| Local Natives – Camera Talk Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The camera's talking... This song is simply about looking back at your travels and remembering everything you've done. It's reminiscing. | |
| Local Natives – Wide Eyes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hm... I'm not sure what this song is about, but I'm gonna try to give it my best shot. I think this song is about the Vietnam War. I know that sounds stupid, but hear me out. The song begins by talking about some evil that everyone fears. Initially, everyone talks about how bad it is and tries to ignore it, but soon they're "placing it on their tongues" as if they're forced to come to terms with this evil. It's in their mouths, it's part of their speech, it's being spoken about. This evil is, of course, the possibility of a coming war. The narrator can only imagine what it must be like to see such a thing with his own eyes. "No food or water for the better part of ten months / Quietly he sat between the folds of a tree trunk" to me is just about a soldier. There he is, using somewhat guerrilla tactics to hide in the trees and wait for his enemy. Maybe guerrilla is a play on Gorilla Manor. Still, the narrator can only imagine what it must have been like to see everything that happened with his own eyes. The men of faith and science question if this war is doing any good in the long term. They're questioning everything, and they wonder if it will "ever be on earth as it is in heaven". By this it is meant, will there ever be peace again? Tell me if I'm crazy... |
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| The National – Secret Meeting Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've always thought this song is maybe about some sort of drug problem. Not to say that anyone in the band might be an addict of any sort, but I see songs as stories and I like to make up music videos in my head while I'm listening. In this song (story), I see a man who is trying to keep his addictions quiet. Perhaps he's even trying to quit. But he's clearly having a rough time of it. He's seeing "spies" and feeling just paranoid in general. He refers to someone important in his life who "puts in the hours to keep [him] in sunglasses." Perhaps the sunglasses reference is to wearing them in order to cover up bloodshot eyes or some such. He's using this other person's hard-earned cash to waste his own life. The secret meeting in the basement of my brain is, to me, kind of a pun. Where do you go when you wanna hide out or smoke by yourself? Maybe the basement. The reference to the basement of the brain might be literal, going downstairs, or just trying to express deep inner thoughts and turmoil. However, it always goes that dull, wicked, ordinary way. Which is to say, it's a cycle. Nothing changes, but it's something undesirable and wrong. He thinks he's ruined. He's somewhat addicted, paranoid, and trying to make an effort to quit, but he's still missing meetings with people in favor of his own time spent thinking or nursing habits. Who knows? I know there are actual words being shouted in the ending choruses, but I don't see these as intelligible. I hear someone saying he's in the basement of his brain, just hiding out and thinking, and there are multiple persons shouting at him. He's got some sort of problem and he's hearing voices. I dunno. I'm up for suggestions. |
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| John Frusciante – Loss Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't see how no one has cared to analyze this song! It's beautiful! In the beginning, John is reflecting on his past. He makes the music that divides us. Although it's often depressing and we can cry to it, we still are moved and uplifted. The wars he refers to are his personal trials and tribulations, forever locked in song lyrics for us. He feels that this is important, sharing his ordeals with us. There was a dark time in his life when he didn't have any direction or meaning. It was unorganized, filled with death. Things have opened up, and now he has a new life to look forward to. He never said to do anything but forget the old John. There are so many new things to discover! But at the same time, everything he's ever learned has come from the losses and despair in his life. He acknowledges that these things cannot be completely forgotten at all. I'm still unclear about Long Town and the references to that place, but it seems like it was an unhappy time where people made wrong assumptions and hurled insults at one another. There is something to be learned from it, but he forgets it. He is trying to communicate it toward the end. Just as there is an inner cost to everything we learn, we "give for everything we're getting." Any unresolved emotions are locked away to build up until they explode some day. He ends by imploring us to forget him, and to forgive him. He is already long gone, but one day he'll be back when you least expect it. You'll look up and down and pinch yourself to be sure it isn't a dream. He'll be there with the answers. It's probably far-fetched, but please comment and let me know what you think. I'd love to get inside John's head just to understand these crazy lyrics. But until then, I'm relying on you to help me analyze them... |
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| John Frusciante – The Mirror Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is by far one of my favorite Frusciante songs. I hear it and I feel complete raw emotion. It's like listening to a dejected soul finally shattering. I don't know why, but let me try to explain. First off, the song opens up with these misty sounds, but I hear them as sighs, instead. It's like John is taking a deep breath and bracing himself. For me, this song is about growing old and losing touch with yourself. "Hit in the face when you open a door" should not be interpreted literally, but more like when opportunity knocks, your plans blow up in your face for whatever reason. The next lines "Unconsiderate... to you" are about falling into disrepair, neglecting yourself. Without proper care, all instruments fade out of tune. By the end of the first verse, I think about how older people are "let go" in the workplace and replaced by younger workers. "Fired by an unknown eye" might reflect this view. The second verse makes me sad. It is socially accepted and expected that men act strong, if even in facade. He wasn't supposed to cry, but now things are changing. He knows that "becoming mature" really means that he is going to die. He looks in the mirror and sees an old, changed face, no longer the young spirit inside. In the next verse, I interpret the lyrics as a social metaphor. How many times have we been ashamed of ourselves, hiding from others, from social atmosphere and jokes because we were unsure? Our emotions run every which way at once, and we cannot assume anything to be true. It is sad. In the last verse, I truly feel that the lyrics should be "Time doesn't crawl back to where it doesn't show." Although I know this to be mistaken, I feel that it is much more poignant. Time is cruel and relentless. It never hides its face. When in groups with friends, sometimes comments are made such as, "Oh, look at Debbie, she hasn't changed at all since high school!" But John feels that no one ever refers to him in this context. He has changed. He has grown and matured, and he is not sure if he is adjusted to that change yet. For the ending makes this clear: "The face in the mirror is not me." He doesn't know who he is anymore. This is just my skewed interpretation. Feel free to comment on it. