| The Libertines – HorrorShow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| In reference to JeffKaos's comment, it's not derrived from the Russian word хорошo" (pronounced harosho or horosho) as that is translated as "good" or "fine." | |
| Richard Hell And The Voidoids – The Kid With The Replaceable Head Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Basically about someone who lacks self identity and will change who they are to fit in with those around them. The kid probably turns to drugs (inventing fun) which also helps to make his personality shit and him come off as 'dead.' | |
| Richard Hell And The Voidoids – Another World Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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To me, the song's about longing for someone who either you can't be with, or who could possibly be living in another time. Richard wrote weird songs dealing with time anyways (Destiny Street, in which he meets himself from ten years ago). I think it's the idea of being in love with the one whom you can't ever be with. "At the time I'm in you / I'm alone in the back room" makes me think that she's become only a fantasy. It's the idea of love at the wrong time. |
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| Richard Hell And The Voidoids – Blank Generation Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song really just paints a picture of Hell's life in the 70s. He was a junkie poet who felt cut off from the rest of the world. There are two offered explanations for the term "blank generation." One, being nihilism. The other, which has becomes Hell's stand point in recent years, being a stance of "insert-your-generation" here. |
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| Richard Hell And The Voidoids – I'm Your Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song always makes me think of male prostitution. With lines like "What men can do / what they do for themselves / I'll do for you," I definitely feel Hell's talking about men who pleasure themselves using a woman (or man) and he will now proceed to "give back to" this "sex object," in a sense. "If I seem unromantic / You're glad that I do / What you say to me proves / I'm more romantic than you." Many times, prostitutes and their clients try to detach themselves from the romantic aspects of sex, some prostitutes even refusing to kiss, as many consider it the most intimate sexual act. I think Hell's talking about how it's his job to have sex, making it an unromantic, automatic act, and his client simply wants to get off and doesn't have the passion and emotion Hell believes he himself poses. If I remember correctly, I think I've read somewhere that Hell was a male prostitute at one point. It would make sense; lots of New York punk junkies were back in the 70s. |
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