| L7 – Pretend We're Dead Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think Trashazon hit the mark on this one. | |
| Nightwish – Forever Yours Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think it's about someone has found someone she really loves, but who's personality won't let her actually be affectionate with them... and thus never has a chance at being with them. She knows love, but she doesn't know how to deal with it. Since she can't bring herself to go through that situation with someone else, she'll hang forever on that one person. There are many things it could be, that's just one take I have on it. |
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| Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Girl of sixteen Whole life ahead of her Slashed her wrists Bored with life Didn't succeed Thank the Lord For small mercies" The beginning, there's a young girl who's tired of life, so she decides to kill herself and fails. Religion is quickly introduced here. "Fighting back the tears Mother reads the note again Sixteen candles burn in her mind She takes the blame It's always the same She goes down on her knees And prays" The mother, obviously saddened, reads the note once more. She feels responsible for what her daughter has done, and turns to her only means of hope... which is God, of course. Skipping ahead. "Girl of eighteen Fell in love with everything Found new life in Jesus Christ Hit by a car Ended up On a life support machine" A bit older, the girl has changed her life around by "finding God". Then, after she puts faith into her newly found God, the worst happens. "Summer's day As she passed away Birds were singing In the summer's sky Then came the rain And once again A tear fell From her mother's eye" She dies on a summer's day. I think of the birds and the rain here in a metaphorical sense... birds singing in a summer sky when all was well, then as the girl dies the rain comes, and again her mother delves into a state of depression. Then there's the chorus: "I don't want to start Any blasphemous rumours But I think that God's Got a sick sense of humor And when I die I expect to find Him laughing" The chorus brings everything together here. It spells out the point of the story: God, if He exists, isn't fair, and is even cruel at times. The girl wanted to take her own life... but after she decided she likes being alive, and put her faith into God, He lost all sense of mercy (even more so for the mother, who was devastated) and took her life anyway. That gives off a pretty strong message to me. He took the girl away when she had finally found happiness in living. There was nothing to be gained from believing in Him, both for the mother and for the daughter. That's what I hear when I listen to this song. |
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