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| The Flaming Lips – Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about a dream that Wayne Coyne had involving Devendra Banhart pleading with a suicide bomber. At first he is convincing the suicide bomber to rethink his decision to blow up whatever he was going to blow up. When he convinces him not to do it, Devendra Banhart realizes that he sympathizes with the suicide bomber, and that he can see why he would want to do such a thing. So the first portion of the song is about a suicide bomber, and then it doubles back and is about a certain Mr. Bush. |
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| The Flaming Lips – The Abandoned Hospital Ship Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song sounds more like it is about advancement. Like getting/discovering a new thing takes lots of work, effort, and really baffles people when they find it, but afterwards you are so used to it's existence, it seems easy, obvious, and everyone has settled down about it. |
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| Modest Mouse – I Came as a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short Dock) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is about "God" predestining people into specific roles. Not necessarily God per say, but fate/destiny/whatever. People are born into certain conditions, some worse, some better. "Walkin’ around in my bare feet
I do not need you to tell me that I am not a cat"
Who's to say that we are not cats, or we are what we are? Don't we decide that? |
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| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Gravity Rides Everything. There is the meaning right there. Gravity affects everything in our world. We cannot easily escape it. And it is a part of our whole lives. |
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| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I see a lot of Christianity inspired interpretations... which I will not throw out as false at all, but I'd just like to say that Isaac Brock is a pretty devout Atheist. If one can be devout in such a faith. |
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| Modest Mouse – Workin' on Leavin' the Livin' Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I had listened to the song before seeing Eraserhead, but when I saw the movie, and listened to the song directly after, it made a lot of sense. The movie deals with similar themes, and I sure hope that he is paying homage to thoe movie, rather than the Pixies song. In either case, it is a great song, and the movie Eraserhead is amazing. It is indeed disturbing, and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to those searching for concrete answers. It is akin to a dream, and I love the dreamlike visuals in the film. This song is also fairly dreamlike. |
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| Islands – Humans Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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IT is "Rivers, and playgrounds"
and not "Happily alive", but "Not really alive" |
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| Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I do respect the meanings that everyone else has given this song thus far, but I have found some coincidences that are too coincidential to be coincidence. It is indeed about the commercialistic society that we have become, but it all revolves around one book. The Great Gatsby. Many of the symbols, ala Tiny Cities made of Ashes are present in the book. One huge relation though, is that one of the repeating lyrics is "Gonna hit you on the face gonna punch you in your glasses. Oh no!" Which in the book, is clearly represented. Throughout the book, corrupt people feel guilt when they look at a certain bilboard ad. This ad is advertising an Optomotrist called T.J. Eckelburg. The thing about this bilboard is that all it consists of is a giant pair of eyes with glasses. Throughout the book, this has figuratively stood for God, or the person's concious. Thus the relation should be clear. The ball is in your court. |
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