| CocoRosie – Noah's Ark Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Doesn't she go "Noah's ark came to my house one day"? | |
| Xiu Xiu – Black Keyboard Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Is it really censurous? | |
| CocoRosie – Werewolf Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I was thinking about that! I felt it sounded an awful lot like 'love,' or maybe 'lover' but it can be a slurred 'father.' Plus 'father' seems to be a main theme to the song. | |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Red Eyes And Tears Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well I know I'm in love this is my first song. I should listen to some more ... (sorry about no interpretation for the song) |
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| Animal Collective – Peacebone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I heard this song from the MV first, and I don't know about you and I feel it's not supposed be weird even, but the vid was more ... romantic? to me than creepy and God knows I'm serious chickenshit. | |
| Patrick Wolf – A Boy Like Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Ah, just what I was going to comment. I think it's "fighting for peace," too. | |
| Patrick Wolf – Wolf Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"don't be afraid of the dark 'cos the darkness is simply a womb for the lonely" ohh ... this is my first song by Patrick Wolf. |
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| The Strokes – Soma Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "a gramme is better than a damn" | |
| Iron & Wine – Upward Over the Mountain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Ah, I definitely agree about the car and the shoes part. I was going through the lyrics just in case someone made the same interpretation as I did. "Mother forgive me I sold your car for the shoes that I gave you" It definitely is symbolic -- because of him, his mother was traded in a harder way through life than the easier, more ergonomic way. Between walking by foot and driving a car down a road, it's not much of a choice there. |
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| The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| You said it | |
| The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Really? I always took it seriously, but I understand Morrisey's wit. | |
| Joy Division – Isolation Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Lol xD that's right | |
| The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"People who didn't get the humor in the Smith's songs were totally missing the point." -nods- I especially like his songs for that reason. They're all so comforting in that wittily lamenting kind of way. Plus, his voice is just superbly romantic. |
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| Sex Pistols – My Way Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I learned a lot by just reading this stuff, guys. But anyways -- both this song and Sid weren't meant to be highly acclaimed in a a musical way -- they were highly acclaimed for being so punkass. Someone said it already; he's not a punk rocker, he's a punk. But yeah, I read everyone's comments and found them very interesting. |
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| The Smiths – The Boy with the Thorn in His Side Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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not that I'm disagreeing with anybody, it's just my first impression of this song was of Dallas from The Outsiders and this quote: ///// The human heart needs to love. It’s something built into us from the moment we’re born, if not before. We come out of the womb squalling and frightened, evicted from the warm darkness that’s the only home we’ve ever known, where we needed nothing, into a cold loud bright place where we suffer hunger and thirst, and then we’re placed into our mother’s arms. Our mothers feed us and burp us, wipe us when we’re dirty, kiss us when we cry. She’s the sun and we’re little seedlings; we grow toward her as the source of all that’s good. Even if she isn’t all that good. Even if she didn’t want children, even if she’s neglectful, we love her anyway. We have no other choice. For a while, she’s all we need. Then things get complicated. Around about age two, we start realizing we’re separate people and we practice saying “No!,” just to prove it, and over the next several decades we just keep on growing away, but we do not lose the need to love, to touch, to be touched. The need for intimacy. Somewhere along the way, the hormones kick in, and sex only complicates the whole issue. If we’re lucky, we develop into a person who’s capable of maintaining a long-term intimate relationship and having a family of our own. If we’re unlucky, we wind up living with a triple-digit number of cats and no one notices we’re dead until the smell gets too bad. If we’re not just unlucky, but cursed, if through mistreatment and punishment, the ability to love gets broken, the need still doesn’t go away. It becomes something else. It becomes rage. And the person becomes a psychopath. ///// http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1247882/J-Horror_Fan_4-ever So I'm just thinking maybe Morissey is singing to a psychopath who doesn't believe in good anymore. It reminds me of a hardened/toughened person whose heart becomes cold and incapable of love, but on a humane level, still desires to be loved. A person who doesn't remember what goodness is anymore. So it's like Dallas Winston, he's going to reject goodness because he hasn't seen it in a long time, and won't believe anybody that tells him it still exists. "Still they don't believe me? Will they ever, they ever, believe me?" It's probably not the real interpretation (I haven't read all the comments on this song) but it's just an opinion for my first impression of the song |
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| Sex Pistols – My Way Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I agree with the hat part, since in the video he clearly gestures to his head. | |
| The Smiths – I Know It's Over Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song made me fall in silly silly love with them again after a long hiatus of not listening to their songs. Although I was always in love with them. I'm not as much a Led Zeppelin and Ozzy junkie as I am for the Cure and the Smiths, I guess. -sighs- | |
| Susie Suh – Your Battlefield Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| same here, I think it's about her talking to her guardian. I felt it was directed to one person, thought, maybe either mother or either father, or maybe it's someone that took care of her. the 'i can't fight your war' part of the song, the guardian probably expects her to follow his or her footsteps, and be his or her's next generation -- legacy. but she's saying she's gonna do her own thing. That's my first thought on the song. | |
| Placebo – Pierrot The Clown Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the second part is --- [[[And if you're ever around in the back streets or the alleys of this town be sure to come around i'll be wallowing in pity wearing a frown like Pierrot the clown.]]] |
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| Elliott Smith – Between the Bars Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I always thought "between the bars" was an implication of someone in prison. Never even THOUGHT about the who "troubled life" idea until I read the first couple of comments. O_O | |
| The Scanners – Lowlife Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I know your not ready to live Are you ready to die" That's such a powerful line. I have 0% clue as to what this song means, but it still touches my heart. It's the kind of song where you can't just interpret it from the lyrics' point of view. You have to hear the music. |
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| The Strokes – Modern Girls and Old Fashion Men (with Regina Spektor) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I was listening to this song the other day -- and it applied so literally (not poetically or figuratively or anything -- LITERALLY) to me. I got in a verbal fight with a friend -- and he (the friend who was involved) could literally totally be singing Regina's parts, and it would have been a perfect apology. Anyways, I really liked VG5's interpretation. | |
| The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this is a song about running away -- running away with a lover. Abandoning everything, not giving two damns for dying in the midst of escape -- as long as the lover is with him. "And in the darkened underpass, I thought, Oh God, my chance has come at last but then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask . . ." as for this verse -- in the entire song, I think it stuck out to me the most, too. It's really beautiful, and makes me wonder about the smidget of time before suicide -- how would you feel? -- "upspeakable regret, fumbling for the world again." -- masters (spoon anthology). I'm not really sure. |
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| Iron & Wine – Upward Over the Mountain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Mother, remember the night That the dog had her pups in the pantry? Blood on the floor and the fleas on their paws And you cried 'til the morning" I think the dog symbolizes someone they know who was forced to make his or her own family live in such startlingly terrible conditions. And the Mother in the song is worried about his son, who is going growing up and flying "upward over the mountain" and maybe hopes he won't be like that. That's my interpretation -- I just read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn not too long ago, and the baby-being-born-into-a-harsh-world is stuck with me. |
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