| Rogue Wave – Publish My Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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There is some discussion about what the lyrics actually should be. The official lyrics are on their site, and they do in fact match what is hereinbefore: http://www.roguewavemusic.com/#music?filter=all So the above lyrics are correct and should be used for analysis (no matter what the singer sounds like he's actually saying). That being said, I've been very confused about the exact meaning to this song. I'm pretty sure it's about a guy who laments the fact that his lover would never make their relationship public, as indicated by "You could never publish my love." "wait there just enough to see you smile" this would make sense in a high school context: the speaker waits at his locker just to see her smile. if not a high school context, it's something along those lines. "i mixed up the distance of the miracle mile" I don't think "miracle mile" carries any significance other than to show that the speaker is delusional. How can anyone mix up the distance of the miracle mile? it's obviously a mile long. by saying that he "forgot how long the miracle mile is," maybe he's chastising himself for forgetting how long it would take for the girl that he's in a relationship with to "publish his love" (this makes sense especially when the next line is "you could never publish my love." but then again, lyrics don't necessarily flow like arguments all the time, do they?) "just stand there you could never make me go through it the congressman bleeding through his bedpan approved it" These lines have to be taken together. The "it" in the 2nd and 4th lines presumably refers to the same thing. I have no idea what the "it" is supposed to be, so I went to the music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbMW5qf-tD8. At 1:29, just as he says "through it," a picture of a red handgun flashes on the book that's on the screen next to the singer's face. whatever it is that the speaker does not want to do, it's serious. obviously his love interest wants him to do something that he thinks is very bad. presumably, they had an argument about this action, and they went to a third-party for input, the so-called "congressman." the congressman approved this action that the love interest wanted the speaker to do; however, the congressman is a questionable source because he's "bleeding through his bedpan." This bleeding indicates senility or weakness of some sort. An example of what might be going on here is as follows: The love interest wants the speaker to do drugs so that he can be accepted in her crowd and she can "publish [their] love." The speaker doesn't want to. Some third-party, or just the hypothetical opinion of "others" in general, supports her decision rather than hers, but the speaker discredits the third party for some reason. This sounds a bit absurd, but this situation is entirely an example. These lyrics are incredibly vague, so it's near impossible to know what the situation actually is (even the gun doesn't help--it just promotes thoughts involving homicide or suicide, which seem even more unlikely). "whip me, but don't beat me a cat call" Here the speaker is cat-calling his love interest and getting flagellated by her for doing so. "cat call" more likely than not is a generic term for showing interest in the other person loudly and in public, or just publicly in general. In other words, the speaker is saying to his love interest, "Ok, i know i talked about us in public, im sorry. you can be mad at me, but don't be furious." "the sun beats down into my brain, I can feel it a house is much better when the roof is connected" The only way the sun can beat down into the brain is if the top of the head is missing. the 3rd and 4th lines seem to imply that he's missing the top of his head, as well, by saying it's like he's a house and he's missing his roof. Thus, I think the point of these four lines is to illustrate how much he's lost his head over the fact that the person he's in a relationship with "could never publish [his] love." That being said, he's also wishing that he had his head and could think clearly about things (their relationship) because he says that a "house is always BETTER/ when the roof is connected." (However, he could also be saying that there is sun beating on his head as he's sitting in his house because he's lost his roof. I don't think that this is the case, though, because he uses "into my brain" rather than "onto my head.") the song ends with the lines "whip me...a cat call." perhaps, then, the relationship ended because of the fact that their love could never be brought out into the open, and he messed up the relationship by "publishing" it himself. But she didn't see it as him publishing their love, she just saw it as him being immature and "cat-calling," which then created lots of conflict and tension and led to their splitting up. One thing to bear in mind about everything that I've said hereinbefore is that these lyrics are highly interpretable. They are so vague and ambiguous, that, really, the only way to find any meaning in this song is to assume some meaning and then try to prove it (which is exactly what I did). That meaning came from the chorus ("You could never publish my love"), which I took to mean that his love interest was never able to go public about their relationship and thus have their relationship flourish. This came to mine for me because of the feel of the song. It definitely feels sad, to put it very simply. The thing is, that line could just as easily be interpreted to mean what SofiaO or athomas721 thought it to mean, namely that the love is so unique that no one could ever "publish" it, put it into words, share it with others, relate it to others, etc. This idea glorifies the love, but the song doesn't have that mood at all. And they are just as right in making their assumption as i was in making mine--except for the mood of the song and until they start to apply the rest of the lyrics to that idea. The rest of the lyrics just don't seem to add up, if we are to assume that SofiaO and athomas721 are correct. but the lyrics are so incredibly vague; when i first heard it i applied it to a relationship of mine. in fact, i still do. so someone with different experiences with relationships will probably think of something else. also, because the lyrics are so vague, i'm sure someone could come along and analyze the song very differently from how I did and prove that SofiaO and athomas721 had it right all along. i hope that someone does. |
