| Nine Inch Nails – Closer Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I personally see this song about rape from the point of view of the rapist. "You let me violate me You let me desecrate you You let me penetrate you You let me complicate you" You were asking for it. "Help me I broke apart my insides Help me I've got no soul to sell Help me the only thing that works for me Help me get away from myself" I feel isolated, inferior and alien. I want to escape. "I want to fuck you like an animal" Fuck freedom of consent, I'm going to follow my primal instinct. "You get me closer to God" I'm usually incredibly insecure but suddenly I feel powerful. Godlike even. "You can have my isolation You can have the hate that it brings You can have my absence of faith You can have my everything" Now you are going to be the one to feel ashamed and faithless and all-around shitty because what I've done to you. "Help me tear down my reason Help me it's your sex I can smell Help me you make me perfect Help me become somebody else" Again, it's your fault, I couldn't resist you, you were just so vulnerable and sexually appealing. I felt perfect when I was with you, I almost felt like I was somebody else, because fucking someone seemingly unattainable like you almost made me forget who I was for awhile. |
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| Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Because you're mine, I walk the line". In addicts' speech, to be "straight" is be clean and sober, to refrain from using drugs and alcohol. To me walking the line is about exactly that. |
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| U2 – With or Without You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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*But Heroin can only give you so much, it can only provide you with temporary relief. **And Heroin cannot give you love. |
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| U2 – With or Without You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Your first hit of heroin is essentially your last - you can wait your whole life, shoot up until your body can't take it anymore, but it will never give you the answer you are looking for. No matter how much you give yourself over to it, no matter how much you want it, no matter how much of that cruel love you inject into your veins, your next hit will never, ever bring you closer to freedom. And before you know it, you won't be able to live with or without it, despite the fact that it can't give you what you are looking for and is destroying you in the process. There's nothing to gain and nothing to lose and there appears to be no answer. You don't want to take heroin anymore but she won't let you go without a fight. And some part of you doesn't want to let go of her, either, because it's simpler to let her win. You're addicted. There is no easy way out of her grasp. You will have to suffer, you will have to wait on that bed of nails without relief. Time will not stand still for you, and you will have to ride the journey out without her. Bono found a way out of his addiction with faith. Maybe there came an answer one day, maybe he realised how ironically similar his relationship with drugs were to God, to humans, even. Heroin can only give you so much, it can only give you temporary relief. Heroin cannot give you love. |
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| Eskimo Joe – Black Fingernails, Red Wine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It seems to me that it's addressing the 'culture' of depression and numbness that is present among today's youth. Thriving in goth/emo/death nightclubs, drug scenes and parties, this approach to makes suicide a more accepted means of ending life. We're all going 'straight down'. 'The argument over God continues' - is there something after an end to the pain, or is there just a dark state of oblivion? The thing is so, though, if everyone is crying out about their pain, if everyone is depressed, people, if 'all of us stand and point our fingers' it's 'so loud, can't hear you call'. The teenage depression and suicide rate is 'gonna tear you (the future), all apart'. This song is urging people to fight against it: 'you can lie or take a walk downtown'. | |
| Moby – Porcelain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| But if I look at if from another angle, (the personal meaning I get from it) then it is about suicide. Maybe I looked at it too closely before...Meh. | |
| Moby – Porcelain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is about the corruption of the human spirit, and the fragility of our world. All human beings seem to cause is pain, whether it be to loved ones, strangers or the environment. We are driven by materialism, consumed by hateful depression and are always convinced that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. All we ever seem to be doing is making mistakes and apologising for them. The background lyrics seem to me to be, 'Hey, hey, woman, it's all right.' Could this be an address to Mother Nature, or is it just another story that is mirrored throughout every human life, another heartbroken, another spurt of pain released from our souls. The human race is slowly going crazy - we are destroying ourselves and our planet...tell the truth Mother Nature...You never wanted Us...we are the hell-fire that is burning you softly. |
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| Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc. Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is about freedom from the societal norms of today and a timeless sense of conformity that binds us all together. Materialistic values are shoved constantly down our throats by the media, there is war and everlasting hatred - everyone is trapped, locked up in the towers of their minds, plastering an unfeeling, phony smile on their face everyday. We think all this crap makes us happy, but deep, deep in our hearts and souls, it is slowly destroying our essence, our human souls. Until we break away from this regimented, so-called of imitation of 'Utopia' we will never find true happiness. | |
| Coldplay – Clocks Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this is about a person with a terminal disease. To me, "you are" seems to be cut off, because the person cannot admit to themselves/believe that they are dying. The person begs to God to keep them alive, he/she feels they are a burden to their family & friends, he/she looks back on their life, & wonders if they have made the right choices, wishes they could change things & fix mistakes. Reminiscence and regret seem to be the main themes, & he/she wonders perhaps if their unhappiness is destroying them faster, or maybe, if it would be better if they just died quickly, instead of going through all the pain. Nothing else compares to the horror he/she is facing now -that he/she will die. But in the end, home (or Heaven/someplace better) is where he/she wants to and will go... I think the majority of the song is depressing, but it seems to have a subtle positivity - Death isn't all that bad, after all. (I took "Am I part of the cure/Or I am part of the disease" literal, lol, but if you look at the song it seems to fit). |
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