| The Birthday Party – Wild World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| the wild grunting noises are sex. nuff said. | |
| The Birthday Party – Fears of Gun Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I really love this song but i wish i knew what it meant. i can't think of anything. | |
| The Birthday Party – Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this is about a one-sided relationship where the singer is deeply in love with the hamlet character and wishes that hamlet loves him back but it's just not so. Hamlet is the kind of person that steals and hurts the other and just doesn't care. Though i've never read hamlet, i just know the plot, I think nick was trying to say that the hamlet character in the relationship has some problems, perhaps family problems which makes him incapable of a real relationship, which is where the frustration of the singer comes from. | |
| The Birthday Party – Sonny's Burning Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I deffinetely agree about the sexual undertones. Reading it with that idea in mind I thought of sexual frustration, particularly concerning wanting to repress sexual desires, with "evil heat" being it's symbol. These lines: "Someday I think I'll cut him down But it can get so cold in here And he gives off such an evil heat." Makes me think hes saying he wants to stop having these desires but they're still wanted like heat is wanted when it's cold. And the last stanza i find the most powerful, like hes giving into these desires and it's hurting him (hence "burning holes into me") but it's wanted ( EX: "Don't interrupt! Don't interrupt! Flame on! Flame on!") Which would be an example of self destruction, which may come from self loathing, etc. All the usual topics of Nicks lyrics. =] |
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