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| Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I just read Catch 262's post. Perhaps the person singing in the beginning is Russel, and the sunshine in the bag, or marijuana, is the ghost. And then when Russel uses the drug, he becomes "possessed" by the ghost, who then changes his views on life. Wow... This song could very well be about drugs all along... and how they influence your life. It would actually make sense, too, if you've ever seen the music videos, because Russel looks high. Damn. |
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| Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is introducing the character of Russel, specifically the demon occupying his body. It is not about drugs. There are many parts of the lyrics that explain the nature of this ghost, and then the other parts of the lyrics are devoted to this ghost’s message. This ghost is rather, well, intangible – and intangible as in “incapable of being precisely identified or realized by the mind.” He actually admits his intangibility when he says “Intangible, bet you didn’t think….” We know that he’s immortal: “Now, time for me is nothing ‘cause I’m counting no age.” He’s benevolent: “No, you shouldn’t be scared.” (I’m not sure what he means by “I’m good at repairs, and I’m under each snare.” Maybe someone could help me out there?) He’s omniscient, assumedly, as he says that he can make a panoramic view, or the huge complexity that is life, “all manageable,” and also as he says, “I'm in them, every sprouting tree, every child apiece, Every cloud at sea.” Besides being immortal, benevolent, and omniscient, we also know that he can possess people and that he is here to advise us. He admits to possessing Russel directly, saying “Through Russel, not his muscles, but percussion he provides With me as a guide.” He speaks a lot of his purpose, to advise us. For example, he says that he’ll make it manageable, “he’ll make this child-like in nature,” and in both cases, the thing that he is referring to (the “it” and the “this”) is his message. He claims that he is sticking around with Russ to be a mentor. In addition, he says that he will command us, the listener, to think (“Intangible, bet you didn’t think, so I command you to.”), and he says that he is a “Spiritual hero who appears in you to clear your view when you're too crazy,” which could very well mean that as you listen to him, he actually occupies your mind and helps you view life better. Again, he’s trying to help you, especially when you can’t deal with life properly or are “too crazy.” So, we know that this ghost is possessing Russel, has a message that he’s communicating through him and his percussion, is immortal, benevolent, and omniscient. I am not so sure as to the ghost’s actual message, but he definitely has one (and I don’t think it’s about drugs). “Pick and choose, sit and lose, all you different crews. Chicks and dudes, who you think is really kicking tunes? Picture you getting down in a picture tube, Like you lit the fuse,” is one peace of his advice. Another piece of advice is “Rhythm, you have it or you don’t that’s a fallacy….” “Lifeless, to those the definition for what life is. Priceless to you because I put you on the hype shit. You like it? Gun smoking, righteous, with one token psychic Among those, possess you with one go,” is another. His last piece of advice is “I brought all this So you can survive when law is lawless. Feelings, sensations that you thought was dead. No squealing, remember that it's all in your head.” In addition, he does talk a bit about two other things: destruction, demise, corruption in disguise, and lies from enterprise; and reality, namely that it’s all in your head. All I can gather from these pieces of advice is that material possessions are not what makes life, we make life how we choose to make it, trust should not be put in big companies, and we don’t really have control of ourselves. I don’t feel like backing up my opinions in logical analysis, which is why I just listed all of the pieces of advice above. I hope you can see where I’m coming from. Also, I didn’t find the meaning of each one of his pieces of his advice, so there are definitely more than those that I just said. So we know that Russel does indeed have a message that he wants to get across to us. This ghost that occupies Russel could actually be someone very significant, like God, but I’m not even going to go there. And who knows what the hell he’s saying, except that it most likely is not about encouraging drug use. But we do know that the lyrics in this song, at least the lyrics that are rapped, serve to introduce Russel’s occupying spirit and that spirit’s message. I think that the chorus has something to do with Clint Eastwood. The “sunshine in a bag” is the gold that Clint Eastwood had in his bag at the end of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and the title is Clint Eastwood, for Christ’s sake. I apologize for the length, but I wanted to destroy the notion that this song is about doing LSD, marijuana, or what have you. |
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