| Metric – Blindness Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The blindfold and blade allusions remind me of the personification of Justice. As seen in statues commonly found in courthouses, Justitia is portrayed as a matron carrying a sword and measuring balances, and sometimes wearing a blindfold. + sword: a double-edged sword in her right hand, symbolizing the power of Reason and Justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party. + measuring balances: set of weighing scales typically suspended from her left hand, upon which she measures the strengths of a case's support and opposition. + blindfold: justice is (or should be) meted out objectively, without fear or favor, regardless of the identity, power, or weakness: blind justice and blind impartiality. I want to say the song is about the concept of justice and how it was the standard of objective truth until people started to push and distort it to their own means ("I was the one with the world at my feet "... "You gave me a life I never chose"). Distorted Justice's blind impartiality became apathy ("I was a blindfold, never complained") and left the victims ("survivors singing in the rain") to suffer, but their pleas are now answered and now it rushes to the rescue. A return of true justice ("Got us a battle, leave it up to me"). |
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| Metric – Stadium Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The ACTUAL lyrics: Wanna make a bet We'll be neck to neck Taking off the gloves Spider versus bat Tiger versus rat Rabbit versus dove Wanna make a bet Odds are neck to neck Taking off the gloves Spider versus bat Tiger versus rat Owl versus dove Every living thing Pushed into the ring Fight it out to wow the crowd Guess you thought You couldn't just watch No one's getting out Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, without stadium love Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, without stadium love Wanna make a trade Cougar for a snake Wanna fall in love Wanna make a deal Angel versus eel Owl versus dove Every living thing Pushed into the ring Fight it out to wow the crowd Guess you thought You couldn't just watch No one's getting out Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, without stadium love Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, without stadium love Oh-oh-ooooo, Oh-oh-ooooo We've got stadium love Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, we've got stadium love Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, we've got stadium love Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, we've got stadium love Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, we've got stadium love Stadium... love Stadium... love, love, love, love... |
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| Neil Young – No Wonder Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I'll always remember something Chris Rock said." But what did Chris Rock say? Anyone know? |
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| Beck – Soul Of A Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This hallway is nothing more than a hollow log. Gris Gris are Voodoo charms for warding off evil. You know how there are stages with coping with death? Well this song would be Anger/Wrath. There is a malicious bite to the lyrics: "Coming home like a letter bomb" "Sic a dog on all you know Cut it loose before you go" I think Beck is trying to discover if there is a difference between a man and an animal. What makes a soul a soul of a man? Is it technology (hollow log), is it wealth (bank note) ? Can either of those purchase salvation? Is there an empty void awaiting us all? This song also carries the album theme of temperature significance. Beck wants a hot death compared to a cold existence. |
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| Beck – Gamma Ray Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about Mother Nature kicking humanity's @$$. Out of control storms, melting ice caps, wildfires, heat waves -- altogether an environmental Armageddon. The woman with the cactus crown could be a version of Mother Nature. The dot on the brow could indicate a Hindu deity, likely Shiva, the Destroyer/Benefactor. Gamma rays are the most dangerous form of radiation emitted by a nuclear explosion because of the difficulty in shielding them. This is because gamma rays have the shortest wavelength of all waves in the electromagnetic spectrum, and therefore have the most ability to penetrate through any gap, even a subatomic one, in what might otherwise be an effective shield. To be hit by a gamma ray is a death sentence. Fitting since the arcing theme of the album is Death. BTW, a terraplane is a 1930s automobile. |
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| The Good, the Bad and the Queen – The Good, The Bad & The Queen Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The great flood disaster described throughout the album is finally overcame and things are returning back to normal. The cycle begins again! History has become a routine of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The chapter of the satiric world described in the album closes as the a new one in this reality begins. |
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| Wolf Parade – Kissing The Beehive Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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As the album's conclusion, imagine a speeding whirlwind of resurfacing story arcs. Each stanza during the second half offer conclusions and tie-ins to other songs of the album. For instance "Radio, radio..." stanza is linked to California Dreamer. The song itself, a continuation of Wolf Parade's long-used theme of mistrust of God, depicts the land of creation in chaos. Foolish leaders, rampant warfare, depleting natural resources, intolerant fundamentalists, and disingenious people run amok. Problem of Evil and all that (the problem of reconciling the existence of evil or suffering in the world with the existence of God, a force for infinite good) Captain = God |
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| Metric – Ending Start Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Take the song into context of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and "Ending Start" takes the perspective of the second-handers. They are collectivistic villains with a distinctly parasitic hunger to feed and subsist on the merits and achievements of the prime movers of the world. This song would be a GREAT opening track to the Atlas Shrugged movie. |
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| Wolf Parade – Call It a Ritual Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Following the opening song "Soldier's Grin," the album continues its war theme with "Call it a Ritual" The desert is the Middle East. The soldiers of the modern armies tour through this antiquated underdeveloped land on their undefined mission. "Well into the desert we must go So into the desert we go" Notice how the why of this operation is never discussed. We're just going. There is a whole list of excuses for this war that have all been debunked. Yet Neo-conservatives maintain the action was justified. "you said the desert will eat us alive I said I'll make the decisions you just drive" President Bush is noted of calling himself "The decider." "and i saw the windmill wings were gone and i heard the wind come creepin around call it an act of easy mercy to tear the structure down" A very pragmatic modernist view. Tearing down the useless, outdated windmill is equivalent to demolishing the old world system of tyrant and oppressed people. Clear the way for democracy and a system that works. "they will swing swing their swords for show while you turn your flower petals so slow" The sword is a symbol for war and the flower a symbol of peace. The "swing their swords for show" illustrates how this war is not true, total war. It is a very delicate and conplex situation that is beyond the conventional armies marching into a field to do battle. Much can be accomplished with a show of force. |
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