| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Pirelli's Miracle Elixir Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is such a funny song, but the original Broadway version is so much funnier. The stuff they took out of that version may not have been necessary, but it added a lot. Good either way. Obviously, this song is basically a commercial for Pirelli's Miracle Elixir - old school style. |
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| The Submarines – You, Me & The Bourgeoisie Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about how we all strive for such banal things as pretty, shiny cars and the like. This drives us into debt and unhappiness. When we 'love' and enjoy life, and try to lead it outside of the bourgeois-style idea of success and happiness, we become happy and we learn to live on much less "cause when our hearts are full we need much less." In case you were wondering, bourgeois means the affluent middle-class, it's a derogative term meaning a senseless, materialistic way to live. It's not considered a good thing to be regarded as part of the bourgeoisie. |
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| Jonathan Coulton – Re: Your Brains Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Did anyone else think of the remake of Dawn of the Dead when the song goes: "I don't want to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan? Spend your whole life locked inside a mall? Maybe that's okay for now but someday you'll be out of food and guns" I instantly saw the Mall used in the movie, and everyone living there. I like zombie films. |
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| Billy Joel – We Didn't Start the Fire Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is worth a lot more if you actually know all the things mentioned, you appreciate it a lot more. It's also fun to sing-a-long to. Good for the memory, and kinda like a tongue twister. Anyone else think it's cool how you can hear people cheering with 'Brooklyn's got a winning team' and the horror synth or whatever when Psycho is mentioned. At least in my version, such awesome things exist. |
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| Fiddler on the Roof – If I Were A Rich Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To the comment above: This song is crazy awesome, and makes a whole lot more sense than Gwen's 'version' does. He's fantasizing about what it would be like to have money, because his family lives in poverty is Russia. First, he talks about really eccentric things to do with lots of money, as most of us probably would. Then he gets down and serious (or maybe sucking up) about he would read the Holy Books and revere G-d. He also talks about how he would have the status almost the same as a Rabbi (highly esteemed) if he had more money. Then the very ending lyrics (which these don't show as this posting) is Tevye getting angry (even if for a moment) at how G-d had better have a good reason for making him poor. "Lord who made the Lion and the Lamb You decreed, I should be what I am Would it spoil some vast eternal plan? If I were a wealthy man!" Love this musical especially love Tevye! |
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| The Bravery – Believe Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I kinda got that he's lost all faith and belief in anything, and so has therefore given up on it all. He has this fear that is always in the back of his mind, as to whether or not what he is doing is worth it, or if anything is worth it. Then, at the end, when he sings "what am I waiting for, it's already done," it seems to me that he has given up. Then the last chorus is him crying out as he dies (whether for real, or just inside/mentally/spiritually). The entire song is him asking if it's all worth it, and saying that he drinks all those feelings away. But then in the end, 'it' (the beast?) or either himself finally got to him, and he just gave up breathing. He's dead now because he was only living to breathe. |
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| Rx Bandits – Prophetic Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Did anyone else find the part of the lyrics that says "I need (x 100)" especially funny? He only says it about four times. This song's about "the choices that we choose in our everyday abuse." We choose to ignore all of life's problems, personal and impersonal, and utilize things like drugs, self-harm, and a lot of other "short term solutions to our long term problems." It's about the desensitization we experience living in the modern era, and how we sometimes we do things "to see if we can feel something." Essentially, we can't respond to life in a healthful or good manner, we do more destructive things to ourselves to get over the destructive things that go on in regular life. |
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| Rx Bandits – Newstand Rock (The Bottom Line Exposition) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is less anti-war and more of a wake-up call on how people are totally willing to ignore all the bad things going on in the world (such as a war) yet pay close attention to this unbelievably unimportant things in comparison. We buy and consume readily, and partially to the discretion of our government and its minions in the media and business (or is it the other way 'round?), which in the end only contributes to supporting causes such as war and violence which we should be fighting. So while people are out there dying in a war, dying for us, we just blindly look away while we listen to commercial pop tunes and concern ourselves with our everyday materialism, and all the government and media is willing to do is support this and all of our other non-dissent-like actions. This song is easily summed up with the lyrics "we're buying everything that they're selling" because no matter what it is: propaganda or toys, we spend ourselves on them willingly. Different but good style for the Bandits. 'cept I sorely miss the horns, because damn, could they add some funk or sex to a song that might otherwise just fall flat. |
