| Woodkid – The Golden Age Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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cenk is correct. Woodkid has stated that he feels as a person ages, they turn from wood to iron. My guess would be this reflects how they are becoming less and less "soft", or malleable and adaptable; and more "hard", or stubborn and resistant to change. Childhood is called the golden age because this is when a person is most like gold, which is a very soft and malleable metal. Childhood, like gold, is very valuable to most of us as the age when we were the happiest. The song begins with the line "Walking through the fields of gold", representing the apparent state of the world during childhood. Everything seems new and different and you find value in all these new experiences. You're sheltered from global concerns such as war and humanitarian crises, prompting the lines "In the distance, bombs can fall, Boy we're running free, Facing light in the flow, And in the cherry trees, We're hiding from the world" "But the golden age is over" is the feeling one has going from childhood to adulthood, which is a sentiment repeated by most of the remaining lines in the song. |
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| Flogging Molly – May The Living Be Dead (In Our Wake) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is so amazing! Really captures what Flogging Molly is all about: High octane energy and lyrics with subtle power. I like this one in particular because a lot of their stuff is very melancholy, but the tone here is really positive. "Let the living be dead in our wake" almost runs counter to the attitude of rest of the song; but I think it means that when you have really strong love, together you can conquer anything "a world so unforgiving" throws at you. | |
| Flogging Molly – Oliver Boy (All of Our Boys) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is most likely referencing Oliver Cromwell, a military leader in the mid 1600s who succeeded in dethroning the King of England and then waged war against those who were still loyal to the crown as well as those who had allied with them, namely Irish Catholics. He led a particularly brutal campaign through most of Ireland in an effort to wipe out both the Royalists and Catholics, whom he saw as a threat to the newly founded Commonwealth of England and Protestantism, respectively. After he returned to England and his successors secured the rest of Ireland, the practice of Catholicism was banned and any Catholic priests were killed. There's also some debate as to whether or not the Commonwealth began a program of ethnic cleansing after the campaign, as historical records show evidence that there was a large amount of Catholic landowners who lost their property, which coincided with a massive drop in population. As you can imagine, Irish Catholics hate this dude with a passion. The lyrics suggest the focus of this song is on the loss of life for the Irish forces, who were militiamen. "As beauty's ugly head devours it's plight" is an indictment of Cromwell, justifying his massacre of the Irish militiamen (and arguably many civilians) by claiming it was divine mandate, all done in the name of God to further Protestantism. That something that is supposed to be so glorious and "beautiful" could benefit from a military leader committing genocide, murdering any possible opposition that would stand against him (preventing the "plight" of his forces). "While the borders of our hate create/Nothing more than each our fate" describes two opposing sides who are so caught up with and unwilling to let go of their hatred of each other that they ensure their mutual destruction. "Trapped between our comfort and our crime" seems to describe the fact that the Catholics and Royalists were oppressed simply because of their Religion or political affiliation, respectively. Living their lives normally- or "comfortably"- was a crime in the eyes of Cromwell and the Commonwealth of England. Personally, I find this song kind of relevant to the current political atmosphere in America. The two dominant political parties are severely ideologically divided (arguably the most they've ever been since the civil war), and their attitudes are becoming more and more heated as time goes on. This song serves as both an allegory for the divide, and a warning against the how severe ideological differences can become. At least that's what I think :) |
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| Dr. Steel – Donkey Town Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is quite obviously a song about the "Pleasure Island" sequence in the Pinocchio story; an amusement park where the boys are taken with the promise of fun and ultimate freedom, and not having to go to school. While on Pleasure Island, the boys are encouraged to fight, gamble, smoke cigars, drink, etc. But as they stay on the island, they all begin to turn into donkeys, and once they are completely transformed they are sold either to the salt mines or the circus by The Coachman. Kind of a message about morality while being a social critique: If you abandon your education to live a life of pure pleasure, you're guaranteeing yourself a future where the only means to make a living is hard labor (donkeys are usually a beast of burden). And there are plenty of people, such as the ruthless Coachman, who are willing to take advantage of that. |
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| Sarah McLachlan – Ordinary Miracle Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song helps you realize that everyday life really is miraculous, and to take time to appreciate just how beautiful and delicate the balance of nature is. Absolutely wonderful song. | |
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