| George Jones – The Grand Tour Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Oh, wait.! No... it's much worse. | |
| George Jones – The Grand Tour Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song is about divorce. | |
| Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I like this one. | |
| Eminem – Square Dance Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The first line he's imitating a common Arabic phrase "Alhamdulillah" (meaning: Praise be to God) and in the second line he's mocking Shelene Thomas sing the chorus from NAS and the Bravehearts' Oochie Wally ("Oohie wally wally, oochie bang bang...") which came out the year before this song was released. | |
| Fischerspooner – Danse en France Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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...et j'étais paralysée, completement paralysée (...and I was paralyzed, completely paralyzed) Est-ce qu'ils dansent en france? (Do they dance in france?) Pourquoi pas la bas? (Why not out there?) Mais qu'est ce qui s'est passé ici? (But what happened there?) J'ai envie de faire pipi (I want to pee) Je ne sais pas pourquoi (I don't know why) I like to dance this way Je suis fou de toi (I'm mad about you) Je veux t'embrasser (I wanna kiss you) Je ne sais pas pourquoi (I don't know why) I like to dance this way First and last position Pied gauche monté (left feet mounted) La bouche serrée (tight mouthed) Le coude plié (elbow bent) Le doigt pointé (finger pointing) C'est comme ça qu'ils dansent en France (That's the way they dance in France) On le fait comme ça ici (This is done like that here) |
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| The Growlers – Something Someone Jr. Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"and she's all that... ...and a bag of chips" |
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| One Direction – One Thing Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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That "one thing" is something a girl has, guys want it, and they can't get it out of their heads. Get the picture?? |
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| Jai Paul – BTSTU Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| While it's still not entirely clear what 'BTSTU' means; According to his old MySpace profile, ‘BTSTU’ stands for ‘Batistuta' AKA Gabriel Batistuta, the famous Argentine footballer. | |
| Fiona Apple – Every Single Night Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is about someone with an eating disorder having late night food cravings. | |
| Slightly Stoopid – Baby I Like It Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Did they just say "pussy's really tight"? Yes, they did. Thanks songmeanings.net!!! |
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| The Doors – Touch Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think the song is about Jim Morrison in the role of Mary Magdalene in the immediate days after his resurrection; in which he was forced to tell her "NOLI ME TANGER" - or "DON'T TOUCH ME" and the 'promise that he made" was that he would not engage in any worldly pleasures until the stars fall from the sky (and the second coming of Christ is this commitment to God that Maybe, maybe not. | |
| Band of Skulls – Fires Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| http://www.latimes.com/includes/soundslides/bigpicturefire/fire_highres.09.jpg | |
| Sage Francis – I Was Zero Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is about Christmas... Jesus was believed to have died in the year 33 AD and most scholars assume this means that he mathematically must have been 33 years old at the time of his death; however, what they don't take into account was that chronologically there was no "year 0" - it jumps from year 1 BC - to year 1 AD (Anno Domini - "the year of our lord") so this must mean that Jesus was in fact 32 years old when he died... 10 + 22 = 32 20 + 12 = 32 30 + 2 = 32 ... otherwise, by traditional calculations he would have had to already been 1 year old at the time of his birth - which obviously doesn't make sense - so this song is about that missing year of Jesus' life that history has forgotten. When he came out his momma he was zero. Now everybody knows. |
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| Modest Mouse – Night on the Sun Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Modest Mouse got their name from Modest Mussorgsky, a 19th Century Russian composer whose best known work is "Night on Bald Mountain" (which was later popularized by the Disney film "Fantasia"). Mussorgsky's song is based on an ancient myth known as "The Witches Sabbath", a Neopagan ritual performed by witches, demons and the devil who would meet at midnight and hold a Black Mass that involved human sacrifices, wild orgies, and the abducting of infants and the drinking their blood. These sabbaths were performed at different times throughout the year based on the astronomical positioning of the sun and the moon - all based on the crucifixion eclipse that occurred the day Christ was crucified as described by the Apostle Peter in Acts 2:20 that "the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood"... now you see the connection here? Modest Mouse = Modest Mussorgsky; "Night on Bald Mountain" = "Night on the Sun"; the solar eclipse signifying the "night" on the sun; the sun as a representation of Jesus; the drinking of blood; holy communion... etc. This is all supported by Brock's admission that although "not really religious at all", he likes to "toy around with the whole Biblical thing," because it's interesting. The rest of the song just reflects the band's atheistic, dysteleological world-view that we're all going to eventually die some day (including the earth) and that life has no purpose. |
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| Genesis – Jesus He Knows Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| FUCK YEAH ATHEISM!!! | |
| Phil Collins – Something Happened On The Way To Heaven Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is quite a disturbing song actually. Beneath this song's timeless adult contemporary pop beat lies a truly sinister message... despite its seemingly innocent, catchy lyrical phrasing made safe for top 40 radio play - it's surprisingly easy to unravel just what he is meaning to convey with this gem of a song. I will get to exactly what that is in just a bit - but first I'll introduce a few clues: 1) The name of the song is "On the way to Heaven" (think about that for a second... odd name choice for a song most people assume is merely about a man trying to mend a broken relationship, right? I suppose "I want you back was taken" - but nevertheless, it should first be understood that the narrator is not who you think it is... 2) Re-read carefully the first verse of the song... "We had a life, we had a love..." - the narrator is immediately expressing the misery of his situation - implying that not only has he lost a love - but more importantly, that he's lost his life! 3) Yes, I’m suggesting that the narrator is indeed dead (fine, don't believe me? read the very next verse "...but you don't know what you've got 'til you lose it") Taken in the literal sense this would mean that the narrator is no longer among the living - but is confined now to the ethereal afterlife where he obsessively laments over the torment of having to spend the rest of eternity never again being able to experience this woman's love once more. 4) Yet beneath his rhetorical demands to know how many times he must say he’s sorry - he is quietly laying out his menacing plan to capture her love once more the only way he possibly can - which is by haunting her for the rest of her life… as a ghost. 