| Brian Eno – Burning Airlines Give You So Much More Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I can't believe nobody has commented this song! It's one of my favorite's from Eno, and has a great rhythm do it. Very innovative; I love it. Although I'm not entirely sure what the message is that Eno's trying to get across. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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You're someone who is lost, confused, and has been through a lot of shit. That's when someone comes along (possibly a lover, or anyone close to you) and they seem to understand what you think and feel, and they help ease your pain and help you "pick up the pieces". You care deeply for this person, and the more effort you put into the relationship, the more power you give them over you. They might not utilize this power, but in the back of your mind you realize that they have the power to ruin your life, and take away all of your happiness, mainly by abandoning you. The fact that someone has this power over you sometimes eats you up inside. But you still want them, because they make you feel so above it all, and seem to understand you perfectly, and make you so... happy. The next verse beginning with "You make me hard when I'm all soft inside" is about how the other person can make you stronger, and you've fallen in love with them (it could be romantic or just a strong affinity/friendship). Without them, everything falls apart. You need them. Without them in your life, you're lost again, without anyone to help ease your pain. And without them, fixing your life isn't as easy, or as happy a thing. That's what I always got out of the song. I wish my lady would appreciate NIN more :/ And Smoke, I really liked your interpretation, too. That never would have crossed my mind, but it made total sense, and it was very well thought out! |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Only Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm probably wrong in the way I'm looking at it, but this song always reminds me of this one person I dated. I built it up in my mind like they were something special, just because I was so glad that someone actually was interested in me. They ended up screwing me over, and I was pretty much crushed. When I heard this song, though, it really reminded me of what had happened. And it really empowered me. "I just made you up to hurt myself" I had just made up an idea of what the person was in my mind, but that person in my mind had never really existed. And the whole "There is no you, there is only me" just made me feel a lot better about the whole thing for some reason. I loved this song ever since. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – I Do Not Want This Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sometimes in life, the world really does beat you down. Other people just get to be too much. Your family and friends act like they know what's going through your head, and how you're feeling, but they don't know. Nobody can really understand what you're thinking and feeling except for you. That's the whole "You don't know just how I feel". The "I'm always falling down the same hill" verse is one I've felt pretty frequently. Everything goes wrong, over and over again. Every time you try to fix things, or make yourself "a new person", or just try to get over your old problems, the same damn ones just come right back again, and it feels like it'll all never end. The part about staying in bed and living lives in your head is I think pretty literal. I've stayed in bed for days before, just laying there, wishing things were different. Wishing my life was different. Wishing I was different. Imagining a new me and a new life, and almost playing out stories in my head of what I wish my life was like. "You would know, wouldn't you?" This verse is describing how there's people in your life that try to help you out, and act like they know what you're going through. In your mind though, you just know that they've never felt what you're feeling right now. They've never felt such intense depression and anger "you extend a hand to those who suffer, to those who know what it really feels like" and they try to help people that have felt those feelings, while they've never felt them themselves. Usually, they're people that don't seem very bright, too. Either that, or they're just the kind of people that you can't ever imagine feeling depressed. The "oh so sick I am" is realizing you have a problem, and admitting it. And you DO want help getting over it. You just want someone to help you make it all go away. But the people helping you, again, have never had "a taste of what it feels like". The "I want" section I think makes perfect sense, and ends the song perfectly, too. You want to know things. You want to go places. You want to fuck everyone. You want to do something that MATTERS. You want to make an impact. You want to mean something. YOU want to MATTER. This is quite possibly one of my favorite NIN songs. EVER. Is it that obvious I'm an angsty teen? XD |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Hurt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Part of this song sort of reminds me of XTC's "Complicated Game". Throughout your whole life, everything you've ever done and tried to accomplish doesn't matter in the end. Once you die, it's all the same again. Most people don't make that big of an impact once their gone. He understands this. He hurts everyone he touches, and everything he's done for himself means nothing. Like most of you said, it's all about regret. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Eraser Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Okay.... wow. Again, I'll probably sound like an idiot, but... He obviously "needs, dreams, finds, tastes, fucks, uses, scars, and breaks" a certain something in his life. Whether that be a relationship with a lover, best friend, someone to "understand" him, or a certain goal he wants to reach. Maybe it could even be him trying to alter himself, and make a new identity. A new identity that he "needs, and dreams" about. Eventually he "finds" it, and he can call it his own from that point forward. He "tastes" it, in the sense that he has a taste of what it feels like to live with this new identity. He "fucks" it perhaps meaning that he has as much fun with the new identity as he can. Then he begins "using" it for his own personal gain, he "scars" it because now instead of being the new identity he created for himself to feel better about himself, he now just "uses" it for his own gain and possibly to manipulate others. The identity now has an impure cause. Eventually he "breaks" it in the sense that now the identity is even worse than his previous "self" before he made up the new identity for himself. It is "broken", and now perhaps people have seen through the lies he has told to establish his new identity and now everybody knows what he really is; the identity is essentially no longer there. Or it could be "broken" just because now the identity he originally made to help himself and perhaps enhance some aspects of his life has now become a harming device to others. For the second half of the song, he could be talking to himself. "Lose me", he lost who he is, and what he wants, and what kind of person he is. He never meant to be a person who fucks others over, but that's what he's done with this new identity, isn't it? "Hate me", he hates himself for lying to himself and others, and for what he's done. And for the fact that he and the fabricated new "identity" didn't match up, and that was never really him. "Smash me", he has violent feelings towards himself. Angry, violent feelings. "Erase me", he just wishes he had never existed. Erase me, because I've pretended far too much, and I've finally seen what I really am. What I really am, I don't like very much. "Kill me", is self explanatory enough. Thoughts? |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Closer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Wow. I always thought it was just about a man who falls in love with someone, and when they have sex he feels like he's on top of it all, and he feels perfect, because he likes her that much. The whole "purify" thing.... I don't know. I thought it was like, the perfect sex with the perfect person. That's why it brings him closer to god. "You make me perfect". "You are the reason I stay alive". But it's probably way more intense than all that, like you guys said. XD |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Beside You in Time Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always envisioned sort of like... I dunno. Two people that need each other for one reason or another (strong friendship, relative, lover, etc.) and one of them has died. The narrator is still living, but can feel the other parallel to them (not so much physically, but more internally/spiritually). The living one feels that they will "be together" (spiritually) forever, but once the narrator meets his death, they will be together again "I will be beside you before long". It's all about powerful relationships having strong influence on your mind and life, and never allowing your memory/relationships with those who made you who you are now fade away. Then again, I could be totally wrong. |
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