| Jane's Addiction – Jane Says Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I REALLY like this song. particularly the caribbean kettle-drum-like instrument. However, tbh, anything related to heroin addiction disgusts me. And any whinging in the lyrics about drug addiction is repulsive, regardless of a)how based-on-real-life and/or b)catchy some of the melody is. |
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| Silverchair – Tomorrow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| basically I dream by Raw134. lol. it is a good song. and it was written by talented people. I also think it's a commentary on financial or socio-economic discrepancies. | |
| Counting Crows – Perfect Blue Buildings Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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sorry but all you who say this song is about heroin, drugs, or "aids" (WTF?!! LOL) are just way off. It's a pretty hackneyed misconception to incorrectly assume that any song about some "indesirable state" has to do with drugs. give it a rest!! NOT EVERY SONG is about drugs. Good god! Lyricists and musicians are more creative than that! Conslusively, I agree with eljake, mandalor, disarm -- this song poetically describes boredom. |
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| The Verve Pipe – The Freshmen Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this was one of the first cds I ever bought (5th or 6th grade) I think. | |
| The Verve Pipe – The Freshmen Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| re luv linkin p: "the emotional movement of the century!" haha! nice. lol. I love it! This is a great song, sounds like regret wrapped up in with a flash-fire love-fest (that did or did not include some wedding or baby action). great song. known it for about 10 years, but never really figured out what it was about untill now! | |
| Barenaked Ladies – Peterborough And The Kawarthas Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| yeah seriously, WOW. Creegan ROCKED. I think he could be better than some of the other lead vocals at times. Had no idea this was about canada. Thanks for the info. good stuff. | |
| White Town – Your Woman Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I like the opening violin weird instrument thing the best out of this song. The lyrics are so-so. IT's about, I think, just a breakup from the girls POV, what she would say to the guy who's singing. But the best part is that cool violin hymn thing opening. Ilike that. | |
| Counting Crows – Mr. Jones Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| lol!!!!!! The penis theory is hysterical!!! haha. jeez. okay, I think you're on to the fact that "Mr. Jones" doesn't exist. he's a part of the singer's personality. To me this song is acquanting yourself with the part of you that believes and SEES possibility in the face of doubt, impossibilty, adversity, or confusion. Mr. Jones is the part of us that CAN be the big star, that can get the beautiful babes. It's the confident part of us. Thus, anyone successful (like Counting Crows for example) or any big singer or famous, successful person "knows" Mr. Jones. Cool! I like that! | |
| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'm no pink floyd expert, but I say BradNZ's explanation is correct. that makes the most sense. There are a lot of bloody idiots who ALWAYS assume that every song about 'pain" has to do with drugs. Not every song is drugrelated! It's ridiculous how superficial some of the explanations are. You have to dig deeper to really connect to and RESPECT a musician. Esp. one like floyd. Going for your typical, "oh, too bad, drug addiction" explanations is shit and won't cut it. BradNZ is right, I say. this is about that more complex form of anesthesization, dissociating yourself from your emotions and neglecting your dreams! Love life to the fullest! | |
| The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this song is NOT about using drugs; if anything it's about abandoning drugs. good stuff. | |
| The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this is a 2-person band??!!!!??? holy hell! Jack and meg white -- married couple? jeez, that's frickin' awesome! How and when do only 2 (let alone a married couple) people form a band this awesome! wow! | |
| The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"and i'm bleedin' and i'm bleedin' and i'm bleedin' right before the lord all the words are gonna bleed from me and i will sing no more " I DEFINITELY think that' supposed to be "and I will THINK no more". He's caught up in this conspiracy, annoying as hell quagmire of stupid politics: Teh seven nation army (that couldn't hold him back, fortunately, he defated them) He's singing this song after realizing what they've been up to and sings about what he's going to do now. He's going to sweat, go to witchita (some place plain and pure), bleed, and sing his brains it. they're gonna rip it off What they're going to rip off, I have no idea. But the stupid 7nation politic types are: taking their time right behind HIS back causing him to feel all dishevelled and twigged out: "and i'm talking to myself at night because I can't forget back and forth through my mind behind a cigarette But he ultimately realizes, he doesn't want to waste his time with the stupid 7nation game: "and the message coming from my eyes says leave it alone " Now he's shutting them off (good!) and not listening to people's problems: "Don't want to hear about it every single one's got a story to tell everyone knows about it from the queen of england to the hounds of hell This whole stanza is about MYOB: "and if i catch you comin' back my way i'm gonna sell it to you and that ain't what you want to hear but that's what i'll do and the feeling coming from my bones says mind your own" Here's where he finally vindicates himself rom others' problems and stupid circles and decides to go to some place pure i'm going to wichita far from this opera forever more i'm gonna work the straw make the sweat drip out of every pore Remindign him to leave the "cheesy opera theatre of other people's problems" to keep singing and go back home: "and the stains coming from my blood tell me go back home" |
