| John Lennon – Imagine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "No countries" does not mean "one big country". "No need for greed or hunger" does not mean "nobody needs anything". No wonder you're confused. | |
| Sex Pistols – Submission Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| oops...just realized someone else pointed that out before I did..I feel stupid now..sorry | |
| Sex Pistols – Submission Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Supposedly, the Sex Pistols' manager told them to write a song about submission, expecting a song about S&M type stuff. Instead, they wrote about a submarine mission just to piss him off. | |
| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's funny how so many people try to find meanin in this song. It was originally meant to be filler for the album. Yes, people, filler. I guess you could bend the truth and say that there is a half-formed theme of greed in the song, but it's still incoherent at best. In other words, the lyrics are pretty much meaningless, mystical-sounding nonsense, and trying to find meaning in them is an exercise in futility. |
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| Arcade Fire – Neon Bible Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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From an interview (http://www.stereowarning.com/2007/03/arcade_fire_interview_on_neon_bible.html): "Where did the title Neon Bible come from? Was it at all related to the John Kennedy Toole novel? WIN BUTLER: It's a physical thing you see from time to time, a neon sign on a church. I thought of the name a while ago, and then read the book and thought, "Oh, too bad I can't use that." But as the record went on, I knew it was the title of the record. I'd thought of it as an idea, and then I read his other book, Confederacy of Dunces, and then heard reference to this book. It was more inspiring to me that a 16-year old wrote a book that isn't the best book in the world but deals with some interesting themes. The idea of a 16-year old writing a novel-instead of watching TV and doing whatever 16-year olds do-is pretty inspiring. RICHARD REED PARRY: It's also about blind consumerism. Not in a direct way, but I feel like that's there: humans living in the world as consumers, as participants, how people choose to be in the world and react to the world and treat the world. JEREMY GARA: That ties into the Red Campaign as well, if you want to take it further. That's the only thing we've said yes to all year. It's the only thing that admits to the blatant consumerism of North America. So let's tap into that for good, or at least try, instead of pretending that's not the way responsible people are. [Arcade Fire licensed the song "Rebellion (Lies)" to the Red Campaign during Christmas 2006, which raised funds for African AIDS relief through a dollar taken from every purchase at select clothing retailers.] What about what Neon Bible says about religion? WIN BUTLER: There's definitely an aspect of religion always combining with culture and becoming a third thing. Where it gets weird is when people mistake the culture for religion, and vice versa: these deeply held beliefs that are partially cultural artifacts, the idea that every line in the Bible is supposed to apply to some real thing in your life. There's a lot to chew on in the Bible, and to think of it as one coherent whole that's telling you one specific thing, like it's some kind of manual on how to live-I don't see how you can read that and get that out of it. There is some advice in there, but it's way more varied than that. " They were probably talking about the album as a whole, but the comments fit for this particular song. It's about the ways that culture and religion are mixed up. |
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| Arcade Fire – Black Wave/Bad Vibrations Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Win Butler had this to say: "When we went to Brazil for the first time, we were staying in Sao Paulo and driving through these slums, miles and miles of shanty towns, and then pulling up to the Hyatt Regency where we were staying, which was a big compound with barbed wire and a guard and stuff. Not being able to go outside because they tell you that they'll kill you to steal your wallett-it was a very strange experience. That was the beginning of the idea for "Black Wave."" I still don't understand the song completely, but I think the context of "been eating in the ghetto on a hundred dollar plate" is a little more clear. |
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| Cold War Kids – God, Make Up Your Mind Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Why can't "100 years of solitude" be both a reference to his loneliness and to him reading the book? It works on more than one level and this was probably intentional on the part of the lyricist. | |
| Say Anything – Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this is the definitive song for our generation ("generation y"). On the surface, its an obnoxious song about phone sex. Really, though, its much more cynical. It's really about being isolated in your own hell. The singer/narrator uses the internet and telephones to have empty sexual gratification devoid of any emotion or love. He uses technology to get pleasure, but this gratification isn't enough because there isn't any real substance behind it. He's isolated, he doesn't know what he really wants and he's in his own personal hell because of it. This is why I think the song defines our generation. We're generally like the singer. We want instant pleasure without thinking about what we really want. Honestly, I find it sad that so many people have missed the meaning and just comment on how funny or sexy it is. |
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| Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I agree. Looking back, my interpretation fits in with yours but was too specific. I guess I couldn't come up with the right words (and I was aware of it). "Nothing here will ever be perfect and resonate with divine harmony" describes the meaning pretty well. | |
