| Nirvana – Polly Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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You don't know how he could entertain a worm because you're a parrot for mainstream media 'journalists'. Regarding Rape Me: "Waste me. Taste me, my friend. My favorite inside source. I'll kiss your open sores. Appreciate your concern. You'll always stink and burn." ... again, I don't remember him ever coming out and saying that women stink, burn, waste him, etc. (what's your source?) And since he was plagued by stomach pains which he attributed to parasites, it's a much better fit (like almost *all* his songs), no?? |
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| Hair – Walking In Space Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Sounds like someone stepped on an anti-personnel mine, but that interpretation is heavily influenced by it's placement in the excellent movie. | |
| Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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As a two-bit writer of poetry/stream of consciousness; I don't believe in just making stuff up. At least that's me. Even in my wildest stuff, there's usually a coherent thought here or there that grounds the words. That said, I had no idea what this song was about (aliens) until I started to read some of the posts. Now, if I had to guess (why not?) I'd say it's about a ghost of a just killed soldier who can't console his family, so he chooses to leave forever. (Boxer in a paper bag?) ... interesting song! |
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| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Everything in that car stuff in the beginning sounds like JFK to me: "I saw the photograph / He blew his mind out in a car / He didn’t notice that the lights had changed". | |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Duppy Conqueror Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| According to Paul Theroux's Mosquito Coast, a Duppy is your exact opposite; incarnated as a person right now also walking the earth. Therefore, it can be assumed that you and it would probably not get along very well - and actually destroy each other. Bob is saying quite a lot when he says he has the power to defeat such a person! | |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Small Axe Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm not sure, but it seems to me that the *people* are the big tree, and the master is the one who sharpens the axe to cut it down (using violence against a specific few). On the other hand, the same master also digs a pit. |
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| Grateful Dead – Fire On The Mountain Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It’s about Neal Cassidy - The Holy Goof. Long distance runner, what you standin' there for? - Pretty good description of Neal as Dean Moriarty/Speed Limit. Get up, get out, get out of the door Your playin' cold music on the barroom floor - NC’s way of rapping. Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core. - ‘dead to the core’= highest compliment. There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down. - As Kesey’s Pranksters working the audience. Fire! Fire on the mountain! Almost ablaze still you don't feel the heat It takes all you got just to stay on the beat. You say it's a livin', we all gotta eat - Always mooching, and feeling guilty for it. But you're here alone, there's no one to compete. - Cassidy was a true original. If Mercy's a bus'ness, I wish it for you More than just ashes when your dreams come true. - NC creates by opening up the doors to new perceptions. Fire! Fire on the mountain! Long distance runner, what you holdin' out for? Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door. The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor You gave all you had. Why you wanna give more? The more that you give, the more it will take To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake. - NC was the real deal, as far as far-out goes. Fire! Fire on the mountain! |
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| Peter Gabriel – Biko Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Steve Biko wasn't just a 'anti-apartheid movement', he was one of the key leaders of the South African Student's Movement, which represented a serious threat to the ruling white system because it promoted black consciousness in a time when few even knew what that meant. Steve ranks way up there along with Gandhi and MLK. The book by Donald Woods is a good place to start learning. | |
| Peter Gabriel – Shaking The Tree Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Women's rights come to Muslim Africa (ending the tradition of female circumcision) and the world in general. YEAH! |
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| Men at Work – Down Under Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| All our materialism will soon destroy us. | |
| Men at Work – It's A Mistake Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Nuclear Armageddon. | |
| Coolio – Fantastic Voyage Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| "you better make a left" = political left. | |
| The Tragically Hip – Long Time Running Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Sounds to me like battling the trauma of sexual molestation by a parent. | |
