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t.A.T.u. – Cosmos (Outer Space) Lyrics 17 years ago
Games we don't want to play
Same winner everyday
Kill for the second best
Feel no more, feel no less

We have our minutes cut
We lose our feelings but
That's what the movies show
This is where stories go

- This makes me think of death/after life. Their minutes are cut meaning, their time ended, they died. Since they're dead they have no feelings. Movies show afterlife a lot, in a sense of heaven or whatever. All stories usually end with an afterlife of some sort for those who die.
- What way is it that they die though? To me it seems to be talking about suicide. "Kill for the second best" is one of the reasons I get that idea, they seem to be fed up.

Stars we don't want to reach
Scars we don't want to stitch
Go where we haven't been
Fly away, time machine

Cloud we will chase him out
Crowds, we will face them down
This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space

Our home forever is outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer space, outer space

- Going where they haven't been. And they have scars they don't wanna stitch, leaving them vulnerable yet strong (also confirming the suicide thought). The crowds they'll no longer have to deal with.
- The word forever I always connect to something beyond our time as living. So naturally this is their forever now, Outer Space. Their new home.

Ground we don't want to feel
Found what they didn't steal
Time, we were really lost
Bridges burnt, fingers crossed

We, shall we ever be free
With no guarantee
Life on another plane
Same before, same again

Go where you want to go
So no one ever knows
Only what we decide
Is it gone
Has it died

Dry every tear in my eye
You can tell me why
This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space

- "They" (the crowds) could never possibly steal this afterlife, their forever, their timelessness and free place.
- Wondering if this place will actually make them free, if it'll just be the same as before. There's really no guarantee for knowing if dying will possibly be any better.

Our home forever is, outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New home, new destinies, outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer Space, outer space

Outer space is where we get together
And this place we're meant to be
Stars are dancing and the time is fading
Dead forever,
You and me,
You and me

Racing stars and common moons are planets
In the cosmos, we are free
There's no atmosphere
And no obsessions
It'll always be
It'll always be

Our home forever is, outer space...

- Outer space is where we go when we die, "where we get together" and where we're "meant to be". They're dead forever.
- Outer Space will always just "be". And then it continues to say "always be our home forever".


I think alternatively it could be about high expectations from others that you actually don't want to do and follow. And simply giving a big "F You" and doing your own thing.
And not to forget the hot lesbian space sex. Haha.

Sorry for the long post.

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Elliott Smith – 2:45 AM Lyrics 17 years ago
I agree that this is probably about step father and being abused like many others have said. But I also know Elliott wanted his music to speak to others in whatever way it would mean to them. So I'm gonna share what this song means to me personally.

"I'm going out sleepwalking
Where mute memories start talking"
"The boss that couldn't help but hurt you
And the pretty thing he made desert you"

- Sleepwalking being a sort of numb state, memories you've put on mute get too strong and start talking.
- "The boss" to me is God, "the pretty thing" is a girlfriend. God hurt him and girlfriend left him.

"I'm going out now like a baby
A naïve unsatisfiable baby"
"Grabbing onto whatever's around
For the soaring high or the crushing down
With hidden cracks that don't show
But that constantly just grow"

- A feeling after a break up, babies crave love and attention, they're naive.
- A desperation, feeling so sad you just have to grab onto something, soaring high or a crushing down, both bad but it's something. He won't show it, and it just keeps growing.

"I'm looking for the man that attacked me
While everybody was laughing at me
You beat it in me that part of you
But I'm going to split us back in two"

- He didn't want to fall in love to begin with, it was beaten into him. Now he can be by himself again.
- The attacked part could be a guy the girl went to.

"Tired of living in a cloud
If you're going to say shit now you'll do it out loud
It's 2:45 in the morning
And I'm putting myself on warning
For waking up in an unknown place
With a recollection you've half erased
Looking for somebody's arms to
Wave away past harms
I'm walking out on center circle
The both of you can just fade to black
I'm walking out on center circle
Been pushed away and I'll never go back"

- Looking for someones arms would be another girl, an embrace, someone to help him forget.
- His ex and the guy she's with now gets a big "Fuck you" and since he's been pushed away from her, he'll never come back. Which I connect to the "tired of living in a cloud - saying shit" lines as being like the ex girlfriend paints pictures of them getting back together sometime etc etc. he's just tired of it and made his mind up that he wont ever come back to her.


Well this song sums up my love life at the moment so I guess that's why it's speaking to me in this way.

And I'll have to add, I love this song. But then again I love every single song Elliott made. He's my idol.

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Sigur Rós – Svefn-G-Englar Lyrics 17 years ago
I agree as many others have said, this song seems to be about birth/pregnancy.


Ég Er Kominn Aftur
Inn I Þig
Það Er Svo Gott Að Vera Hér
En Stoppa Stutt Við
Eg Flýt Um I Neðarsjávar Hýði
A Hóteli Beintengdur Við Rafmagnstöfluna Og Nærist

(I’m Here Again
Inside You
It’s So Good Staying Here
But I Stay A Short While
I Float Around In Underwater Hibernation
In A Hotel Connected To The Electricity Board And Nourishing)

The thing about this part that makes me wonder is the first line "I’m Here AGAIN inside you". It's about rebirth but what kind it is I can only speculate about. It could be his own baby and in that way a kind of rebirth of himself. Could also be a spiritual rebirth etc etc. Could just be metaphorically speaking as well.
"Underwater Hibernation" and "Connected To The Electricity Board And Nourishing" just gives the typical image of a baby in a womb. The umbilical cord and water.


En Biðin Gerir Mig Leiðan - Brot Hættan Sparka Frá Mér
Og Kall A - Verð Að Fara – Hjálp

(But The Wait Makes Me Uneasy – I Kick The Fragility Away
And Shout – I Have To Go - Help)

Labour..


Eg Spring Ut Og Friðurinn I Loft Upp
Baðaður Nýju Ljósi
Eg Græt Og Eg Græt – Aftengdur
Onýttur Heili Settur A Brjóst
Og Mataður Af Svefn-G-Englum

(I Explode Out And The Peace Is Gone
Bathed In New Light
I Cry And I Cry - Disconnected
A Ruined Brain Put On Breasts
And Fed By Sleepwalkers)

The birth, exposed to the new world. Birth cord being cut and the crying.
What I don't get is the "Sleepwalkers".


I won't go into details anymore but like I said earlier though this could all just be metaphorically about being safe and in a wonderful calm, and then exposed to the noisy stressful world.
You could also relate it to being in love. It could be about religion. I could even go as far and relate it to drugs. A song is what you make it...

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