| Soundgarden – Black Saturday Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I can't believe I'm the only one who thinks this is somehow political. "Kill me right away if I start to listen To the voices Telling all the mouths what they need to swallow" Those voices tell "all the mouths", in other words, they want to have some kind of normative power over everyone. The words "need" and "swallow" also seem to imply that it isn't a suggestion, but some kind of obligation or even an order. (Though I'm not sure to which voices he's exactly referring. It could be cultural norms, the government, etc.) The fact that he would rather die than listening to those voices seems to imply that he thinks that submiting to the status quo is immoral and unthinkable. The chorus probably means that he'd rather be ostracized and temporally forgotten than to remain in such a corrupt/immoral form. That way, he would realize his mistakes and become able to correct himself, being "born again". |
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| El Perro del Mar – Candy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Seems like it's about someone who's always trying to meet other people's expectations and finally decides it'd be better to find out what she really wants. Also, the "I'm going forth to buy me some candy" verse makes me think she's probably fat and usually on a diet to get that amazing body everyone wants. But that's me going a bit too far, maybe. |
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| The Whitest Boy Alive – Golden Cage Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Maybe this is too dramatical, but I think this song is about suicide. "So you no longer care if there's another day" To me, this is the line where it tells all: if you don't care if there's another day, then you don't care to live until tomorrow. "I guess I have been there, I guess I am there now" And then he says that he understand his friend's feelings because he feels the same. "You knew what you wanted and you fought so hard Just to find yourself sitting in a golden cage In a golden cage" His friend (and maybe himself) tried really hard to get what he/she wanted from life. A "golden cage", at least in my language, is an expression used to refer to a highly confortable or luxurious situation to which you can't escape. Finding yourself in a golden cage would be to live a highly desirable life, but being imprisoned by it. (Just imagine a bird in a golden cage, the cage seems expensive, but it doesn't change anything to its misery.) So, this leaves us to two possible interpretations: She/he was successful, but instead of being happy, ended up imprisoned by her/his own achievements. (For example, getting rich and being unable to walk on the streets for fear of being robbed.) Or, she/he failed because she/he wasn't free, even thought her/his initial situation was really good. Anyway it is, this prison led her/him to despair and depression. "So of course I miss you and miss you bad But I also felt this way when I was still with you Yes of course I miss you and miss you bad But I also felt this way when I was still with you" He misses his friend (who, in this interpretation, didn't go away, but died) but his not that impressed by his/her death, because he didn't feel close before. It may be because his friend was so depressed that ended up isolating himself/herself or because of the natural loneliness of every human being. "This city's no longer mine There's sadness written on every corner" Everywhere he goes makes him remember his friend, so he feels alienated and wants to go away. "Each lover was made to sign Now I hear them calling me over and over" Maybe the lovers show some kind of connection and happiness which reminds him of his solitude and depression, making it all worse. |
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| Bikini Kill – Capri Pants Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I agree with the interpretation that says it is about a couple who's happy but the girl is scared to commit because she learned that, if "it feels so good, it must be wrong". But I think it's not only this, since she's asking him not to follow her and not to impose on her his views of what she must want. To me it seems as if the song says she's scared and she's wrong, but it doesn't mean he can force himself on her, because it would only make it all worse. |
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| Bikini Kill – Demirep Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this is about a common relantioship between a boy and a girl. He wants her to be pretty, thin, to always smile to him, and to be the kind of conservative girl who'd take him to meet her parents. He thinks he deserves this because he has money, and, because of this, she acts as he wants, but this only makes her some kind of whore. She knows she's only acting, lying, and that she could tell the truth, but she's scared that, if she did it, he'd turn violent. He'd answer not with words, but with his baseball bat, and even if he did only talk to her, it'd be words full of hatred, dedicated to dominate her. His violent reaction would make her belong to him, as if she was some kind of object, where he could mark his initials. The children's song in the beginning seems to show the way women are forced to stay forever in some kind of fake childhood, unable to grow up and decide for themselves. Even when they're old, they have to depend on someone and act innocent, even thought they're mature enough to live their own lives. |
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| Liars – Scissor Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think it's the story of someone who found someone who cut herself (by accident or as suicide) and feels he should save her, but he's too scared to do anything. Instead, he tries to pass this burden to someone else, looking for it in the worst places possible, secretly wishing she'd die soon and let him free from this obligation. And then he discovers she's alive and, even worse, awake, and can testimony he's cowardice and lack of morals. | |
| Liars – Scarecrows On A Killer Slant Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I disagree with deprebean. When I hear it, I can't stop thinking it's some kind of social commentary, something about the disproportion between the problem and the reaction to it. Who would shoot someone just because he's a little bit bothersome? That's something really cruel and disproportionate. Also, as the song starts with the commentary about the bums, it seems to me as if it was comparing the small insensitive actions (as ignoring someone) with worse things as some kinds of murder practiced by gangs. The results may vary, but the reasoning behind it (he/she bothers me) is the same. |
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| The Statler Brothers – Flowers On The Wall Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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When I first heard this song, I tought he was in jail or something like that. After reading jco448, I think his interpretation makes sense. But I also agree with feedapollyon, except I don't think he's talking to his bullies, but to the people who sent him to the hospital. To me, it all seems like he's been kept somewhere and misses his normal life ("Last night I dressed in tails, pretended I was on the town"), but he doesn't want the help from those people who are so concerned about him. He want them to go away, so he tells them he's quite well and they shouldn't worry. I think this passage is specially interesting: "It's good to see you, I must go, I know I look a fright Anyway my eyes are not accustomed to this light And my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete So I must go back to my room and make my day complete" As I see it, he doesn't want to be with this person, he wants to go away as soon as possible. But when he says he "must go back to [his] room", it makes clear he's not going to another building, nor is he asking the person to leave, and he's somewhere in the building where he usually don't go. So I guess he's not in his home. In fact, I've got the feeling he's in some kind of visitors room, which was why I first thought he was in jail. |
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| Mclusky – Kkkitchens, What Were You Thinking? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Can't believe no one commented on this... It seems to me it's about Ku Klux Klan, because of the kkk in kkkitchens, and verses like "if racial tension is a benchmark/ then how much for this sink in a riot?" (that seems to refer to its violent and terrorist methods) and "I think you gave us everything that we could ever ask/ of a little racist shop"... The verse "what drugs were all your salesmen taking?" seems to refer to the insanity of its racism and its acts. "A molecular fault in a parallel world" may mean the organization doesn't have a place in the real world. "But you're a spook, a legend,/ an urban myth with a twist in the tail" is about how it ended up getting into people's imaginary, as something terrible and unknown. "I tried to run but spent the weekend shaking" seems to show how scary it is too. But, I can't see how the "da-ddy, don't marry da-ddy" goes with all this... |
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