| Bob Marley and the Wailers – I Shot The Sheriff Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Seriously, forget about pot for once. It doesn't make you sound cool to pretend that you're all for drugs and you KNOW this song is about pot; "wwwhoa this song is OBviously about the almighty glory of marijuana, rock on bob marley he was just fighting for his right to smoke weed yeahhh!" It's about how the justice system supported whites and condemned blacks [and still does], he shot the sheriff 'cause the sheriff was going to kill him, but they don't want to hear that it was in self-defense. He "didn't shoot no deputy" because I think maybe the word "deputy" is supposed to mean the upholder of justice and obviously the sheriff was corrupt and did not preserve justice like enforcers of the law are supposed to. |
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| Marcy Playground – Shapeshifter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I don't know what the part about being a shape-shifter is about but I think the general premise of this song is that too often, we take things for granted and everything ends before we ever really knew what we had. | |
| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Basically, I think this song is just about how no one's going to care about us once we're dead...we've got all this shit we think we deal with and we moan and complain and do alot of "writing...in the bathrooms and the bad motels" - I picture all the stuff people write on bathroom stalls - but when we die, all that really matters is whether we let it control our lives or whether we said "obla-di, obla-da, life goes on." | |
| Peter Gabriel – No Self Control Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It reminds me of the problems I deal with- diagnosed as someone with binge eating disorder AND anorexia. There are lines that could be related directly to eating disorders or compulsive behaviors; "got to get some food, I'm so hungry all the time...I don't know how to stop." "I know I'm gone too far Much too far I gone this time And I don't want to think what I've done" This person KNOWS that they have a problem, even while they are doing the things they loathe. They fight internally with theirself, and they don't like to think about the damage afterwards when they get back to thinking like themselves again. "You know I hate to hurt you I hate to see your pain" So they begin to take their inward stressors out on the person they love in their life. But as a more vague concept, it's just about being a typical human with a lacking ability to decide when enough is enough over things which require moderation and careful consideration. In that sense, JJacobs has it right. |
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| AFI – Prelude 12/21 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's sort of an "I'll die for you" thing. "I promise to depart Just promise one thing Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep." Where the kiss my eyes part is definately referring to death. |
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| AFI – On The Arrow Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite AFI songs, and it's powerful enough that it has the tendency to make me cry. He said "Who truly belongs here?" "Not I" She stared, "I’ll lie here with you." --She says she doesn't belong, but that she would stay with him. He knows, no one shines forever, they change with the weather --That part is about how he knows she'll change and fade, no matter what she's said He said "I’ve now stayed too long here." "Goodbye" She said, "I’ll wait here for you." --Easy concept, he's leaving, and she says she'll wait for him. He knows the winds carry sorrow As they leave, she'll follow They leave tomorrow --She says she'll wait for him, but he knows she'll eventually wander and forget about what they had. "They leave tomorrow" makes me think that he assumes she'll forget about him soon, instead of gradually over time. Fragments of joy torn apart, A freshly drained heart That beats, disguise themselves through him --The love that was lost, "drained" and "torn apart" He’ll say that "It’s nothing new." --He says that it's not surprising, that it happens all the time. And swear this is true, for you I’ll swallow the ocean, I’ll swallow the ocean --I don't know if this is still him speaking, or the girl. I'm thinking it's the girl, just because she would "wait here" for him. Anyway, whoever it is, they're saying that they would do anything for the other. I know the sorrow is sacred, and I’ll never break you, I’ll softly save you --I don't know what this part really means. It might just be a general poetic device to add more emotion to the song. Oh, and by the way, it's "I'll lie here with you", not "I'd lie here with you." |
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