| Portishead – Half Day Closing Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| To me it sounds like growing up, in a way. Not child to adult, but the more gradual and personal progression of youth to cynicism. That point where you grow out of living for beauty, sex, pleasure; and invest purely in currencey. In prescribed values. | |
| Amanda Palmer – Runs in the Family Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song reminds me of so many friends of mine. People with certain predispositons who would probably be able to cope if only the fucking doctors would leave them alone and stop telling them a load of bullshit that makes their life seem like a hopeless mess. If you've been telling a girl since she was 15 that shes depressed is she really ever going to recover? For me this song is about people being failed by doctors and psychiatrists. Either by being diagnosed wrongly or being treated in a way that simpley doesnt help them at all. It makes me feel like either screaming or crying every time I hear it, but lor, I love this song. |
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| Rasputina – Clipped Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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cowcidile, I dont think I would EVER have thought of that one... Gawd. This song isn't ever going to be quite so uplifting again. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – As I Sat Sadly by Her Side Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love the end of this song. That feeling when you've completely crushed the spirit of someone so innocent but you just cant help but smile. Glad so many other people emphasise, it feels less cruel now. |
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| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Before I read this song was about a mental institution, I always thought of it as someone denying an imaginary friend or part of their self they used to have. The feeling they'd moved on and no longer needed them even thought they're crumbling on the inside. I'd thought that for YEARS. Kind of wish I never found out what the man himself intended now. |
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| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Before I read this song was about a mental institution, I always thought of it as someone denying an imaginary friend or part of their self they used to have. The feeling they'd moved on and no longer needed them even thought they're crumbling on the inside. I'd thought that for YEARS. Kind of wish I never found out what the man himself intended now. |
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| Alphabeat – Fascination Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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They played this at our summer ball a few nights ago. Jumping up and down like a wild thing with a few of your best mates, you cant beat it. I liked it so much I ended up downloading it when I got home then realised how... bad it was... I think its the sort of song that requires clingy dancing, awful singalong and manic jumping |
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| PJ Harvey – Pocket Knife Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me this song's about that age, (not a specific age so much, but I guess for most people around 15-17) where you're told you have control and you're old enough to make decisions, but so much is being decided for you still, and you rely on your elders so much. The knife is control. Not just metaphorically bit literally. She never really mentions using it. That odd age where you're so fascinated by blades, they're beautiful and lethal and you've never held something capable of hurting before. You feel protected and self sufficient and new. |
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| Akira Yamaoka – Hometown Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Now it's too late, too late for me This town will eventually take me Too late, too late for me This town will win" That part makes me shudder every time. Thanks to alyssaelaine for making me think about the meaning of the lyrics more deeply, I'd only really thought about them as a man near silent hill listning to another persons stories of the place. |
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| Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn – Tender Sugar Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I used to think the use in the Silent Hill games made the lyrics of this song obvious, it beng about the otherworld and trapped. but lately I'm starting to wonder, what symbolism is behind the sugar, do you think? | |
| Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn – Your Rain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have to say, the lyric, "Mom never holds me, Dad loves a stranger more than me." made me think it WAS about Walter. Seeming he never knew his mother she was a stranger to him, and obviously never held him. Only the first verse mentioning dancing and the lyric "All that I need are some simple loving words." made me think this could be Cynthia. Walter is the last person in the game who could be healed simpley through a few loving words... |
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