| Rush – The Trees Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| What if it turned out this song was just about trees? Haha, wouldn't we all feel silly | |
| The Smiths – Unloveable Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Nah, I think you guys are wrong... A cyclic music provides a rich backing for Morrissey's crooning vocal on this song. His lyrical willingness to prostitute himself for some unnamed love is framed by his frank admission "I don't have much in my life". Morrissey once again provides an accurate portrayal by revealing the arrogance hidden behind the resigned statement "I know I'm unloveable" as the protagonist is sure that the love would like him - if only they could meet him. |
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| Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| If you listen hard it seems like a tragic love song. David Byrne said himself it was a love song (he usually strayed away from songs about love because it was "too big"). And by tragic I mean he's been led awry by love before. | |
| Califone – Bottles & Bones (Shade and Sympathy) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To Me, (probably not Tim Rutilli) it seems like this song is written about a terminally ill person. Or possibly a bad relationship. | |
| Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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In many ways, "Heart-Shaped Box" represents the epitome of Cobain's fascination with the female body. In the unused In Utero liner notes - published posthumously in Journals in 2002 - Cobain writes that the song was inspired by "Camille's vaginal/flower theory," most likely referring to the American social critic Camille Paglia, of whom he was a fan. [3] In Paglia's 1990 book Sexual Personae, she explores the prevelance of female genitals being perceived as wounds - often manifesting in diseased flower imagery - in psychoanalytic literature. She cites the ailing flower in William Blake's "The Sick Rose," the "poisonous genital flowers" in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours, and a description by Tennessee Williams comparing a vagina to "a dyin' orchid." [1] Cobain, too, was also reminded of vaginas by flowers, and in the second verse of "Heart-Shaped Box," he sings of "meat-eating orchids" that "forgive no one just yet." Indeed, in a 2005 Spin interview, Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, claimed that "Heart-Shaped Box" was written about her vagina. Critics of Love often cite the song as proof of her domineering presence in their relationship, but Cobain refuted this in interviews. "Everyone thinks of me as this sad little spineless puppy who needs to be taken care of," he told Details in November 1993. "It sickens me." [4] "Courtney is my wife, and a lot of people could not accept the fact that I'm in love, and that I could be happy," he railed in a 1993 interview with Jon Savage. Cobain's relationship with Love may also have inspired the song's title. According to the 2001 Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross, Love courted Cobain by sending a small heart-shaped box to his hotel room while he was on tour. After their marriage in 1992, Cobain adopted Love's hobby, and the couple eventually accumulated a large collection of heart-shaped boxes, which lined the shelves of their many homes. According to Heavier Than Heaven, the original heart-shaped box remained in Love's possession after Cobain's death in April 1994, and contains Cobain's suicide note and a lock of his hair. It's worth noting that the lyrics of "Heart-Shaped Box" contain references to Cobain's and Love's respective astrological signs, Pisces and Cancer. |
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| Taj Mahal – Corrina Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| These are wrong | |
| John Lennon – Remember Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Oh I thought it was the hero was never home. That's what it says in the lyrics in my Anthology | |
| John Lennon – Serve Yourself Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yes I agree with all of you. I am a Hare Krishna but, I do not take offense to it. As I know it is a song of expression by another being. It is very artistic and am suprised that more punk rockers do not praise John Lennon as apposed to well, booing him. | |
| John Lennon – Sisters, O Sisters Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is not by John Lennon. It was Yoko Ono doing vocals and keyboard this should be listed as Yoko Ono | |
| John Lennon – New York City Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Genuises can be crazy. In fact I beleive it makes you smarter. Ooh look a monkey... | |
| Ringo Starr – Only You (And You Alone) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is a great song. Presonally I like the version as sung by John Lennon on the John Lennon Anthology beautiful! | |
| Ringo Starr – It Don't Come Easy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Most people don't know this but, George Harrison wrote this song. | |
| Yoko Ono – I Felt Like Smashing My Face In A Clear Glass Window Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Wow. No one has commented this song. Well I guess someone did. ME! | |
| The Beatles – Revolution 9 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| thewalrusami, that is stretching it quite a bit eh? and no John Lennons mother died when he was 18. And it was a hit and run accident then never found out the license plate number. You can make almost any combination of numbers equal nine aswell. I really doubt that constitutes as paranormal. Hardly even a coincidence. | |
| The Beatles – Piggies Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Some of you are right most of you are wrong. This song is about The Beatles Vegetarian experiences. Inspired by the book "Animal Farm" | |
| Modest Mouse – One Chance Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Easily the best modest mouse song ever. Although it didn't go mainstream. I beleive it means that in the short time we have to live we have to try our best to get everything right. Because we only have 'One Chance' to get it right. I know I'm over-analyzing ;) | |
| George Harrison – Wah-Wah Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I agree with Krstki I thought it was about how his guitar playing made him famous and how he doesn't need it anymore. | |
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