| Chris Bathgate – A Flash of Light Followed By Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is about death, most specifically suicide. I'm sure it has double meanings though, I can already see a few through the way Chris portrays this rather crappy topic. The setting is a backyard, at night. Lots of people choose to do it in their backyards. In the lines, 'A flash of light followed by silence' I assume the writer is speaking about how after the initial gun blast, that the next thing is silence/death. The line 'dust my chin a finer ash' relates to the feint remnants of a gun blast that exits out the chamber with the firing of a bullet. Followed by the lines: I kissed your lips with the safety off; lips are the chamber of the gun and safety off is the simple reminder he's putting a gun to his/her head. The final end of the verse represents the final moments to me, the person of importance is fading and dies. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Rocks Off Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The song is about both drugs and sex, and can obviously be taken both ways. It's about a point where your so high up, your so fucked up on the drugs and into all kinds of sex that life just seems dull and pointless, because you've accomplished all those bullshit rock n roll fantasies and the only fun you can ever have is in your dreams. And yeah, it's definitely about heroine too. "Heading for the overload, splattered on a dusty road, kick me like you've kicked me before, I cant' even feel the pain anymore" is definitely a heroine reference. Overload, splattered, kicking the habit, if any of you know anything about heroine, you'll understand. |
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| The Clash – 1977 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Great song, for sure about how get over the old and go in with the new punk wave. And yeah, still fits today, least to me. | |
| Hootie & the Blowfish – I Go Blind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Could be about a child, could be about an addict (I can see myself in there sadly), or maybe just about love. That early love when your unsure; like when you can't decide about your girlfriend/boyfriend and that feeling drives you about mad. Or blind, because of the indecision or the uncertainty. "Something in me just won't give me a chance," that line could go with how the person can't get their chance to show their true love. Hold me hold cause I wanna get higher is a beg to that girl or guy to reach out to you and love you so you can too. Reminds me of my last love. Thinking about that makes me realize the song could be about coming out of love with all the pain and trying to win that love, your woman back. Funny, now after writing this I've got the urge to go get my love back. Go Hootie. |
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| Sublime – Badfish Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The song is definitely about drugs in one sense. Someone said that it was about Brad's addiction with heroine and how he was a poisoned fish, which makes the most sense. "Are you a Badfish too?" is a question that could be asked to a lover or friend, drinking with your buddys, or getting down. "Won't somebody get me off of this reef" could apply how he's a dead/badfish thrown into the sea and stuck in the reef, which is his heroine addiction. "Grab the reef under my bed" probably refers to smoking weed or keeping his addiction going.. "I ain't got no quarrels with god" and "Ant got no time to grow old" I think is about how he's good with god/heaven and that he thinks he's got no more time live. That'd be pretty intense if true, cuz he did infact die of his addiction. Also in the live version at palace he says "I gotta go dude" before his solo- probably backs up the thoughts of death. It's his life, that's what the song is about. How he felt, he opened up when he wrote this. Again, I ain't no quarrels with god, that's him saying what he thinks personally, he is the Badfish. And so am I. |
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| Fleet Foxes – Icicle Tusk Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| To me, it's about the sorrow that comes with hard decisions and what you feel must be done because its right, to you. One is killed, but not in the name of money but because it was right to another. And then of course, living on with yourself, as the last few lines explain. | |
| Rogue Wave – Eyes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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From seeing different things with this song, as in a video that I expect would be the bands. The song is about love itself, not so much love broken up. Love waiting, love coming, love there. Missing the train home to his love, off in a town, bored. Personally, he/she is saying that they can't live without their other's love. Everything reminds them of the other's love. And in the video that I did see, which I assume again is the bands, it showed the two pair walking off together. Plus the song actually sounds hopeful, despite its simple tones. The music, guitars, general beeps and boops all sound positive. Wish I'd written it, myself. Great love song. |
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| Jesu – Conqueror Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, other than drugs, there is probably a deeper meaning somewhere in there. I've written lyrics about experiences with drugs and well, it wasn't just about some drug or high. Trails are certainly the pathway of life, and I believe Justin Broadrick went on to speak about not just his own group, but society in general. This machine that is America, that is the modern world. "We have to be just like all the others." "The spaces they made for us are all filled up" could mean that these groups outside of the norm that were pushed off to the side are finally gone, because the pop culture/society in general has expanded to a point where there is no more room for individuality. This goes back to the first section, where he goes on to tell ya to hop on the band wagon. The colours relate to hope, that even in the machine, a human is a human, and an individual is an individual. This song to me is a chant for hope, like chimes after a funeral, or something to that effect. |
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| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Redemption Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It is an awakening for all those out there that hear its calm and charming sound. It is not so much about Mr Marley's redemption as it is mankind's, I believe. He speaks of the troubles of our history and the misguided people of his age. The power of culture has kept us strait, and now that the end could be near (as it might have appeared in those times), mankind needs to fade with "another song of freedom." We don't need our weapons, we don't need money or politics, all you need is your redemption song. That's all they had needed. |
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