| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hallelujah Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me it's about temptation to relapse into drug addiction. He is bored and depressed, and he has done something unusual and risky (given his "nurse" the weekend off). He then takes to the streets, and runs into an attractive young girl. Given the ending of the song, I gather that the pretty girl is a metaphor for heroin. It's not something I would immediately have though of, but there are strong allusions to relapse in the repeating verses at the end, where "pretty girls" are used as a vehicle to carry his pain away. "The tears are welling in my eyes again, I need 20 big buckets to catch them in, 20 pretty girls to carry them down, 20 deep holes to bury them in". Nick Cave had a relapse into heroin addiction almost exactly 20 years since he started taking it. This is why he speaks of the number 20. At the beginning of these verses, he makes another mention of depression (the tears are welling in my eyes again). This is where he uses "pretty girls" as a vehicle to carry his pain away, which in reality is heroin. Perhaps it's a play on words, the pretty girls being his "heroines". "20 deep holes to bury them in". 20 years if digging deep holes in his arm with a needle to bury his pain. Overall, the song is one of an alternate universe, a path he wishes he'd taken. In the song, he faced the temptation, and walked away from it. In the real world, he faced temptation and gave in. The repeating verses at the end talk of the need to have something take away his depression. |
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| The Living End – Loaded Gun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I saw them play this song live and Chris actually said that the song was about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menzes (thanks petetheelite I wouldn't have been able to remember that name without your comment). The story is on wikipedia. "Jean Charles de Menezes (pronounced [Ê’eˈÉ̃ ˈʃahlis dÊ’i meˈnezis] in Brazilian Portuguese; 7 January 1978—22 July 2005) was a Brazilian man shot in the head seven times at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by the London Metropolitan police, after he was misidentified as one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts. These events took place two weeks after the London bombings of 7 July 2005, in which 56 people died." |
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| The Cruel Sea – It Won't Last Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is partially a reference to the recording industry, and people getting their 5 minutes of fame and thinking it's going to ride out forever. The film clip is hilarious. |
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| The Cruel Sea – She Got Soul Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song is about smoking weed as a way to deal with your problems. | |
| Strung Out – Razor Sex Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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If you invert either the left and right channels and mix them together you can make out what is being sung under "Down with me Step right over me You can do anything your heart pleasures You can do anything you want" As far as I can make out (it's still kind of hard) it goes like "Everything you want from me so cut me up protect me you... Everything you want from me so cut me up protect me your way" |
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| Reel Big Fish – Talkin' Bout a Revolution Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Tracey Chapman should be jealous, her version sucked...and it's her song! | |
| Reel Big Fish – Talkin' Bout a Revolution Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Tracey Chapman should be jealous, her version sucked...and it's her song! | |
| Reel Big Fish – Story of My Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Who said it has to rhyme? If it sounds good, then go with it! This is a great song, the lyrics are great. And as usual, Reel Big Fish have taken a great song and made it better (though they have been known to take songs that suck and make them awesome as well) | |
| The Offspring – When You're In Prison Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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sleepyfrog - You been listening to too many Britney Spears albums or something? The producer has SFA to do with the music or the songs themselves on the album. They take care of how the music comes together, how the production itself sounds. Regardless of what you think of their latest music, I'd have to say that their last few albums have definately sounded pretty damn good. Other examples of what I'm talking about are Foo Fighters - one by one, and Metallica - St Anger. I loved one by one, but the production of the album was pretty poor. And aside from St Anger sucking anyway, the production of the album itself was even worse than the songs it destroyed. You'd think a band as rich and experienced as Metallica would know a shitty job when they heard it. But anyway, yeah. Production wise, the albums have definately gone uphill since ixnay on the hombre. |
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| The Offspring – Vultures Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Yeah, the cancer is definately a reference to something destructive slowly growing. I think it's about the break up of a relationship, be it love or just a close friendship. And in either case, being surrounded by people who pretend to give a rats arse, but are only hanging on for their own personal gain so they can get get something out of it. |
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| The Offspring – Gotta Get Away Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I always thought it was about schitzophrenia | |
| Strung Out – Matchbook Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Hahaha! I would offer it, but I got rid of most of it. Most of what I kept has some value to me, which becomes greater every day. My computer is a channel to some of the people who I really care about, my guitars are an important form of self expression, and my computer also doubles as a recording device, so I can create. |
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| Strung Out – Matchbook Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Stupid keyboard! Anyway, as I was saying, it is very hard not to look back on the relationship with a certain amount of contempt after what she did to me. The lies about nothing, the dodgy situations, everything that she did to me that brought me down and then leaving me when she'd taken everything. And the leading on afterwards and the way she fucked me over and such. I'm angry at her for what she did, I'm angry at her for making it "my fault", I'm angry at her for not admitting her part. It's true that it kept me sane for a long time and still does in a lot of ways. I have to keep reminding myself that she's been playing mind games with me all these years and that the feelings that I felt were normal and the way that she was treating me was not normal. She had me convinced it was the other way around. |
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| Strung Out – Matchbook Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I believe that the song is called Matchbook as a representation of finding yourself out on the streets and ending up in a sleazy hotel reflecting on the situation. It's kind of a metaphor for ultimate desparation and loss of everything, because when some relationships end it can feel like you have lost completely everything. This song hits home hard for me. I was in a four year relationship that was very destructive to me personally. I gave up everything that meant anything to me to try and keep her happy and in the end she decided I was nobody (after making me that way) and left me. All I had left was materialistic posessions, but they meant nothing to me and I may as well have been out on the streets with nothing to my name except a matchbook. |
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