| Patti Smith – About a Boy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think St. Kurt would be proud indeed. He will forever continue to be recognized as one of the greats in rock history, just as Ms Smith has shown us here, remaining forever 27. | |
| Alanis Morissette – Uninvited Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Another example could also be Jane Eyre, as Mr. Rochester was madly smitten with Jane his governess. Rich aristocratic bachelors did not marry their governesses and Jane was just as confused about his asking her to marry him as the narrator of this song was. Not to mention, the law didn't allow it, as Mr. Rochester was still married to the crazy woman in his attic. Perhaps the situation could apply there as well. | |
| Alanis Morissette – Uninvited Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Sorry, Onegin was a bad example. I meant to say Anna Karenina. | |
| Alanis Morissette – Uninvited Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song could be applied to any situation of unrequited love. It's not as much that she's been hurt in the past, but rather she comes across as virginal, namely in the line "uncharted territory" and is not sure how to take someone admiring her, even while her human nature wants an object to crave. But their love is not allowed, as they're either from two different social classes (as that of Onegin), from two different hostile camps (as that of Romeo and Juliet), or from two different planes of existence (as that of the movie City of Angels or as the video game Valkyrie Profile). But even in her higher state, she isn't completely turning her admirer down, but rather needs time to come to terms as to whether or not she's ready and if it will work with either of them. The guitar in the background is meant to add the tension that the moment feels, as such a time would indeed be a tense moment. |
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| Poets Of The Fall – Late Goodbye Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Actually one of the mobsters says that it's because "he's in the John and he's looking at himself in the mirror" if you listen to his conversation before springing out into their view. Now moving away from the game for just a moment to focus on the song...yes, the game was well written but we have to see them as two separate pieces of art... The speaker has obviously made some mistakes in his life from the first stanza, partially due to his lies, but at the same time, time progresses on and the couple continues to move on. Perhaps also the other may have broken it off along the way, giving him not chance to say goodbye, so any farewell or closier for him is nonexistent, of which he is now lamenting. Which leads into the second verse, describing just that. The speaker now realizes what the other actually had done for them. By crossing "that line" (the boundary or wall that we all seem to hold in the modern world) and allowing themselves to love, they have been given strength of some kind. The third verse stands out to me (and also hits the closest to home for me personally). The devil's hand is basically all the problems he's gone through throughout the past, who also delights in seeing one run while he is hiding from his problems. But despite these uneasy feelings, one must allow themselves to love and to cherish that love; if you allow the troubles of your past to make you grow cold, you're going to see yourself one day in a bathroom mirror somewhere and stair at what you've actually become, an old, cold, bitter misanthropist, beyond the joys you could have had in your younger days. Even if that love is lost, you can still feel a kind of strength from it. Going back to the game, towards the end, Max even talks about what Mona had done for him. And I think there's something in the last line, "Last night, I had a dream about my wife. She was dead, but it was alright." |
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| Skinny Puppy – Icebreaker Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yeah they put a soundbyte from the original Haunted Mansion introduction at the beginning of the song, so it goes along well with their lyrics. Something about the song suggest that certain members of society cannot truly connecting to one another, living as passive nonentities, or phantoms, and whenever one tries to, it turns into a cold false front. For them, if they can't change themselves, the only thing they have to look forward to is their passing from this world to whatever would be next for them. | |
| Skinny Puppy – Assimilate Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is one of the first songs they made together and they obviously wanted to show what the band was all about. Part of showing the decline of a society is to first focus on one issue (animal testing and cruelty; this is where they got their name) and then branch out from there to view the rest as a whole. Ogre sees the world progressing into devastation and it's not taking any steps back (also showing how despite our progress we're still just as odious and beastial as the caveman or the very animals men test "man in motion/going nowhere"), and he hates it so much, he wants to be locked away from it. But all one really can do in order to keep from dying is to adapt, or be assimilated, but I'm not sure that's what they're going to accept by the very concept and feeling that this song gives off. |
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| Snake River Conspiracy – You And Your Friend Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| All three of them are really good friends obviously, but the speaker sounds like she's falling in love with the guy. Perhaps, also the guy likes his other friend but she's willing to abdicate any jealous feelings and perhaps be with them both, as she points out that she could see how badly things would turn out if all were not in the equasion. Three-somes can cure this (j/k). :P | |
| Medicine – Time Baby III Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Yeah she was hot. I wish I could find them on cd somewhere. They actually sounded fantastic. This song is about overcoming something horrible and not being "taken away" by it. |
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| The Epoxies – Need More Time Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Epoxies have done a brilliant job of reviving new wave by combining it with modern punk. This song, I believe is about politicians, doing nothing and ruling an unquestioning society...okay so I first heard it on Rock Against Bush and thats why I would associate it with them. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – A Warm Place Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I listen to it to relax. Generally, the uneducated radio listener thinks of hard industrial rock when they hear about NIN. This is a departure, a break for the listener, and a break in reality for the character of the album as Numpty described. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Beside You in Time Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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My eyes watered at the pure beauty this song gave off. The gorgeous melody combined with the lyrics of Trent being ready to move on from one stage of his life to another gives a glorious feeling of peace. While Trent realizes he's running out of popularity in today's music scene with the ADD society who can't remember who the hit band was last week, he's ready to move on from all the turmoil in his life. And in creating this music and the music from past albums, he has gained a type of immortality, this being stated in the line "We will never die". Following with the line "beside you in time", he could either be talking to other musical innovators like John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, or Kurt Cobain or he could be talking to us; that this immortality is what we all desire and eventually we may get to that point, but first we have to go through this turmoil on our own, feeling every little piece bleed through, before we can achieve this greatness. |
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| L7 – Off The Wagon Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This is everyone on their 21st birthdays. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – La Mer Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I have to agree with the first two comments posted on here. La Mer is about death (in this case drowning) but its actually somewhat hopeful. The way the sea is taking him sounds like he's gaining some release from his strife into a greater world. Reminds me of a line from "The Haunting" (the good 1963 version) "Why is everything so ugly and yet so comfortable? Like drowning I guess." What disturbs his happy peacefulness is the next song, "The Great Below" where he finds hmself after the fact. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Underneath It All Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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On the contrary to what was said earlier, Trent Reznor actually does believe in god. As he told Spin Magazine, "I believe in God. I was brought up going to Sunday school and church, but it didn't really mean anything. Things upset me a lot. It was just a theme I kept coming back to-religion, guilt and doubting. I believe there's a god but I'm not too sure of his relevance." (Spin, Feb. 1990) Of course things may have changed since then but I thought this may give a new idea. Of course whenever I think of it, if this song is about God, I would say its more optimistic. No matter what this guy does, God (not necessarily the Judeau/Christian God, but still a benevolent being) is still with him and inside of him and will watch out for him. The very tone of this song sounds upbeat and for lack of a better word chipper. What throws this beautiful, hopeful vision off is the last line "You remain/I am stained" which suggest that nothing, not even the benevolent diety that may be suggested, can help him go beyond his own personal strife which then leads us into the next song, "Ripe (with decay)" for which may suggest, in typical Trent Reznor pessamism, his life is going straight downhill from here into a decaying peice of matter. It as was also stated above be about a relationship that went sour. He has always had trouble holding a relationship (not necessarily entirely his fault) and feels the scars of his past. The people one truely loves (esp. in the case of first loves) are nearly impossible to get over when they leave. Of course, this is all my opinion and unsubstanciated, seeing as how Trent never explained this one. |
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