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Moby Dick Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Moby Dick has become a metaphor for something that we pursue vigilantly, but that will ultimately destroy us. Something we become obsessed with and in the end consumed by. This has always led me to believe that the song was so called because it was so hard on Bonham to create, recreate and perform live. I always assumed that the other band members referred to it as his Moby Dick. I like the hooker story though. |
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| Kings of Leon – Trani Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure the line is "Like a trani on gin". But that makes little sense to me either. What the hell is a trani? A transvestite? And I also thought that line near the end was "The cops are on a call, Layin down the freeze (/peace?) Fingers in the dirt, spitting out his teeth" |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Michael Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I thought it was about a guy who walked into a guy/transvestite bar and didn't have a clue. | |
| Pixies – No. 13 Baby Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Hell's Angels also often had "13" tattoos, or stitched on the back of their jackets. 13 = M for Marijuana. It was just a sign to other like minded people. | |
| Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Man was not created on the fifth fucking day! Stop listening to every piece of crap you read by some prick who hasn't his facts straight. About the only thing you can interpret from those lines and this song, if anything, is that we (man) are fucked. We're at the mercy of ourselves and that we will eventually destroy ourselves. Whether it be through fucking up our environment, global warming, or nuclear warfare. Take your pick. This is because the power of evil (the devil) within us is powerful. Yet there is hope because God, apparently, is more powerful still and when we monkeys do fuck ourselves over, even though we acted worse than animals on earth, he will still accept us in heaven. And even that is stretching the interpretation. |
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| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A version) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"Back in your arms" and "Where I belong", to me, are two different places. I think the song is about a guy who's love has died. He is debating whether to join them by taking Red Wine and sleeping pills, thus going back to their arms, or staying alive and using cheap sex and sad films to get him through it (remaining where he belongs because his time has not come yet). In any case he hopes to see them in the next life. |
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