| Jeff Buckley – The Sky Is A Landfill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Don’t suck the milk of flaccid Bill K." Does anyone know who "Bill K." is supposed to be. |
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| Jeff Buckley – The Sky Is A Landfill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Don’t suck the milk of flaccid Bill K." Does anyone know who "Bill K." is supposed to be. |
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| Jackson Browne – Before The Deluge Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that line "And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow, For the glitter and the rouge" sums this song up to a large extent. In a general sense it's a song about the coming of a modern culture which lacks substance, is filled with pointlessness and a decent fulfilling life of learning and inquisitiveness is replaced with artificially created wants of glitter and rouge. "And in the moment they were swept before the deluge" - the moment they traded the fulfillment of life for the artificial version thats only a mediocre temptation, you will lose it all, and that has turned out to be true today. This is the first time in history we have in front of us the possibility of destroying most species on the planet. There are in fact two ways - nuclear devastation as well. "Some of them were angry, At the way the earth was abused" - It's as true today as it was 200 years ago with Native Americans and of course further back. I recently heard a Native American say "If we'd have lived the way Native Americans lived, today we would still be able to drink out of Rivers." So many activists and concerned people who are trying to simply get people to listen to them are still being labeled as extremists, crack-pots, tree-huggers etc. Unfortunately these people harm profits and growth. Pretty selfish of them to want to save our very existence. "By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power" - In another version I have heard the line is slightly changed by the removal of "her" so the line becomes "...forged beauty into power" which to me has connotations of wealthy men in society understanding that as a vulnerable and scared mass of people we are easily subjected to artificial contrivances like vanity and beauty and while we are strutting about comparing ourselves, competing on the most ridiculous basis, they are carrying out the objectives that protect themselves from "the rascal multitude" as we are distracted. Although this version of that line is slightly different it's still a point I'd like to make, because it's blatantly obvious in our developed societies but it miraculously evades discussion in most forms. The "..the magnitude of.." natures "..fury" is one of the most important points to make in this song. People who tried to protect the earth from the men who wanted to exploit her for their sole personal gain found it difficult to understand how destructive nature could be when we pushed her too much towards the edge. In all, I think it's a song about two groups of people that encapsulate true respectfulness, dignity, decency and thought as there principles and another much smaller but more powerful group that see individual gain, self-interest and plundering as unchangeable aspects of our human nature. If that's true then we were doomed to begin with. |
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| System of a Down – Radio/Video Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The first time I heard the line "Hey man, look at me rockin' out, I'm on the video. With Danny and Lisa." I couldn't help but think about our modern music industry. I'll address the first line "Hey man, look at me rockin' out, I'm on the video." System Of A Down are a band that write songs with some kind of meaning, usually a social meaning. There is typically some issue they take up whether it is society's effect on people, drugs, war, sex and prostitution, the armenian genocide, sending the poor to fight rich mens wars, it's something usually. That first line, I think, is about the mentality of modern maninstream artists and music and the fact that their only interest is us "Looking at them rocking out", aren't they cool - "I'm on the video, I'm famous - I was on TELLY!!" A point could be made about the fact there is no principals left in popular music. You can imagine SOAD looking at MTV or some such music station and staring disgustedly at some music video with an artist that has a guitar in his hand that he can't play, wearing all the latest fashions and showing off the lables, looking cool after spending 6 hours getting makeup put on, leaping about in some pointless music video complete with glittering, sweaty babes and Rolls Royce's and singing atrocious horse manure that not even he wrote nor understands. "Danny and Lisa", I think, represent to me pointless and un-interested TV / Radio music presenters, and due to the fact that every day we rush home from work or school and switch on MTV to see Danny and Lisa, it's about the fact that we think they're so "Cool". There on the television making stupid faces, wearing cool, ultra desirable clothes, he's some kind of handsome muscle freak, she's always done up to the nines in the latest, sexiest clothes, both with their "boards" playing all this hopelessly, shit pop music. They are typical all over the world in more than just the music guise, they're in childrens television, some sports stuff, daytime / afternoon television and many other areas. And they are there to represent what every child or teenager (or older) SHOULD dream of, and that is the cool, hip life, unimaginable wealth, the possibility of meeting all your favourite (?) stars, being a well known face. The whole concept of mentioning them in the song is to do with the fact that Danny and Lisa presented my song and video, aren't they cool. Whereas, there is no reason to think they're cool, they're fame-driven idiots in fact. "They take me away from the strangest places. Sweet Dan and Lisaaaaaa." I think this means Danny and Lisa are a tool of insulation from the horrid world we all live in. They are there to divert our attention and in the process make us all feel inferior that we're not them, or we're not like them. I don't have they're beautiful clothes, their quirky, over confident attitude, their looks, their life, the chance to be associated with all that wonderfully repetitive music they present etc. etc. Then as ordinary kids, or even adults, we start to compete with each other, vying for those characteristics that the famous exude, seeing if I can pull them off best. We get our effective education of human nature through these means. As far as we're all concerned, humans are ferociously-competitive, dog-eat-dog, vain, un-impressible creatures that feed off the misery and failings of others due to the fact that I could do it but he / she couldn't. In a broad sense this is basically a song about our current society and as ordinary, servile humans it is an example of how, particularly young people - the most suceptiple, are taught rules about this current society and about how they should grow and how they should think of their fellow human-beings as walls to be broken down as they prevent their advance to fame, glory and wealth. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Tire Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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In relation to BIGWILLS comments up the page a bit, he says "Zach sings about wearing dark glasses...to insulate oneself from the world perhaps?". Not a bad point but Jackie wore dark glasses all the time. It was a fashionable thing at the time and quite a prominent feature about her during her "limelight" tenure and I think what he means is since their is so much public infatuation with her, well, the public want to be her and since she wears "lovely" glasses all the time, I do now. I have got to be her, I need to be her and if I can't actually be Jackie Onassis I'll try and look like her. Now, that's quite simplistic I know, and you could be right because I'm starting to think more and more about your point but, I, personally think the prvious verses runs along that same rough simplicity and those concepts of mirror-image loyalty to a public personality that has nothing to offer but her style. |
