| Tool – The Grudge Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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reckless8610 nailed it. It's about forming a sense of self out of your suffering. You cling to your pain because that forms a part of who you are. You lose your "grudge" and you lose the "cornerstone" of your identity. Clearly not a good thing to be trapped in. I'm interpreting this alot through what I've learned from Eckharte Tolle as well. |
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| Joe Purdy – Miss Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I NEED the full version of this song. westside_guy24@hotmail.com | |
| The Beatles – You've Got to Hide Your Love Away Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Though people seem to already have the inspiration for this song figured it out, I take a different view on it. I always thought of it as being about falling for a girl and showing her affection and in turn scaring her off. That's how it came together to me at least, I guess everyone puts their own personalized spin on the music they love. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Long Time Running Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always took this song as a father's point of view on a divorce with an impossibly manipulative woman. The first verse seems to be directed towards the child, whom the mother has been trying to turn against the father. I have no idea what the weather man thing is about, but that's why the hip is great.. you'll find meaning to verses even years after hearing the song. All I know is this verse expresses a lot of frustration. The 'just on trips' is probably about how futile a little family vacation is...as in it can't patch an apparent void between the parents. The final verse seems to be directed towards the woman herself. Call her out for what she is and shut her out in the cold. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Boots Or Hearts Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sweet song, I love the comparison to run down boots. Like stated above, basically about what happens when a relationship is based only around sex. I guess it's kind of bitter, not in the sense that his heart is broken or anything... he's just realizing it was what it was, and is almost amused about how silly their relationship was. |
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| Jakob Dylan – This End of the Telescope Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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What a good song. There's so much to it that I wouldn't know where to start and would probably be scrambling to find the meaning in every verse. It seems to start from the beginning of his life and follows through some of his experiences spanning his life. It's all recognized as significant to him, but at the same time insignifcant in the big picture of things. 'This end of the telescope' is his way of expressing how much we can live and feel but are ultimately just the tiniest little piece of the universe. |
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| Jakob Dylan – Will It Grow? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I thoroughly enjoyed the new CD and this is my favourite song, so I'll bite on this one. "I made a promise to not let go Our tug of war has only made me want you more" -I beleive this song is in the context of a difficult relationship. The writer is probably much more passionate about the girl than what she returns. "Steeped in hard luck and doomed to roam My love is braver than you know" -Basically saying he doesn't live an easy life and that the stubbornness that gets him through is also what holds him to her. This stubbornness seems to be an underlying theme in the song as the first 2 lines also demonstrate. I'll come back to this theme again later. "Damn this valley Damn this cold Take so long to let me know It’s plant and reap and plow and sow But tell me will it grow" Sounds like he's put the effort into the relationship but the ball is in her court and she seems undecided on whether the relationship will 'grow' or not. "My forefathers they worked this land And I was schooled in the tyranny of nature’s plans Dressed in thunder a cloud came round In the shape of a lion a hand came down" "Dig my ditches in the golden sun I’d be robbing these trains if I could catch me one Sunday Monday now Tuesday’s gone Got me stone cold sober in a drought so long Boarded mansions and ghost filled yards There’s a boy in a water tower counting cars Steel traps open and empty stalls There’s a well-worn saddle but the horse is gone" "Jet black starlit midnight rolls I am down in the garden where I let you go Here on the surface the earth looks round But it’s a Godless city of cold flat ground" These verses really make the song, and I'm going to group them together because they're very similar and tie into eachother. They're full of imagery and are very cleverly written metaphors relating the owner of a tough life reaching out for that one girl. It takes on a sort of "Olden Days" theme through the eyes of a farmer the kind that breaks his back everyday but takes pride in it. The only thing that can really get to him is, of course, her, and her missing presence seems to give him a colder view of the world. |
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