| Bauhaus – Mask Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Reminds me of the character Valentine from "Mirrormask," which I am aware this song antedates by at least 15 years. | |
| Depeche Mode – Little 15 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I figured it to be an older woman in love with a 15-year-old boy (having been in a similar predicament). Our society generally accepts an older-guy/younger-girl arrangement far more readily (Why does she have to defend/ Her feelings inside?). | |
| Oingo Boingo – Whole Day Off Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I kind of see it as really taking any excuse to flake off from work, setting oneself impossible tasks. That's as far as I've gotten in my interpretation. Maybe it's connected to the song "Grey Matter," but that keyboard sample is the only basis for this particular idea. |
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| Oingo Boingo – Grey Matter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's an indictment of the human 'sheep' mentality. It's asking why don't people think for themselves, and accuses us of not even trying to ("I think you like it"). Why has no-one else commented? This song is effing brilliant. |
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| Oingo Boingo – Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I've always interpreted as shit happens, life goes on ("People die...don't be afraid") It seems like it's saying that in the end, we'll all have to make it through. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – My Alcoholic Friends Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the lines "Six is not a pretty number/ eight or three are definitely better" refers to the blood alcohol content. the legal allowable amount is .08, so .06, she's still in trouble, buut she's also still sober. .03, and she's in the clear. Or perhap and apartment number, like "I live in 3A"? |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Mrs. O. Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It seems to me that it's about adults shielding children from reality, and as the children grow up, they become heartbroken and disillusioned ("Everything they ever told us/ Shakes our faith/ and breaks their promise"). | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Necessary Evil Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Wow, something hilarious i didn't notice until I hit post-- Right above the comment box is an advert for UV toothbrushes. (0.o) | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Necessary Evil Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I want to say it's about cybersex, but that would only explain about a third of it. It would make sense with the whole Connecting of the Speakers to the Suitors at the Discotheques... But yeah, i like this song. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Tous les Garçons et les Filles Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| But now I am curious as to where the translation came from. I wonder if it's an actual song. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Shores of California Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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To those who think Amanda means girls want romance, have you ever heard of a little thing called IRONY? What she means is that girls are EXPECTED to prefer romance over sex. Jesus, people, learn your poetic devices. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Mary's Surgeon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| From what i glean from the patchy lyrics, it sounds like a girl struggling with bulimia (i'd like to see you decipher better). | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Dance Me To The End Of Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| it sort of reminds me of "Violin" by Anne Rice. I don't suppose Mr. Cohen was a fan, was he? | |
| Porter – Host of a Ghost Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think they mean Freud. as in Sigmund. | |
| Apoptygma Berzerk – A Strange Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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So, yeah, this is a cover of The Cure's song, it's performed on "ElectroCured: An electro tribute to The Cure." As a longtime Cure fan, i am so impressed that they managed to not only NOT fuck up one of my favourite songs, but actually make it almost as good. I am now looking for some albums by this band. The song is about what Robert Smith imagined the end of the world would be like. |
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| The Cure – Going Home Time Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think the title is a reference to the line in "One Hundred Years" Who digs these up? |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Mandy Goes to Med School Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I just love how gleefully perverse this song is. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Gravity Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The first verse sounds like somebody watching a jumper off/out of an office building, where the rest of them sound like the jumper themselves rationalising and imagining their actions to either themselves or everybody below. So here's my line-by-line interpretation ------------------------------------------- Gravity plays favourites I know it 'cause i saw Honest to God, Officer It's awful (= she threw herself out of an effing building) Down at work I'm getting too familiar with the floor (=is being kept down and is sick of it) Trading in my talents by the mouthful (=keeps having to talk her way in and out of trouble) Hate to break it to you But it's out of my control (=sorry to ruin your day but i can't handle this anymore) Forces go to work while we are sleeping (= bad dreams. Victims of depression often exhibit erratic sleeping bahaviours and unsettled dreaming) If I could attack with a more sensible approach (=if she could solve her problems any other way) Obviously that's what I'd be doing (=obviously that's what she'd be doing) RIGHT? (Someone tell her, someone get her up.) (=Somebody talk her off the ledge and back into the room through the window) Chorus: Now Necks are cracking sideways Hit me from the backside (= injuries upon impact) I am on the white side (=underneath the sheet EMTs use for dead