| New Order – Love Vigilantes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Bugoff, I think New Order could, in fact, be singing about Vietnam... or Korea, of even the Falklands... the latter would make the most sense in terms of when the song was written... but I'd be surprised if the impetus from writing this song was WWII. The reason for this being, namely, that WWII isn't generally a war the English, or really anyone involved, have really blamed governments of fighting for petty reasons... rather out of necessity in the face of global domination. | |
| Spoon – Black Like Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm sort of indecisive about these lyrics... I feel like this song is supposed to be rather melancholy. I think it's essentially about being lost and desiring some sort of connection in the world outside oneself. Listen to the tone, I don't think that "I believe that someone'd take care of me tonight," means that he succeeded in finding someone to take care of him... and Junie is also in the same predicament as well as the "weird kids"... I think is a depressing, drunken ballad from generation Y about the lack of connection.... and the failed search for it. |
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| The Cure – Sugar Girl Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Simon is right, this song is about a relationship that could never work... but he loves her anyway. To be rather american and kitschy... it reminds me of the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... falling in love with a wild person who is your complete opposite is a recurring theme in The Cure discography... see Birdmad Girl, Plainsong, Same Deep Water As You.. the impossibility of it but the unwillingness to leave because of... well, the obvious... "I wish I could find it funny when you laugh like that" This is a beautiful song, very sad. |
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| New Order – Love Vigilantes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The narrator of the song is, indeed, dead... his speaking posthumously is nothing more than a poetic anti-war device. He was a brave man, but he was dead. Not the war, but his family was really what was important, and it's underlined by his ghost-soldier's realization that he can't see them again. Secular issues and the impact on individual lives are forgotten in the abstract philosophies of war, and New Order does a good job underlining the real impact and loss, not the petty and geopolitical... as pretentious anti-war songs attempt. I give them props. | |
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