| PJ Harvey – This Mess We're In Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Didn't entirely understand this song until I had an affair of my own. Something like...I knew that she knew that I knew that we'd done something wrong, but it felt right at the time. Regardless, I left her house before the sun came up, haven't seen her since. | |
| The White Stripes – Your Southern Can Is Mine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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In the early 20th century, black bluesmen often used "woman" and other feminine terms to secretly describe white men. picture a black bluesman singing about killing or beating a white man back then...he'd be strung from a tree before he finished the 2nd verse. that said, read these lyrics again and you'll get a better idea of what blind willie was REALLY talking about. |
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| Bush – 40 Miles From The Sun Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The rest of the album this song was on (The Science Of Things) had a very technological/scientific theme. "Jesus Online", "Letting The Cables Sleep", "The Chemicals Between Us" - so I think this song might be about something similar. I think it's about the aftermath of a nuclear war. A man inhabiting a fallout shelter, forty miles from the site of a nuclear blast. Tonally, it's very bleak and minimalistic - suggests a feeling of desolation, following the destruction of most of the world. Lyrically - the song suggests the loss of hope and optimism. "No people to be saved" - nearly everyone perished in the nuclear apocalypse. As someone earlier suggested, "The pleasure's just begun" sounds sarcastic - there is no pleasure in the survivor's life. Again, someone already mentioned the correlation between "In our coats between the layers" and anti-radiation suits. "Wash my skin of all the hate" could correspond to radioactive fallout. A nuclear war could possibly cause the eventual extinction of mankind. Earlier reviewers interpreted this song as being about facing death - nuclear apocalypse would result in not only our own personal deaths, but the death of the entire human race. Correlation? |
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| Cat Power – Babydoll Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Chan Marshall once mentioned in an interview, that one of the reasons she started playing music was because all her friends were into heroin & other hard drugs and she didn't want anything to do with that, and needed something to express her anguish & isolation from them. I'm pretty sure this song is about a friend/lover who does heroin - turn out the lights/set yourself on fire/say goodnight definitely sounds like shooting up and passing out into oblivion, hence the frequent mention of black/darkness. I think if you look at it like that, it's really pretty clear. |
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