bodies) you are on the black side (=asphalt) Cut a piece that's bite-size (=newspaper blurbs and obit snapped up by reporters) Shoot me from my good side (=pictures of the jumper from their life feat. with the article) If you've got a straight line This'd be a good time (=anything to say, say it now) Gravity works slowly If you notise it at all (=you never really see how wrong you went until it's too late) Some of us are getting mighty lucky (= some people's live turn out happily) (Aren't we?) (=and they have everything to lose) If you had to live with this (=if you were in my shoes) You'd rather lie than fall (=-rather pretend you're happy than jump) You think I can't fly? (=you think I won't jump, either?) Well you just watch me watch me (=Here I go!) You can do it Good Girl! (=encouraging herself) Right foot (=over ledge) Left foot (=take the step and you're free) (Keep breathing keep breathing) (=don't back out now) (That's just the way we'll show them) (=if this is the only way to get everyone's attention, so be it) Back in the car fasten up your seatbelts (=yeah, go back to your lives don't mind me, I'm just the 6-storey girl) Run back inside and see if she's moving, okay? (=check and see if she's offed herself yet) I think we've lost her (=there she goes) Necks are cracking sideways (=everyone snaps around to watch her (alt.)) Hit me from the backside (=landed face-up, alternate explanantion) I am on the thin side (=flat as a pancake) You are on the fat side (=still three-dimensional) Cut a piece that's bite-size (=just get a blurb, something to make her sound mental) Shoot me from my bad side (=splattered all over the corner of 5th and Franklin) If you want a straight line (=the God's-honest truth) This'd be a good time (=I am seriously gonna jump, so get your interviews now) (Keep breathing keep breathing) The sky is always falling down on me The sky is always falling Falling (=-Everything goes wrong) The sky is always falling down on me So Officer forgive me, please (=she cracked a bit, has been brought inside, and doesn't want to be arrested.) -------------------------------------------------------- So, that's what i hearnd think, but it's 3:16 a.m. and i've not eaten very much today, so i'm probably totally off-base. I very much like nyxity's "models" notion, however. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – 672 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| apartment number, perhaps? | |
| Placebo – If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (with The Cure) (The Cure cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song was on the Meds deluxe edition. Sooper awesome, two o my favoutir bands, together. | |
| Placebo – Post Blue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A lot of you guys came close to my theory, which is his girlriend having post-partum depression (she had a kid recently, did she not?) It's a "blue" feeling "post" pregnancy. I'd have brian molko's babies. -fangirl screech- |
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| Evanescence – The Only One Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| why does everybody rag on Evanescence's christian themes? as an atheist, i can still appreciate the composition and lyrics. escpecially compared to a lot of the drivel they call Christian Rock (really not their fault; what all can you write about as a christian rock group besides god?) | |
| Panic! at the Disco – A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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And btw, Some of the greatest songs have been written about books Dick. The Cure writes about books all the time (Letter to Elise, Charlotte sometimes, The Drowning Man; ring any bells?) Don't forget "Layla" by Eric Clapton, or ThouShaltNot's "When Everyone Forgets" |
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| Panic! at the Disco – A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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First off, "The Guy Who Wrote Fight Club" has a name, and it's Chuck Palahniuk. The title is in the book, but not the movie. In the book, the narrator meets Tyler at a nude beach; Tyler had arranged five logs so that that shadows made a hand. By the time the narrator arrived, the sun had shifted and the image was destroyed. In the movie they met on a plane, presumably so Brad Pitt wouldn't need to do a nude scene, or at least so it wouldn't piss off as many people. |
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| Fall Out Boy – The Pros and Cons of Breathing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i love this song. i always hear that first verse and wish i'd written it. | |
| The Gothic Archies – Crows Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love this song/album/band. It always makes me want to listen to The Cure's "M" afterwards. | |
| The Cure – Kyoto Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The music on this song is an old japanese lullaby. I can't recall the title, but it's something about a demon coming for the kid. love this song. |
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| The Cure – Shake Dog Shake Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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beautifully twisted and sick. the way he says "wake up" sound so despairing. It feels like getting up too early and it's dark, and everybody else is still asleep but it's so easy to pretend that they're all dead. Robert Smith is god |
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| The Cure – The Empty World Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song, along with "Splintered In Her Head" & of course "Charlotte Sometimes" were all inspired by Penelope Farmer's book by the same name. Nerd that i am, i actually own a copy; you will actually find the famouse phrase "stiff as toys/ & tall as men" in the book. This song in particular is about a dream the protagonist, Charlotte Makepeace, has, in which she fights along with toy soldiers in a war that her caretaker's (Miss Chisel Brown) brother Arthur died in (probably WWI). I really recommend it- it's a neat story. |
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| David Bowie – Glass Spider Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "Glass Spider" is also the term for the activation system on a nuclear warhead. Or somehting along those lines. | |
