| Peter Doherty – Last of the English Roses Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The thing he's mumbling in French at the end is supposed to be a quote from 'Our Lady of the Flowers' by Jean Genet, which is one of Peter's favourite books. I remember him talking in an interview about the way the song seems to be written about a girl, but then in the video, it turns out that The Last of the English Roses is actually a boy. That could be inspired by the book, as it explains the story of a man who is usually referred to in the feminine and Our Lady of the Flowers is in fact a boy as well. |
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| Oasis – Don't Look Back in Anger Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'm not sure if anyone mentioned that, but the title most likely comes from John Osborne's play, 'Look Back In Anger.' | |
| Babyshambles – Killamangiro Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the 'why would you pay to see me in a cage/some men call the stage' part is not necessarily about being on stage literally, but more about Peter being in the public eye all the time and feeling limited, caged by it. And 'On the offchance that you're listening' part is most likely directed at Carl in my opinion, it has been written later than the rest of the lyrics. |
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| Babyshambles – Love You But You're Green Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've always thought it had to do with Brighton Rock so I'm glad I managed to get that right...The whole book has this good and evil theme, so the 'Fire and damnation' bit most likely comes from there. And like Peter says in the interview, there's the part where Pinkie tells Rose, who is in love with him "You're green. You don't know what people do. You're innocent." He doesn't believe love brings much good, and thinks that rose could only love anyone because she is 'green' (which would definitely mean ignorant or naive in this case). I think the 'I can see the serpent' part could be referring to the woman who drove Pinkie to death - Rose says "She doesn't know about love," in the end, and believes that "she ought to be damned" because she could not understand how Rose could love Pinkie in such circumstances. And I think I remember reading about the first bit being about Sally Achassi, Babyshambles' first manager, whom Peter allegedly got to know by putting out an ad in a magazine in his teens or something like that...I'm not sure if it's true, though. |
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| Babyshambles – Gang Of Gin Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The "in a nutshell" part could also be expressing Pere's feeling of isolation after being kicked out of The Libertines. The "She was getting pally with a scally in the alley" bit puzzles me, though. Or rather, how it fits into the context of the rest of the song does... |
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| The Libertines – You're My Waterloo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The title is interesting...Waterloo as in battlefield, as in victory? | |
| Suede – Trash Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I remember listenting to this on long car rides with my parents when I was five or six...I've always seen it as somwhat atypical love song, about them being different and not fitting in, and creating a world of their own which is beautiful, but others can't understand it. But at the same time, it can be taken as such a view on the world by an individual And also like BirdFlew said, actually liking the feeling of being dirty and trash. Like ugliness turned beautiful... |
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| The Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It is about Edie, yes. And I would say that there might be a lot of truth in the song, not in the sense that she was a mean and awful person, but that behind that mask of playing the femme fatale, she was a very sad and very lost person... I mean, if you start at "The things she does to please, She's just a little tease" part, it bathes the rest of the lyrics in a different light. Just my intepretation, though... |
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| The Libertines – Bucket Shop Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This recorded on the 'Legs 11' sessions, which was back in 2000 and way before Peter's drug addiction. I think it's wonderful and a tad eerie the way so many of their songs have turned prophetic over the years, though, and can hold a different concept today than they have when they were written... | |
| Babyshambles – The Blinding Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think the "It's the last thing that you'll ever see" could be just a clever play of words (in the sense that, after seeing your own blinding, you will se nothing more), plus it goes well with the next lines "But you might be happy oh, happier than you've ever been" and "But you might be free oh, freer, freer than you've ever been (I see that as saying that ignorance can be a blessing in comparison to the harshness of the truth and that this sort of detatchment gives one a kind of freedom). I could be wrong though. | |
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