| Placebo – Twenty Years Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The song seems to be trailing a person's life. The stages of life are roughly 20 years long: childhood (0-18), early adulthood (19-45), middle age (46-65), and elderly (65-death). At the beginning of the song, the character is in childhood. I have a feeling the "hat" refers to the "dunce hat" that characters in cartoons are always sat on a stool and stuck in when they mess up, because in childhood people are always waiting for you to mess up. Then the character moves on to adulthood and starts out well, but then gets his heart broken and it turns to stone. Then he starts doing drugs (the bad start in middle aged life) until he decides to pick up the phone and go into rehab. After that the character enters the "golden age" which is what the period in life 65+ is usually referred to because you have acquired all the wisdom from living life. The singer notes this golden age of wisdom in life will end too fast because the character is now old and nearing death. The main focus of the song seems to be that this is just how life is (thems the breaks is a saying that means that is life), and that most people are like "designer fakes" because they focus on fitting in instead of looking beneath the surface for what matters in life (more than meets the eye). I think you're the truth not I refers to how this is not the character's true self, which he doesn't achieve until he reaches his golden age in his elderly years, because most old people by that age don't care about fitting in or what other people think. |
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| Tonic – If You Could Only See Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Also, the singer is right. You do have to take a little dirt to keep what you love. Heavens knows, my parents did not stop after I confronted them about what they were doing. I would not speak to my parents for months on end cause every time I did, they just spoke lies and manipulations about my husband. I would ask them to stop again, but they never did stop speaking the lies. This went on for the first three years of my marriage, and then they finally opened their eyes and saw how wonderful my husband really was. It is the road less traveled, and some of the happiness does unravel (It was very painful...), but sometimes you have to fight for what you love. :) | |
| Tonic – If You Could Only See Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm with Shinsen cause that is what the song means to me too. When I first met my husband, my parents hated him. They bad mouthed him to me and would say anything to get me to see him as a bad person. My husband is a great person who treats me wonderfully. He is loving, supportive, and makes me happy. Even after I married my husband, they still talked bad about him for the first couple of years. It started to become very manipulative, cause my parents would tell me lies about my husband just to get me to hate him. But when I would ask my husband or someone else who was there at the time, I got a completely different story. It hurt so bad to be pulled between my husband and parents. I finally confronted my parents about it, and I was told, "We just love you and want what's best for you." And I told them, "I love my husband. He is what's best for me. So stop this cause I love you and it hurts." I can relate to the song, cause my parents 'saying you love but you don't, you give your love but you won't'... as much as they said they love me, they wouldn't give their love to me cause all they were doing was hurting me at the time, and my parents were certainly saying they loved from where they stood, but it was all very hateful what they were doing. This is what the song means to me, and I could see someone writing it for their mother who does not approve of their spouse. This as all passed with my parents, and they finally see how wonderful my husband is and accept him as their son-in-law, but I can still feel how I felt back then when I listen to this song, cause at the time I wanted to tell my parents, "If you could only see..." |
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| Marilyn Manson – mOBSCENE Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The song seems to be making fun of society. Everyone condemns things that are obscene, but yet they cannot stop WATCHING what is obscene. People want the obscene but won't admit to it. As someone already said, "Be obscene and not heard" IS a reference to Groucho Marx who said "Women should be obscene and not heard." He is an old comedian from way back when. Basically, it is stating how society treats women as sex objects instead of recognizing them for their individuality and intelligence. However, I think Manson is using that line sarcastically, cause it says before it 'in the spirit of Oscar Wilde'. Wilde is a poet who was considered obscene in his day, cause Wilde dressed effeminently in an era where men were not allowed to be feminine at all. I think Manson is being sarcastic towards Marx, sort of saying with a slap in the face that women should NOT be only obscene and not heard. The song seems more like a sarcastic statement of what society is like instead of condoning it. And the line, "you want commitment? Put on your best suit, get your arms around me..." To me (although I could be wrong) sounds more like a guy telling a girl that she has to put up a front and be sexual in order to get commitment. Again, just Manson laughing at society. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Nobodies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think hirotheavatar hit it on the head with the meaning of this song. The media has made death very impersonal. Whether it is a school massacre or a suicide, when the nobodies die (for whatever reason it may be) people are shocked,... but then the people just pray for the nobodies and quickly forget them, moving on with their lives as if it was just a bad dream. The media plasters it all over the tv in order to increase their ratings... now these tragedies are just another day. People are desensitized now and they may feel sorrow over the nobodies, but it just doesn't hit home. They don't care cause it isn't effecting them... its just another news reel. This song actually hits home with me. I can relate to it a lot, cause I was a nobody in high school who was very suicidal. I felt like nobody else understood me and did not see me for who I truly was. I was bullied extremely bad (I mean, kicked down fire escape stares, had books slammed against my head, etc, not just called names and stuff) and was suicidal cause of it. I felt dirtier and dirtier every day that went by. I kept thinking to myself, "I bet if I blew out my brains, then these fxckers would finally see me." It's not that I wanted recognition for my death, I just wanted them to see me for what I was (someone in extreme pain), and not who they thought I was (which was just some kid who 'knew they were joking'). |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The song has nothing to do with Christianity, though it would be easy to simplify it to that. The song is about how capitalism feeds off of "beauty" and the "weak people" silently justify it by supporting it through buying everything the beautiful people produce. The beautiful people think they are better than everyone else, and do not discriminate by hating everyone who isn't beautiful. They think they are somehow cleaner and purer, even though they still live with "apes man" too. There is a simpler example of this that does not have to do with capitalism or famous beautiful people. Remember the beautiful popular kids in school who thought their shxt smelled better than others? Who bullied others cause they were mean, cause they thought they were cleaner and better? Yeah, it fits perfectly with the song. To me, "its all relative to the size of your steeple" seems to simply refer to the holier than thou attitude beautiful people have. It doesn't have to automatically refer to Manson making a slight against religion (I'm from the south, and whenever my grandmother made that comment, she was refering to someone thinking they're better than someone else for materialistic or egotistical reasons). And I don't think Manson is supporting fascism either. His comment about fascism taking it away is the truth. Fascism is a nationalistic movement of an ideology where people try to bring about strength, unity, and purity through radical change, usually due to a concern that the nation has declined due to impurity. If the nation ever did become sick of capitalism unfairly supporting the "beautiful people," then it would be a fascist movement that would take it away, and when a great nation falls, it usually is succeeded by some type of dictatorship... so Manson is technically correct to say that about fascism. |
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