| The Sound – Hothouse Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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There's an alternative lyric for the BBC Recording version: "Feelings pushing through I tried to suppress Can’t turn to watch them crawl Inside their walls of glass Sweat breaking out I fought to contain Like those savage roots Of this growing pain I found myself In the hothouse" The theme is about Winning -Borland obviously feels that success and (in Hothouse) normal life is something mundane and irrelevant. He sees everyone leading a normal, sociable life as separate to him, seperated by the walls of glass of an imaginary greenhouse. On the one hand he's torn between giving up his individuality to be cultivated into another mundane person or clinging on to his individuality alone. If you haven't heard the BBC recording version do so, because it's a really, really fine take on the song. |
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| Bloc Party – Ion Square Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I found my dancing shoes but they don't fit All the bright lights do is bore me" A good-humoured swipe at the Arctic Monkeys and Interpol? "Cause I love my mind when I'm fucking you" Ruins this song. It'd be the best song on the album otherwise. |
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| The Sound – Party Of My Mind Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ingenious song. The whole song mirrors an actual party; everything starts out relatively happy and peaceful until something starts 'going wrong'. In the final verse we have 'some talk, some cry' (not shown in the lyrics here, sadly) which reflects the change in mood, and the despondent, discordant solo at the end, along with the disjointed piano playing and screaming. Easily the best song on All Fall Down, so catchy and the lyrics are second to none. |
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