| Andrew Bird – Heretics Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| AT his most recent show Mr. Bird was sportign a doll someone had sewed for him in Toronto, but I would assume he got it after this song was written, still perhaps it is a sign he likes sewn dolls? | |
| Andrew Bird – Plasticities Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| damn thing ate my analysis... | |
| Andrew Bird – Plasticities Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My thoughts, plus what I am pretty sure are the correct lyrics. This isn't your song, this isn't your music. How can there be wrong, when by comittee they choose it all (they choose it all). You're gonna grow old, you're going to grow cold bearing signs on the avenues, for your own personal waterloo. You're bearing signs on the avenue, for your own personal waterloo. Now, We'll fight (we'll fight) for your musicals and dying cities. They'll fight (they'll fight) for your neural walls and plasticites. And precious territory And precious territory And precious territory This isn't our song, this isn't even a musical. Think life is too long, to be a whale in a cubicle, (nails under your cuticle). Gonna grow old, you're gonna grow so cold. Before the sun can deliver you, you're bearing signs on the avenue, you're bearing signs for your own personal waterloo. We'll fight (We'll fight) for your music halls and dying cities. They'll fight (They'll fight) for your neural walls and plasticites. And precious territory And precious territory And precious territory |
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| Bad Religion – Don't Pray on Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well the start of the song is obviously about the LA riots of 1992. A grizzly scene on TV pertaining to human rights, leading to a riot, which didn't really effect all the rich gatd communities at all (A lot of Korean shop owners got robbed, yay social justice...) The the great line about western and specifically IUS society in general where we are all so "free and equal", but you know the freedom to vote is kind fo a sick joke for someone who is having trouble surviving...particually when there are people who have more of everything than they can ever need living 3 miles away (as it is in LA). The riots fit into the song well as they were all about preying on people, the rich preying on the poor, the rioters preying on innocents, the police preying on citizens (whether or not it is deserved is an interesting issue, there really IS a lot more crime in those neighborhoods). The second verse is a great little ditty outlining vaious people f*****g or "preying on" various other people. Someone already laid out the references. This finishes up with the clear statement about the excuses people give themselves and thier motives fo such behavior, and points out that most of us "prey on" others. Then a kind of silly wish to not be preyed on oneself, which is kind of cute. The last verse is great, summarizing the very serious problem of evil for people who belief in all-powerful all-good dieties. And includes a little bit of Hume's observation on miracles (that they only ever seem to happen long ago or far away). Appearantly god likes to be obscure, or maybe he is just a sick f*** (jk its such a rediculously primitive form of supersticion, I can hardly believe people take it seriously. Insitutional inertia sure is strong, and childhood indoctrination effective...) Yes the playing on the two different meanings of the homophone is great. Partiulalr since it often feels like religious people do "pra(e)y on" people. Fantastic song, good energy too. |
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| Bad Religion – I Want Something More Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well its short enough to go line by line: 1 We pile up a lot of crap, both actual trash and general stupid material things we don't need. 2 The silliness of trying to own things hen we are all going to lose it in the end. 3 The sickness of our accquisitive culture 4 I am not sure if this is refering to the elites decieving and deriding their our poor, or the RotW, probably both. 5 Clearly there is something more to life than providing material comfort for yourself, depite how society might try to convince you otherwise. (An interesting tension here as many "normal" people Bad Religion criticizes would say that religion fullfills this "something more" for them. OF course I would agree with BR that they are a bunch often a bunch fo hypocrites who don't even take their own beliefs seriously, and use them as a front to paper over their sense fo the ethical hollowness of their lives). 6 Repeat of line one's content, but also emphasizing the shortness of life. 7 Refers to the cynicism and jaded outlook the modern world imparts 8 The reasons for adpoting this way of life don't apply anymore, yet institutional inertia is very strong. 9-end Rather than blindly continuing on our course and hoping things don't get too fucked up, we could just try to find some other way to organize life. |
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| Bad Religion – Progress Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well many BR, songs have a pretty clear theme, and this is obviously one of them. The starts out making the good point that despite the "advance" and "growth" in our material and social well being in modern society (which is very real), our culture is still NOT systematically thought out or optimized (not that it necessarily could be). Yet THERE ARE clearly simple things which could be changed for the better which are justignored under the aegis of "progress". The second line is obviously a reference to our modern growth economy being such an edemic part of our society, and an artifact from the more primitive outlook of the past when the world was less full. Then of course the tie in with patriotism, which is brilliant, as socialliogically speaking one fo the main thigns driving the global obsession with growth and progress is the little nations the elites grouped themselves into. Their power is threaten unless their little feifdom progresses. Then the song traistions to talking about the future, and how "progress" is not necessarily leading to human flourishing, and how in fact it may be detrimental in some ways. The dearth of new ideas refers to our sad lack of imagination when it comes to thinking of an alernate scheme to run the world economy with. Then a little warning about reflecting on the metaphysical tenuousness/irrelevence of life on earth, before you get so wrapped up in these ideas about progress. Finally, the end is just stresing how progress has two aspects, positive and negative, and how there are so many people now that we are of necessity leaving many behind. I also love the way the instrumentation starts out mellow. |
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