| Paramore – Misery Business Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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... I'm not gonna lie, this song is catchy as hell and it's great to jam out to, but the lyrics are pretty awful. It perpetuates the female-against-female problem that girls have in unfaithful relationships. Basically, it was totally ok for the guy character in the song to be a douchebag and leave the singer ("he was mine" indicates that they were somehow involved) just cause some hot chick flirts with him or whatever, but she's a whore for it. Umm... double-standard much? tl;dr: this song is awesome if you don't actually listen to what she's saying. |
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| Patrick Wolf – Bluebells Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It says 'heroine' in the CD sleeve, so I'm guessing that's what was intended. | |
| The Stills – Halo the Harpoons Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I see this as a song to someone who has shut themselves off emotionally. When upset, the mind can do a lot of funny things, like quash passion and deaden emotion. I know it seems cliche to attribute this to depression, but when depressed negative thought loops can play over and over in someone's mind, causing them to 'turn themselves off' and give up on what made them happy. It could also apply to extreme worry or anxiety. The person in this song has a lot of weight on their shoulders--clearly, if the singer would have to deal with dinosaur hell and haloing harpoons to somehow keep their hopes up. It's actually very sweet if thought of in this way, because it's about the lengths that the singer would go to so that the person could escape their own worries and negativity. 'High fire waves Catch in your hair Lashing the womb Of emptiness where I’d firewalk The cracked spine stairway' This is what makes me think it's about a mental shut-down. The mind ought to be a lively place that gives birth to many ideas and passions, but here the person's mind is called empty. In my interpretation, it's empty of former hope and joy because of detrimental thoughts (due to depression, worry, whatever). Plus, imagining the spine as a cracked stairway to the mind is just awesome imagery. The line 'Sign off the world / wildfires burn / in hopes' might be a call to this person to forget their troubles and let their inner fire (or whatever things they were passionate about before this shut-down) burn wildly in hopes of finding a way out of the low-point that they're experiencing. For the last line: if a shark stops swimming, it immediately sinks. Maybe it's a way of saying that doing nothing but thinking (or getting lost in thoughts, namely negative ones) is ultimately detrimental. Of course, I could be totally wrong :). It's an incredibly beautiful song, though, regardless of any meaning at all. |
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