| Queen – Under Pressure Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the song is about the struggle and heartache Mercury endured because of his sexuality and what he and other gay people endure in a world that doesn't always accept them: "Pressing down on you no man ask for Under pressure - that burns a building down, splits a family in two Puts people on streets" - could be interpreted literally as homosexuality being something "no man ask for" (i.e. can't "choose" to be gay).....and revealing something like that to a family that doesn't understand could cause splitting of families and the individual being disowned and put on the street. "That's OK It's the terror of knowing what this world is about Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!" - could mean he's referencing the first lyric and indicating that he'd rather go through the heartache and trouble of revealing his true self to those loves and suffer their anger and ignorance, than go through the terror of life like some of his gay friends who suffer in silence. "Turned away from it all like a blind man Sat on a fence but it don't work" - he tried to deny his true self by pretending he was something he wasn't, but "it don't work." "Can't we give ourselves one more chance Why can't we give love that one more chance Why can't we give love..... Cause love's such an old fashioned word And love dares you to care for the people on the edge" - here, I think when Mercury is singing about "why can't we give love that one more chance," I think he wants to help his family/friends understand who he is and that he's still the same person, he wants to reconnect to the people he loves - he's saying please love me for who I am - then David Bowie's lines about "love's such an old fashioned word, etc." his "character" is the voice of Mercury's family/friend/society indicating that they can't accept his homosexuality because it's not their understanding of "proper love." And if they try to give their relationship with Mercury a chance, i.e.: let him back into the fold so-to-speak, they'll be forced or pressured to understand his homosexuality and they're unwilling to give up their fears. I think the latter is meant by the line, "love dares you to care for people on the edge." Maybe "people on the edger" are homosexuals as society sees them. |
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| Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The song can only be cheapened for you if you let it....the beauty can only be stolen if you let it. If a song has meaning in your life, it shouldn't matter who else likes the song; unless, you care about what they think? I'm going to assume you don't care what "commoners" think. If your concept of the song has been cheapened b/c a few adolescent girls like the song, I have to believe your concept of the song wasn't that original or deep to begin with. | |
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