| Glassjaw – Black Nurse Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I forgot to add what I think it all comes together as meaning: Since the world inevitably becomes more progressive, and more conscious of what we've done, how are we going to feel about all of that? It seems like in order for us to not face our past, we just oppress again. I say we because I am a white hetero-male, I'm just not old yet. I don't know at what age I begin the oppression of all who are not me. |
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| Glassjaw – Black Nurse Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree with the guy who says this song is probably about drugs and alcohol, because it is so plentiful in Daryl's lyrics, but I'd like to do a different interpretation. Especially as a person who's an alcoholic/addict in a recovery program, I've spent my time obsessing with drugs and alcohol, and its nice to be able to fantasize about something different. I want to start with the title, and take it at face value: An African American nurse. I live in the bible belt and I've worked in a hospital, and I can tell you that a lot of white folks, especially older white people will ask for a different nurse if they are given a black nurse. Which, is crazy, because the care will not differ. Though I'm sure there are instances where a black nurse could be resentful given past insults and may have lowered her level of care. This is, "Beyond poor, beyond ostracized. Destined to be obscured. Beyond right in your offset eyes." - comes from a speaker who is conscious of the black nurses' oppression. Not to sound elitist, but anyone who's familiar with the terms hegemony or postcolonialism will know that rich old heterosexual white guys are the ones who write history. Subconsciously or intentionally, to varying degrees, the more distanced you are to being a rich heterosexual white man, the less we know about you, because you were never written about or your writings never seemed important. "Beyond right in your offset eyes," is what I really confirms this for me. We don't know that the way we have learned history is inaccurate (or perhaps a lot of history seems to have been discounted), so we don't perceive it as wrong. And its not wrong, but it is again, one perception. "On dominus ground" - speaker aware of his/her own personal situation. "If what I say isn't true, I do it to reason with you." Speaker is conscious of history's perception, and is now speaking to listener/reader. Since history is faulty, or denies credit to marginalized people, then speaker knows he/she must speak within the context of faulty history, because we all know it to be the same thing. On top of this, in my personal experience, if you speak with someone who thinks history is all accurate, then they by proxy believe you to be a conspirator or conspiracy theorist... which happens with a lot of people who haven't been forced to read essays or ideas about this. It is the same logic as if someone tells a child their mother is a bad person. All that child can see is that the mother is a good person, regardless of what the mother does, and is unlikely to believe it and may be highly offended someone could say such a thing. "Kiss and no tell, the police down at the motel." Black women are notoriously slept with throughout history by white men and betrayed by them, through denial, child birth... anything necessary. I think the speaker has slept with the black nurse, and now the black nurse may be trying to blackmail the speaker some how, and the speaker frames the black nurse. "I'm aware, I see, yet somehow as you reach down, I'm afraid you'll want me to go without." Speaker while being intimate with black nurse is conscious of the situation, finds pleasure in the situation, but knows that the nurse has the power to sexual please him, and by proxy has basic power over him. Speaker is paranoid because he/she is conscious of the situation. "Beyond right in your husband's eyes. Does he bow when you're around?" I think speaker knows that he has power over black nurse and husband, and is making black nurse aware of his power. Husband may be able to provide love, but is not able to provide wealth, like speaker can. I might be totally wrong about all of this, but I prefer this interpretation, or maybe any interpretation over drugs and alcohol. Also I want to say this is an excellent song regardless, its been stuck in my head for 3 days straight. 3 fucking days straight! |
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| Every Time I Die – Floater Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| oh yea, all about it, this one you actually can take at face value, unlike a bunch of his other ones, "My lover the riever, makes a better soldier than a bride", oh yea the river picked keith up on the rebound | |
| Every Time I Die – Pretty Dirty Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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My general understanding is that every good poem or short story has an ambigious ending and the reason they are so good is because you can relate to them so easily, with that being said, I wish he would say everyone of these songs meant one thing and we are either right or wrong about them I did get a different picture about this, I think he switches the narrator from himself viewing america, america viewing god, and what god thinks viewing america; reguardless of what Keith believes in. Line 1: The great American mischief has muted our hearts and our rhythms are met with the inharmonious grunts of electric guitars. - Maybe underground or outcast music such as theirs countering popular american beleifs. Line 2: Its all but too much, Nobody beleives the obscene are