| Billy Idol – White Wedding Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is not about any literal sister of Mr. Idol's. "Little sister" is just a term of endearment for a girlfriend or lover. Just as when you call someone your "baby" you don't mean to say they are really your infant child. It's just that you love them as much. | |
| Michael Franti And Spearhead – Red Beans & Rice Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Damn song makes me hungry! ;-) | |
| Deep Purple – Child In Time Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is from 1970. The Soviet-Afghan war started nine years later. Ian Gillan also did not yet have any children at that time. | |
| Ten Years After – Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
Can't sing that on radio no more... |
|
| Lou Reed – White Light/White Heat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Amphetamine. Nuff said. | |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Get Up, Stand Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Exactly. | |
| Bob Dylan – Girl from the North Country Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The "North Country Fair" is also a reference to the song that this was based on, Scarborough Fair. The medieval Scarborough Fair was, of course, held in Scarborough which lies on the coast of North Yorkshire. The yearly fair was as much a market as it was a festival, and it attracted people from all the British isles as well as from other parts of Europe. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Rip This Joint Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Rolling Stones are going to tour America again and in typical self confidence, are promising to "Rip This Joint". In other words, to put the place upside down. And so it happened of course. | |
| Jamiroquai – Canned Heat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The "canned heat" in this song is pent up anger, frustration, energy that must be released. Through dancing, obviously. | |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Get Up, Stand Up Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| F00D, please remember this is still Jamaican English, a bit polished up but essentially still a different dialect from your own. To "feel high" has several meanings like being without pain, or in a state of exaltation. "Look for yours on earth" is directly connected to "But if you know what life is worth". So yours = your life. On Earth, to be precise :) | |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Get Up, Stand Up Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
This song is certainly NOT about cannabis. The stuff is never mentioned anywhere in the lyrics. It's about religious hypocrisy. The lyricist holds the opinion that religion should bind people together, enable them to live in peace together. Instead, he observes, people argue about the "correct" way to believe ("isms") and end up separated instead of united in love of God ("schisms"). The song also tells people that they should not stay passively waiting for divine intervention if they want to better their lives. And they should not have to wait for the afterlife either. God is not going to "take away everything, and make everybody feel high" - take away all the pain and problems, provide bliss for each of us. God in the mind of this lyricist is "a living man" and he requires us to take action ourselves. We should not let ourselves be talked down to in church. No. "Stand up for your right!". We all know that Marley was a deeply religious person. But this song is refreshingly anti-religious if you ask me. I also like to think that Jesus would certainly approve of it. He had some problems of his own with religious authorities and dogma in his time. |
|
| U2 – The Wanderer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
"Yeah, I went out for the papers Told her I'd be back by noon " This is about someone so obsessed with his religion (probably psychotic/insane) that he leaves his wife to go on a search for Jesus. He had some delusion about being chosen for this, perhaps to be a prophet or something: "The word of God lay heavy on my heart I was sure I was the one " It's all in the past tense which suggests that perhaps this person is already recovering from his mental illness, realising what he has done and feeling sad/sorry about it (this is a recurring theme in Johnny Cash songs). |
|
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Redemption Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
"Have no fear for atomic energy 'Cause none of them can stop the time" I think it is not about nuclear weapons, as many have said here. Bob uses atomic (nuclear) energy only as an example, alluding to technology and industrialisation (and its inherent pollution and destruction of the environment) in general. But, he says, on a hopeful note, no matter what "they" do time will not be stopped. In other words: nature will prevail and after industrialisation has failed there will still be people around and they will perhaps return to a more natural way of life. After all, this is the Rastafarian ideal and ambition: to live a more or less natural life. |
|
| K's Choice – God In My Bed Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "God was in my bed last night" - come on people, like if that is not obvious. The singer informs us that she got laid the night before and is feeling mighty fine as a result, much better than before. | |
| K's Choice – Hide Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
First of all, no K's Choice song is ever very clear, and they are not meant to be. Sarah said herself: if you know what those lyrics mean, let me know. That said, I think this one is quite clearly about some sort of depression, hatred of self, keeping your loved ones at a distance. The singer informs us that her outward appearance may look bright and shiny, but there is seems to be pitch darkness on the inside. She believes that what she touches becomes contaminated, in other words, she can do no good and will drag others down with her self hatred - and is unable to stop this. She cannot stand anyone be happy around her (sting me with your laughter), probably because it reminds her of her own inability to be happy. The "Armageddon bride" thing is likely just lyrical exaggeration. Because it sounded cool and gloomy. But perhaps she does feel like she wants to blow up the world or something. Don't we all feel like that sometimes? |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.