| Animal Collective – Cuckoo Cuckoo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Mortality, and some themes revolving around it. You will most likely witness your mother passing during your own lifetime, I at first thought the first bit was that, her watching as she left her son, but I'm second guessing it to be his perspective. "How I lost my boy How I lost my boy How I lost my boy How I lost my boy The king in I died He kept floating past my eyes and singing his songs Life was good now death's all wrong Cause you can't feel a thing No heart flutters in late spring You just drift and pray for sun-kissed golden days" First bit would be about passing from his younger self in time. He lost the boy in him; haven't thought out how literally it could be called the king in him because I don't yet want to apply that perspective to the whole song, but that's my thought. Either way life being considered positive would make death the opposite, you can't feel a thing, and as you drift towards your end in time you wish you were young again, so it kind of ties within the idea of losing his younger self. Kind of existentialism, you can't go back to where or who you were, time changes permanently. "And I can't hold what's in my hand Don't do any good to say this isn't what I planned And little kids sliding down the steel park slide Little kids can't play with things that died Sometimes all I want is one favorite song And two to three minutes don't seem so long And where's my mom I want to hold her tight She's so far away from crowded nights" You can't keep the world, you can't take anything with you, either in the long term sense of ownership of something during life, or when crossing the horizon of death. The little kid lines are cool; could be that he's lamenting his inability to play with kids, as a kid, as that part of him is gone, or that death takes away people that would otherwise play with them. This line also gives a lot to the miscarriage idea, but I'm avoiding that perspective to present my own (not that it isn't applicable). Enjoying a favorite song makes minutes blow by (songs are, in my opinion, a cooler way to measure one's time than conventional measurement like minutes. Doesn't apply to interpretation, just sharing a thought), again playing up that you can't reclaim time. His mom's out of his life the way she was in it when he was a child, she's moving along time, too, at the same distance, which is edging towards the end. "She's so away from crowded nights" could be a reference to her isolation from people at her age, she can't hang out anymore. "I'm going cuckoo cuckoo We're all going cuckoo cuckoo We're all going" I like that "we're all going" sounds more like a line than cuckoo cuckoo, which sounds more incomprehensible, because "we're all going" alone would apply to the direction of my interpretation. Going cuckoo is crazy, ya? I guess we all are too. Not a well developed idea on my part. "I said please stay You can see me, don't go away I can't see the landscape Please describe its amaranthine haze It's odd where I am They're people you're not like them They just look away for rain-quenched golden days" So yeah, back to the mother idea with this a bit. Please mom, don't go. Describe to me what life looks like closer to the end, what's the view from that end of the timeline? At his age people are looking back on the better times they've had. Maybe she's at the point where she turned around, could turn her back on the past to look ahead and see death full on. Maybe he can't see death yet, he's trying but is too far, is afraid to, or doesn't understand it. Think about a person's timeline, imagine them standing in a desert, walking slowly to the horizon. You could look back and see how far you've traveled, or forward. The haze has cleared for her enough to see the wall, since it's nearer. "And my tears quench five feet along And I can scream but cannot yawn And people gonna come and people gonna cry We just hope it's worth the age we die Don't try to erase what you have done Put your fingers in a mouth and kiss it if it wants And where's my friend, I want to hold him tight he's so far away from mountain light" He's been contemplating mortality for around five feet of his desert journey. He can scream out, but can't be bored, he knows he hasn't the time to. The third line is a play off "people gonna come, people gonna go", you're gonna cry when they go, you just got to hope that the suffering of life has been worth experiencing what you love and who you love. I'm getting lazy with literally interpreting the rest of the lines, I can't make them out directly for this. But I get a sense of carpe diem. "Put your fingers in a mouth and kiss it if it wants" Maybe this means clutch onto someone (by the mouth mind you) and kiss them if they want. That and the next line are pretty much to love people as you meet them, your friends might be gone, you'll miss them. There's my take, thanks if you read it. I love this song. |
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| Brand New – Sowing Season (Yeah) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master; If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -- Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!" Kipling |
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| Toad the Wet Sprocket – Torn Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I feel like both the lines "..love like an infant.." mean to love, but not interfere. Let your infant learn to stand up on its own, and, I guess, crawl away scared. | |
| Papa Roach – LoveHateTragedy (Eat the World) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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9/11 yeah but noone explained "some thrive on hate some love the dream" about the conflicting 'some', those who love, those who hate, and the tragedy of human nature being so self-defeating, as through it both those who love and hate fight it out. Through the hate of others, he found love |
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| John Butler Trio – Waited For You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Fucking beautiful and I haven't even listened to it yet | |
| Ben Harper – The Drugs Don't Work Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Absolutely great cover | |
