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| AC/DC – Back In Black Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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They had just lost their lead singer, and until this new album, it looked like things were over for them. They had begun to wonder if they'd die poor.
So, if it were you, and your record company approved a new line-up, and you made a hit record, wouldn't you also celebrate being back in the black?
"I've been too long I'm glad to be back" and "Forget the hearse, cause I never die, I got nine lives" They're celebrating the reformation of their band, and making money again.
They're BACK! out of the red, and back in the black.
"Yes, I'm gettin' loose, From the noose" Doesn't that sound like a reference to their debt. |
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| Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Each verse describes the isolation and suffering of a child. The first boy's hair turning white is symbolic of the fact that he was scared, i.e his hair turned white from fear and shock. The spots on the girl weren't actually birthmarks, they were bruises. There was no car wreck, no birthmarks. Both were just excuses! Just lies the children told to hide the abuse.
The last verse is saying how parents who commit child abuse aren't always the ones you would think, i.e church-goers. I am guessing they're trying to say the last boy had it worse because it was forced upon him. The child was not in control, he had no freedom, he was trapped. The first two kids were being beaten or abused but thinking at least they could cover it up with lies, unlike this boy whose parents were like, in a cult (that's why they shook and lurched), and he was being forced to go there whether he liked it or not. The third boy had it worse because he had been broken. His parents no longer needed to hit him anymore, a look was enough. It's very subtle, but watch it again, and you'll see them give him that look. Somewhat copied from Romeo Scotland (thx) above. |
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| Phoenix – Rome Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Most certainly. He makes it clear that because of age, any chance of romance was doomed from the start (Focus looking forward the Colosseum). It seems there was no more to it than them sharing a cigarette, but he says that although (I didn't love you, if I had, I wouldn't be sorry). At the end, he is outside standing in the fall leaves, presumably watching the youngster's naked silhouette. He adds that they're both dead and alone, but the younger has no interest past the cigarette. (Addict till it falls)(I'll be driving, you look the other way) It was dead before it began. (Ashes till it falls) (Rome, Rome, many tears have fallen here) He can't wait around, being hopeful, although he's trying to. (I know I can't do without; The future's trying to wait)
That's just my take, although I can also see the writer as being the boy teasing an older girl. For the sake of decency, lets assume the writer is 19 and referring to a 17yo. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Here's a stab at it. This is a story about street kids in the big city. They are the ruthless cool kids in the land of a thousand guilts. They have zipper blues because they never stay in one spot very long, and are always zipping up their bags every few days 'skiping like a junebug' for a new place to crash. As they hit the streets, no one is sure what they have in store. It's a shakedown, and the vacant and bored are thier victims, and maybe also are the ones who deal for them. Justine got to hanging with the wrong crew, and the cool kids felt betrayed and cut her off. Their world is Morphine City, and dues are slippin, which means it's time to collect. Those who owe them are going to find that 'they don't even care' (they will collect). To a lot of people, the concrete and lights of a city represent security, 'assured' but to them, they are sad or 'lamented'. These kids, 'restless as they are' 'feel the pull' (craving) speeding 'faster than the speed of sound' and are without hope. The street heats (cops?) urgency of sound (sirens) but no one is around. I think they got away. |
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| Līve – Selling The Drama Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think it is about people who think 'you're going to hell' while they righteously sit in their chair, and (from up here) collect Christ's ransom (salvation through his blood). Ed's response to this is to say 'no, I won't be scared like that, I won't love a god who would burn a crowd right or wrong; it is just the sun that burns, not an eternal hell, and it's the wheel that turns, not some benevolent god behind everything. The last stanza I see as sarcasm. |
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| R.E.M. – Losing My Religion Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's about being judged by small people with small minds. That's why he says life is bigger, bigger than you. He believes no one has the right to judge him because they are not him. I think he was hinting about his sexual orientation, by massaging the guy in the video. He felt there was a distance between himself and this person or persons, however, he didn't want to say too much and lose them completely. He went to great lengths to impress them, but felt like he was losing his identity and his faith in people by trying to be everything they expected him to be. He set himself up for the fall so he can't blame anyone. He thought they liked him, he thought they were cool, but they wouldn't let him be himself, so maybe they never really liked him for who he was. Why try when it hurts so bad to lose? After all life is but a dream. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Eraser Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's about domination, and challenging our values. I think Trent was all about rising up or die trying. Maybe he felt bad about his dreams of money, sex, and power, and wanted taken out of the game. Perhaps a lot like Cobain's 'Rape Me', not so much about not caring, as it is about not wanting to care. We are all evil and part of this evil empire. The only way to destroy it, is to destroy oneself or at least one's ego. Smash down Babylon! |
