| Voltaire – Underground Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Six walls of wood, six feet of earth - coffin, underground. Damned if I have any idea beyond that, but the lyrics are strangely beautiful, especially the "here in this darkness I can see, your skin is the closest thing to grace" - could be mourning a dead lover and wishing he was with her, even in death. He looks for her still, but she's not around - and possibly she was with child, of a not-yet-known to the narrator gender? ("You're the burning lie that killed my child, she/he's gone underground"). Beautiful song, though. |
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| Voltaire – Underground Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Six walls of wood, six feet of earth - coffin, underground. Damned if I have any idea beyond that, but the lyrics are strangely beautiful, especially the "here in this darkness I can see, your skin is the closest thing to grace" - could be mourning a dead lover and wishing he was with her, even in death. He looks for her still, but she's not around - and possibly she was with child, of a not-yet-known to the narrator gender? ("You're the burning lie that killed my child, she/he's gone underground"). Beautiful song, though. |
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| Voltaire – The Man Upstairs Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I've always thought that if it was an allegory, it was a prelude to 'God Thinks', only before Voltaire realizes that it's humans and not God abusing religion. Until that realization, God's just the noisy neighbor whose followers (in this case, the annoying sounds) just won't let Voltaire get a good rest. I love the intro to this song. Panicky vocals, shuffling rat-like drums, a cello that goes bump in the night - it's the toy shop of the damned at midnight! |
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| Voltaire – The Chosen Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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There were theories circulating about this that this song was written about the fan who tried to kill Bjork with an acid bomb in 1996 (Voltaire likely would have known about this, being a Bjork fan). Other people say it's partly autobiographical. It's musically a stunning song, but the lines "first time I had sex, I was three" and "she once left me in a supermaket store" give me such visceral reactions that I can't think about the lyrics, usually. Fortunately, the cello part is a little concert on its own, and I think it's probably once of his best songs, even if it is hard to listen to. |
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| Voltaire – Oweee Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Best song under a minute EVER written. It says it all. | |
| Voltaire – Ex Lover's Lover Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| One of my favorite Voltaire songs, it's so over-the-top and self-consciously hilarious. The moody cello, the growling backing vocals, "die die die die die die..." - it knows it's ridiculous, and yet it's both touching and entertaining. Wonderful song. | |
| Tori Amos – Sweet Dreams Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I've always found this song to be talking about the corruption in the world, and how baffled one can be at how others go through life blissfully unaware of it. The lyrics at the end, "I got lizards and snakes running through my body, funny how they all have my face" remind me of Neil Gaiman's Sandman one-shot, Endless Nights (specifically, the chapter on Delirium). In that chapter, a woman feels as if she's been lied to by men, and that her babies aren't babies at all but lizards, snakes and fish running through her womb. Tori hinted at having read Sandman in 'Tear in Your Hand' ("Neil and me will be hanging out with the Dream King"), so this connection may be intentional. Interestingly, both the song and the Sandman chapter feature corruption (Endless Nights deals with corruption both of the mind and world). It would be interesting to know if the two were paralells - however, I'm not sure when Endless Nights came out. |
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| Sister Hazel – Your Winter Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The line is indeed 'Why do your chew your/that pain?'. I always thought that was beautiful line - chewing on something relates to taking it in and holding it, for me, and grinding it and pushing at it until everything about it (the flavor) is finally gone. I interpreted it as a person actually trying to take in more pain, and building on the self-pity factor. I take it as a person with a very pessimistic view on life. But it's definitely chew, not choose. |
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| Sister Hazel – Killing Me Too Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| For some reason, this song always reminds me of younger love. This is pehaps one of the best love songs I've ever heard (along with John Denver's "Annie's Song"), and I really appreciate how it expresses the tentative nature of trying to understand someone, and eventually mingling. | |
| Paul Simon – Graceland Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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For the record, the line "...noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead" is taken directly from the 1890's French play 'Cyrano de Bergerac' by Edmond Rostand (from the final scene, as Cyrano lays dying near Roxane). I always thought this was a beautiful song, describing the pilgrimage towards something new and somewhat unknown after trauma. The line about the window is one of the most exquisite I've heard. |
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