| Bush – Glycerine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Glycerine, also known as glycerol, is a thick, sweet liquid which is a key ingredient in nitroglycerin, a substance commonly used in explosives. After detonation, nitroglycerin "degrades over time to even more unstable forms" (wikipedia search for "nitroglycerin"). Nitroglycerin is made by nitrating glycerin with a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acids. To me this song is about an explosive relationship that Rossdale was going through. That whole rollercoaster kind of deal ("now you're here, now you're away" , "you bruise my face, couldn't love you more"). Reflecting on good times, Rossdale alludes to the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever", which represents a feeling of bliss and escapism, possibly through drugs (strawberry fields = orphange/heroin tracks/lennon's "happy place"). The relationship ended poorly, with plenty of self-loathing, regret, loneliness, and longing. Rossdale's mention of glycerin could represent a recollection of better days, and the bad times represent the "acid" that eventually corroded the relationship. |
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| Jack Johnson – Mudfootball (for Moe Lerner) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Wonder if this Moe Lerner has any relation to Jack's friend Moe. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/Jul/02/obitsLerner.html |
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| The Junior Varsity – Everyone's Got Something They're Running Out Of Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Pull up your shirt Show some baby fat to the world You know the commercials will walk with you" These lines are about insecurities, but maybe even more specifically physical insecurities. Most people experience dissatisfaction with their appearance, but so do the individuals society percieves to be "perfect". Even models are air-brushed. This song is about rites of passage as well as the loss of "virginities", which I think includes emotional baggage like self-conciousness and parts of your past ("confess I have kept all that I create, confess I have killed all that I have kept"). It's about shedding personal anxieties but also a loss of innocence, a loss of things that can't be replaced, like your virginity. Things that "run out". It concerns the bitter-sweetness of growing up. |
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| The Junior Varsity – Get Comfortable Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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a song about where you belong. touring takes you lots of places, some where the locals' welcome is less than warm ("Locals read me Like I'm not supposed to be where I should be" ..... "raise your flags but keep your distance"). The band returns home, to "the backbone of [their] being" only to discover they don't really fit in there either. Another thing....... the fact that everyone at home waves goes from being "good" to "strange"......is it because the act has lost its meaning in routine? Has the caring gone out of it? Maybe that part is about being sick of being taken for granted. |
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| Brand New – Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Judging from the volume of responses some one's already said this....but the song is about a guy's first time ("the act becomes the art of growing up"). Sounds like the guy is curious about sex, having only secondhand knowledge. He attempts a random hook-up but recognizes the meaningless of it, he tells the girl that it won't happen again ("'this is the first and last time,' he says"). He discovers that he wants a meaningful relationship, but not with the girl he's bedding. Overall, about a loss of innocence and tainted love. In the start of the music video Jesse runs into a door marked with a lamb (purity) and enters a club where the people all mirror his movements. In the end he begins to undress a girl, only to realize that he is being controlled by another shadowy figure. The video finishes with the shadow man pulling a finger across his neck. I think all the copycats in the club are his social peers. My analysis? He does what he does because hey, everyone else is doing it! It gives him an illusion of control, but in reality, social pressure (the shadow man) controls him. And that's all =) |
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| Brand New – Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Judging from the volume of responses some one's already said this....but the song is about a guy's first time ("the act becomes the art of growing up"). Sounds like the guy is curious about sex, having only secondhand knowledge. He attempts a random hook-up but recognizes the meaningless of it, he tells the girl that it won't happen again ("'this is the first and last time,' he says"). He discovers that he wants a meaningful relationship, but not with the girl he's bedding. Overall, about a loss of innocence and tainted love. In the start of the music video Jesse runs into a door marked with a lamb (purity) and enters a club where the people all mirror his movements. In the end he begins to undress a girl, only to realize that he is being controlled by another shadowy figure. The video finishes with the shadow man pulling a finger across his neck. I think all the copycats in the club are his social peers. My analysis? He does what he does because hey, everyone else is doing it! It gives him an illusion of control, but in reality, social pressure (the shadow man) controls him. And that's all =) |
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| Brand New – Tautou Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song's basically about falling for someone hard....sinking fast like "a stone in the sea", becoming so infatuated and focused on one person that you isolate yourself (burning bridges). Yeah the burning is obviously sexual. My interpretation. But everyone's entitled to their own. | |
| Brand New – The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| If you enjoy this song, download "The Quiet Screaming" by The Legion of Honor. It's a mashup of Dashboard's "screaming Infidelities" and "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows". The Legion of Honor's album, incorporated, is coming out soon with similar mashups popular of alt-rock/hard-rock bands so check it out! | |
