| Red House Painters – Medicine Bottle Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I would wager both addiction and depression, Matrix. From the very little I know about the lyricist's life, he struggled with pill popping from a young age...though I don't think it's ever been specified what exactly he took. I've also read somewhere there was a period of his life he almost never left his room. It would not surprise me if parts of this song were taken directly from Mark Kozelek's own life. "It's all in your head she said," -->She's trying to get him to 'lighten up' for lack of better words. She doesn't want him to be so miserable all the time. "It's all in my head I said" --> He's trying to convince himself he doesn't need to be miserable all the time. "It's all in his head she read from the girlfriend's self help book" --> His girlfriend is trying to cope with an extremely intense sadness he possesses. I heard this song performed live. It's pretty obvious how personal it is to him' and also obvious why he refuses to perform it live anymore. |
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| Red House Painters – Drop Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I have always wondered what happened to this man to give him this kind of lyrical power. Kozelek is always so dauntingly honest, his music a mirror reflection to his own life in many ways. I think this is a song about a person who seems beautiful when they're fragile. But in reality you know they are an ugly, vindictive person. Then you see them lying in a hospital bed, and you realize how much you love them. It's one of those 'You don't know what you have until it's left you' kind of things, I think. |
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| Karate – Up Nights Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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To me this song is about apathy. Or maybe modern day obliviousness, and cliche about how people are supposed to really be.. "I know I'm gonna feel how I'm gonna feel no matter how many books I've read"... Been my favorite lyric since I've heard it. The person in this song is trying to break out of a constricting life, probably some dead end graveyard shift gas station job. Maybe he hopes for a better life, but at the same time is a bit too disillusioned to act on those hopes. |
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| Radiohead – Sail to the Moon. (Brush the Cobwebs Out of the Sky.) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I am a huge fan of radiohead. Despite this, I firmly believe Thom Yhorke is a pathological liar when it comes to the meanings of his lyrics. (If he told us all what they meant we may stop interpreting them for ourselves, and where's the fun in that?) This song is about a Hopi legend about the end of the world. I'm near positive because the coincidences are way too close. The alt name of the song, for example; Brush The Cobwebs out of the Sky In the Hopi Prophecy: "as the Day of Purification approaches, cobwebs will criss-cross the sky." These cobwebs of the prophecy refer to modern day chem trails. The legend also claims that the balance of the universe will be offset when man 'sails to the moon' and brings back a piece of moon rock... You can look up things on this legend anywhere on the web. A lot of conspiracy theorist who reference the legend could shed light onto the second stanza; I'll let you draw your own inferences. |
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