| The Who – 905 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think that with the literal meaning, Drdestructo hit the nail on the head, but I've always thought the song itself was more of a metaphor for the need to think for youself. It's very anti-control and it seems to try and send a "fight the system" message out. Additionally, I think it's a bit nihiilistic which we see in the lines "Everything I know is what I need to know, and everything I do's been done before. Every idea in my head...." It seems to tailor to the "I'll never amount to anything" and "I'm so unoriginal" mindsets. |
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| The Who – 905 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think that with the literal meaning, Drdestructo hit the nail on the head, but I've always thought the song itself was more of a metaphor for the need to think for youself. It's very anti-control and it seems to try and send a "fight the system" message out. Additionally, I think it's a bit nihiilistic which we see in the lines "Everything I know is what I need to know, and everything I do's been done before. Every idea in my head...." It seems to tailor to the "I'll never amount to anything" and "I'm so unoriginal" mindsets. |
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| Action Action – Drug-Like Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think that the key to this song is in the title: Drug LIKE, not Drug Induced. I say this mainly because some of the comments above mine say things that imply him actually being high. That said, here are my overall and line-by-line analyses. "I'm an angel with broken wings, who's poisoning the night with love, from me to you." I think that he's saying that metaphorically, he's the angel with broken wings (not in his drugged state, but that he actually IS that angel) because he was once pure and innocent and such but he's strayed so far from that that he has broken wings (he's imperfect) and he's poisoning the night with love from him to them because his love is mixed in with the desire that they fall with him. "I'm having an episode. Do you want a small bit part? I think you might, I hope you do." This line, to me, says that his episode seems to him like something you may experience in a high (hence the title) but that this episode is more like a minor psychotic breakdown or bipolar episode. When he asks "do you want a small bit part? I think you might, I hope you do" we can refer to the previous three lines where he wants others to share his pain. Honestly, I have no idea what the next two lines refer to, but if I were to venture a guess, I'd say that he's maybe continuing on the concept above where the person he was speaking to decides they'll try to experience it so he's instructing them "go so slowly, nowhere, nothing, quiet, softly" in how to use said episode to their advantage, maybe as inspiration for songs as awesome as these ;) Continuing on this theory, I think that "the world falls apart in just seven days...and everyone dies, except for the rain" is him trying to describe his episode - how he feels and what he envisions. "I think that I'm starting to scare myself" is seemingly his response to his episode which, given his mental imaging, seems more than reasonable. When he continues to say "I hate myself and I want you to die" (amazing line, by the way) I think that he's saying that BECAUSE whoever he's speaking to is so insincere about experiencing the episode, it will be rendered useless and he therefore hates them and wants to die because nobody can relate. "Welcome to enhancement by affiliation" seems to be saying that if they can't experience it other than in his descriptions, his affiliating feelings to something more tangible that they can understand, they'll never really get anywhere. This line seems to be almost sarcastic, as if he's given up on them and is saying something along the lines of "here you go, it's the best I can do if you won't work with me" In "everybody's dancing to get it off their chests," I think IT is those unresolved feelings from having not really experienced them first-hand. He then continues to say that "everybody dies, but no one gets to rest" because they can never be satisfied in having experienced the true helplessness that he's feeling as the angel with broken wings watching the world fall apart at the seems. It seems to portray the same nihilism we see in Chuck Palahniuk's books (author of Fight Club). |
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| Action Action – Don't Cut Your Fabric Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm shocked so few people have posted. Anyway, I'll take a shot at the meaning.... I think that as the title of the song (parts 1 and 2) imply, the song is about commercialism and propaganda. We see this particularly in the lines "head spun by a thousand spiders, sucked into their late night infomercials" in that we're so influenced by what we see on TV and such (head spun by a thousand spiders = thoughts twisted by 1,000s of advertising and propoganda specialists; sucked into their late night infomercials = sort of self-explanatory, but that we're drawn into their infomercials). The lines "You got it, intrusive, erratic, elusive, your heart aches, infliction, sporadic in an aging contradiction" could be taken literally in a sense that the commercials we see are intrusive (that they interrupt our TV shows and our lives), erratic (that the manipulation used against us isn't even consistent), and elusive (that they're deceitful and through false advertising give people the wrong idea about their product). I always saw thought of these lines grouped as "You got it: intrusive, erratic, elusive." In that you get what said commercials are made up of and their key components. I then thought of the second part as "Your heart aches, infliction - sporadic in an aging contradiction" in that they're stating your heart aches and your inflections are sporadic in this ever-changing society that consistently contradicts itself in what is and isn't acceptable. |
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| Action Action – Don't Cut Your Fabric Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm shocked so few people have posted. Anyway, I'll take a shot at the meaning.... I think that as the title of the song (parts 1 and 2) imply, the song is about commercialism and propaganda. We see this particularly in the lines "head spun by a thousand spiders, sucked into their late night infomercials" in that we're so influenced by what we see on TV and such (head spun by a thousand spiders = thoughts twisted by 1,000s of advertising and propoganda specialists; sucked into their late night infomercials = sort of self-explanatory, but that we're drawn into their infomercials). The lines "You got it, intrusive, erratic, elusive, your heart aches, infliction, sporadic in an aging contradiction" could be taken literally in a sense that the commercials we see are intrusive (that they interrupt our TV shows and our lives), erratic (that the manipulation used against us isn't even consistent), and elusive (that they're deceitful and through false advertising give people the wrong idea about their product). I always saw thought of these lines grouped as "You got it: intrusive, erratic, elusive." In that you get what said commercials are made up of and their key components. I then thought of the second part as "Your heart aches, infliction - sporadic in an aging contradiction" in that they're stating your heart aches and your inflections are sporadic in this ever-changing society that consistently contradicts itself in what is and isn't acceptable. |
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