| The Cardigans – Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Sorry, I accidentally clicked on the -, but I didn't mean to rate your interpretation!!! It looks like I can't take it back now, so here's the explanation. Sorry you had to go through this. |
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| The Cardigans – Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't agree at all. I'm sorry, but your cutting diamonds interpretation doesn't make a lot of sense to me- surely if this was about a molester the Cardigans would have been able to come up with a better allegory. Diamonds is the hardest stuff known to man, and trying to cut one with a rubber knife is simply impossible. I think it's about a father who at some point lost his job and blamed everybody else for his unhappiness. Now his children are grown-ups and he wants to make up with them ("tell me you're sorry, fax me your will"), but it's too late. "You owe me something still" = he owes her her childhood and will never be able to give it back to her. Yet still he tries- like cutting diamonds with a rubber knife. |
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| Zero 7 – Somersault Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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@ Thunderbolt: to me "You encourage the eating of ice cream" means that he doesn't care if she puts on a few pounds, hence doesn't care about looks but is more interested in making the other person happy. Actually, it's my favorite line in the song, even though I'm not that big of an ice cream fan. |
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| Sarah McLachlan – Angel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I used to think that it was "just" about death in general, but now that I've read the lyrics it's become pretty clear that it's about dying from a drug overdose. Feeling not good enough, looking for some distraction and seeking release, memory seeing from veins, those are all typical for heroin overdose. It's also clear it's about artists- dark cold hotel rooms, building lies, vultures and thieves surrounding you... there's not much room for any other interpretation IMO. One of the most beautiful songs ever written. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Uninvited Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I tend to agree with that one. For me, "not allowed" is as much a keyword as is "uninvited", and it could point to a woman in love with her. However, there are plenty of lines in that song that point to plenty of other meaings. It's pretty unspecific and and therefore could be applied to a lot of situations- forbidden relationship, media, "City of Angels"... |
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| Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Such a powerful song, with a clear message- "we're standing in the way of control, we live our lives" (you might as well add "anyway"). I don't think it's just for gays, but also for every group that doesn't fit into the mainstream. I take it as a clear call to stand up for your opinion and lifestyle and not back down to anybody. Not to offend anyone here, but I think that message is much more important than a teen drama on TV... |
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| Gossip – Coal To Diamonds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| To me it's about her being in a relationship with somebody who she knew would eventually hurt her ("I knew all along")- and it happened. She doesn't put blame on that person (because "nobody is perfect"), but she can't stop thinking about it anyway, which doesn't solve a thing. | |
| Lily Allen – Fuck You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| ... umm, obviously I was agreeing with GBJR's reply, not with adamxfaceless's post!! | |
| Lily Allen – Fuck You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Thanks for that reply. I completely agree and have nothing to add. | |
| Lily Allen – Fuck You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I definitely believe it's a "F**k You" to Bush resigning from his office- "please don't stay in touch" is a pretty good hint to that. Why is it George W. Bush? "So you say it's not OK to be gay" - Bush's stance on that is widely known "You want to be like your father, it's approval you're after" - umm, don't feel the need to comment on that "You say you think we need to go to war" - Afganistan, Iraq, what more do I have to say. @ adamxfaceless : classy, dude, classy. Writing half of your post in caps, using the other half of your post to insult other people here... and choosing to overlook the major fact about this song. Like I said, classy. |
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| Amy Macdonald – Youth Of Today Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't think this is about all people from older generations- just against those people who refuse to see and accept any other POV than their own. How can one accept that? As Amy demonstrates herself- not everything the youth of today does is bad, and I think she wants older generations to stop bitching about all the young people without exception. |
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| Amy Macdonald – Poison Prince Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's no secret that this song's about Pete Doherty and that Amy thinks he's hugely talented but is wasting his life and talent away. "And what we all want and what we all crave,i Is an upbeat song so we can dance the night away." I think that means that all people care about is that the singer gives them a song that makes them feel good- no matter the cost to that artist. |
