| Amanda Palmer – Bottomfeeder Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| The song starts as the boy is a child. Attention seeking to the detriment of his sister. The acting up is followed by chastisement. It\'s most likely the loss of his father since it started so young.\n\nThe song progresses through other examples of directionless anger and drug abuse. Fixin and shooting in the dark ending with his eventual death in the overdose in the bath.\n\nThe father probably committed suicide as the narrator here comments about the protagonist blaming a system for his death. it might not be true but it lends to that idea and is another example of misplaced or directionless anger. | |
| Amanda Palmer – Bottomfeeder Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[MaxNanasy:40926] Jim Morrison is the Lizard King, so he wouldn;t have kissed himself. That line talks about how similar their death was to Jim Morrison\'s not that it was Jim Morrison. | |
| Mr. Bungle – Vanity Fair Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The allusions to this being about how region makes people jump through hoops is wide of the mark. For one, the protagonist in the song says "bless the eunuch and the skoptsi" whilst referencing their own sacrifice in removing their genitals (transgender operation) - they are paying tribute to their extreme sacrifice for what the protagonist considers perfection. The track is about transgender narcissism driving what to many is an extreme choice to switch (in this case from male to female). The "beauty sleep" mentioned is that of general anesthetic before cosmetic surgery. The track starts as if it was purely a matter of narcissism, but it soon transpires that the affliction of being born with a penis is more than a superficial problem describing it as a cancer in their soul. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Avon Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[albooga:4133] " Then, the ending line, 'a simple system.' Metaphor for society aka the masses." This is an incorrect reading. The system is his method of delivvery for his prey. "A simple system: I string em up, I cut em down". The song is about butchering humans. | |
| Faith No More – Epic Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Cont. I missed out something important, I;ll add it again: "It was about sexual frustration. Sex and lack of sex." On Masturbation "Most people don't like to talk about it. I'm here to tell ya, I love it. that's kinda of what Epic's really about." |
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| Faith No More – Epic Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The song is about masturbation caused by sexual frustration. Mike Patton confirmed this in an interview on MTV as advised by NJBilly above and also in a print interview Mike Patton did with Gary Cee for Circus Magazine at the end of 1990. Mike: "It was about sexual frustration. Sex and lack of sex. Most peopel don't like to talk about it [IT!!]. I'm here to tell ya, I love it. that's kinda of what Epic's really about." (Page 36 and 37, probably the December issue) |
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| Whale – I'll Do Ya Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this is about the state of Ethiopia's economy in the period between 1974 and 1975. | |
| Mr. Bungle – The Air-Conditioned Nightmare Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Hugh's suggestion is the most helpful. Read the book. Consider the title and the chorus, consider man made hell but more importantly read Henry Miller's brilliant book: "I am in a small, supposedly comfortable room of a modern hotel equipped with all the latest conveniences. The bed is clean and soft, the shower functions perfectly, the toilet seat has been sterilizd since the last occupancy, if I am to believe what is printed on the paper band which garlands it; soap, towels, lights, stationery [sic], everything is provided in abundance. I am depressed, depressed beyond words. If I were to occupy this room for any length of time I would got mad - or commit suicide. The spirit of the place, the spirit of the men who made it the hideous city it is, seeps through the walls. There is murder in the air. It suffocates me." - From the first chapter of the aforementioned book which also sets the tone for the song and perhaps struck a chord with Patton as it's a situation which modern touring musicians find themselves frequently, captive in hotel prisons across the country slowly going mad, growing depressed, burning out. |
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| Mr. Bungle – Sweet Charity Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Obviously the track is not clear. To me I feel that someone has taken solace from a figurative storm inwardly in a breakdown of sorts. They're looking through a box of images [your technicolour heartbeat could relate to colourfull images within a container] and postcards from their past in the hope of avoiding their problems ["save me"], perhaps anticipating a breakdown. The breakdown is inevitable and they destroy this container full of images and postcards with turpentine. The lines following seem to be written as one sentence: "Tearing through the paper walls of time [the pictures we colelct to remember the past] With sunset eyes Telethons, Grand Canyon hearts [different stereotypical images we collect because of our experiences, holidays etc] You numb your mind With gloves of white and turpentine [destruction of paintwork with turpentine is quite common]" "I'm home free" could relate to liberation from problems of keeping your shit together and relishing the thought of finally being free from the shackles that sanity might bring. It represents to me a final yielding to insanity, letting go of the last fragments of sanity. Again I'm thinking aloud and am by no means an English literature reader, but this is more or less my interpretation of this. They're then carted to the asylum. |
