| The National – Pink Rabbits Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Everyone is writing their comments like it's a guy writing about a girl. I thought it was from the perspective of a woman - especially the "I was a white girl in a crowd of white girls in the park." Also, there's something about the entire thing that feels very feminine to me.. Anyways, thought it was from a girl's perspective. | |
| Carly Simon – You're So Vain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That's really interesting. Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust" is also said to be about Bob Dylan. Guess he really got around and inspired some great but bitter lyrics! | |
| Carly Simon – You're So Vain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That's really interesting. Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust" is also said to be about Bob Dylan. Guess he really got around and inspired some great but bitter lyrics! | |
| The Fratellis – Whistle for the Choir Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think downer here refers to drugs/pulls--as in, uppers and downers. Which is why it's kind of funny, and goes well with the beggar theme--of course not a literal beggar, but kind of that hipster, dirty look, drug addled, attempting to woo the "queen," pretty girl figure. Specifically how it goes with, "I'm still ready to dream"--meant to be funny, he's still gonna dream, maybe even because he's on the downer, kind of hazes his mind a bit. | |
| The Damnwells – I will keep the bad things from you Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I guess I have a little more cynical interpretation than the rest of you: I think hes trying to find the line between intention and truth by purposefully blurring the two--the way the two (often polarities) function in reality. Though his intentions are marked by romantic inclinations, the truth constantly blurs into the lines of intention--both in his obvious inability to act on his promises (I will keep the bank from you--he obviously can't actually do this) and then the fact that his romantic yearnings and inclinations are undermined by this too. Also, many of his promises are contradicted in later lines--those referring to money especially (someone else will take the money). Also, I think the summer and "what if all this was true" references further point to my interpretation. Calling it the feel-good hit of the summer truly points out the temporality and impermanence of all of his promises and intentions. Furthermore, "what if all this was true" shows that even he, in the moment, recognizes that there's a certain wishfulness and intentional blindness when making these promises and professing his out-of-this-world love. |
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| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song definitely has some strong societal implications, and the speaker is outside of the societal norm. It reminds me of a 1984 like society where a man talks in math--something very rigid and rule-bound, not a humanist study--and a girl with a hitler hairdo. The speaker finds himself at odds with society--"her hitler hairdo is making me feel ill" and comparing the man to a "detuned radio"--and the way he makes himself feel better about it and how abused he is, he appeals to the "Karma police" who will, eventually, he hopes, make everything right. He says "This is what you get when you mess with us" meaning, payback is around the corner. However, in the next stanza, which i see as a sort of empty future view, he says, "Karma police, I've given all I can... but we're still on the payroll" meaning things haven't changed and they're stuck in the same rut. Then he repeats the "this is what you get when you mess with us" as to which I'm confused, but maybe thats the society's backlash, saying to the speaker, this is what you get when you mess with US--it didn't work out as you planned. Or maybe its the speaker just repeating his previous assertion, but now in a tone of irony regardless, the song moves on to "For a minute there I lost myself," perhaps referring to his giving up for a moment, and he's back believing. Ultimately, this is a song about hope and then hopelessness, I think, and somehow whose on the outside of society, observing the shallow mindlessness, and taking on that mafioso personality armed with the knowledge that one day the karma police will set things right. Whether they will or won't, however, remains to be seen. |
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| Bright Eyes – Lover I Don't Have to Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is more about sexual depravity as it is related to drug and alcohol use. I think most of the lines are largely ironic and speak more to the underlying unhappiness both feel when looking for "lovers they don't have to love." Also, I think the girl, in this song, is indifferent to the point that it's depressing. He asks her name and bored, she asks for the time. She doesn't care how many other girls have been in her position before "You didn't care to know who may have been you before." Then, her tongue in his mouth functions to stop him from talking, making it virtually impossible for them to know one another on any level other than sexual. Also, the way they meet, he compliments her shoes and she immediately takes the conversation into sex, "Can I follow you," and as I stated earlier, undermines his attempts to get ot know her, (I asked your name you asked the time). Also, this song is littered with examples of their disorientation--they can't find her car, they're buying drugs they've never done before (I'll give it a try). Sex for them is an addiction that feeds into to their drug and alcohol habits. They're also, despite their insistance that they want lovers they dont have to love, understand they'll get hurt, and actually aim to get hurt, in the same way that substance abusers enjoy, on some level, the extreme pains and extreme highs, and the entire hungry life style that comes with it. Also, the girl, in the end, when she speaks to him, undermines his current convictions of love "but life's no storybook, love's an excuse to get hurt." On some level, either through himself learning from the girl, or the girl's sad outlook on life, this is about sexual looseness taking a very depressing and purposefully destructive form, mixed with drugs and alcohol and completely disorientation and disregard for their emotions and feelings. They are purposefully trying not to feel, but same way drugs sometimes make people not feel. Sorry that this is so poorly written and all over the place. |
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