| Tom Waits – Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this is about being up shit creek. again! | |
| Tom Waits – Downtown Train Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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ever live in a city? where you end up having one-sided 'relationships' with strangers that you see daily but know you'll never truly connect with? here our hero is idealizing one who is at least ostensibly more than he could ever ask for or has seen trudge by on the daily. and it isn't a nice, though brief escape to fantasize yourself a brand new reality-world on your commute back from work? rod stewart is a steward of satan, whether working on maggie's farm or riding a downtown train. |
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| Tom Waits – Innocent When You Dream Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this is about dying alone, with regret | |
| Damien Rice – Cannonball Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| its about the desire to resuscitate a fledgling relationship and how one finds their self in the knowledge/experience gained from his/her indiscretions: your failings may yield your sucesses if you exercise an ability to learn | |
| The Magnetic Fields – Asleep And Dreaming Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Possibility. Love. And, to an extent, how they can become synonymous. "I've seen you when your ship came in and when your train was leaving" He's seen you at your best and at your worst and as he says his love for you is so immense, so strong that the rest of world no longer matters: "I don't know if you're beautiful because I love you too much... " There is no room for any objectivity, his (and, hopefully, theirs) is a love that exists for its own realm. And isn't that the best sort? There's a Tom Waits song to back this up - "the only kind of love is blind love, stone blind love." Stephen Merritt writes a song like an angel. Trust. |
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| Radiohead – You Never Wash Up After Yourself Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think this is about getting out of your own head, its about separating yourself from your former experiences; in particular it could be about getting past a love affair that has been consuming you. "I must get out once in a while Everything's starting to die The dust settles, the worms dig The spiders crawl over the bed" If you cannot take a step away from yourself and your typicality the dust, the worms, the spiders, these things that exist for and in whats been left over will take over. Dust settles is a cliche, we know what it means. Worms can only live underneath the dust and spiders eat (thus live on) only captured prey thats been wrapped and dead for a while. That leads us into the next verse: "I must get out once in a while I eat all day and now I'm fat Yesterday's meal is hugging the plates You never wash up after yourself" The feeling is of getting nowhere, of being consumed and it's because of yesterday's meal, your past, which of course informs your upcoming - if you eat all day, you'll be fat. The ostensible focus turns from "I" to "you" by the end. There's no canned and happy ending in the song, espcially not if you don't manage to wash up after yourself. When that's the case it's a constant struggle to renew, to enact any sort of change with yourself or anything else. I visualize a someone running in a spinning wheel and counting the miles spent when i hear this, we must get out once in a while, but do we? |
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