R.E.M. – Leaving New York Lyrics | 14 years ago |
"Leaving was never my proud"?! Huh?! WTF?! Stipey is confusing nouns with verbs there methinks... |
The Smashing Pumpkins – Soothe Lyrics | 14 years ago |
Beautiful, disturbing song from Billy C. Totally divided as to its ultimate meaning but I'm going to throw something into the pot here by suggesting he's singing "hung me" and not "hungry" or "hold me". I'm going on the basis here that if you turn up the song very loud, as loud as your speakers will go before Frail and Bedazzled kicks in, hold me doesn't contain the "ung" bit that you can clearly hear. Could be either hungry then (but I can't hear no "gree" bit at the end of the second word). It sounds more like "hung meeeee" to my jaded ears. If that is right, it makes the song a whole lot more disturbing. Anyhow, I think Soothe is about the cold resignation of accepting someone else has moved on and has left you to your own pitiful failures. No bitterness ("I wish you luck") but the knowledge you can't really move on out of their shadow ("I don't wish you away"). The realisation is that this train of thought will "almost break you up". So I think the lyrics are: Hung me, hung me again Hung me, hung me again When will it start to sway? When will it start to almost break you up? Hung me, hung me again Hung me, hung me again I’ll miss you And I don’t wish you harm And I forgive you I don’t wish you away Away Away Away It will almost break you Almost take you Almost break you Almost break you up |
James Dean Bradfield – Say Hello To The Pope Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Seems to be a break up song - at least the first line indicates it to be. As for the title, I think James is basically saying, you don't have to worry (about leaving me) as I'm going to be ok. The he being God? |
Manic Street Preachers – She Is Suffering Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Richey said that the "nature's luke warm pleasure bit" referred to sex. Disturbing but honest insight into how screwed his mind was before he disappeared... |
Manic Street Preachers – No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
It totally sounds like a Holy Bible era-track - like Faster's little brother... The notes on the Everything Must Go single say the words are written by Nicky, but there's a clear Richey influence here. |
Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Mayhaps, that's a ridiculous statement. So what if I decided A Design For Life was about blanchmange because, based on your assumption, "the reader has as much ownership as the original artist"? Also, until the time comes when you know what it was like growing up in Thatcher's Britain, when working class culture was pummelled into the ground, millions of people were made unemployed and we went to war over a sheep colony in the South Atlantic while people couldn’t afford decent healthcare, don't tell the British people what to do with their notions of class and aspiration. |
Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
In the 10th anniversary edition of Everything Must Go Nicky says, in the DVD, that the "we only want to get drunk" line was "as much a criticism as it was an observation." He also said that A Design For Life was trying to say that the working class could be beautiful, literate, intelligent etc but also destructive and a "disgrace to their class". The line "and we are not aloud to spend" is, according to James, about the influence of consumerism on the working classes in the UK. "That fuck it mentality of, we are not allowed to [spend money], so therefore we shall", James said. Incidentally, anyone who has seen the video for the song with the images of the Poll Tax riots in London and George Orwell quote "Hope Lies In The Proles" would know this song IS about the working classes. Drinking is mentioned in the song, but so is love. It's not a love song either. Go figure... |
Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
The cool thing about the trumpet solo is it's played by the drummer Sean Moore! In concert James introduces this song as "an ode to celluloid indecision". |
The Boo Radleys – Lazarus Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Martin Carr said: "We moved into a flat in Muswell Hill with Tim and his girlfriend and spent nights smoking Nepalese Temple Balls and playing ‘Road Rash’. I wrote the lyrics there; I was trying to make sense of my life, I had decided that I was not going to shroud the lyrics in metaphors that only I understood anymore. I think Charles Bukowski may have been a big influence here." |
Mazzy Star – Look On Down From The Bridge Lyrics | 17 years ago |
I used to think this song was about having suicidal thoughts, but I don't so much anymore. "I can't be the same thing to you now", kinda indicates it's about a failed relationship and the person is moving on. Of course, we'd be waiting a very long time for Hope to give her thoughts on what it's about. |
Belle & Sebastian – Fuck This Shit Lyrics | 17 years ago |
It's such a sad song. It reminds me of getting the train back to London on a Sunday night, waving my friends goodbye but wishing I could stay for just a few more seconds... |
Manic Street Preachers – The Girl Who Wanted To Be God Lyrics | 17 years ago |
There are perhaps two people in the world who know what this song is about: Nicky Wire and Richey Edwards. Nicky said even he didn't really know what this one was about, but I think the "there are times when you feel hopeless" line is beautiful and has helped get me through many a sad time... |
Manic Street Preachers – Further Away Lyrics | 17 years ago |
The Manic's only love song apparently. Ever such a sad one too. I think Nicky said it was about the changing relationships within the band since Richie disappeared and having your dreams shattered(?). My favourite line is: "The simpler the answer the harder it can get." I think the song is about the wish to return to a state of innocence, maybe childhood, when you didn't feel so screwed up about life... |
Ryan Adams – Rosebud Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Has this song anything to do with Citizen Kane?? I've never figured that out... |
