| TV on the Radio – DLZ Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Ok people, I have the lyrics book in front of me, and in it the song DLZ is marked by the black silhouette of an eel (or perhaps a fish). Phrases are separated by periods. First chorus looks like this, in the official lyrics booklet: "This is beginning to feel like. The long winded blues of the never." [x2] Last chorus looks like this, in the official lyrics booklet: "This is beginning to feel. Like the dawn of the luz of forever." [x2] [Yes, the period gets placed before the 'like' in one case, and after in the other.] |
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| U2 – The Playboy Mansion Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Oooh, I hadn't thought about it a metaphor for the gates of Heaven. One thing about the 'Achtung Baby' through 'Pop' collection of albums is that they all comment upon the decay of modern life, with often hidden pleas to God for help, or with hidden commentary laced throughout about the search for God in such a life. But assuming God represents a return to a just, sensible, moral, meaningful world, where lies the salvation for an atheist, or for any who don't want to wait for God to change the world? |
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| U2 – Some Days Are Better Than Others Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Given the nature of 'Achtung Baby' and 'Zooropa,' I'd say this song fits in with the sensory overload, everything-is-subjective attitudes and pervasive speciousness they portray. I feel this song is in the vein that flows from "The Fly" to "Numb" - it's got a repeated lyrical motif and enough incongruency in its phrases to drive batshit crazy anyone who tries to make heads or tails of it. And such is the world we live in. That U2 don't explicitly moralize but just put it out there is one of the things that makes them artists. |
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| U2 – The Fly Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm with langenfeld, the guitar solo always makes me think, "This is as good as it gets, this is the pinnacle of human achievement and expression, what is beautiful about life." Ahhh | |
| U2 – The First Time Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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According to songfacts.com, "Bono: 'About losing your faith.'" In the last verse, God gives him the keys to the kingdom, but the narrator chooses to slip away and forsake all that was bequeathed to him. The last lines, however, still say, "For the first time, I feel love." In the second verse, despite saying, "When I feel myself going down, I just call and he comes around," Bono ends it with, "!!BUT!! for the first time, I feel love." That "but" shows how regardless of the kindness shown him in the past, for the first time he feels love. The question is whether this is *because* he has become gratefully aware of that love or *in spite* of it. This song is wide open to interpretation, though I'd love to know what Bono's intent was. The holy trinity ideas were interesting. Another idea I might throw out is that, having forsaken God, the events in the first and second verses occur AFTER the third verse, when his friends (i.e. lover/brother) are showing him that, even having thrown away the keys to the kingdom, there is still love and beauty in life. As for me, an atheist, I can't tell you how in love I felt with life when I threw God away. For someone who breaks away from faith or believing in something, it doesn't happen in an instant, the cracks form and deepen across the years, and when you finally let go it becomes an affirmation of life, of yourself. Like he says, for the first time I felt love. |
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| Björk – Triumph of a Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I always thought she was saying 'the triumph of a heart that gives *up*' It gave very interesting connotations to the song. |
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| Björk – Harm Of Will Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"And he placed her Unclothed ... On top of the family tree" I read "family tree" to mean "penis." o_O |
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| Björk – Joga Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Ya, I'm with Ralyyy and glassjawpiano. The words "state of _emergency_" really give color to the emotion of the strings and her voice. I don't usually think of my friends as pushing me up to a 'state of emergency,' because emergency has that 'act now or something really bad is going to happen' connotation. That's not an emotion I associate with my love for a friend. I don't want to put it to mistranslation, I want it to be deliberate. It certainly is artful and poetic... there's just something about a love for a friend meaning that's not quite clicking for me. |
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| Björk – 5 Years Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Ahhh, the end of this song is bliss, when she goes "I da~re you" four times, and then the screeching vibrato strings. It's like everything I ever wanted sex and wine to be! | |
| The Verve – This Time Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The music alone floors me like a Sunday morning in Spring, but doesn't the beauty of his words move you? "Looking back on my life, you know that all I see are things I could have changed, I should have done." I have felt that way my entire life. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Custard Pie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hey, so these lyrics are missing some of Plant's lyrics at the end. I think he keeps saying, "A-chewing a piece of your custard pie." Anyone have any idea what he's singing there? | |
| Led Zeppelin – Achilles Last Stand Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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maasai, a "Last Stand" in English refers to someone fighting for their life against some aggressors, usually in a case where they lose and die (hence is being their "LAST" stand). "Stand" is used as a verb, like "stand against" or "stand up to." The phrase "Achille's Last Stand" generally refers to the Trojan War in Homer's "the Iliad." |
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| The Verve – Valium Skies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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According to songfacts.com: [In an interview with BBC DJ Steve Lamacq, frontman Richard Ashcroft explained this song: "The term Valium Skies has been in my mind for ten, fifteen years. You get them all over the country but back home, up North, sometimes that grey, grey, grey cloud seems so low you can almost touch it and, but it was also a metaphor for depression and it's about being with someone who recognizes almost where you can go, how dark you can go but still is with you. He's in a band and he knew every time when you're breaking down, you know. 'When it comes to my Valium skies, she don't mind if I cry,' and I think that's a test of any relationship, I think, and really I was trying to get that across, I think. It's one of them songs that you first hear and then after a couple of listens it, the chorus had me for about a month after we recorded that. I was just, I couldn't get it out of my mind and it, yet it doesn't seem like an obvious single song or anything and again good playing by everyone, great guitars and good work."] I, boboon, 1) love the delivery of "'Still know nothing with all these cards I'm holding." 2) still wonder what exactly a Valium sky is. The music is so buoyant and pretty, but a Valium sky could really be anything... |
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| The Verve – Judas Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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According to songfacts.com, [Frontman Richard Ashcroft told BBC DJ Steve Lamacq that one of the lines in this song was based on fact. He revealed: "I was in New York City and I always found it intriguing that in the big coffee shop, just on Columbus Circle, just because it was so busy they would always ask your name so they could write it on the cup and I'm always intrigued by the power of any word and specifically names obviously. There's not been many Adolf Hitlers born post the Second World War and there's also not been many Judases, perhaps none. It's a name that's been vilified, so when I was in this coffee shop I decided that I was going to order a latte, double shot and she said, 'What's your name?' I said, 'Judas,' because it was packed and I wanted to see the reaction when she said, 'Latte, double shot for Judas,' which she did and it does and it causes this like, 'Who on earth would be called that? You know, and it's incredible that that word two thousand years later could still have such power and at the end in the chorus of Judas it goes into, all it says is 'Let it go, let it go,' because surely that is the message and that's really the motivation for that song but it's an example of where, this is reality, this is just a funny social experiment, you know."] Back to me, boboon, I thought this song might have been about an affair, but couldn't figure out the whole "New York" and "double shot for Judas" parts. After reading his explanation, it makes a bit more sense, but it's hard to understand what he's getting at with the "feelings, let them go." |
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| Tool – Hooker with a Penis Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think the title is a play on words. Take the lyric "...if I'm The Man then you're The Man and he's The Man as well...," and extend it to say even hookers are The Man, the play on words being that if a hooker were truly a 'man', she'd be a hooker with a penis. | |
| Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The first time I heard of the United Colors of Benetton was in 2006 when I was buying condoms in a convenience store in Japan - the only brand they carried was this 'United Colors of Benetton'. Then, several weeks later, I encountered a United Colors of Benetton clothing store, and thought, "Oh, they make condoms AND clothes, too!" Haha, just another possible layer of depth. Other people hit the nail on the head, I think. College copulation culture-clash. |
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