| Radiohead – My Iron Lung Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the song is not about Creep, in my opinion... Faith, you're driving me away You do it everyday You don't mean it but it hurts like hell My brain says I'm receiving pain A lack of oxygen from my life support My iron lung ** Faith means fear, fear about losing someone (I'll explain why someone later...) and he's losing any kind of hope... he knows he's getting worse because he wants something he can't achieve, he's "dying" because he can't get it, the iron lung is the most beautiful part of the song, it means something you need but you don't wanna have... for example: when you love someone you don't wanna love, but she/he makes you happy sometimes, even though it's just a lie. ** We're too young to fall asleep Too cynical to speak We are losing it, can't you tell? We scratch our eternal itch A twentieth century bitch And we are grateful for our iron lung ** Just as said before, he's losing someone, and they won't talk about it, but there's plenty of time (we're to young to fall asleep, this means there's plenty of time to talk about it, yet, they won't), and he's quite angry that she (in my opinion it's about a girl) doesn't even care. "We scratch our eternal itch, a twentieth century bitch" they won't do anything about it, and they will feel kind of uncomfortable, but they'll pretend there's nothing wrong, and pretend they are fine (just like everyone does, and that's what 20th century means). And they'll pretend they're fine depending on an "iron lung" (that keeps them "alive") ** The headshrinkers They want everything My uncle Bill My Belisha beacon ** Headshrinkers as headhunters are like fears, he's starting to lose control, his head is like a belisha beacon and he's losing it ** Suck, suck your teenage thumb Toilet trained and dumb When the power runs out we'll just hum This, this is our new song Just like the last one A total waste of time My iron lung ** he's saying like "keep being so childish, pretending everything's alright, eventually it will be". "This is our new song, just like the last one a total waste of time, my iron lung" I love this part, I'm also a composer, and writing a song is like writing down your feelings and finally let them go... but some feelings are really really sad and even if you make a lot of songs, you can't make them go, and you hope that when you write a nice song for someone, that someone appreciates it, but when she/he doesn't, you feel like crap, like a waste of time... ** And if you're frightened You can be frightened You can be, it's okay ** Cause he's not ** I hope you like it, obviously it's not the perfect meaning, because unless you're the writer, you can't completely understand a song... but that's the way I see the song... |
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| Silversun Pickups – Catch and Release Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I hope this helps... He's talking as if he was someone else, and that someone else just lured someone into a relationship based on sex, money, or something else, but nothing related to feelings or something deeper... and he's upset about that, that's why some parts of the song it's a little bit aggressive... I was thinking that someone instead of choosing someone worth loving, decided to go for someone just for sex money or whatever.... and he's pretty surprised and angry because of that... "Guess the lure was enough" It's just my perception =) |
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| Muse – Micro Cuts Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I agree with... TwistedTree(and all that stuff). The metaphors are just like he (or she?) says, well done :) . But I'm still not quite sure is about Media and television... it fits, your explanation fits very well that meaning, but I think that to understand a song at its most pure soul, we have to understand songs "surrounding" it, I mean, other songs that Matt wrote around that time, maybe some songs from Origin of Symmetry, but... Wow the explanation he (or she) gave us is excellent. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Lightness Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it is different. "there's a tear in the fabric of your favorite dress, and i'm sneaking glances" I think is the way she acts, the dress is a metaphor about the way she is, and that makes him think about it that would be "sneaking glances". and then comes "looking for the patterns in static, they start to make sense the longer im at it " would be as the more he thinks about the way she is he understands more about it. Ivory lines lead, i thought about road lines when i was on the highway, maybe it is like that, maybe not | |
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