| MGMT – Everything's Happenin' So Fast Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think its about the state of America, the U.S. part mostly. Movie stars treated like gods or something. Destruction of the arts through corporation or media censoring or other means. Nature, human and all others, are being abused and made sick or none existent... The collective consciousness is sick...Everyone can feel it on some level...its like knowing a landslide is coming and there is no getting out of its way. |
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| Why? – The Hollows Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Does anyone else think it may have something to do with Hitler and Nazism? The first verse could be read as Hitler's thoughts right after he took the cyanide. "and all us earth growths, some planted and some pulled"- Could be could be a holocaust metaphor... "shine a flashlight in a hat box and spin an empty oyster shell and celebrate the hollows"- The camps? The verse about Berlin-Gays and gypsies were among the groups targeted by the Nazi party. "i got them shaky gums and a couple of loose tooths"- Hitler had a sweet tooth causing him to need a large amount of dental work. Hitler's body was identified by his numerous filling and bridges. Other songs on the Alopecia album may also reference Hitler's life....Makes me wonder if Yoni thinks of himself as something this loathsome... |
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| The Bird and the Bee – Preparedness Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| When my friends and I were living in the dorms, we would use "Preparedness" as a code word for alcohol (dry campus). We were in art school and some people would bear their souls or deal with other heavy issues. This took a toll on students so many coped with bad critiques and/or depression by drinking...This song reminds me of that. | |
| Why? – Fatalist Palmistry Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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By you my tongue may stutter But my gift heart screams clear and swells to burst between your ...? of its own bone .... self I believe it should be- By you my tongue may stutter But my gift heart screams clear and swells to burst between the recked links of its bowed ribbed in cell It makes since that a swelling heart would bust a rib cage...maybe |
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| Why? – Act Five Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A friend and I were discusing how this song is about Hamlet by Shakespeare. "There is no grace in act five"- Refers to how the characters are shown at their worst in the last act. The next lines of the verse describes how messy and undignified a body can be while dieing. Much like how many of the main characters act just before and while dieing. "All the people who taught me card tricks are dying"- This line is not only referring to Hamlet's dead father but also his father's court jester, Yorick, who played with Hamlet as a child. Hamlet holds the jester's skull during his famous "To be or not to be..." speech. "I've been trying to get my pop-pop's good looks from old snapshots"- Hamlet is trying to be a good king like his father and grandfather were. "Even if the world is saved And the couples kiss before the credits list" There will be more than a lifetime of death"- Even if Hamlet can dethrone his insane unckle Claudius, then get with Ophelia, who is also somewhat out of her mind, there will still be a war with Denmark. Hamlet is not strong enough to be king. The war will last longer than a life span hence "more than a lifetime of death" "A circus tent and all the folding chairs fit in an old coffin for travel"- This line, I believe, the poet himself would have enjoyed a great deal. It is compairing the court of Claudius to a circus and the death of its performers. Incredibly well written and thought out song. Is Why? just too intelligent to be more popular? With such deliciously interesting lyrics and melodies, I can think of no other reason... |
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