| Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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So this is permanence, love's shattered pride What once was innocence, turned on its side Grey cloud hangs over me, marks every move Deep in the memory of what once was love what was once love has now become something less beautiful. everything the speaker has believed in has "turned on its side" and this feeling is forever, or permanence. right now, the speaker wishes he had love but it has left him. Oh, how I realised how I wanted time Put into perspective, tried so hard to find Just for one moment I thought I'd found my way Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away he was so sure of everything at one point, but destiny had other plans. and these plans had nothing to do with love. Excessive flashpoints, beyond all reach Solitary demands for all I'd like to keep Let's take a ride out, see what we can find A valueless collection of hopes and past desires this stanza i don't see a clear cut meaning. the riding and flashpoints are very visual of course but otherwise, the speaker seems to be looking back at all the things he had before. I never realised the lengths I'd have to go All the darkest corners of a sense I didn't know Just for one moment I heard somebody call Looked beyond the day in hand, there's nothing there at all really, love was something he couldn't understand at first and innocently gave in to love. he didnt "understand the lengths" he had to go for true love. he didnt know how far he could fall or he didnt know he had "darkest corners" in his being. he thought there was something more to all of this, something more to the present time but theres nothing there at all. Now that I've realised how it's all gone wrong Got to find some therapy, this treatment takes too long Deep in the heart of where sympathy held sway Got to find my destiny before it gets too late realizing all these things, his past hopes and desires disintegrating, the speaker realizes his life is pointless and meaningless. he speaks of a "therapy," but speaks of the treatment at hand taking too long. people could jump to conclusions and say this therapy is suicide, but it could be many things. there is a faint glimpse of hope at the end as the speaker talks about his true destiny. does his life have more meaning to it? i would say the therapy at hte moment isnt suicide because of this faint glimpse of hope. |
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| Interpol – Evil Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i agree with the serial killer idea and thats probably the correct interpretation of the song. BUT to me this song was always about being afraid of committing to a relationship again. Sandy is the new love in the narrators life and Rosemary is the old love, the person the narrator can never forget. "heaven restores you in life" may refer to Rosemary's death (which could be depicted in the music video) I dont know. but the chorus makes more sense It spent a life span with no cellmate The long way back (these two lines are my favorite lines written by Paul on the album. so simple yet so effective) Sandy, why can't we look the other way? You're weightless, semi-erotic You need someone to take you there Sandy, why can't we look the other way? Why can't we just play the other game? Why can't we just look the other way? the first two lines sum up the loneliness the narrator has lived after the relationship with Rosemary ended. Now, a new woman named Sandy is here and the narrator is denying this new attraction, recalling back to the loneliness he felt after the breakup with Rosemary. So really, the song to me boils down to denial, the pushing away of love and trying to forget a lonely past. in this regard, not the serial killer interpretation but the fear of commitment interpretation, the song is one of my personal favorites of all time. truly a gem in the interpol song list. |
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| Interpol – Obstacle 2 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have just fallen in love with this song. Also, nobody should be looking too much into the lyrics. It's pretty straight forward. Romance is the second meaning of this song. The first stanza is obviously a setting up of a situation. Banks is in love with a girl and says to take a chance with him. This much is obvious. But I believe underneath the surface of this romantic setting is a fragile alcoholic who wants fixing. There's lots of lines that mention his alcoholism, most notably I'll stand by all this drinking if it helps me through these days and because friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell The second line makes it seem like the narrator is a social drinker, drinking more due to peer pressure. "If you can fix me up girl" pretty much says it all - the narrator is desperately looking for someone to help him with his alcoholism. it's difficult to interpret the final part where Paul hits the falsetto notes. He may be saying it in a positive light that he DID find the person that fixed him. Or the process of finding a new lover after new lover is happening again and he's continuing his desperate search for "the one". |
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| Autolux – Plantlife Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is actually about politics. On the original Autolux/UNCLE collaboration song 'Persons and Machinery,' the theme seemed to be about a distaste for the current government (the Bush administration) and their policies. Therefore, we can assume that Autolux do have some thoughts about current political and social life. all for one growing, in you, growing you can be afraid of it, but callously go on bend to me, darling, you'll see, darling it's a violet way we have, even when we smile I think 'plantlife' is a metaphor for the current state of human development in America. The narrator of this piece I believe is a politician, or even more specifically, a faceless group of politicians (it doesnt even have to be a politician, its somebody powerful and somebody who owns a lot of our world). That would explain the "it's a violet way WE have, even when WE smile." "Violet" would make much more sense if it was "violent" and I think it is a misheard lyric, btw. This first stanza is about the powerful group telling the listener to grow like everyone else like a plant; mindless. "All for one" gives a feeling of group togetherness; we are all one. The group is urging us (and judging by the melancholic music, lulling us into their desires), the mindless plants of society, to bend to their will. And they're always "smiling," putting on a happy face for the public, even when they are violent. we're so dumb someways, so dumb, always tied up and pulled apart, like a kidnapped root kill your best ideas, your crossed beliefs catch a glimpse of natalie in catalina fog In the second stanza, either the politicians or even ourselves are saying we're dumb and that we SHOULD bend to their will. We should kill our best ideas and destroy our beliefs for the good of being a productive member of society, or a plant. "Like a kidnapped root" could have many meanings but I see it as a worthless and unproductive member; just a root, not a plant. The last line is really open ended and obviously has a very personal meaning to the writer (I'm guessing it's Greg). Who's Natalie? What the hell does Catalina have to do with anything? I think they needed one last line for this stanza and threw shit together. The last stanza is either the politicians commanding us to shut our mouths and be a plant. Or it could be us, the plants, telling the politicians to shut their mouths. I believe it is the second idea because of the abrupt mood and key change. So in the end there are two answers to the piece: 1. The song is about our controlled world and the people who control it or 2. Nothing at all. Eugene and company were fucking stoned and threw some nice sounding words together. |
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| Radiohead – House of Cards Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i was thinking about it some more and maybe the music is like the relationship; it doesn't really go anywhere. | |
| Radiohead – House of Cards Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| the lyrics i think have been interpreted very well by everyone here. guy loves married woman. guy's feelings aren't well thought out and quite selfish. but I'd also like to say how wonderfully delicate the music is in relation to the song title. thom's 2 note chord complex and phil's very, very reserved rhythm are delicate like a house of cards. the other band mates come in periodically to push the music like a slight breeze (jonny's careful use of a coin on guitarstring create a wind-like effect). Absolutely. positively. magnificent. Either my 2nd or 3rd favorite on the album. | |
| John Lennon – Imagine Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| what if there was no heaven? hasnt the thought ever entered your mind? | |
| Thrice – Lullaby Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Im a big fan of both thrice and John lennon but I am disappointed in this song (if what you guys are saying is true). I also read the lyrics as Dustin calling out John and saying how empty his dream is, how there will be no right and wrong, etc. etc. most people here are agreeing with thrice so I'm only getting one side of an opinion: thrice is right, john is wrong. Ok. Im going to say Dustin is wrong. the two artists are writing from two different sides of one idea; humanity. one side (lennon) says that we are all living together and that reason alone is a reason to live. that is why he says there is no heaven or hell. that is why he says 'above us only sky.' mankind cannot be daydreaming about fantastic things like a God or Satan who is going to punish us in the afterlife. we need to look at the world and not into a bible. he's not saying there wont be good or bad. hes saying we only have one planet together and so we are all one. and if we are focusing too much on what happens to us after we die, or what kind of religion we practice, the true meaning of life (peace amongst mankind) will be lost. John just wants peace. he has stressed this MILLIONS of times in his music, interviews, etc. in the song 'God' by John Lennon he says "I dont believe in I-Ching" (therefore he doesn't believe in COMMUNISM something that some people are reading), "I just believe in me." So i dont think John wanted a sort of communism. dustin also seems to be thinking john wants everyone to be zombies because we won't be feeling anything if there is world peace. um. no. i dont see any signs of that idea in the lyrics of imagine. now as for lullaby: I also read the lyrics and felt that Dustin was offended that John said things like "no heaven" or "no religion" because obviously dustin is a very religious man. so the line "what i need is love" i think is referring to the love of God. I've heard constantly from religious people that God is the only love that can fill this void within an individual. in addition, the lines "empty sky" seems to imply that if there is no heaven above us, then the world is empty too. there is no point to living if you do not enjoy the love of God or the love that is "worth dying for." so it makes sense when he says 'i dont need peace but i need is something more.' i dont need peace i just need God. maybe dustin thinks with God, peace will be inevitable but not the other way around. THEREFORE, John is wrong. Godless people cannot bring about peace. i am an atheist and I love thrice. john lennon is also a hero to myself and i assume millions of others. i don't want to get into an argument about religion but rather i want to voice an opinion that didn't praise thrice for their bashing john lennon's dream of world peace. i know dustin loves the beatles and most likely john lennon so sometimes i think maybe dustin is writing this song as if he were someone else. this other person doesn't believe in john lennon's dream so that way, dustin can criticize the people who do think that way. i dont know. did i misread the lullaby lyrics like dustin misread the imagine lyrics? keep posting opinions. |
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