| Arcade Fire – (Antichrist Television Blues) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Interesting idea. However, I doubt it. The original title was Joe Simpson (see links above). I think the song is pretty clear. "Stranger in a strange land" is a biblical reference. There are many others on the album(e.g. "the lion and the lamb" "golden calf"). The character in the song seems to think that this is a strange (and immoral) land- (e.g. "planes keep crashing", "The voices when they scream, well, they make no sound/Want to see the cities rust/And the troublemakers riding on the back of the bus"). He sees himself and his daughter as being in the minority of the righteous. Of course, this is just his rationalization for exploiting his daughter. |
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| Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Prometheus? I can understand why people would think this is about Christopher Reeves, but Prometheus is pretty far out there. I agree with chris_n. Our culture is all about conspicuous consumption and being number 1, and people think that greed is good. I think that the "body" is greed, the desire to conform to our messed up culture, selfishness, etc., and he needs to get past this in order to be fulfilled. I get this sort of semi-Manichean vibe that the body is the source of evil and the soul/mind is good. Greed may result in more bodily pleasure, but it will keep him from being happy. Only his wisdom and insight will allow him to see how he can make things better. I could be wrong. To be honest, I am partially giving it the meaning I want it to have. This is one of the most abstract Arcade Fire songs as far as lyrics go, and it's hard to tell exactly what it's about (at least for me). So feel free to tell me that I'm wrong. I'd love to hear an interpretation that makes more sense. |
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| Arcade Fire – Windowsill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I also agree with Barky, but it's not about global warming (at least not specifically). "The tide" is not a literal tide, it's the "flood" of mass media. Either our culture is going to be destroyed (a house on fire, WWIII), or we'll be forced to live in a fake pop culture with no alternative (the rising tide). | |
| Arcade Fire – (Antichrist Television Blues) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No!! It isn't innocent for the following reasons: 1. Religious hypocrisy seems to be a motif on this album (e.g. Intervention). It doesn't make sense for them to be inconsistent and suddenly make one that is earnestly religious. 2. The irony of lines like "She can sing like a bird in cage" and "So that they can see themselves inside my little girl". Many poets/lyricists from Robert Frost to Kurt Cobain have written lines that could be interpreted as earnest to the casual reader, but are actually filled with sarcasm. Win Butler and his bandmates are too smart to write lines like that and not be sarcastic. 3. The alternate title and alternate lyrics mention Joe Simpson by name: http://www.fluxblog.org/2007/02/sound-is-not-asleep_14.html http://thetorturegarden.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html |
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| Arcade Fire – Intervention Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that while this could be easily interpreted as an anti-Bush song, its much more general than that. To me, it seems that it is about someone who keeps up the appearance of rightiousness but lacks it. The person appears to be in a position of moral authority but is actually immoral and allows bad things to happen ("Working for the church while your family dies"). The person could make things right, but refuses to due so because its against the conventions of their position. ("You’re fighting as a solider on their side/You’re still a soldier in your mind/But nothing's on the line"). So, the song is an intervention, forcing the person to acknowledge and face their problem. |
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| T. Rex – Metal Guru Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Thor took the words out of my mouth: for T. Rex, style is substance. Unfortunately, many people don't understand irony/camp and write it off as shallow. As far as lyrics go, though, this song is about a car and how it will make him get a girl who likes rock and roll. |
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| James Blunt – You're Beautiful Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The song is about unrequited love. Plain and simple. That being said, this song is ovverated. James Blunt has the shrillest and most grating voice since Geddy Lee (of the band Rush). I'd rather hear a song consisting of nails on a chalkboard instead of his voice. The song is the same generic, affectedly "emotional" manufactured pop that gets overplayed on the radio all the time. It's kitschy, maudlin, and most of all, annoying. The British people agree. British people voted James Blunt to be the fourth most annoying thing ever in a recent poll. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5230636.stm According to the polls, he is more annoying than traffic cops, tailgaters, brown-nosers and noisy neighbors. |
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| Paris Hilton – Screwed Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No, I will not give Paris "props". She's mever had to do any real work to get rich. She got famous from a sex tape. You can't deny that if she wasn't as rich and/or famous as she is, there is no way her CD would be out. Life is too short to listen to crap like this, especially when so many great artists go relatively unnoticed. |
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| Paris Hilton – Stars Are Blind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The song is horrible. Obvious overproduction. Bad songwriting. Lyrics that simply ooze with cheese. Its not even catchy. Absolutely no redeeming qualities. And worst of all, a rich, stupid slut sings it. Life is too short to listen to shit like this. | |
| Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We're Goin Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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^ you are a complete idiot. What's worse is that you seem to assume everyone else is an idiot. People realize that FOB's blatant attempt at wordplay (or "irony" as you call it) is horrible, which is is why no one talks about it. That line is like their music in general. It's not genius. It's not even good. They may try to be "sophisticated", but they aren't fooling anyone over the age of 18. It's sophomoric, schmaltzy, and pretentious. |
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| Counting Crows – Colorblind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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While watching the movie Cruel Intentions, a friend told me that the movie almost ruined the song for him. I have to agree. I don't think this song is about sex. To be honest, if it weren't for that movie I don't think that I (or most other people, for that matter) would have associated it with sex. I think the song is basically about coming out of your "shell". At the same time, he's reflecting on his flaws, and its apparent that he's waited too long to come out of his shell. So yes, the song fit with that scene in the movie, but I don't think the song is intrinsically sexual. Having sex to this song seems weird to me. I think the people who say they do it (or will do it) are just trying to imitate the movie. I think the song is too sad sounding to do so, and if it weren't for the optimistic lyrics, it would be downright depressing. |
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| Coldplay – Speed of Sound Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song isn't very creative. Say what you will about musical artists having a distinctive style, but this song is basically "Clocks II". | |
| Keane – Everybody's Changing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| These guys make Coldplay look like Beethoven. | |
| Bette Midler – From A Distance Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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A crappy feel-good song with a really messed up, deist view of God. He watches us (apparently heaven is a real place in the universe, maybe in the next galaxy) from a distance, but He doesn't seem to care much about us and He certainly doesn't intervene. Meanwhile, the songwriter's simple mind ponders "why can't we all get along". No doubt, this song will bring tears to the eyes of overweight soccer moms everywhere. |
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| Il Divo – Unchained Melody (Senza Catene) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| To paraphrase the Dallas Morning News, Il Divo are just singing waiters. They don't serve pasta, but cheese is in abundance. | |
| Paris Hilton – Turn It Up Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Though this song lacks the lyrical subtlety that made "Stars are Blind" the masterpiece that it was, it makes up for it with unparalleled musical progression. While Stars are Blind ascended to the realm of poetic High Art, this song is meant for the masses. Without a doubt music scholars will consider this song one as an example of how Paris could sing straightforward lyrics for the people without betraying the intellectualism that made her earlier works so great. It has all the emotional strength of Beethoven while maintaining a meaningful, artistic message for the audience. | |
| Paris Hilton – Jealousy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is about a stupid, famous, rich whore who is jealous of a stupid, greedy, famous, rich whore with crappy hit single and a hotel chain inheritance. | |
| Paris Hilton – Heartbeat Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| *vomits* | |
| Paris Hilton – Stars Are Blind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song isn't trash. I can't even say its bad. You see, this song has transcended the judgements of trashy and bad. It's on a completely different level. Calling it horrible and trashy would only be elevating true horrible and trashy music. I have to hand it Paris Hilton. A lesser woman would let petty things like "decency", "talent" and "artistic standards". A lesser woman would be unable to keep a straight face while reciting these lyrics. A lesser woman would be worried about whether it was ethical to unleash a song like this to the unsuspecting public. So go ahead, praise this song. Hell, go ahead and buy it. Ms. Hilton will be laughing all the way to the bank. |
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| Keane – Wolf at the Door Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Here are the facts (according to wikipedia): This song not only shares its title with a Radiohead song, but also contains the name of the song that comes before it on Hail to the Thief ("Scatterbrain"). Keane's "Wolf at the Door" was recorded in 2001. Radiohead wrote their "a Wolf at the Door" during the Kid A sessions (2000?), but originally titled it "Keep the Wolf from the Door", and was first played live in 2002. So, who is copying who? the world may never know... Regardless, Radiohead could kick Keane's ass any day of the week (for more reasons than the numerical advantage). |
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| Panic! at the Disco – London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Some likeness?!?! Try 99% likeness (if such a think could be quantified.) So one uses a synthesizer more and curses more while the other doesn't. That just gives us the equation Fall Out Boy + synthesizer + cursing = Panic at the Disco. Regardless of who uses more synth or who curses more, both bands have an almost identical "sound" and an almost identical style. Arguing about this is like arguing whether your the color friend's shirt is best described as "burgundy" or "claret". Most people neither care nor can they tell the difference. You can pick nits all you want about why FOB and PATD are slightly different, but for all intents and purposes, they are the same band. This song is obviously a crappy emo version of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar". The song's title is reminiscent of Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd even had a song called "Money"). Of course, PATD make a subtle jab at Pink Floyd by calling them machines (As if they were in any way better than Pink Floyd). The subject of the song is the same as "Have a Cigar", except it is emo-fied and from the point of view of the band. The End. |
