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The Velvet Underground – I'm Set Free Lyrics	14 years ago
I want this at my funeral.

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Gogol Bordello – Huliganjetta Lyrics	19 years ago
Made the changes, please try to curb your attitude.

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The B-52's – 52 Girls Lyrics	19 years ago
Maybe they're groupies. The lack of detail is a sartorial comment on the emptiness of their relationship with them.

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Gogol Bordello – Not a Crime Lyrics	19 years ago
The Gogol bit refers to Nikolai Gogol, a Russian writer. A bordello is a brothel or whore-house.

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Explosions in the Sky – Have You Passed Through This Night? Lyrics	19 years ago
This song is fucking. incredible.

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Explosions in the Sky – With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept Lyrics	19 years ago
This is the song we will all hear in our ears when the beaten world implodes under its own weight and all that remains is assaulting dust.

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Gogol Bordello – Not a Crime Lyrics	19 years ago
Just me then? I wonder what that clip is at the beginning. It seems to refer to Nikolai Gogol.

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The Libertines – Tell The King Lyrics

19 years ago

I think it sounds like being about Pete's drug addiction, or at least descension for 'decent society' into the drug underworld. The first verse carries a theme of paranoia in which reality is inverted ('your nothing') and dettachment and suspicion reign, 'you're like a journalist, the way you cut and paste and twist, you're awful'. The lines begin to lash out angrily at the judgemental listener, bitterly suggesting they can tell the king for all he cares, and ironically accusing people of not knowing what they are talking about, 'Tell him you know how I feel'. However, the glory of this recklessness is short-lived, as again paranoia sets in 'See snakes in eyes and danger signs'. 'You won't like this at all' he warns, 'there's nothing to break your fall'. Pete's last two lines are tragic in their resignation to the conventional. Whether or not they are prophetic is yet to be proven, we have yet to read the last chapter of the Pete Doherty story. 'Didn't they explain? You have to play the game.' The final verse is the lyrics of another writer. An observer. His voice is tender as he remembers how the hero 'is in a lonely way, living in the ruins of a castle built on sand'.

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The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics	20 years ago
Reminds me of Angel, Angel, Down We Go by Morrissey.

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The Strokes – On The Other Side Lyrics	20 years ago
"I'm tired of being so judgemental of everyone", surely? Obvious in its meaning - it's still fucking great.

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Babyshambles – Sticks and Stones Lyrics	20 years ago
Shakespeare had written on his gravestone: Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words can never hurt me.

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Oasis – Mucky Fingers Lyrics	20 years ago
I'm Waiting For The Man even!*

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Oasis – Mucky Fingers Lyrics	20 years ago
Bit of a blatent rip off of I'm Beginning To See The Light by The Velvet Underground but frankly I just don't care. A brilliant song from a brilliant album.

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The Libertines – The Saga Lyrics	20 years ago
In an interview with the Gay Times Pete said that at one time when he was vulnerable and hard-up he'd been a rent-boy. Maybe that's behind the 'I am a pimp and a slave'.

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Oasis – Lyla Lyrics	20 years ago
Seems to be a simple kind of love song. "The star's about to fall" perhaps hinting at the end of the Oasis legacy.

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