| Bloc Party – Hunting for Witches Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Indeed. The song is generally, to me, about the climate of fear that the UK and, indeed, the USA has fallen under recently. I think that a lot of this is about the blatant and completely misinformed racism that the British "everyman" (read: chav) is showing thanks to papers like the Daily Mail, spreading racist propaganda. Hence the "The Daily Mail says the enemy's among us, taking our women and taking our jobs", which is a common thought amongst people in this country. And yes, the line is "All reasonable thought is being drowned out". |
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| Radiohead – Videotape Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Songs don't make me cry. This song makes me cry. I don't understand it. Even the most emotional songs in the world never make me cry, but this song makes me cry. Seriously, Thom. You are God. Screw everyone who doesn't like Radiohead. The sentiments behind this song might be simple, but I seriously don't care. This song is unbelievable. |
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| Hard-Fi – Cash Machine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song's meaning is pretty clear to me-it's a working-class song, from the point of view of a working-class guy. Basically, he gets paid, but there's so much to pay for in Britain that he ends up with no money at the end. Something that all British people are familiar with. :P | |
| Gnarls Barkley – Crazy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My heroes are at the heart To the life I wanna live ...This lyric is wrong. The proper lyric is "My heroes had the heart To lose their lives out on a limb". According to Gnarls Barkley themselves (Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green), this song, just like many others on St. Elsewhere, has a loose thread of mental instability in the meaning. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it's definitely a better meaning than your average "I love you" pop song. |
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| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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As someone has already said, and I agree with them, this song deals with how people who commit suicide "deserve it". I think the "I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide" is pretty self-explanatory. It's about how nobody thinks that people should commit suicide, and how the term "commit" suicide has come into use as if it were a crime. I think that the "Wake up/Grab a brush and put a little makeup" refers to how suicidal people are constantly forced to go through a facade for normal people, thus the "makeup" is their foil. "Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup"...well, I think it's how people just hide away their feelings to stop everyone suddenly talking about them. "Why'd you leave the keys upon the table"...well, don't beat me up here, but I think that particular line is after the subject has committed suicide, and their keys remind their family of them. Or maybe it's "why did you ensure you're not getting into heaven". I dunno. "Father, why have you forsaken me" could have a couple of meanings, I think. Firstly it could be how "God" has disowned the suicidal person, instilling their feelings into them when he is supposed to have created all life. It could also be the family after the subject has committed suicide, or maybe the subject while they are carrying out the suicide. That's perhaps why that part is the heaviest music-wise. Just a thought. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Dogs of War Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is incredible. When I first heard it, it was very intimidating-it's got a very bluesy vocal melody, but the music is sheer energy. The lyrics are quite relentless-possibly about a force or something that never lets up. Whenever I hear this song, I always think of two things: war ships in the sea and planes in the sky, and the hammers from The Wall. It's a similar concept-the hammers were relentless and didn't discriminate in whose "doors" they "battered down". | |
| Pink Floyd – Keep Talking Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this is a beautiful song. There's quite a bit of meaning you can interpret from it-like earlier, someone said it was significant that this clip was being spoken by Stephen Hawking. This is most likely because Stephen Hawking cannot communicate in the way that most of us do, and does not see why we should waste the ability we have. Gilmour may also be speaking from the point of view of someone who has just suffered a heavy argument, and thinks he should patch things up, but can't seem to do it because he's hanging on to his pride. The female vocalists are the person Gilmour has argued with, wondering why he isn't trying to patch things up with that person. |
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| Pink Floyd – Poles Apart Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Strange that Gilmour would write a song like this, considering that he was Syd's replacement so a song in dedication to him is a little odd. I agree. I think part of it is Syd and part of it is Roger. But to the person who said Dave would never call Roger "golden boy"-two things are possible. 1) it could be sarcasm. Yeah, right, Roger's "golden boy", says Gilmour. 2) it does say "Why did they tell you that you were always the golden boy". This could refer to the fans only following Roger. |