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| Loreena McKennitt – The Highwayman Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I totally agree with Skybluepoet and enkainami- that kind of love and devotion is something that's worth dying for. I admit I didn't like the song when I first heard it, but then I didn't listen to the lyrics. The moment that I did this song revealed its flawless, perfect, utter beauty. Like so many others here it made me cry, and it still does. Loreena McKennitt is one of the few musicians who can touch me this deeply- depending on her songs I feel joy, sadness, melancholy, longing, aching for distant countries... I really wish I could meet her one day to thank her for all she has given me. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Joining You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My favourite song from her Infatuation Junkie album- intense, sad and beautiful at the same time. I always picture it this way- she comes home to find a message on her answering machine from the mother of a very good friend of hers (personally I think the friend is female, but it could be male) who says the friend wants to kill herself. But by the time she hears that message the friend is already dead. I gather this from the fact that the song's title is Joining You- she lists all those bad things (nametags/cultures/leaders/obsessions) and says that if she thought they'd really be all those things, she'd be joining that friend (in death). So this song (to me) is an obituary to a very important close friend from teenage years ("question mightily" is a growing up thing to do) who saw clearly that society and culture and ubringing was leading down a path that's not for her. Too bright and intelligent for her own good ("you knew more that you thought you should know") that friend went deeper into depression and finally gave in to it. The friend gave up thinking that they were nothing more than what society made them out to be- their successes, their incomes etc.- and Alanis says that if she thought that way then she, too, would commit suicide. |
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| Dido – Isobel Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's about a woman havingn had an abortion and then running away from her former life and the guilt over the abortion (possibly trying to kill herself). I think the lines "And who he would become by the things he'd have done / Would he have loved you and not let you down / And would he be stronger than his father / Don't punish yourself, leave it well alone" give it all away. At first I didn't really like this song, but when I started to listen to the lyrics and and it just blew me away- now it's my favourite from the No Angel album. |
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| The Bravery – This Is Not the End Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't know about that friend in a coma, but for me this is about what happens to you after you die. The singer needs to believe in something after your death, but he's not pressing that opinion on the other (dying) one- "I don't care what you believe / as long as you are in my heart". I think it's a very deep song, about death, religion, tolerance and friendship/love. Definitely one of my favorites from Bravery. |
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| The Bravery – Fistful of Sand Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Agree with the other users- it's about the end of a relationship. She's stopped loving him -maybe she's fallen in love with somebody else already- and no matter how much he wants to hold on to her there's nothing he can do to save thise relationship. It's that horrible moment when you realize that it's definitely, without a doubt, over. | |
| The Bravery – Believe Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I can listen to this song over and over again. I guess the meaning is pretty straightforward (or else really, really complex)- I'd say somebody trying to find some kind of reassurance that this is not all there is to life, that there is more in store. | |
| The Bravery – Tragedy Bound Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Definitely about a girl who was abused by her father when she was little, and that that has ruined her life forever. That song really got to me instantly- it is intense and utterly sad, and The Bravery did a stellar job translating that into a song. | |
| The Bravery – Every Word Is A Knife In My Ear Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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At first I thought it was a break-up song, when no matter what the person who's breaking up is saying is hurting the other- but being anti-Bush makes so much more sense! If possible I love them even more for it. @ Trixie- "and we pulled up our skirt" = we got fucked?? That's how I see it. |
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| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Probably one of the most discussed songs ever. I think the safest bet is it's about drugs ('You can check out any time you want but you can never leave'- even if you stop you'll always be a junkie), but there are other possibilities as well. Just goes to show how people can listen to the same song and still interpret it differently, depending on their own feelings and experiences. Nobody's wrong. | |
| Billy Joel – The Downeaster 'Alexa' Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I have to admit I don't know a lot of Billy Joel's songs, but this one is one of my all-time favorite songs ever. It is such a beautiful ballad and an homage to all the sailors and fishermen out there. I don't think you don't need to say anything about the song's meaning, though- read the lyrics, it's pretty plain. | |
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