| Empire of the Sun – We Are the People Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm going to say that you are reading too much into it, really; I mean, the possible state of the world as such as you said is easily believable if presented with certain ideas and events, and is largely unable to be disproven at a single person, or even a grassroot movements will, but your putting you own ideas into the meaning since conspiracy is at the top of your mind. Still, it works that way for a great deal of interpretations, often your own take on it will be related to what's going on in your life, and in all reality that's the best thing about music, instilling your own thoughts and ideas into it, it makes it a great personal connection when listening to your favorite tunes. | |
| Tool – Vicarious Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| We all thirst for blood, we're entranced by it, it's our very basic nature and the nature of the universe, so we entertain ourselves through witnessing the sorrows of others. You want to see death, admit it. | |
| Mute Math – Stare at the Sun Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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thanks for that post mdgwsu89, and troy's, raised my respect for the band. First thought at the song was that it boils down to the pointlessness of theological debates, no, not "why doesn't everyone just accept the Christian God", but "why are we fighting over something neither side can prove", as no one person can prove God or otherwise. Or, even more, any God that happens to exist is likely puzzled by debates over unimportant details that make up separate theologies. Sorry Musician2112Sean, not trying to offend your beliefs, but the Bible was written by humans. More important than trying to adhere to interpretations of literature well over a thousand years old is the idea of being inherently moral to your fellow person. |
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| Toad the Wet Sprocket – Walk On The Ocean Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Agree with frodoholic, lyrics remind me of the lewis and clark expedition, though I'm not entirely sure it's the direct meaning | |
| Fear Before – Drowning The Old Hag Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I'm surprised no one has figured this one out yet. He's talking about shooting himself in the head. " that, or he gave himself a mouth |
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| Fear Before – Everything's Not Shitty Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| keereerar's lyrics seem right, and definitely put the song to a whole light of sense | |
| Nirvana – The End (The Doors cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I kind of took it at first as if he was making fun of jim's writing style, but it was probably just light-hearted messing around creative, waffle house |
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| Fear Before – Fear Before Doesn't Listen to People Who Don't Like Them Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i'm pumped | |
| Guster – Eden Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| From the perspective of one who has been convinced (probably of their own views, not as a cult way) to live for themselves, to indulge for themselves of the world, and to pay others no care. He knows he's going to have to die one day, so he may be considered subject to judgment, but sinning is worth the experience, he'll remember his pleasures in hell. | |
| An Angle – Green Water Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The only copy from bright eyes would be conor's established love for alcohol in his songs, but, nahhhh. | |
| Ween – Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This really gets to me, and I'm sure that's the point | |
| Ween – It's Gonna Be (Alright) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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agree with fkr, mostly. it's odd, from any other band this song wouldn't mean so much, but with ween's songs, I feel like I know them as people, they just put so much of their identities into their work. which makes this quite a sad song, love it though |
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| Ween – Exactly Where I'm At Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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demeatloaf's interpretation would make pretty good sense. If the first couple of lines are involving a guy who isn't quite over what a significant other did in the past, the couple after could be that he's saying how "if she cheated in the past, she could do it now". I think this line can be taken as her cheating: "Your lips are like two flaps of fat They go front and back and flappity flap" If her lips go in different directions? Eh, maybe? aha |
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| Ween – A Tear For Eddie Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Why not as a tribute to all eddies?? It can carry that weight, it's fucking awesome. aha my friend Ed that got me into ween showed me this song first. sexymaniac lived up to his name by posting that link, sexy motherfucker, that show was amazing |
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| Fear Before – On The Bright Side, She Could Choke Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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good call smile, and next one, then, hmm. Well it's title says something along the lines of the effects of LSD (well, a hallucinogen of some sort) on the human psyche . |
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| Fear Before – Go Wash Your Mouth...I Don't Know Where It's Been Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's an interesting balance between stalking and infatuation, but with either it can be realistic in its lyrics, which is scary enough | |
| Fear Before – Drowning The Old Hag Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I just wanted to point out the correlation between this and "..As a result of signals being crossed": "When what you see and what you believe are 2 different things 2 different things You can really start to wear down and lose it And they will never see it" and "What you see and what you believe are never gonna be the same" I'd have to take some time to interpret it fully, but either way, the first bit is lyrically amazing |
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| Fear Before – Consequences David, You'll Meet Your Fate In The Styx Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| An antisocial, self-questioning kid who buys opiates which he does to help him relate to the "birds" | |
| Fear Before – The 20th Century Was Entirely Mine Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I haven't heard this before, but in the first two minutes of reading the lyrics, I would say that a "diver" is a 'historian'; the rest is for you. | |
