| Pink Floyd – Eclipse Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm impressed that so few people got to a similar conclusion as me, because it all seems to glaringly obvious: This song says: Everything (under the Sun - a biblical expletive - everything that matters to us *is* under the Sun) makes sense. Is in tune. Is in harmony. Just according to keikaku (keikaku means plan). But the Sun (that expletive Sun under which everything is) is eclipsed, occult, hidden. The things in tune are hidden. That they are in tune is hidden. There is a sense to everything, there is meaning... but we can't see it. It's not apparent. It's not available to our senses. There is an order to everything, but we can't figure out what this order is. |
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| Moby – Natural Blues Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"oh lordy, trouble so hard, don't nobody know my troubles but God" The expression "only God knows" means nobody knows. Nobody is inside his skin, so nobody knows how much it hurts him. Nobody truly knows what's been through, except for him... and the God, if you will, he's crying out to... and maybe the listener, if he can successfully empathize. For me, it's about the loneliness of suffering, and the suffering of loneliness. I like the contrast between "stayed all day" and "didn't stay long". To find your brother dead, metaphorically or literally, is a powerful image for troubles nobody can really understand without experiencing them and surviving the experience with the memory intact. Living in a mad swing between panic attacks and bouts of depression, that's how I see what the guy is talking about. |
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| Relient K – What Have You Been Doing Lately? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Notice that nowhere in this song does it refer to God or Christianity. It all depends on how you want to interpret the lyrics" It doesn't have to refer to Christianity. It asks about "the Salvation that you've claimed", and Salvation is a Christian concept. Plus the band is Evangelical. And the guy wants to puke because his friend likes Miller Lite. This is just a song about a self righteous kid passing judgment on how his friends got bored to death from their Evangelical churches and went on their own ways. About a kid who can't figure out why people with IQ over 130 seldom can buy this crap once they get out of their narrow communities and go to College. This reminds me of Brother by the Organ: because if they are good and if they are right then they'll have their rapture one of these nights but if they are wrong... Well, if they're wrong they've bored a hole on my skull for damn nothing. Rapture, by the way, is another Christian specific concept. Evangelical, actually. So yes, she's talking about the Bible thumpers, or at least using them to reference to like minded people. |
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| The Organ – Brother Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm for the two possibilities for "brother": brother in arms, and big brother. The war is a metaphor for the confrontations she has with self righteous Christians in her life, possibly relatives. it begins with here we go they’re back again A family gathering comes to mind, but could be any group of self righteous people with whom she has to cross paths, the simple societal pressure (ostracism) against her love or the family of her femme lover, either way she fears they will take you away from me enjoy it while you can before things change I think it's less of a fear that society becomes less tolerant, and more a fear that the extant intolerance ends up spoiling her love. Then comes the actual best part of the song, when the tune get's it's climax she muses that she might be wrong, because if they are good and if they are right then they’ll have their rapture one of these nights but if they are wrong.. Well, if they are wrong then they are sucking the life out of her *for nothing*, and she'll be very very pissed. |
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