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Get On Top Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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the actual music that hooks in at "complications of a mastermind" is fucking amazing! i could listen to those few lines forever and ever... |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Porcelain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Personally, whenever I hear this song, my mind plays quite a different scene. First off, I hear Little Loon, not Lune... I know a loon isn't exactly a swan, but bear with me for a moment... To me, this song is about a white swan who has lost her mate. According to popular belief, swans are monogamous birds who keep a single mate forever. If the birds are split up, they are unhappy until they die. This poor swan in the song is wasting away, drifting, floating, and fading away, waiting for death. Sure, she may carry a moon in her womb (an egg or more) but she's still unhappy. In fact, Anthony asks: DO YOU SMILE LIKE A GIRL WHEN YOU SMILE? Yes, it's smile both times... This main character neither smiles nor is she a girl... She's a poor little lune, wasting away, waiting for death, but still so pretty and graceful... That's my interpretation. Take it or leave it, no matter. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – This Is the Place Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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You know, I've read everyone's comments and I can understand what the song means... But for some reason, every time I hear this song, I think that it's about a transexual! I mean, something of that sort. Hear me out! First off, it has this really creepy funk to it that kinda sounds dirty, and it's about the place where trashy people and junkies go. Maybe the misfits of society. This tranny thing is singing the song, right? Okay... Vaseline, we all know what that's good for. And as far as giving it to a kid, that could be AIDS or any other sexually transmitted disease. Well, as far as the parts about DNA go, I think the tranny or whatever he is (maybe born with other parts) is kinda jealous of normal people. But in the end, he still has normal desires (gasoline, wolverine). At any rate, if you still don't believe my interpretation... How do you explain the part about a misfit "born with all of it"? If you were the "fucking ultimate of love" I assume you'd have both sets of working parts huh? All of that "inside the atom split" could be pretty complicated. A big "mash of DNA." Well, that's my view on the song. I think it's more of a humorous thing, but I like looking at things that way. Anyways, don't kill me for having such crazy ideas about the lyrics haha |
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| The Bravery – No Ring On These Fingers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i don't know what i think when i hear this song. it's so catchy and quirky. the opening lines about the ocean definitely set the scene for me: i think of a crowded boardwalk next to the ocean. you know, the kind with carnivals and vendors and horrible plastic souvenirs... well, this narrator-man is just hanging out on a beach towel watching all the families and couples and "happy people." (okay, i usually think of songs as music videos, so this is just my interpretation) he's probably with some buddies and they wanna pick up chicks or something so they go up to the boardwalk itself. and all this time he's thinking: i want something serious; a sweet and honest girl who can me an honest man. meanwhile, he doesn't see any rings on those fingers. all the couples are flightly and flaky, girls and guys who will turn out to be just summer flings. life in that town is just a joke... he must have had fun wishing, but now his heart is broke. it's hard to think of commitment and serious relationships when all he's come face-to-face with are surface lusts and teenage flings. that's what i see when i hear this song. i think it's catchy and cute, but not really a deep, deep song. it's addressing non-commital relationships from a more light-hearted angle. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Wet Sand Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, this song is about a man who is at first being barraged by people who question his love life and the "mistakes" he may have made to the point where he feels he has to escape and break free. He knows that he may have done some things wrong, but it was his love affair, it was innocent and sweet, and it's none of their business. The song continues with the man's remembrances of the woman he loved. The part about the butterflies and hummingbirds is just breathtaking and nostalgic and beautiful. I'm not exactly sure why there are parts about the mother and father and daugther, but in my mind, I imagine that the man is lamenting because somehow, he was just so close to what he wanted but he never got the girl completely. He was consecrated, but not devout. He did everything he had to do on the outside to create a facade, maybe even meeting her parents, but there was something missing inside. And he lost her. I like to think that she died, because then it's bittersweet and tragic. Maybe it was his fault that she died, which is why he doesn't like to talk about it, and his heart hurts when he shares the sad story. At any rate, he travels coast to coast, trying to heal that pain. I imagine him making it to California and lying down in the sand, exhausted. In his delusions, she is lying there next to him, and all is well, until he realizes that his body makes an impression in the sand, while hers fails to form at all. And then we're back at the beginning, with the man who can't talk about the pain he feels. Oh, I don't know what these lyrics really mean. I don't know the half of what RHCP was trying to say when they wrote amazing songs like this. I think the way we get the most out of their lyrics is to just come to them with an open mind and to let the words work for us on an individual level. That's the appeal. It may have meant something completely different to the band whenever they composed this song, but to me it's a sad romantic tragedy. It is what we need it to be, and it's absolutely beautiful. By far my favorite song on this CD. |
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