| Thursday – This Side Of Brightness Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| To me this song is about having something incredible...but always dreading it's end because as Robert Frost says, "nothing gold can stay". There's a certain tragedy in moving on and losing what was once good to find what's better. By moving on and breaking things off you lose a part of who you were in the past. Life doesn't always treat people well either' to me the line "children sign but don't make a sound" refers literally to deafness, and how heart-breaking it is that some people have to live with the stimulation of one sense. I guess it's important to remember that holding on to what's tangible and what is comfortable ("stitched all these dead-end streets Into the sewn up seams of my heartstrings") only hinders and hurts us. No matter how debilitating people have to move on and hope they can make it through tomorrow to suceed in a new situation where there are no guarantees. | |
| Strata – When It's Burning Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song is about living fully and with no regrets. When the end comes--of the world or of your own existance--will you have made a mark on the world? Will people have known and loved you? Would you wish for more time? Or would you be satisfied? | |
| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song is about someone discovering and dealing with the fact that thier lover is leading a second life with them. "Hide and Seek" symbolizes the mistresses' search for the truth about her lover's love life, which he tries desperately to hide. The "trains and sewing machines" would represent the cheating lover's child and wife, respectively, who were "there first", before the beginning of the adulterous relationship. The mistresses' reaction to the idea of her lover belonging to another woman is expressed through "the takeover, the sweeping insensitivity". His censorship of the truth and of his feelings are represented through "newspaper word cutouts" and "mid-sweet talk". The "ransom notes" falling out of the cheater's mouth signify how he has freed his mistress by breaking off the relationship, but has taken her heart in exchange. She feels used, and thus does not believe any expression of emotion her cheating lover tries to appeal to her with ("speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you"), stating only that he "doesn't care a bit". Maybe off but it makes sense to me. |
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| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I just got the actual lyrics from Imogen Heap's websites...posted by Immi herself: where are we? what the hell is going on? the dust has only just began to fall crop circles in the carpet, sinking, feeling spin me around again and rub my eyes this can't be happening when busy streets a mess with people would stop to hold their heads heavy hide and seek trains and sewing machines? all those years they were here first oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this still alive hide and seek Trains and sewing machines? oh, you won't catch me around here blood and tears they were here first Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That you only meant well Well of course you did Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That it's all for the best Of course it is Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That it's just what we need You decided this Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm... What did she say? Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cutouts Speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cutouts Speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit (You don't care a bit) Oh, no, you don't care a bit Oh, no, you don't care a bit Uh-uh, you don't care a bit You don't care a bit You don't care a bit I've been listening to this song for about 15 minutes....and I still can't figure it out. Hm....I'll post again later? |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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First, thanks to all the previous commentors--I have to visually represent this song for my digital photo class and your analyses helped a lot. Now for my interpretation... I agree that the song begins with the theme of creation ("the Atlantic was born today"), but I think this is the creation of an emotion which Gibbard chooses to accept.. Gibbard follows with "and I'll tell you how", suggesting authority (it is his emotion anyway!) and understanding of the causes of the feeling's creation. When Gibbard writes that "the clouds above opened up and let it out", the language is similar to telling someone to have a good cry...."just let it all out". It signifies a release, I think the narrator's anguished, cathartic release of emotion or aknwolegdement of a problem in the relationship. The perforated sphere is the earth, but I don't think there's much symbolism in "perforated"; my first impression is that it just refers to texture.....maybe broken rocky earth. Allllllthoooough....dictionary.com defines perforated as "pierced or stamped with rows of holes. . . to allow easy separation" suggesting that Gibbard's world is coming unseamed due to seperation from his love. The water "fills every hole" of Gibbard's disintegrating earth, validating his distnace from his love and making her seem "farther than ever before". The rain is a barrage of "thousand upon thousands" of drops pounding at the earth and forming an ocean, symbolizing the idea that Gibbard is worn down by letting go; by forcing himself in catharsis, by forcing himself to feel, he is accepting the ocean of depression...due to distance. The ocean furthers disintegrates Gibbard's world by seperatinf the earth into islands. Gibbard suggests bitterness and resentment for "those people" who take to their boats, those who can enjoy themselves while he is desperate and depressed. The ocean represents not only the fellings that overwhelm Gibbard, but the emotional seperation these feelings cause. Some say that "distance makes the heart grow fonder", but in Gibbard's opinion, distance makes the heart grow even more desperate. Any contact with his love would be too painful and too difficult....thus the lake/ocean is "more like a moat", an entity seperating Gibbard from his lover and preventing him from "crossing flatlands to [her] door". Moreover, Gibbard's "footsteps crossing flatlands" have been "silenced" because the ocean has physically seperated him from his girl by breaking up the land into islands. Eventually Gibbard realizes that the seperation between his love and himself is too gresat to overcome....that the "distance iis quite simply much too far for [him] to row". Gibbard repeats "I need you so much closer" over and over, in acceptance of his poor response to the seperation. When Gibbad begins "So come on, come on.." I think he wants his partner not to literally return to him but to try to reconcile the problems between them, as the ocean of emotion confronting Gibbard is too great an emotional burden to continue carrying. Yeah, I don't claim to know what Gibbard thinks...it'd be more correct I had added "i think" before ever....."Gibbard believes" or whatever, but it wouldn't have sounded as good. Oh, and thanks for the parts I borrowed =). |
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