| Pixies – All Over The World Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I feel like it's about the loneliness we exist in. All we are are our thoughts, our minds. Our bodies are a vessel. What we say are words, what we live is our own existence. It's just as good as being in another country. They speak, we speak, fish speak, but really who understands who? Even in the same language, language is construed. We are arbitrary in the grand scheme of things. We are a Sign, an image, a concept. Will "I meet you over there?" |
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| Deftones – Root Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I nearly wanted to cry when I read these lyrics. Being Canadian Aboriginal, all I could read was sexual abuse in residential schools in the song. I am currently in university writing about Aboriginal policy in schools and knowing the residential school history and understanding that there are still lasting affects of it on our Indigenous populations... I don't think that he is relating it to Aboriginal Colonial history, but it does read of sexual abuse, possibly in church. "Cannot fuck to be me," trying to define yourself only through your sexuality and sex drive. It seems that he's trying to define himself but is hiding his true identity in the sex he's having, or looking for it in his sexual worth, which can never be found. In the end, it's about addiction, sex or drugs, is there a difference? Drugs could be more harmful, but sex could be just as soul sucking when you can't replace/mask the feeling... |
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| Morrissey – Driving Your Girlfriend Home Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It feels like when he shakes her hand that he regrets he couldnt say what he is really thinking. To me, it feels like he wants her the whole time. And yes, kind of funny because that is the way it is... :) | |
| Morrissey – Driving Your Girlfriend Home Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It feels like when he shakes her hand that he regrets he couldnt say what he is really thinking. To me, it feels like he wants her the whole time. And yes, kind of funny because that is the way it is... :) | |
| Tool – Prison Sex Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"From courses I've taken in Aboriginal Studies, they said that an abusive family usually doesnt report abuse because within the family there is still love. There is an odd dichotomy of love and hate and an abuser doesnt want to see that person they care for hurt, even though they've been hurt by them." Abused, not abuser, have to edit myself here. |
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| LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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If it is a break up then these lyrics are referring to him. I wish that we could talk about it, But there, that's the problem. With someone new I could have started, Too late, for beginnings. You're smaller than my wife imagined, Surprised, you were human. There shouldn't be this ring of silence, But what, are the options? In relationships, we see our spouses as super heroes for the most part... dont we? but when in break-ups, we see ourselves more like humans, something smaller than what we imagined before. There is always that tell tail sign that warns you it is over the way we breathe and react to what we say. Maybe when the phone rings it is the actual moment he realises it is actually over? The phonecall is a metephor for the dialogue that goes on in your head trying to make sense of it all. When you have to think about having to start over, it is impossible to think of starting new with someone else, your ex is the only thing you've known for the length of time you've been with her. |
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| LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When my ex-wife and I first got married, we ended up getting pregnant a month after. After our ultrasounds we found out something was wrong with the baby and we had to decide whether or not we would keep it or not. We argued about it a bit and finally decided to abort. By the time we got to the abortion time, she was 5 and a half months pregnant and had to go through the whole birthing process. After she was done, we got to hold our baby and she fit slightly bigger than our hands. She was someone great. So I can see how it could be about that in away... Only, The breathing part is kind of ambiguous to this idea... There was a night when I was walking with my ex-wife and we seen my best-friend/cousin drive by in his truck and thought how great he was doing, how much life he had in him and how wonderful things were, because he was someone who was doing what he wanted even though he didnt finish highschool etc... That night I woke up with a sudden surge of energy through my body which lifted me off my bed, and I lay there suspended in time, listening to my wife breath as she slept, terrified... A few hours after I got back to sleep, I was wakened by the sound of the phone ringing...I heard my mother in law at the time say to the voice on the other end, "ok, just wait, i will get him." I was not suprised or shocked, but was still unprepared for it. My sister was on the other end to tell me that my cousin died in a car crash. When we went to go see my aunt at the hospital, she was gone already, but my uncle was still there, standing in the room where my cousin lay. It was unexpected how peaceful and un mangled he was, he was human... That night/week (as we hung out on christmas eve that year) he was larger than life. |
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| Tool – Prison Sex Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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On top of my first comments, Maynard is saying, how he fucked religion up the ass when he in turn did it to jesus. It is about reclaiming or creating a new identity. Still sounds so native, because that was what has to be done to stop the circle. |
