| Blur – Coffee & TV Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I like the idea that someone drinks coffee (which is a stimulant that I associate with a tool to help you get more work done) only to watch tv (which is the opposite of "getting work done"). | |
| Blur – Out of Time Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I always thought he was saying "And I don't know what love will be. But if we stop dreaming now, lord knows we'll never clear the clouds." To me this means that he is trying to live a life of love, peace, kindness, and hope and he knows it may be a lost cause and all turn out to be a waste, but on the other hand it might turn out to be something wonderful. The "love song" that sets us free isn't a boy and girl love song, it's the song that unites the world together through one love. But this is just my opinion. |
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| Modest Mouse – Edit the Sad Parts Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It know it has been said before, but I am here to say it again: this song is amazing. The first verse is amazing but also: I made my shoes shine with my coal But my polish didn't shine the hole. It's funny, it's sad, it's troubling, it's beautiful. The composer speaks of unity. |
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| Thom Yorke – The Eraser Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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If someone tries to block out the shadowy elements that exist in that person's psyche, those elements will still find some way of surfacing. One example is the 'celibate' priest who sexually molests little boys. I am not saying that this song is about pedophilia, but I think it is about how an individual needs to recognize the scarier parts that exist in the mind and not try to erase them, but try to find some positive way to incorporate them into their life. Also, notice how the second verse could be taken as a response to the first one. This gives me more reason to think there is one narrator and that he is having a conversation with himself. |
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| Bob Dylan – You're a Big Girl Now Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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One of the things I like about this song is the neat little frame work that it is put in. If you choose to look at it this way, the last line (ever since we've been apart) could be a reference to the very last meeting he had with this person. You see the song starts out talking about a conversation. My thoughts are that this conversation with an old lover brought back all these memories and emotions, and when he says that last line, it can be taken two ways. The most obvious way would be that he is talking about when ever the love between them was broken, but a more subtle interpretation is that he is talking about how he has felt just since that conversation that is referenced at the beginning of the song. Now, who else could stir up all this interpretation between essentially two lines of a song besides dear old robert? I would like to say that this song is sad, but it as if it has invented an emotion that has never been felt before, so the mere word 'sad' hardly does any justice. |
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| Bob Dylan – Mississippi Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I love this song. I think the reason that there aren't very many 'Dylan fans' on this site is because they can't be interpreted as easily as other artists' songs can. He writes in a way that they best interpretation sometimes is just repeating the lyrics. It's as if every one is able to give their own interpretation of every single line. To me, the most meaningful and personal line of the entire song is, "You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way." I like to think about an old lover during that line. You can always call her and talk to her and see her, but you can never get back to that feeling of the way things were when you were madly in love. The amazing thing about this song is that every single verse is amazingly catchy, and I will find myself remembering them at the most random moments of the day. |
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| Modest Mouse – Heart Cooks Brain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I don't see this song so much as a conflict between the heart and the brain as much as it is about how the brain needs the heart to be worthwhile or meaningful. This is especially true for an artist, because if they spend all their time making art that they don't feel, then it just becomes a cerebral (sp?) hobby that doesn't mean anything. The phrase 'heart cooks brain' and the coal and burger line specifically means that the brain becomes 'edible' / 'functional' (something we can use) only once we have used our emotions. Same thing with the buffalo and the cliff line. It is interesting reading about these myths and legends, but at the same time i think the simpler interpretation is that the two things exist together, and the brain/cliff would be far less interesting without the heart/buffalo. 'my brain's the weak heart and my heart's the long stairs'. wow. |
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| Pavement – Cut Your Hair Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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In going with the "everyone reads the lyrics their own way" idea, I thought I'd let you know some of the ones I read differently: i don't remember lyin' i don't remember a line i don't remember a word but i don't care... which would comment on how the image is more important than the song that the band sings. let's go down to the practice room, tension it fades. a career, korea... this always made me think about how no matter what troubles a band might come up with on the road touring together, once they start playing, it all makes sense. peace |
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| Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Here is my theory. Isaac was punched in the jaw while they were recording The Moon and Antartica (this part has been confirmed in interviews). Then, he gets so pissed off about this that he is inspired to write the first few lines. And then from there, he does an almost stream of conscioussness thing about what kind of world would nurture that sort of unprovoked violence. Specifically, it is a very artificial world, or maybe just a world where everything is just a little 'off'. For example, going to a spa and being coated with molasses. A world where nothing is authentic, alive or natural (hence the coca cola) and where everything reminds us of death (ash, dust, hell). This is a brilliant song. The first time he says, "oh no!" I get this felling that's a combination of humour and sadness and that is unlike anything else I've ever heard. But that's Modest Mouse for you, I guess. |
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| Colour Revolt – A New Family Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Somtimes when I read the title to this song, I think about the relationship between the band and the following things: Esperanza Plantation (their record company), Oxford, MS and the University of MS (where they go to school), and the new band member (making them a new band, in a way). But that is just the title. The song itself exists on its own plane, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. It is rad. There could be a baby in the bubbling belly, which, when born will join and help start a new family. This image would be in juxtaposition to the fish dying on the shore. As for the rest of the song, I feel that the harmonies (esp. on 'when you got it'), the guitar solos, and the entire instrumentation, really, speaks volumes that me and my feeble grasp of the english language could only detract from. So I will shut up and let you enjoy. |
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| Colour Revolt – Mattresses Underwater Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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To me, this song is about trying to describe the most religious experiences of life in palpable terms, so that these experiences might be communicated from one individual to others. First of all, let's start at the end. "If you ever see me dying, just put me in the ground". The dying, to me, means stagnation. Sitting still. This guy, the narrator, is like an artist, and this line refers to the "he not busy being born is busy dying" / "rust never sleeps" concept [never sleeping on rust colored mattressess underwater, if you like]. Moving on... love is the most noble topic that a songwriter, poet, speaker, human being can address, and to even attempt to describe it originally requires Muchos Huevos Grandes, as Steve would say, and I am of the opinion that the narrator achieves this. What I take the lyrics about love to mean is that the human race is aware of love but on the whole does not live by it. So what do these two ideas that I've mentioned so far have to do with each other? Well, perhaps the narrator feels like his "art" is to tell people about love, and that if you ever come across him and he is doing otherwise, then, like he says, just put him in the ground. Now, to end at the beginning, the first lyric reminds me of the first step of Jung's individuation process, which says that we must overcome the "shadowy" elements of our own personality before we can become whole human beings. And as for the ash and dust references, they can either refer to the "artistic" dying mentioned earlier or they can reference literally to a physical death, in which case the lyrics would still indicate the narrator's awareness that he needs to do his mission now while he is still above ground and not in a jar. Of course, this is only one interpretation, and I know I maybe have wandered down the wrong path, and that some of you may think that I am a crack pot. And I am. But my crack is colour, and I am high all of the time. |
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