| The White Stripes – St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"st. andrew don't forsake me st. andrew don't forsake me" This line is specificly about me when I went to see TV On the Radio at St. Andrews Hall/The Shelter in Detroit. The show was cancelled. |
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| TV on the Radio – Snakes and Martyrs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Here are the lyrics as I hear them. I think they're pretty close to being 100% correct. ----- Everyone makes the same wave at the same time (Like pebbles on water) And we call all those interrupting lines (Sons and daughters) A community So let's join hands in some blessed unity But brother, I don't want to know you I don't even want to know you Sister, I don't want to know you I don't even want to know you But we're trapped In this lovely mess Hold you close and smile fake Like they do way out west So many medicines for so many heads and I'll help you clean the skeletons from under your bed, but I don't even know you How could it be me that sends you? Darling, didn't your momma tell you not to let no stranger bend you? Probably someone here that could help to mend you But it's not me Got my own anxiety Sadness isn't any way to explain ********************************************* *This is where everyone seems to get confused. *If you split the channels, Tunde's voice can *be heard in the left and Leah's can be heard *in the right. ********************************************* TUNDE: We'll probably crash heads throughout LEAH HAYES: I know you're crying tonight TUNDE: The force of this game LEAH HAYES: Drunk and insane It's as simple as the way you wear your unpolished shoes And your righteous braids (A rainbow) But all I know is, your blues ain't like my blues And why would they be? If there's one commonality, it's that that feeling's mutual Given time you'll see You'll see |
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| TV on the Radio – Things You Can Do Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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If taken at face value, the message is pretty clear. Eventually we'll die off after we've destroyed everything that our planet had to offer. We were too ignorant to realise what we were doing, but now it's too late to try and repair the damage. But I think that the overall message in this song is: Apathy is a bad, bad thing. |
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| TV on the Radio – Dumb Animal Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Thanks for that, peebeebee. | |
| TV on the Radio – Wash the Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'm sorry, I forgot to start off by saying that I believe this song is about 9/11 and the events that followed. | |
| TV on the Radio – Wash the Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Little flightless metal birds High above in limbless tree" - The metal birds are probably the planes, and "limbless tree" is an obvious reference to a high-rise building. "Echoes from their tiny box Ring out into the atmosphere Creating beauty inadvertently" - The events were shown on "tiny boxes" (i.e. TV's) all over the world. The attacks were supposed to destroy us, but they "inadvertently" made us stronger... for a while anyway. "It was a technological feat" - The Trade Center buildings were a considered a "technological feat" when they were finished in the 70's. The twin towers were the worlds tallest buildings between 1972 - 73, and were thought to be virtually indestructible. "Wading through the markets waste" - After all was said and done, we saw the aftermath. The chilling pile of concrete powder and twisted steel of the "market" that once was. "We locked eyes felt our loneliness abate True desire showed its face, but only momentarily" - This describes the collective feeling that all Americans shared during that time. We all felt that we were equals, because this wasn't an attack on any specific group of people, it was an attack on our precious freedom that we had taken for granted for so many years. Our "true desire" being that we've always wanted to throw all of our differences out the window and join together as a nation, and we did that, but it didn't last very long, did it? "Grey cascades in foreign waves Wash the day away" - That morning was one of the most beautiful, clear and comfortable mornings I've ever seen in my life. Unfortunately, only an hour or so after getting out of bed, it was "washed away" by the "foreign waves". I guess the "foreign waves" would be each separate attack. It happened over and over again like waves crashing on a beach, rather than one single attack. It didn't seem like it would ever end. "I bought you flowers from the dying woods of brazil" - The CIA supplied the enemy with money, weapons and other resources over the past several decades. "While the kids burned down the greenhouse" - The greenhouse would be the Trade Center buildings. There was a lot of money (i.e. "green") stored and dealt with in those buildings. "Pushed the charred frame into the landfill" - I don't think this line needs any description. "We bought new bodies we bought diamond encrusted guns" - This seems like it could be about the military spending billions on the war that would soon follow. "Making out so high in the back seat of a car-bomb Under carcinogenic sun" - This line is probably about sending young high school-age kids to Iraq. "We did believe in magic we did believe" - Our leaders offered us a "solution", a magic potion that would solve all of our problems, and we believed in it. "We let our souls act as canaries Our hearts gilded cages be" - Similar to a bird, we didn't really think, we just did. We agreed to the "magic solution" without thinking ahead. "Watched a million dimming lanterns float out to sea" - Watched our children go off to war. The "dimming" of the "lanterns" being that most of the people who left for war only had a short time before their "fire was blown out" prematurely. "Lay your malady at the mouth of the death machine" - We had a problem, and we asked the "death machine" (i.e. the government, military, etc.) to solve it for us. We did indeed "lay our malady" and the "mouth of the death machine". "Aeroplane odabo ba mi ki won lo Odabo Eko meji, o yo mi O yo mi O yo mi" - I'm not 100% sure as to what this means as I don't speak this language, but I do know that "Odabo" is a parting phrase used by the Lukumi people of Nigeria. It sounds to me as-if he's saying "Goodbye Airplane", basically. If someone could translate that it would be very helpful for the rest of us. |
