| Bob Dylan – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is definitely about metaphorical stoning... i dont know if its about women or just anybody in general, but to me getting stoned by somebody means that they just put you down. If you look at stoning in the bible, it is done ignorantly. Dylan loves making songs that have double meanings, and obviously this song has the marijuana reference in it. I think he did it so that people would think it was a drug song, but when they actually listened to the lyrics they would realize (hopefully), that the song is actually about something more. | |
| Kevin Federline – Ya'll Ain't Ready (first 52 seconds) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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to me, this song is about how kevin federline was capable of marrying an outright whore and further ruining her life. This song is a great example of what happens when a white man(is he really a man? boy even?) tries to be a black man with the dialect of the ghetto. It doesnt work, eminem did it, but not because he was trying to act black, but because he actually had something to say. See, kevin is just telling us how much life kicks ass for him right now, he got to fuck britney spears, he got to evade his pregnant gilfriend he left for britney, and he is in the media and has a record deal. Does he 'deserve' any of it? whos to say, but he has... point being, Hollywood has its village idiot too. Also, i cant help but think the 1st line in this song he stole from that dre song 'whats the difference'. "keep my name out of your mouth, and we can keep it the same" |
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| System of a Down – Prison Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i dont know if youve ever heard of the Iran Contra, but in the 1980's, Reagan (THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVAR(yeah fucking right)), and bush SR (THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVAR(again, yeah right)), along with ollie north and some other people from the Reagan administration and the cia decided to back a guerrilla group who would fight the Nicaraguans for them. Just so happens... to fund this group, called the Contras, our government sold weapons to Iran (crazy nuclear weapon guy now), and sold Colombian cocaine to the American public. Also supposedly implicated in this affair is former president Clinton, allegedly the drugs were smuggled in through the Mena, Arkansas airport. That, i believe, is what they refer to in this song about selling drugs to fund secret wars around the world. Drugs being illegal, IMHO, creates the violence and crimes we see associated with the drugs themselves, merely because of the black market created by illegalization. They say that pot smokers go into prison only doing pot, and come out heroine addicts, or meth heads, or whatever... our prison system is so fucked up. My uncle, a police officer, told me stories about inmates teaching each other how to disable an officers gun by pulling on the slide, which basically rips it off. He also talked about how prisoners go to jail and have nothing to do all day but plot devious things and lift weights. Drugs are the most mis-diagnosed problem in America today, be it alcohol addiction or heroine addiction, our government wants to deny the problem, while taxing and secretly supplying the drugs in the first place. Profit both ways, they make money on you buying it, and they make money on catching you using it. In any logical analysis this would probably lead one to conclude that the government created the problem in the first place, and only perpetuate it, for the mere sake of money and power. |
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| The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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personally, I've been here. I was 'in love' with a girl... everyone else knew it would never happen, but it seemed like only a few of them ever pointed it out. one of the most emotionally destroying days of my life, it sent me into a good 6 months of depression.. i cant help but think it has greatly affected my life. The hardest thing was for me to 'forget' about this girl. I've fallen in love after that but it was never the same. just my personal attachment to the song |
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| Kanye West – Addiction Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| well kanye says at the begening of the song, girls, money, weed. its not just about drug addiction, its also about sex addiction. Kanye starts the song off talking about getting high/drunk with a woman that is already in a relationship, but that is what makes it all the more exciting. and by the end of the song he is asking her to do a 3 way. Addiction tends to work that way, you start small and then you are willing to gamble it all to get that next high from whatever the addiction is. great song, but yeah some of those lyrics are wrong | |
| Tears for Fears – Mad World Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think this song is about how our society puts people down and keeps people depressed. Not only that, but it also is about never learning from our mistakes. You do the same routine every day, get up bright and early, almost like we are empty shells, soulless people or something. I think the song is almost like a suicide note, somebody at the bottom of the barrel. I went through a heavy bit of depression for a year or so, and it still comes back to haunt you from time to time. This song really screams depression. Its like the lyrics are a narrative of a days events, how nobody gives a fuck about him, they have their heads too far up their own asses to care. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Wind Cries Mary Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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there is a social aspect to this song i havent sen anybody state yet. The name Mary was a derogatory name, albeit less offensive than jipp or crowe or any of the worse ones, it was still derogatory. Black men in the 1930's were called commonly just George, and women just Mary. Even if their name was something different, the ignorant upper class whites would refer to them by these names. I feel that this song has a few lines in reference to this and how blacks had finally gained their rights. Hendrix had folk and blues influences so its not a stretch to say he made a song with a political message. "And the wind screams Mary Uh-will the wind ever remember the names it has blow in the past? And with this crutch, its old age, and its wisdom it whispers no, this will be the last And the wind cries Mary " to me, after knowing this bit of knowledge about how the name mary had been used in the past, this verse almost says to me "finally blacks have broken through the opression of being called such derogatory terms, of being shoved off as inhuman" and the first 3 verses that seem to be nonsense i dont really know about but to me they sound like they are showing how worthless life as an upper class american really is anyways and maybe questions the freedoms given to all americans for what they are worth. kind of like the picture "the liberation of aunt jemima". these are all just theories tho. |
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| Foo Fighters – Floaty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think this song is about how everyone thinks they are so big and bad and really they are just the same as everyone else... everyone gets high on their own things and they think they are greater than everyone else, but theres always someone who is better, cooler, bigger, whatever. "thats not as big as whats flown around here" kind of says it all i think. |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Crazy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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it has been shown that autistic people are very good at specific things like math or memorizing facts, the rain man is definately crazy, he has a malformed part in his brain, but he can remember anything, and he can hear the name of a song and then start humming it. maybe its a song about how the "dance" and "club" scene are so crazy and growing up in the bad side of town too, but it also could mean that he thinks you have to be crazy to make good music, look at jim morrison..... but i looked at it and i saw 3 almost different statements in there, the 3 verses, but to me it could also be a love song, talking about a crazy woman that didnt treat him right or something. me and my ex girlfriend are both a little crazy. maybe its also a statement about how the whole world is a little crazy, because i think we all are. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You Into the Dark Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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wow this song is so beautiful... the words and the delivery are just amazing, the music is so simple but its exactly what it needs to be. brilliant, i love the imagery like the vacancy signs and thhe thought that when you die there is just nothing except the dark. |
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| Billy Joel – New York State Of Mind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this is a very meaningful song. its just like there is nothing like home. this song really needs no explaining. ive never been to new york but it still makes me understand how he felt... that there is nowhere he would rather be than new york | |
| The Offspring – Self Esteem Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i think when he says "that ok, i like the abuse" he is actually just being sarcastic. he doesnt treat her right and she doesnt treat him right, so really its not about a fucked up girl, its about a fucked up relationship on both sides. great song, classic 90's. | |
| Nirvana – The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie cover) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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uhm... this isnt a forum... its songmeanings.com lets get back to the chore at hand and figure out what the hell the song means. to me it seems like its about a man who was very depressed, maybe 2 people who used to be friends but that wouldnt be normal for them to jsut pass on the stais and say hey so it would have to be 2 people well known. so the song is probably about 2 rock stars or something... the narrator says "i thought you died a long long time ago" and the other guy replies "no, i sold the world" so maybe its a sort of bittersweet thing... |
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| John Mayer – Daughters Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i didnt realize it at first but after i started to actually read the lyrics i understood what they werea bout and it almost seemed that the music didnt match the mood of the lyrics. but it is definately about a fatherless girl, simply put. beautiful song | |
| Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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i was reading through these different comments and it hit me... in medieval paintings the joker is used to show the immorality of society... find breugel's painting "carnival" for an example of what im talking about. the townspeople are commiting sin and are intoxicated and are genreally doing everything you shouldnt do. and the jester, the joker... he is holding the torch, the light... another breugel painting shows a street in a town with everybody drunk and partying and the jester is leading them towards the church... maybe it is mere coincidence but i think that symbolsim from medieval art has some relevane to the meaning of this song. the outcasts of society are the only ones that can see what is wrong with it. i think these lyrics were probably written with multiple or loose meaning(s). the 2 riders are the joker and the thief and the wildcat symbolizes an approaching danger... just beyond the safety of society is danger, and it is approaching. maybe an overthrow of a government or something, i dont quite know. but i do find that the jester being depicted in medieval art as being the only one left with any morals to be quite interesting in correlation with this song. |
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