| Klaxons – Two Receivers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| PrimalChaos - 'encrypted' implies that there's some plaintext that can be determined, if one can only find the right key. My 'feeling' was just what jumped out at me when i first listened to it. However, it has been suggested on this site that there's a source text (a science fiction novel called gravity's rainbow, though i may be mistaken on that one) which one can use to decode the lyrics, with a bit of intensive study. | |
| Klaxons – Totem On The Timeline Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think that it's referring to people *dressed* like Julius Caesar; Lady Diana or Mother Teresa. Or else, it has some deeper meaning that we haven't worked out yet. | |
| Klaxons – Two Receivers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Summary: A prophesy or prophesies comes to pass, so two recievers turn away and this causes someone/thing to wake up and roam the globe. Although I'm constantly tempted by the suggestion that Klaxons lyrics aren't meant to be understood (just odd clauses put together randomly), there is a certain feeling I get from this one. The feel is similar to the chaotic and sci-fi theme mentioned in other songs on the album. It sounds like a series of predicted events coming to pass: 'a troublesome troupe out on safari,' 'a gathering of teens in old sargasso*,' &c at which point two ancient satelites in orbit wake up to follow the arcane commands set in them by their creators. The final stanza seems somewhat musical: 'strings to your bow,' though it has a feeling of being a response to the recievers turning away. Or it coud just be nonsense-sentences stuck together. Other note: - link between krill and sargasso [recent studies indicate the sargasso sea to have far higher diversity of micro-organisms than was previously believed] *even though the sargasso sea isn't somewhere that you'd really expect anyone to be gathering |
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| Klaxons – Atlantis to Interzone Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yes, because exerything on wikipedia is true :p The reference to Natla is without citation, so I'd take that with a pinch of salt. |
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| Metric – The Police and the Private Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have to agree with gurly, except that I see it from the point of view of a Brit rather than an American. I definitely feel that this song is about the culture of suspicion that has arisen as a backlash following recent violence. 'Felt up and fingerprinted waiting for the train,' evokes the idea of totalitarian security and ID cards: being scanned and searched before boarding public transport. 'Keep one eye on the door, keep one eye on the bag / Never expect to be sure,' suggests our new, all-permeating fear of unattended packages and bags, and urge to run if we think they're bombs, combined with the knowledge that it's probably just another inconvenient false alarm, while 'Never expect to be sure / You're working for the police and the private' suggests 1984 (or modern Britain) -esque 'Please report any unattended packages or bags, or any suspicious behavior to station staff.' I know nothing about the possible drug implications, so I can't comment on that. However, the lyrics really resonate strongly with me about surveillance culture. Furthermore, considering other Metric songs like Succexxy, there's a precedent for this type of political message. |
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