| Bauhaus – The Spy in the Cab Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's just a surreal picture that defines goth rock. The pulp is the point. Fascism and taxis may be the deeper connection. | |
| Bauhaus – A God in an Alcove Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Idol worship reduces spirituality to vulgarity. It ends the search, constricts the spirit. | |
| Bauhaus – Swing The Heartache Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Unrealistic expectations suck. | |
| Bauhaus – Who Killed Mr. Moonlight? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Death of innocence. The realization you aren't immortal. See Douglas Fairbanks. | |
| Bauhaus – The Passion Of Lovers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's about obsessive love. The best kind, by the way. | |
| Bauhaus – Slice Of Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is about the power of hatred to control people. | |
| Bauhaus – She's In Parties Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Cmon people, it's about blowing coke and the party scene. Peter always is discussing the conflict of one's vulgar desires and one's spiritual needs. | |
| Bauhaus – In The Flat Field Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| LSD is only slightly crazier than the boring reality of wasted youth. | |
| Bauhaus – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Finding the surreal in boring reality. Reminds me of "Dirty Old Town". | |
| Peter Murphy – The Line Between the Devil's Teeth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The permanence of sin in one's consciousness. It's about how guilt kills the search for the spiritual. | |
| Peter Murphy – Strange Kind Of Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The good side of obsession and compulsion. | |
| Peter Murphy – Kiss Myself Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Narcissism. | |
| Peter Murphy – Give What He's Got Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The human spirit subdued by crowding out the search for higher purpose. | |
| Peter Murphy – Dragnet Drag Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Religion and spirituality at odds with each other. | |
| Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Desire for fame and personal glory replacing the need for spirituality. | |
| Buffalo Tom – Kitchen Door Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| He's a pet. And he's happy to someone's pet. | |
| Buffalo Tom – Scottish Windows Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| He misses something or someone and wishes possibilities were still open. A personal story and we'll never know the details. | |
| Buffalo Tom – Would Not Be Denied Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Holding on to selfishness to satisfy one's fading dreams. | |
| Buffalo Tom – Register Side Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Story about "ending up" somewhere and settling for less in life. | |
| Buffalo Tom – Anything That Way Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Guilty and lonely because he cheated on his friend. | |
| Built to Spill – Singing Sores Make Perfect Swords Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Emotional blackmail. | |
| Built to Spill – Broken Chairs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| We adjust to bad circumstances instead of fixing them. Is that a survival technique, or are we lazy? | |
| The Jam – Thick As Thieves Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Our definition of "friend" changes as we grow up. Playmates don't cut it when you're 30. | |
| The Jam – Mr. Clean Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Weller and company were VERY blue collar. This is a fantasy about having a double life. | |
| The Jam – Girl On The Phone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| If it was written now I'd say it's about telemarketing, with demographics gathered through the network of databases out there. 'They know everything about you'... | |
| The Jam – Burning Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Fire on the horizon is the drive for wealth to the exclusion of humanity. | |
| Midnight Oil – Poets and Slaves Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| He's wondering where the passion for change in his country has gone. When all your material needs are met, one tends to become apathetic. | |
| Midnight Oil – Surfing With A Spoon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Waste being dumped in their favorite surfing spot. They never were not political. | |
| Midnight Oil – Under The Overpass Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Homelessness because of a failed economy. Most likely an anti-capitalist song. | |
| Midnight Oil – When The Generals Talk Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| General Electric, General Insurance, etc. Also about the soveriegnty of corporations apart from government. Oppressive capitalism. | |
| Elliott Smith – Division Day Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Daring himself to committ suicide. | |
| Smog – Bloodflow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Apparently he does not have an impotence problem. | |
| Smog – Drinking at the Dam Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| An alcohlic embarrased that his life is no different than when he was a teen. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Jesus Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Coming down from heroin makes one feel the need for redemption. Any savior works, especially the forgiving kind. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| An adulterous affair. Bittersweet. | |
| Samiam – Capsized Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| He hates father. So much so that he started a band to express it. | |
| Neil Young – Days That Used To Be Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Where did all the hippies go? | |
| Neil Young – Western Hero Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Our heroes used to be real, now they are celebreties and rock stars. | |
| Neil Young – Mansion On the Hill Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The hippy afterlife. | |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain – Head On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Cocaine, my friends. Leaning down, blowing some lines, catching sparks. | |
| Samiam – Full On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Hard to adjust to adult life when you were abused as a kid. | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – Nocturnal Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Sex. Wonderful, intense, burning hot love. | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – Nocturnal Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Sex. Wonderful, intense, burning hot love. | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – Nocturnal Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Sex. Wonderful, intense, burning hot love. | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Ian's love songs are usually about cocaine, God, or infatuation. I'm betting on coke. | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Ian's love songs are usually about cocaine, God, or infatuation. I'm betting on coke. | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – Do It Clean Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Coke again. Ian loved the stuff. You don't save your coke, you do it clean, the whole sack. Even if he had a barrel of it, he'd do the whole thing at once. | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – Crystal Days Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Sorry guys, it's about cocaine. Not the evils of coke addiction, mind you, but that wonderful feeling of clarity he gets when he's high. Ian was awlays unabashed in his coke consumption. | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – Buried Alive Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Growing old sucks, apparently you die at some point. Delvaux only painted pictures of naked young women (except 1 painting). Maybe he'll die while in love with one. | |
| Midnight Oil – Short Memory Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's about how soldiers are accountable for what they do in wars, not just the countries that send them. A soldier must have a short memory (no conscience) in order to do what they do. | |
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