| Electric Six – Synthesizer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Because of Dick Valentine's strange vocal stylins. They are both well pronounced and hard to understand somehow. My girlfriend thought the line "who gives the orders here" from Dance commander was saying something about the Odyssey. | |
| OutKast – The Whole World Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Okay, question about the video of this song. Only version of the video I can find is censored, which is fine, but they censor the first half of the word "abbreviation". Kinda makes you miss out on the whole joke, but more importantly, WHY do they censor the word "abbrevi"? I can't figure out what on earth is offensive about half of the word "abbreviation". | |
| T-bone Burnett – Zombieland Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Before I say anything relating to the meaning of this song, I just want to say that this song is perfect for cruising around on a cloudy day or night. Yeah, this song definitely is using drugs in the narrative in some form or fashion. I don't know how many of those names are actual pseudonyms for real drugs, if any of them are, but the fact that the listeners can immediately realize that T-Bone is talking about drug use is an observation of how many words we have for illegal, under-the-table substances like these. It's said that the Inuit have 100 words for different types of snow, so I think it's analogical that we have so many words for drugs and sex in America and the rest of the modernized, urban world. Back on track. Zombielands are, from what I've heard, places where teenagers go to hangout, smoke, drink, and makeout. Pretty much where the cool kids get high and stuff. Normally they're under bridges, in the woods, near a cemetery, or something like that. Essentially, it's where children go to do bad things. Since The True-False Identity is an album with a highly critical narrative of the Bush Administration, I'm going to try to tie my interpretation of the lyrics into that theme. It can also be viewed as a criticism of shady modern politics in general, whichever you prefer. The song starts by not only referencing the Harold Arlen song "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive", but by describing a cover up of some event gone wrong in an attempt to hide it from the public and the press. They seek to destroy the negatives of compromising photographs in order to hide the truth. What event this is referencing in particular is not clear, but it's likely either 9/11, Bush's military history, or the Abu-Ghraib prison torture scandal. This could just be about the government or big business trying to make everything seem well when it isn't, and hiding the truth from the public. The next stanza refers to someone who's been doing drugs. If we're still following the Bush analysis, this might be a reference to his days before the presidency, when he did cocaine. The more meaningful part of this stanza, however, is that he's been clouding his judgment and decisions on important matters through ignorance and constant support from his close cabinet of like-minded followers. If you are following the more general description, this can be about your average citizen clouding and ignoring the world around them, whether through actual drugs or other distractions. The chorus is tough to understand. The best I can think of is that it's talking of how we're going to "stay the course" and keep on the same tactics, essentially doing the same old dance even though it's the wrong thing to do. The zombieland referenced here is America or the developed world in general, which T-Bone is looking at as a place of hedonistic sin and apathy towards other parts of the world. Much like the teenagers in actual zombielands, all of the inhabitants are doing what they please and fulfilling their desires, too busy to notice that they're spelling out their own doom. The line about machines is about technology today, and how most of us don't understand the myriad of electronic devices that we depend on. Yes, they 'help' us, but only if we do everything they want us to do. Since we don't understand, we become imprisoned to these devices, forced to do their will as much as they are forced to do ours. Thus, they lead us further down the path of ignorance, to the devil beat. This is a distant aside from the bush narrative, but it fits well into the more general meaning of the song, the one which focuses on the modern world in general. The stanza about the boy can refer to Bush's unimportance in government and his status as a figurehead in the Bush Administration narrative. He's not making any decisions (or understanding what's going on around him), just drawing our eyes away from the real people in charge. Otherwise, it could be about the growing loss of knowledge amongst the public. The last line, though, is the same in both meanings: everyone will be clouded, confused, and destroyed eventually. The next stanza is simply the same as the second, with the added line about "settling like a fog", which adds to the sense of obfuscation of the truth. The final stanza means most in the Bush interpretation. He's speaking hieroglyphics, which means that he's either saying things from the past (repeating what we all know) or that he's speaking nonsense. His pistol is his power, military wise, and his pills are his ignorance, his knowledge as viewed through his bias. The phantom is the percieved threat overseas from Iraq, which is simply his personification of his fears and other threats since our illusion of security was shattered during 9/11. The last two lines hint at his search for an answer to these problems, which is in vain. The more general explanation would be that the subject of this stanza has realized that something's wrong, but he's too deluded to determine what. Ohkay, that only took a couple of hours of on and off writing. Whatever, it's over. Any other interpretations? Not that I expect any, since SunGreen777 is the only other person who's commented on ANY T-Bone song, but hey, I'd be happy to hear a response. |
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| The Hives – Knock Knock Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I believe Howlin' Pelle is supposed to just be failure personified in this song. He's out to make sure that the (unnamed) subject doesn't succeed at his/her (unnamed) goal. Very powerful song, and it can mean a variety of things to the listener, so it hits home in a number of situations. | |
| The Hives – Tick Tick Boom Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| As for the meaning, I think it's just about the Hives returning to the music scene. They've seen themselves as the best band period, so this song kinda seems to view them as returning to "save rock and roll" in a sense. | |
