| Tori Amos – Seaside Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| This song is not about Pearl Harbor. The lyrics refer to a suicide bombing that took place in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2001. The suicide bomber detonated just outside a seaside dance club, taking the lives of 21 teenagers. Hence the lyrics: The girls were dancing, innocence targeted, and 21 young boys and girls ("flowers") murdered in the name of Allah for the sake of Jihad (holy war on infidels). | |
| Ryan Adams – Enemy Fire Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well, Tito, that's pretty abstract :-) The fact is that this song was co-written with Gillian Welch, so that makes it a little hard to tell exactly. |
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| Ryan Adams – World War 24 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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What's very dominant in the verse is the repeated playing of a dissonant interval (minor 2nd) that really helps dictate that sad feeling (along with the arrangements, the drums and the everything else, of course). Anyhow. I tend to disagree that sugar is an alias for cocaine due to the rest of the sentence ("hits her teeth") and the fact that Ryan most often refers to drugs more explicitly - but it may very well be, it's not as if Ryan Adams isn't known to use alcohol and drugs... What stick out the most in the lyrics is the emphasis of stasis ("we sleep all day", "slow response", "coma comes" etc.). Other than that... The general feeling is easy enough to interpret, I think, but the "why", "how" and "with who" are unknown and keeps everything beyond the general feeling a personal matter. |
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| Sixpence None the Richer – Breathe Your Name Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Due to the nature of Sixpence's Christian rock lyrics, this is probably a lengthy yadda yadda about God. For example, notice: "You'll view the list And take your pick You'll view my faith And make a choice 'Cause it's nobody else's but yours " |
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| Lisa Loeb – Rose-Colored Times Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "In the end she goes back to live with her father. " - probably not. It clearly says "looks like my father". Why would she say about her father that "he better beware of me"? It probably refers to how girls often choose for a husband/partner a man who is in fact similar to their father (i.e. to make up for the loss of a male role model). | |
| Alanis Morissette – Can't Not Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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IMHO, this song is about the media and addresses journalists and/or critics. She simply explains how the way the media is treating her affects her. I think that once you take this point of view you'll see that it fits the lyrics perfectly, but still, several comments: "how can I complain when I'm the one that reaches for this" - she feels that she can't complain about the media's attitude towards her because as a pop star she has no choice but to expose herself to the public. "because I cannot walk without my crutches" - the crutches could be a symbol for her music which she can't give up. The school yard probably reflects the way Alanis sees the smartass critics. |
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| Ryan Adams – Sylvia Plath Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| What's unclear here is the connection to the real Sylvia Plath, which is very unclear from the lyrics as they do not seem to portray the authentic Plath at all. However, I once read an interview with Adams in which the writer mentions that he saw a copy of the unabridged journals of Plath in his house, so perhaps there are some vague references to Plath burried in there. | |
| Ryan Adams – Political Scientist Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm not really familiar with The White Stripes, so I can't relate to that. However, it seems to me that this song deals with those strange people ("banging hard upon her crooked drum she feels them tearing down...") who believe in those ridiculous ("water... polluted by the candy factory lines") conspiracy theories. Those people blame those mythical ("someplace on the edge of town") political scientists that poison us all ("the government supplies the cocaine"). |
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