| Radiohead – Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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What an overwhelmingly ethereal song. The first part is sone of the most delicate sounding,soft Radiohead I've heard. Then the second is the perhaps the most passionate, explosive Radiohead I've heard. The instruments, and thom's bursting voice in this one only make the lyrics stronger. The song generally goes along with the overarching OK Computer themes; isolation from and dissatisfaction with society, or society as we see it. I'm not sure I'd analyze the lyrics too in depth on this one, they really seem to be jumbled but impassioned, much like the song itself. Nevertheless, in the last stanza especially, there seems to be a bit of a lament towards the aesthetic, mass-produced, and generic goods that seem to match society itself (especially Plastic bag, middle class, polyethylene /Decaffeinate, unleaded, keep all surfaces clean"). |
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| Radiohead – There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is simply amazing. I think it's about our desire for passion, our need for validation and to feel loved, and how much our emotions can cause us to go astray. Obviously the sirens is a reference to the Odyssey, where the beautiful sounds always end up drawing in those who hear it, leading them straight into rocks and a painful death. This is clearly a metaphor for our personal lives. Our need to feel that something is "there" and to feel identity in the world is what often leads to our downfall, and that's where the line "we are accidents waiting to happen" line comes from. Or something like that. |
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| Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The lyrics of this song are probably the most powerfully hopeless and fatalistic I've ever read, and combined with the tone...it is so dark that it literally scares me sometimes. Listening to this song a few years ago, I saw Thom's comments on the song and was reading over the lyrics, and suddenly I had one of the profound moments of clearness where you realize that something *really is* true.And I mean it was like something clicked. I slammed my laptop shut and had to run into a different room and start playing video games to get my mind off things. This song's basic theme seems to suggest that the nature of our existence is tragic because we will just fade into the nothingness that we emerged from. The fact that each and every individual is going to die, but not only that, I think it goes even further in that we know that even human civilization as a whole, everything we've ever done as a whole, and all of the progress we've made. It's all done on a scale so small in the universe it's almost seems like it doesn't exist. And one day, each of us, along with our entire world and all that matters to us, will recede into an abyss of emptiness and non-existence. And when that actually hits you, words cannot describe the feeling.It doesn't matter if it's "cliche" or not, the subject matter in this song is relevant to every single living thing. Ultimately though, this song doesn't have to make you feel depressed. After further consideration, it's actually had a positive impact on my view of the universe and after-lie. Our very existence is something that really can't be defined, or explained, and in a way it's made me realize that And while that crushed me for awhile ans scarred me to death, of death, I think it's something everyone needs to deal with. The fact that we're all just a bunch of atoms and molecules, and that somehow they've all been aligned enough for us to become self-aware and for us to even regret the very nature of existence, is so divine in and of itself, that I don't think such a tragic viewpoint is necessary. |
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| Shpongle – Divine Moments Of Truth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree with what others have said. I just wanted to add that it the "do dee do" nonsense seems to at some points turn into pretty clear English "Do DMT, do LSD. I love them both equally." | |
| Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This may have been mentioned earlier but, I'll put in my ideas regardless. The way he mentions how "our hearts are just strings to be pulled" I think he might be talking about that idea that's there that humans are essentially biological computers. We think the way we do, we live the way we do because there is a certain order of proteins in our dna that makes us us. Free will is an illusion, ect. Another theme in there seems to be the nature, the tragedy of life in that everyone is gone like dirt one day, and gone forever forever. The idea that we are all limited in that we all have an expiration date, and when we reach in, we're gone forever and we never will be again. Shades of atheism to be totally ingrained in many of Modest Mouse's songs. |
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| Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yeah good song. I think I read a comment back there about them "selling out". Being successful is not selling out. A band can keep their original sound without going broke...look at Modest Mouse. | |
| Modest Mouse – Cowboy Dan Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. What makes MM lyrics great is the ability to give the lyrics a level of ambiguity without compromising any of the nuances and small beauties. | |
| Modest Mouse – Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| ^ I meant that the song as a whole, that change isn't in the lyrics. For the last few minutes of the song there are no lyrics, but the general tone seems to get more upbeat. | |
| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think the song is talking about how fucked up humans and the whole world has gotten, and it uses a miscarriage as a metaphor. There's a lot of ways to intemperate this song, but I think that it probably combines the religious concept with the idea of a dead baby. | |
| Modest Mouse – Float On Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Maybe this is just me, but I find this song to be sarcastically optimistic as in "well i fucked up, sometimes it's okay...but we're all gonna die soon anyways". That is what I pulled out of it. | |
| Modest Mouse – Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think most people have hit the nail on the head. To me it's about being a cynic and the realization if it, and the shitty feeling of it. It begins so downcast, yet towards the last third of the song it seems to me that it becomes more upbeat and optimistic. Almost like the admission of the problem is giving way for optimism for change. | |
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