| Depeche Mode – Stripped Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Just want to say this song has to be one of the greatest fucking songs ever. And when I say "fucking" I mean in a car, at the shoulder of the road, at sometime past midnight. | |
| Depeche Mode – Sometimes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song has hints of "Somebody" in it. The common thread is the unfiltered honesty. In this song it is the fact that he can even be "embarassing" while in "Somebody" his thoughts might "even be perverted". In other words, Gore is speaking of inner thoughts that might be off-center or even offensive. Anyway - great song like all DM songs. |
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| Depeche Mode – But Not Tonight Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I agree with most of what has been said. Yet I feel I should mention that this song is not simply about happiness and redemption. Notice the narrator states, "just for one day..." It is about a moment in an otherwise crappy life where you find happiness. It is not as if the narrator has suddenly become optomistic, there is no "life altering moment". The song is simply about someone who is normally involved in "debauchery" but for one night they have this fleeting, inexplicable, moment of zest for life. To simply see this song as optimistic is to miss the underlying message. |
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| Depeche Mode – World Full Of Nothing Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I love this song - served me well during many steamy sessions in my car in high school. Anyway, there really isn't anything sweet about this song. It is rather sad. Sure, the song has a maudlin element to it - but it is ultimately sad. It is about the lack of meaning in ones first sexual encounter. The lyric, "though it's not love it means something" is insincere. The narrator doesn't really believe it means "something". Instead the narrator states, "it's easy to slip away and believe it all". The narrator is speaking to themself - trying to convince themself that the encounter meant "something". In reality it meant nothing. Sad, empty song. Not sweet. Yet brilliant DM. |
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| Depeche Mode – Here Is The House Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Straightforward song. What I see underscoring the narration is the sense of loss. This is illustrated more in the cadence of language and melody than the lyrics. Ostensibly this is truly some form of ballad - ode to love - but underneath there seems a tinge of regret/nostolgia that elicits sadness. It is this physical union the narrator longs for - "feels like home" - and this intimacy occurs "with or without words". In this sense it is special. The other person "feels like home". If one simply reads the lyrics they might misunderstand the song. Not to read too much into DM (I love them but they are relatively easy to comprehend). |
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| Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Not to sound rude - but - there is nothing to debate here. This song is clearly about drugs. When the song first came out, when I was all of 14, I knew that. Come on people. About homosexuality? No. The ending - " see the stars they're shining bright/ Everything's alright tonight" is about him being high and "everything is alright". |
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| Tupac Shakur – Dear Mama Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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To help Irish to understand his mistake (as he is ignorant and won't be able to find it himself), look to your post of 01-08-2005. You state, "all your doing is proving my point". Your = possessive of 'You'. You're = contraction of 'you are'. All I know is that it's not THAT hard to discern the difference between Your and You're if you take that little bit of effort to try. Not knowing the difference between those two really shows off a sense of ignorance in a person that can be easily mistaken for stupidity. Welcome to class irish - k1114 isn't the only one who needs to go back to school. Let me know when I can teach you English. |
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| Tupac Shakur – Dear Mama Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Gotta love irish. He cracks on another poster for spelling "respect" wrong and then he proves he is an uneducated person himself when in that same thread he uses "your" instead of "you're". If you need help spelling and using English I can help - I have an MA in English and a JD. In other words, I have some ability to speak and communicate using the language, something you may want to pick up yourself. The real funny thing is some people make mistakes as a result of typos, understandable. Your mistake (notice proper usage) was a result of ignorance. Buddy - don't crack on others when you can't use the language yourself. How ironic. |
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| Pulp – The Fear Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Gotta love Pulp. Jarvis is one sick mofo. The boy is obsessed with sex. Most of Pulp's songs are about sex in one way or another. The angle here is clear. Bachelor hasn't been laid in a while. His skills are absent and he is "fearing" being alone and not getting a shag. |
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| Pulp – This Is Hardcore Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I agree with the other. I just want to point out how beautifully twisted this song is. It is 100% lust - perverted - about taboo and unbrideled fantasy for the sexual high.Sex is a drug. This narrator is addicted to sex. His mind is full of images and he is playing them all out. There is no going back - once you've gone harcore you can't ever go back. Sex as a drug is like any other drug - you have to take a bigger hit to get the same high. That is why you can't go back once you go hardcore - normal, vanilla sex won't get you off like it once did. Unlike, "do you remember the first time", this is about deviant sex not innocent union. The songs are about the total opposite. Here there is no regret, no emotion. This song has a companion on the lp - "seductive barry". If you listen to them together you will see. Slightly different but same underscore of lust and "fucking passion". Btw, |
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| Pulp – Sylvia Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Straight up Pulp. Working class Brits, lust, folly, longing, regret. This song is fairly straightforward. Narrator sees this girl who reminds him of a girl he used to be with. Something is damaged about the girl (just like Sylvia) -perhaps drugs, maybe just sexually easy and getting abused in the name of love? Anyway, the narrator is telling the girl it has nothing to do with her - it is not her fault - and she "deserves better". Seems like an abusive relationship - she is sticking with the "devil she knows, stuck in a rut, and has no confidence. Underpinning this the narrator is recounting his own responsibility in Sylvia's demise. He reminds himself he was like the men in this particular girl's life. Like these men, he only "wanted to show his friends" the hot chick on his arm. One take is that this is one of those girls who is beautiful and abused. You all know the type - bad home, looking for love, getting sexually used over and over again. |
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| The Cure – Jupiter Crash Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I agree with the above comments but there is something missing here. It is fairly obvious so perhaps that's why there have been no comments this far. This song uses metaphor to illustrate the fleeting nature of one's first sexual encounter. It also suggests that the fantasy of sex is better than the reality (much the same way as in the astronomical observance). Notice the lyric "Is that it?" There is the expectation that the encounter will be an "event" and it turns out to be brief and unfulfilling. The girl isn't really interested in the celestial bodies but HIS body. As it turns out the event didn't meet to her satisfaction - too short. Both the crashing of the solar system bodies and the crashing of these human bodies aren't as spectacular as the girl had hoped. At the end she left him and like Jupiter there is hardly any trace (at least from the narrator's earthly perspective). Merely "a few bruises.." In other words, some physical reminder that will soon fade. Nothing lasting transpired in either of the physical crashes. |
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