| Fear Before – The Waiting Makes Me Curious Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Like toolej said; reflecting on your soon to be nonexistence certainly makes one feel alive. "Just like I came into this world All by myself I will leave it" I interpret this to mean that events, people and attachments in life are meaningless, in that when you die, you alone make that journey, and take nothing with you. This also justifies that "holding onto your vice" isn't at all an ignorant thing to do, for in the end it's moot (since you die whether you do or don't; enjoy your misdoings/unhealthy habit/vice.). The holding on idea also sort of voids any belief of an afterlife, or expresses apathy to the possible consequences in any afterlife. "And if this world wasn't built for me, there is no point at all" I take this as reflection on the idea that man is not meant to spend an eternal existence in the world, and therefore it is not his home, 'not built for him'. There would be no point, then, to stay in it This then: "Twenty seven invincible years Where do you go when nowhere feels like home?" would express that, not feeling at home in the world, there is nowhere to go, no other alternative existence. I don't know if 27 holds any significance other than his age (or if it is his age at all). "And I can’t sleep a wink so I’ll tell you when I get there" With 'there' being 'home', I take this to mean that he can't be content/comfortable (can't sleep a wink) until he finds the home he seeks. I take "so I'll tell you when I get there" as semi-sarcastic, if this song is claiming man's true home to be death (it isn't exactly, it just points out that there is none, as far as I can see). Sarcastic because he wouldn't be able to 'tell you when he gets there'. I know the contradictory nature of this probably holds some kind of meaning, but I'm pretty tired. I'll walk into the light, but the lights fading away" could mean that he tries to find faith, but it diminishes as he grows in knowledge (sort of like hitting that "questioning your religion" stage of life, which I hope every person does at some point). That's a pretty half-assed interpretation, though |
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| Dance Gavin Dance – And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Emarosa will do quite well with their new vocalist (: (they were an awesome band before they had him, too; I'm kind of glad to be ridded of the rough vocals of DGD, they always sucked to me) Good song! Strong start to it; lyrics need tuning in terms of extra lines that can sort of diverge from the meaning of the song, though. I think they write them high, would explain the "wandering" way they go. Okay, not really, but it looks like it could easily be the end result of writing down ideas high; you think up complex ideas but have a shorter train of thought, and ignore the scale of the entire song as a whole. That, plus each sentence could have meanings that you wouldn't really put together in such a way if you didn't smoke first. |
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| A Heartwell Ending – feelings between the lines Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Love the progression and how the song slowly builds up near the end. More than likely a break-up song. | |
| Circa Survive – Travel Hymn Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think a big hint as to the song's meaning lies in the last few lines: "So slow down, because nobody looks at life the same And no one was like this ‘Til you came along And reset our dials wrong." I'd stick for now with the idea of this song being anti-church, condemning the idea of standardizing religious views and opinions, like I'm sure one could take Christianity (and other religious followings, to be fair) to be doing. "So slow down, because nobody looks at life the same" means then that one (or the church, not sure who it's directed at) shouldn't try to force opinions on others, because no two people witness life the same way, or have the same ideas exactly, including those in the church. "And no one was like this ‘Til you came along And reset our dials wrong" would then be meant to place blame on the church(es) for making everyone less accepting of differences and non-mainstream ideas. I think then, that Anthony views time as a creation (I think he believes in God, just not as Christianity or organized religion portrays him) intended to allow progress of human mental/spiritual development, which is hindered by the sociological damper Christianity and some of it's more zealous followers place on individual beliefs (not to say all or most Christians do so, but several ideas of the church can be followed to an extent which makes them take spiritual ideas more as if they were physically tangible ones - like literally believing god exists in the physical form of an old white-bearded man, or that heaven/hell are actual places, described perfectly in the Bible or works of fiction like Paradise Lost). So, "Something set us off into the wrong direction" (blame on church) - but within this particular space, (our position on the time line) time Goes to waste (we waste the time given to us by hindering our development with closed-mindedness) - we live in a blank spot on the map of time. I didn't think much about the first parts of the song, because I worked backwards in trying to take in it's meaning, but let's try. "It came across like you were mad Holding in your breath with everything you had Until you face began to turn red" My first thoughts are that this addresses those (or someone he knows) who don't speak out about what they really feel about what they've been told, and the mental battle it hosts, or the built-up hate for the world it could cause ""This is why I turn and walk away from everything”, I need to feel it closer now …and I never thought it would be like this" This is where my interpretation gets kind of choppier; maybe the frustration of holding your tongue causes someone to lose their faith entirely (walk away from everything), and need to really feel that God exists, which could involve artificial means of feeling happier like drugs, but I don't think he really wanted to get into that for this song, so I don't know. “Between the seal a church is revealed and I would rather be lonely along the way”. I know this holds some meaning, but I can't really put a finger on it. The second bit could be referring to the idea that "God is always with us", and he would rather be alone than be followed by the same god that has put him through all his anguish, but maybe not. |
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