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| My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Ok, so how about the song meaning? It's like his dad hoped that he would defeat his demons and be a caring person. However, instead, when his wife dies he says 'I can not care at all' 'the world would never take his heart, and that he is just a man, not a hero. The part I don't understand is 'Your misery and hate will kill us all. So paint it black and take it back.' Is he talking about himself? |
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| Placebo – Song To Say Goodbye Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Ashtray girl hit it on the nose imo. He was jealous of his friend until they started using and lost their innocence. Years later, although they don't think of themselves as friends anymore, he still kicks in his old friend's door and tries to save his life, I assume from the mention of swollen cheeks in the song, he is not well. But with the way the song ends is telling that he didn't make it. So this becomes a 'song to say goodbye' I think he looked at his friend as being his ticket out of there, and if he didn't make it, there was no hope for either of them. |
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| Placebo – Song To Say Goodbye Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Ashtray girl hit it on the nose imo. He was jealous of his friend until they started using and lost their innocence. Years later, although they don't think of themselves as friends anymore, he still kicks in his old friend's door and tries to save his life, I assume from the mention of swollen cheeks in the song, he is not well. But with the way the song ends is telling that he didn't make it. So this becomes a 'song to say goodbye' I think he looked at his friend as being his ticket out of there, and if he didn't make it, there was no hope for either of them. |
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| Metallica – Of Wolf And Man Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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"In wildness is the preservation of the world" I think that means world order is maintained by disorder. When I hear wildness, I think of anarchy preserving the world from world peace aka world domination.
"So seek the wolf in thyself!" Become a free thinker, a radical even. Revert back to the ID and don't let society push their 'universal' morals on you. Mullett2k is right, we aren't great because we have logic, we are great because we are free. That is the real meaning in life, the freedom to be wild, the freedom to be wrong even. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I remember very clearly the first time I heard this song while still in highschool. Being nostalgic when you're young is a strange thing, but this song helped me realize just how valuable those times were. I guess that I was a cool kid who had no time, and no love for the world, it was just my friends and I, living for the day. WE rode around like gypsies, and wherever we stopped, we were like a scourge to that land, but we didn't see that. It just us, against the world, and we were gonna win. |
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| Tracy Chapman – Bang Bang Bang Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It makes me think of how my parents mistreated me as a kid, but stopped once I learned to stand up to them. Now they buy me anything I want pretending like we get along. I spend all the money on drugs to hide from my anger, but it's not solving anything. In fact, even the handouts upset me now. I want off drugs, but what will happen when I no longer want anything they own? Will there be enough stones to throw? |
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| Metallica – Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Ok people here’s how it works, the brainwashing flows in this order, government, religious(fanatics), white color(with something to lose), parents, then to the children and the ‘natives’(subclass). This song might be ‘based’ on that movie, but it involves much more. It compares the brainwashing techniques(and believe me they exist) of society to that of a mental hospital. There is a cage that people build for themselves so they can be ‘normal’ where ‘no one leaves and no one will.’ But in his dreams he is free, and those dreams have become his reality. So he invites us to sleep, to close our eyes to what we’re told to be, told to see, and made to believe, and thus recreate society.
‘Build my fear of what's out there and cannot breathe the open air’ could refer to the government scaring the people about what’s out there (weapons of mass destruction) but doesn’t want us really see for our self. Or how we build our children’s fear of the ‘real’ world without letting them see for themselves, unable to love, trust, or truly feel. Sanitarium is a man made often self made cage. A revolt from the norm is the war cry. ‘They see it right, they see it well’ If left to our own we are surely ‘crazy’ but mass control is saving no one, on the contrary it has enslaved us all. ‘No more can they keep us in Listen, damn it, we will win’ |
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