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| Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - V) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I'm not entirely certain about this, but I think the steel breeze might be a drug reference. Sometimes with psychedelics, when it first hits it feels like a great rush of wind moving past you. Steel could be to do with the force of the wind, with its apparent cold inhuman ability to take a beautiful mind and destroy it. Just a thought.
This is a beautiful song. Roger Waters is one hell of a songwriter, not over-elaborate purple prose, not just simple words, some sort of wonderfully constructed midway. |
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| Radiohead – Harry Patch (In Memory Of) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I actually wasn't aware Radiohead quoted Harry Patch himself until after I'd first heard it. If anything, that makes it all the more chilling and touching. |
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| The Smiths – Barbarism Begins at Home Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It's nice to know there are other young Smiths fans out there; I went to a Smiths tribute band gig a few weeks ago and didn't see a single person there who was under the age of 30 except for myself. I'm 19 but I got into The Smiths five years ago, and their music has never lost its potency to me. Everything about this band is genius. The more I discover, the more I love them. Musically incredibly talented, and lyrically profound <3 |
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| Radiohead – How to Disappear Completely Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I heard he wrote this in response to feeling overwhelmed by fame. Either way, I love this song so much. I remember the first time I heard it, I thought it was the most beautiful song I'd ever heard. |
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| Radiohead – Gagging Order Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think it's about alcoholism personally. The first verse is addressing the control alcohol has over a person, it takes over their personality and their life, but they always deny it has such a hold on them. No amount of explanation or proof will ever sway them from that view.
"Move along, there's nothing left to see, Just a body, nothing left to see" suggests how hollow the addiction has left the person, how it makes them feel dead and worthless.
The next verse is pretty straightforward; drinking throughout the day "just to take the edge off"; it's a pretty little lie to tell yourself.
"Just a body, pouring down the street" - the use of the word pouring makes me think this is specifically aimed at alcohol. To me it's a very poetic way of saying this person is so consumed by alcohol that they are almost entirely composed of it, hence the body "pouring down the street".
That's just my own view. Anyway, I love this song to pieces; it's an absolute gem. |
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| Owen Pallett – Many Lives -> 49 MP Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Sorry to nitpick staalkin; although I agree with your reference to Timothy Leary, he was not the creator of LSD (that would be Albert Hoffman). He did advocate its use spiritually and theraputically though.
God, talent just pours out of Owen Pallett, doesn't it? |
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