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| Bear's Den – Stubborn Beast Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Interesting! To me, this song is about an Alzheimer's / dementia patient in a home. I can't fully explain some of the lyrics in the verses, but I take the letters to be for the person with Alzheimer's, and they assume that the letters are for someone else. Then the line about the picture "filled with strangers" is a photograph of loved ones, but in the patient's confusion, the perception of them shifts between them being condescending figures (looking down on you), protective (sticking around for you) and concerned (looking around for you) |
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| Biffy Clyro – All the Way Down: Prologue/Chapter 1 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think it's about finding God, the good things like being released from "the things that made me shit scared" but also the bad things like knowing that "in the night [I'll fail at upholding you]" and losing the happy things. Obviously the brackets is my interpretation, what I think he's implying.
It sounds like he's sacrificing his happyness in order to be saved, so to people who's only desire is to be happy, this song will appear to be anti-christian (I'm assuming it's that God!), but I think he'd rather have God than happyness, so this is like a worship song, saying "God, I'm trying to live for you, but this is really hard cos my life without you was better in some ways, so I'll try and concentrate on how you've made it better".
I only have vertigo of bliss, so I can't speak for part 2 |
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| My Vitriol – Grounded Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Does anyone else think that the Foo Fighters sound a lot like this song? (My Vitriol came first, before you slate me for bad grammar) |
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| Martin Grech – Dali Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Has the name got anything to do with spanish surrealist artist, Salvador Dali? Or possibly one of his works? |
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| Blur – Country House Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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aah you obviously weren't english children in the 80s! Jackanory was indeed a childrens programme from the 80s, but it's significance is that this programme was basically storytime on TV. It started with the famous line:
"Are you sitting comfortably? Then lets begin"
Why did they have to get rid of it, that show rocked! |
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| Johnny Cash – Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Will you all please quit talking about NIN. You may not know many things, but stating the fact that this is a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song doesn't make you any smarter
Pesonally, I don't think this is about self harm, suicide or heroine, it may have been written about one of these things, but Cash did it because it related to him in another way
In the video theres quite a few shots of June (Carter) his second wife. June desparately held onto Johnny when he started his amphetamine addiction (note that he wasnt a junkie, so not heroin) and was there with him until he crawled out of the spiral. That must've been hell
As if that wasn't enough, Johnny developed Shy-Drager Syndrome, possibly as a result of his previous drug abuse. Once again, June was there looking after him, staying by him.
It's almost like Cash is saying (using someone elses song) "You've stood by me, but for what? I'm broken and I will let you down some more" As it happened, June died suddenly 4 months before Johnny, possibly the most amazing and strongest bond in showbusiness |
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| Jeff Buckley – Lover, You Should've Come Over Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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If there ever was a song that best describes Jay Gatsby's feelings towards Daisy Buchanan (in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald), this is it.
"It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder"
Gatsby lives his life in the hope of holding Daisy once again, but the closest he can get is an awkward friendship, and it does nothing but destroy him |
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| Jesse McCartney – Why Don't You Kiss Her? Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Yeah, but what should he've done? I think it's great that McCartney leaves it ambiguous, because I don't think there's a definitive answer, It's either Carpe Diem (sieze the day) or live for the future.
Great song, obviously there are a lot of people who have felt like this, and I think he sums up those feelings and expresses them beautifully |
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| Seal – Don't Cry Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Only just realised this! Seal had Lupus as a kid, lupus is the latin for wolf. I'm pretty sure that's what he refers to as "the wolf in my bed", that he fears that what "you've done to me" has replaced his experiences of lupus, but he still is able to say "You'll always be loved" |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Worlds Apart Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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i love the fusion between western and eastern music in this. It all means adventure to me, both with the lyrics and how the music seems so full, with so many intertwining melodies. |
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| Blur – This Is a Low Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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i heard it was about a shipping forecast too. If you don't get them in america, they're like weather forecasts, but harder to understand |
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| Radiohead – Just Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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To me, this song is about self-harm, After reading everyones' posts, I realise that this is not the case, but it still fits in rather well. I see it as an extended metaphor, that the "abusive boyfriend" (locks changing, he'll get to you etc) is really the self harming "habit" - I realise that's not quite the right word. If you talk to self-harmers or ex-self-harmers you will find that it's often the same thing, that they look for sympathy and acceptance in public, then later hurting themselves in private. With that in mind, the lyrics take on a whole new meaning |
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| David Gray – Shine Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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ucaminax, thankyou so much! you're right, Ephemera is a fantastic poem, possibly more emotional and passionate than Shine, but I dunno. I think both DG and WB Yates are talking about being separated emotionally as well as physically, and talking as if they will carry on to have this separation for some time, is isn't a "I'm your knight and I'm saving you" its more of a "the bravest, most courageous thing I can do right now is to let you go" I know we're meant to stay on the subject of the music, but lets not!
what do people think of this whole idea, is it possible to love someone so much that you let them go? or does love mean holding tight to someone and not loosening grip despite physical / emotional barriers?
Please respond! R |
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| Counting Crows – Mrs. Potter's Lullaby Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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How cool is this site?! Anyway, I love this song. Being English, lots of references in 'crows songs are lost on me, (like what the heck is a tilt-a-whirl?) but through my experiences, certain lines jump through the music and hit you, one of which no1 has mentioned: "the price of the memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings". A close friend of mine moved to Canada when we were 16, so this line means (to me) how you want to remember the good times, but with that comes the memory that they're over |
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