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| Murder by Death – Fuego! Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I've just listened to Adam's podcast about the album. He says Sarah helped him write this song, and she wrote the part about the rose's hips. That woman's brilliant. |
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| Nightwish – Planet Hell Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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ExalterofGod, I don't think he meant that at all.
And well, ravenowl, I think I understand the song that way too, more or less. Minus all the name-calling, of course. It doesn't hurt to be a bit more polite, you know.
Only that I had always interpreted the "save yourself and let them suffer" part as a reference to the way monoteistic religions always want to make you believe theirs is the only way to salvation, and that everyone who believes in anything else or worships something that's not their own God is damned. I recently read that 8 out of 10 americans believed that everyone who didn't share their religious beliefs were going to hell. |
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| The Corrs – Judy Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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JLK, if that's true it's adorable. This, Rebel Heart and Rain are my favorite songs from In Blue, they are the most classy in my opinion. |
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| The Chicks – Not Ready To Make Nice Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is a really nice song in my opinion, the lyrics sound very authentic, heartfelt, and there's a lot of truth in them.
Here in Europe the Dixie Chicks are seen almost as heroes by the vast majority of people, I guess our cultures are quite different in that sense because here everyone assumes that speaking against your president if you think he's doing his job wrong is actually caring about your country and not being anti-patriotic. Our perceptions of "patriotism" seem to be quite opposite anyway. Maybe that's why I've never been able to understand why anyone would dare to criticise an artist for voicing their opinion on the gobernment, be it good or bad, and I can really relate to the feeling of confusion and not knowing what it's all about that comes across in this song's lyrics. No wonder she doesn't feel ashamed of what she said, it would be stupid if she did. The ones who threatened her are the ones who should feel embarrased and guilty. Something must be very wrong with those people and their willingness to hate someone so passionately just because they have a different opinion, and I love how the song gets that point across so well. |
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| Neko Case – Lady Pilot Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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PSF: How did you come to write "Lady Pilot"?
CASE: I was getting on a plane going to Tuscon, Arizona, to do some recording. I was really happy, and I thought, "My life is so good, this is gonna be the part when the plane crashes." [laughs] I was feeling ultra-superstitious. And then I got on the plane, and the pilot was a woman, and she was wearing a skirt, she had red hair, and she was foxy. And I thought, "Oh, cool, I've got a lady pilot. I'm not gonna die!" |
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| Neko Case – Deep Red Bells Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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CASE: That has a lot to do with growing up in Washington state during the time when the Green River Killer was active, when I was in junior high. It's frightening. It has a lot to do with when you're a kid and you see that stuff on TV all the time---the news definitely made the distinction that these women were prostitutes, in fact they didn't talk about them like they were women much at all, which made me feel really bad for the women. Myself and many, many other young women that I knew at the time were very, very scared of the Green River Killer. It was very much a part of our psyche, and it still is, when you grow up with that kind of stuff. Washington had a lot of serial killers---a lot. The whole time I was growing up, there was Ted Bundy, or the guy in Spokane. And when I was in Vancouver, they finally caught the guy---all these prostitutes were disappearing from downtown, and nobody gave a shit about it. Actually, the people of Vancouver gave a shit about it, but the local government didn't, because a lot of them were prostitutes, some of them were drug addicts, so they figured they were lost anyway. I actually think there's a civil suit in Vancouver---you might want to check on the facts on that---because they could have figured out who this guy was a long time ago, and they didn't bother to do it. The government would make up these wild claims---"Well, we might think it might be a white slavery ring," blamed it on Asian gangs---it was really gross. Same thing with the Green River Killer: they knew who he was for a long time, but they couldn't bring him in on technicalities. I'm sure that it upset the people who had been looking for him that long just as much as the parents of the people he had killed. These women's lives just never seemed that important; they weren't really made that important on the news. It was all about fear. I guess the song is basically me just thinking, "What are their lives? What would their families do." |
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| Emilíana Torrini – Fingertips Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'm sure it's about female masturbation before sex. Her fingertips go "round and round" in a "perpetual motion" and she feels all sorts of nice stuff, including an "electrical current". The process "lifts her emotions" and "banishes her shame", "before she can open her all to eager eyes". I think it's quite self-explanatory... |
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| Emilíana Torrini – Baby Blue Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this song is about a depression caused by a miscarriage ("I can't believe what God has done" implies she's not responsible for the baby's death, it was taken away from her). The lines about seeing her daughter "drowning" and keeping her "in a jar" make me think of amniotic fluid and blood (when someone suffers a miscarriage, the first simptom is bleeding) and the jar thing brings to my mind the classic image of a fetus kept in a formol bottle, to preserve it for scientific or medical research or biology teaching, something of the sorts.
It's a really sad song, needless to say. |
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| Sneaker Pimps – Johnny Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is a cover from The Wicker Man soundtrack. Liam and Chris love this film, that's why they covered How Do in Becoming X, I bet Kelli had nothing to do with the decission of recording this... her voice is great for How Do but I'd die to hear Chris sing this one. Plus it'd make much more sense, I can't picture a gal making out with Kelli and telling her to do it "gently, Johnny". |
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| Neko Case – That Teenage Feeling Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I take the first part in a wider sense, not only referring to past lovers. She talks about those regrets in a very non-dramatical, non-tragic way. Just as winter colds, everybody has some, and just like telephone poles there are thousands of them in line, all the same and all unimportant (who pays attention to a single telephone pole or streetlight?). The way I see it, at first things may look terrible and you may think of yourself as the most unlucky or miserable person on earth, but with time and maturity you end up realizing your problems were mostly silly things that just had to happen, and you can only "laugh at them" to get over it. |
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| Neko Case – Tightly Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this song is about daring to want, to desire, to wish for things, not feeling down because you don't have them but rejoicing on the thought that you might get them, looking forward and feeling excited about all the things you're going to experience. But the joy, the happiness, is the very moment you picture the events ahead, you don't even need to get there to feel it.
It's just too beautiful. |
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| Neko Case – Dirty Knife Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The final part is Ukrainian and it apparently means "he shouts very loudly, clenching his teeth" according to alwaysontherun.net |
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| HIM – Dark Light Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is awful, it sounds like something by Bryan Adams. And about the lyrics, I don't think they actually mean anything in particular, they're just a recopilation of HIM commonplace metaphors for anything. Every verse in it sounds plain old and unoriginal. It makes me think of a collage made with lyrics from their older songs.
And this is NOT trolling, as a fan from year 2000 that is stil supporting them I have the right to voice my negative opinion just as I have always voiced my positive ones. |
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| HIM – Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is awful. I love HIM, but I can't bear to listen to Dark Light, it's such a bad album it's depressing. Valo's pretty face is already going to hell... be it because of alcohol, because of the fucking Jonna, because he wants to sell more in the USA...
They used to have quite repetitive and kind of naive lyrics, but they had some particular charm to them anyway. Also they are talented musicians and performers. But this album is shit, and this is their worst single ever. How I wish Valo would leave Jonna, stop being a drunkhard, and concentrated on writing decent songs again. His current lifestyle is finishing him. |
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| HIM – Beautiful (Third Seal) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think the meaning of this song is pretty clear, everyone that has been in love knows the feeling of looking at your loved one and being overwhelmed by their beauty. In the end it doesn't even matter if the guy/girl is actually good-looking or not, if you are truly in love they will seem the most beautiful to you. |
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