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| X – Sex and Dying in High Society Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Seriously people, how does this song NOT make sense? It makes perfect sense. Its about perpetuating the cycle of blue-blood upper crust bullshit. No love, just money. No partnership, just marrying for money. She "started out that way" because her mother was that way. She "married her daddy with a different name" she did what mommy did, found some rich bastard and became his trophy. "Every time you{she} look at him you could almost just fall asleep," because she has no feelings for him what-so-ever. "Your pain is better than any kind of love" very F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque...in a seedy LA punk kinda way. |
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| Our Lady Peace – All My Friends Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Everyone who understands this album READ THE BOOK! Start with The Age of Spiritual Machines, then read The Singularity is Near(when humans transcend biology)! This song is beautiful (within the concept of these books and otherwise)
to Nitro, I have always seen this album in the same light as OK COMPUTER. Radiohead never stated that the album was about Singularity but I always got an H+ feel from it, however their view is slightly darker than OLP. |
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| Our Lady Peace – If You Believe Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song makes me cry every time i hear it, yeah and I'm a guy. It is the most optimistic view of the coming Singularity I have ever heard. I'm sure Ray was proud!
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| Our Lady Peace – If You Believe Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song makes me cry every time i hear it, yeah and I'm a guy. It is the most optimistic view of the coming Singularity I have ever heard. I'm sure Ray was proud!
H+ |
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| Our Lady Peace – Middle Of Yesterday Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I love this song! Its probably my second favorite on SM. In a concert, just after the release of SM Raine said it was a concept album, not almost a concept album. This is the only song in SM that I really make this song fit into it. Does anyone have an idea how this song goes into the Kurzweilian theme of it? |
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| The Smiths – That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Maybe I am really simple but when I listen to this song I always picture two people sitting in a parked car arguing about cruel jokes about suicide. The protagonist doesn't think its very funny because he is one of those people "who feel so very lonely their only desire to die." The line about "on cold leather seats it finally struck me, I just might die with a smile on my face..." I always thought that the protagonist was thinking something like, "oh yeah, I'll show you if its funny" signifying that he will kill himself to spite the other person. Yeah, that may seem slightly borderline personality disorder but thats what I always got from the song. |
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| The Smiths – Pretty Girls Make Graves Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I never thought that it was about being gay. I always took it to mean that he was "above" sexual impulse and found the whole situation to be dreadfully boring. |
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| The Smiths – Handsome Devil Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I always thought this song was about an increasingly obsessive "crush" on a classmate. The object of the protagonist's affections is giving him mixed signals i.e. "you ask me the time, I hear something more and I would like to give you what I think you are asking for." These mixed signals, at least as the protagonist sees them, are making his fantasies more aggressive, "I crack the whip and you skip but you deserve it." In a literal sense it could be about s/m practices however, I do not feel that was Morrissey's intent. Here, he is stating his frustrations with the person, like a desire that has grown into an anger.
As for the gender of the person for whom he is singing, I always felt he purposefully left it very androgynous. Handsome can describe either gender and men have mammary glands.
The parts of the song referencing "scholarly room" and "more to life then books you know" I assume are about the protagonist getting closer to the classmate by becoming a study partner and then making a sexual advance(or wishing he had the nerve to), either by "hitting on" them or by something more forceful. |
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| The Smiths – Handsome Devil Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I always thought this song was about an increasingly obsessive "crush" on a classmate. The object of the protagonist's affections is giving him mixed signals i.e. "you ask me the time, I hear something more and I would like to give you what I think you are asking for." These mixed signals, at least as the protagonist sees them, are making his fantasies more aggressive, "I crack the whip and you skip but you deserve it." In a literal sense it could be about s/m practices however, I do not feel that was Morrissey's intent. Here, he is stating his frustrations with the person, like a desire that has grown into an anger.
As for the gender of the person for whom he is singing, I always felt he purposefully left it very androgynous. Handsome can describe either gender and men have mammary glands.
The parts of the song referencing "scholarly room" and "more to life then books you know" I assume are about the protagonist getting closer to the classmate by becoming a study partner and then making a sexual advance(or wishing he had the nerve to), either by "hitting on" them or by something more forceful. |
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