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| Tool – Prison Sex Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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As a First Nations person, this song is pretty crazy dudes! Back in the day, Aboriginal kids of Canada were sent off to Residential Schools stolen from their families where priests and nuns taught them how not to be "Indian" anymore. In these schools the priests sexually molested a lot of the boys, and in turn, these boys grew up and went back home to the reservations and became perpetrators themselves to their children which formed a huge circle of abuse within all Native communities. On top of this, Native people were placed in Reservations away from regular society, and all these abuses became a part of "Indian" ideology and community driven... It led to alcohol abuse which led to further sexual abuse and then drug abuse... Such as sniffing gas etc. But being practically locked in the reservations there is (seemingly to them) no way out of the circle. "It is just how family is." Because of legislation, Aboriginal People were not allowed to own their own land and use it as equity in banks, without equity, there were no business', and with no businesses there was no income. If a native person left the reservation they would lose any rights an "Indian" had in law. Those who did leave (usually Single mothers), were usually hit hard with racism and joblessness which led to prostitution and stuff like that. There is definitely more to say on the matter, but it is like 2am here. haha... From courses I've taken in Aboriginal Studies, they said that an abusive family usually doesnt report abuse because within the family there is still love. There is an odd dichotomy of love and hate and an abuser doesnt want to see that person they care for hurt, even though they've been hurt by them. So, this song could hit pretty hard to a Native person who has lived this life. It is sad... There is a novel called, Porcupines and China Dolls that really hits this subject hard. |
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| Tool – Prison Sex Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Prison Sex is the discourse within that very idea of sexual abuse coming from an ideological state, the state of family or the state of church. This state is a prison and passes on what has been taught to each successor which is the way ideology is passed. We learn from an authoratative figure and pass on our knowledge to our children. It is the mythology/story of a family. Not everything we pass on is a good thing or beneficial. We have a tendancy to end up fucking ourselves up the ass through our beliefs. | |
| Joy Division – Passover Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In the end, there is something more that is missing and there is a transition to another set of lives metamorph... How often do people morph into a different version of ourselves? |
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| Joy Division – Passover Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The song is about mutation from ordinary to stardom. The life he asked for is more than he bargained for and it isnt like when you're a kid where you have someone to keep you safe. Everything around is changing and the life as you know it is dying. Now he has to live up to what he has promised to fans yet to his wife or family. So, either way, he loses. What can you choose? It is Passover, because it is the death of one or the other, maybe both... |
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| Joy Division – Isolation Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Loneliness in being ashamed... I was married once, and the desire to break up with my wife was a heavy agonizing burden. I thought I was letting everyone down in giving up, and I am huge on family. Could you imagine what it was like back then when it was more the norm to work through everything, and the expectations were so much greater? After, I had to isolate myself from everyone to learn who I was... It seems abuse related because of the things he's been put through... |
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| Joy Division – Isolation Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It is about abandonment, abuse and unforgiveness and the solitary beauty in isolation. He cries for help, but at the sametime finds solace in loneliness... | |
| Morrissey – Driving Your Girlfriend Home Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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After a hockey game, some teamates and I went up for beer. One of the guy's wife was there. THis guy is outgoing and can do it in an asshole way sometimes. He embarressed her a bit and she looked down at her drink. I could see how she felt when I seen her. As she looked back up again, her and eyes caught mine and she knew what I was thinking. We looked for what seemed forever in a moment. Then smiled in understanding then continued on in our conversations. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Soma Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is my life's anthem. It is about feeling alone and not living up to expectations in the relationship. Both want it! but it isnt going to work. | |
| Pixies – Hey Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The way I see things, sometimes, you get in this rut where you're meeting a lot of people, and not connecting. Being human and having needs people tend to keep lovers and sometimes more than one. It is like you go through the motions, but for the most part you're not in something that you want. People are generally looking for that perfection in ourselves in the relationship/someone we are seeking. At times, these lovers we keep tend to get in the way of our chances with that someone who could be special because we are chained to our sexual habits. | |
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