| Hum – Stars Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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He took for granted that she'd always be there--she was so devoted at one time...loved him, adored him. Hung on his every word: "I thought you'd be there holding daisies, you always wait for me." He treated her carelessly so her love began to waver. She's begun to feel like she wasted all her time loving someone too selfish to truly love her back with all his heart and now she's "missed her train" because she spent all her youth and love on something that broke her. She's thinking about all the stuff she could have done and how time has passed her by. The light has gone from her eyes. She doesn't care anymore: "I found her out back sitting naked looking up and looking dead." But the truth is, he misses her. She's still there with him, but her heart is cold and he realizes that she'll soon leave him. She's counting stars...waiting for her chance to take the next train. |
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| Faith No More – Midlife Crisis Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Mike Patton is notorious for bullshitting reporters. I don't believe the Madonna thing at all. Midlife Crisis is about a child's father who lusts for his youth and abandons the family and then that child grows up and has a Midlife crisis himself. The whole time he's going through it, he remembers the pain of being selfishly abandoned by his own father and is both sickened by the pain he's causing as well as with the sudden sympathy and renewed anger towards his father who left so many years ago for the same reasons. The song is riddled with double-meanings. A lot of times, men going through a Midlife crisis feel as though they've wasted their youth and potential and have regrets. They suddenly feel "weighed down" by the burdens of family and want to be young again. "Suck ingenuity down through the family tree" Refers to that sense of having wasted potential to pass it on to the kids. It also refers to the "passing on" of the crisis itself from father to son. "Your menstruating heart doesn't bleed enough for two" Another dual meaning: 1. it refers the anger he felt as a child at his father expressing sorrow but leaving anyway...like saying "I'm sorry I have to do this, kid" and walking out the door. 2. it refers to his own understanding of the emotional hemorrhaging he is causing his family and realizing that he's going to abandon them anyway. Now read the rest of the lyrics and you'll understand. |
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| Pat Benatar – We Belong Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's about being married to your soulmate and being on the brink of divorce. "We belong to the sound of the words We've both fallen under" The words = marriage vows "Whatever we deny or embrace For worse or for better... We belong together" "For worse or for better" is again, a direct reference to marriage vows but the song implies a deeper meaning than just the superficiality of the contract of marriage--it implies a sense that there's something elemental about the relationship that makes them intrinsically inseparable. |
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