reprieved. - It all comes back to bite you in the ass Alot of jumble i dont understand or at least cant comment on "I've been begging you for less mercy than this" - This is tricky to me but I beleive that it means we might not even be content with things that we should be. We take things for granted. Great line though. Another tricky "Cast aside our clothes like funeral roses and dance straight through the psalm" - Blindly following an interpretion of a religion, resulting in us being brain dead or unable to think for ourselves, we might as well be dead. Something i cant interpret but love, "I'm dead in the water, dont come for me, I was once alive in the deserts' eyes on the day it wed the sea" But i do think this has something to do with prehistoric times or ancient times because the song keeps referncing pre recorded history depending on what religion you look at. "Drew a chalk outline around your city" -I'm gonna take this at face value, I'm gonna fuck a sinful city up, Like Sodom and Gamorrah in the book of Genesis All of this "There is so much shame in how little we've gained for so long. Now the sky is falling. And you're just repeating every word I say. You are not listening close enough. It's a catastrophe. You have not been concentrating. Pay attention there will be an exam. Build an ark. Come bring us back to the ruin." - To me it seems like Keith thinks god is fedup with America and its pathetic that we havent progressed as much as should have or has even been predicted, I dont know if he's speaking technologically or socially, or culturely with the world. It also seems that we have apparently been givin signs that the apacolpyse is coming "revalations" even though i'm not sure if any of those signs are quoted here. But we are not taking heed to the warning. The exam though is, thats do you pass and go to heaven or are you going to hell. The next two lines I take at face value. "taped off the sky around your city" face value again. The last two are of course what makes this such an unpredictable and ambigious song, which goes hand and hand with how great it is, he never does finish what happens to "dusted for prints on the chapel wall", somewhat implying god, but"we all know that its killer" could mean we all know what we did to let us end up this way, if indeed the apocalypse is coming reguardless of religion or not, we know we crossed lines of morality more than we should have. And then he states it is him. This may be a super wack interpretation, and you all may think i'm a crock of shit, but I love this song and I've looked at this site for a while and no body ever had a good explanation, so if anyone can branch of this or even give a better explanation than this please do, even though there could be many explantions to this song, it does seem to me like alot of these peices fit together well. And if it is indeed that him throwing lines together to make something sound cool, then i just wasted a shit ton of time |
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| Every Time I Die – Tusk and Temper Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I will openly admit i'm an idiot and dont understand these songs but still like them. I kind of come to a website called songmeanings so i can get a little bit of an idea what he is saying, i can form my own all day long but other peoples input may be better than what i was thinking, so can someone please give some useful info? | |
| Kid Dynamite – Pits And Poisoned Apples Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| yea i'm gettin something like that too, but i took the "give an inch want a foot" part, possibly like him letting someone into his life and they just want more and more, which sometimes girls can do depending on which one, and of course yes that person only wants to see their own way | |
| Kid Dynamite – Living Daylights Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i'm kinda takin it for face value, maybe he says how he would love to be some way, but he cant be because maybe someone relies on him or possibly he tries to please people this certain way, and people always tell him well why dont you do it, or maybe the person that relies on him says well you can do that do whatever you want, and then if he even tries something close to they tell him he can do, then they get pissy about it, so pretty much their hypocrites, this is a very very simple explanation for it, its hard to read some of those lyrics, could also have something to do with maybe something that he feels guilty about but shouldnt really | |
| Kid Dynamite – Pause Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This kinda stuff seems to show it self in Jasons lyrics, just about how we are compared to south american or european countries possibly, we work all the time and we dont really have much to show for it, they spend time with leisure and have more to show for themselves than for whoever they work for or whatever they're career is, and of course i think that jasons' angel of salvation is kid dynamite and playing in a band for his living and more redundantly to have a free spirit, you dont really see too much more good punk with these kind of lyrics, or at least not to my knowledge | |
| Kid Dynamite – Pacifier Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think he's trying to make things clear about a scene leader that is full of himself as most of them can be, and since jason is rising up in the scene by that time, the guy is trying to keep his vocer by talking down on either KD or jason | |
| Kid Dynamite – K05-0564 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I dont think this is a break up song, i think its a close friend | |
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