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| Something Corporate – Konstantine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yes, I'm fully aware that I was contributing the number of comments to this song. My comment, however was not completely in praise to this song. I suppose I should have put more emphasis on the fact that the vast majory of the comments are whole-hearted praise. As I said, I do like this song, but i think it's overrated. So, no, I did not hit my head, although the wording I used was poor. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Ok kids! Time to stop popping your ritalin pills and start using your brain! Just say this to yourself: Panic at the Disco is a horrible band They make bad music I do not like them. I will not listen to them any more. Say this over and over, until you realize that it is true. Once you realize that it is true, then you will have a better taste in music and you will be less of an idiot. Thank you. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well done, XxBetterDaysxX. You either have a keen sense of irony or you have the intelligence of an inbred sheep. Want to know which I think is true? Well, here's a hint: I'm betting its the latter. So let me explain it you to you in a way that your pre-teen, ritalin-addled mind can understand. You say that snapman doesn't have the right to make his comments (which, btw, were not meant to be serious) because its his opinion. Yet then you say its just whatever floats your boat. You then go on to give your own opinion, despite criticizing snapman for giving his opinion. Now do you see why you are an idiot? So then, here is my opinion (since you seem to care so much about opinions). This song is meaningless. That's right, its about nothing. The lyrics and video vaguely suggest some sort of wedding gone wrong but there is no actual meaning to the lyrics. You see, Panic (exclamation point) at the Disco is simply jumping on the Fall Out Boy bandwagon. In addition to posting on FOB's livejournal and sucking up to them, they try as hard as they can to sound just like Fall Out Boy. And, Surprise! They sound just like Fall Out Boy, with half the catchiness, all the overwinded song titles, and 100% of FOB crappyness and pretention. The lyrics just hint at some sort of messed up wedding because its what 13 year old "emo-kids" want to hear. Nothing gets those emo-kids exited like lyrics about infidelity, jealousy, and insecurity. So these lyrics are just an amalgam of these. Just as Jackson Pollock splattered paint to make amorphic, messy, abstract "art", PATD jumbles pure emo energy into a horrifying lyrical monstrosity. This song is horrible. Simply Horrible. No redeeming qualities whatsoever. Everyone who enjoys this song, or anyone who enjoys Panic(exclamation point) at the Disco or Fall Out Boy (They're the same band anyway) needs to seriously think about why they are listening to this shitheap being masqueraded as music. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Camisado (Relax, Relapse) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It was LiveJournal, not MySpace. My mistake. What I said still applies. | |
| Panic! at the Disco – Camisado (Relax, Relapse) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No, it doesn't make sense. What doesn't make sense is that any of you preteen morons could actually like this shitheap that is being masqueraded as music. So, no this doesn't reference Fight Club. That movie confused the band and 99% of their fans. So, they decided to make it about the drummer's stay at a mental facility and then claim it was about alcoholism to be "edgy". This band sounds almost exactly like Fall Out Boy, their partners in this crime against humanity. Supposedly, they got their start after messaging FOB on myspace. Myspace, for crying out loud! That's so incredibly pathetic and stereotypically emo that I shouldn't need to comment further. Of course, it is possible that that's not true and that Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco are actually the same band. |
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| The Used – A Box Full of Sharp Objects Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Ladies and Gentleman, I have made a startling discovery that will shock you all: The Used and My Chemical Romance are the same band! It's incredible that they've been able to fool us this whole time. |
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| Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We're Goin Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| FOB is the SEX, you are a complete fucking idiot. If you have a learning disability, I apologize. However, if you do not, then you have no excuse for being dumber than the average sheep. | |
| Panic! at the Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| He writes neither sins nor tragedies. He writes aural shit-heaps and then masquerades them as "songs". | |
| Panic! at the Disco – Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This so-called song makes me want to vomit. They took the same whiny singing and noisy start-stop guitars that 20,000 other crappy emo other bands have, but (gasp!) their lyrics are *suggestive*. While I'm sure all you 13-year olds think that the ideas of "sex" and "puberty" are new and exciting, that's no excuse for liking this song. If you want to listen to an aural shitheap about pretending to be oversexed when you obviously aren't getting any because you can relate to it, then go right ahead. | |
| Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I always kind of thought that I wrote a song about being angry, I would do so without looking, acting, sounding, or being a complete retard. | |
