| Depeche Mode – Stripped Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It means, "Let me see who you really are." Let me see you stripped of your false identity, the one you wear around yourself like a mask, adopting others' ideas (from T.V., the media). Let me see you stripped to the bone, let me see you stripped of your fakeness, let me see you naturally as you are. That's what it means to me. :) |
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| Arcade Fire – Black Wave/Bad Vibrations Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is about change: changing yourself. "Run away from the memories" and forget who you used to be. "Nothing lasts forever, that's the way it’s got to be," and now is the time to change. "There's a great black wave in the middle of the sea" could be referring to some kind of mental barrier ("run away from the memories"). Or, for that part: "We can reach the sea... / We'll make it if we run... / There's a great black wave in the middle of the sea" could be referring to obstacles met while trying to escape. "[On the waves of oblivion]" could point towards the interpretation of "forgetting who we used to be." "Stop now before it's too late / Been eating in the ghetto on a hundred dollar plate" might mean: "We can stop now, stop this erasing of our former selves, but soon it will be too late to do that: we'll be someone new; maybe this change isn't so good after all." That former part could be the "great black wave". Nothing is ever going to last: so many things are changing; we ourselves are changing, too. Always changing, ever changing like the great seas... |
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| Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Eh, this could mean a million different things, as most songs could, and I can really only write what it means to me, personally. "My body is a cage / but my mind holds the key." I feel this way a lot. In my head, I feel this inner desire to change the world, this whole plan for how I'm going to make things right. "My mind holds the key": those radical revolutionary ideas about how I'm going to change the world one day, but alas! for "my body is a cage": I was born into a lifestyle that can't allow me to incorporate those ideas in a way that really means something. The bulk of this, the bits about stages and dancing, to me aren't taken literally but more of metaphorically: "That keeps me from dancing with the one I love... /I'm standing on the stage /Of fear and self-doubt /It's a hollow play /But they'll clap anyway." To me, "dancing with the one I love" is more of a "living the life I want", and the whole bit about "standing on the stage / of fear and self-doubt", perhaps, is that self-doubt that prevents this cage of a body from doing what it wants, from making a difference. "It's a hollow play / but they'll clap anyway" could then be translated into "It's a hollow life, a life un-lived, but I'll go on with it to make others happy/pretend I'm happy with the way thing are." The lines: "I'm living in an age / That calls darkness light / Though my language is dead / Still the shapes fill my head," to me are also that inside-revolutionary: "I'm living in a world where corruption is happily tolerated; I don't believe I have the words to express how I feel/I can't change what's wrong, but in my mind I still know how I want things to be." The next part is basically the same thing to me: "I'm living in an age / Whose name I don't know / Though the fear keeps me moving / Still my heart beats so slow." That is just another "Why am I living here in this corrupted place?" It could be: "I'm scared to change the world", or "Fear of what's going to happen if I don't change the world keeps the ideas spurring, but I still can't do anything about it: 'my body is a cage." "We take what we're given / Just because you've forgotten, that don't mean you're forgiven." We're all born into families in varying places in society. Sometimes I feel I was born into a position that hinders me from being who I want, doing what I want," and in my case, "changing what I want, but just because it seems hopeless doesn't mean you can give up: you're not forgiven if you just shrug and say, 'Oh well, I can't try." The fear part plays a role here: "Though the fear keeps me moving / still my heart beats slow": yeah, you're scared, but at least try. "I'm living in an age / Still turning in the night / But when I get to the doorway / There's no one in sight." Sometimes you're alone, but some things you've got to realize you have to do by yourself. Ahh, and then self-discovery: "I'm living in an age / Realizing I'm dancing / With the one I love / But my mind holds the key." Maybe I've been able to be who I want to be all along; maybe I've always been able to change the world: oh, and here I go! Dancing with the ideas that once tormented me in my caged body, I've finally broken free! "Set my spirit free." Eh, these are personal meanings, what I derived from the song. |
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