| Beck – Chemtrails Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| To me this is one of Beck's most morose songs, but beautiful and riveting noetheless. I don't think his songs are usually spiritual, but I felt some religious undertones from this one. It's a bit like he and someone else are watching the world fall into sin, despair, and all that with "You and me watching the sea full of people / Already drowned." Then it gets a little apocalyptic with "Where do they go?" (heaven or hell?). "You and me hit by a cloud / like an eagle" could reference Christ (or the antichrist, who knows?) coming down in a cloud of glory to judge the quick and the dead. Beck apparently is going to heaven by climbing a hole in the sky. | |
| Beck – Movie Theme Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song may be my least favorite off of the new album. A little too drawn out it seems. The theme of the song is major depression based on the lyrics and tone of the music. The speaker in the song has lost his purpose and direction in life. The use of the words "looking" and/or "searching" in nearly every stanza shows this loss of direction. In the first two stanzas, he experiments with drugs to soothe his pains to let his "bones melt away". But, the drugs didn't work for him because he gets "stranded" and his heart becomes like a "hand grenade". In the next four stanzas, the speaker continues his wandering for various things to give him satisfaction or to "carry his senses away." Despite the fact he's got wages to buy himself "anything he needs", he wants to be "washed away (suicide?/major life change)". In the 7th stanza, he faces the belief that he has lost himself completely, so "nobody's there" in his head. The speaker might experience the most pain in the last stanza. There's a voice calling for him that needs him, but the speaker has placed himself so far away from the rest of the world within his own misery. If he does kill himself, the speaker will have to deal with the fact that there was someone that needed him to live, but he failed that person to end his own suffering. I think it's possible this is another tribute song to Elliott Smith. It could be Beck's attempt to sympathize with the mindset that Smith must have had to live with in his final days. |
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| Beck – Movie Theme Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song may be my least favorite off of the new album. A little too drawn out it seems. The theme of the song is major depression based on the lyrics and tone of the music. The speaker in the song has lost his purpose and direction in life. The use of the words "looking" and/or "searching" in nearly every stanza shows this loss of direction. In the first two stanzas, he experiments with drugs to soothe his pains to let his "bones melt away". But, the drugs didn't work for him because he gets "stranded" and his heart becomes like a "hand grenade". In the next four stanzas, the speaker continues his wandering for various things to give him satisfaction or to "carry his senses away." Despite the fact he's got wages to buy himself "anything he needs", he wants to be "washed away (suicide?/major life change)". In the 7th stanza, he faces the belief that he has lost himself completely, so "nobody's there" in his head. The speaker might experience the most pain in the last stanza. There's a voice calling for him that needs him, but the speaker has placed himself so far away from the rest of the world within his own misery. If he does kill himself, the speaker will have to deal with the fact that there was someone that needed him to live, but he failed that person to end his own suffering. I think it's possible this is another tribute song to Elliott Smith. It could be Beck's attempt to sympathize with the mindset that Smith must have had to live with in his final days. |
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| Beck – Dark Star Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song seems to me to be mainly a very dim forecast for the future. These lines: "The enemies' story is a lot like mine /And if you get to the point then you know better than I", "widow's tears on soldiers' bones" and the descriptions of general desolation throughout the song tell me that this future was he victim of some sort of human-designed blight, maybe nuclear war. The "enemy's story being a lot like mine" speaks of a period of international tension, suspicion and paranoia that led to this destruction. "egos, delirium, and arrows of american eagles" indicates the war was begun by the US. It seems like there were a few human survivors of the disaster, but the world seems to be run mostly by machines :"autopilot drivers, ammunition souls (antiaircraft weaponry?), robot teachers", etc. Also, the nuclear war caused the sky of this future world to be polluted beyond repair by the "carbon monoxide cremations (ashes from disintegrated people/plants animals) and other fallout. This pollution has caused the "ice age". "Dark star, just an eye that is closing Sees through the shards from a scar that's open" I think the dark star is the sun trying to shine through the skies darkened by the "shards" of the incinerated buildings, trees, etc., that cloud the sky. The sun being an "eye that is closing" may be symbolic of a higher power (God?) that had been previously watching over humanity, yet has given up on them because of the destruction they caused themselves and others by their hostility and lack of trust. Well, that's my guess at the meaning. It's a really depressing song now that I soent time to analyze its meaning... |
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| Beck – Dark Star Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song seems to me to be mainly a very dim forecast for the future. These lines: "The enemies' story is a lot like mine /And if you get to the point then you know better than I", "widow's tears on soldiers' bones" and the descriptions of general desolation throughout the song tell me that this future was he victim of some sort of human-designed blight, maybe nuclear war. The "enemy's story being a lot like mine" speaks of a period of international tension, suspicion and paranoia that led to this destruction. "egos, delirium, and arrows of american eagles" indicates the war was begun by the US. It seems like there were a few human survivors of the disaster, but the world seems to be run mostly by machines :"autopilot drivers, ammunition souls (antiaircraft weaponry?), robot teachers", etc. Also, the nuclear war caused the sky of this future world to be polluted beyond repair by the "carbon monoxide cremations (ashes from disintegrated people/plants animals) and other fallout. This pollution has caused the "ice age". "Dark star, just an eye that is closing Sees through the shards from a scar that's open" I think the dark star is the sun trying to shine through the skies darkened by the "shards" of the incinerated buildings, trees, etc., that cloud the sky. The sun being an "eye that is closing" may be symbolic of a higher power (God?) that had been previously watching over humanity, yet has given up on them because of the destruction they caused themselves and others by their hostility and lack of trust. Well, that's my guess at the meaning. It's a really depressing song now that I soent time to analyze its meaning... |
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| Beck – Cell Phone's Dead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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is it just me, or does what these lyrics have as "solar suspected" sound like "soul disaffected"? that would make more sense in the context of the song. i absolutely love the stanza that starts with "mr. microphone making all the damage felt..." basically it's saying, we are all running but have no clue what to run towards, so we are making no progress. because of that, beck then suggests we give it all up and have a party, or simple enjoy our time with others rather than waste it on work. |
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| Beck – Qué Onda Guero Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"dirty boracho says 'qué putas? andelay joto your popsicles melting'" i found this line really funny, because it's a lot dirtier than most of beck's songs. the spanish translates as "what, bi****s? hurry up, (gay), your popsicle's melting." of course the popsicle's a phallic symbol. i'm not quite sure what it's got to do with the song, but it provides a nice antithesis for the 'little grandmas' in churches. maybe it's just another facet of life in this neighborhood that beck is describing in the song? |
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| Beck – Farewell Ride Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| another set of details i think adds to the meaning of the song is included in "I don't see the face of / kindness I don't hear the /mission bells I don't smell / the morning roses". these indicate the speaker is using the drugs as a means of escaping the misery that life brings him and the fact that he fails to appreciate the beautiful features of the world, such as friendly faces and roses. also, the reference to mission bells shows that he has given up on religion too. | |
| Beck – Farewell Ride Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| another set of details i think adds to the meaning of the song is included in "I don't see the face of / kindness I don't hear the /mission bells I don't smell / the morning roses". these indicate the speaker is using the drugs as a means of escaping the misery that life brings him and the fact that he fails to appreciate the beautiful features of the world, such as friendly faces and roses. also, the reference to mission bells shows that he has given up on religion too. | |
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