| Metric – Gold Guns Girls Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Um. It's about the movie Scarface. At least, that's what Emily Haines said. | |
| Kate Bush – Under Ice Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's about a woman lost at sea. The whole second half of the album, The Ninth Wave, tells the story of a woman alone at sea. To Dream Of Sheep is her trying not to succumb to hypothermia and fall asleep in the cold water. In Under Ice she falls asleep and in her dream she sees herself drowning. Jig of Life: "Where on your palm is my little line?" Her older self is trying to communicate with her younger, present self. And so on. Kate herself has said as much. | |
| Pink Floyd – Scream Thy Last Scream Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It doesn't have to mean anything in particular. All we really know is that Syd wrote some words. Given his state at the time, I would guess that he wrote the lyrics after seeing a cleaning lady scrubbing the floors at the study. It really might be that simple. |
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| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think people are really romanticizing Syd's life way too much. I think he was a young man searching for his identity and finding that he was being rewarded for being as weird as possible. And that people were responding to him as an icon and not as a human. It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here And I'm much obliged to you for making it clear That I'm not here. I think that line is a reference to the band. He knew that he was on the way out. He's saying it is nice that people are being considerate of his condition, and that he appreciates knowing that he is on the way out. This was Syd's goodbye tune, after all. It could also refer to his relationship with the fans, that they applaud his far-out image while not seeing the real Syd (Roger) underneath. And I never knew the moon could be so big And I never knew the moon could be so blue I'm pretty sure that is "moon" in both lines. There is the symmetry between the lines, for one thing. And a "blue moon" is the second full moon in the same month. It occurs every 2.5 years or so. I imagine Syd lonely and watching the moon, as people do sometimes. And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes And brought me here instead dressed in red I seem to remember a story about Syd's shoes. Something about how they had to tape them up to keep them on. And later on they were replaced by the Gohill's boots, of course. And dressed in red is very flashy, like his external image had become. And I'm wondering who could be writing this song. So here we have Syd who has become an icon, driven by fans to drop too much acid and act bizarre. He's trying to figure out which parts are the real Syd (Roger) and which parts are just an act. I don't care if the sun don't shine And I don't care if nothing is mine And I don't care if I'm nervous with you I'll do my loving in the winter. I hear this as the real Syd breaking out for a moment. And the sea isn't green And I love the queen And what exactly is a dream And what exactly is a joke. I think this last part is partly wordplay. But I also think is says that in the midst of all the drugs and fame and insanity, he is wondering what is real. Lastly, I think that Syd's mental condition was probably way overplayed by the media. Still, it is clear that he was having problems and was not able to keep it together. He is not in a sanitarium, though he did see several psychiatrists. He went to live with his mother, produced a few more records, then became reclusive, preferring to paint rather than to make music. |
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| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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neverumind: The treatment for the Bends is recompression. They put you back in a pressure chamber and *slowly* bring you back to surface pressure. It usually takes six hours. There is no drip feed. I think the "drip feed" refers to the fact that the character in the story, whomever that might be, is using the alcohol as a constant medication, instead of as a recreation. |
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| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song seems pretty simple to me. The "Bends" is a sort of decompression sickness that occurs when you go from high pressure to low pressure and nitrogen bubbles lodge in you joints (the blood thickens). Caisson workers in the late 1800's got this and they called it the "bends" after the "Grecian Bend", a popular fashion pose at the time. Astronauts are in danger of getting the bends when they blast off. It can happen when you move from a normal atmosphere into a vacuum. It frequently occurs on airplanes (reduced pressure), after a diving trip. He's using the bends as a metaphor. Whatever happened, his friends are leaving him, resulting in a vacuum. And without real friends to help you cope, the bad stuff starts bubbling up out of you. So he's drinking a lot, and wishing for simpler times, like the 60's. And friends to help him cope with the threatening world. |
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| Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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re: Quotient A quotient refers to division, or in this case, proportion. The "mystery of the quotient" is that our lives have a balance or sorrow and jubilation. |
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