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| Super Furry Animals – Something For The Weekend Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's specifically about LSD. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It makes you look like a spastic. | |
| dEUS – Disappointed In The Sun Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The protagonist is contemplating his suicide as a method to escape the problems associated with his "earthly life". Taking a leap is not his method, but drowning seems more appealing. The whole song talks of this and him tolerating maybe just one more hour then he'll drink at a bar under the sea". He lacks the courage to commit suicide which ironically is seen by most as a cowardly thing to do. |
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| The Black Keys – Midnight in Her Eyes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| @Likestunes - "Your manic ways got the best of you" - the girl is clearly seen as the author of her own misfortune. | |
| The Black Keys – Hard Row Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think an allegory maybe beyond some people's comprehension. | |
| The Black Keys – All You Ever Wanted Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I agree with Number1zero. I would add however that this is from the point of view of someone in the Travis Bickle mould who seeks to protect her...has feelings for her. Travis however exploded into a psychopathic rage, where Dan's POV on this is far more resigned. | |
| Tears for Fears – Mad World Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| No tomorrow = No future. TFF were meant to represent an alternative and a juxtaposition to Punk. This line shows that they echoed the sentiments of Punk. TFF's The Hurting was largely about child abuse but this is their version of a punk themed song. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Adhesive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's about the death of a relationship and his futile efforts to stop it and the paind and torment the inevitability causes the protagonist. | |
| Feeder – My Perfect Day Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The version on the B-Side to Stereo World kills the weak and limp version from Polythene. Vocals are far more powerful on the single. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Heresy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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More wars have been waged and more have been committed in the name of progress after the enlightenment by so called secular regimes than any religion has caused. I = atheist. |
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| Faith No More – She Loves Me Not Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Bitch, when you grow up I'll be here waiting for you and you know I'm fucking worth it. | |
| Faith No More – Mouth To Mouth Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Carnival? No. About passing around a myth...maybe. Water and wine? Read the damned Bible for fuck's sake. | |
| Mr. Bungle – Vanity Fair Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Bingo. It's clearly about someone who has placed their own plastic surgery (in the case a sex change) into holy esteem. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Another Invented Disease Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| http://www.duesberg.com/ | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Another Invented Disease Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| http://www.duesberg.com/ | |
| Sparks – Something For The Girl With Everything Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Revisiting this track I can see why on first glance and with no consideration of all facts one might feel albeit superficially that the song is about a spoilt girl. The song more than hints that there is a secret reason why she is being showered with all these indulgences and seems to be centered around buying the girl's silence. "Have another sweet my dear Dont try to talk my dear Your tiny little mouth is full Heres a flavour you aint tried You shouldnt try to talk, your mouth is full" "Wow, the engines really loud Nobodys gonna hear a thing you say" "Hey, come out and say hello Before your friends all go But say no more than just hello Ah, the little girl is shy You see of late she's been quite speechless, very speechless" This hints at possible child abuse (unlikely), domestic abuse or another patriarchal oppression of the "girl". What is absolutely certain is that her Patriarch is suppressing her outward expression via various methods with various methods designed to stop her either speaking or being heard. The song is sung from the part of the Patriarch and his words show obvious signs of fear and nervousness should she speak. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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You clearly misunderstand Dostoevsky's writing but I see where you are coming from. "They are little children rioting and barring out the teacher at school. But their childish delight will end; it will cost them dear. They will cast down temples and drench the earth with blood..." |
