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| Xiu Xiu – Black Keyboard Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Child molestation most overtly. The way Jamie sings in front of the music, it's almost as though he were singing a cappella; really lovely. |
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| Sting – Why Should I Cry For You? Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Abhayadana is correct, it's about his father. "The Soul Cages focuses on the death of his father, who died before the making of this album... The first song written for The Soul Cages was "Why Should I Cry for You?" and as Sting has stated the rest of the album flowed quite easily after that first hurdle was overcome. Indeed, most of the songs have a theme centered around sailing and the seas as a result of Sting's father having been a sailor." From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_Cages
This song has particular meaning to me, because I was listening to the album a lot around the time my father died, and I had a very much love/hate relationship with him. |
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| Tori Amos – Bliss Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this song explores the theme of trying to comprehend this archetypal figure known as god.
I read somewhere that Tori's father is a minister, and taking that into context, it makes sense.
As a rather liberal child of a religious person, you have a lot of issues with the concept of a god. You’ve spent your childhood under the hand of someone who makes decisions based on an archaic book that’s been edited thousands of times. It’s a very confusing and intellectually disturbing experience, because you know that these decisions they make that are integral to your life at that point are not based in logic or in your best interests, and you end up with a very strange relationship with the idea of god.
I think that Bliss explores this, trying to come to terms with the concept of this figure judging her for being a human.
That’s just my thoughts, take them as you will, I feel Tori is one of those artists whose lyrics are so obscure and couched in metaphor that they leave us to decide their meanings. |
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| Poe – Hello Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'd heard somewhere that this song is about a stalker. |
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