| Gnarls Barkley – Going On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It is about dying, probably about taking one's own life ("don't try to follow me") | |
| Gnarls Barkley – Would-Be Killer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this is about killing oneself, not someone else. Coming off of "Just a Thought" and "Open Book" its a warning-- I'm on the edge and I need help. | |
| Gnarls Barkley – Who's Gonna Save My Soul Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This composition of this song is beautiful. It's haunting. It's about losing someone close that you looked up to, a mentor, maybe a family member or a lover, someone that was so much a part of you that you don't know how to go on without them. Also sounds like that person was good for you, protected you from dangerous behavior or was just a good influence. But it sounds like that person may have taken their own life (Did I never stop to wonder, was it possible you were hurting worse than me?) We can be so selfish when someone dies, because even if they are in a better place, the living still mourn the loss. We feel bad for ourselves instead of happy for them. It sounds like a very personal song, maybe a fellow musician that inspired the band (duo?) |
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| Gnarls Barkley – A Little Better Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This whole album is about a descent into madness and this is the last song. Think about the hit song, "Crazy." This is the aftermath (or maybe the prequel). There seem to be a lot of drug references (Run) and suicide references (surprise, would be killer) throughout the album-- loneliness and turning to drugs. This song seems to be the last moments before death. Making peace with everyone, saying goodbyes (Thank you mom and dad, for hurting me so bad, but you're the best I ever had). Its a little better because there's an escape, ending life and going back to the lowely dirt and the sun. Or it could be about drugs again. Getting high one more time (What would be on your mind if you knew you was dying? I would wanna just feel this one more time). Also "refuse to die in vein" not "vain." Or it could just be a happy ending. After all the loneliness, everything is a just little better, one step at a time. But that makes no sense with the rest of the album. No song transitions into happiness. "Neighbor" the song before this, is about trying to make a new friend but they never came back, so the loneliness returns. There's not a happy ending to this tale. So basically, I think it's about dying, about looking back on the pain in life and knowing that it can't hurt you anymore. Have mercy. |
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| Tegan and Sara – The Con Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Vulnerability (lying on my back, crying), knowing that showing your vulnerability might bring back the one you love. But also knowing that it most likely won't because you have to move past this, even if it means a break down... which it does indeed mean. | |
| Sia – Death by Chocolate Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is pretty self-explanatory: This is just now. You will get past the devastation of heartbreak, but you have to go through it first. There's no way of escaping it. But it's not as bad as you think. It won't kill you. Eventually, it will become easier because heartbreak is like the seasons: it happens regularly ("This is the first of a million broken hearts.") But you have to let go of the anger and just see that the subject of your heartbreak is just a falling leaf, an insignificant part of a greater cycle. Sweet song, like what a mother says to her daughter or a girl to her friend. | |
| Pearl Jam – Corduroy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yes, of course it's an anti-fame song. Bit it can also be interpreted as a break up song. When someone has done something horrible to you in a relationship, then they try to come back and get back together with you. They try to act like nothings changed. He doesnt want to take advice from anyone on what to do. "they can buy but not put on my clothes." | |
| Pearl Jam – Rearviewmirror Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| its about suicide... | |
| Pm Dawn – Set Adrift on a Memory Bliss Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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enigmatic. I think it's about a playboy who sees the 'one who got away' is now married. It's about fantasizing or trying to ignore the feelings memories. He finds the 'one who got away' has a "fat diamond ring" and is shocked ("can't remember a damn thing.") He can't stop thinking about her and how she's married/engaged. The engagement looks perfect on the outside ("an ace in the hole"), but its meaningless. She still "wished for a sign" that this is the right thing. Maybe she still loves him even though she's marrying someone else. He's used women before with his "marionette strings" and regretted it. One of those exes, a ("pasttime intimate friend") talks about how he doesn't even care about her. And he agrees. He just pushes away the memories of these relationships, denies them until he's no longer connected to reality. It's oddly nostalgic, but still callous. Like he's saying, "I prefer my memories to your reality." |
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| Third Eye Blind – Wounded Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| also re: elbuenob, it is definitely a celebration song. lyrics sound sad, but the song feels like triumphing over tragedy. Its a song about surviving and being back in the pit rocking out. love it! | |
| Third Eye Blind – Wounded Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's not just about rape, per se. Yeah, its about abuse ("the man who put his hands on you"). But it can also be about any emotional trauma that isolates you-- a breakup, a tragedy, something that causes you to lose trust in others. This song is from a best friend/ former lover who just wants his friend back. Show up wounded, I don't care. Just come back to the people who love you. Don't lose that inner beauty that made you the badass that we all love (walk down shakin that ass again!). I relate to this song. It's been my wakeup call after a bad bad breakup. | |
| Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Definitely about suicide of the Golden Gate. Have you been to SF? It's fitting for someone to say, "the only substance is the fog/and it hides all that has gone wrong." Its a well-known place for self-harm. However, despite the serious and depressing nature of the song, fakeorforced comment cracked me up. |
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| Guns N' Roses – Locomotive Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is the centerpiece of both Use Your Illusion albums. Like what others said, it's about a relationship ending badly, with one person giving it their all, and the other person just taking ("We both know it takes time to forgive"). Its about how love turns into resentment, the difficulty in forgiving, and the sad realization that you still kinda love the person ("If love is blind, I guess I'll buy myself a cane")-- wanting to believe that it can still work (i.e. the illusion that he welcomed in at first, and still retreats to in the bad times. But its angry! It's the most pissed off song on both albums. Its the depth of hatred and anger that can only come from having loved someone. | |
| Fiona Apple – Fast as You Can Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Its about how bad experiences stay with you and have an effect on you and your relationships. The beast is whatever traumatic situation applies to the reader. In Fiona's case it was sexual abuse, in others it may have something else. Either way, it's about a wounded woman who pushes a man away in order to save herself future pain. Some condescending guy comes around acting like he knows better and that he'll be there for her ("It's so sweet, you think you know how crazy I am"). But she's heard it before ("You say you don’t spook easy, you won’t go, but I know") and she doesn't want to begin another relationship with this person... But she kinda does. It's a dare, a wall that she puts up to weed out all the Fairweather friends in hope that the right man can jump the hurdle ("And I’ll be your girl, if you say it’s a gift.") It's a cry for help from someone accustomed to being abandoned, rejected and left alone. And I pray that you will |
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| Fiona Apple – Red Red Red Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't understand about complimentary colors And what they say Side by side they both get bright Together they both get gray But he's been pretty much yellow And I've been kind of blue But all I can see is Red, red, red, red, red now What am I gonna do I don't understand about Diamonds and why men buy them What's so impressive about a diamond Except the mining But it's dangerous work Trying to get to you too And I think if I didn't have to Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill myself doing it Maybe I wouldn't think so much of you I've been watching all the time And I still can't find the track But what I wanna know is it okay Is it just fine Or is it my fault Is it my lack I don't understand about The weather outside Or the harmony in a tune Or why somebody lies There's solace a bit for submitting To the fitfully cryptically true What's happened has happened What's coming is already on its way With a role for me to play I don't understand I'll never understand But I'm trying to understand There's nothing else I can do |
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| Fiona Apple – Oh Well Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The lyrics are actually: What you did to me made me See myself something different Though I try to talk sense to myself But I just won't listen Won't you go away Turned yourself in You're no good at confession Before the image that you burned me in Tries to teach you a lesson What you did to me made me see myself somethin' awful A voice once stentorian is now again meek and muffled It took me such a long time to get back up the first time you did it I spent all I had to get it back, and now it seems I've been outbidded My peace and quiet was stolen from me When I was looking with calm affection You were searching out my imperfections What wasted unconditional love On somebody Who doesn't believe in the stuff You came upon me like a hypnic jerk When I was just about settled And when it counts you recoil With a cryptic word and leave a love belittled Oh what a cold and common old way to go I was feeding on the need for you to know me Devastated at the rate you fell below me What wasted unconditional love On somebody Who doesn't believe in the stuff Oh, well |
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| Tori Amos – Marianne Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "Old bags who say, 'she was so pretty'." Old women who saw her as just a pretty thing, that she should have been happy because she was pretty, as if that makes the world go 'round. She was a complex individual, a woman bogged down, and she was one of many "girls when they fall." | |
| Tori Amos – A Sorta Fairytale Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song reminds me of "Cooling" in that it is about falling out of love, not being in love. It's not a fairytale. It's a *sorta* fairytale, because even in this perfect moment, riding down the California highway, with the hood pulled back, looking into a "lifelong thing," the girl comes "undone" and the silver lining breaks. And it's sad, like a good book, because it's so beautiful, but you know it's not real, so you try to "downplay" it. This song is the anti-angst breakup song. Just the pale cold reminder about how reality can crash into our fantasy relationship. |
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