| Mos Def – Fear Not of Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Damn. This song really is great. His words grip the fear from the pedestal, take it down, and put it in our hands as hope. |
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| The Black Keys – Hard Row Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Kind of reminds me of the ELO song Evil Woman. A woman needs no man to "do her in", so she's hard row to hoe all by herself. The man doesn't mind because he knows she'll just be a hoe all by herself. |
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| Clutch – Arcadia Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I can't tell what he's implying with "inebriate me". Could he be implying that he's done his penance in not being ignorant? And that he wants the escape or liberation of being inebriated? Or could he be implying that the masses are generally drunken and obliviously blissful in their inebriation? |
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| Bloc Party – Helicopter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Maybe they were hoping such a slap would raise a little personal awareness and accountability? I hardly ever see any personal accountability. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Stop Swimming Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Stop Swimming for a meaning... because if you swim long enough you'll drown. | |
| John Frusciante – Omission Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Going nowhere's the only clear shot, at being somewhere the fates think you're not" These lyrics speak to me. The only way to avoid fate is to do nothing at all. Omitting oneself to avoid choices? To avoid "these things you wont allow"? To avoid one's dependence on the other? |
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| Porcupine Tree – Stop Swimming Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Personally, I think this song is about ambiguity. Either in the form of bands' lyrics, or in the form of someone's words. Not really ever knowing where any meaning lies, before you know it your swimming in an ocean of possible interpretations, when in reality, there may not be any really deep meaning. And in the end, you don't really care about what the meaning is and feel trying "can't continue". So, you just end up abandoning it, and Stop Swimming. |
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| Fiona Apple – A Mistake Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sorry to rain on your parade, ladies, but I'm sick of this stubborn feminist BS. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Open Car Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Tbrings90 needs to just sit down with his sister, and a counselor, and have a nice loooong talk. | |
| Against Me! – Thrash Unreal Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Hooker with a Penis. | |
| Bloc Party – Helicopter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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missyprissy#1, I don't know if it holds any precedence, but I am from America... And you see, I don't care about either side of the fence when it comes to GB. It's pointless to talk about left and right when it's futile, and achieves nothing. It comes down to faith in the end generally, and you can't even begin to propose an argument against anyone's faith. People may or may not be right on either side in any particular argument, what is important, in nuce, is that there's a balance somewhere along the line. As an American, I must say, FUCK THIS P.C. BULLSHIT. You've become victim to it's weakening clutches like so many others. It's only contributing to things in a negative way, furthering the depth of ANY country's downward spiral. I must admit, I should have had a wider perspective, and you were somewhat right with "ANYONE can have thoose feelings ANYWHERE in the world.". Actually, I had recently watched an interview with Kele about his music, and he said something along the lines of "... globally, internationally, we noticed that there were behavioral traits that many people shared..." and I realize, now, a lot of their lyrics in reference to sociological elements obviously aren't isolated to the examination of one country. But, this still doesn't distract me from the fact that I am aware of all this fucked up shit that goes on in my country that people just let happen. We're FAR less than perfect. We can do WAY better, it's ridiculous. Stop being so apologetic for once and see how much more you feel alive, you robot. Keep questioning. Always struggle. Fight for a balance if nothing more. |
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| Against Me! – Thrash Unreal Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"SLC Punk *fucking* sucks and is, as far as I can tell, an extremely poor, inaccurate and Hollywood-ish caricature of punk and anarchism." What isn't "Hollywood-ish" about punk and anarchism?? There is nothing true to it's definition, anywhere. You see, in this day and age all anyone ever does is display a fashionable veneer, a substitute, to represent an ideology or philosophy which they think they live by. |
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| The Jackson 5 – Sixteen Candles Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| But then again, racism was okay at the time too... | |
| The Jackson 5 – Sixteen Candles Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I believe The Crests wrote this song originally... although many artists have covered it. At work, we have a juke box, and this song, along with many others like it play all the time. There are several other songs that play on the juke that mention age 16... and I'm wondering if the legal age was at one point 16 years of age, or if people like The Crests and Roy Orbison were looking for some statutory love...? LOLZ. During the era, I don't think that they would have let such things fly if the legal age wasn't 16, unless of course there were marriage involved. |
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| Bloc Party – Helicopter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Who gives a shit about GB? Fuck, who cares? All predictable arguments on either side. Anything that could be mentioned ever about him or his father is pretty much associated with and implied in their family's name. The above paragraph pretty much sums up anything useful you can gather from the lyrics of this song that describes America and it's peoples' attitudes, repetitive ("Some things will never be different", Americans will always be talking about how much the president rocks/sucks.), and full of ego ("So James Dean; So blue jeans; Gonna save the world"). And then there are the few who reach out to BP's question "Are you hoping for a miracle?", who want their country to be different. But these people are either too few in numbers, too weak, too lazy, too apathetic, too unorganized, or too stupid to change anything about their country. Which makes the word "miracle" more applicable to reality, being that it might be the only thing to really bring about change. Also, I think a lot of meaning that could have been implied in the following has been overlooked: "Three out of five, three out of five (it's not enough); Six out of ten; Better luck next time; Just like his Dad, just like his Dad (the same mistakes); Some things will never be different; Hungry and dumb, hungry and dumb (so wait in line); Queuing up for some more junk food; It's not my fault, it's not my fault (just this once); They're getting so much younger" I think that this part of the song is primarily about just plain old "negative reinforcement". In America, obesity and stupidity being good examples. I think the statistics are possibly in reference to obesity itself( I could be wrong.), and the increase in the percentage of obese people would be a reason for the appropriately sarcastic, but equally pessimistic line "Better luck next time". I think that the bush family may just coincide with obesity in being a good example of negative reinforcement, by specifically describing the passing of mistakes from one generation to the next. Furthermore, this would explain the line "It's not my fault, it's not my fault (just this once)", being that "heredity" is an excuse commonly used in America to explain any number of afflictions. The last line sums up all of this part of the song very well, with the line "They're getting so much younger" representing the country's peoples' mistakes being passed deeper into each new generation's youth younger and younger. |
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