| The Delgados – Child Killers Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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An interview did confirm that "gack" referred to the Dr. Seuss quote, which was about a game children played. They also said the song is about "a section of society where children are denied a childhood." This sounds to me less like the abortion idea than about a situation of poverty and crime. In a literal sense, there's a clear implication of death. "Lips of gray" describes a corpse, and phrases like "our lives were shite" suggest that he knew the person for a long time. I believe he's mourning the death of a brother or childhood friend. |
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| Dead Man's Bones – Lose Your Soul Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think the most interesting thing about this song is the juxtaposition between a seductively-sung verse that seems very strongly sexual innuendo (You're gonna lose your soul tonight ... You're gonna lose control tonight) and a forcefully-sung verse that very strongly implies a loss of willpower and self-determination in life (I get up in the morning...). I think the song is about surrendering willpower to society in all ways. For me it evoked the image of a person who abandons grand ambitions or dreams to start a family, and have a stable, demanding but boring career needed to sustain it, in effect trapping his/herself. |
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| Coldplay – Twisted Logic Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is such a great song, but I can't help every time I hear it but thinking that it's marred by some careless overt phrases of meaningless moralizing. "Don't fight for the wrong side. Say what you feel like..." "You are not wrong to... it belongs to all of us." Thing is, the rest of the lyrics are so powerful and conjure images of a planet in crisis, a civilization that keeps pressing forward but keeps undoing itself. And the lyrics mesh well with the music, for example "There could be computers, looking for life......... on..... Earth." You don't get the full meaning of this until the last second of that line. Much of the song is like that, striking a hammer blow in the last second. |
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| Coldplay – Life in Technicolor II Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Violet Hill was winter. This song was fall. | |
| Coldplay – Violet Hill Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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After listening many times I arrived at a very simple conclusion: The song is about God and faith. "It was a long and dark December..." The world is cold and frigid. As he struggles to survive his fellow humans stare down from security, unwilling to help. "When the future's architectured..." The world is going to hell because of what humans do; there is no intervention. "When the banks became cathedrals..." Money and deception have instituted themselves as divine. "Priests clutched onto bibles..." People are perverting God's word to wage war and kill. "Bury me in armour...." His own senses are weapons against him, he has no safety, he tries to wear his faith (the "armor of God") but even that cannot protect him in life or in death. "I don't want to be a soldier..." He's supposed to be a soldier for God, but he's been thrown into the world, a "sinking ship" where he can't get out, where he can't fight or do anything but sink with it. "I took my love down to Violet Hill..." Perhaps this is a direct reference to some location that I don't get. What I hear is that he's gone to a quiet and personal place to reflect, to try to talk to God, but even there God doesn't respond. "If you love me won't you let me know." If God loves him, why doesn't God ever speak to him or show him love? If God loves him, why does God let him stray so far from his faith without calling him back? |
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| Muse – Stockholm Syndrome Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Actually, it may be different in various versions but the lyrics I hear are: "And we'll fly And we'll fall And we'll burn" "Look to the stars Let hope grow in your eyes And we'll love And we'll hate And we'll die" |
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| Muse – Stockholm Syndrome Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Guys... it's about the death of a lover. It perplexed me the first few times I heard this why a song called Stockholm Syndrome enunciated the words "And she had a name." The only situation this is ever spoken is after someone dies, usually to say that someone isn't a statistic after a tragedy happens and kills many people. "This is the last time I'll abandon you... and this is the last time I'll forget you... I wish I could." I can't say much for certain other than the relationship in this literal interpretation was in a very shaky state, one of those that drags on for years with nothing but fighting because they can't let each other go. And then the woman dies. The application of the concept of Stockholm Syndrome to a relationship makes sense, and in this case also maybe more generally to life itself. He must know that what they went through had meaning. It must have meaning, if only self-imposed. The verses taken parallel: And we'll fly -- And we’ll yell And we'll fall -- Then we'll hate And you'll burn -- And we’ll die No one will recall -- All to no avail |
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| Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More with Feeling – Where Do We Go from Here? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The songs in this musical were all excessively dramatic, for satire. But I don't think anyone can say they've never had a moment just like this song describes. The battle's done, And we kind of won So we sound our victory cheer ... Where do we go from here? Understand we'll go hand in hand But we'll walk alone in fear. Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg)'s voice with the guitar at the beginning really brings out the tone at the beginning. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Thinking more about this, the line "There walks a lady we all know" - why do we ALL know this lady? She's probably metaphorical. So what is represented as a lady? Justice? Liberty? A nation? What if the lady is England, or America? Most of modern nations are hugely materialistic - "sure all that glitters is gold", wants to buy its way into paradise. America is famous of rlooking to the west for freedom - while England would have the ocean to the west. Can you hear the wind blow - do we know what we're in store for? [Although there is a lot of reference to Spring and hope, which is the west wind in mythology.] I just think it's cool to listen as if the lady is your country - or some other personification. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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(As if anyone is going to read this...) I never thought this put the protagonist in a good light. She is "sure all that glitters is gold", in other words she is foolishly optimistic and ahead of herself. "With a word she can get what she came for" sounds like someone spoiled. The premise of the song, "buying her stairway to heaven" is reminiscent of indulgences. Literally interpreted, it is morally corrupt. Yet at the same time she is a sympathetic character, you understand her want "for leaving", her will to place her hopes in "the piper" that everything will turn out happy. Maybe she did bad things in the past, and is trying now to get away and "change the road [she's] on". "A spring clean for the May queen" - a May queen represents purity, so a spring clean for one is like brushing someone clean of their past, like a born-again virgin, but in a satirical light. And she is this person. But the last verse changes the light completely. We have the singer gloomily ("shadows taller than out soul") walking this road "to heaven" and passing the girl, to see that she is bright and how this otherwise naive view can change the world just through perceptions. And through this light he sees how to live in peace ("when all are one... to be a rock and not to roll"). It's two sides of the thoughts on a way to view the world, on how to find happiness versus how we should set our standards. |
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| Yuki Kajiura – The World Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I know this is ridiculous but I always thought it described the kind of people who played The World. It's been a while since I've seen the anime, but a lot of them were running away from social problems or rejections. They entered The World to have these safe connections but it was always fake, and they were always alone in their own thoughts. And yes Tsukasa of course, the brooding protagonist forced into a huge empty world and refusing to accept people as they came to him. I feel this song really manages to capture the supreme loneliness of social discontinuity and all its effects. |
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| Efterklang – Mirador Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There are a lot of words in this song, and I really wish I could find the lyrics somewhere. The first couple minutes mention fire and flames. Then they talk about clouds for a while. The problem is, what I hear makes no sense grammatically. I often misinterpret words I hear. But I'll just write down what I'm hearing, when I can make it out: *sighs* you all can sit a house a fire a light [alive?] into was supposed to leave the clouds and in their silver boat tour the ocean where the eagles tend [eagle stand?] *ba da da da ba da* flames tick ters again while if the fire ends each [beats? it's?] taken off my hand now that's it's time singin' out again rid the bells in you *la-di-da la-di-da la-di-da-da-da-ah* a.)smile the clocks to lou ring the bells in you sliding round the rhythms and lie the clouds to lose charms in clouds with a parachute b.) [I can barely make anything out in the background singing except "forces" "terrible" and "power of you"] You wrote a novel I did too Despite of the cares that we trust I could understand All of it If I wrote a novel You did it too If I loud apollo if your clay rosted too *ba da da da ba da* x2 Obviously please do not spread this as lyrics because it's just guesswork and most of this doesn't make sense. |
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| Janis Ian – In the Winter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I just wanted to comment this is an incredible song - how she spends the entire song with her half of a smalltalk dialogue (and some streaming thought) but manages to convey a lifetime of emotion and mundane experience. | |
| Sonata Arctica – Full Moon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I view this song in a physical sense, and I agree with Kimmay. This is my initial interpretation: First it explains his present situation - waiting in a barn, hoping that nothing happens but always fearing the worst. Then it shifts to the past with "In sickness and in health" which I think pertains to the woman, his true love. She loves him even in this state, understanding but too demanding on him. And I think this has happened many times before (perhaps he kills every season/moon, as indicated later "hundred moons or more"). What makes him insane is knowing that this is uncontrollable, and will probably result in the death of the girl. Then because of this dissonance he is seen searching for a place to hide - both from the girl and from those who hunt him. The girl however has followed him, as much as swimming across a bay, to "make the love complete" - which would be having him turn her into a wolf as well. But what he knows that she doesn't is that he has no control (the whole "my love is in there somewhere" doesn't work). She opens the door, but before even seeing him she becomes just a another mess on the floor. It's a very powerful song. |
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| R.E.M. – Imitation Of Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I get the feeling this song doesn't apply to any group of people ie. celebrities or adolescents; in part at least it's a statement on modern society. "That's sugercane that tasted good" - nowadays we have sugarcane in nearly everything, so when we find a food that tastes good it's just the sugar (or the fat or the esters). Cinnamon is a spice that was originally worth a king's ransom, but now it's worth very little yet it maintains a sense of elegance. Hollywood is just plain fake, everything staged and acted out. So I feel the song's refrain is about our experiences being the product of imitation. The frozen fish and similar examples could be the narrator speaking of himself, but it could also be him speaking of the world. Instead of seeing fish be fish, you see fish in bowls and ponds for our enjoyment. The video is funny in the sense that it shows an imitation of life - all different people leading different activities in an exaggerated fashion and in a setting that we perceive as "life", a social gathering. But really, not only is it unreal because it's all just a party, but even here half of everything is going to hell all at once. That's another side - the lemonade and sliced bread; how we might think of reality stuck in our little corners with our TVs. But in the background where nobody can see is all the trying and the crying, the hurricanes and disasters, fear and freezing in a corner. |
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| R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Also for some reason the melody notes remind me of Mad World. | |
| R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| At first this song seemed ridiculous but when I was listening to it once I got the distinct impression that the narrator (singer) is looking out at crowds of people and imagining just how perfect and always happy their lives are. The eerie line hits you "There's no time to cry" and the way they sing so enthusiastically and cry "love me, love me" tells me it's not sarcastic or political but rather a call to others to let him/her live the live that everyone else takes for granted. | |
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