| The Dresden Dolls – The Kill (Album Version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song has the same realist, autobiographical ring to it as "The Perfect Fit". I think that most of it is her putting together a bunch of vague statements to explain the way her mind works. In social psychology, it states that the two needs that people are concerned with are the need to be accurate and the need to feel good about themselves. Through this song, Amanda is trying to reconcile these two needs by taking what she's tried to imagine herself as and tearing it down to what she believes she actually is. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – The Gardener (Album Version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, this song has a lot of references to children born with various intersex conditions and the way doctor's approach it. It's a really crude interpritation, but I see a lot of physical representations of genetalia in the lyrics. Ex: "You're quite a stubborn bud". The flower that refuses to bloom can be seen as the genetalia that remains ambiguous. It seems like either the doctor or the parents is speaking, saying "We'll make a man out of you yet" and meaning, we're going to decide your sex for you. This is especially evident in the lines "The insides are all useless, but the rest is fertile soil. I'll take the belt from off the hook and watch the garden grow." The insides will never work the way they're supposed to because it's possible the child has either non-functioning or female organs, but they've built a working phallus and that's "as good as it will get". By the same token, the child may have a female mentality, but it was, until recently, believed that that could be beaten out of them with very harsh therapy. |
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| Frou Frou – Only Got One Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it goes a little bit deeper than just telling someone to live their life to the fullest. I think she's realizing that someone she is very close to has to make their own choices. It's just the hesitation in "BUT then, its your life". It's like relucatant acceptance of the fact that, though she cares, they don't live the same life. |
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| Justin Timberlake – SexyBack Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Does no one else think that this might include little hidden jabs at Brittany? That was my first thought. "I'm your slave." Hmm. |
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