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| Pixies – U-Mass Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I go to UMass, so I can kind of understand a few of these lyrics. Let's put it like this: despite the economic NECESSITY of UMass for the continued prosperity of the Pioneer Valley, many of the locals would like to see this campus gone. We tend to get roudy and loud (esp. after Sox and Pats victories) and in what may be bit of a socially conservative area(with the exception of Amherst and NoHo) the campus is an overwhelming beacon of liberal thought. I dunno if that helps. |
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| Dispatch – Open Up Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I believe this song was written by Chad. And I believe this a more straightforward Dispatch song, its about the Mexican Border. The title is a big hint. This song is about Chad's belief to relax the border. And its also about the persecution of those who make it accross a key line is "You match the description of a criminal crosser." Also, don't freak out when people mention Jesus and Dispatch. Braddigan is very seriously religuous. (listen to Past the Falls). While I don't think that this song is about religion, don't go nuts on people who do think that. The beauty of music is that it can be interpreted differently ESPECIALLY the music of Dispatch. |
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| Dispatch – Out Loud Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I don't want to walk on anyones' interpretation to this song, which are yours to have, but Dispatch was never into singing about romatic relationships, well maybe Pete was, but Chad and Brad had other ideas. THis song, at least in the ways I've interpretted it is about how those who are no longer with us ("Gone from the land we know") is always with us. Keep in mind that at the Hatch Shell they dedicated this song "To all those who have lost someone they love, thay can't be here right now, that they're missing, look up at the sky, this is for them." |
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| State Radio – First One Shot Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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THe only thing I can really say about this song is that appears to be about the violence cuased by conflicting religons. The first lines sound like someone was killed by a friend they used to know. I think that the last four lines though sum it all up. |
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| State Radio – Man in the Hall Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'd like to point out a flaw in the lyrics above, its "Can you speak up? A semi just jack-knifed on the Turnpike." At least on UATC these are the lyrics. Makes sense becuase he appears to be on the phone with 911. Actaully, that seems like a good hyposthesis, perhaps he is calling for help from these men that are in the house. Granted, there is a look more to the song than assumming thats even close. |
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| State Radio – Right Me Up Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Sgt is righ this is definatly not about Manny Ramirez. Yes Chad is a Sox fan, like myself, which explains the last line, which appears to be some watching the Sox on the radio. An old radio at that considering it has antennas that need to be held up. And Sgt's right in saying that this Manny character is apparently disabled (which would make it a little difficult to play in the MLB). |
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| State Radio – Rushian Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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There's a lot in this song that points to it, at least overtly, being about the Bolsheik (sp?) Revolution in Russia. The CCCP is cyrillic for what we call the USSR in English. And there is a mention of a Czarina, which is a wife to a Czar. At the time the Czarina would have been Alexandra Fyodorovna. But, this might only be a literal translation. The mention of Kafka, a German novelist who was quite anti-bearucratic and Antole, a French poet who has been quoted as saying "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing," both throw me off a little bit. |
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| State Radio – State Inspector Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I took this as a ong about the paradigm shift in the mental health profession called "Deinstitutionalization." Basically, before this transitions people diagnosed with mental illness were locked up in institutions without the hope of treatment. These were sometimes called Aslyums or State Hospitals. This practice was wrong. Now we have Mental Health Facitlities were care and treatment are priorities. However, the actual process of Deinstitutionalization was a rocky one and to say the institutions were simply emptied of anyone who wasn't a threat to others is not far from the truth. There were a lot of politics involved which of course never help things. While the mental health field is in a better place, the means at which it got there was by no means pleasent or humane. |
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