| Courtney Love – Sunset Strip Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree with MissWorld77. I think it's definitely about how Courtney has everything, even pills to try to fix her when she's down about something, but nothing can. Also, the lyrics aren't wrong - there are two different versions of this song. I own both versions. One is 6 minutes long, she's singing double, her voice is a lot more grunge sounding, and she sings about 2 verses more. The 5:30 minute one is I believe from the edited version of America's Sweetheart and has different lyrics. |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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To me, this song is about the death of your significant other. It deeply reminds me of my sister and her depression when her boyfriend of 3 years died on her. "And I'd give up forever to touch you 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow" This relates to how the one who's still alive wishes that they could touch their deceased loved one, because they feel that their deceased other is still with them in some way. "You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be And I don't want to go home right now" The first line is talking about how the other is, since most people believe, in 'Heaven' or a place like heaven, and they know going home will only signify that they're really gone, making the pain worse, and that you're going home alone. "And all I can taste is this moment And all I can breathe is your life" Meaning all they can think about is their depression(All I can taste is this moment) and how they have to continue living on their life and breathe in their other's being to make them go on. "'Cause sooner or later it's over I just don't want to miss you tonight" The first line refers to 'And all I can breathe is your life' because sooner or later, it is over for everyone. 'I just don't want to miss you tonight' refers back to the 'I just don't want to go home', because when they go home, they're terribly lonely and miss their other not being with them. "And I don't want the world to see me 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am" The living one is depressed from the death, and wants to just disappear or die to be with their other, and thinks no one understands how it feels to go throw such loneliness. You feel like your life is broken when you lose that one, and while you wish you were dead, you wish someone could come up and pull you through and be with you eternally for support, like your lover was. "And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming Or the moment of truth in your lies" The living one is still in shock, or drained of any crying emotion and is so depressed that they just can't cry anymore. They feel like everyone is telling them lies about things to try to make you feel better, and the one moment of truth is that 'They're dead.. you have to move on, they aren't coming back.' "When everything feels like the movies And you bleed just to know you're alive" Moves are made of fictional ideas and concepts of drama/trauma.. It's like the phrase 'Pinch me I must be dreaming', the living is cutting themselves to let them know that they're still living, breathing, and alive, and that unlike the movies, everything is real. That's exactly how I think of this song.. it's a terribly depressing song to me, because either way, it's about a horrible event. |
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| Hole – Jennifer's Body Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sorry if some of that was confusing. I switched from her killing him to him killing her. Either way, I feel in the end one of the two was murdered, and the FBI is piecing together the parts of everything that happened between the two. | |
| Hole – Jennifer's Body Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've always gotten the meaning that this song is about an incestous family. It's talking about a brother and sister who somewhere in their life, their family was either killer or they were abandoned and along the way, the son goes insane over the girl and doesn't believe her to be his sister, or develops a lust for her. Some of it is from her point of view, and some from another, which I believe is an FBI investigation. " I know it, I can't feel it Well, I know it enough to believe it And I know it, I can't see it But I know it enough to believe it" Here, I get the feeling it's Jennifer talking about the anxiety built up in her. She can't feel her brother near her physically, but she's been abused so many times in the past that she mentally knows he'll be back to hurt her more. "It's bettering you, it's bettering me My better half has bitten me It's bettering you, it's bettering me Sleeping with my enemy Myself Myself" Here, she's torn. 'It's bettering you', it's making him better. At times, he seems normal to her (Which I will explain later) and like a brother. 'It's bettering me'. This sounds like a symptom of Stockholm Syndrome. She's been abused so much that she finds it's making her stronger, though she's actually weaking. The 'Sleeping with my enemy; myself' can be possibly two things. Her sane half, the moral half, knows it's wrong what he's doing but she can't break herself away from him, so her enemy is her insane half. I also find that vice versa. Her insane half finds the moral half an enemy because it's going towards what he's told her. "The pieces of Jennifer's body Found pieces of Jennifer's body Found pieces of Jennifer's body" Here is where it helps me believe she killed her brother. It's the FBI work looking all over for the evidence and what happened to this woman, and he's finding different things of her. She's lost her mentality. Finding it in a journal, finding it on photos, pictures, things like that. It's finding pieces of her that she's lost. "Just relax, just relax, just go to sleep Just relax, just relax, just go to sleep" This part, her brother is normal and cooing her to go to sleep, to relax, that whatever has happened that night is over with. "You're hungry, but I'm starving" She's describing his lust for her body. Basically saying that you're hungry for my body, I'm starving to get out of this. I take it that way, or that she's starving herself to either kill herself. "He cuts you down from the tree" He decides that he's tired of her, and decides to cut her from the tree - the family tree. "He keeps you in a box by the bed Alive, but just barely" These two lines have a lot of different meaning for me. One could be that by 'box', when you're insane, you're in a padded 'box' room. She's insane and he's keeping her that way. Another way that I see it is that he sees her as a pet, because pets sleep in boxes at time. 'Alive, but just barely' could mean he's resorted to starving her as well, which might refer back to the line 'You're hungry, but I'm starving', or that every other part of her has been killed by him, and she's only alive physically. "He said, "I'm your lover, I'm your friend I'm purity, hit me again" Stockholm Syndrome. She's tried going against him. He in turn brainwashes her and says "What are you doing? I'm your purity, your lover, your friend." The last part "Hit me again" is more of a taunt. He's basically putting the message that since he's purity, he won't hurt her if she hurts him. "With a bullet, number one, kill the family, save the son Himself Himself" All other family is dead but them. 'Kill the family' means killing her with a bullet, and saving himself from the police. "The pieces of Jennifer's body Found pieces of Jennifer's body Found pieces of Jennifer's body Just relax, just relax, just go to sleep Just relax, just relax, just go to sleep Now you're mine..." I have two theories about this verse. I believe that he shot her and she was wounded, but she didn't get up or he thought she was dead. He coos himself to sleep and she gets the gun, with the final words 'Now you're mine' and kills him. Another is that he tells her to go to sleep again and shoots her in her sleep, killing her. That's just my thoughts on the song. |
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