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| Stevie Wonder – Ebony Eyes Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Only one comment!!!! Four years ago!!! For such a brilliant song. Fair enough, the meaning is extremely obvious, but y'know, you just expect a bit more appreciation. |
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| SikTh – Bland Street Bloom Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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if you watch the video and think about the title, it's probably about the fact that most towns all look the same now, thanks to giant brands like tesco and mcdonalds putting smaller businesses out of existence. an interesting and unusual theme, and one i'd like to write about as well |
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| The Police – Every Breath You Take Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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One of the greatest songs ever written - to me it's about when love is too obsessive for a lover's own good, but they just can't help themselves. |
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| The Smiths – I Started Something I Couldn't Finish Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Although thinking about it, it must be written from a point in time after it has all happened and he's got 18 months of community service or jail. It's also very odd that he has made an effort to brush and part his hair for an occasion like that - perhaps it suggests that he started out with good intentions, declared his love in a way that went badly wrong, and then went a bit mental and sexually assaulted the person. |
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| The Smiths – I Started Something I Couldn't Finish Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The narrator (definitely not Morrissey speaking as himself) has driven someone attractive to the middle of nowhere and begun to do sexual stuff with them by force, and is having a sudden revelation that it's completely and utterly wrong. |
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| The Blood Brothers – 1, 2, 3, 4 Guitars Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It's about a thousand times better than that song from Rumors Laid Waste.
I never focus on what their entire songs mean, I just know that they have hundreds of individual lines which sound cool as hell. Some of the best lyrics of our time in my opinion |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Bobby Jean Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Oh, sorry, I get you now. The C#m is in the bridge section.
The B7/9 is in the verses, I'd say it's the best chord in there. |
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| R.E.M. – Suspicion Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It seems to me to be about the paranoia and anxiety you get from some situations which you might feel are almost too perfect.
Fantastic song |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Bobby Jean Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't think it's particularly upbeat music actually...there's that one chord that makes it very touching and sad.
Brilliant song. |
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| Botch – Spaim Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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why the fuck would anyone post lyrics for spaim?!
14 seconds of discordant riffage before japam kicks in. there's no real point to this song. |
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| The Blood Brothers – We Ride Skeletal Lightning Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The Blood Brothers are not a songmeanings.net-friendly band - in that there will never be a definite meaning to the majority of their work
I guess it could generate more comments though...
They write lyrics in the same way that I aspire to. Every few lines they will make a point very clearly and powerfully, with lots of fairly vague but cool-sounding stuff inbetween.
They're just badass in general and I'M SEEING THEM TONIGHT =D |
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| The Blood Brothers – Burn, Piano Island, Burn Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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"I fed its limp indifferent walls tales of an ark haunted with the five howls, I tied a nervous noose of piano wire and wrapped it around the mocking throat of the past"
Inbetween these two phrases is another that's not written here. Anyone the wiser as to what it is? |
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| The Fall of Troy – Reassurance Rests in the Sea Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The bassline near the end of this brings up this scenario in my mind:
The nice bit starting on the 5th fret is some kind of friendly whale,
And the minor chords starting on the 3rd fret are a team of evil Japanese fishermen trying to catch it with harpoons.
Then the proper song kicks in again and the image is ruined =( |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Archives of Pain Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Thanks ithillion, that clears a lot up...hmm it would be interesting if it was 'Manic Street Preachers' at the end of that list. Seems to make sense, somehow, as the whole song is quite hypocritical and they are either condemning themselves as much as the killers, or casting some kind of sick ironic glory upon them. OK, I have no idea. But it seems to fit.
The entire song is a mess but brilliantly so. Surely the greatest lyricist of our time?
P.S. One last thing I don't get...'The weak die young and right now we crouch to make them strong'? |
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| The Beatles – Mean Mr. Mustard Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Listening to Abbey Road, and especially things like the lyrics about Pam, makes you realise where Green Day got the idea for American Idiot from...the same concepts and characters repeated throughout the album
NB - I'm NOT comparing the two bands. Just saying, this album seems like it probably inspired Green Day's ideas. Whether they did justice to stealing the idea is a different matter...! |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Archives of Pain Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Some things I'm not quite sure about with this:
1. Why would Myra Hindley be giving crochet lectures? (I'm pretty sure it's crochet as opposed to crotchet)
2. Who the hell are/were Blanche and Pickles?
3. At the end of the list of killers, second time round it goes 'Amin and...something' but it's not Milosevic that time, anyone hazard a guess as to what it is?
Thanks |
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| Soundgarden – Like Suicide Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, if only for the lyrics and what they mean to me. It reminds me of the girl I love, how she's been mistreated through her life, it's like she's the bird that's flown into the window. The bird doesn't see the glass, just like people never know when someone could come along and fuck up their lives. As soon as it's hit the glass it's damaged and in a lot of pain, and not that I blame Chris for putting it out of its misery but that's like a synonym for all the people that have given up on this girl and let her down. It's very hard to explain but it makes me cry whenever I hear it, the line about wielding a ton of rage reminds me of Dylan Thomas' line, "rage, rage against the dying of the light". I love this song though, Chris Cornell is a genius. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Killing In The Name Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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chriswatts83 - OK then.
despondent - what the fcuk do you expect them to do, spread their political message through the medium of nothing? The truth is that they had to become famous and make a bit of money to get their message across to people, otherwise no-one would have heard of them. I don't blame them for it, especially because they must have worked bloody hard to get where they did anyway. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Down Rodeo Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Gummy - good point, as a generic sort of thing that's probably right but the Bush instance wouldn't happen until four years later.
Zack is the best rap lyricist ever, seriously. He's a genius, just read the lyrics man. You can see it in them, but it's the way he fits them together that makes it so incredible. |
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| Nirvana – Floyd the Barber Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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'Bell on door clanks, come on in' is the first line. The last line is 'I die smothered in Andy's butt' rather than clutch. Other than that it's all good.
I don't think this song is necessarily about a specific event, probably just a culmination of Kurt's more sinister ideas from the time into a song concerning what he hated about his town and society. |
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| Nirvana – Come On Death Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Talk to me - did Bleach really get much publicity? I wasn't around at the time, I was born in the year it was released, but I didn't think Sub-Pop had nearly enough money to promote Nirvana as a big act. |
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| Nirvana – Mrs. Butterworth Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Some of you are really sad (by no means all of you, just a few)...sniping at others for getting one word wrong in one chorus? Jeez get your priorities right man.
Anyway, in my opinion the spoken part of the song was the inspiration for the song Swap Meet, at least partly. |
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