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| R.E.M. – Losing My Religion Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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All interpretation aside, I wanted to point out that "Losing My Religion" was Brenda and Dylan's song from Beverly Hills, 90210, and I find that really awkward and funny. Of all "couple songs" to have.... |
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| The Doors – Touch Me Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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yep, someone already said it and i'll second them: jim hated this song. only did it to please the record companies, and even saying that is giving them a lot more than he delivered.
a lot of my friends who don't know any better are like, "aww this is a cute song." but i only picture jim, drunkenly slamming through the song and stumbling out of the studio in aggravation. they wanted a new "light my fire" they wanted some kind of rebirth that they weren't going to get. |
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| The Doors – Indian Summer Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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from what I took reading the Jim Morrison bio, it seems as if this song is sort of a description of his roaming about...reaching LA on a hot night, his experimentation with drugs and the mind trips he'd go on where he'd find myself in the desert or retracing old family memories out on the desert roads...i think the song is kind of a mash up of all of that.... just the simple, western, '60s experience he was going through, during that summer he wound up in LA, and met Pam of course. |
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| The Cure – Close to Me Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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yeah, the song is about sex. and i'm a crazy, huge cure fan - but i admit i like the get up kids version too. i don't say that about most other cure remakes. but they sped up the beat and gave it a little life - and i salute that.
it's about a moment when the guy is just retracing a long awaited moment, and he's just built it in his head that "this" would never happen, but it's here now, and he's face to face with it. but i don't think its necessarily about virginity, i think it's more along the lines of two people that never got together, and now they're finally face to face after a really long time...whether that be a long day, a week, a month, a year...and he's just been agonizing over this, and he wonders how she feels. And the day of was just - tension building and two people trying so hard not to think about what would probably ensue later on that night - and then it's just finally infront of him and he can't believe it. He's waited so long to have this moment, and now it's only going to go away again the next day... "but if I had your face, i could make it safe and clean"...there's hesitation to do or say anything about it, since it is so temporary.
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| The Cranberries – When You're Gone Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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hmm. i listened to the cranberries a lot when i was going through a breakup; it's like an unwritten rule or something that you just do that.... but this song really stood out to me - because it's just that simple: it's about a breakup. or atleast, that's the way i interpret it. because if you've had your heart broken, you know exactly how hard it it so sleep alone at night, and to try to function in the day. nothing makes sense, it's all complicated and turned around. and all you can do is just keep going on without this person, keep sinking, keep dreaming, carrying on as best you can. this song is a breakdown. it's one day out of many where the girl just realizes it's so much to handle. |
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| R.E.M. – Leave Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I'm sort of on the same page as others, in respect to the idea that I tend to be a snob about older R.E.M. work. But all musicology aside...it's incredibly touching, beyond the lyrics, straight through the sound. To me, it's clearly about loss. I think there's definite agreement that it is an expression of changes that went on internally in the band. But, aside from that, I always seem to imagine a guy who had something incredible happen to him, life altering maybe, and then something changed all of that in a heartbeat; so now he's pleading with his subconscious, and he's hoping his memories of those bittersweet times will just go away for good and never bother him again; it's easier for him to be numb, to never remember what it felt like - instead of dealing with the pain. |
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