| Smash Mouth – Satellite Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Awesome song, fairly obvious meaning, would kill for the tabs to this. | |
| Calvin Harris – You Used To Hold Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The one line I find most intriguing in this song is "Take my spirit from my open hand." Is it referring to his metaphysical "spirit", or just an alcoholic beverage (or both)!? | |
| Arctic Monkeys – Sketchead Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Haha. Saw them live last night was a great show. Anyways, before they played the song, Alex Turner said something along the lines of: "This next song is about a man. A man that if you see him coming at a party, your hands start to feel oily and you can hear him walking toward you like it's the sound of galloping hooves." | |
| The Killers – Smile Like You Mean It Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Come on! It's obviously a big allusion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby". First off: The title of the song. - "Smile Like You Mean It". The novel made reference to Gatsby's smile in this quote: "He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey." Next is the line "Change your ways when you're young". Gatsby met Daisy Buchanan, but ultimately she left him because of his lack of wealth. So... what does Gatsby do? He changes his ways and accumulates a vast fortune in some less than honorable ways in order to try to win her back. Then we have the line: "Looking back at sunsets on the Eastside". Well, in "The Great Gatsby", geography plays a huge role, especially the "West v. East" concept. In Gatsby, the "East Egg" is the home to "old money" types, and of course, Gatsby's love interest Daisy. This likely references the time that Daisy and Gatsby spent together. Then what I feel is the strongest evidence towards the "Gatsby allusion" theory: "Dreams aren't what they used to be some things slide by so carelessly". In the book, Gatsby chasing his unlikely dream of being with Daisy is one of the centralized theme. On top of this, the concept of "the corruption of the American Dream" is a huge theme throughout, so much so that the book was almost titled "Gatsby's American Dream". The other half of that line utilizes the word "carelessly". Well, after Gatsby's dream slipped away from him, Nick Carraway commented about the two people he felt were indirectly responsible for Gatsby's death: "I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Careless - the word's inclusion in the song further supports the theory. The line regarding the restaurant is likely a reference to a scene in the early goings of the novel where Meyer Wolfsheim is in a restaurant and people go trying to shoot him. The line about driving her around on the same streets is about Gatsby remarking how Tom will treat Daisy to the same things he could offer. Anyways, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. |
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| The Black Box Revelation – I Think I Like You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Pretty good song. My guess at the meaning would be that some guy is totally infatuated with a girl, but she is with someone else. The funniest thing about it though is that I first heard this song in an advertisement for the Pittsburgh Pirates. | |
| Blur – Parklife Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'm American so... I have no clue, but I think Triskadeka is most on track. | |
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