| Mercury Rev – Car Wash Hair Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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One of my first Rev songs, too. I think when he says he hopes he'll always be numbers one and three, he's saying he doesn't want to be an in-between relationship. He wants to be the beginning and/or the end. He doesn't want to be in a rebound, transitional relationship, one that has no promise and no passion. |
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| Jefferson Airplane – Eskimo Blue Day Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A powerful song about humans and the environment...one of my personal favorite Airplane songs. This song should get an awful lot of airtime with the current global climate crisis, IMO. The human dream doesn't mean shit to a tree. So true. |
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| Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Marty Balin has said in interviews that one morning he woke up to a lot of noise in the street outside his room and saw these people dragging a sign that said "Volunteers of America" and he wrote down some lyrics. I would tend to agree that the volunteers are not the soldiers, but the hippies and other counterculturals, because the Airplane were hardly themselves soldiers ("We are volunteers of America"), and they refer to one generation getting soul. He calls for his generation to "pick up the cry" and "revolution" ("got to revolution") because "this generation has no destination to hold": ie, it has no future unless it takes action. |
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| The Flaming Lips – Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I guess nobody buys CDs anymore. I recognize the merit of individual interpretations, but the Lips talk about what each song on Mystics means in the booklet. Two lovers are running away from society because they can't be together. They're going to throw themselves into an erupting volcano as an eternal testament to their love. Tragically, they don't realize that if they have the strength to hurl themselves into a volcano, they also have the strength to change their circumstances so they can be together. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Beautiful Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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That's exactly what I was saying. I probably could have worded that part better, but I didn't mean pursuing pornography in a way you'd pursue knitting, or something. I think she's trapped in a downward spiral and is occupying her time with [unhealthy] things...like posing for pornographic photos or movies. It fits in because the whole song is about her disillusionment and depression that seems to get worse no matter what she does, and no one really pays much mind. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Beautiful Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Lisa feels detached from the world and observes it from afar: "She lay in bed all night watching the colours change..." She has some sort of mental disorder for which her doctor prescribes pills, but regardless of the pills, nothing anyone around her does helps her, if they really try at all: "They let Lisa go blind..." The blindness is a metaphor for her growing disillusionment with the world. She is going down, and like I said in my previous point--no one is helping to bring her up again. Lisa tries to shake her apathy by pursuing new interests, like photography and pornography. But none of that works. Lisa is able to put on a good show and pretend to be fine, but if she let anyone see her troubles, they'd know she's as badly off as the troubled teenagers and the barren mothers (nice irony there, btw). Her life and her feelings are the stuff of Dr. Phil, but no one talks to her, no one tries to find out--so no one knows. The final verse baffled me for a long time. I read it as meaning she was opting out of the mainstream...orthopedic shoes generally aren't that fashionable. Now, reading it again, I think the meaning is more that she's seeking crutches, metaphorical shoes that will help her stand with less pain, but she still limps--they don't work. They're not the solution. This has always been one of my favorite B&S songs. So I have put a lot of thought into it. |
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