| Frankee – F.U.R.B Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is probably the worst song ever written. It's not a marketing ploy, it's a get-rich-quick scheme. Both this artist and the original would have to come to some kind of agreement over the rights to the song, and with the original having mainstream success, the easiest way to do it would be to make a "spiritual sequel", which would virtually be guaranteed some success of its own. The end result is that both artists profit off piggy-backing off one another all the while making something that can hardly be described as "music". | |
| Between the Buried and Me – The Day I Tried to Live (Soundgarden cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is just a cover of the Soundgarden song on Superunknown ... | |
| Audioslave – Show Me How to Live Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Heh, some versions of the lyrics online give the chorus as "Hey, hey, I said Near as I can figure You gave me life Now show me how to live." |
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| Incubus – Here In My Room Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| While the song is about sex, I'm pretty sure it's about his first time having sex after a bad relationship or something. | |
| Temple of the Dog – Pushin' Forward Back Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Before he was Audioslave frontman, Chris Cornell was in Soundgarden and one of his friends, Andrew Wood, died of a heroin overdose. Cornell got together with Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard and formed Temple of the Dog, which grew into a Soundgarden/Pearl Jam supergroup. They only released the one self-titled album, but they're legendary; when you think grunge supergroups of the early 1990s, Temple of the Dog is usually the first that comes to mind. Since Cornell wrote the lyrics, he's got the intellectual rights to them; you'll also notice that Audioslave also does a few Soundgarden covers such as Black Hole Sun and Rage Against the Machine ones as well, like Sleep Now InTthe Fire because the other bands members are the ex-Rage outfit. | |
| Pearl Jam – Given to Fly Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"He could have tuned in, tuned in, but he tuned out. A bad time nothing could save him. Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out." I think this is about a guy who was forced to walk through an absolute shitstorm. "He got up outta there ran for hundreds of miles. He made it to the ocean, had a smoke in a tree. The wind rose up set him down on his knee." And when the air clears, he just has to get away from it all, so he just goes wherever his feet take him. "A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw. Deliver him wings, "Hey look at me now!" Arms wide open with the sea as his floor. Oh, power, oh. He's flying whole. High, wide, oh." And in the process, he discovers something about himself, who he really is, so to speak. "He floated back down cause he wanted to share. This key to the locks, on the chains, he saw everywhere. But first he was stripped, and then he was stabbed by faceless men." And with this new revelation, he returns home, but the shitstorm is still raging as if he had never left. "Well fuckers, he still stands." But this time, he doesn't run away. "And he still gets his love he just gives it away. The love he receives is the love that is saved. And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky. A human being that was given to fly." And this is just a metaphor for self-discovery. |
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| Soundgarden – Pretty Noose Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Cornell says it's about "an attractively packaged bad idea". Sounds like a few women I know ... |
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| Incubus – Nice To Know You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm thinking it's another song about relationships, specifically about meeting someone, but finding that you're out of your depth and giving up on it: "Better than watching Geller bending silver spoons Better than witnessing newborn nebulas in bloom She who sees from up high smiles and surely sings Prospective pries her once weighty eyes and it gives you wings" First verse is about meeting that person, likening it to Uri Geller and the birth of stars. "Deeper than the deepest Coustou would ever go Higher than the heights of what we often think we know Blessed she who clearly sees the wood for the trees To obtain a birds eye is to turn a blizzard to a breeze " The realisation that he's out of his depth on this one, with the last two lines suggesting that to know everything ("bird's eye") is nigh on impossible. "I haven’t felt the way, I feel today In so long it’s hard for me to specify I’m beginning to notice How much this feels like a waking limb Pins and needles, nice to know you Good-bye, Nice to Know You" The chorus probably has something to do with coming off a bad relationship and deciding to jump back in; however, he feels he's out of his depth, hence the good-bye. |
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