| Eels – Susan's House Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Hmmm. Where on earth do the lyrics give the impression that a)he's an arsonist, murderer and rapist and b) that he intends to rape and murder the girl (Susan)? To me it seems a tad extreme when there's no real evidence to make that interpretation. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Today Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Erm I think the lyrics that are posted above are for a John Denver song?!! Correct lyrics please! |
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| White Lies – Unfinished Business Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've only just recently come across this song and I can't stop listening to it, I find it so haunting. Just to add my two pence's worth I think that at first he doesn't realise that he's dead. He knows he's been hurt by her with the scissors and the blood on her hands etc. but the line "I looked in the mirror But something was wrong. I saw you behind but my reflection was gone" seems to imply that his being dead was not an immediate realisation. That or he can't accept that he's dead but I think it's more the former from the lyrics Either way Miss Moto is spot on with the explanation she shared and this is an awesome song. |
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| Portishead – Glory Box Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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One of the earliest times i heard this song was on the soundtrack to Stealing Beauty. That film was a about a girl who decides to lose her virginity to this boy she knew when she was younger and on holiday in Italy. That, and for other personal reasons, really affected the way I viewed this song. So I see it as a girl who is on the cusp of womanhood and losing her virginity and putting her heart out there too is the final step to achieving this. The "bow and arrow", to me, is a metaphor for childhood, and she wants to move on from the other girls, to become a woman. But it has to be special, the man she finally loses it to must give her a reason for her to allow this last step. She wants the man to see it from the female point of view and to be tender and that it won't matter if there are tears. (I always thought she meant herself at this point.) The line give my hide away to me had the double meaning of her stoping from hiding anymore in childhood and also to give her body away to someone for that first time. I really love the commitment interpretation though. Like a flipside in a way. It's just the losing virginity thing has always been the way I'd seen it. I blame the film! |
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| Foo Fighters – DOA Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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just about the lyric: OKH is right as far as I believe: the lyric is "Dancing with the bones of my buried past". A) It makes more sense as bones are buried, and not thorns, and B) it's what Dave Grohl sings! Interesting point about murder too. |
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