| Townes Van Zandt – Tecumseh Valley Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is an extremely potent tale. An account from a male admirer or possibly one of her customers when she turned to prostitution. Maybe she confided in him her story of where she was from and while she came to tecumseh valley.Perhaps he fell in love with Caroline, and after she died beneath the stairs, he decided that her story had to be told, and he was the one responsible to tell it. Besides these inquiries, A Phenomenal song.. None Like it... Truly...... |
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| Cat Power – The Sleepwalker Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Finally Got it. This song is infact about being loss, though its at a particular time in the narrators life. The river represents life passing by,"I can hear voices in the water ",the voices are her conscience trying to find something or better yet someone.(She cant find herself), she lost it in the river. "I think I mustve lost it in the river " "To green eyes they give nothing away Do you think now at last You can tell me No you won't - give away " While she looks at her reflection in the water, she hopes her eyes will give her some evidence of who she was or who she has become.But they give nothing away! "And birds blackface singing in the tree (Black birds represent death,ex.Edgar allen poe the raven) If I got myself a gun Then I could shoot down everyone " (She is now expressing her frustration) "I saw father dancing with his daughter And the music singing softly on the breeze " ( these are nostalgic memories of her life as a child) "I can't see an end - salvation anywhere " ( nothing is coming to save her from herself) "Think I'll wait here if he comes he comes down the river " ( She is hopeless and will wait forever) "I've heard all this before,Already I know,A lost soul - I won't say anymore" She has repetitiously gone over this argument within herself many, many times, and she is tired of fighting. Now she just will be quiet, and not say anything else. SORRY FOR SUCHA LONG POST, BUT CHAN MARSHALL DOES PACK ALOT OF MEANING IN HER SONGS......... VIVA LA CATPOWER: WE LOVE YOU... |
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| Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I hate to say this because i know everyone is always associating him with heroine, but it might be about shooting up. "Load up on guns" scoring the product, and loading syringes. "It's fun to lose and to pretend" When you feel like your a loser or down heroine makes you feel as if you have won."With the lights out, it's less dangerous Here we are now, entertain us I feel stupid and contagious" this is how he feels when he is high. Mixed emotions. Lights out means getting high as hell. Think about this it makes alot of sense.... "A mulatto, an albino A mosquito, my libido a mulatto is a mixed person tan or light brown, like mexican heroine. Albino is no pigmentation or white, like asian heroine A mosquito represents the needle to draw the substance from the spoon. Your libido is your brains sex drive, Opiates suchas heroine are medically proven and well known to destroy your sex drive and stop your ability to ejaculate. "And I forget just why I taste Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile I found it hard, it was to find Oh well, whatever, nevermind This just describes mixed emotions of feeling good and not wanting to think hard about things. NEVERMIND.. Just enjoy what he found. |
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| Joan Jett – Victim of Circumstance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is a very significant song made by joan jett. Its one of the thick and thorough verses to which she truly expressed her feelings in a more sorrowsome way. She still comes at you full blast and head on like she always does, but, if you listen carefully you can hear the pain resonating out of her voice by the suttle complexity of the lyrics. Truly AWSOME Long Live Joan Jett A very special individual indeed....... What is Rock n Roll without her... |
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| Babes in Toyland – Hello Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The other meaning is a little deeper. She could be recollecting her youthful conscience by confronting the person she is today. How we dream as children of being stars "We care lot about a big situation When we were young" Alot of times after rockstars make it big they realize being famous is not all its cracked up to be. " I know somewhere we could go, i know someone we could be" This appears to be her aspirations at a young age before becoming famous. Now that she has become what she wanted to become, she is sick with it and dosnt want it anymore. "I am the worst one yet" |
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| Babes in Toyland – Hello Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Kat is expressing how someone used to try to sell false dreams when she was young. most likely how boys tell girls all sorts of things just to get with them. Dreams like "i know somewhere we could go" As if he could offer her a place out in the world full of fun and luxury. She is shouting "HELLO" meaning: wake up dumbass, im not that nieve anymore to believe in the dreams your trying to sell me. " Go Shove yourself" means Get Lost.. or go fuck yourself. Get away from me go show yourself a goal.. This is one meaing of the song.... |
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| The Breeders – Bang On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Easily one of the most important songs of 90's rock n roll movement overlooked and hidden in a pile of dust of old records. Simple and Cold, this song definitely moves you. I love how it expresses the fact that sometimes your trying to understand or figure out a part of you that just dosnt make any sense. Shes trying to figure out what she is missing that makes her feel so lonely and isolated from everyone else. But in the end she gives up to the frustration by sighing "guh". Shes hopeless and Lost................ Beautiful! |
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| A Camp – Stronger Than Jesus Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Thanks for that alternate explanation. I love it, It makes a lot of sense.. Specially " you cant control your emotions, but you can control your actions" |