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| TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I remember seeing and interview somewhere online where Tunde says this song is about changing and personal transformation. I wish I could find it, because he elaborated quite a bit. | |
| TV on the Radio – Me-I Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The lyrics are: La la la laa La la La la la laa La la La la la laa La la Me, I Made my bed for the very first time... Today! Me, I, me, I Made my bed for the very first time... Today! Me, I Walked around with Hospital corners Me, I When my momma said, "What'd you do today?" I said, "Momma, I just... I just..." Me, I Made my bed for the very first time... Today! Aaaaaa-aaaa-a-aaaaaa-ay! Me, I Built in pillows that hold the shape of Hospital corners Me, I When my momma said, "What'd did you do?" I just said, "Me, I" Momma! Momma! Momma! Momma! Momma! Momma! Momma! Momma! Me, I Made my bed for the very first time... Today! Me, I Made my bed for the very first time... Today! Well, momma said... She said, "Son, what you been doin' all day?" And I said, "I'm tryin' to make a place for myself..." Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream Where I can dream And never, ever have to wake up. ----- As for what it's about, I don't think there's any hidden meaning. It's simply about the joy that a child feels the first time they've done something by his or herself without any adult intervention. Do you remember the first time you made your bed, tied your shoes or zipped up your jacket for the first time? That's what this song's about. By the way, you can find out about "hospital corners" here: http://www.tutorials.com/06/0630/06304.asp |
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| TV on the Radio – Dumb Animal Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yes, TVOTRfiend, I know they're not nearly correct, but this is the best that I could do. I listened to every part of the song over and over again trying to decipher the lyrics. I even slowed the song down with Audacity, but they're still hard to make out because there's so much going on musically. I'd appreciate it if you (or anyone else) could present a corrected version. |
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| TV on the Radio – Dumb Animal Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The lyrics definitely aren't 100% correct. There's so much going on in this song which makes it kind of hard to make out the lyrics. If anyone has any corrections they'd like to make, please, feel free to leave a comment. | |
| Radiohead – High and Dry Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Probably not, but it does seem to apply. Like I said, anyone can derive any meaning from any song. | |
| Radiohead – High and Dry Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Obviously anyone can derive any meaning from any song but, I think this song COULD be about Kurt Cobain. Think about it... "Two jumps in a week" - Kurt overdosed twice in 1994 "Flying on your motorcycle. Watching all the ground beneath you drop." - As Kurt became more famous, he had to deal with many pressures, and reality as he knew it was changing. "You'd kill yourself for recognition. Kill yourself to never ever stop." - Obvious reference to Kurts suicide here. Kurt killed himself so that Nirvana would stay in the mainstream forever, and that so he would be viewed as a martyr. "You broke another mirror. You're turning into something you are not." - Kurt had become a spokesperson for an entire generation, and he hated it, but instead of stopping, he "broke another mirror" and ignored his problems and kept on "turning into something that you are not". "Dont leave me high dont leave me dry Dont leave me high dont leave me dry" - Kurt left everyone with high expectations of new music. Many fans felt robbed of their voice. "Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk." - Kurt was using drug to numb his creative mind, he said so himself. "All your insides fall to pieces. You just sit there wishing you could still make love." - Kurt had very bad stoumache pains, especially during this portion of his life. "They're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world all sussed out. They're the ones who'll spit at you. You will be the one screaming out." - Possibly about people hating In Utero. He had gotten it all figured out, and went in the direction that he wanted to go with his music, but his fans hated it. "Oh its the best thing that you ever had Best thing that you ever ever had Its the best thing that you ever had Best thing you ever had has gone away" - I'm not sure about this. It could either be about Kurts fame ultimately destroying him OR, it could be a message to fans; they had gold and turned it into shit because they were so selfish, and demanded so much from someone who was only human. This is my personal opinion. Take it as you may. |
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