| The Breeders – Divine Hammer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh yeah. When I saw the title of the song for the first time I thought to myself, sarcastically, "Gee, I wonder what this song is about?" | |
| Semisonic – Never You Mind Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Very obviously a song about a man who feels psychologically trapped in this dysfunctional relationship. "Rolling along to the song that aggravates us Beckoned on by the mirage of an oasis" The only thing that keeps him in is this delusion that as bad as things are in this relationship, it will all get better. But it's obvious by his reference to a mirage that he's not totally sold on that idea and deep down, he knows he needs to get out. "I believe you know me well I react like you're rining a bell" An obvious reference to the 'Pavlov's Dog' experiments regarding conditioned response. In short: everytime researchers rang a bell, they fed a dog a treat. Pretty soon, everytime the bell rang, the dog would begin to salivate in response to the bell ringing. Just google "Pavlov's Dog" As it relates to the relationship in the song, she has our protagonist wrapped around her finger in a bad way. Conditioned to respond to her every whim. as for the reference to the classic Star Trek episode entitled "Spock's Brain": I'm going to take a stab at it. I believe that what is being suggested is that our protagonist is, with regard to the relationship, of two minds. He is BOTH McCoy AND Spock. On the one hand, he knows that this woman has stolen his mind/will and is merely using him (Spock) and his more rational part (McCoy) knows basically what he needs to do to get out of this bad relationship but he just doesn't know quite how to go about it. Thus he's having a lot of anxiety "Sweatin' and Strainin'" over what to do next. |
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