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| U2 – Get On Your Boots Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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hmm interesting. My interpretation after listening to the song a little more was one of a returning Iraqi vet.
"Satan loves a bomb scare but won't scare you" etc. The "Get on Your Boots" part is a way of saying march on out of there. "Candy floss ice cream, all the kids are screaming but the ghosts arn't real" A way of comparing raising a family to the war. Also "That's someone's stuff their blowing up, we're into growing up" The political aspects still hold true. "Big revelations" could have been a family on the way. It also explains why the boots are "sexy".
Overall I think my idea fits but the other ideas on here are probably closer to the truth. Bono would seem to be more involved in making a song about Africa than in making a song about a returning solider. The "bootstraps" analogy works particularly well. Hope this song is like "The Fly" was to Achtung. Maybe the video will explain things a little more?
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| Fall Out Boy – What a Catch, Donnie Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I'm sorry but I am apparently the only one who sees nothing in this song at all. Its one good repeated couplet over and over then the captain and ship thing (which was already done by brand new) set to a slower marching tempo mixed with the hits thing at the end. I know its supposed to feel epic but its just seems overdone and not really saying anything other than "look how far we've come". To me you have to say something real or profound to warrant to be "epic". Not just pound out some tune that sounds vaguely like every other semisweet celebration song. |
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| Fall Out Boy – Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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lots of clever allusions in this song:
peroxide princess: peroxide whitens teeth, meaning beautiful but fake, with the shark teeth thing: dangerous
the crickets that could convince me to call it a night: Jimney Cricket! love this one, it's talking about conscience. jimney cricket serves as pinocchio's conscience
basically he's not the good guy like her husband, that's why she's sleeping with him. It's a sarcastic take on how people be fake in order to sleep with people and how thats empty. Darling I know what your going through is just him acknowledging that this affair is built on something fake for both of them.
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| Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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lots of bickering on the lyrics in this song but no real discussion on what the song means. Here's my take, It's about being imperfect, but that imperfection gives rise to success. I think the line "there's a hole where something was" refers to the conscience. This goes with previous assertion in other FOB songs that they don't have a conscience. Without a conscience he is a "loose bolt (which implies unpredictability) of a complete machine". But this makes him undeniable, certifiable etc, but he can call things as he sees them without worrying about whether its right or wrong. Also makes sense with the "disloyal" part in the title. The perfect boys line just means that people cant sing about tragedy if they haven't experienced it, and he isn't perfect if he has this hole. People think he's crazy, but it makes him successful. It's kinda of a mission statement about what fob does: be shameless and clever. Boycott love and detox just to retox are ways of saying "don't be perfect". Boycotting love leads to a lack of real relationships and more one night stand type things aka fodder for typical fob lyrics. Detox to retox is just getting clean to fuck yourself up all over again aka more things to sing about. It's a pretty post modern nihilistic song sang with sass |
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