| Porcupine Tree – Idiot Prayer Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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No, not bad trip, good trip. Read again. I'm having the most PERFECT hallucination. Green and blue patterns are forming all over me like a deck of cards; Ahhh I have a feeling this is what (almost?) PARADISE must be like. I don't think I'll ever be the same again. Sounds like he's having fun to me. Peace, Snoogie |
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| Porcupine Tree – The Blind House Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Sounds like it could be about a convent...or nuns, being locked in, losing faith etc. Only SW could come up with this. What a great album! | |
| Porcupine Tree – Shesmovedon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Anyone know why this song is always spelled as one word? Some hidden meaning? Perhaps her name is "Movedon". As in "Hey that's a nice girl, what's her name? She's Movedon | |
| Porcupine Tree – Trains Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| And I don't mean to imply that SW is gay (not that there's anything wrong with that), but maybe the 60 ton angel falling is a metaphor for his first orgasm while having S&M sex. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Trains Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it's pretty simple...it's about summer love and the trains/railroad are just a background. I also have very fond memories of spending the summer with a friend of mine and hanging around the railroad tracks in the small town where we lived. I also remember a summer love or two and the pain of knowing you wouldn't see her again, and summer was almost over. PT/SW has many songs about childhood (Lightbulb Sun for example). I'm pretty sure the song is about staying with a boy cousin and having a summer romance with a girl who lived nearby. But what about this...Maybe the person he was kissing was his cousin...and the cousin was a boy, and the tying up part was about him having kinky gay sex with the cousin.....hhhmmmm?? (not that there's anything wrong with that). |
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| Porcupine Tree – In Formaldehyde Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Don't know about euthanasia, but it's certainly about a person who knows he's going to die..tying up loose ends, she gets the car, he gets a jar. People walking through his insides (an autopsy?) The only reference I don't get is about Fatherhood. Maybe it's just an aside that he's also a dad. What about the microdot? It just seems so incongruent as everything else in the song seems to be about an average person who perhaps has a terminal illness. An average responsible guy, who is making arrangements for when he's gone, he lives in a normal home, drinks coffee but also trips on acid. Any ideas? BTW I really like the discussions PT fans have on this site. Some interpretations are off the wall, but they make you think and represent some original ideas. The PT fans are a good reflection of the band. |
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| Porcupine Tree – The Sound Of Muzak Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| In the U.S. crap is king. Look at all the stuff we send overseas that represents us...McDonalds, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Baywatch,. AND RAP MUSIC IS THE WORST!!! This is the best we have to give? The world thinks this junk is what we're all about. It's embarassing. Music especially...SW nails it. there's great music out there, it just doesn't get promoted. How many times do I have to hear Hotel California on the radio. Geeze, they ran that song in the ground when I was in high school in the 70's...Yup, America loves crap! Actually I don't have to listen to crap any more...I have an iPod full of PT and other great music, and I have Sirius and XM for additional variety. From time to time I've overheard what;s playing on the radio and it's still the same. I thought regular radio would get it by now due to competition from satellite and iPods...but they haven't! It's still the same worn out songs interspersed with jibber jabber, ads, and contests. Oh well, back to my little world of PT and other great musicians. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Lightbulb Sun Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Falcoh, I don't think it's the hospital, as it's his mother that's taking care of him, no reference to a nurse or doctor. Also the kids coming to visit (kids can't visit the hospital w/o an adult) and the sound of children playing outside. I don't think many kids gather to play outside a hospital. Drug refs...yeah a little to the meds that make him sleepy, but not how many songs PT does that reference childhood...many, many, many... | |
| Porcupine Tree – Lightbulb Sun Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Falcoh, I don't think it's the hospital, as it's his mother that's taking care of him, no reference to a nurse or doctor. Also the kids coming to visit (kids can't visit the hospital w/o an adult) and the sound of children playing outside. I don't think many kids gather to play outside a hospital. Drug refs...yeah a little to the meds that make him sleepy, but not how many songs PT does that reference childhood...many, many, many... | |
| Porcupine Tree – Pure Narcotic Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Coyote, good point. There are several PT songs that reference other PT songs. I've been meaning to compile a comparison but got side tracked. I'll get them here shortly. | |
| KC & The Sunshine Band – Shake Your Booty Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Deep meaning Uh, okay... Shake, shake, shake - shake, shake, shake (Note, only six shake, shakes) Not five, not seven ooh ooh huh (sounds simple, but is really deeply complex) Shake, shake, shake, shake ooh ooh huh |
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| Porcupine Tree – A Smart Kid Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I like the ideas everyone presents on all the PT song meanings on this sight. Some ideas and interpretations are far fetched or super overly analyzed but I respect each one and find the ideas interesting. Like the band, it's fans here seem mature, thoughtful and think abstractly. No flaming, immature spats, name calling...just good ideas and thoughts. SW would be proud that you all are using your minds and exchanging ideas without slamming each other over differences of opinion. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Stranger By The Minute Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Infinity, I've reread the lyrics a number of times and still stick with the LSD trip...but you may have a point. It depends on the tense (past. present, future) and immediacy of the lyrics. For instance, he's getting stranger by the minute now...the strangeness is increasing at this moment like acid kicking in and he's laughing at silly stuff in the park. If you're retarded you don't get a moment when you suddenly start getting more retarded (or maybe you do, who knows) When he goes to light a smoke he thinks how weird it would be if he were trying to smoke underwater. These thoughts are like ones had during the few times I tripped as a teen. Someone once threw a big party in a rock quarry one night and the huge peaks of mounds of gravel off into the distance looked to me like the little notches on castle turrets where the guys can shoot arrows from. I swear it looked like knights in armor were standing up there waving to me...really cool and funny. But your point about mental illness is valid. He's seeing imaginary people, one of which actually rescues him (from his mental state, and perhaps prevents his suicide for instance), he's apparently hearing voices, the imaginary person rescuing him from drowning (I've heard depression is like drowning). Good points you made. But you kind of ruined if for me as everytime I heard the song Iimagined about the LSD thing. Now I'll be confused think of the mental illness angle. |
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| Poptart Monkeys – Hooked Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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| Porcupine Tree – Stranger By The Minute Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's about an LSD trip. Have you listened to Voyage 34? The whole CD is about his 34th acid trip. A number of their longs reference drug/LDS use. If you've ever tripped it makes sense. The strange, sometimes silly incongruent thoughts you get while tripping (trying to fly a kite from under a floorboard, lighting a cigarette underwater). I'm getting stranger by the minute refers to him just having taken acid and the strange things (feelings) he has as it kicks in. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Buying New Soul Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I still wave at the dots on the shore...It sounded to me like he was singing "I still wave at the DUCKS on the shore" | |
| Porcupine Tree – Gravity Eyelids Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think you're reading too much into it. I think it's simply a song about that dreamy state of sleep just before you're out completely. | |
| Porcupine Tree – .3 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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.3, or World War v3.0. Steve Wilson is the master of clever, subtle meaning, it's what intrigues me so much about PT. Is there something subliminal or subsonic in their music? I can't listen to anything else, and I never tire of them. All other music just seems irrelevant. Maybe some govt conspiracy? Snoogie |
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