| Gomez – We Haven't Turned Around Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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"To stem the tide and point the blame" - group X is to blame, "Came back for more" - more of the same-old, pointing the finger at one group or another, "So you want to spin the world around? And anybody else, cut 'em down" - You want a revolution and anyone who gets in the way- if you're not with us, you're against us (you're not a true patriot, you're a race traitor, etc.) Admittedly, my interpretation could be coloured by the current political climate. Especially as today is the 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood Speech" that first gave wings to the British Far Right movement and I'm stood in his home town listening to this. 'Round and around the finger pointing with no obvious solution. Easily my favourite Gomez song. Catchy too - about once a year it gets stuck in my head and stays there for a few days but I never got around to reading the lyrics until today. I remember I first heard this playing on the TV is the student bar (on M2 - if anyone remembers that station) and I was just engrossed in it! (Same happened the first time I heard "Stand Inside Your Love" by the Pumpkins) |
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| Ben Howard – Oats in the Water Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I've read somewhere that this is a song about cocaine. Oats n' Barley = Charlie = cocaine "Oats in the water" is the preparation required to inject it. I believe the 2nd verse should start: And hold your gaze There's coke in the Midas touch |
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| Shearwater – Leviathan, Bound Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I also heard of these guys through NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, I listened to a couple of the tracks and brought the album. The whole album is beautiful and I'll be getting the others soon. This is currently my favourite song on the album, it brings tears to my eyes. The combination of the melody, his voice, the lyrics, the slight change in the chord structure in the 2nd verse, it's just perfect. |
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| Spin Doctors – Yo Mamas A Pyjama Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This tracks always made me laugh. It borrows some lyrics from elsewhere: Ain't she sweet, She's walks on down the street, I ask you very con-fidenti-al-ly And some of it's lyrics have been borrowed too: the 2nd verse was used word for word in the song "U.G.L.Y." by a pop group called 'Daphne and Celeste'. I always loved the verse: I love myself, I think I'm grand I like to sit and hold my hand When I grow up I'll marry me And somehow form a family Though, looking around the net, that appears that it may have been borrowed from elsewhere too. |
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| Nirvana – Something in the Way Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The sleeping under a bridge story is interesting (and I'd always thought that it was about vegtarianism! D'oh!). I mean you don't have to actually live under a bridge to remember what it was like - one night would do. I once spent a night asleep in a bush as a teenager (next to a bridge, as it happens), there was a whole bunch of us and we were drunk and that is where we happened to run out of energy. Woke up about 5am and went home. We were just bored teenagers. We pretty much crushed the bush though, it looked in a sorry state, and I had to walk past the thing to get from home into the town centre and I always felt guilty when I saw it. | |
| Levellers – I Have No Answers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Shouldn't the line: why don't politician's fight their own law Be: why can't politicians fight their own wars, wars! |
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| Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| In the version of this on "Tales of a librarian: A Tori Amos Collection" there is another vocal at the end, over the "Man with the golden gun" section, that is quite loud but I can't make out what she's singing - anyone work it out? | |
| Tori Amos – Icicle Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I was in the 6th form, for one class, we had to bring in some songs and talk about the meaning of them. I chose this one. The choice raised a few eye brows at any rate, as did the explanation that I gave. I remember reading an interview with Tori in either Q or Vox magazine not long after the 2nd album came out (she was on the front cover in a white vest - a sort of homage to an advert featuring Kate Moss that was around at the time). Anyway, in the interview she talked about this song being about masterbation and how she had a crush on Jesus as a kid, so she used to fantasise about making love to Jesus (it figures - he may have been a strong male presence in her house as a child and he's always drawn to be hansome). That passage of the song seems to talk about how sex seems to be missing from the bible ("I think the good book is missing some pages"), so they are downstairs worshipping Him in one way by taking of his body (i.e. eating the bread/wafer) and she's upstair doing it in her way - taking from her body in his name (i.e. thinking about sex with him). The "monster in our Easter dresses" is a refrence to genitals and the way they are demonised (Queens of the Stone Age did a song about a woman who had a "monster in her parasol" - again a similar concept). The icicle could be considered phallic, or it just could be that it's something cold or, more probably, a bit of both. |
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| Fields Of The Nephilim – Laura Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Taking these lines: She's rabid in ecstacy She's on the line to cut it all She's on the line to drop and fall Sounds like a drugs reference to me. "Rabid in ecstacy" - sounds like a burning addiction to the feeling. "She's on the line" - sounds like she's snorting something. "to drop and fall" - sounds like it was an overdose. Of course, I could be totally wrong! |
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| Fields Of The Nephilim – Trees Come Down Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Haven't got a clue what the lyrics are about but I love the second section, when the drums go crazy so I had to put the lyrics up! I figure it's something to do with the aftermath of a religious war but it's hard to tell. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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First, I really love this song (I used to sing it I was in a band at Uni). Second, I always saw it as someone looking back on the quest for love. The disappointment that he expresses when he sings, "Oh, we will know, won't we? The stars will explode in the sky, Oh, but they don't, do they? Stars have their moment and then they die" It sounds like the crushing disappointment of finding that love isn't like it is in films and books, but still he's looking and so he's asking, "Are you the one that I've been waiting for?" |
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