| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Melancholy rubbish. Come on guys, pick yourselves up, there's always hope. You can always change. Do not go quietly into that goodnight, rage rage against the dying of the light!! | |
| The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'd just like to add to what "the day the music died" has stated. I am actually critical of a comment he has made about the following segment: "I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah" His interpretation is rather lacking in any perspicuity and credibility, although his overall interpretation is quite refreshing and admittedly eye-opening. However, i'm pretty sure i have the correct interpretation of that passage, well at least i know what he's talking of when he says "the places where all the VEINS meet." It is an anatomical reference! HE'S REFERRING TO THE HEART! THE HEART IS THE PLACE WHERE ALL THE VEINS MEET IN THE BODY. This should lead one to countless rather deep interpretations. This particular passage, which i personally think is the most profound piece of the song, is genius. |
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| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think there is general agreement on what the song is about. It is about visceral intolerance. It is about the brutal and spiteful nature of social conformity. It doesn't listen to reason (Maths) and when intolerance is met with rational refutation, it's comes across as this unintelligible and frustrating noise. I have to draw an analogy with those who believed we could "save" Iraq, with all the conviction and religious fervor that is concomitant with intolerant zealotry. How dare you "mess with us" we are the Karma Police, everything we do is for your own good. Even if that means we unleash a chain of events that results in 650,000 iraqi's dying with millions freeing the land we are coming to "liberate." Regarding the last bit "for a minute there I lost myself," I would have to say that he is either referring to someone dealt with the Karma Police and has now been "corrected," or it is someone who, for a moment, became an intolerant bigot and now realizes the error of his ways. |
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| Coldplay – Bitter Sweet Symphony (feat. Richard Ashcroft) (Verve cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| read the above i think it is a revolutionary breakthrough in understanding the song. Granted I am talking about my own analysis! but come on, i've spotted something no one else has! I think i have just cause to brag a little! | |
| Razorlight – America Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I don't anybody has understood the grand theme of the song. I think it has both and individual and global thread to it. The individual thread is the sadness and happiness, basically the emotion of individual human experience. The global thread is basically that we have a global super power America, and it concerns us all. It manages to permeate and penetrate the individual, every individual. Like Rome, during the apogee of Roman imperial supremacy, concerned most individuals on the planet, America is the new power that concerns almost every individual on the planet. I guess it's a portrait of modern man. I think this song has been rubbished a bit because the songwriter doesn't seem very positive about American power. This should in no way affect the fact that the lyrics are ambitious and brilliant. I personally feel America has had a positive role in world, but has to brush up on its many bad points. |
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| Coldplay – Bitter Sweet Symphony (feat. Richard Ashcroft) (Verve cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'd just like to add to what "the day the music died" has stated. I am actually critical of a comment he has made about the following segment: "I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah" His interpretation is rather lacking in any perspicuity and credibility, although his overall interpretation is quite refreshing and admittedly eye-opening. However, i'm pretty sure i have the correct interpretation of that passage, well at least i know what he's talking of when he says "the places where all the VEINS meet." It is an anatomical reference! HE'S REFERRING TO THE HEART! THE HEART IS THE PLACE WHERE ALL THE VEINS MEET IN THE BODY. This should lead one to countless rather deep interpretations. This particular passage, which i personally think is the most profound piece of the song, is genius. |
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