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| Morrissey – Hairdresser On Fire Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Could it be that he is, in some sense, talking to his fans? "Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?" That is, he's looking for some repressed, lonely teenager to "save" him by their admiration. If there is anything at all to this interpretation, "hairdresser" would be a superb metaphor, since Mozzer's hair is so magnificient and presumably exalts his self-esteem. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Don't be unimaginative. Just because it's about coke use doesn't mean it can't be about something else also. I have never done cocaine, and yet I can relate to it. Sometimes I feel like being "under fifteen feet of pure white snow" - in deep, deep depression, like a sense of total hopelesness, like a catastrophe had just occurred in my psyche. Eclusion from God, one could say. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Master Song Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't think true knowledge corrupts anyone. Master is rather a "man who is sure what is true"; in other words, Master is a person who thinks he knows everything. Ambiguous, intriguing lyrics; both a love triangle and a religious master - disciple -relationship, or actually three of of them (narrator teaching Master, narrator teaching the woman, Master teaching the woman). Master could also be a side of Cohen's personality. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"I had a good raincoat then, a Burberry I got in London in 1959. Elizabeth thought I looked like a spider in it. That was probably why she wouldn't go to Greece with me. It hung more heroically when I took out the lining, and achieved glory when the frayed sleeves were repaired with a little leather. Things were clear. I knew how to dress in those days" -Cohen
I think he's writing to himself here. The "brother" is some kind of a unpredictable, unconscious side of him, both dangerous and heroic. In the past that side of him was maybe more in control of himself and he was doing fine, there was no ambivalence or confusion. Now his "other personality" has been put aside and is "building his little house down in the desert", but still inevitably breaks free sometimes and makes love to his woman. And, ironically, only this "brother" of Cohen had the guts to "remove the trouble from Jane's eye", whatever that means... just my interpretation. |
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| Morrissey – We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Funky<3Fab89: asexual?! Just because he has never given any direct answers to the questions about his sexuality, doesn't mean he has the same sexual needs as the rest of us. It seems to me that Morrissey is not asexual, but has/has had some serious glitches and inhibition with his sexuality.
"Why did you give me
so much desire?
when there is nowhere I can go
to offload this desire
and why did you give me
so much love
in a loveless world
when there's no one I can turn to
to unlock all this love" |
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| Leonard Cohen – Diamonds in the Mine Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I don't know about the lyrics but I think he sings in a very bitter way. Hatred and bitterness are expressed and represented in a great way. I just love this song. |
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| The Doors – Strange Days Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Freaking awesome song! Especially the first 20 seconds of this masterpiece have some timeless magic within.
It can be about so many things... drugs, depression... or it could be about things getting strange and new, loss of naivity, loss of innocence, things becoming twisted, in both positive and negative ways. And this can mean anything from puberty to the "new world" (including industrial revolution, globalization, new technologies, the disintegration of social norms, religion and other old authorities losing their authority - "God's dead" as Nietzsche puts it, etc. etc. etc.) |
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| R.E.M. – It's the End of the World as We Know It Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think it's not about narrator hating the world or hating the mandkind - it's more about the narrator being happy that natural change has come and happy being satisfied to the fate... kinda accepting things that happen. |
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| The Residents – Nice Old Man Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It could probably be about a pedophile, but then on the other hand she says in this song that "something deep within my heart", so that could also be that the girl had been in love with the nice old man... |
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| The Smiths – Still Ill Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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So would the line "I decree today that life is simply about taking and not giving" be honest or sarcastic? I don't quite understand. Would it be something that Thatcher would say or Morrissey's response to Thatcher's ideology? |
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| The Smiths – William, It Was Really Nothing Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This could be about how William is a bi/gay man who Morrissey finds attractive and is jealous to the fat girl William is with. Or it could be an anti-marriage song also. Anyway it seems to me that Morrissey is telling to William to live his life and not to marry the girl unless he really wants it. It could be also that "it WAS really nothing" and "it WAS your life" mean that now William is dead and he never really lived. ...ord maybe the chorus has double meaning: maybe Morrissey (or the narrator of the song, which probably isn't Morrissey) and William had a homosexual act or something like that and now Morrissey is telling to William: "That was nothing, forget that!" But then Morrissey also says: "That was your life", meaning that that was really an important and William should really live his life the way he wants to... |
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| The Smiths – A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think the part "people who are uglier/weaker than you and I, they take what they want from life/what they need, and just leave" could mean at least three things: 1) the narrator things people that take what they want from life are not as good people as the narrator himself is, or that the people who take what they want from life are somewhat unconcerned and arrogant and narrator thinks they're "ugly" or "weak" 2) narrator is saying it's actually a great thing to be "ugly" or "weak", to be a misfit, because then you can really do what you want in your life, then you know what you want 4) the shyness theory you presented - maybe Morrisey refers to homosexuals with "you and I" and is saying that homosexuals should just get some self esteem and courage and take what they want from life like the heteros do. But would that mean the heterosexual people are somewhat not so good humen as homosexuals are? "Weaker" and "uglier" than them? |
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| Dead Kennedys – California Über Alles Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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In my opinion, this great song can be about how power can turn any kind of people tyranns and some kind of hippie or zen facism is also possible. Maybe it can also be about how funny would be a hippie leader in the nazie-USA.
I don't now if Dead Kennedys is really against Zen philosophy or meditation. I myself respect Buddhism, zen and meditation very much. |
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| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song can be interpretated as being about a cult in general, Satanism, drugs, a mental hospital, California in late sixties and seventies or something else. But I prefer the Satanism-interpretation, 'cause there's a picture of Anton LaVey on the back cover of the album. I think this song is also somewhat against satanism ("...you can never leave"). |
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| The Smiths – Girlfriend in a Coma Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think there are at least four ways to interpret this song: 1) as honest thoughts about a girlfriend who is going to die and how he has always loved her althrough maybe not always has shown it, the 'No, I don't want to see her' and 'Would you please let me see her' representating narrator's distressedness and uncertainness 2) sarcasticly about a person who worries about his next of kin, but doesn't still want to see his girlfriend and really doesn't want to show his love to his girlfriend - his worrying is just panic and he is clinging to his girlfriend like she was an object 3) song is a metaphor to Morrissey's fading heterosexuality 4) song is about someone who has beaten his girlfriend to coma and doesn't want to admit it.
...and of course there are more ways to interpret this song's lyrics.
I think it's not so important what the lyricist has thought when he/she has written the lyrics. What matters is all the meanings and feelings that can be read of from the lyrics. |
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| CMX – Palvonnan Eleitä Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song criticizes the lack of spirituality, religion, myths and wisdom (represented by Sofia). |
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