| Pansy Division – Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Actually, the original was by Ned Sublette :P | |
| Tori Amos – Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| There's a live version on the 'Goddess' bootleg, not sure where else | |
| Manic Street Preachers – The Masses Against The Classes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The quote at the start of the song is Chomsky. The only Mao Tse-Tung quote, as far as I can tell, is from the record sleeve, not the lyrics: "We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports." | |
| Manic Street Preachers – I Live To Fall Asleep Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Possibly about depression? One of the symptoms of depression can be hyposomnia (increased desire to sleep). Could be showing a person's thoughts during the depressive period, and then times when they're less depressed - "When did you become another distant friend" | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Tsunami Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This feels in parts a bit like a comparason between the silent Twins and the 'Glamour Twins' - Nicky and Richey | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Yes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want " is also, I think, about having to change yourself to be what other people want, and how we have to be so difefrent when we're with different groups of people or in different situations |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Yourself Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Sort of. I think its saying that there's all these rituals and routines, everyone does them, and we all hate it, but because it's what everyone else does, we think we have no choice but to do the same. The fact that we're subjecting ourselves to all this crap _and not enjoying it_, that makes us feel bad about ourselves, because we feel that this should be the sort of thing we aspire to, only when we acchieve it, it doesn't feel all that good. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Ready For Drowning Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The last line - So where are we going we're not waving we are drowning is based on a line from a poem by Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Roses In The Hospital Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| There could be a link between This Is Yesterday and this - Nicky wrote them both, I think | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Intravenous Agnostic Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm not sure, actually - bits of it make sense, but I'm not sure about other bits (this song succeds in making me feel rather unintelligent). Bits of the chorus seem to be sort of nostalgic about how the band used to be - "Cosmetic - polemic" (polemic= causing contoversy/dispute) especially. And "Destructive aesthetic" is very similar to the "Culture of destruction" of "Stay Beautiful". Also, the idea of being "Destinguished by relics" could be something to do with the fact that the band have changed over the years, and yet a lot of people still think of them as being how they were 10-15 years ago. I'm not sure - this is just guessing now. There's loads of bits that I don't understand though - pretty much anything except what I said above. So I could quite easily be wrong, because there's so many bits that don't fit in. But that's the best I can do. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Fragments Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is a fairly personal song - I'm not really surprised no-one else ahs commented; it's fairly difficult to get any definite meanings for it. I've made a few guesses, but that's all they are, so please don't beat me up if I get something wrong! First of all, from what I've heard, this is basically "another Richey song". If I've got that wrong, then anything from here on is wrong as well. Strung out eyes as cold as worship I spent ages trying to understand this (which makes me a bit of a geek, I know). The best I came up with (which I quite liked actually) was a sort of comparason of the coldness of Richey's eyes towards the end, and the coldness of the worship from the fans who maybe didn't really know him as a person. They said they loved him, but they didn't really know anything more about him than what he let them see. That's not very well worded. And also, I know I'm gonna get attacked for saying that - it's not a generalisation - I'm not saying that all of the fans didn't know anything about him - just that some of them might have been seen like that. (Please don't kill me - this is my first post on here, and I'm quite a nice person really!) This song seems less hopeful than the previous "Richey" songs - there's almost a sense of dispair, of giving up hope. The fragments fail to hold me in particular, has this feeling - that maybe the memories aren't strong enough any more to keep up the hope that he's still around, or that the fragments of evidence that he's still alive somewhere aren't relly enough any more. The effects will fail to desert me though seems almost contradictory - that he'll remember the past, and Richey in particular. But there's still the sense of the amazing friendship between Nicky and Richey - emphatic lonely soul in particular is a beautiful description of Richey, and Skin against skin and blood against blood really shows the closeness of the relationship between the two of them. I'm stuck on Two minutes silence in a century of screams though - it feels either a bit irrelevent, or simply too personal for me to be able to understand. Once again, just to remind you, these are just guesses! I've not got any proof - if you've seen it different anywhere else, then that's probably right! |
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