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| Nickelback – Rockstar Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"gonna trade this life for fortune and fame; I even cut my hair and changed name" -- now that's a solid lyrical line if I ever heard one. here's the question: is chad mocking the posh oppulent and saying he'll pitch (discard) that for being a rockstar, or is he saying he wants to whole package -- fame, wealth, and rock? |
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| Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| wow, had NO idea this song was about the bitch-ono-like-destructive wife of perry. thanks for clearing that up. | |
| Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| impetuosoul is RIGHT ON! Period. People who think this has to do with "Garden State" are whom the song is about! hahahA! | |
| Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is NOT about death. Sorry. I either REALLY connect with the singer and understand her message or I don't connect at all, and just want to. But it looks like , from the vid, she's someone who was really hurt by the world and isn't giving up, isn't compllaiing, just saying what she sees. This woman -- her voice --and the lyrics of SO much of that good ol' fashioned RAW emotion, not angst, not rage, not sorrow, just emotion. Bush (the band) has that, the stones have a little bit of that. maybe I just like that downtempo, acid jazz style | |
| Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this is about WAKE UP you're being duped, wasting your time. Great song. | |
| Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| the effects sound so eerie, but also so smooth, too. | |
| Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I wasn't surprised the number of comments on this song topping 40. The singer has such a soft, gentle, benign, but simultaneously strong voice. Wow, one of the most "entrancing" hypnotic voices and songs -- beautiful. It has all those crazy musical effects firing in the background, too. The song almost makes me feel sad. This woman has such a nice, kind voice and she describes these scavengers who "take everythign they can" while she's just "in the waiting line" listening to things that "aren't real". To whom does the singer address this potent message? I'd say to masses of soceity swept up in bewildered groupthink. | |
| Soul Asylum – Misery Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| incu, I like your interpretation. I am against that cause: pharms going for $$ and destroying lives, with all my life. and the song could have that take on it. Not sure if that's what soul asylum intended -- your take sounds like a more intellectual concern -- but it could have been that. Considering the target audience was not harvard med students(:D), the teen angst interpretation is a bit more relevant, but i like your interpreation a lot. | |
| Bush – Comedown Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| hhhm, interesting bitzyxo, so the cloud, to you, is a place of "hiding" of concealing your true needs. I don't want to believe that because my view was that the cloud is a good place from which the character keeps getting ripped from. Your interpretation makes sense, but obviously, I like my own take better! But they're the opposite. it's healthiest for you to be "off" your cloud because your cloud represents denial of your needs, but its healthiest for me to be "on" my cloud because the cloud represents fulfillment of needs, for me! | |
| The Rolling Stones – Beast Of Burden Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| hhhhmmm, the astuteness of these myriad interpretations can coalesce into the emergence of a conglomerate meaning: The song DOES allude to jumping through hoops for love, but in a stalwart romantically way that DOES allude to quite a bit of game-playing. The character does not "give up" after miles and hurtin' feet, but rather, as many have pointed out, simply turns the tables. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Beast Of Burden Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| ana byrd, your misinterpretation with the pizza is HILARIOUS! that's so frickin' funny! "pizza burnin'" does not = "beast of burden"! | |
| Bush – Comedown Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| following up on blowpop and sic n twisted, Emerson said, "The reward of a thing well done, is to have it done". which heeds the "work so hard to feel up on a cloud" interpretation. if you plug this into exercise, for example, you workout really hard to feel healthy. | |