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| Elvis Costello – (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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While I'm leaning towards this song being about prostitution, I also think it could be about something else, but the lyrics that attribute to prostitution and the lyrics that can be attributed to an asylum don't seem to coalesce anywhere nice, so I'm gonna stick with prostitution. "photographs of fancy tricks, to get your kicks at sixty-six" could be referring to some risqué ad for the prostitutes. Something sexy to lure people in. "He thinks of all the lips that he licks And all the girls that he's going to fix" this is basically the guy fantasizing (in what seems to me, a very malevolent tone)of what he is going to "do" and has done to all these girls. "She gave a little flirt" is the prostitute trying to lure her customer in, but I interpret the "gave herself a little cuddle" in two different ways. She could either being smushing her breasts together to give herself some cleavage, or she could be "hugging" herself for comfort because this isn't something she wants to do. She's scared. "But there's no place here for the mini-skirt waddle" meaning that you can't just be tempting people, you really have to get in there and submit yourself to what you are selling. ThunderCow's explanation for "capital punishment" seats well for me. I'm not sure about the "she's last year's model," but I've always assumed that whoever the prostitute is, she's getting older and she's not "fresh" anymore, thereby getting less desirable. This leads to her being confused for all these girls "they call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie" because now she's just like all the other girls on the street that she's working/competing with. The refrain I've always took to be the two people, the prostitute and her customer, in a sort of relationship and the time of the "sell," and you can get his feelings and the girl's feelings at what she is doing. "I don't want to go to Chelsea" the girl doesn't want to work there anymore. "Oh no it does not move me" she is not attracted to the lifestyle of the people she is with. "Even though I've seen the movie" I always thought that this referred to maybe a glammed up version of her lifestyle seen in a movie that made her choose it. Now she rejects what she saw. "I don't want to check your pulse" Now the girl is with her customer, and she's having second thoughts, and she is starting to pull away. "I don't want nobody else" her customer is drawing her back in, saying that he wants HER, not anyone else because he paid her. "I don't want to go to Chelsea" Essentially, that's the whole life on the street/prostitution bit that I'm sure of. I always contributed the lyrics that sound like a psych asylum to be the prostitute as she has gotten older and become crazy or depressed because of all the things she has done in her life that have ruined her. The state or someone puts her into an asylum, but there are still people there who take advantage of her "everybody's got new orders, be a nice girl and kiss the warders" and "one's named Gus, one's named Alfie" are the new people she has to give her body to. It's a song about the destructive nature of allowing sex become a perverse and forced thing, and how it ruins people. But that's my take on it. |
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| Rx Bandits – Taking Chase As The Serpent Slithers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is a very blatant remark to an heroin addiction. "One more kiss to forget you" seems to be remarking on how the only way to think about your drug of choice is to be using it. Same with the line "it's so easy to forget." If he just takes some more, he'll forget it all. "She moves so slowly Like a lover's breath Hopin' I can tear down the walls and breathe But I never knew Oh what this girl could get into" makes me think of how he started doing heroin not realizing just what kind of relationship that he was entering to, and that now, even when he wants to break free "she" has an unbelievable stranglehold on him. He never realized how addictive heroin would become. The stanza that begins with "When I'm inside her I don't think twice" basically summarizes the whole addiction. It draws him and seduces him, and heroin is this total experience "when she's in my blood you know it feels so nice" but when he's sober he realizes just what a miserable state his life is in. Even with such a realization, he's willing to do anything for that fix, the only "good" thing in his life "cause I don't wanna give up what's little left of my luck" and so he just keeps going with it. A total addiction song. And it's about heroin, because the serpent/dragon reference is spot on for heroin. |
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