| Blondie – Heart of Glass Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i agree more with laddboygrrl. The song seems to be saying that Deb was in love with a guy and it was fun, but he was too needy(had a heart of glass) and that he was jealous(much mistrust) so she ended it. and she looked and sounded awesome doing it. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Everest Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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this is one of my favorite examples of Ani DiFranco's poetic super-powers. so i take a few steps back and put on a wider lens and it changes your skin, your sex, and what your wearing Wow, she captured the essence of solidarity perfectly. as someone who has devoted a large chunk of his adult life to furthuring human rights causes, this song reminds me why i care. as different as we think we are in the slurry of the day-to-day, "still the world is smoother/ than a shiny ball-bearing". |
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| Blondie – 11:59 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Very simply, the song is about the narrator's need to live in the moment. She realizes her mortality is a very real concept, but, much like what blondie is saying is "slow motion", when one is living life to the fullest, time has no meaning. 11:59 is the last minute of the day, but that doesn't matter to the Narrator, becuase she is going to live her life as fully as she can. | |
| Green Day – Basket Case Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I've spent some time thinking about the "shrink/whore" verse's gender disagreement, because syntax errors bother me. my conclusion is this- I went to a shrink To analyze my dreams She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down I went to a whore He said my life's a bore And quit my whining cause it's bringing her down The narrator, let's assume Billie Joe, visited a male prostitute, let's call him "John". John told Billie Joe that Billie Joe's life was boring, and that Billie Joe needs to 'quit his whining' because it's bringing down a third party female, let's call her "Female". It is common knowledge that Billie Joe identifies as bisexual(see the advocate, 1995), so it is likely that Billie Joe had a relationship with a female at the time of the song's composition, yet he was interested in male/male sex. The stress of attempting to maintain heterosexual monogamy with Female would have prompted Billie Joe to see a Psychiatrist, who would have then advised BJ to experiment with his sexuality, as in "lack of sex that's brining me down." The last line of the verse is John telling Billie Joe that Female is upset with BJ because of BJ's whining. It has classic American fiction irony that the man with whom Billie Joe is cheating would be the one to give Billie Joe the answer to his relationship woes, quite simply, "stop whining." It reminds me of Flannery O'Connor, although I doubt the men of Green Day were comparing their songwriting to a mid-20th-century author. Long story short, a male prostitute is the "He," and he is the speaker of the last two lines. The "her" of the last line is the male prostitute referencing Billie Joe's female significant other. I hope that wasn't too complicated. Any thoughts? |
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