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| The Middle East – The Darkest Side Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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According to Rohin Jones of The Middle East, who wrote the song:
"verse one.
my mothers father killed himself when she was ten years old. her upbringing before that event was hellish to put it kindly. her father and sister were schizophrenic, which meant the money and attention of her mother and family was poured into them. she and her sister had severe malnutrition and health problems. her fathers tore her fences down is a picture of the effect of that event (and another) which stripped her of her ability to function as a person. when i was 17 my family had been going through hell for about 7 years at a particular church. ma was working about 50 hours a week for nothing in a pretty vulnerable environment under a person who i guess was a father figure. and dad was working as a groundsman for next to nothing. that environment had a similar effect on her as her upbringing. this is the second father. (in the lyric it is fathers). after a particularly damaging incident ma came home locked her self in her room with a packet of panadol and a plastic bag and was going to kill herself. the thought of her fathers suicide and the effects it had on her and her love for me and my siblings was the only thing she said stopped her. she only told me a couple years later.
the song is about the few incidents in my life where love has been truely communicated to me. i may share more in the future." |
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| Gareth Liddiard – Strange Tourist Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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It's about a friend who has a fascination with or just does things things that make him unhappy or depressed - hence the analogy of a bowerbird that collects things that are the colour blue.
The singer doesn't point out what he thinks is wrong with his friend and his direction in life and often goes along with him, for example in the lines "I just steered his bullshit through the next diversion", "And I joined his life of leisure in flight It's too hard to row a boat using a periscope" and "He was someone else's problem and that made me glad".
Eventually his friend dies after camping in Aokigahara and the singer comes across him whilst working in a hospital. It's as if his friend didn't want to die but the singer should have seen it coming seeing as his morbid fascination. |
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| Punch – Feminists, Don't Have A Cow Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It's about the dairy and meat industry. The lyrics draw parallels between both human and cattle females and their fertility - 'like apples to oranges, both fruitful'. Yet wrongs that aren't acceptable against human females are somehow fine for animals.
So the title literally means to not have a cow. |
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| As I Lay Dying – Forsaken Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I'm with 1llusions, easily the best song on the album by far! What it means, well...
I think Tim Lambesis would have written this when he feels like he has knowingly turned away from God (as in 'I've looked straight into your eyes, and turned my head for the last time') and consequently feels empty or lonely afterwards (chorus), and I suppose he's affirming he'll never do it againg (as in 'I will no longer turn my head'). |
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| Josh Pyke – Buttons Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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To me this track is about the so called 'laws of the land' and ones place in life. |
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| Josh Pyke – Mannequins Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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To me this song is about trying to pick up in a bar, wherein the mannequins metaphor suggests that the people have no personality and/or are all the same. However at the same time, they fill in the void left by not having someone. |
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| Josh Pyke – Forever Song Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Such a lovely song. To me the first two verses are about genuinely being in love with someone and not caring about other people who are just looking for the next person to sleep with lol. The chorus to me is about hoping the relationship lasts forever and that the people involved don't get over it. And pretty much the rest of the song I reckon is about what the future holds for these people. |
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| Placebo – Infra-Red Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It appears that the psychotic main character of the song intends on committing suicide (as in the first line) but taking the other person out at the same time as an act of vengeance, making it look like an 'accident'. I think thats where the 'infra-red' theme comes in, that is that someone being killed occurs, but you don't see the intent behind the supposed 'accident'; just as infra red is there but you don't see it. |
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