| AFI – End Transmission Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It might be 'the broken radio was playing suicide'. In the lyrics booklet with the deluxe cd it's not capitalised. Either way, a dark and gorgeous song. I agree with the impression that it is sexy. |
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| Missy Higgins – Sugarcane Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think I agreed with most of the opinions above. However I didn't really appreciate being called an idiot or a moron, drcynic, especially considering the hypocrisy behind most of your comments, and the incoherency of most of your explanation. The idea of the site is to get everyone's opinions on what a song means, though, even if people are a little rude in getting them across. |
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| Ben Lee – Love Me Like The World Is Ending Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It seems to be a rather simple song to me, with a straightforward meaning. To the comment above, ^^ the line that goes 'I know, the sky is what makes the ocean blue'...but the sky IS why the ocean's blue. One of the reasons, anyway. The other reason involves scattered light and the human eye only seeing the blue spectrum or something like that. Look it up, I didn't entirely understand it. |
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| Anberlin – Audrey, Start The Revolution! Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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'Amateur youth, sling down those signs Gather the masses, friends of mine I've got your back if you've got my hand This isn't over, it just began' 'We all fail, but we stand tonight' These lyrics make me think of the time just before plunging into a battle (not with guns, but with words and the truth) beside his love (possibly whoever Audrey is). It sounds like a romance blossoming just as the revolution is about to begin, with the youth fighting for what they believe. I wonder why it's always the youth, or the students, that start revolutions. Always so idealistic and brave, fighting for a better world. *shrug* I'm not entirely sure why, but that's the impression I got. |
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| Anberlin – Alexithymia Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Fantastic song, and I adore the title 'Alexithymia', with its relative meaning (which I didn't know until coming on this site, thanks everyone who put up meanings for the word). I think it's referring to the fact that people just live their lives out without actually living, just going through the motions without there being any meaning. The world, as described in this song, just works as clockwork, without interest or life. Also, regarding everyone's comments on non-existing words, I don't believe that 'conversate' is a word, if derived from 'conversation' then it's 'converse', as critch48 said. I find it amusing that everyone's getting hung up on that one word not existing and no one's pointed out that the word 'forlorning' doesn't exist either. A person (or people) can be an amazing lyricist and still use words that don't exist, to make a point. |
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| Emilie Autumn – Rapunzel Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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'...One day a prince rode through the forest and heard Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he went to look for the girl and found the tower, but no door leading in, and no stairway leading up. He then returned often, listening to her sing, and one day saw the enchantress visit, thus learning how to gain access to Rapunzel.... ...For months he wandered through the wastelands of the country. During this time, Rapunzel gave birth to the prince's twin children, a boy and a girl. One day, while Rapunzel sang as she fetched water, the prince heard Rapunzel's voice again and were reunited.' Excerpts of the Rapunzel story in books by the Brothers Grimm, found on Wikipedia. Her singing's one of the main concepts of the story. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Ultima Esperanza Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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'now that you got her a dress you can send her a matching attachment and face slick rhododendrons you make out of paper with flowers that never lose shape' Sounds like the old tradition used by men coming over to another country to work for money and wanting a traditional bride from their own country. So they used to send home for their family to match them up with a girl, marry them by proxy while their bride remained in their country, then paid for the girl to come to where they are. Usually all they'd seen of the bride beforehand was a picture. Perhaps reflecting a more modern version of the old tradition. |
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| Emilie Autumn – Juliet Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| If people don't recognise this as the Juliet from Romeo and Juliet, then they should read Shakespeare more often. | |
| Emilie Autumn – Thank God I'm Pretty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I haven't heard the song, but it seems like she's sarcastically illustrating why it's not a good thing to be pretty; because she isn't taken seriously and has to keep an eye out for unwanted attention from males. | |
| Emilie Autumn – Save You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| She seems to be singing to a guy that she loves but wants him to go away so that she can't hurt him. Possibly she thinks she's going to hurt him because she likes another guy - 'Can you not recognize a soul already sold?' - but it might just be that she thinks he's going to be hurt solely because of who she has become. | |
| Emilie Autumn – Shalott Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It reminds me of the fairytale of Sleeping Beauty, since there's a spinning wheel in her story and she's not allowed to go out in case the curse becomes true. Because she's not allowed to go outside she misses out on so much of her life, including watching the sun go down and the prince of her dreams. | |
| Emilie Autumn – Gothic Lolita Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It seems like it's mostly based on the story of Lolita, a twelve year old girl who was kidnapped and abused by a middle-aged man called Humbert Humbert in a book actually called 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov. | |
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