| The Kills – Doing It to Death Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Considering the references to being wasted, not being able to stop, and lining up... I think "double sixing" is a reference to doing lines of cocaine. Super sexy song, though. |
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| Toadies – I Burn Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[corkey:25277] That's how I hear it. I always pictured a person burning while the person's ghost watches. | |
| The Jesus Lizard – Nub Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| "Rub it on me, Duane!" Favorite part. | |
| Pearl Jam – Breath Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[fnnkybutt:3930] I had pretty much the same experience shortly after discovering this song years ago. | |
| Pearl Jam – Pilate Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The first stanza seems to me to be about leaving your daily routine, particularly on an airplane. Falling up (taking off), then south... Having an awkward conversation with your seatmate is talking out of turn. Drawing circles down is because airplanes circle the airport before landing. To me, the second stanza is being out in the country with your dog. I used to walk with my dog on the dirt roads. He would pretty much just enjoy himself, be a dog, and be glad I was with him. The last one feels like deja vu. You're back in this old place, with an old friend, and you start to reflect on how you felt back then. In this case, it's probably not a good feeling. |
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| James – Moving On Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The video for this song ripped me apart. My greyhound, Jax, was diagnosed with bone cancer in his hind leg earlier this year. A week later the leg was amputated to relieve the pain of the cancer, but it was still terminal. While he was recovering from the surgery, I caught this music video on Paladia. It paralleled the situation so closely that I couldn't help but cry. 6 months after the amputation, and despite chemotherapy, the cancer had spread to his lungs and other organs. He was struggling to breathe, could no longer support his own weight, and stopped taking solid foods. We decided to have him euthanized to save him any more suffering. A few days later, I happen to see this music video again. I bawled my eyes out. We wanted so badly to keep him with us. The only relief is knowing that he's no longer suffering. | |
| Soundgarden – The Day I Tried to Live Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Honestly, before reading the lyrics I always heard it as "I dangled from the power lines and left them all astretch", as if to say he was made of something heavier than those thick metal cables - super-hero or extra-terrestrial like - and impervious to any ill effects of doing so. I still hear it that way... | |
| Soundgarden – Superunknown Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song hits home for me because I've dealt with people who see the world in black and white. They shift from one extreme to the other. If something gray is introduced to their black and white world, they assume that the opposite extreme is true, although it almost always isn't. So, this song to me is about being moderate in everything. Most things are gray, and we can't just go polarizing everything to make it easier to digest (or easier to reject). | |
| Tom Waits – Falling Down Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I feel like there is a lot to say about this song, but it's hard to find the words. First of all, it's lyrically beautiful and the delivery is simply amazing. In fact, I think the delivery really tells most of the story. Let's start at the top: I feel like the beginning is about a man, obviously traveling with a lover, who finds enlightenment and is completely sideswiped by it. ("Opened my eyes, I was blind as can be") Scarlet either wasn't what he thought she was, or she did something terrible to him, or both. Although sad, there's still a hint of optimism here. ("To give a man luck, he must fall in the sea") Despite the loss of Scarlet (or whoever), there are always "more fish in the sea." If he's going to find a companion, he's had to lose the one he had. ("You forget all the roses don't come around on Sunday") I'm imagining him sitting relatively alone in a bar drinking on a Sunday. All the young girls had there fun the night before and now they're in church begging Jesus for forgiveness. He finds himself leaning on his crutch, alcohol. Now, the next few lines sort-of blend together. ("She's not gonna choose you for standing so tall/Go on take a swig of that poison and like it/And don't ask for silverware, don't ask for nothin'.") Being alone in a bar on a Sunday, the only women around are probably waitresses or the regular bar crawling tramps. Still, he's trying to hard, hitting on everything in sight. When he's rejected he takes another sip. When the waitress tries to avoid him, he resents her for it. And then the story takes a much bigger turn. This is by far my favorite part of the entire song. There is also an entire "silent verse" before the last one. I imagine time passing. Also, I've interpreted this last verse in a few different ways... First (and most literally) ("Go on down see that wrecking ball come swingin' on her") The hotel bar is being demolished after some time. All the regulars and others come to see it fall. They loot it for whatever they can find, find some humor and sadness in it, and then ultimately mourn. ("It all looks smaller down here on the ground") Second (and more psychologically) It's said that homes and places to stay sort of represent your mind and mindset. If he's spending so much time at this hotel bar, it represents his mindset. He IS the hotel. The owners have taken all of his money and made him hollow ("They broke all the windows, they took all doorknobs"). When it finally come crashing down, the "falling down" action is completed, and he's hit bottom. It's the end of an era, so to speak. There is nowhere to go but up. Finally (and more abstractly) For a second while listening I imagined this man being beaten up and robbed. In the sense that he is the hotel, he gets his lights punched out ("They broke all the windows") and his money stolen ("They took all the doorknobs") and he's basically left as a pile of human wreckage. I really love this song. I feel like Tom's delivery is really where the substance is, though. He really takes the character on. At the start of each verse he's just telling a story, when suddenly it sounds like he's holding back sobs, as if he's still at the bottom, telling us how he got there. It's so powerful and masterfully done. Thanks Tom! |
