| Portishead – Biscuit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"There is a story behind this song. Here is my guess: I'm lost, exposed Stranger things will come your way Its just I'm scared Got hurt along time ago I can't make myself heard no matter how hard I scream She is laying naked in front of a man after their sexual intercourse and she is wandering in doubts is this man gonna hurt her also like a previous man did. She is feeling vulnerable beside this man that's why the things will come his way. The man can't hear her fears. She already feels that he is gonna leave her. " Woah, woah, how is this _after_ intercourse? This is definitely before intercourse, possibly even before she met the "mother's son". I figured it was about the conflict surrounding the choice of a lover. Do I love and risk loss, or not love? You touched on that, buis where where I think you went wrong is in assuming that the conflict arose after intercourse, not before. After intercourse, she already chose to invest in loving the man... she might feel remorse, but remorse isn't being expressed here. Hesitation is: "it's just, I'm scared". So it's definitely before sex, at least assuming this is a normal girl... And there is no reference to a certain man, which is why I think the first stanza expresses the time after heartbreak, but before another lover. "I can't make myself heard no matter how hard I scream" would then express the resistance you feel to trust/engage in another person after being deceived. Furthermore, "Stranger things will come your way" would refer to literal strangers (one among them being a new lover), i.e. people your parents and especially her history has taught her to be wary of. I'm going a little backwards, but lastly "I'm lost, exposed" would then just express the uncertainty accompanying the feeling of paranoia and avoidance after being hurt. |
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| Portishead – Biscuit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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this is a perfect example of how someone that doesn't grasp the metaphor / major theme of a song can be completely and dismally wrong. it's about loving, the desire love, the fear of loss, the blissful relief of finally getting love. lord almighty. glory box is such a great follow up to this song. |
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| Portishead – Sour Times Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| obvious samefag is obvious | |
| Portishead – Sour Times Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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>>curtisies u lrn2copy |
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| Portishead – Sour Times Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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>curtisies gah, my eyes!! worse than hearing paparazzi in the gym! lrn2spell/spellcheck |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Right Where It Belongs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song criticizes the human tendency to sacrifice real desires for safety. They are hedged in by their own fear, repressing real desires to the point of lethargy. Trent is just saying people are just caged animals. |
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| Muse – Thoughts of a Dying Atheist Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It would only be sensical to fear the minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years!! preceding certain death... from being diagnosed with cancer to getting hit head on by a f*cking bus! | |
| Muse – Thoughts of a Dying Atheist Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@nickweb TL ..... DR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A VERY APPROPRIATE QUOTE FROM EPICURUS!!! "Epicurus also believed (contra Aristotle) that death was not to be feared. When a man dies, he does not feel the pain of death because he no longer is and he therefore feels nothing. Therefore, as Epicurus famously said, 'death is nothing to us.' When we exist death is not, and when death exists we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the false belief that in death there is awareness." I love realizing things and then reading an ancient Greek philosopher talk of the same thing! Death shouldn't be feared. Get over it, theists. All else equal, atheists are more mature on the subject of death. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Zero-Sum Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Zero-Sum" means that every beginning is an end, and every end is beginning. this is twilight. x + (-x) = 0. "And all we ever were Just zeros and ones" means that we are objectively insignificant. our ego makes us the center of the universe, but it is a stubborn and subjective illusion. subjectivity itself is illusory, yes? so he's telling you to drop it. drop the illusion, stop filling the bottomless well with snow, because it only causes suffering and never gets filled, and seems deeper after every time you fill it up. i think this is a pretty explicit theme. This "twilight" is the suffering result of our ego. That's all you need to know. Everything else theatrics. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Bixby Canyon Bridge Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Until this song brings you to tears after this verse: "You wonder if you're missing your dream" I'm not going to write more because I don't like how this site lays out its comments. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Only Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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raulitoyeah: having a brain does not imply having intelligence. your are a testament to this fact. /"Yes I'm alone, then again I always was As far back as I can tell I think maybe it's because you were never really real to begin with I just made you up to hurt myself(x5) And it worked...yes it did"/ IF ANYTHING this is his realization that THERE IS NO GOD. at least not with him... (i said that last part to appease the deists). I don't think it's about a god anyway. it's more like a process of self-realization by stripping away the delusions of the insects. oh wait. maybe it is. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Only Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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raulitoyeah: having a brain does not imply having intelligence. your are a testament to this fact. /"Yes I'm alone, then again I always was As far back as I can tell I think maybe it's because you were never really real to begin with I just made you up to hurt myself(x5) And it worked...yes it did"/ IF ANYTHING this is his realization that THERE IS NO GOD. at least not with him... (i said that last part to appease the deists). I don't think it's about a god anyway. it's more like a process of self-realization by stripping away the delusions of the insects. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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my god you guys write essays! succinctness is to be valued. wtf is with all the drug interpretations for NIN. does it anywhere specifically allude to any drug? this song is about how irrationally needy those feminine can be. if irrationality is evil, then this interpretation is apt. this neediness and the man's opposition to her is underscored by the fact that her physicality is so irresistibly charming (i.e. her kiss). the burning sensatioin from the kiss, the sight, is that masculine desire to pounce on the bitch. all in all, it's alludes to man's struggle between his intellect and his primal nature. the frame of reference just happens to be the female, but it could be a number of other things. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Every Day Is Exactly the Same Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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holy crap you guys write essays! succinctness is to be valued. get it out of your head that every metal/industrial band that has an angry/helpless undertone (e.g. tool) sings about drugs! this can relate to anything. i am sure it is supposed to be interpreted generally. generally speaking, this song is about the masses with no observing ego, going through the fucking motions, like automatons; a state of mind only the intelligent (like trent and of course myself) can fully understand and loath. it's not specifically about drugs, my lord. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – All the Love in the World Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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you guys write fricking essays! succinctness is to be valued. first, nine inch nails would never sing about god/faith/religion positively. this is not about god. wow. second, it's about genius. everyone admires you, but you still feel like an outcast. for good reason. everyone else are the daft insects collectively conforming. |
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