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| Pearl Jam – Given to Fly Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Eddie said of this song: "...a 20-page cardboard (children's) book with a line on each page and a picture to go with it. It's a fable, that's all. The music almost gives you this feeling of flight, and I really love singing the part at the end, which is all about rising above anybody's comments about what you do and still giving your love away. You know? Not becoming bitter and reclusive, not condemning the whole world because of the actions of a few..." |
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| Super Furry Animals – Mountain People Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's most definitely a song about the attitude towards the majority of Wales by the English authorities and those in English suburbia - out of touch with the reality of Welsh semi rural/valley life and seemingly apathetic to it, it's particularly about social neglect (investment and representation). You must remember that Wales was pretty much devastated in order to benefit the South East in the 1980's. | |
| Five Iron Frenzy – A Flowery Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think it's about how grateful that Five iron Frenzy are to God for all that Christian pussy. I know I am. Amen. | |
| Kyuss – El Rodeo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The beginning is basically a simple 'canon'. I love this track. | |
| Pearl Jam – Black Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This track is up there with Light Years in my view. Two of the most beautiful songs written. | |
| Deadboy and the Elephantmen – No Rainbow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Agreed. | |
| Deadboy and the Elephantmen – Ancient Man Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Nietszche, deep? | |
| Queens of the Stone Age – Better Living Through Chemistry Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's a negative song about drugs prescribed to combat the stresses of every day living, to which it's subscribers suffer an addiction (new religion). it's not rocket science. it's funny how the idiots see their political aims justified by a song about something completely unrelated. | |
| Pulp – Mis-Shapes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Definitely not about a class struggle. The differences sung about are cultural or to be more precise intellectual. If this were a class related song, it would be analogous of minority menshevism versus populist or popular bolshevism which stem from the same class strata. It's simply an affirmation of the working class geek's desire to revolt against the usual principles of isolationism and alienation and reclaim what he feel sis rightfully his. Freedom of expression and to pursue happiness. To think this is class related is a fucking reach. | |
| Five Iron Frenzy – Third World Think Tank Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Thanks for the support to my explanation fellas. Patriot. What I was saying is that if you sin and you have not repented and suddenly die, then you have not accepted Christ. You have chosen another path and not altered that path in order to be redeemed...where is his soul heading? |
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| Tomahawk – Sweet Smell Of Success Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The albums is meant to show different aspects of the American nightmare. | |
| Queens of the Stone Age – Avon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I feel vindicated. Thanks Mad_World. | |
| Super Furry Animals – Show Your Hand Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Incomplete. I submitted the full version but the website's server and the administration of it are so poor, nothing happened. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Go With The Flow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Most definitely about someone affected by those around him and their cavalier attitude towards relationships. Mention is made of disposable love "She said I'll throw myself away", "Falling in and out of love with something sweet to throw away" but the protagoinst sees something wrong in this and is adversely affected. he wants stability, permanence "I can go with the flow but don't say it doesn't matter", this line shows he can be like the others, the aforementioned affects are reflected in the latter part of that quote. Also he's describing that amongst his peers or his partners its acceptable and prefered to settling down or falling in love, he also describes the others as soldiers obeying orders and perhaps doing so because they fear taking a risk - I think he views the way of avoiding relationships as a form of cowardice. I particularly like the like "I want a new mistake" showing that he's prepared to make a mistake if only he gets to experience love rather than these temporary, fleeting one night stands. more than anything, the fella wants to feel. | |
| Roxy Music – In Every Dream Home a Heartache Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's about emotional detachment that modern life brings. How humans fail to connect. The protagonist here talks about the heartache of lacking reciprocation from the doll even going as far as saying it is ungrateful. He yearns the company of a woman, he has everything but emotionally he's reduced fucking a doll. This individual will either rape kids or kill himself or both. I've seen the news. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Avon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The opening to Avon suggests he is stalking someone from across the street, crosses the road with only the prey in mind. "I see you go through a park, in a haze and I don't listen to traffic going the same way - a simple system, I string em up, I cut em down." - That doesn't sound like someone who is a professional butcher, but someone who kills people like a butcher - again alluding to humans as prey. I mean you wouldn't stalk an animal if you were a butcher or an abattoir worker. I agree that this individual is cold and efficient like a robot, but he appears to take pride in what he does "I string em up, I cut em down" - an emphasis on the 'I' - almost nodding to the famous line "God giveth life, god taketh away, not you"...proving THEM all wrong. Again serial killers usually are lone figures with points to prove against a society that has apparently aggrieved him in some way... |
