| Nirvana – Polly Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Ok, for those of you who were surprised once you actually applied thought to the lyrics: When was it, exactly, that you were all shocked to realize it was not about a parrot? When was it that you realized it was about an extremely violent form of sadistic rape? When (if ever) did you realize that it's meant to be from the rapist's piont of view? He did far more than take a news bite and make it a song. He made it a song from the "bad guy's" point of view without remorse. Stick to Teen Spirit, please |
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| Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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We can never really be completely honest about ourselves. There are the extremes like people going under the knife to satisfy what they think society demands of them. Still, there are other, more subtle ways in which we all, every one of us, hide and pretend. It's exhausting and depressing for all of us, in our own ways. To me this song represents the futility of it all. We all seek out some sort of ideal for ourselves and society but we all have to compromise. It does wear me out. I envy those for whom it seems to come so easily. Then again I'm not so naive as to believe that it is any less exhausting to be the status quo as it is to fight against it. This is, quite possibly, my all time favourite song. |
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| Sting – Why Should I Cry For You? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Ok, sailing as a metaphor. It's really not an uncommon literary theme. The wanderer, the sea-farer, searching, alone, out on the cold, impersonal seas. It's NOT about sailing. It is about love lost. Could be a lover that died or merely a relationship that ended which he still longs for. Both interpretations can apply. Well, as long as it isn't taken so literally. |
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| Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Maybe it's just me but doesn't everyone feel this way at some time? I mean, even if not often or not long don't we all, at some point, feel like everything is just fake, ourselves included? Yeah, sure, we live in a materialistic society in a materialistic age. Even without all that, though, I, for one, still feel, at times, like it's all somehow unreal, a show we all put on and, somehow, manage to unite in. |
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| The Beatles – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Is it all about drugs? Is it not? Seems to me that it depends on how intelligent and creative the artists are, no? I mean, really, either they could only have come up with such imagery if they were on acid or they could have actually used their imaginations of their own volitions. In the end no one will ever REALLY know. What I see, though, is a lyricist influeneced heavily by Lewis Carroll writing yet another song in that vein. A lyricist who was taken to poking fun at those who would interperate the lyrics. Much like Carroll with regards his writings, by the way. YES, there's the easy parallel with Carroll and his alleged LSD use but, it's way too easy. Personally I think it's a bit of tongue-in-cheek fun mixed with the child-like imagination most of us forget when trying to grow up. To me it's a song that speaks with the perspective of the wonder, beauty, fantasy, and perfection of youth. I'd think it an insult to The Beatles to assume they were so unable to think imaginatively without the use of drugs. But so long as it supports your rationalizations... |
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