| The Knife – The Cop Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think it's about figures of authority abusing their power, and in this case it's represented by a cop. | |
| Elbow – Mirrorball Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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At first, I thought this was a song about a woman he loves, but then I looked at the lyrics a bit more closely. The "that wouldn't wake a baby" is what makes me think he's actually kissing a baby, his own baby. "On the self same face that wouldn't let me sleep", since babies keep their parents up. And any parent will tell you that everything changes when the children are born. "My sorry name has made it to graffitti" makes me think about how some people talk about getting a feeling of accomplishment when they have children. They feel like they've made an impression in this world, from being no one special. He sings about feeling completed now that he's got his child. Even the most mundane things, like the streets and the sirens, are turned into something wonderful and new. The "we" in "we took the town to town last night" is probably the new parents, dizzy with happiness and love, both for each other and their child. To me, this song is about a newborn, and eagerly awaited, baby. |
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| Regina Spektor – Oedipus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Firstly, I'd just like to say that man do I love this song. I think it's about that the "I" in the song feeling replacable and just one among many others; "There's thirty-one others just like me, there's thirty-one others I can be" And I belive that the mother's role, as someone pointed out earlier, is popping out babies. The Queen is unhappy, and doesn't want to look at her children; "And to see me mad her awful sad, and to touch me made her awful sad" I think you could compare it to parents who can't stand the other parent of their child, so they project their hatred onto the kids, who probably resemble the other parent as well. Also, I just thought of something; I'm not at all sure that it is supposed to be Oedipus who is the "I" in this song. Because it never says so, does it? It says "Then one morning I woke up and I thought Oedipus", but anyone could be thinking that. And then, in the end, that 32's still a goddamn number, that's when whoever is singing the song decides that he/she has a worth of his/her own. |
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