| My Chemical Romance – It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Fucking Deathwish Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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You guys wouldn't recognize sarcasm if it hit you in your figurative faces. yes, yes, the lyrics are not about cutting yourself, but it doesn't really matter. Their "edgy" lyrics with razorblade and blood imagery is obviously just meant to appeal to suicidal, self-centered preteens so that they will shell out some money for MCR and their record label. They don't have any "real" meaning, and so their meaning cannot be cutting yourself. Liking MCR for being MCR is worse than liking them as a fad. Instead of just pretending to enjoy listening to horrible music, you actually do enjoy listening to horrible music. You should be ashamed of yourself. |
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| Radiohead – Scatterbrain. (As Dead as Leaves.) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Sorry, it cut the url off: http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ pynchon_music_radiohead.html |
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| Radiohead – Scatterbrain. (As Dead as Leaves.) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Thom Yourke included a quote from V, by Thomas Pynchon on the lyric sheet for this song: "It was one in the morning, a wind had risen and something curious too had happened; as if everyone in the city, simultaneously, had become sick of news of any kind; for thousands of newspaper pages blew through the small park on the way crosstown, blundered like pale bats against the trees, tangled themselves around the feet of Rooney and Rachel, and of a bum sleeping across the way. Millions of unread and useless words had come to a kind of life in Sheridan Square; while the two on the bench wove cross-talk of their own, oblivious, among them." I haven't read "V" but I know that Radiohead are influenced by Thomas Pynchon's books. Their merchandise website is called "W.A.S.T.E.", which is a reference to "The Calling of Lot 49" by Pynchon. See http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_radiohead.html for more details. |
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| Radiohead – Like Spinning Plates Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| No. They might sound different because Thom learned to sing the lyrics backwards, and then the vocals were reversed (to make the whole thing sound "backwards"). The melody and the lyrics (according to some) are what you get when you play "I Will" backwards. | |
| Radiohead – Treefingers Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah, Treefingers is a "breather" of sorts. It comes right after "How to Disappear Completely" which is, in my opinion, the most depressing song on the album (and possibly Radiohead's most depressing song). Treefingers relieves the tension of the previous song. If you take the interpretation of Kid A being about the first human clone, then Treefingers is the growth from childhood to adulthood. People have criticized this song for being pointless and just noise. In a sense, they are right, because this song is really a "new age" track that doesn't really work by itself. In the context of the album as a whole, however, it fits perfectly. |
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| Radiohead – How to Disappear Completely Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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As someone mentioned, some of this song is based on what Michael Stipe told Thom to say to himself when he was in a deep depression. I doubt it's about when life seems to be like a lucid dream. It's about not being able to face the world and it's horrors. It's all too much, so he tries (unsuccessfully, it seems) to pretend it's not happening. |
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| My Chemical Romance – This Is The Best Day Ever Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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You're just as bad as those "teenyboppers". You mean to say that you're over age 14 and you *still* like MCR? Come on! Teeny boppers like bad music because they don't know any better (hell, even I liked shitty music when i was 12). But you're older now. You should know better than to listen to the crap that MCR spews out. The problem with MCR and the Used and Fall Out Boy and every other emo and pop-punk band (or whatever genre you want to call this) is that they make their music specifically so that that angsty "teenyboppers" will identify with it and buy their records. The music is crappy and unauthentic. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Helena Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I agree. And his whole make-up wearing thing is so contrived. Robert Smith (of the Cure, for you 12 year old MCR fans who've never heard of him) did something original by wearing makeup. Now it's overused. Wearing gothic make up doesn't make you look more serious or pensive or depressed. It just makes you look silly. Mr. Way is no exception. |
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| She Wants Revenge – These Things Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I doubt this song is about a pedophile. Children don't have a monopoly on popsicle consumption. However, you might want to see a shrink about your fixation on songs about pedophiles. But what is this song about? Taking advantage of women or rationalizing taking advantage of women or something. It doesn't really matter. They're just jumping on the neo-post-punk bandwagon, and write whatever lyrics will make them seem as "post-punk" as possible. |
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| My Chemical Romance – The Ghost of You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No. My Chemical Romance is emo, regardless of what your ritalin-addled brain tells you. Emo is a retarded term for a genre of music, which is why My Chemical Romance fits right in. I will admit that they are amazing though. I continue to be amazed at how such a crappy band could get so many fans and so much radio airplay. |
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