| Daughter – Landfill Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think the song's about a volatile relationship; they've broken up & gotten back together many times and hurt each other in the process. every stanza where she pleads with him to walk away, represents a break up, but they can't keep away from each other; they're drawn to each other. so then the stanzas where shes singing about how much electricity there is, represents them getting back together and ultimately hurting each other gain and the cycle (stanzas) repeats. a landfill covers up things that are toxic (the relationship). she's pleading for her significant other to bury her, tie her down, push her out to sea and never look back. and even in these pleas, shes begging for him to hurt her enough to where she can't go back to him. its about stopping the cycle of hurt/pain she has w/ this person and moving on. but she can't do it without help, ironically, from the same person. she also says sarcastically she thought he didnt have emotions... i think this signifies that he is insensitive and maybe how he hurts her in relationship. but she sees tears while they are breaking up...shes acknowledging that even though he hurts her, he loves her too. this is also evident by the fact that she feels the need to tell him not to come back for her after he does all these things to her, but the relationship is so toxic, that she wants him to not care. another interpretation is i think the whole song is sarcastic when she tells the guy to bury her, tie her down, throw her in a pit/altar and not care, know what he escaped, dont look back etc. then i think shes almost masochistic in this relationship. he doesnt treat her well. has left her out to dry so many times, doesnt seem to care about hurting her, but she keeps going back to him... its a toxic, cyclical abusive relationship and its about trying to get out of it, but drawn back into it again and again. it could be analogous to battered womens syndrome. |
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| Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Cream – Sunshine Of Your Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song focuses in on a seemingly trivial moment, but waking up to one you love, in the morning, when all seems perfect, before the day starts and reality happens, is a moment that the writer wants in slow motion and can be revisited again and again throught this song. He's been waiting so long to be with this women, its an epiphany of true love. Further, this song can be related to Milton's Paradise Lost in the scene where Adam wakes to Eve and watches her sleeping peacefully. Its a celebration of love between a man and a women in its purest form. And a celebration of women and their beauty, holding men captive at times. This song was influenced by Jimi Hendrix in the opening melody and is said to have begun the whole hard rock era with bands like Led Zeppelin and glam bands of the 80's. Clapton uses the wah-wah pedal and produces a gritty sound in his interpretation of a classic blues scale. |
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| Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Stanza 1 - Dylan plays with pronouns. He wants this song to be more than just about him and a relationship, but more about the human relationship and a feeling of detachment with the world. The world around him hits him hard with a reality he doesn't want to face, not playing into his ideal. He feels trapped by things around him, Louise, the music, the room, sounds, etc. and he's looking out the windown into the endless night (infinity) wondering what more it has to offer. He contrasts what he wants with what he has, and it leaves him unsatisfied, disconnected, and living inside his head... an ode to the act of writing a song (where he has control of reality). Stanza 2 - The image moves outside of his prison to the street, where he sees the universality of what he is talking about. He introduces more empty images of love with the all-night girls and men who can't see and talking of insanity, which is a literal disconnect from reality. He talks of emptiness in the discussion of the mirror and himself reflecting in her, and the ghost of electricity shows further emptiness in Louise and his feelings for her. His mind takes him out of reality towards Johanna. Stanza 3- This is a stanza that all men can relate to. Men feel vulnerable with women and getting hurt, longing for a past lovve. The effect of this vulnerability is a recess into indealist images, to keep from feelnign sadness Stanza 4- The museum is all of his experiences and accomplishments. And Dylan shows how an infinity of good times and accomplishments can be tainted and devalued by loss of love. Love is blind and can be the source of obsession and a tunnel vision, where someone can forget everything else that matters. Stanza 5 - It speaks of deceiving people, those who try to get everything they can from someone with a facade of kindness. Nothing is really as it seems. Dylan calls for Madonna to come and save the world, but she doesn't come. He chooses to return to his idealist vision of the one he loves, obsessively, forgetting about all the trivial things around him. This song is about longing for an ideal, escaping the triviality of the world, looking for more in the abyss of the future and the past, rather than focusing on the present, because it is disappointing. |
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| Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Stanza 1 - Dylan plays with pronouns. He wants this song to be more than just about him and a relationship, but more about the human relationship and a feeling of detachment with the world. The world around him hits him hard with a reality he doesn't want to face, not playing into his ideal. He feels trapped by things around him, Louise, the music, the room, sounds, etc. and he's looking out the windown into the endless night (infinity) wondering what more it has to offer. He contrasts what he wants with what he has, and it leaves him unsatisfied, disconnected, and living inside his head... an ode to the act of writing a song (where he has control of reality). Stanza 2 - The image moves outside of his prison to the street, where he sees the universality of what he is talking about. He introduces more empty images of love with the all-night girls and men who can't see and talking of insanity, which is a literal disconnect from reality. He talks of emptiness in the discussion of the mirror and himself reflecting in her, and the ghost of electricity shows further emptiness in Louise and his feelings for her. His mind takes him out of reality towards Johanna. Stanza 3- This is a stanza that all men can relate to. Men feel vulnerable with women and getting hurt, longing for a past lovve. The effect of this vulnerability is a recess into indealist images, to keep from feelnign sadness Stanza 4- The museum is all of his experiences and accomplishments. And Dylan shows how an infinity of good times and accomplishments can be tainted and devalued by loss of love. Love is blind and can be the source of obsession and a tunnel vision, where someone can forget everything else that matters. Stanza 5 - It speaks of deceiving people, those who try to get everything they can from someone with a facade of kindness. Nothing is really as it seems. Dylan calls for Madonna to come and save the world, but she doesn't come. He chooses to return to his idealist vision of the one he loves, obsessively, forgetting about all the trivial things around him. This song is about longing for an ideal, escaping the triviality of the world, looking for more in the abyss of the future and the past, rather than focusing on the present, because it is disappointing. |
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