| Zola Jesus – Lick The Palm Of The Burning Handshake Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I love this song... I think the lyrics on the second verse are actually: I'm the only one that makes a sound When I know the plane is going down. I could be very wrong; she sings beautifully but the accent plus the operatic style make it difficult to understand her sometimes. |
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| Zola Jesus – Hikikomori Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Wow, with these in front of me, I can hear the words. I feel embarrassed... | |
| Zola Jesus – Stridulum Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I feel really stupid, I've had the vinyl since I posted what i thought were the lyrics...and am just now finding the lyrics sheet in the package. i swear i looked...too much calm in my lungs ;p | |
| Arcade Fire – Modern Man Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I cried the first time I heard this song | |
| IAMX – This Will Make You Love Again Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is sung in several variations... another verse in an alternative version: It's just (as soon affection?) (to sanctify?) addiction A protest and ragged ache to fill the holes There's the aggravation that wears you down 'Cause there's at least a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground I think this song is about what Nietzsche calls Master and Slave morality, but mostly the latter. Slaves are resentful of their chains; they don't think they should have any chains. Rousseau warns not to confuse freedom with license though. Religion is the worst of slave moralities. You are a subject of god(s). I believe IAMX sings for a pretty specific audience; mainly those who do not fulfill the epitome of dominant sexual values and gender roles. cf. "president" by IAMX and Metric's song "IOU" on the album "Old World Underground, Where are you now?" Those to not follow the herd have a more difficult life, a lonelier life. IAMX is constantly encouraging those who resist to enjoy the resistance they give and get and to take what they get with a grain of salt, as they say, because those who give usually aren't of much consequence... |
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| Muse – New Born Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, after reading Bellamy's comment, and considering it, this song is about the moral degradation and alienation that technology, the arts and sciences can cause. Though they may be what some may deem progress, they at the same time proliferate choices, which the biblically-inclined may call temptations. This mediation of life, living in images of experience, rather than living and making mistakes to learn from, makes it more difficult to know the true forms of good and evil, if there are such things (think allegory of the cave). I think by nature songs' lyrics are ambiguous in order to glean multiple, potentially contradictory meanings and interpretations. "when you've seen, seen too much, too young, young soulless is everywhere" This is about children and their media exposure. Seeing the images of what we are able to today, let alone if we could pipe it directly into our brains like the song implies, we live these experiences , albeit in a mediated manner. This mediation divests us of the emotion felt in real situations one lives, thus the emotional images represented in media substitute themselves for real emotion thereby dehumanizing us all a little further. |
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| The Raconteurs – Attention Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think mwrock86 is on the right track. To go further, I think it's about this women's pride and vanity. It's also about the power women can have if they use their sexuality as power over someone. | |
| Tokyo Police Club – Juno Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| hahaha this songs about the most common excuse women make to not have sex. I didn't mean that chauvinistically. | |
| Voxtrot – Brother In Conflict Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i think this song is about the ever impending revolution. It's also a critique of capitalist society primarily about the horrid personalities that develop within those societies. Murderous, never satisfied, alienated, unable to truly relate, elitist ("'beauty is a man-made crime.'"). "'Most are, most were, will do it again'" is a beautiful postpostmodern (for the lack of until we define ourselves) rendering of what will happen in the crime of creating a hierarchy based in beauty. "'Most are'"...beautiful. This denotes that some are not; this is a true representation of "inner beauty" because let's all stop hating each other for the things we have no power to change (naturally) like physical beauty. Let's face it, some people are hideous but who cares, they can't help it nor should they be made to feel bad about how they look. "'Most were'" is more problematic to decipher. This refers to how older people idolize youth. We all look better younger. Just as jeans wear out so does beauty; deal with it and don't become one of the only things that will survive the nuclear holocaust besides cockroaches, Joan Rivers. "'Will do it again...'". Will commit the crime of elitism, in some form, again. I'm sure there's more I'm leaving out, but the primary lesson of this song is in the lyric "I have to lose my idols to find my voice" since as long as we predicate what we allow ourselves to be on what other people might think of us, our entire being is in bad faith, is inauthentic. Our only idol should be ourselves, not in an arrogant way, but in a way we want to do what we truly want and achieve everthing we're capable of. Don't forget this song is revolutionary. "Oh I'll just fight now, relock and release, I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict Drums beat, it's just the son and the beast I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict, now" "FIGHT NOW [!!!!!!!!!!!]" |
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