| Tocotronic – Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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English translation: Pure reason must never win We badly need new lies To guide us across the universe And to give us the feast of the world To drive us into delirium And to sing us to the most quiet slumber To warn us of the boring truth And to pity our deepest pain To rock us in bamboo-baskets Pure reason must never win Pure reason must never win We badly need new lies To show us the precious of madness And then to bow to us To crown us to kings Only to taunt us secretly To hiss in our ears And to wipe our eyes To fight them, who want to help us Pure reason must never win Pure reason must never win We badly need new lies To preserve our beauty But to split us deep inside Much more: To deconstruct us And then to touch us tenderly To lead us into darkness To resign to our will And to bend us like soft fences Pure reason must never win We are so light, we could fly... |
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| Cornelius – Point of View Point Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The music video makes some amusing comparisons between humans and ants, cities and circuit boards, smokers and industrial wastelands, etc. Emotionally the song conveys to me an ecstatic fascination with the myriad patterns and vast complexity of the world. But the lyrics are pretty ridiculous. | |
| Rush – Tears Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about someone who has had enormous emotional/existential struggles ("all of the seasons, all of the days..." for what seems like their whole life ("a lifetime of questions"), has always sought genuine understanding and empathy ("eyes that know why"), but has never found it. They feel totally alone in the world. What I can't figure out is, when they see that the other person has cried for them, do they realize that that person truly understands what they're going through? The ending "I tasted the answers / and my body was weak / for you / the truth" seems to indicate that; but the part about "what would touch me deeper ... eyes that only cry ... or eyes that know why" might mean that they don't feel genuinely understood by the other person. On a more intuitive level, this song made me imagine a grievous, emotionally draining relationship between two people. Perhaps they are so attached that it causes them great pain, or they desperately need each other but often wind up fighting. But in the pain they find great meaning; it proves how significant their relationship is. In the music you can hear the weakness the singer feels after being consumed by years of pain. I think it's beautiful how the music captures that feeling so poignantly. |
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| Cake – Up So Close Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Is that even possible? | |
| Cake – Up So Close Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Oh, and "microscope" refers to seeing only a small aspect of her, that is, parts of her body and her sexuality, not the big picture -- her whole person. | |
| Cake – The Distance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think you've nailed it on the head, maybe it's more general than a guy trying to climb the corporate ladder but that fits perfectly. The song threw me off though because its tone makes the guy sound heroic, which he is from work-a-holics' point of view, but from the point of view of the song he's a tragic figure (not a tragic hero because he doesn't even realize he's making a mistake). | |
| Cake – Up So Close Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The ultimate meaning is that sexual intimacy alone isn't real intimacy at all. Hence "I might as well be out in space." "I'm never sure if it was still you" -- she might as well be anyone, because they don't have a mental connection anymore. | |
| Cake – Up So Close Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| That's true but it's too obvious to be interesting. I think it's talking about a relationship where all two people do anymore is have sex, so they don't know each other anymore. "I might as well be out in space" - they're physically intimate, but mentally lightyears apart. | |
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