| Bush – Comedown Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| okay, sixstringshredder, you're wrong. Bush knows exactly what he's singing about. If you're confused about lyrics, the song sounds like shit. Everyong raves about this song and it does rock, so the delivery is quite amazing. There's a difference between being confused by lyrics and a confused singer singing lyrics; this is an example of the former. about working so hard to get somewhere (being happy, or whatever it means to you) and youre finally there and you just dont want to leave that moment.. because you worked so hard.. i dont think its about getting high, however :) Bush knows what he's singing; you, sixstring are confused by the lyrics. That said, I think sic n twisted and blowpop's interpretation -- working so hard to get some place and not wanting to leave it -- is a very viable and clear alternative interpretation, too. That interpretation is not exclusive to love -- love can take a lot of work to cultivate and you don't want to leave. And for the druggy, potheads, this song has too much poignancy and emotion to be about drugs or pot. | |
| Bush – Comedown Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| no that I shared my 2 cents on the meanings, I can praise. Bush totally rocks. Some of the most emotional intonations and lyrics and delivery ever in rock. coupled with brilliant and alive electric rifts, this song realy puts you into a "cool" mood. It has a huge mysterious impact on emotions because of its utilization emotion. | |
| Bush – Comedown Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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okay kiddies, looks like you need some interpretative feedback...(I agree, praise is great -- "yeah, I love this song, too! whoowhoo!" --but meanings and personal takes are even better). "she cut me back down to size" is humility; inflated ego back to a healthy size and making him more in touch with his essence, his being. he "sleep the day" to wear that off, but no "one was there to take his place" the place that would have been filled by his former ego-driven self (which is not filled now because he was "cut back down to size") But he realizes that abandoning ego and embracing love actually uplifts him, putting him on a cloud from which he does not want to come back down. He's not blaming anyone, which is good; but still feels shame for hurting her. and things are quite annoying back off his cloud -- "non-chorus" verses are NOT on this blissful, lucid, ecstacy cloud -- and all police, the future, and himself are suddenly paranoid, so he encourages one to be more less inhibited, more "animal-like" and he's back up on the cloud from which he doesn not want to come down. Again, he reiterates that love is fantastic but the love/hate exchange, while painful, can create positive things like humility. Alternative, this song could be about a bitch-lover who "tames him" and cuts him down to size, makes him paranoid, and uncetain and is present whenever he's not on the magnificent cloud. Well, that's an extremely technical interpretation, almost humorously technical, but there should be more of this. we all know you like the song if you're considering interpretting it so shut-up about "your admiration of the song" (well keep that and add in meanings) and lets get down to the interpretations! I'd love to hear them! |
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| Billy Joel – Vienna Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| LittleBriddie's first interpretation was right on and succintly and thoroughly well explained. My only take was that Vienna is not a place but a person, some woman who the subject has fallen in love with and wants to race off and do everything quickly. I definitely have been that person (haven't you?:) at one time or another and Joel captures the advice with serious brilliance. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song has many biblical references, but, I think, is hacking religion. The "secret destroyers hold you up to the flames" could mean torture you or test your purity with temptation (the flames of hell after sinning), so then he goes through this pain of hell and has to betray his own principles "betrayed desires" but gets a piece of the game. This betraying of desires frustrates him, but he doesn't show it, like Job from the bible, he keeps his faith or rather, he feels like Job and is enraged at his misfortunate, but is still trapped like a rate in this "cage" of the game. He recognizes his animal-like qualities (illustrated by the throngs of muddy people) but he puts on his 'mask" and acts human-- the band acts human, but is really no different from the masses. The band is just an organized form of that "nothign but an animal" quality. The question is why does he mention "jesus was an only son for you"? He wants to be exceptional -- the "only one" the "chosen one", but he's just this dude stuck in the cage of this game and enraged at that situation. Possibly jesus set an amazing example for him to look up to and revere. Or it could just be pointing out the loopholes of religion, mocking it, too. Jollly good. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I read some of the stuff about "life draining you" -- that's a feature of the perspective, but not the message itself. First off, why is the band in bosh, suits and the "masses" in more-or-less barbaric clotheless filthy coverings? There's a deliberate distinction there. Maybe the band represents some corporate mockery? Also, the masses are not random. There's a distinct focus on that one dude who holds the butterfly later in the video. I think the song is about him and what his perspective is on life. Kind of that "american beauty" theme (with the plastic bag) of finding beauty in a filthy situation, too. One of the best/classic videos of all-time regardles. |
