| Coffey – Umbrella (Christ Mix) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I like how on the line 'dipped me in his blood' on the second chorus it kinda sounds like 'dipped me in rhiannas blood', like the singer of 'Umbrella' I think the point of this song is that Coffey feels like God is an Umbrella. The Rhianna's version she says, 'There's room for you under my Umbrella-ella-ella'. In this version, this seems like the sort of thing God might say - there's room for you beneath this protection. The problem is Rhianna's song is a love song. Human love and Gods love are very different. Coffey's implied metaphor of God as an umbrella, is misconceived. Not only does he struggle to fit in his lyrics 'he didnt die forever', his conception of God particularly gripping. God isn't a shelter, a yellow umbrella with a bendy handle. He's a storm. pulling umbrellas inside out. The Christian discourse says that we can't hide from his love. The lord felt your pain Put a fist in the air If you ready for change What's with the violence Coffey? It was Judas who wanted to fight the Romans to defend the Isreal. Jesus taught love, that all (wo)men are brothers and sisters. The race is not given To the swift or to the strong You got to endure it This sort of 'grin and bare it attitude' makes for a heavy religion, with weight on ones shoulder how can we rise to the kingdom of heaven. I'm being critical...I actually think this song is well funny. Long live Xian covers of pop songs!!! |
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| Leonard Cohen – Avalanche Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| typewriters haunt the words of this song, clicking, clicking, the clock is ticking, ticking, can i achieve, can i believe, can i percieve the man behind the song, the god behind the man, the godhead behind the god, i kissed a princess and she turned into a frog, i cut up a log and it turned into a tree, i spoke of nature in the hospital, i spoke of money in the subway, i spoke of purity in the pulpit, my mouth is a raven, my tongue is a raven, my teeth, they are ravens. my pain is no credential here, it's just the shadow, shadow of my wound | |
| Kid Cudi – Day 'n' Nite (Nightmare) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think its is he slips away into his white 'nikes' not nights, even if that isnt the real lyrics, then I think its better, have a listen and see for yourself. For me, the song is about a reversal of situation, first finishing last, trying to escape an imagined future that haunts his life along with the past, and for all his will power he is unable to alter the situation (some things will never change)(within his dreams he see's the life he made) , so he goes out running or walking at night cos he just tosses and turns in bed, he slips on his white nikes and runs along walls and jumps between skyscrapers, and for a minute he forgets the past, the future, the lonely nights and connects with himself, but he blinks too soon and he's in his room playing a computer game his misery and self pity returns I know theres the 'drug reference' in this song, but it seems to me that people get too het up about these sorts of things in songs, theres one word about a drug in a song and people can only see that, they focus in on it like its important, but its not. Whats the point in 'interpreting' a song as being about such activities? boring I am actually pretty sure its white nikes, I've listened to it quite a few times now, white nights is rubbish imagery anyway, its meaningless I wonder if kid cudi, is actually a loner or whether he is using the image and mystique of the loner as an artistic device, without actually being in contact with himself. I think he gets away with doing both. the sound of the song is ultimately sexy, although that doesnt come through just with the lyrics on the page, he IS using the loner image without contact with it, but I buy into his world and imagination of that life, and credit him with it, purely because it's attractive. Maybe the heart of his problem, is that he sees his life in one way (isolated and extremely individuated) but in reality, he does has friends and do 'mundane' stuff, but this artistic projection of himself rejects all that, he tries to free his mind from the earthly self, at night, sometimes he can detach from that (to free his mind in search of), he simaltaneously wanders his mental landscape along with some gritty, urban, concrete tower block, but the reason he is unable to let go, remains THE mystery to the listener, the reason to approach him, listen to his music, day and night |
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