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| Shinedown – Sound of Madness Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song would have be excellent if it was instrumental. Also, the structure of the song could have been much simpler and the point would have come across much stronger. The lyrics are pretty straight forward. Don't assume that these guys were trying to convey some important message. More likely they were sitting around the studio with a general idea and throwing out the best catchy phrases they could muster. The delivery is sub-par, too. That riff sure is catchy, though. |
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| Tracy Bonham – Mother Mother Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love this song. I was in elementary school when it was on the radio. I'm glad I was able to recall it now that I'm in my 20's! The sentiment is outstanding, and so is the delivery. | |
| Led Zeppelin – Misty Mountain Hop Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think it's quite as mystic as some would think. I think this song is very literal. He stumbles across a group of hippies, they get him high. He totally loses track of time. The policeman comes by "busts" everyone. He's so high that it really doesn't matter if anyone else comes by. "When you go down in the street today baby, you better open your eyes." = paranoia of pissing off the straights by appearing stoned in public. At the end I don't think he's really making himself out to BE Bilbo. I think it's more along the lines of going home, still totally stoned out of his mind, and grabbing a good book. He makes his way to the misty mountains by reading the story. Was one of my favorite songs in high school. Still a great tune. I love the, "I really don't know what time it was... oh ho oh." |
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| A Perfect Circle – Gravity Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Why does it have to be about drugs? The pill reference is almost definitely anti-depressants. LIFE has highs and lows. These lyrics seem to be more about surviving depression than surviving addiction. Comments like these make me understand why Maynard hates his fans. "Maynard is telling us to do more drugs." Yeeeeaaahhhh. No. |
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| Tom Waits – Clap Hands Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always thought that "Can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal" was actually "Can always find a million in a shovel-load of coal." Such as finding a diamond. But, I just listened very closely and it definitely sounds like the former. |
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| Tom Waits – Make It Rain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I felt like the rain metaphor was more about rebirth and change than something negative. The rain nurtures life and makes things grow. It washes things clean. So, basically his wife/girlfriend left him and took everything, including his friends. He's got nothing and just needs to start fresh. He's praying for rain to wash all the sadness and pain away. I like how simple it is. His voice in this song is crazy! At first I picture an old black man, not a little white guy like Tom singing it! | |
| Primus – Fish On (Fisherman Chronicles, Pt. 2) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yeah, I saw that interview with Les as well. He said it was a "true story," but I felt some sarcasm in his voice. This song basically takes me back to all my fishing experiences as a kid... Although I had not heard it until I was about 17 years old. I feel like it's generally metaphor-free. It's basically just classic fisherman's tales put to music. |
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| Radiohead – Optimistic Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm not familiar with the plot of the entire album. However, when I hear this song on its own, this is the connotation I get: This song is all about the common people striving for elitism. Imagine a common man going to college, entering the workforce optimistically. He wants money and status and a comfortable life. He doesn't imagine himself losing his freedom to his job. The song begins with the man seeing his peers being picked off by life's trials and difficulties. He sees them cannibalized by the "big fish" (big business/bosses/corporate heirarchy). He realizes he must either become a big fish or get eaten by them. Then the song takes a bigger viewpoint, as if a narrator is studying the whole situation. It describes several of these common men and how they fit into the picture. We have the man who wants more (optimistic), a consumer (the market), a backwoods hillbilly (out of the swamp), and a producer (drops a payload) whose art is consumed by the others (animals on animal farm). The song then describes the man again, probably in his later years after he's been on this corporate ladder a while. He's a puppet (nervous messed up marionette) that can't escape this ride he's on (the prison ship). The song ends with the focus pulling away from this man and seeing the whole society as an ecosystem of dinosaurs... doomed to cannibalize and feed on each other until some force greater than them destroys them. Still, in their minds they are all super-important. The grand scheme of things is much greater than they will ever be. |
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| Big Wreck – Blown Wide Open Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love the imagery in this tune. I always picture his house surrounded, as you would expect cops to surround a house with a dangerous person inside. But, that's not what I feel the song is about. It's more like all the things he's been hiding from someone or everyone suddenly hit him as being wrong and he's desperately hopeless to correct them. He steps out on the porch and basically just breaks down and starts crying. That's how I imagine it. | |
| A Perfect Circle – 3 Libras Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I didn't read everyone's interpretation, but if you've skipped to this page then you're obviously not satisfied with what has already been posted. One day while driving this song came on the radio, and I hadn't heard it in a couple of years. As the song went on, it suddenly dawned on my what it was about. I think that this song is about TOOL's fanbase. Tool's lyrics in the past have been very cryptic, and their music always artsy. Maynard is saying he "threw you the obvious", he gave you something to interpret, not something concrete. Meanwhile the fanbase mulled it over, put way too much thought into it, and tried to label and define what it was TOOL was giving them. The fans definitely carried TOOL away, made them famous. ("Flew with it on your back," did you own any band shirts?) But no one really seemed to get it. Their label marketed them to people who didn't really understand, and couldn't understand what the music was for. "And you don't see me" kinda says it all. |
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