| The Doors – L'america Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Gotta stretch it here, after all, it’s JM: Yeeeaahh I took a trip down to L'America - *Viet Nam*, baby (first colonized by France, so they speak French). To trade some beads for a pint of gold - Gonna make some $$$ offa the war by pushing US culture (beer) onto the locals ...it’s the American way! I took a trip down to L'America To trade some beads for a pint of gold L'America, L'America, L'America X2 C'mon people, don't ya look so down You know the rain man's comin' ta town - Bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs. Change the weather, change your luck - Put in a puppet regime. And then he'll teach ya how ta...find yourself - Draftees. L'America Friendly strangers came to town - US occupiers. All the people put them down - Viet Cong. But, the women loved their ways - If you count whores. Come again some other day Like the gentle rain Like the gentle rain that falls - Surreal sarcasm, JM style. I took a trip down to L'America To trade some beads for a pint of gold I took a trip down to L'America To trade some beads for a pint of gold L'America, L'America, L'America L'America, L'America, L'America, L'America |
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| Nirvana – Polly Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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KC was - or truly believed he was - plagued by parasites. This explains; most of his lyrics, his drug addiction (self-medicating) and his suicide (thought that they made it into 'his head' too - not a pleasant way to go). Polly wants a cracker - Hungry tapeworm. I think I should get off her first - In his bowels. I think she wants some water - She wears the ‘pants’ in the relationship. To put out the blow torch - She hurts him. Isn't me - Parasite. Have a seed - Egg. Let me clip Dirty wings -Anal discharge. Let me take a ride - Through his innards. Cut yourself - Tapeworms divide to breed. Want some help To please myself? Got some rope - Tapeworm can grow to many feet in ya. Have been told Promise you Have been true - He feeds her, and entertains her (just like he does those around him and the audience - we’re *all* parasites). Let me take a ride Cut yourself Want some help To please myself? Polly wants a cracker Maybe she would like some food She asks to untie her - Knotted up in there. A chase would be nice for a few Isn't me Have a seed Let me clip Dirty wings Let me take a ride Cut yourself Want some help To please myself? Got some rope Have been told Promise you Have been true Let me take a ride Cut yourself Want some help To please myself? Polly said Polly says her back hurts - So his back hurts too. She's just as bored as me - Life sucks. She caught me off my guard It amazes me the will of the instinct - Why bother? Isn't me Have a seed Let me clip Dirty wings Let me take a ride Cut yourself Want some help To please myself? Got some rope Have been told Promise you Have been true Let me take a ride Cut yourself Want some help To please myself? |
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| Talking Heads – Burning Down the House Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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“Watch out you might get what you're after. Cool babes strange but not a stranger.” - Radioactive/dead babies. “I'm an ordinary guy. Burning down the house.” - Whose responsible? All of us. “Hold tight wait till the party's over. Hold tight we're in for nasty weather. There has got to be a way. Burning down the house.” - Nuclear blast. “Here's your ticket pack your bag:time for jumpin' overboard. The transportation is here.” - A-bombs. “Close enough but not too far, maybe you know where you are. Fightin' fire woth fire.” - Mutually assured destruction. “All wet hey you might need a raincoat.” - Fallout. (Black rain?) “Shakedown dreams walking in broad daylight.” - Vaporized people. “Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees. Burning down the house. It was once upon a place sometimes i listen to myself. Gonna come in first place.” - Arms race. “People on their way to work baby what did you expect. Gonna burst into flame.” - More vaporized people (serves them right for not doing anything but making money). “My house S'out of the ordinary. That's might don't want to hurt nobody.” - Everyone, good and bad, gonna burn. “Some things sure can sweep me off my feet.” - Nuclear blast. “Burning down the house.” - (You get the drift.) “No visible means of support and you have not seen nothin' yet.” - Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nevada, Polynesia, India, Pakistan, France, Polynesian Islands, etc. “Everything's stuck together.” - Little fission to loosen the atoms. “I don't know what you expect staring into the TV set.” - Read some books dumbasses! “Fighting fire with fire.” - Song to fight the dumbing down effect of the tv tube. |
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| Paul Simon – Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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She's the snobbery/disconnect of the Apartheid system. Diamonds are diamonds (pretty fragile, *not* hard). He's a poor black African who's basically holding up the whole thing (soul/shoes). Paul's love for her ain't much more than the kind of love one has for a high-priced whore. |
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