| Radiohead – Big Ideas (Don't Get Any) (A.K.A. Nude) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| If you've ever seen "The Last Kiss" this song seems to fit it perfectly. I don't recommend seeing it particularly as it's not a very good movie, but in it, the guy in an engaged couple starts wondering if he's really supposed to be with his fiance and cheats on her, experimenting with a college girl. When he wakes up in the morning, he realizes his mistake and desperately tries to make it right. The "big ideas" are imagining that you can have it better romantically than you do now. Painting the house white represents how you cover up your conscience. Then, in the chorus, when you have/found/feel it it and it's gone, he means how now that you've slept with the new girl, you see how it's empty and a mistake. | |
| Coldplay – Murder Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think it's about having to face the consequences of your actions in general, and authority in particular. He alters between fear ("I crumble down"), confrontational anger ("Come and fight with us"), and asking for consolation and succour ("Sing a song to me"). Overall, he can't face it, so he continues running and hiding even though he has no hope. | |
| Audioslave – Bring 'Em Back Alive Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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(I corrected some lyrics.) I think the entire album's lyrics have a spiritual focus, this song is no different. I was on my way to the center of the sun when i lost my wings and i fell into the crowd and they carried me to a hole in the ground and they buried me where no one can see and no one would be around It's clearly related to the Icarus story, and the buried part seems to be about dying and being buried in a casket. Maybe he tried to do too much, go too far, and died for his trouble? I was on my way to a city in the clouds when i lost my mind and i had to settle down then i had a dream of an island in the sea where the lepers die where no one survives where no one can hear the cries If you just saw, "city in the clouds," you'd think of heaven. So let's go from there: he was on his way to heaven, but he lost his mind (his faith?) and had to settle down (into the secular world). Then he dreams of a place where the lepers die. What do lepers remind you of? For most Christians it's the mny times in the bible Jesus heals leprosy. So then a place "where the lepers die" would be where Jesus wasn't there to help him. So to counter the previous verse about heaven, maybe this one is about hell? just like heathens thinking on our feet believe in god we're one step two step three steps toward the graveyards on the high road to remembering it seems that we forgot The first part of this is about how people who aren't Christian can "become" believers when they are threatened with death (the "graveyard"). The last two lines don't seem connected with that - something about how we've all lost our connection to true religion as we try to seek it. Overall Chris Cornell's lyrics kick immense ass. |
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