| Dana International – Dive (english) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I was curious about who 'Victoria' was. Oh, and I think it's 'Maria', not 'naria' - Maria Callas, I would think. love the song. love the singer. |
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| AFI – Miss Murder Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I would say it's a play on the old game 'Mother, May I' and on the notion that if you die young, you are, in the eyes of your fans, forever pretty. But you have to be the best of the best of the best for Miss Murder to even want you in *that* black-leather-clad pantheon. It's an honour more than it's a curse, so you ask for it on bended knee, and then wait for the car, the plane, the bad stuff, the good stuff - and then see if you get immortality, or 15 years of tawdry notoriety followed by the long slow trail into silence. But that's just my opinion. And I'm glad James Marsters is alive and well and teaching guitar to his 14 year old son. Just because they sell the myths, don't mean we buy them. |
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| 3OH!3 – Don't Trust Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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mandyisbuff, Helen Keller was famous for being blind and deaf, and considered not really, truly, properly human until someone (a girl, duh) taught her sign language. Starting with the sign for water. Point being, like many men who make jokes, these guys think there's something inherently valuable/ funny/ witty about the idea of a girl who can't talk back, except in sign language. If you're deaf, or Deaf, or have a deaf/ Deaf partner, sister, cousin or friend - well. I'll let you work out the end of *that* sentence. Or watch 'Children of a Lesser God'. I'd love to think they're being all ironical and all. But I suspect sarcasm is in there somewhere. |
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| 3OH!3 – Don't Trust Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yeah. except the only reason Ian Dury *should* have got away with 'spasticus autisticus' is that he *was* spasticus autisticus. And probably, that was the reason he didn't. Get away with it. So 'Helen Keller'? Go be blind and deaf for 6 months, see if it's still funny five months in. h. |
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| Pantera – Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| smoking strong whiskey - it'll get you every time. | |
| Everything but the Girl – Soft Touch Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Love this song - so sad. I'm sure this is the wrong way to do this, but it's a while since I've been here... 'moped' should be 'mopped', 'there's suitcase' should be 'there's a suitcase' 'wife involved in a ' should be 'wife been involved in a'. Thanks for posting - just minor things that affect how it scans. Helen Helen |
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| Sade – Sally Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I came to this site looking for opinions on this specific song by Sade - and it's the only one of hers that has zero opinions so far. I find it interesting that she chose the name 'Sally' - an appropriate name for a lady of easy virtue, but also the nickname of the Salvation Army. So you can read the song two ways - as a paean to a heart of gold, or as praise for all those who take light into dark places. Interesting. |
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| Skindred – Nobody Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| And 'born down pit' is the right line - it's how children of mining villages refer to themselves. | |
| Skindred – Nobody Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Okay, children, gather round so I can tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a village in South Wales called Aberfan. The school in Aberfan was at the top of a hill, and just above it was a coal mine. And just above the coal mine was a slag heap. On the last day before half term in October 1966, the slag heap shifted. Four classrooms were completely filled with a fine mix of coal dust and water. Had this event happened twenty minutes earlier, the children would have been in assembly, at the far end of the school. Had it happened 6 hours later, they'd have been back at home. As it was, exactly one child got out of those particular classrooms alive. One of the first things that happened was that the people in charge of the mine realised the school would need help, and everyone went straight there to start digging. 'My son, we've come to take over...' The man in charge of the National Coal Board at the time - who was responsible for the unsafe work practices that allowed that to happen - refused to change his plans for the day and go to oversee the rescue work. Instead he went to Surrey to receive an honorary university degree. 'M.C., you better look over your shoulder'. And although 116 children died that day, they're not yet forgotten. 'Yeah, you know, we keeping on....' 'Oh, well, now' - what all Welsh Nains say when they're about to start a very long story that goes way, way back. |
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| The Killers – Human Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I come from a fairly different place to most of these comments... In Spider Robinson's Stardance, the ability to dance gets you into the next level of sapience. So rather than being a puppet, or less than human - once we are Dancer, we're more than human, and can do cool stuff like swim through vacuum - which would give you cold hands, and vital signs... Helen |
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| Skindred – Nobody Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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And if you're too young to 'get' Aberfan on a gut level, go here and invest 9 minutes struggling to listen to the audio/ accent. Just look at the pictures, and hear the numbers. It'll come across. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OVsxVo26AoU |
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| Skindred – Nobody Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Okay - I was in Scotland in 1966, so I'm probably not an expert but when I heard this it was 'my son, we come to take over', and it just struck me that since these kids are from south wales, it's about the anger everyone in Wales continues to feel about Aberfan - and about what they want to do to the people in charge who never took responsibility. MC you better look over your shoulder. If it is purely about a mosh pit - kinda sad, but I guess I'll live. Hel. |
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| David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@Livvyxo - 'Bowie was my breast milk' - wow, you should write a song about *that*. I never did anything out of the blue - I've always thought that meant he felt he could have been more original in his thinking. Kinda ironical given he's referring to himself. Like Newton, looking back on his life as picking pebbles off a beach when the ocean lay before him. Gimme some of them pebbles you can save the sea for after tea. Hope this makes some kind of sense. Helen |
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