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| Johnny Socko – Vasectomy Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Could never understand all these lyrics even after a hundred listens. They're damn funny. And who would have thunk there's a whole sociopolitical statement in this song? (Societal vasectomy...) |
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| The Soft Pack – C'mon Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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"army, navy, air force, and marines" -- seems like jibberish relative to the other lines in the song. Anyone have a clue? |
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| MGMT – Someone's Missing Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Christian disco -- Nice! I think it's about death, and that during a merge with the eternal soul the narrator is feeling the loss of his earthly ego. I keep getting stunned by this group. |
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| 311 – Welcome Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I grew up listening to this band, and damn if they weren't putting out some pretty old soul stuff when they were in their early 20s. |
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| 311 – Mindspin Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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That's kind of what I thought it might be referencing. Thanks for doing the math flashdrc |
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| 311 – Prisoner Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I believe this song is about divine consciousness being trapped in the physical plane, in human form.
It also seems to reference a future society, as reflected by the Burning Man festival (where people set up and live in domes, laser lights are everywhere, and streets with psychics). I wonder if the men from 311 have been to the playa. |
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| Sebadoh – Flame Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think you're right about the drug meaning of this song. "Hitting the flame" in the last verse is a pretty poetic allusion to smoking anything. And the rest of the words support it.
Barlow tends to have a pretty self-referencing bent in his songs -- this track is sort of analogous to the thin resistance and quick giving-in of "Rebound." But he's so aware of the negatives.
Thanks for the post. |
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| Archers of Loaf – Chumming the Oceans Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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My understanding is that "chumming" the waters is throwing a bunch of cut up baitfish into the sea to attract a frenzy of sharks.
It seems like this song is alluding to the decline of mankind. But then, I think most songs by intelligent artists these days are about the decline of mankind. |
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| Blur – There's No Other Way Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It took me a while of listening to come to an understanding of this song. In fact, it wasn't until my wife got pregnant.
I think the song is about, in general, evolution and moving through stages. The verses are a reaction of the singer to a teacher or peer pressing him to do and act according to his age, but this doesn't seem like a lot of fun. But in the chorus he concedes that "there is no other way" to life, and we can't stay at one stage forever, no matter how fun or appealing that seems. thus all you can do "is watch them play," THEM being those who are coming up behind us. As ever-maturing beings, we necessarily evolve to find higher-ordered activities to be the only activities that afford true satisfaction. We can try to keep playing (like little kids play on a playground, or like older kids get high, or race cars, etc), but ultimately we can't keep doing it. All we can do is get satisfaction watching the next generation engage playfully with life.
Damon Albarn is a modern day prophet, and I think drugs have fed his muse. For my own reasons and rationalizations, I liked the pro-drug message I saw in other songs of his, so I couldn't understand this song until I realized that he may already have been aware that there is an end to everything, including certain mind-expanding tools. As in the first verse, he doesn't "want to think," and that, along with fun, is part of the allure to some drug use. |
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