| Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Dead on jt. Feels as if the father has abandoned the mother and son, leaving the son to ponder what he did to drive his father away. The question haunts him, never allowing him to achieve self-acceptance. "learn from your mother or else spend your days biting your own neck" The mother in the song appears to have shed the displaced guilt and the father's pleads with the son to do the same, or risk being consumed by the self-hatred that should belong to the father alone. "The sins of the father are visited upon the son" type thing. |
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| Morphine – Cure For Pain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Morphine's lyrics are often intended to be quite literal, seldom layered with hidden meaning designed for broad interpretation. Here the band presents drug abuse as a form of religion. The songwriter is seeking the wise woman in the cave (his supplier and voice of guidance in the religious metaphor). The ritual is the process of using, which takes on an almost ceremonial feel for most addicts. The taste, the actual consumption of the drug, followed by the sacrifice that its use demands (physical, mental and monetary). In essence the songwriter has placed his Faith in drugs to rescue him from Pain, but his salvation disappears so quickly that he is always left searching evidenced by the prominent use of Where and When in the lyrics. When a new religion surfaces that can erase the pain, he will abandon his false beliefs. Until that day... |
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| Morphine – Cure For Pain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Few song's better encapsulate the lure of the needle better than "Cure for Pain". Morphine's lack of guitar driven ballads kept them from ascending to Rock Stardom, but their catalog is on par with virtually any group performing in the 90's. Cure for Pain may be their crowning achievement, while also naming the true makeup of an addict. No one sets out to become an addict, it is brought about by chance and circumstance. Take someone that life has been dealt one too many blows, at their near breaking point, and present them with a pill that can ease the hurt. In their desperation to escape the hurt they accept, and for a brief time the pain evaporates and they are again in harmony with the world. Yet, peace is fleeting and they are left with an emptiness that is soon occupied by renewed pain. Set adrift on a vicious tide, we will cling to the nearest branch. And so the cycle begins. Each time the emptiness demands more to stave off the pain. With a soul in disrepair, the addict cedes to emptiness if only to hold the hurt at bay. We all will know pain at some point, and thus all reside within the reach of the needle's delicate sting. The Sandman knew the sting but alas did not find the cure. Yet a plaintive wail of hope still echoes wherever "Cure for Pain" sounds in the grey of night. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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All the pieces fit for this interpretation. For so long I believed the song to be about the futile male quest to harness the love of a desirable woman exclusively and to fend off the legion of pursuers. "I can picture every move that a man could make." While the conundrum of one man retaining the singular affections of an exquisite woman, capable of enchanting all of those who cross her path, remains unresolved, I bow to Toner's interpretation that alcohol is the true object of desire in this piece. As to the question of which subject is more destructive, that is another matter entirely, and the two forces working together would be the ruin of any man. |
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| The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Given your screen name, I can see why you are drawn to this song. Why is it that songs of sadness and loss make the most sense? Perhaps, because love is an illusion that cannot sustain itself, invariably leaving those that enter its sphere with an eternal sense of longing and disappointment. Then again some illusions can endure a lifetime, which is a comforting notion. Regardless, the bond between the two is quite real, so too the pain they inflict upon one another while trying to conceal their own wounds. |
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| The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| According to the liner notes "she holds her tonic like a cross" which would seem to strenghten your assertion of her being an angelic figure, although while the song deals with loss and regret, I think the woman is very much alive. | |
| The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song crept into the crevices of old wounds which have never quite healed. The Airborne Toxic Event captures Adult Angst in a way reminicent of The Church or The Cure during the late eighties. The song in itself is no great riddle, as it speaks whats on its mind. The song's transparency does nothing to blunt its impact though. It is rare for lyrics so specific to cut so deep. The man made the choice to allow the relationship to end, something he now regrets, and something for which the woman has never forgiven him. Now regret and guilt consume him, drawing him out into the night in the hope of finding the one he left behind, but full well knowing what that will cost. (she will break him in two) Seeking out her favorite spaces from the past, a meeting inevitably occurs poeticaly just around midnight. She immediately takes note of his presence, for she too wears the scars of their past battles. Yet the war has not ended and she makes sure to twist the knife a final time as she exits the scene. He is left hollow, clinging to the hopeless dream of returning to a relationship where the trust has been broken, and still he cannot stay away, for to let it die would mean abandoning the only thing he has left...his immense sadness over a love lost. for what its worth, G. |
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