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| Pink Floyd – Waiting for the Worms Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The worms... I always thought the worms represented Pink's fans. I mean, he is being taken over by them, and the Wall is based on Waters' alienation by his fans. It's always a possibility to think about. This song is basically Pink's dictatorship 'fantasies' showing through. He's waiting for the worms to come-waiting for his fans to finally realise what he is. Waiting for them to hate him so he is justified in hating them back. The Trial is a complete followon of this song. This is the start of Pink's fierce battle with himself. This is Pink's evil side showing through, and Stop is his natural side showing through. |
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| Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It might have been massive misjudgement for Pink Floyd to release this as a single, because so many people would take it out of context. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 is a very thinly veiled attack on Roger Waters' school, but he's not actually getting at the school, it's part of the wall that he is building. This part is about how his teachers who abused him were simply part of the emotional wall. Nothing is overly Orwellian about it or anything like that. The song is part of the album. The Wall shouldn't really have been a singles album. | |
| Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's very hard to describe the meaning of this song exactly. Like all of the early-period Floyd songs, it's very hard for us to guess what was going through Syd's mind at the time of writing. Sure it's nice to try, but only Syd can understand, really. | |
| Pink Floyd – [The Wall Concept] Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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JoeBaldwin, you hit the nail on the head. The Wall is just that. However I don't think it fair to call Pink mad for all of Disc 2. For songs like Waiting For The Worms, Run Like Hell, The Show Must Go on...yes. He is mad. But for songs like Hey You, Comfortably Numb, The Trial and Is There Anybody Out There? it's not fair to call him mad. He's built The Wall. It's not insanity, it's a mental state of extreme overprotection and depression. To the person who didn't understand The Trial and Outside The Wall, it's Pink fighting heavily with himself. The Trial is a recap of everything, EVERYTHING, that has caused Pink to build the wall, and his personal battles with them. Outside The Wall is Pink feeling sorry for himself, and feeling sorry for those who have attempted to contact him during his time in the wall. As for playing Disc 1 after Disc 2, that's not really the point. It's sort of reading too much into the album. The point of Goodbye Cruel World is that Pink didn't die, nor did the album end with his enclosure into the wall. It basically started with his enclosure. Everything on Disc 2 is Pink NOW. Everything on Disc 1 was Pink THEN. Two things I think are interesting about The Wall: -The Trial is never actually clear. Is the fact that the wall is torn down a good thing or a bad thing? Does Pink really WANT to be outside of the Wall? Because for Hey You and a brief moment before Comfortably Numb, he does, but it's never actually clear. -Another Brick In The Wall is all in past tense. Mother is in present. This might be reading a little too much into it, but could Mother be Pink's little intervention between flashbacks? Just my two cents on the matter. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Fletcher Memorial Home Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I personally think the Fletcher Memorial Home has two different meanings. Roger Waters' father's name was Fletcher, as noted earlier, and it is about the people who sent this man to war. However, it is also a personal reflection of Pink, as Pink is Roger Waters and he is reflecting how his father participated in such events against his will. It's like a personal thought a few years after The Wall, I think. I dunno, I might be reading too much into it. | |
| Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - V) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Definitely about Syd. I think the "steel breeze" part could represent Syd's sanity. (Listen before you rubbish my theory.) Blown on the steel breeze-tries to resist what's happening to him. Rode on the steel breeze-wanted what was happening to him, this could be whilst he was tripping on acid. Sail on the steel breeze-just sit there and allow what will happen to happen. This is Syd's current mental state. | |
| Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I agree with the people who say this song is a metaphor for Gilmour learning to "pilot" Pink Floyd. It's quite clever. "A soul in tension/sole intension" works both ways. Gilmour definitely knows he wants to carry on but doesn't know how to do it, and is tense in case what he comes up with isn't Waters standard. Very clever. | |
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