| Chingy – Holidae Inn (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Ludacris) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| my favorite part of your comment is, "stop goin all Simon Cowell on sumbody u don't even know." you realize you ranted about how you hate people who rant... can anyone spot the hypocrite? | |
| Marcy Playground – A Cloak of Elvenkind Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i agree entirely. maybe he got his inspiration from a game, but that's not the point. the point is he just wants to let his imagination run wild, and he wants to be a kid, but he is not allowed. we all have a "cloak" like him, and we all sort of miss when it was cool to be able to play around in our imagination's own world. |
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| Pink Floyd – Flaming Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I dropped recently, and since I'm a Floydian, I listened to several hours of PF music throughout it. One song that I listened to was this one. Of course, I was listening to Piper as a unit, so in it's context, it fit, but as soon as it came on, it evoked an emotion in me that was different from what any of the other songs had pulled out. For starters, it sounds quite popish, with the catchy lyrics and music, but it had a creepy element in it, that made me a little edgy. Overall, I think that a lot of what PF did was made for people who were high, to be honest... "ever so hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh....." | |
| Pink Floyd – Flaming Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| agreed | |
| Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #2 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Cohen wrote this song on an airplane with his friend, and it was called "Chelsea Hotel." Years later, Cohen came across these lyrics and wanted to record them, but was afraid that it technically would be copyright infringement, so he called it "Chelsea Hotel No. 2." | |
| Leonard Cohen – Tower of Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I agree about the rolling countryside, but I always imagined it being a single castle tower, alone. | |
| Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Thank you. I'm a Leonard Cohen fanatic, and I spend a lot of time looking at his lyrics in a poetic sense, so to get feedback like this is exciting to me. I have no life. Haha. |
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| Gong – The Pot-Head Pixies Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the majority of this song is just making fun of people who are afraid of pot-headed music. This song is super psychedelic and is eclectic and random in meaning. It references many songs, especially in the third stanza. "Hey, Joe" is Jimi Hendrix "Hey-ho, they come and they go" is the Ramones "Hey Pete" is the Who |
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| Leonard Cohen – Suzanne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I understand that the first stanza is about a woman, but I'm gonna try to interpret the second. He has a vision in his head of what Jesus was. His metaphor is this: Jesus watched over his people like a spotter in a crow's nest. But there's a double meaning obviously, as his wooden tower is the cross. As he's in his nest, he noticed that dying men turn towards him, which is true for the most part as people tend to seek religion out of desperation. So Jesus made us all miserable, but instead of a collective turn towards religion, people are rejecting it, and Jesus seeks beneath our (broken) wisdom. And as for the "perfect body" phrase, humans tend to neglect their spiritual self for their superficial body. I take it as a mock to people who "find" Jesus. He touches your "perfect body," and made you realize that you're just human. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #2 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music" I'm not entirely sure that's a reference to heroin. I always took it as frustration about not fitting in, so you "fixed yourself" as in tried to make yourself look good enough to fit in, when in reality you don't care, just giving up, "we are ugly, but we have the music." |
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| Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, he said to me, "You must not ask for so much." And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" Everyone likes to tell people what to believe, and from different view points, all people are valid in their own beliefs. But for someone who is lost, hearing one person say, "you must not ask for so much" and seeing someone say the exact opposite thing can be hard when you know where both of them are coming from. All you can do is "try in your own way" when creating a worldview. It can only apply to you, and to try to strap onto the coat tails of those around you and let them influence your mind is not achieving freedom, it's establishing slavery of the mind. I don't think the first three lines are nearly as significant as: "Like a baby, stillborn, like a beast with his horn I have torn everyone who reached out for me." Both of those things are hurting people for a reason that they can't help. Everyone understands that there are some things you can't control, like the examples of a beast having a horn or a baby dying. It's very frustrating to not be able to change or control those things, but they continue to hurt people, and you have to be still and live with it. It's saying he is who he is, and he could change it and be fake ("if I, if I have been untrue..."), or he could continue and be who he truly is, and go on hurting people ("if I, if I have been unkind..."). It's a beautiful song, really. |
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| Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is what Kurt's biography said: He wrote this when he was in intense pain. The way he described it was, like if you've ever fallen and had the wind knocked out of you, and it takes about ten seconds to regain it, well imagine that for about an hour at a time. Thats what it was like for him. He was, at this point, sick of his life. He wrote many songs about wanting to be aborted, which is his allusion of suicide, however he was also fascinated by the birthing process and creation of life in the womb. This song is about how he wanted to binge on heroin to kill the stomach pain, but the heroin was a whole different kind of pain: delirium, anemia, depression, constipation, etc. |
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| Nirvana – Something in the Way Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| are you guys aware that he only lived under a bridge for a couple days. it was never THAT big of a deal. he was homeless for months, why would he lement on the bridge. | |
| Nirvana – Something in the Way Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| are you guys aware that he only lived under a bridge for a couple days. it was never THAT big of a deal. he was homeless for months, why would he lement on the bridge. | |
| Led Zeppelin – Over the Hills and Far Away Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I love this song. It kinda has an existential feel, but seems to kick it and speed up. The intro is beautiful, so is the ending. This song pics you up with the intro, shakes you around a little with the middle, and leaves you feeling peaceful with the harmonic ending. Truly genious. |
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| The Beatles – Across the Universe Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Lennon wrote this one night in bed. He couldn't sleep so he went to the other room to write. He wanted to write a trippy poetic song filled with imagery, so he twisted what he saw around him into interesting lyrics. words flowing out like endless rain- speakers pools of sarrow, waves of joy, drifting through his mind- his thoughts JAI GURU DEVA OM- "thank you god" he learned this studying with the dali lama. Images of broken light which dance before me- the fan blades cut the light as they spun The rest is about his love he shares with his wife. |
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| Syd Barrett – Baby Lemonade Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This thread seems to have multiple opinions on what this song is about. In that continued theme, here's what I think: I think this song is about the modernization of the world. Not necessarily "modernization," maybe more like globalized, commercialized and "sanitized" in a metaphorical sense. The clowns are a symbol of the way it used to be, and as the world became more mainstream (the iron) the clowns were stuck in the old way. They are still liked, however the people now clap for them with iron hands, meaning that THEY are entertaining the clowns as a symbol of the primitive. Send a cage through the post, make your name like a ghost. People these days really are anonymous (their names are ghosts) as people are slowly becoming numbers. I'm screaming, I met you this way. In a continued world of monotony, he is screaming for it to stop, and someone "heard" that and stared the common feeling. I'm probably wrong, but what do I know. |
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