5) As he clearly has much unfinished business on earth - his spirit is incapable of moving on to the afterworld - and thus it was when he was “on the way to heaven” (the reason behind the obscure naming of the song) that he realized this was his only option to be near her. 6) This is not a break-up/make-up/love song - in fact the lyrics possess nearly all of the same narrative techniques routinely used in classic ghost stories. For instance, his spirit is having a great deal of trouble explaining the circumstances surrounding his indeterminate state “I don't know, I don't have all the answers” and he explicitly warns her (quite threateningly) “you can run - but you can’t hide” over and over again - and that he’s “not leaving less you come with me” - insinuating that his spirit will constantly follow her until they reunite in death and move on to Heaven together. 7) Another common element of a classic ghost tale - in his attempts to make earthly contact with her, he admits they shared hardships and nonetheless insists “I'm on your side, you're all I need” and out of respect that most people are taught not to believe in ghosts - he pleads for her to “please believe in me”. 8) The final nail in the coffin comes with the final verses of the song: “They say you can't take it with you when you go and I believe it, but taking what I've got or being here with you, you know I'd rather leave it.” And now, to rephrase it just to clarify how these words correspond perfectly within my hypothetical context of the unrequited love between a forlorn phantom doomed to walk the earth in the shadowy footprints of the woman and love of his life he departed from too soon: “They say you can't take (the earthly-pleasures of love) with you when you go (to Heaven) and I believe it, but taking (my place in Heaven) or being here (almost) with you, you know I'd rather leave (Heaven for later).” 9) In the end - the most intriguing question remains whether or not the woman is longing to reunite with him one day in Heaven as well - or if his constant eerie presence is unwelcomed. Perhaps… she never even knew this man at all - and all of his memories of their star-crossed love affair were merely the result of nothing more than a sick infatuation with a woman he observed from afar, and whose twisted imagination created the love and their life he mentions they shared in the song - perhaps he was a complete and total stranger… just some random creep who lived down the street - an outcast from society who balefully sat alone day and night watching her pass by and over the years in his loneliness and out of his insanity simply became… obsessed. And somehow she still can't explain those sleepless nights she hears his whispering from just beyond the darkness of her bedroom: “You can run… but you can’t hide!” |
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| Amy Winehouse – Me & Mr. Jones Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Holy shit... you're right. | |
| Arcade Fire – Windowsill Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| so 2008 | |
| Arcade Fire – Windowsill Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| C'mon you guys... this song is clearly about a boy whose getting his ass beat by his Dad and he wants to run away. Listen to it again... its pretty obvious. | |
| The Davenports – Five Steps Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. | |
| My Morning Jacket – They Ran Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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His lighter is a metaphor for his heart "...somebody stole my lighter..." He then starts to retrace his thoughts back to where he first lost it. He thinks back to when he was younger...and he doesn't feel much like the same person living a questionable lifestyle. Suddenly, he remembers the moment she had asked him for his lighter...and he gave it to her...and off into the night they ran. Thus he finally realizes that she stole his heart long ago when they were young and in love...and they've been running ever since. This is the best MMJ song ever. One of the most romantic songs I can think of. |
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| System of a Down – Lost In Hollywood Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| You're both wrong...this song is directed towards the prostitutes that (were once) notoriously found standing around on these streets smoking cigarettes while waiting to get picked up. | |
| Uffie – MCs Can Kiss Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Sweet. | |
| Oasis – Live Forever Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That is so good. | |
| The XX – Crystalised Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is about Crystal Meth. 1) You've applied the pressure to have me "crystalised" (hidden reference to using Crystal Meth) 2) ...that I could bring paradise (getting high) 3) I'll forgive and forget before I'm paralyzed (coming down after a binge) 4) Things have gotten closer to the sun (again, getting high) 5) ...and I've done things in small doses (another obvious reference) 6) You don't move slow (tweaking) 7) Glaciers have melted to the sea (crystal meth melting in the pipe when smoked) 8) I've been down on my knees (desperate for another hit) 9) And you just keep on getting closer (getting closer to what that first high felt like) 10) So don't think that I'm pushing you away when you're the one that I've kept closest (keeping it a secret and finally, facing addiction) |
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| Edgar Winter – Dying to Live Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is a paradigm of paradox. | |
| Bush – Everything Zen Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I always thought it was "Trashy was my wife..." - duh. I 100% agree with Eminent Eddie's comment. GREAT SONG! | |
| Bran Van 3000 – Drinking in L.A. Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song made me leave L.A. | |
| The Sounds – Ego Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think she has second thoughts about cheating on her lover, realizing it was her ego that made revenge seem justified. Like saving face. Fame/Ego - very interconnected. The ego is a crazy thing. And I agree...I LOVE the way she says "fucking" in this song! |
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| Junkie XL – Fuck More Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| ecstasy. | |
| Nada Surf – Do It Again Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The first few times I heard this song I misheard the lyrics: "maybe this weight was a gift like i had to see what i could lift" I thought it was "maybe this wait was a game like i had to see what i could win" Next time you listen to the song try to hear that - I think it sounds better. |
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| The Gay Blades – O-Shot Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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They incorporate a portion of The Serenity Prayer in the middle of this song, which is commonly recited in A.A. (Alcoholic's Anonymous) meetings: "...grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and the courage to change the things I can..." |
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