| Bloc Party – Zephyrus Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Personally, my favourite lyrics (amazing work all 'round, Kele!) are: "So let's take this from the start You'll be me and I'll be you, And let's try not to complain about Your smoking, and my distant heart." It's like one person saying to the other "let's start over again" but the clever trick to the lyrics is that he wants them to switch personalities so they can see how the other person perceives things. The speaker is saying how the other person complained about his smoking as the main fault in their relationship (e.g. focusing on a small thing, being not too committed or attentive). The speaker wants this person to see how he was trying so hard to be with them, but they were alwys distant and cold. Lyrical fucking genius. |
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| Muse – Hyper Music Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I completely agree with Ferahgo, with one small adjustment: I think it is about someone who has been raised believing in a religion and begins to question it. Having been fed "golden lies" all their life, they now feel a sense of revelation in being free and can spit in God's face (essentially). They may even realise that they never really believed it all in the first place ("I don't love you, and I never did") and this song is the ultimate 'severing ties' song. Also, after "Who remains?" and "Who restrains?", the segue to the chorus (sounds like ch. ch. ch. ch. ch. ch.) actually says "Just to spit it in your face!" So, one could interpret that as the release of all the unease and tension abotu rejecting religion over the years; now it is a joyful experience. |
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| Coldplay – Strawberry Swing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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| Anberlin – (*Fin) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is both one of their most epic and most meaningful songs. I always feel challenged; the way it builds through the verses, yet always coming back to the theme of "are we all lost causes?" To emotionally connect with this song is an incredible experience, with two parts in particular getting me into it; the transition after "Aren't we all to you lost?" and the part beginning with "Take, what you will, what you will..." which is not on here. It is a complete and utter musical masterpiece. 'Nuff said. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Good Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song also reminds me of a woman in a mental asylum who has had almost all responsibility taken away from her ("I took out the trach today...I took up croquet today"), so she leads a relatively simple and uncomplicated life (in comparison to ordinary 'busy' people). This woman, however, is more than slightly sadistic and loves to show off her lack of responsibility ("i'd like to do more than survive i'd like to rub it in your face"). She also revels in hearing of other's harsh and demanding lifestyles ("i want all the details of your pain and misery"), so she can present herself as superior ("I'm on fire..."). She is also a gossip in her spare time (which she has too much of), as she sympathises (at first) with those that come to her and talk of their suffering and then gets on the phone to share the news with others ("...inflicting on the others / i consider them my sisters and i want their numbers"). I can almost see her as a psychologist suffering from isolation and slowly going mad & growing more sadistic and cruel, from hearing all about people's problems every day. mmhmm. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Girl Anachronism Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song reflects a woman in a mental ayslum who is slowly (or quickly) going insane. Evidence: -They feed her pills to control her moods ("The pills that I ate / Came a couple years too late"), but it doesn't work; she is beyond ther point of no return (to sanity). -She is deeply unsure about her identity ("ive got some issues to work through / there i go again pretending to be you") and she resots to becoming like someone else to feel alive, but it doesn't feel real ("this passion is a plagiarism") and she is 'sane' enough to note this. -She is dismissed into one of the common stereotypes of women (in literature): the madwoman. The people looking after her believe that her behaviour is a results of her medication ("please excuse her for the day, its just the way the medication makes her") or of her attention-getting nature ("they'll say just let her crash and burn she'll learn / the attention just encourages her"); but we have already determined that it has no effect ("...came a couple years too late..."). -Unforgivable/Life-changing ("it's just the way the operation made me") and irreversible ("i dont necessarily believe there is a cure for this") acts have been performed on her, in an attempt to change her for the better. -She doesn't fit in anywhere, except in her own dream world ("i might join your century but only as a doubtful guest") I now have the distinct feeling, looking over my words, that I have merely stated the obvious... oops. Hopefully you get something out of it... :D |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Gravity Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I interpreted this song to be about a woman who witnessed a suicide (jumping off a building) and who works at the mortuary, or some other place that deals with such victims. She has been constantly horrified by the sights and horror of the cadavers, so much so that she throws up at even the thought of them. ("Down at work, I'm getting too familiar with the floor / Trading in my talents by the mouthful") She wants to kill herself as a result - by jumping off a building ("[You think I can't fly...?] Well you just watch me! Watch me!"). This suicide has been witnessed by her and she has had to report to an officer ("Honest to god officer it's awful. [Awful...]"); the sight of the suicide prompts her to ponder her own inevitable demise and considers dying in the same way ("Gravity plays favorites, I know it cause I saw"). The random bit in the middle ("You can do it...I think we've lost him!") serves to heighten her transtition from sanity to insanity as she further contemplates the notion of suicide. The last few lines ("The sky is always falling down on me, / So officer, forgive me, please!") show her eventual death and the same officer witnessing her downfall. I wonder what the officer then considers... Well, that's interpretation; I don't know if anyone's thought of it like that before, but I can't shake the feeling that that's what it is about. What do you think...? |
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