| Gorillaz – Some Kind Of Nature Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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@blurillaz: I don't see how this is an economy-friendly song? "Phony clothes" are mentioned several time. So are the negative phrases "chemical load" and "some kind of plastic." The title of the song is even "Some Kind of Nature," implying something different, perhaps man-made, and even possibly of lesser value than the "real" or "original" kind of Nature we know. It sounds like the singer of the song is commentating, even himself, mixing up love and Nature with material things -- gold, majesty, and nature, with plastic, phony clothes, barbituates. I would say the "phony clothes" imagery extends even more. Reed compares it to "some kind of plastic," and is an item that the needy want, and eat. The needy, i.e. the poor, occupy themselves with material goods to dull the pain of their poverty, with barbituates as well, a heavy sedative, until they grow old. This could also relate to consumerist culture as a whole that depends on pharmaceuticals and material possessions in order to live, or grow old. Finally, the bit about foil and plastics protecting girls from the "spitirual poison" we expect at night, aka bodily, sexual, natural fluids, perfectly sums up the anti-corporate, possibly anti-religion, anti-consumerist theme of the song and whole album, I think. |
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| My Morning Jacket – Cobra Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| yo I was at that philly show too at the Festival Pier, it was amaaazing | |
| Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think its "pissing on magazine photos" | |
| Iron & Wine – Innocent Bones Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| ass= as, sorry! | |
| Iron & Wine – Innocent Bones Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think that the blue to brown to black eyes is just a way of representing the different ethnicities, ass all sprouted from Adam & Even and their children (Cain & Abel) | |
| The Rolling Stones – Beast Of Burden Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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At first I thought this song was, as others mention, about how this man won't be a burden to the girl he's addressing. As in, he's not going to complicate things or ask for anything more than to make love. But upon further reading & listening, I think it's more of a warning from the man, saying that he's not going to take all this shit or baggage or play any more games with said girl. A beast of burden, meaning the animal who carries the burden or the weight literally, or in this case figuratively. She can put him out on the street, and throw all her "sickness" at him, but ultimately he'll shrug it off or get over it cos he's not going to be her whipping boy anymore. |
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| Paul Simon – Duncan Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| maybe one of the greatest songs ever written. everyone should hear it at least once in their life. | |
| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Holly Hobby Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| such a great song. about a girl who falls in ove with whomever she was fucking, sung from the viewpoint of the man who blames her for falling in love because she should have known all along that she was just his hobby, just something(one) to do | |
| Junior Boys – In The Morning Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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instead of "the nights so scared we own it" it sounds like he's saying "the night's a skill, we hone it" as in honing a skill or becoming better at it... Am I the only one who thinks it sounds like that? |
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| The American Analog Set – Immaculate Heart, Pt. 1 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The first verse sounds like a, presumably catholic (immaculate), school girl losing her virginity (not sure what she's losing though). The second seems to be of her reflection on the multiple times she'd had sex. The first time obviously hurts, but her encounters ever since then have left her heart, which is "through the crest on the breast of [her]school shirt", more pained than her body. | |
| Bobby Birdman – So the Blood Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I feel as if this song about an accident, perhaps falling from a tree? (of the limbs where used to break my fall; surley cradled) The accident, or event, "took his sight" both figuratively and literally. The emergence of his sight then "took his brain", leaving him perhaps paralyzed spiritually or physically. With his new found sight "from the inside", (not able to express his new feelings because he is now paralyzed) he saw all that life had to offer, and that maybe the near-death accident or event led him to think of how much he had to live for despite what happened. It's that whole the blind see better, Oedipus, truth is not sight type of literal and figurative descriptions blended in the song. I think at least... |
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| XTC – Greenman Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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the greenman is a carving on alot of scottish, english and welsh churches, pillars, and cathedrals. he also appears in a few other countries India, Italy and France. "see the greenman blow his kiss from high church wall/ an unkowing church will amplify his call" the carvings are all similar, a face within leaves and bark. Before I read about the carvings and stuff, I kind of always thought this song had to do with Islam. Green is the color of the religion. And it kind of had an arabian sound to it, I thought. |
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