| Phantogram – Never Going Home Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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This song is about a difficult family relationship the song writer has with his family. They say they love him, but he doesn't know how to process love like this. |
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| Phantogram – Never Going Home Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| This song is about a difficult family relationship the song writer has with his family. They say they love him, but he doesn't know how to process love like this. | |
| INXS – Listen Like Thieves Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| @[wichitavor:53544] How do you fit that with the 1st and 3rd stanzas? On radio talk shows? In traffic? At the edge of town? I don't see it. | |
| The Blue Nile – The Downtown Lights Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I agree with this interpretation also. The plaintive way he sings "How do I know..." indicates his uncertainty. Wandering down the empty streets and seeing the Downtown Lights reminds him of times and places where he\'s had the most wistful feelings of love and loves lost. | |
| The Blue Nile – The Downtown Lights Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I agree with this interpretation also. The plaintive way he sings "How do I know..." indicates his uncertainty. Wandering down the empty streets and seeing the Downtown Lights reminds him of times and places where he\'s had the most wistful feelings of love and loves lost. | |
| The Cure – Play for Today Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Ratzody:39754] absolutely. The protagonist of this song is a jerk. It\'s an exploration of immature lack of empathy and lack of perspective. He\'s complaining about his lover complaining. | |
| Radiohead – Lurgee Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Hey, I was listening to some shoegaze the other day, I think it was a song by Lush and it reminded me of this song. It struck me that Radiohead started in Oxford when shoegaze was popular in London and along the Thames. Would anyone else say this song and perhaps other songs from Pablo Honey have a shoegaze influence? | |
| Radiohead – Lurgee Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[corduroy_boy:6635] I like to think "I got something, heaven knows" is just part of the trying to convince himself that he still has something even though he can't think what that might be. | |
| Electric Light Orchestra – Do Ya Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm puzzled by the last verse: 'Well I think you know what I'm trying to say Woman That is I'd like to save you for a rainy day I've seen enough of the world to know That i've got to get it all to get it all to grow' After all those appeals to her, he seems to be backing off, that now he would "like to save you for a rainy day" and that he now has to "get it all to get it all to grow". |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – Bring On The Dancing Horses Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I like the comments that this song is specifically about relationships with attention to the kinds of things going on in 'Pretty in Pink'. I think it's also a subtle slam on this kind of song and how this kind of emotional hype affects young people in the throes of their hormonal overdrive. | |
| Radiohead – Lurgee Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite Radiohead songs. I agree with Alfster, it's not really about denial, or not simply about denial. This is like that conversation you have with someone long after it's over, you really do _believe_ it's over and you got better, but there are scars. That last verse, "tell me something, tell me one thing... Let it go" That's like, she can't tell him nothing that he doesn't already know about those times, he knew it then and it's clearer now. Let it go... All the haunting cries in the background are echoes of feelings. Sure, there's some denial, but it's the kind of denial when you are putting the best face on something. You don't even understand everything you are feeling yourself, so you sure as hell don't want it picked over by someone else. More than denial, it's about defiance. He can't stand the thought that she feels sorry for him now "I got something, I got something, heaven knows.... I don't know." |
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| Radiohead – Lucky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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My reading of this in the context of OK Computer being a concept album. It's all about the life and non-death of an (the first?) Android, created to be like a man in every way, problems, emotions, needs, but he's more physically durable and survives plane accidents. Although he doesn't die, the next song The Tourist, a postscript to the whole concept indicates that all this has taken a toll. Q: What travels at 1000 ft/sec? A: That's about the speed of a passenger airliner. Lucky is a complement and a bookend to Airbag, which starts the album. Go listen to Airbag, he just survived a car accident that is surprising. In Lucky, he survives a plane accident as only a Superhero could. But, he's not really a Superhero, he needs to be pulled out of the lake. There are readings on different levels. Living in our modern world makes us all digital, all Androids. Relationships that we might be surprised to survive don't kill us at all. Sarah doesn't kill with love, again. I didn't know that Lucky predated OK Computer. Sounds like it might have been the origin for the whole concept. |
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