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| Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We're Goin Down Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Okay I had a go at deciphering the meaning of these lyrics and this is what I've come up (after getting the scoop about what the vocals said at the Warped tour and other tidbits from this Usenet -- woah, that' old school -- er, bulletin board): Apparently the song is about love...obviously. Although this topic seems to be, in one way or another, interwoven into most every rock song ever created, the approach that FOB takes to this account of love is quite unique. It doesn't go as far as the Violent Femmes'sdid where with "Blister in the Sun", where the entire song is about masturbation, but it uses this as an anecdote for the many deviations or distractions from love. The song is about how we -- as a human race -- should be loving more than we should be, hence, "We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team" In other words, it is either apathy, misdirection, or distraction that prevents us from loving -- that causes us to toss around love without reverence, to "drop a heart, break a name". We are either not caring apathetically ("sleeping in") because of our arrogantly blinding and narcissistic "God complex" (explained below), are distracted, resorting to masturbation ("cock it and pull"), or are misdirected by sex flings with people that we don't deeply love at all ("sleeping for the wrong team"). While there is a miniscule twinge of the song hinting at the need for more mainstream worldwide compassion (like in Rolling Stones's "The Salt of Earth"), that is definitely NOT the type of love FOB is referring to in this song. It is fleeting and fla love, but it also this fluttering, butterfly love that changes from week to week: "Cause that's just who I am this week", which strongly reflective of the entire adolescent mindset in general. This couple -- the first-person narrator who is just a "notch in [this girl's] bedpost" and this girl, who is "just a line in a song" -- treat each other with nonchalance, when they deeply love each other. The girl apparently cheats on the narrator, but because of his "loaded God complex" he can't even see how much he really likes the girl and is focused on "going down swinging", going down fighting for the relationship, but misses out on how much he really likes her. Wikipedia defines a "God Complex" as someone who, "does not believe he is God, but is said to act so arrogantly that he might as well believe he is God or appointed to act by God. Some believe that 'God complexes' are particularly common in arrogant, highly educated, worldly, or powerful people." Basically, a person with a "God Complex" is a narcissist, or at least a compensatory narcissist. The concept was put a student of Freud, Ernest Jones, who wrote "The God Complex". In it he described patient that at first seemed to be suffering from a severe psychiatric disorder, thinking he was God, but this peters off into an analysis of the patient simply having the symptoms of an arrogant jerk. The cockiness of his arrogance, or of his "God Complex", blinds him from his love for the girl. You aren't "dying to tell [someone] anything you want to hear", you aren't "wishing to be the friction in your jeans", and certainly wouldn't watch some girl from a closet UNLESS YOU REALLY LIKE HER! Right when these muddy waters, reverberating with amazing lyrics and acoustics, start to clarify, you watch the Music Video and are completely duped, ending up back at ground zero. So a deer-boy (the narrator of the song) meets the girl, who only thinks of him as "a notch in your bedpost" and are stalked by some geezer who appears to be an hunter, but who is really another human-deer hybrid. The deer-geezer is so focused on concealing his identity, he goes to such great lengths as to appear as a deerhunter and actual shoot one of his feel deer kin. Maybe deer have some mythical significance with God Complexes, but from the Music Video the old man-deer is the one with with the God Complex. Arrogant and "god-like" enough to shoot a fellow deer boy, it seems that the old man is the one who is going "cock it and pull it", where "it" is a compound bow in the music video. Maybe he really cares about the girl in the story and was arrogant when the young teen stepped in. Maybe he was her father; not sure. It seemed the apex of the Music video was the shot of the hooves on the old man, revealing that indeed he is a deer-person. One seems to arrive at two distinct interpretations -- one from the music video and the other just from hearing the lyrics -- but that seems to make the song more intriguing, rather than too confusing. Beyond my personal appreciation of this song, it is clear that -- from the signs of the lengthy discussion the song has sparked, the blatant desire to investigate it's meaning, and the simple appreciation of its vocals and acoustics -- no one needs to say, "this is an amazing piece of music"; you realize that just by listening to it. |
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