| David Bowie – Always Crashing in the Same Car Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| & it's quite ironic how looking left and right is what you do to avoid crashing? | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Stay Loose Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's about being in love with someone who is always there for you and takes care of the you, but isn't interested in a relationship. The person is obviously very important to the speaker - The phrase "what about me" seems half-ironic half-serious, pointing out the contrast between how much he gets from this person and how much more he wants/needs ("I don't really see how things will improve" - if they're not together). >> "I was looking at the new year / you said 'walk before you crawl'" I'd say the whole song is set at New Year's Eve (there's another reference, in "if it starts a little bleaker / the year may yet be gold") and in this line, she's simply telling him to go home before he has drunk himself under the table. The other advice she's giving, especially in the first verse, is very everyday, so I don't think there's any more to this, either. & it seems like there's another someone, in the verse beginning "there's a little echo calling..."? - someone who's just replacement to the "you" of the song - "she is only like a blanket". The rest of the verse isn't so clear to me, though, the story about this girl is only hinted at. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – 4st 7lb Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat All things I like looking at I've always thought "Kit Kat" actually referred to the chocolate as in the speaker likes to look at it, as a test/proof of self-control, or "food porn"? |
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| Depeche Mode – Mercy In You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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pankstank, don't be so black & white, especially when it's pretty much a fact that Martin tends to deal with a lot of religious themes in his lyrics. I think this song is open to interpretation as to whether it's about relationships or God; but I don't thinks it's a "master and servant" relationship that's portrayed here. And I definitely don't see a hunger for punishment even mentioned anywhere, it's mercy they're talking about! To me, it sounds more like the mercy & forgiveness of the "you" of the song is so great that the speaker is ready to lose his way just to experience it again, the positive feeling that he gets in the end of the hard process of falling from grace and begging to be forgiven again. |
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| Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think it's very similar to the original, but very good. (love the video!) I think I read somewhere that critics kept saying they were trying to imitate Bowie and they went and made this cover just to take the mick... the video seems tongue in cheek as well. | |
| Depeche Mode – The Meaning Of Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't think it's general like that. I think it's about the speaker's own specific view on love; while love is presented everywhere and people assume that love is something that everyone needs, without anyone questioning it - when he asks his friends, they think he's lost his mind. The speaker can't understand why anyone would want to love, or to be in love - what's "the meaning of love", what makes it so big and wonderful and essential when he is happy without ("I've never been in love before"). The lyrics sound sort of naive, I can't help imagining young Martin L Gore writing it - whether it's personal or not. i love the lines "from the notes that I've made so far love seems something like wanting a scar" |
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| Dave Gahan – Kingdom Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I haven't got any smart comments, I just can't believe Dave couldn't think of a better sentence formation than "in trouble is where I'm going to be" .... SERIOUSLY. |
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| Pet Shop Boys – Left To My Own Devices Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the chorus fits in with the song in the way that just as he could choose what to do today or in life, he could even choose how to feel about "you", "i could leave you -- i could love you" and parallel to the idea of the line "but in the back of my head...", he realizes that "left to (his) own devices he probably would" not sure what this means though... that he's still dependent on something, perhaps his own freedom to do whatever he wants? if he didn't have - wasn't bound to having - all these options, he would love him/her? |
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| Belle & Sebastian – If She Wants Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| *he'll be remembered for | |
| Belle & Sebastian – If She Wants Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I started thinking about this song, I wondered why he couldn't have both done the "near perfect thing" and been with her, and I think this is about Stuart and Isobel. I don't know the details about their breakup & her leaving the band, but the band could have come between them - he's contemplating that he could do something great he'll be remember, or he could hang around with her. This is possible a choice that's too late for him to make, as Isobel had left the band already at this time. "I said goodbye to someone that I loved" IDK who the "he" that the letter was sent to is, though. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Outsiders Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Its bright on the outside the bright love the dark side I know it's obvious But sometimes You've got to say it so You don't feel so weak about being such a freak or alone I think this refers to "the bright" as intelligent/creative people, who are often "darker", and reminds you that it's okay, you're not weak for being what is considered a freak, because you're actually better than the people who try to put you down for it. |
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| Mew – Comforting Sounds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It could well be about drugs or long-distance relationships or anything you say but I think it's about me. | |
| T. Rex – Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No comments yet?! This song is absolutely amazing, so beautiful. The way I found T. Rex was when these lyrics were quoted in a book I read as the song the main character would want to play in her funeral. I think that's perfect. |
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| Mew – Chinaberry Tree Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| for some reason I get the image that the other person is uncompassionate to the problems in the world, "I don't care. I'm not there" referring to a chatastrophe elsewhere or a developing country or w/e... and she's telling the narrator not to be so worried about things that don't really affect his life. | |
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