| Green Day – J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite songs, its just really beautiful and its a shame that many people are completely unaware of it. I recall being at a Green Day concert where they played it and the vast majority of the audience didn't seem to know it. Shame. Its quite obviously about the death of a friend. From what I recall, Mike's (and the whole band, really) friend Jason Andrew Relva 'drove off' one day, got into an auto accident and died. The song is an homage to his life and how one lives their life in general. Its really lovely with some great lines. My personal favorites are "If you could see inside my head/You would start to understand/The things I value in my heart" and the chorus. I always felt that the last line was meant to be a sort of 'fill in the blank' sort of thing. For whomever is listening. Although it could also been a message about how life is so short, you do the best with the life you have but it can suddenly be yanked away. But regardless, you keep living your life as you live it until that happens. |
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| Morrissey – The Father Who Must Be Killed Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Perhaps I'm mistaken, but given the snippet of lyrics: "And his might is his legal right To ground you down Stepchild, with every petty swipe You just might find you're fighting for your life" implies that the stepchild was abused that thus the murder of her stepfather would be a crime of passion as a result. I guess it's pretty straightforward in that respect. I think this song means more when you reflect on it based upon Morrissey's other songs. He's always been interested in the origin and causes of a killer, it seems, and this is just one more stone on that pile, but this dealing more with the reactionary sort of murder, rather than the pure malice of a serial killer. Other than that, I'd have to say that the stepchild has pretty much gone insane by the end of the song and that her decision to kill herself was not a really conscious decision. Rather, it seems more of a deal to end the pain. Sort of "I know there's nothing beyond here, but I can't live this life anymore.". As well as the fact that the girl seems to believe (or at least the narrators conveys that someone thinks it) that she's more of a mark of a failed marriage than a human being and that all people think of when they see her is how awful she is for having been a left over from a mistake her mother had made. Just my thoughts. I do really like this song |
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