| The Cure – Signal to Noise Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I saw a video in my English class freshman year with the same title; it was about advertising & its effect on society. I think the producer may have been a closet Cure fan (after all, everybody is, even if they don't know it.) | |
| The Cure – 10:15 Saturday Night Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I LOVE this song. This is when i first decided The Cure was great, when i found out that i wasn't the only lonely loser who spends week-ends alone at home. | |
| Broken Social Scene – It's All Gonna Break Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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'and you all want the lovely music to save your lives." i bought this album out of morbid curiousity last weekend, and that one line has hit me harder than almost anyhitng i've ever heard. |
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| The Cure – Us or Them Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Mortonium is right. In "The Kiss" it goes Get it out Get it out Get your fucking voice out of my head |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Build God, Then We'll Talk Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This wgole album's going to be a tough act to follow. I love the way he says "strictly business," you can practically see him doing the finger-quotation-marks thing. |
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| The Cure – Watching Me Fall Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Does this song creep out anybody else? Phenomenal use of instruments to set the mood. Some of the most evocative imagery i've ever heard. |
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| The Cure – Icing Sugar Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Also, if you listen closely, there is a brief sample of what sounds like a musicbox at the very end. Genius. | |
| The Cure – Icing Sugar Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Mr smiith cited it as "DRUGS!!" most likely cocaine. "Icing Sugar" is the British term for confectioner's, or powdered sugar. The line "when this cold & deadly/ blade/ kisses the fruit." mostlikely refers to the "cutting" or mixing of the coke, often done with razorblades, although playing cards and even fingernails can be utilised. | |
| The Cure – Other Voices Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I love this song to bits. Mr. Smith explained it as "the sickness of lust," (along the lines of "The Kiss.") I play bass, and am extremely grateful that they really tired on this one, as on most of their songs, e.g., In Between Days, Killin an Arab, the bass is extremely simple. Love the Cure to death, but they strike me as chronic underachievers. |
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| The Cure – Apart Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Robert Smith said somewhere it was about "watching other people, and how every relationship has this huge, aching hole in the middle of it." Truly beautiful and haunting, one Wish's redeeming features (along with From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, of course.) If you're going to hang yourself, this is the song to die with. |
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| The Cure – A Short Term Effect Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Accprding to Mr. Smith it's "about drugs, again, and their effect, (a short-term one, think.)" I sing this in the shower when i'm down; nothing like a little wallowing to make you feel better. |
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| The Cure – A Few Hours After This... Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love the bizarre school-marching-band sound. | |
| The Cure – M Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is one of their best tunes. I adore Robert Smith's wife for inspiring all these great songs (lovesong, just Like Heaven, Pictures of You, et cetera.) she is quite possibly one of my favourite people on the planet. | |
| Daddy Yankee – Gasolina Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| My friend Jocy is Puerto Rican and spanish is her first language. She told me that collaquially, "Gasolina" translates as "big jugs." | |
| Fall Out Boy – I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Peter confirmed that it is indeed "best friends," not "just." the booklets are often ready for print before the final take. The same thing happens in Sixteen Candles, where the the booklet says "I'm JUST messed up" and Patrick says "I messed up." | |
| The Cure – 39 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Sounds to me like an impending mid-life crisis. | |
| Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We're Goin Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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it is "GOD complex," However, this is a pun off the phrase "loaded gun" a "god complex" is when somebody with a great deal of power suffers extreme narcissism & feels that any/everything they do is infallible. This song is about masturbating to the thoughts of a former girl, When told it was a love song during an interview, either Pete or Patrick replied it was about "The best kind of loving you're ever gonna get...LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR YOUR MOTHERF***ING RIGHT HAND!" |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Camisado (Relax, Relapse) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| it sounds to me like a kid was hospitalised for injuries recieved during a fights who kept getting into scraps, even while in intensive care. Perhaps s/he was pathologically combatitive, and for because s/he found it "therapeutic." | |
| Kamelot – The Mourning After (Carry On) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| First of all, WHY AM I THE FIRST TO SAY ANYTHING FOR THIS SONG?!?!?! This is quite possibly one of my favourite songs on the album. It is about Ariel mourning Helena's death, trying to bring himself to terms with it, and his shock at knowing she was pregnant. | |
| Kamelot – The Haunting (Somewhere In Time) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Something of note: Simone Simons provided the voice of Helena on Epica. On The Black Halo, Helena is played a woman only listed as "Mari" | |
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