| Switchfoot – Souvenirs Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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sounds to me like someone died. i thought it said, "momma took pictures of everything," which would make me think it was about a dead sibling, but closer listening and it's "my mental pictures..." |
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| Relient K – Failure To Excommunicate Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's saying that the pope/catholicism is wrong in both their principles and actions. The title is a play on a quote from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke: "What we have here is a failure to communicate." |
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| Radiohead – Fitter Happier Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The 1990s were a prosperous time, especially in the area of technology. Technological growth reached an unprecedented rate of growth, with new developments in computers, the World Wide Web, networking, cellular telephones, handheld organizers, and storage devices. The sciences also yielded numerous advances like the discovery of extrasolar planets, the successful cloning of a sheep, the beginning of the Human Genome Project, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the development of biodegradable products, and new discoveries in astronomy. Clearly, this decade was a time of great improvement and striving for the ideal of perfection. “Fitter Happier” from OK Computer by British band Radiohead is the only song on the album not sung by lead singer Thom Yorke, but it summarizes and represents everything that the album stood for. Ed O’Brien, rhythm guitarist of the band, states, “Thom basically had this checklist, like a nineties checklist if you like, and he had written it out.” Then, Thom used a computerized voice synthesizer to read the lyrics while he played piano in the background. The synthesized voice conveys a surprising amount of emotion. The use of it implies a reference to the growth of technology to the point where the defining line between man and machine becomes so blurred that we cease to be human. A perfect, almost mechanical life is described – the final achievement of desired perfection. However, as the song progresses, a tone of sadness enters, indicating a flaw in the perfect lifestyle (and therefore rendering the perfect lifestyle imperfect and ultimately undesirable), and the last few lines mourn the entrapment and confinement within that lifestyle. The emphasis is on the emotional death resulting from striving towards economical, social, and technological perfection. An effort towards perfection is the abandoning of personal ideals and independence to fit into society, which eventually leads to the elimination of individualism and the mindless repetition of a characterless drone identical to all the rest. |
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