Spiritualized – Home Of The Brave Lyrics | 17 years ago |
love the way he changes the line to "gotta rip it up, tear it our, gotta get YOU off of my soul." |
Spiritualized – Stay With Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
It's about that moment when you're under the covers and you just want it to last forever. Right before they run off with someone else - the desperation in J Spaceman's voice makes me think he knows the game is up :( |
Spiritualized – Stop Your Crying Lyrics | 17 years ago |
J Spaceman wrote this for and about his daughter Poppy, i.e the chorus is something you'd sing to a child... I agree with the other posters, it's about putting your happiness above someone else's and not giving in to everything life throws out you 'cause someone else needs you more: "I feel so broke inside but I'll devote my life to loving you." |
The Smiths – Unhappy Birthday Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Yes Nina, Golden Lights is awful but it's not a Smiths song. Otherwise, yes a rare low point in their career. |
The Smiths – Unhappy Birthday Lyrics | 17 years ago |
No, Death At One's Elbow and Paint A Vulgar Picture are far, far worse... This song makes me feel very happy too. I remember a girl breaking up with me on her birthday once. She was happy to keep all the presents I gave her, then she forgot my birthday a couple of weeks later. "Loved and lost and some may say, 'when usually it's nothing surely you're happy it should be this way.'" Absolute killer line, guess Morrissey means what's the point in getting worked up over someone who never loved you in the first place. Ain't that simple though I guess. |
Sparklehorse – Most Beautiful Widow in Town Lyrics | 17 years ago |
I think the song is written from the perspective of a dead husband who's watching over his wife in the afterlife. He sees her look at a photograph from their wedding day when she's many years older, but she still mourns him like it was yesterday. He says it must be a dream because "your mother would never let me in her house," but the reason he's there is cos he's dead. |
Sparklehorse – Saturday Lyrics | 17 years ago |
"I'd walk to hell and back to see you smile on Saturday..." I get the feeling the song's almost from a child's point of view. The boy wants to tell her how he feels but puts it off for another day. What better reason than the fear or rejection and having your illusions shattered... Beautiful, beautiful song. I have to listen to it five times in a row cos it's so short. |
Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Not a post everyone will understand mate cos you're talking pseudo-intellectual b*llcks IMHO. Yes, Everything Must Go is the Manics' plea to break free from their past, a straight jacket they kind of constructed for themselves. A simple, heartfelt plea for forgiveness. |
Spiritualized – I Think I'm In Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
I think the song is about heroin and about thinking you're in love with someone. Y'know that moment when you're so happy to be with someone you start thinking you are? But you're probably just lonely... I wonder how J Spaceman got the London Community Gospel Choir to sing on a song about taking smack? |
Spiritualized – Cool Waves Lyrics | 17 years ago |
I love J Spaceman's fractured vocals in this song. It sounds incredible next to the London Community Gospel Choir... I think the key line is, "don't let the world lay heavy on your soul...If you gotta leave you gotta leave." Nothing lasts forever. Not even love. I want this song (or the version on the complete works volume two) played at my wedding. A staggeringly beautiful song. Can't believe this is the first comment lol! I think he means if you truly love someone you'll be prepared to let them go. |
The Smiths – London Lyrics | 17 years ago |
I love the line about leaving your girlfriend on the platform "with this really ragged notion that you'll return." I'm doing exactly that at the moment in London :[ |
James Dean Bradfield – Emigre Lyrics | 17 years ago |
The title is French for "a person who has migrated." The reference to two hundred miles of sleepers is the distance between London and Cardiff by train, which James does lot on the Great Western. He wrote a lot of the lyrics for the album travelling between Paddington and Cardiff Central. I think the song is about dealing with separation from the people and things you love and how that changes you over time. |
The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet Lyrics | 17 years ago |
It's not bad that it's written about heroin. Loads of great songs have been written about that, There She Goes, Perfect Day, Golden Brown, Hurt, Never Let Me Down Again, I Think I'm In Love... Perrett's writing about something personal. He's being honest, why's that a bad thing? This is probably one of the greatest singles ever written. Nothing else comes even vaguely close. |
The Only Ones – Someone Who Cares Lyrics | 17 years ago |
"I'm scared of losing the most precious thing I own...We could have been happy for ever and ever." Find me a person who's never felt that before? Peter Perrett could sing a shopping list and it would sound heart breaking. Where are all the Only Ones fans?? |
The Only Ones – Special View Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Fairly self explanatory. A guy tries to deal with the pain of his girl being with someone else, "a brute", so he spies on her when she's getting undressed... He then gets caught but hopes if he says sorry she'll still let him look at her through his telescope. "This is something, really thrills me, but the same time it kills me."He's torturing himself. Kinda like crashing your old girlfriend's new date to see what a loser he is. The Only Ones: one of the most underrated bands ever... |
R.E.M. – Half A World Away Lyrics | 18 years ago |
The masturbation reference is: "My hand's tired, my heart aches..." LOL, he's thinking about someone he used to be with in some way or another. Not necessarily sexual... Also, don't know if anyone's noticed but the song borrows heavily from Keats' Ode To A Nightingale. Stipe's said so in interviews. Awesome song whatever. |
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