| OK Go – In The Glass Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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If you listen to Ira Glass interviewing the band on the "Extra-Nice edition", you'll learn that much of this album is about Damian's failing marriage and divorce (he writes all the lyrics). In fact the whole record is almost a concept album about the end of his relationship with his wife. And this being the finalé of the record, it's not hard to see that this might be the finalé to the relationship. It's pretty clear if you listen to the lyrics on some of the other songs that he places a fair amount of blame on himself. I think this is the big realisation that the realtionship is doomed; in a moment of reflection (har, har) Damian realises that he's been detached in order to protect his own feelings, but that detachment was killing the relationship. The coda is where I kind of fall off this metaphor... but coming from Australia, where we just suffered a decades-long drought, I think it might be this: we're praying for the relationship to fix itself, that tomorrow we'll wake up and everything will be okay. We're praying that tomorrow it rains and the crops will grow and we won't have to sell the farm. But when it finally came: we didn't even notice. We just continued praying that everything would be fine, as the real saviour came and went. It's pretty condemning of the narrator. Of both of them, I guess. It seems like he thought it would have been really easy to salvage the relationship if he'd only noticed it was under threat. |
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| Weird Al Yankovic – Weasel Stomping Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think the real meaning of this song is revealed in the last verse: "It's tradition, that makes it okay" That makes what might have been an incredibly disturbing song into a quite disturbing but also hilarious satire. | |
| Panic! at the Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Okay everyone. Listen up. This is important. Panic! At The Disco is the most ridiculous band in human history. It doesn't matter if you think they are good or not. They are totally ridiculous. This is a universal truth. Look at those lyrics. They are terrible lyrics. They are some of the worst lyrics ever written, and I'm including songs like "I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts" and "Who Let The Dogs Out" in there. These lyrics are worse than the lyrics to both of those songs. That's my two cents. And by that I mean that anyone who disagrees is lying to themselves. |
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| Pink Floyd – Eclipse Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Okay, I hate to break up the party, but Pink Floyd weren't nihilists, and this song is not about meaninglessness of life. Quite the opposite: it's about the way everything can have an impact of everything else. Remember, it's just one sentence - the idea is that all of those things are 'in tune', and if one thing fucks up (as it seems to have done on this album) then the whole thing is thrown out of tune, and the sun is eclipsed by the moon. It's about how delicate the balance of life can be, but at the same time, how rich and complex. So, sorry, nihilists. Dark Side is an exploration of life, not a criticism. That would be The Wall. Interesting fact: I found an original pressing of this album the other day, beautiful condition, grooves so sharp you could cut your toast on them, etc. As soon as I read about the music at the end of eclipse, I grabbed it out and had a listen. Nothing. Not a peep at the end of the record bar heartbeats and Liverpudlians. This either means: a) the music wasn't in the original mix, or b) it was only on the rear two channels. Unfortunately I don't have a quadraphonic decoder, so I can't narrow it down any more than that. |
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