| The Cure – Just Like Heaven Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I like all of your comments. I've been listening to the cure for 30 years (yes, I'm that old) and several of their songs are ambiguous. Music is in a sense meant to marry ambiguity. Sure it's about sex, and it's about love too, and an old girlfriend who drowned, whether literally or metaphorically doesn't really matter. What does matter is that the moment of ecstasy that encapsulates in this song immortalizes whoever she is forever, and whatever she meant to her forever, and that is really the only true love in this world, one that can no longer be changed by time, one that in a sense is frozen in time by memory. Almost like our idea of what heaven is, wouldn't you say? Robert Smith once said that it doesn't matter if people like the lyrics or the beat, but if they can find a way to dance to his music, any kind of dancing, then he knows he's done it right. Well, congratulations, for dancing, with words, thoughts, and anything. This has always been my favorite song of all time because it does make you sad, and it does make you happy, and how can you not sing to it? But it doesn't have to mean anything so concrete because the things it references like love and all that isn't concrete either, and neither is the ocean. The only thing that is concrete are the chords, the words, and the music, so enjoy. |
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| The Beautiful South – Let Love Speak Up Itself Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Isn't "to the world's greatest Mum" in reference to an old love who is now a Mum? It appears that, and I believe other men have felt this too, that once in a relationship, there is a great amount of distance that we put between ourselves and the other person, sort of as a security blanket. That security blanket shrinks every time we have to say intimacies like "I love you" out loud. So it's best to let them speak for themselves, like when we open the door. Sure, we're just opening the door for you, but in a way, it's us saying we love you at least this much, but don't blow it out of the water, because it's just opening a door too. Of course, after that, everything is about libido. Sure you're unhappy, but how is that our fault? After all, it's you that's insecure, not us. We are who we are, not who you imagines us to be, even if the two are closer than we think. And years later, it dawns on us that perhaps it wouldn't have been so hard to just give a little. Because the reward may have been insurmountable. Isn't that what most Beautiful South songs are really about? A soft regret about something that we could have prevented. Now, we're who we are and so what of it. |
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| The Beautiful South – Have Fun Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is what happens when two people start fucking. One wants to the stay, and the other just wants to stay inside. "Have fun" of course is referential in part to promiscuity but also to commitments, which if forced, are "not fun." But it is also about a deep honesty, which is lacking in society. The two definitely aren't compatible, and one person is trying to save the other a world of heart-break, much like the one he's already experienced. "Someone took my heart, and now I'm torn apart." Yet, with all that said, misery loves company, and as much as he hates relationships, he likes having her around. "The final match to the holder of this flickering flame." So in the end, it isn't even about love, and it isn't even about fun, but more about desperation, and the deep need for intimacy, which is easily confused for both fun and love. And besides, the guitar solo at the end is just so pretty. |
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| The Sundays – Wild Horses Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Actually, this song is originally a Rolling Stones song, and was released when Justin Timberlake was like 10 years old, so Kankurou, no offense, but you're an idiot. | |
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