| The Hives – You Dress Up For Armageddon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I see it as an attack on the melodramatic emo bands of today. But I wouldn't be surprised if that was just me reflecting my own wishes on the song. | |
| The Cramps – Strychnine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The line you have question marks for is supposed to be "For what's ailing you". It's got a heavy inflection, but I'm pretty sure that's it. This song is great. If you don't know what strychnine is, it's a highly toxic alkaloid used as a pesticide. It tastes extremely bitter, and causes extremely painful convulsions. The victim dies of asphyxia or sheer exhaustion. At the moment of death, rigor mortis sets in instantly, paralyzing the body even in mid-convulsion. It is lethal even at concentrations of 5 mg. (Thanks Wikipedia!) In short, the Cramps are some sick puppies. But that's why they rock so hard. |
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| The Amazing Crowns – Mr. Fix-it Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's about a man whore(who probably works on hotrods as a day job, if the innuendo and the band's general theme aren't obvious enough for you). Pretty much, girls with boyfriends who don't satisfy them come to the good sir Fix-it here and he, well, fixes it. He fixes it all night. UNGH. |
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| Boston – Foreplay/Long Time Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Most ridiculously awesome instrumental in the beginning. "Epic" is the best word for it. Feels like it was made for some sort of intense fight seen on an action movie or anime or something... and long time is awesome too, but DAMN, Foreplay is good. | |
| Earth, Wind & Fire – September Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| so.... they're not singing about oreos in the chorus? | |
| Deep Purple – Demon's Eye Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this might be about a seductress, a kind of stalker woman that follows around the speaker and tries to drive him out of his mind. The speaker just wants to be rid of her, because he knows she is no good, but she finds him repeatedly and is constantly in his life. Anyone else going to comment? | |
| Deep Purple – Woman from Tokyo Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Not that great for Deep Purple, but it's ok. | |
| Deep Purple – Space Truckin' Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Deep Purple is a lot like Zeppelin if the latter wasn't busy making songs about the Lord of the Rings. While Led was busy doing that, Deep Purple was busy making some rock that was as hard as DIAMONDS. | |
| Deep Purple – Highway Star Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is like the anthem for pure testosterone. Fast car, hot girl, freedom, it's all a manly man needs. Rock and roll, sirs. |
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| Deep Purple – Burn Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Song about a witch or the daughter of the devil. Apparently no one believed that she was, even though she warned them, and eventually she sets the world ablaze. I guess if you take the song literally. | |
| The Hives – Abra Cadaver Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| +1 for superdam's explanation | |
| The Hives – Die, All Right! Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Forgot to add, this might be the best Hives song so far. | |
| The Hives – Die, All Right! Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The song is about the character selling his body for experimental drug testing to get some quick cash. The chorus is one of the best parts, explaining how his life (teenage hell) is something he just wants to find a way out of (the back door, in this case risking his life in drug testing). As long as he can get quick money and trust the company to try even more experimental drugs on him to counteract the first one, then he's fine with it. | |
| The Hives – Diabolic Scheme Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think the song is actually sung from the point of the devil or some sort of devious character, like a crime lord or corrupt leader. He seems to plant demand for his services through psychological manipulation in verse one, waits for the victim to ask him for help with what they want in verse two, and in the rest of the song he explains how he will give you what you want but he will want something back. Pretty awesome, I like how the Hives aren't overly difficult to interpret. They never let the meaning of the song get important, it's only there if you want to hear it, and if you don't, it's just 5 guys playing kick-ass rock. Can't wait for the new album this fall! ^_^ | |
| Weird Al Yankovic – White & Nerdy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Definitely awesome, it just touches on so many levels of geekery, from sci-fi to programming to D&D. | |
| The Mooney Suzuki – Shake That Bush Again Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Best song on alive and amplified, period. I think that the song might be a summation of the movie "Cool Hand Luke", mainly because the chorus could be an allusion to a famous scene in the movie in which he escapes by telling the prison guards to let him use the restroom behind a bush. They tell him he has to keep shaking the bush so that they know he hasn't run off, but he ties a rope around the bush and... yeah, too much delving into the movie, and I don't even know if it's the correct interpretation. Please, someone comment, it's a damn good song, and I want to see other interpretations of the lyrics, as I really have trouble thinking of a good meaning for this song. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Do It Again Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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oh yeah, I forgot that the lyrics: Only get to live one life Won't pretend you're only mine Where will you go when we all fall away kind of support my idea thing. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Do It Again Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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well, yeah, sex is definately there. But I think it might also have to do with him wondering how long he will be with the girl he is singing about. He's living for the moment, and the lyrics "do it again" are, yes, about sex, because he wants to love her as much as he can while he still can. Sometimes I think I look too far into things. O_o; |
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