| Pearl Jam – Dissident Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Vedder on 'Dissident': http://www.korat.co.il/pearljam/Ibook/Vs/dissident.html |
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| Pearl Jam – Dissident Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Sorry, folks. This lyric simply doesn't work for the metaphorical interpretation as a song about abortion outlined above: "But when she had contact with the conflict./There was meaning but she sold him to the state." These lines only really work in the literal sense, which is also supported by Vedder himself (as pointed out by BigBoss above): "The toughest thing is to devote yourself to a cause... And the people who do that should be praised. Because there are people who literally give up their lives for a cause. Like that abortion doctor who was shot in Florida. He gave his life to keep alive the freedom of women to have an abortion. And it's something that should be their right by law. It's not as if he was doing anything illegal, though there are a lot of fucking people out there right now who want to criminalize abortion. "In 'Dissident', I'm actually talking about a woman who takes in someone who's being sought after by the authorities for political reason. He's on the run, and she offers him a refuge. But she just can't handle the responsibility. She turns him in. Then she has to live with the guilt and the realization that she's betrayed the one thing that gave her life meaning. It made her life difficult. It made her life hell, but it gave her a reason to be. But she couldn't hold on. She folded. That's the tragedy of the song." Yes, he does mention abortion, but in no respect in the sense people are discussing it here. |
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| The Clash – Gates of the West Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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So just what is this moogfaag fellow talking about? This song has little to do with existentialism, much less socialism. And, no, it *is* "sighing," as written above, not "sirens." floating_eye gets it right, though the song strikes me as a bit more melancholy, ambivalent and anxious than the word "conquer" might suggest. From 1979's Cost of Living EP, after they'd achieved a level of success in Britain, but before they really hit the big time stateside. (N.b.... also on that EP: their classic rendition of "I Fought the Law.)" |
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| At the Drive-In – Hulahoop Wounds Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I could swear: "do the shackles underneath your bed haunt the shackles in their grooves" should read: "do the shackles underneath your bed haunt the records in their grooves" But I won't swear to hearing any lyrics these guys sang. (FWIW, "drunk chipped tooth of the man in the moon" and "shined a diamond with no end to its trip" don't seem to quite fit what's sung either.) |
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| Descendents – Tonyage Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No, not "kind of weird"... Kind of awesome. A couple nitpicks... For one thing, in keeping with the standard Descendents song-naming conventions, the title should be "Tonyage" (one word). It should probably also read "Fear's bass player" not "fearl's" (as in the LA band Fear). "Bobby pin" should probably be "Bobby Pyn," which was Darby Crash's (nee Jan Paul Beahm) original pseudonym and, finally, the final line should read "you spit on the Urinals" (yet another early LA band). Clearly this is about trendy surfers and new wavers (the latter the bane of early '80s hardcore) who flocked to the punk scene when it became the cool place to be, when only a few years years earlier they'd been spitting on such luminaries as Darby Crash. If anyone's more punk than anyone here it's Milo and Friends (obviously still clinging to his Cool Guy cred for the time being, [cf, Coolidge]). Still: not "weird"... "Awesome." |
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| Minor Threat – 12XU Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| 1-2-X-U... as in: "1, 2, Fuck You" | |
| Minor Threat – Good Guys (Don't Wear White) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Close, but not quite right. Try this on for size: I'm a poor boy born in a rut Some say my manners ain't the best Some of my friends they've been in a whole lot of trouble Some say I'm no better than the rest But tell your mama and your papa Sometimes good guys don't wear white Every day I work hard At night I spend a restless time Those rich kids and all their lazy money They can't hold a candle to mine Tell your mama and your papa Sometimes good guys don't wear white Good guys, bad guys which is which? The white collar worker or the digger in the ditch? Man, who's to say who's the better man? Of those two I do the best I can Best I can You thought I had a dirty mind All the messed up chicks all the changing times White filth and easy living You can't come come close to the love that I've given So tell your mama and your papa Sometimes good guys don't wear white |
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| Tilt – Unravel Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Existentialist angst, pure and simple, and a tad pessimistic at that. We're alone in a cruel world, with no one to save or redeem us from on high and no guarantee of tidy endings (ie, no deus ex machina). Looking to the sky for help is for naught and, likewise, looking for any higher meaning or reason in it all only serves only to confuse and distract. |
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