| Radiohead – Optimistic Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Risiko:7488] You kinda get it, but kinda don't.... ITS NOT OK... the angst is all about the unsatisfying reality of "I'd really like to help you man..." and something in us that says, no, its not "good enough", something in us moans and groans like the song at the end and says, no, the great tragedy, no eastern merely peacefully accepting that in this rock song at least... "if you try the best you can the best you can is good enough" is being mocked as a mere tautology of the tragic seen of messed up marionettes on a prison ship he sees and their limits | |
| Radiohead – True Love Waits Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Lonliness longing in extreme desperation for true love... Moments in our lives when we think we have come close to it but it leaves out of our grasp and we so desperate for something deep and real in life are willing to subjugate ourselves and everything, beliefs-identity, to have what we are so desperately lonely for deep down that its like we're an abandoned 5 yr old child Thom mentions describing the metaphor left "killing time" with the mundane-ities superficiailities of life that deep down are as comforting and noursihing to the soul (compared to the 'true love' we crave) like a lollipop or crisp to the abandoned child. Don't leave is a sense that the loved one would've-could-ve answered that craving more important to us than even our own identity and convictions, but they won't stay, we'll be left in the attic to kill time with what in comparison is lollipops and crisps compared to that 'true love' if we could find it. Most realists would say the song is about the fool who is left waiting for it rather than callously saying it doesn't exist and moving on, not waiting... True to an extent, but the impulse is a good deep one pointing to the value of true love that is worth waiting for fulfillment and worth dying to self, i.e., God is love, but now I'm going beyond the song's meaning altho pehaps not beyond why this song touches so deep a nerve in us. Many who hear 'get' this song empathize with the desperate plea willing to trade self-abnegation for finding true love if it could be found, why it brings a strange tear to so many... deep down we know we crave for true love but have put that essence of our soul up into the attic OK, you can roll your eyes now and continue feigning deep joy in your lollipops and crisps. |
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| Jars of Clay – Oh My God Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My thoughts about the meaning of "our greatest offense" as a great JOC fan and minister of their denomination, having thought about what Dan says and the belief system they ascribe to: 'Our greatest offense' is taking all the evil and pain of this world... ...that we are both corporately and individually responsible for as those connected and intrinsically similar to the original man who rebelled against God and brought all this upon the world and mankind and continue to bring upon this world in rebellion against the purity of God's intention with our own lack of love and hatred, even on the part of those like the author of this song at the end who is cognizcent of both his own bad bent and failure of will to reach out and love and relieve... ...and then having the nerve to sigh out, cry out, and emotionally shake our fist in our soul and blame a pure hoy grieved God for what we have done and we bring on with our own evil. Who has not at small problems or the largest evils that face us, said the words or thrown up the attitude in our hearts in angry address "Oh, my God!" "Why have YOU made me like this?" Rom 9 "The woman YOU gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit..." Gen 3 "Oh my God" is the angry cry of the raging mothers watching all the evils that have resulted from mankind's failures (and of all of us in our moments of facing the things of this world that are not as they should be) and, however briefly, indignantly complaining and emotionally blaming a responsible God. This is another example of the evil heart disposition of us all, to include people of God, that stiffen their necks at the consequences of our own sin and refuse to repent, but in their hearts would curse God not uhlike the men of Revelation 16:10-11. "Men gnawed their tongues in agony and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done." It is fashionable among MANY pastors to say that "It's okay to be angry at God... Its no sin." I think it is among our crowning offenses to besmirch his reputation in our own soul and deep recesses of our heart, if only expressed in brief moments, for the horrific damage and evil we have wrought. |
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| Radiohead – Lewis (Mistreated) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ditto Shes My Alcatraz Rock (and Radiohead) is greatest when it puts together great creative art, poignancy, and the power that is evident in songs like this. Great layered sophisticated music/art can be served up in a dish of kick ass rock and roll and guitar riffs, and radiohead have proved that and continue to prove that altho more sporadically than I would crave. |
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| Radiohead – The Trickster Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| One of the greatest rock songs and guitar riffs never to make it to an album. | |
| Radiohead – Planet Telex Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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...original sin... ...for all have sinned... ...there is no one who is righteous, no not one... ...the whole creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will... the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now... ...radiohead may be unaware of these classic Christian doctrines or verses to a very deep extent, but as the great artists they are have been quite attuned to some of these truths |
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