| Moving Units – Anybody Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is about searching for a partner, or someone to be close to. It seems to me to be a comment on how that search is a hugely important factor of many people's lives and how some people don't really know what to do without a significant other, so when they break up with someone will soon go looking for someone else to fill the void ("we're empty inside") and will see getting someone to be with at all to be more important that who the person they're with is ("our desire to just find / Anyone"). Some people will even go to the extent of pretending to be someone they're not in order to attract a partner ("We don't like who we are but we pretend anyway / Because we're human as such / We long for someone to touch"), even though if you have to pretend to be someone else to attract that person the chances are you're not really suited to each other. To me this song seems a rather bleak look at society's sometimes quite shallow attitudes towards finding a partner and how shallow relationships ("A little death* to escape") are used to try and 'cure' a deeper sense of loneliness ("Is there anybody out there?"). *'little death' being a phrase meaning orgasm, in case anyone didn't know. |
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| Winterpills – Want the Want Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is awesome, but I not sure what it means. Perhaps the search for religion (or spirituality, faith, whatever you want to call it)? I kinda get that from the talk of visions and curses and prayers, coupled with the lines "you don’t believe what you believe" and "you want the want". "You want the want" meaning the singer is seeking something maybe? And "you don’t believe what you believe" giving me the impression of someone who has been raised in a particular faith, but doesn't really believe, just sort of goes along without questioning because that's what they're used to. So maybe it's the search for something they can actually truely believe. "The fickle crowd has gone to sleep / you’re ready now to take the leap" makes me think "the fickle crowd" are 'believers' who don't believe, maybe go to church (or some other place of worship), but don't really pay much attention (they've "gone to sleep", aren't searching for what they're missing from the whole thing)? It seems the singer is wanting to go from being a non-believing believer to being a believing believer "you’re ready now to take the leap". But yeah, that's all kinda speculation, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to have someone tell me I'd got it wrong, so... ^^; I don't really have any clue what all the "poison word" stuff is about. |
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| Funeral for a Friend – Your Revolution Is A Joke Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I see this song as kind of having two meanings. The first is about apathy, people who don't pay attention to what's going on in the world (closing their eyes, refusing to see what's going on, etc) and people believing the lies that are fed to them ("Dont believe their headlines / they poison our minds, everyday"), and the second meaning is for people who DO see what a state the world is in, and who want to change it, without realising that they are powerless to change things in any real way. So the revolutionaries think they'll change things for the better, but after a revolution things always end up the same as they were before: people are still opressed, it's just a different group of people doing the opressing ("it will never be okay", even if you went through with the revolution things would still be pretty shit). Not only will nothing change, but the revolution will doubtless cause deaths of the idealists who are 'fighting to change things', so their belief that they can make a difference (it's a lie, "They stand to fight for nothing") will lead to the deaths of many people involved with the revolution ("The lies that lead you into the grave"). However the revolutionaries refuse to see how pointless their revolution would be, because they can't cope with the idea that they can't change things, that they can't do anything to help people who are opressed; they care too much about helping people to acknowledge to themselves that they can't make a difference ("those who care to much to see"). So really, the whole idea of the revolution is just a joke, because it will never really make things any better, no matter how much the revolutionaries would like to believe it will. Basically I see this song as presenting you with a choice: Believe the lies that are fed to you, and you won't feel any of the pain that comes with the knowledge of what's going on, but you will remain ignorant and controlled by the system, Or Reject the lies fed to you by the media, but keep the illusion that you can change things for the better, and this might lead to pointless death of people involved in the revolution, but at least you avoid the hopelessness of felling like you can't make a difference, Or Reject the lies of the media and reject the illusion that there's anything you can do, and it'll suck and you'll feel powerless and hopeless, but at least you won't be lying to yourself. (So, it'll suck unless you lie to yourself: "fortune favours only those who care too much to see", those who can't cope with the idea of not being able to change things will be happier, but they won't be seeing the truth). I think how I read it explains how the sadness and hopeless of the music reflects the lyrics. But it's just my interpretation of the song, so maybe I've got it all wrong ^^; Sorry for being so long winded about it >_ |
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| Jimmy Eat World – The World You Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It doesn't seem there's hope for me, I let you down, But I won't give in now, Not for any ammount Everyone seems to interpret that as the charactor deciding to to commit suicide, but I think it could be interpreted either way. It's either that he's let the people he'll be leaving behind down before, but he's not going to let them down again, and he won't die, or he knows his decision to die is letting the people he leaves behind down, but he can't face living anymore despite that, so he's not going to give in on his plans to die, he's going to go through with it. I'm letting you down, but I'm still going through with it OR I let you down before, but I won't let you down again. |
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| (+44) – No It Isn't Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"I listen to you cry I cry for this intention" I hear that as: "I listen to you cry A cry for less attention" But everyone seems to have their own version of the lyrics, so who knows. If I am right I see it as meaning Tom wanting to take a break and not be in the spotlight so much, but Mark not really being able to do anything about that (both my hands are tied) and him not being able to do anthing about that leading to the end of Blink (I'm pushed into the deep end). |
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