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| System of a Down – Stealing Society Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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For the moment I'll comment on the first four words of the song, because as I see it they are there to set up the concept, period, type of society that System want to talk about and the later verses sung by the guitarist fella. "Yeah! Alright! Yeah! Alright!" When I heard this first I thought it sounded exactly like the constantly unoriginal introduction you hear in most modern pop-songs. It's quite prominent in rap and now in "White" pop where you'll hear "Awight, uh, uh, uh yeah, come on, lets get down with this." that sort of bullshit. These horribly pointless introductory pieces where an artists makes provocative noises are what they are trying to take off. They even stop the music just to say the "Alright" and the "Yeah" to make it ultra obvious that they are taking it off. I also think that this is a primary concept for setting the societal period of the song which is quite recent and to the present. Now starting into the verse "Crack pipes, needles, PCP and fast cars", I think this verse is quite blatant as to what it's conveying. It's describing modern society in all its unfortunate reality. To sum it up crudely, in this world all you're told to look for, all you're worth, the only meaningfulness in it is trying to find the next high, the next thrill, stupidly searching for stardom ("...Movie Stars") or following public personalities in adoration. Becoming bigger than yourself because of that stardom and obviously trying to find bigger ways to bloat out your thrills to the point that you can't even think anymore, just anything goes. "Waiting for a mother that will get me high..." the person is just waiting, not thinking of any repercussions, for someone who will provide him with some kind of thrill (could be drugs, could be anything) "Just a stupid motherfucker, If I die I die" These thrills are so enormous and taking me so far away from sense that, well, if I die - I DIE, I don't care, I've gone past thinking. "Midnight fistfight" - this reminds me of the macho antics of man and how completley irrational they are. This could remind you of a person that was so high and out of his depth with drugs that he would ask you to shoot him in the head because he had convinced himself that he wouldn't die - "I'm feelin' so good that nothing could kill me". Wanting to fistfight just for the adrenaline, uncaring again of that person and the fact that they'll probably receive a broken nose or more broadly, they'll have a negative impact on society by instigating violence for no other reason than the machismo and thrill of it which breeds more violence. But it doesn't matter, the person can't think anymore - he's looking for a thrill and it doesn't matter what he does to get it. In other words - Irrational society gone haywire all because of irrational construction of society - purposely, to keep people from thinking, to keep them angry at each other, to make them search for dangerous thrills rather than assisting them in developing their mind - that's dangerous - they might think society is worth changing. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Tire Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me I can see you in front of me, front of me Ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me Why don't you get from in front of me" Tire me, I think, means you're trying to seduce me, your beauty and prestige is so incredible that I feel worthless and pointless as a human being compared to Jackie Onassis that I'm completely worn down, tired. "I can see you in front of me, front of me" I think he's talking about seeing Jackie constantly on the television (and maybe even through other mediums like newspapers, magazines etc.) . All the time she's in front of everyones eyes. "Why don't you get from in front of me" This is the frustration someone has from being bombarded and manipulated like this. Get away from my eyes, I'm sick of seeing your astounding beauty and superiorority. You're making me feel bad about my own inferiorority. "She's got everyone's eyes In every home there's a sickening Distress Of rolm that film she's a precious, a precious One But we're all gonna ..... nah we're already Dead !" "She's got everyones eyes" I think Zack means everyone that is infatuated with this talentless celebrity thinks they look like her - "I think I have Jackie Onassis' eyes". People are heaping attention on the women, loving her, trying to be her etc. "Of rolm that film she's a precious, a precious One But we're all gonna ..... nah we're already Dead !" A Summary of this section would go like this: On the television she's so precious and devine but realistically we don't know why. "But we're all gonna..." But we are all gonna be like her, If we keep watching and falling in love with her we can be as she IS. "nah, we're already Dead !" "We're already dead" refers to the way that if people think like this, act out these artificial impulses and find interest in public personalities that they can't think rationally about e.g."What's so much better about her than me, we're all humans" then we are as good as dead, we are no longer thinking for ourselves or about anything. "Now that history's a flowery cancerous mess ..... A mess Nah let's see it broken, bloody and undressed !" History has been distorted for centuries by those who have conquered and destroyed, written from their perspective. It has been sent through filters so that it would come out looking victorious, progressive and wonderful whereas all it is is one horrific story after another of rape, pillage, massacre, murder, domination, destruction. We're not told about the negative impacts of history and most of the worst atrocities as it doesn't serve our leaders purposes in continuing to destroy it. But the point here is Zack wants to see it in its most honest form, the bloody mess that it is. It won't be nice but we have to look for our own sake of knowing what our world is like so as to initiate change. "I wanna be Jackie Onassis I wanna wear a pair of dark sunglasses I wanna be Jackie O Oh, oh, oh please don't die" Here Zack is effectively saying that the public is so infatuated with this huge personality of sorts that they are starting to wear her clothes, act the way she does, want to be her, going so far with the obsession that they don't want her to ever die, they want her to live on, to continue to quell their irrational insecurities and keep feeding off her mastodon sized ego as long as it feels good. Why, because WE the people, are already dead. |
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