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| Five Iron Frenzy – Third World Think Tank Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The woman at the bar represents temptation. The time bomb in his chest and the fact he doesn't know when it will detonate symbolises two things. First the nature of mortality and that he does not know when he'll die. This is important given that sinning will send a Christian to hell so basically he is refusing to succumb to his temptation as he does not know when he might die and as such redemption or pennance may not be possible, besides which he may not have long to wait for salvation, hence him saying when it blows be somewhere safe (repent!) and then there's the worm food part which would relate to those who who didn't find that "safe place" and lived their live out of kilter with the teachings of Christ "suckers feel what suckers dealt" and "all your life you stuffed your face" switching the attack from the promiscuous and the lecherous to the greedy and the villainous. Seems pretty straight forward. |
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| Faith No More – Easy (Commodores cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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They covered from 1989 onwards. They released the track at their own behest, not the record company's. Their percussion was fine, piano, passable but the omission of the second verse was a little strange, though they didn't do the second verse live either. Perhaps the second verse's poignant lyrics would detract from the "comedy" value of the song. Who knows? |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Avon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I agree. Perhaps he's alluding to the fact that humans are for all their intricacies are just animals. Consumers and the consumed and somewhere along the way have forgotten this so he sees humour in the fact that we're mortal, that we're animals and that somehow we think we're better than other animals and feels we can escape our fate, which is to provide food for other things. At the end of the day, only cremation stops us feeding the worms. Just like Romero did with Dawn Of The Dead and belittled man through his consumerism allegory, I feel Homme does this too. I feel he mocks man for his attempts to separate himself from nature only to be seduced into other forms of consumerism, be it drug use or materialism...perhaps that is why he covered Never Say Never. | |
| Millionaire – Pretty Thug Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's called PETTY THUG, idiots. | |
| Sparks – Something For The Girl With Everything Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Buying silence. Domestic violence maybe? | |
| Faith No More – King For A Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's all about making a choice to spice up life, but not wanting to risk the chance of being ridiculed, or being noticed...it's about not being comfortable with your current situation and not wanting to actually change things for fear of negative outcomes. It's about feeling stupid for actually letting your hair down. About being inconspicuous when you know you need to light up and let go. And this section: "Sniff the glass and let it roll around on your tongue Let me introduce you to someone before the party is done Someone to look to in need or in want or in war If you give him everything, he may give you even more" That's right said imitation vocals right there. Love it. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Like a Drug Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is very very poor compared to the original which had a sure fire 60's almost Del Shannon vibe. | |
| Queens of the Stone Age – Mosquito Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Homme is obsessed with the idea of man as game or more precisely, food. He first visits the idea of Man as game in Avon when he mentions chasing someone, presumably into a park with ill intentions and even alludes to canibalism with the term "free-range humans", free range obviously a term applied to cattle or poultry, in the same line he mentions that although his prey is "free-range" it most certainly is trapped and is't aware of it which hints at Homme viewing the stalking as a sick game. This bares more than a glancing reseblence to Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw massacre, a theme which appears to be revisted in the Mosquito Song, particularly the them of humans being food and the references to hooks knives, cutting boards and cooking books. I've not invested a great deal of time to this idea but there are several other references I can think of which show that Homme is preoccupied with this idea that Humans being game and or food, particularly the video for No-one Knows where a Buck kills all the members of QOTSA to make game trophies out of back home. First it giveth also mentions hooks, but I do feel that applying that reference of hooks etc. to the concept of cannibalism or human victimisation or humans as food is pushing it slightly. Please feel free to contribute. |
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