| Fleetwood Mac – Landslide Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The way I read into it -and I'm pretty sure I'm right- this song is about cocaine abuse. She's describing a pivotal moment in her life when she took a lot of coke, felt real high then caught her reflection and realised how fucked up she was. 'I took my love, I took it down' - she took some cocaine, something she describes as her 'love', which shows how into it she was. 'I climbed a mountain...' - she felt the rush ..'and turned around' - the pivotal moment. Literally turned around at some point and... 'saw her reflection in the snow covered hills' - meaning she caught her reflection in a dressing table mirror (the mirror in the context of the song means truth) along with all the mounds of coke on her table i.e. the 'snow covered hills'. Presumably she looks old and rough and haggard. The 'landslide' is both the come down from the coke AND the disappointment and shame at how fucked up she is. It hits her doubly hard, hence why it's not just a come down but a landslide. The landslide brings her right down from the mountain mentioned earlier. She then asks 'the mirror in the sky', i.e. the truth in the sky, God, what love actually is, having realised that what previously made her feel good (coke) has actually ruined her. She then contemplates whether she has the goodness (the child in her heart) to get through it, the strength to overcome the negativity in her life ('the ocean tide') and the resources to deal with the external things going on around her (the seasons in her life, which are presumably fame, adultery, excess, drugs, basically all that was going on with fleetwood mac at the time). I think personally, her attention moves to why she is in the state she is. She attributes it to being scared of leaving lindsey buckingham (who she built her life around). She was afraid of the consequences of NOT going down the route the other band members were. Mainly, isolation from this man who she's built her life around. She probably felt like she couldn't live without Lindsey. Then I think she realises the only way out of her current predicament is to become more independent, primarily of Lindsey. She realises that it's a make or break moment in her life. I'm not sure who the last bit is directed at. It's a bit ambiguous. Any ideas? |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Pretty Visitors Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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some of these lyrics are wrong but I reckon the songs got something to do with Alex's dismay at some of the fans at Arctic Monkeys gigs. I remember when the Horrors supported Arctic Monkeys. Faris Rotter took a lot of stick off the crowd for looking different and Alex wasn't too happy about it. I think it's got something to do with his fan's expectations, trapping him into this pre-conceived stereotype of an indie boy from sheffield, not letting him grow kind of thing. The snakepit on the wall is their true reflection (snakes). It's quite similar to Perhaps Vampires is a bit Strong But... but now it's directed at those who missed the point of his band in the first place, rather than the liggers who tried to get in on the hype when they first started. I could be well off the mark but the way the words are written and strung together makes me think he's havin' a cleverly disguised pop at the people who won't like humbug. lots of spiteful assonance |
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| The Clash – Lost in the Supermarket Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The song was written after Joe got back from a supermarket at about 6 in the morning. apparently, all the bright lights, offers etc just overwhelmed him so he felt kind of small and lonely. mick jones reckons tho that joe wrote it from mick's perspetive. dont agree wit that tho | |
| Klaxons – Totem On The Timeline Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The club 18-30 bit is about the people in there who think they are like or act like Julius Caesar, Lady Diana and Mother Theresa. Just the drunken/pilled up idiots | |
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