| Radiohead – Videotape Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Nah you're wrong. It's suicide | |
| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't know if this has been mentioned (12 pages, etc) but I always thought this was about global warming. The imagery of an 'ice age' and 'bunkers' tend to suggest something apocalyptic to me. Lines like 'I'll laugh until my head comes off', 'take the money and run' and the 'mobiles chirping' all seem like it's saying that people just ignore everything that's happening in terms of the environment and the world around them, simply ignoring what really matters in favour of the material. Same goes for this: We're not scaremongering This is really happening Because obviously, a lot of people are still very sceptical of global warming as a reality. Or, if they do know, they prefer to just ignore it like it doesn't exist, when it truth it could end up being entirely destructive to our planet. |
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| Arcade Fire – Ready to Start Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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For the most part, I think this song is dealing with peer pressure and moving away from it. It's about leaving your old friends behind because you don't want to be stuck in the same town and potentially in the same job - 'businessmen drink my blood' The 'All the kids have always known' section seems to be commenting on how everyone follows by the example of one particular person and don't become independent in their personalities. Obviously Win or whoever doesn't want to be just another sheep - 'Now I'm ready to start' |
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| Sonic Youth – Shadow Of A Doubt Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| To me, this song is just about seeing someone desirable in an everyday situation (like taking a train) and having this overwhelming and random lust for them. Seems to me that Kim is dramatizing the idea by making it very noir-ish in a sense (just watch the music video). | |
| Arcade Fire – Keep the Car Running Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The meaning behind this song seems fairly simple but incredibly emotive. It's probably been said by someone else, but to me it's talking from the perspective of a paranoid conspiracy nut who's threatening to take violent action against his own government. "They know my name because I told it to them But they don't know where and they don't know when" The first line indicating that he's a registered citizen within the US (which the album is clearly focused on lambasting) because he has to in order to live there, but the second line is stating that despite his name being on a government record, it can't stop them from knowing where or when his impending attack on them is going to come. "If some night I don't come home Please don't think I've left you alone" This adds a personal element, where I imagine he is talking to his family/wife/whatever. It's a very radical statement and is probably alluding to heaven with the second line and the lines that follow. This leads me to believe that it's spoken from the perspective of an extremist muslim - i.e. paradise like others have mentioned - though that's just my guess. To that end however, I'm not sure if it is from that perspective of a typical suicide bomber because 'Keep the car running' suggests that he's not intending to kill himself but others instead, unless it's some kind of metaphor. |
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| mewithoutYou – The Angel of Death Came to David's Room Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Lovely! | |
| mewithoutYou – Every Thought a Thought of You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Great song! Very much a praise song. I guess this is where the new album's headed. I dunno though that's an unsubstantiated guess. Still, even as a non-Christian I find it very inspiring. | |
| Thursday – Last Call Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| BTW Pocketmoonlight, after just listening to Untitled 5, I don't know how you can say that version is better. The ending of this album version instantly makes it better IMO! | |
| Thursday – Last Call Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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After reading the lyrics, it seems to me like this song is about the sanctity of marriage and how it's failing in today's society. "Everything we build, it falls apart And the architect abandons us" This seems like a statement that is trying to blame God for being the "architect" that leaves us without support as more and more married couples begin to divorce, which of course is unholy. "And underneath the thin white veil You can hear them say Last call for the matching hearts Last call for the yellow birds Last call for the two of us" The whole "Last Call" theme resembles the last-ditch effort that we are trying to pursue now in order to maintain that original sanctity of marriage that was once so sacred. Also, the song's finale (which is greatly harmonial and catchy btw) blatantly sums up the state of things. That's my two cents anywayz. |
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| Thursday – You Were the Cancer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Damn.. great song. From the weird synth noises at the start to the explosive end... a fantastic way to end the new album. | |
| Rise Against – Whereabouts Unknown Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is one of the best songs off the new album. Some great breakdowns and the intro is fantastic. | |
| Thrice – The Earth Will Shake Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I personally don't see this being a direct reference to anything biblical. On face value, I see it more of just an escapism song. There are modern references, like "whistles" and "arms", which of course is used as a way of saying a rifle or gun. I can see why it could be construed as religious and naturally it's great to draw that feeling from it, but I feel there's an immediate blatancy to the lyrics. |
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| Thrice – Child of Dust Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's "arrayed" not "raped", am I right? Raped doesn't make much sense in context with the meaning Fantastic song btw, really really moving |
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| mewithoutYou – The Soviet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To me it really doesnt sound like he's saying "I hate my loves, I have my doubts."... it sounds like something else entirely. | |
| Thrice – Burn the Fleet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Anglian, that's a bit too vague and personal to be considered viable. | |
| Thrice – The Flame Deluge Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is EPIC! I was listening to the album in bed last night, and this song came on it just blew me away. I pretty much jumped!! After seeing this lyrics and personifying the lyrics into as if the fire itself was screaming, ahh, it's just blummin' awesome. BTW, has anyone noticed that the endings to The Flame Deluge and Kings About the Main have the same sort of medlody to it? Also sorta sounds like the same melody from the Air Sonnet heard in the first AI blog video.. Just wondering. |
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| Circle Takes the Square – Intro Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Whistling ftw | |
| Circle Takes the Square – Kill the Switch Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is about getting rid of everything the world currently possesses and starting again, but that objective is a daunting and over-whelming task for the person narrating the song, who I also think is struggling to become recognized as a deity in his own right. This is shown in the 'Now my head is locked in the direction of the sun...' segment, as if he is being obstructed by God's creation of natural existence. 'In this low light town when my shift begins the streets reflecting yellow, yellow, yellow in the vacancy that overwhelms the red, red, red, your vehicle the color of expansion.' I believe that quote reflects another type of obsutruction that is frustrating the "narrator" (if you will), because I interpret this as a reference to traffic light colours, 'yellow' describing society waiting for change but being overhelmed by 'red', which of course means to stop. The 'vehicle' refers to humanity, and how they are forced to pause and wait when told to. Naturally, the title 'Kill The Switch' is referring to turning off everything and 'journeys through the dark' speaking of sleep; waking and dreaming, realizing all the amibitions of man are simply a pipe-dream, perhaps. That said, however, the quote 'This is no dream. Trees have turned to skeleton, roots teased and knotted just below the surface skin of ground.' is talking about the real world, and how its demise has decayed over time and become meaningless, lonely and empty. 'Life is lowly, lowly anonymity' also refers to this theory, and 'In the space of a smile I found sleep' further relates to a dream of perfection and ridding of the contrite state of the world. |
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