| Blackfield – Go to Hell Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is actually a really catchy song. | |
| Blackfield – DNA Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yes, Aviv Geffen wrote every song on the album except Waving I believe. If there are any homosexual overtones in this song, they've gone over my head, even after multiple listenings. I feel like this song is describing Geffen's loneliness. I catch that vibe over and over with this album. These lyrics just make me feel trapped in my own body, and all of our struggles with mortality and aspects of life that we can't choose or change. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Kneel and Disconnect Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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That piano loop that repeats over the last third of this song is a little haunting. I kept bumping my iTunes back to that spot to listen to it. I think I found out what it was. It is remarkably reminiscent of the song "Truenorth" by No-man, a different Stephen Wilson project. If you're curious, about 11 minutes into the song Truenorth is a good spot to hear it. Compare that to the piano loop in Kneel and Disconnect toward the end. Anyone else hear it? Is there a connection here? |
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| Porcupine Tree – I Drive the Hearse Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Listening to this song gave me the sensation of looking into the life of an ordinary man. He is a married man; he treats her well. He says that "when she cries [he] takes the blame", he shows a misplaced sense of guilt, and it's typical reaction. Other ways that he describes himself make him seem very ordinary. He takes time to fix the roof of his house, also demonstrating his idea of duty as the man of the house and almost to say to his wife that he will get it done, just be patient ("Given time I fix the roof"). He is susceptible to being bribed, a character flaw, but something that many of us are susceptible to ("Given cash I speak the truth"). Stephen Wilson's way with words just inspire me to see layers of meaning in simple lyrics. Each character trait demonstrates other very ordinary ideas about how he lives his life. He deals with pride, denial, lying. This is the perceived life of an ordinary man. This is just the sort of man who might have a tragic incident, perhaps in the form of a car crash ("I drive the hearse"). The kind of man you find between two mangled cars on the freeway among the police's flashing lights. This is the incident. The ordinary man lives his ordinary life always thinking back to that incident ("You were always my mistake"). |
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| Porcupine Tree – In Formaldehyde Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I always like to play "Drown With Me", an extra from the In Absentia sessions, right after this song. The tune is just so similar between the two songs, most of all when the electric guitar chimes in on Drown With Me. | |
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