| Hozier – Cherry Wine Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[danit59:2582] i would do anything to stop you from playing this song at your weding | |
| Sia – Elastic Heart Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[SamH270:1587] I definitely got a dysfunctional father/daughter relationship from the video (no matter what the official interpretation is) but I can't see any implication of molestation in it no matter how hard I try... the man looks depressed and pitiful and does not react in a violent or controlling manner even as his out-of-control daughter thrashes and chases him around the cage. He continually tries to reach out to her in a gentle way even though he is clearly scared of her. All of his poses are so submissive, and even when he looks like he's going to take an aggressive action it turns out that he is just trying to bond with her. The video represents, to me, a father and daughter torn apart by a nasty divorce. She hates him for leaving her, for breaking apart the family, for no longer caring about her and being there for her. And all he wants is to have his little girl back, even though she acts like she doesn't want him in her life anymore. Their dance is the messy process of repairing their relationship. At the end she begins to forgive him, but when she leaves the cage to go back to her mother's custody she realises her father can't go back with her. She doesn't understand why, so she keeps trying to pull him across the bars while he sinks to the ground in despair. He's going to lose his daughter all over again. |
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| Florence + the Machine – No Light, No Light Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Well, no, the voodoo doll scene and the blackface is a disgusting caricature of real black people and real voodoo based on historical racism and harmful stereotypes. That isn't really up for debate. It is what it is. -HOWEVER- I think it is also really obvious that it was meant to be awful. It's very powerful imagery with a lot of baggage attached to it, there is no way they would do it without thinking it through first. And I think you're right that the doll scene is about a guilty conscience. The guy is a fake, pretending to be what he is not but can't quite break free and as a result has become an impure, warped, ugly thing; he's representative of how she sees herself. Would you leave me if I told you what I've become? What have I become? A disgusting caricature. Something I hate, something everyone hates. |
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| Florence + the Machine – My Boy Builds Coffins Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think interpretations relating it so closely with the source of inspiration (an ex who decided he'd rather work on a coffin for an album cover than go out with her?) are doing this song a disservice. Not all songs are about romantic relationships; not all songs are about the singer herself and people she actually knows; not all songs are complex metaphors. This song is a story with characters, a craftsman passionate about his job and someone close to him, maybe his wife or friend or older sister or mother. It's wrapped in a thematic layer of equality in death, but that's not the only important part. One reason why this song is so great is because it manages to convey so much about these two people in so few words. The storytelling aspect needs to be acknowledged too :( |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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If this song is about Anne Frank, can someone explain And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor because it is pretty obvious what this is about (domestic abuse/verbal fights/basically a marriage collapsing in on itself) and I can't find any way in which it relates to her. Honestly, you have to try really, really hard to see anything about Anne Frank in any part of King of Carrot Flowers (especially Part 2, because Anne was Jewish). It is a very simple song about someone finding love in a boy with a horrible home life, and they may or may not have been step brothers. It is also confusing that most interpretations of this song assume the narrator is female when the singer is male? |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 and 3 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think "Jesus Christ I love you" means he loves Jesus Christ (necessarily), it's just a thing some people say when they are, uh, learning what each other's bodies are for. Which is what was happening in Part 1 in case you forgot, between two guys. Not sure what this Anne Frank stuff is all about because it seems to be a cut-and-dry love story between Part 1's narrator and the King of Carrot Flowers, a kid whose potential is getting squandered by a terrible home life. Part 1 is the first guy talking about how their relationship started; Part 2 is just an interlude, sung by either of them or both at the same time I guess, showing that time is passing; Part 3 is the King talking to the narrator about how messed up he is but he's going to keep trying and is determined to overcome his past because he loves him. |
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| Eve 6 – Inside Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The narrator of this song is a depressive guy who has series of one-night stands because he hates himself too much to become emotionally attached to anyone, and fills the void with similar people who do naughty things like tying their partners to bedposts while having sex. And while it provides some sort of release, it's not great long-term, and he's gotten so stuck in this little vortex with no way to get out (except blending up his heart, i.e. stop feeling the pain completely, though that's impossible). So, uh, this is about self-destruction basically. | |
| Wolfmother – Joker & The Thief Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The Joker is a man. The woman standing in the field of clover is a different person. | |
| The Hush Sound – Magnolia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is probably actually about terminal leukemia. The magnolia was used as a cancer treatment in ancient times, and since the "you" in the song is probably young, leukemia seems like it fits. I think this is the one most prevalent in kids and adolescents, unless that's skin cancer--which is less deadly. It's not uncommon for leukemia patients to relapse and it usually puts up a damn good fight, so people diagnosed with leukemia have a very long, very tiring war ahead of them. The fact that the narrator can't seem to talk to the person directly could mean that they're in quarantine. Which is what happens when your immune system has been completely wiped out by radiation treatments and/or chemotherapy. I consider it to be about someone from Hiroshima or Nagasaki, since the magnolia myth about its bark's cancer-curing properties comes from east Asia if I'm not mistaken, and the part about bending your shoulders to hold the weight of the world--they're still having problems with radiation almost 60 years after those bombs detonated, and people are still getting cancers like leukemia and dying due to that radiation. The subject of the song is carrying the weight of a horrible incident that isn't quite finished in her own body and it's killing her. Of course, I highly doubt this is what The Hush Sound intended when they wrote Magnolia, but. I originally thought this was an older relative dying of cancer. And then the "lovers who have tainted you" line made me think it was about a friend who fell into a bad crowd, did some things, and ended up with AIDS. (I still think it could be since the latter half of that verse doesn't fit very well into a cancer interpretation.) |
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| Wolfmother – Joker & The Thief Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is about Batman. | |
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