| Arctic Monkeys – Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love how simple yet effective AM's songs are. They encapsulate a whole subculture with next to no mixed messages. The themes are usually extremely clear and directly relate to personal experiences | |
| Arctic Monkeys – Stickin' to the Floor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I first heard this I took 'Stickin' to the floor' as meaning constantly dancing, as in not spending any time talking with your date. He wants to dump her 'won't somebody let me out' because she is spending all the time on the dancefloor with other guys. Yet she is still his girl so he wants her to realize that he is better then the others 'not one of you has got an ounce of style in ya' |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the term 'bigger boys' is both literal and figurative. Bigger as in cockier and 'better' but also older. This is written from high school days when the seniors or university boys get the girls. AM use stereotypes of the english 'chavs' with 'burberry hat(s)' and 'at least he ain't got a nova' emphasizing how the traditional popular guy gets the girl but how it will never last, it is all for show 'got engaged, no intention of a wedding' |
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| Secondhand Serenade – Fall For You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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not only does he fall in love with her again, he can tell before he does that it will happen. 'Tonight will be the night that I will fall for you' it implies that they have been through this before whats more he knows she will agree with him, she knows that they will get together as well, 'and remember me tonight when you're asleep' |
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| The Who – Helpless Dancer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this song is all about prejudice and the social difference within society and the power different people have | |
| Regina Spektor – Oedipus Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In my head this song is about the injustices in the world relating to economic status. The Queen is economically developed countries which need the less developed countries to provide labour for the products they produce which also reduces the cost of labour. The boy is one of these children in the less developed countries, just one of 32. 'Sometimes I'd stand by the royal wall The sky'd be so big that it broke my soul And i stood on my toes to catch a glimpse Of my mother's eyes and my mother's skin' He sees the good life around him on tv and through tourism but can't reach it. The lines 'to see me made her awful sad' and 'to see me made her awful' show how the 'queen' sees the pain of just being one of 32 but it also makes her 'awful' because she knows she isn't doing anything about it. 'But a spoiled little prince I was not Had a chamber maid and a chamber pot' says that he is not cared for like mothers do, although he had a chamber maid and a chamber pot I see these as an example of the bare standard minimum for all those living in the kingdom. Oedipus refers to the Oedipus complex (oh yeah, the king is the country and when they say long live the king they are showing he hasn't given up hope) the one where the young child wants to be with his mother to a point of killing his father, this contradicts the last statement but I think that the boy wants the queens qualities in the kings land. This may be totally far fetched but this is what I hear. One abandoned child in 32 with 31 more to come |
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