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| Babes in Toyland – Ariel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about a divine or supernatural being always coming to the aid of someone who is down and depressed. (in this case the singer). She feels that she isnt in the right place in her life and this is making her sick. She is displaced because she "Lives somewhere in between of what I've meant to be". The skies are dark "Velvet skies" , there are holes in her heart or conscience "sky and holes" and she needs Ariel to fill the void."able to close the sky and holes" The Hebrew Archangel Ariel is known as the Angel of Healing and New Beginnings. So Ariel rises every time the narrator is confused, depressed, and empty. "you rise when you feel the Velvet skies you rise" And until Ariel rises the singer will have to find some way to cope with the pain. Till you rise I fill your skies Till you rise I field yr skies |
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| Melissa Auf Der Maur – Head Unbound Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i love this metaphor. I think melissa is saying that her partner dosnt realize it yet but he is lower than she is. And when she is tired of him, he will hurt her no more. For she i higher than he is "a higher me for you". He will fall down long and hard, and he will only find upon falling that he has more falling to do because he fooled himself into thinking he was higher that he really was.(walking on thin ice) Now he will suffer."For you'll come down To the rest of your falling down, On your head" Now hel will be the one in pain and agony "Youre surely hurting more " |
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| Melissa Auf Der Maur – Followed The Waves Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this is an excellent song from melissa. What i got from the song was that she is kindoff playing a game or gambling with her significant other. She dosnt want him to try to patch things or "make ammends" She has followed her heart(the waves) carefully and has come to the realization that she is not true to him."my heart lies to you, youll never have me true.She has alot of feelings for him but she cant stay with him. There are two many ups and downs between them.Shes emotionally drained "Between my fire sighs and my burning eyes" She finds herself pretending too much.. What do you others think..? Im just a guy so my opinion is limited. |
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| A Camp – It's Not Easy To Be Human Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Traditional morals, virtues, and admiral traits of the human existence along with the proposed beauty of man kind has long been fading away as the centuries past. Now we slowly transform in a world far different from that which we originate, and so, we have changed and adapted our manners, and attitudes to best fit this "new age". Sadly we have been idly drifting away from what we once considered "human", now we are a hybrid ,technological, advance,systematic, scientific, stable creature who sees the unknown as not a boundary which should not be crossed, but as a territory to be conquered and colonized along our path of self destruction. Who or what have we become. Or were we ever really that "human" to begin with. Perhaps we were just painting an elaborate portrait of ourselves that never even existed. | |
| Cat Power – Top Expert Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I see it as a person who is weak or confused about life goes to seek help from the church or a priest of some sort who specializes in the "supernatural" or divine.( as in christian beliefs). When this confused person goes, they see "crucifixes and expectancy": the way of a moral and just life and what is expected of us as God fearing humans. This makes him/her feel safe,"And I feel So safe" but at the same time realize that he/she is not worthy of repentance or forgiveness. "I feel like a Beat cast-off I feel so Ashamed" Now feeling left out and cast off this person asks the priest or "Top Expert on the supernatural" how to go about finding ones self in the midst of all life's chaos and sin. "Tell us oh how do we Catch a ghost in the Dark" This only half of the story.. Any Comments or points of view? |
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| Babes in Toyland – Memory Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about a person who has trouble confronting their memories or things that happened in the past. So she is playing hide and seek: everytime a bad memory comes to mind we hid from it or try to forget. Shes arguing with her inner self " you decide whats on my mind coming in from the other side." Her memories keep haunting her "look what you done to me Following following look what you done to me Shadowing shallowing" |
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| A Camp – Stronger Than Jesus Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I cant believe no one has posted a comment on this yet. This song is potent on so many levels.. But the obvious meaning is that we put to much trust and emphasis on love when it really is simply an emotion. The irony of love is that even though its considered a human emotion, it consequently controls almost everything in the world. You cant completely trust love, and think that it will automatically bring you to peace and happiness. "Who told you love is the Alpha and Omega And that you're heart will lead you to the only one". because look how much damage it has done through history "Don't you know love can kill anyone Bring it on, wars and diseases". Love can be our salvation, while simultaneously becoming our downfall "See the people heading for disaster Standing in line just looking for a little fun" Lastly, Love is stronger than jesus because according to christian belief he died for our sins out of his love for us. But if jesus can die for love and we still do not stop killing, stealing, and decieving others and ourselves. Than love has defeated us all, even jesus, who it would seem died for nothing if we cannot pull ourselves together and find a better life. Any one care to argue or have another opinion, Please POST |
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