| Dire Straits – Romeo And Juliet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me, this song described a modernized, reworked Romeo and Juliet story that sees the pair meeting in a rough neighbourhood and enjoying an intimate, passionate relationship until the Juliet figure suddenly finds fame and abandons him (as implied by "and I dream your dream for you and now your dream is real/ How can you look at me as I was just another one of your deals?", and "you promised me everything you promised me thick and thin/ Now you just say oh romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him"). The song opens with a description of how Romeo first wooed Juliet, and segues into a message delivered from his point of view straight to her reminiscing about the times they shared and pleading with her not to forget what they had. |
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| Dire Straits – Romeo And Juliet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me, this song described a modernized, reworked Romeo and Juliet story that sees the pair meeting in a rough neighbourhood and enjoying an intimate, passionate relationship until the Juliet figure suddenly finds fame and abandons him (as implied by "and I dream your dream for you and now your dream is real/ How can you look at me as I was just another one of your deals?", and "you promised me everything you promised me thick and thin/ Now you just say oh romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him"). The song opens with a description of how Romeo first wooed Juliet, and segues into a message delivered from his point of view straight to her reminiscing about the times they shared and pleading with her not to forget what they had. |
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| Audioslave – Cochise Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Fairly obvious meaning. The narrator is singing to someone they know who's a heavy addict slowly allowing their life to trickle away, and he notes how the only way they can save themselves from it is to share their problems with him and give him a load to bear as well. In order to save this person, who they care deeply about, the narrator has to take on the character's problems and battle through them with them. | |
| Pixies – The Happening Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Reminds me a lot of Radiohead's Subterranean Homesick Alien. The aliens are coming, and it's gonna be scary, but most of all it's gonna be beautiful. | |
| The Libertines – Up The Bracket Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I agree that the song is about someone shady searching for one of Pete's friends and him refusing to give them his address, and expanding on that I think the choruses are Pete/the narrator lamenting how this same friend always gets himself into this kind of trouble, either by getting into debt or generally pissing people off, and is always oblivious to it, or is arrogant enough to think he can handle it (it's just like he's in another world/he doesn't see the danger on show). He worries that if this friend doesn't stop getting on the wrong side of these people "he'll end up like Joseph, bloody in a hole". Fairly straightforward really. |
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| The Libertines – Up The Bracket Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I agree that the song is about someone shady searching for one of Pete's friends and him refusing to give them his address, and expanding on that I think the choruses are Pete/the narrator lamenting how this same friend always gets himself into this kind of trouble, either by getting into debt or generally pissing people off, and is always oblivious to it, or is arrogant enough to think he can handle it (it's just like he's in another world/he doesn't see the danger on show). He worries that if this friend doesn't stop getting on the wrong side of these people "he'll end up like Joseph, bloody in a hole". Fairly straightforward really. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Lay Me Low Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is the final testament of a contentious figure, perhaps a John Dillinger-esque man, about whom everyone has an opinion, summing up how everyone will speculate and celebrate when he dies. The immense amount of conflicting views towards him included in the song creates the idea that no-one truly knew the narrator at all, perhaps explaining his bitter and cynical outlook towards the world and his acceptance of his imminent death. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Moonland Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| To me this song is a nice twist on the traditional "finding out your lover is cheating" tale. The first few verses see the song's persona in an accusatory mode, describing the night when he discovered his lover going behind his back both bitterly and almost triumphantly. Then, suddenly, everything turns around at the end when the narrator admits that he still loves the woman despite her actions ("but somebody needs you/And that somebody is me". Despite everything, he shows that he's still completely in her thrall. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Moonland Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| To me this song is a nice twist on the traditional "finding out your lover is cheating" tale. The first few verses see the song's persona in an accusatory mode, describing the night when he discovered his lover going behind his back both bitterly and almost triumphantly. Then, suddenly, everything turns around at the end when the narrator admits that he still loves the woman despite her actions ("but somebody needs you/And that somebody is me". Despite everything, he shows that he's still completely in her thrall. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Moonland Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| To me this song is a nice twist on the traditional "finding out your lover is cheating" tale. The first few verses see the song's persona in an accusatory mode, describing the night when he discovered his lover going behind his back both bitterly and almost triumphantly. Then, suddenly, everything turns around at the end when the narrator admits that he still loves the woman despite her actions ("but somebody needs you/And that somebody is me". Despite everything, he shows that he's still completely in her thrall. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Song of Joy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The narrator was definitely the killer, and as far as I can see there's three clear indications of that provided: firstly, the echo of the early reference to his tale of murder befalling "a man and his family" in the question "are you a family man?" Secondly, there's the fact that the narrator quotes Milton, as others have pointed out, fitting the killer's MO, and finally and most eeriely there's the narrator's subtly but distinctly too-knowing description of the details of the murder ("those lunatic eyes, the hungry kitchen-knife"). Brilliant song, gives you a crawling sense of terror and foreboding without ever hammering it's point home clearly. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – We Call Upon the Author Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The meaning of this song, as far as I can see, is pretty straightforward. Nick is calling on God, the "author" of the world, to explain all of the suffering in it, to provide answers to all of the dark questions mankind has. All of these hardships and problems he metaphorically refers to as "prolixity" (a term which means needless and excessive use of language) and calls on God to get involved and "edit" this extraneous pain and suffering out of his work ("nothing a pair of scissors can't fix"). | |
| Babyshambles – You Talk Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Is this a reference to Aneurin Bevan, the Welsh politician who created the NHS?" I thought this, I was impressed by the reference. |
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| Radiohead – High and Dry Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Yeah personally I think that this is about someone who is compromising themselves to fit in somewhere. And ultimately leaving the ones that were there for the "real" them, high and dry. Then when they're up there, in with them, they turn on the person and see that he's been a fake all along. The the best thing he's ever had has gone away, originally the person who was there for him in the beginning." Bingo. That's it. Nailed it. On the head. |
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| Bloc Party – Hunting for Witches Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Thought it was about the war on terror as well. There are some references to 9/11 and the London bombings. I thinkt the title warns us, since hunting for witches is not a very sensible thing to do. So we have to think about who we hunt down and why." Bang on. A vaguely funny but also rather worrying story to support this idea- in the wake of a huge media campaign surrounding paedophilia, the home of a paedicatrian was attacked by people who didn't understand the difference. Moral-when the tabloids whip people up into a frenzy, it can lead to all kinds of bizarre and largely unjustified examples panic behaviour, like the "people sitting on the roofs of their houses drinking and taking potshots" image from the song's first verse. We should think more carefully about who the enemy is and why we see them that way before we start making the heads roll. |
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| Biffy Clyro – Who's Got a Match? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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if you think about it, there's one very clever line in this. it starts with a joke: "how do you capture a photograph?" punchline: "put it to sleep!" and then simon follows it up by going "pretend you're having a laugh", referring to the pun he just made, and then he carries on with "i know you thought you had the last".... that's good songwriting right there. shame the rest of the song is meaningless... |
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