| Blind Melon – Toes Across The Floor Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Have to agree with you all. Love to see other Blind Melon fans! We can relate considering we've all had to explain to others that Blind Melon was not a one-hit wonder and the song No Rain was not their best song. BoonVath: the bit re: death was something I hadn't thought of, but very interesting. You're right in that what makes real art so beautiful is that when it connects with someone, his/her own interpretations make the piece really come alive. I always kind of battle with myself trying to define what it is that makes art art, but I guess the best explanation may be that true art is personal to the author but beautifully ambiguous to the receptor. Isn't art supposed to promote thought? Isn't the message delivered, as in life, supposed to be a complex? I think what makes a great songwriter a great songwriter is that somewhere along in the process, the artist is able to touch a few nerves and prod the listener into thought, and in that thought process hopefully the listener discovers a new way to think about something. The message might not always be important because the message might be too complex to put into words to begin with, but as long as the result is the desire to think, and the desire to think in a new way, and a desire to see a part of life through the eyes of another, then ultimately isn't the message profound, regardless of it's original intended meaning? Patricia: totally agree with you! And peace and ganja right back at you! I understand how someone might want to use the name to create interest in something different, but if you cut the thorns off the rose, how can you still call it a rose? You're left with a poor misrepresentation of the original species, regardless of how beautiful it still may be. Dontfork: Wooh g.o.d. is amazing and I've noticed that too. My favorite Melon songs are all demos or live versions because I really think the studio kind of took away the rawness and power of Shannon's voice. I wish I could have seen the real Blind Melon live. Thank god for bootleggers. |
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| Bat for Lashes – Horrorshow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The new album is great, but this is my favorite BFL song of all time. BTW, for those of you lucky enough to hear this amazing song, here is the prayer that is read at the beginning of the song: "Dear Lord, I give you may hands to do Your work; I give You my feet to go Your way; I give You my eyes to see as You see; I give You my tongue to speak Your words; I give You my mind that You may think in me; I give You my spirit that You may pray in me. Above all, I give You my heart that You may love in me - love the Father and love all humankind. I give You my whole self, Lord, that You may grow in me, so that it is You who lives, works and prays in me. Amen." The full poem isn't read, but this is it, just in case anyone wanted to know. Also, to those people who are lucky enough to have heard this song, you have a great taste in music! Be happy about that. And if you've never heard of Joanna Newsom, check out her songs "Emily" and "Monkey and Bear," and check out ILYA if you've never heard of them. Not the Euro ILYA, but the San Diego ILYA. Go to http://www.myspace.com/ilya and check them out. I could list a thousand other bands, but if you love this song, check these other bands out too. Indie music is the best. Fuck the record companies! |
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| Bat for Lashes – Howl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Maybe you're right, I don't know. It's hard to tell. I tried emailing her quite a while back to get clarification on the lyrics to this song, but to no avail. Whatever. It's a great song regardless and I guess she doesn't feel the need to give her fans accurate lyrics. Natasha, if you ever read this - ANSWER YOUR EMAILS!!! Sorry, but I'm the type of person that wants to know what it is that he's listening to. Love the new album BTW. |
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| Hungry Lucy – In The Circle Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I can't believe there is no love for this song! This song is terrific! | |
| Bat for Lashes – Seal Jubilee Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| God I love this song... | |
| Blind Melon – Life Ain't So Shitty Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is my favorite Blind Melon song. It's absolutely incredible how one tiny piece of raw music less than two minutes long and hastily thrown together at a bus station, can several years later help a stranger in another part of the country overcome personal problems and find joy. It's too bad music sucks today. R.I.P. Shannon. If the Apocalypse ever occurs like all the TV preachers say it will, then I hope you are the first zombie to rise from your grave, and I hope you head right on over to Scott Stapp's house, find that mother ****er, and rattle chains in front of his dumb ass until he feels enough human emotion to write a meaningful song. |
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| Blind Melon – Toes Across The Floor Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My take on this very awesome song: The first stanza is his opinion on the world and is pretty self-explanatory. The killers should be killed, the religious leaders have social/moral sicknesses, and the poor shouldn't go hungry. But it's more of him asking can he really be the only one out there that feels this way? If he's not the only one who thinks that way then why do these problems exist? I think he comes to the conclusion that he must be mostly alone, mostly different and therefore can not live like everyone else does. The next stanza is about God and his idea of God. He uses "God" and "dog" interchangeably on purpose because no one really knows who or what God is; people just view God in their own ways and generally assume that God is there to serve their own individual purposes, i.e. provide positive mental/spirital feelings or even provide opportunities or physical gifts. So, in a sense god=dog because they are both slaves to the owner/believer. I think all he's saying in the second stanza is that he has some guilty desire or problem that he needs help with, but it's worded so that it reads like if he asks God, or his own idea of God anyway, for assistance it would be like some kind of rape or severe violation of code of conduct between man and God. Stanza 3 sounds like he's found God or at least for some short period of time conformed to a set of ideals of a certain religion. He's just getting by, just like every other day before, but he's happy that he's found something even though whatever question or desire or need he's referring to in the previous stanza is still being left alone. He's always open to the invasion of new ideas so he's running with whatever new religion or God he's currently following. Stanza 4 is just like the previous stanza; he knows he's not getting what he wants/needs out of this religion even though he's making it appear that he's a loyal follower. This dog or God is fine for others but it isn't working for him, because their God/supernatural slave by law does not exhibit compassion/sympathy or advice for whatever his "perverted thought" is. The last stanza is him saying he's through with pretending to be part of this other group and their God. He'll have his own God and hope that it's the right one, and he'll talk to him but he still doesn't expect to receive help for whatever it is he's most desperate for (whatever the "perverted thought" is). If he ends up wrong though and the others are right, and the God who they say serves them is the one and only real God, then maybe that God will be his friend, i.e. understand and pity. Then again, maybe Shannon Hoon wanted to get it on with a dog. I don't think so though, and I really hope not because he was and still is my favorite vocalist, but you never know these days. This comment is going to be really long and probably confusing to anyone who reads it, but oh well. I read this song for like 10 minutes and this was the main meaning I could pull from it. R.I.P. Shannon, and hopefully your bandmates burn in hell for relaunching Blind Melon without you. I heard the new guy and he sucks a big fat hard one. |
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| Blind Melon – Soup Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't think every single Blind Melon song is about drugs. My thought on the meaning, or what I take from it anyway: The song is about a child, or a young boy, who loses a loved one, probably his grandpa. "The clothesline of cold eyes is washing away the face before" to me says that the people, family or friends or whatever, that were hung out to dry or not really important to this person who died are hanging around during this period of mourning and beginning to tarnish the memory of this person. The following line is pretty self-explanatory. The next few lines, and most of the rest of the song, seems to be about possessions. The "bowl of bitter beans" refers to worthless people fighting over worthless items. He mentions the rocking chair and says he doesn't want to see it any more because the man is dead. He says he has a "corner store" that he can "praise upon the holidays," meaning he has been given personal items from this person after his death, but the line seems sarcastic because although he may be thankful for the memories the items will provide, they are no substitute for the person lost. The last lines are him closing his eyes and wishing all these other people would disappear. The lines about pulling the "trigger" are just fantasy as he slips off into his fantasy world, which is the only place he can go to see the person who is now gone. Anyway, maybe it's totally wrong but just my take. |
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