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| Supertramp – Take The Long Way Home Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I considered it the story of an actor who married young. His artistic mind captivated his wife, but now she takes him for granted, hardly noticing him. The audience still loves him, but sometimes it feels as if he's just part of the stage, as if he is nothing more than more of the background, the set design. Of course, he struggles to come to terms with his own inability to save his marriage, as well as his lack of confidence on the stage (looking through the years at what he could have been), or even that he didn't want to be an actor (possibly a painter, why he goes to the gallery, although the ''gallery' could be many things). Eventually it leads to several confrontations with his wife, which makes her question his sanity. He eventually contemplates suicide, but declines. However he wants to "take the long way home", quite possible a reluctant integration back into the life he has. |
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| Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I suggest watching the music video, as it makes perfect sense with my interpretation. The music industry has controlled and programmed the musician, the rebellious musician who thought he could change the world, into doing exactly what they want him to do. The white blocks in the animation represent conformity of the musician, the rats are emaciated because that's what the machine does...it starves, sending even the vermin to go elsewhere for substance. Eventually there comes the tower, emerging from the horizon of white blocks, and proceeds to decapitate a man in the foreground. My favorite part from the experience is seeing the head become a skull right as the band returns to singing "welcome to the machine!", which makes sense in saying, in a way, that the machine will kill you. So then the "son", having been conformed to a white block, goes to join the other white blocks in the large ovoid structure in the sky, becoming one with the mechanical process that is the music industry. |
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| Supertramp – The Logical Song Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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In a modern context, it takes on a meaning similar to the one employed by Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine", that there is something that owns him and has molded him, something that is telling him what to dream, what to believe, and he has become so confused with this that he no longer knows what he is. It may not be the music industry, as was the case in "Welcome", but obviously something about his integration into mainstream society has disturbed him as he is becoming aware of what he is. |
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| Genesis – Home By The Sea Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"As we relive our lives in what we tell you" Every time I encounter this line in music, it becomes quite clear that something or someone has indeed died. In almost every interpretation of the song, it seems that the speaker of this line no longer feels alive, which supports the ghost theory, but also the schizophrenic theory, in which he believes he sees the ghosts of something he either knows or perceives is dead.
I think the major question behind the song is not what it is about, but about who and what is truly dead. When listened right through into Second Home, I feel as if the final segment of this half is the central character realizing he/she cannot escape the speaker, the "shadows".
Although the man breaking into a nursery or an old folk's home is a neat interpretation. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I always liked the abortion theory behind it. I know it's about a prostitute, but when you think about abortion, all of a sudden it becomes dark and dramatic. All of a sudden the iconic drum becomes the equivalence of a heartbeat and the lyrics take on a powerful meaning, especially "it's hot! too hot for me mama!". |
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| Talk Talk – Hate Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Talk Talk is seriously underrated if this is the first comment. Well, this track, from what my limited knowledge can deduce, tells the story of a man who does some sort of "gamble" (quite possibly his life itself) and ends up losing for it, becoming partially unstable and ending up in a furious rage that he knows will get him killed... |
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| Pink Floyd – Hey You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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"Worms ate into his brain..."
To me, this line seems to me like he has a perpetual headache, possibly due to addiction. |
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| Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Pink Floyd (Roger Waters) is not against education as a whole, but rather, against certain kinds of education, hence the line "dark sarcasm in the classroom". He is reflecting on his own abusive teachers in his own childhood.
The scream at the start seems to me to be almost disembodied. Perhaps this is not meant to be a physical scream, but rather a mental one; a vain effort to escape reality while appealing to his teacher. |
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| Pink Floyd – What Shall We Do Now? Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is my interpretation of the song.
The wall isn't finished, but some inner desire to complete it is emerging (waves of hunger), mostly because everyone else is nothing more than a constantly moving blob that needs to be shut out. The character (is his name Pink Floyd?) continues to isolate himself by attacking things that people do that seem pointless to him. He then concludes by coming to the decision that the wall is to be completed, already having respected it with its own title. |
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