| Mindless Self Indulgence – La Di Da Di (Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Neither version of the lyrics on this site include the light-speed intro. Lame. | |
| Mindless Self Indulgence – La Di Da Di (Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Neither version of the lyrics on this site include the light-speed intro. Lame. | |
| Mindless Self Indulgence – La Di Da Di (Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Neither version of the lyrics on this site include the light-speed intro, which is a bummer. | |
| Placebo – Kings of Medicine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Personally this song always evokes the story of William Burroughs and his wife. They got drunk one night and decided to do a "william tell act". She put an apple on her head and he shot at it but missed, hitting her in the head and killing her. His subsequent struggle with the guilt over killing her contributed hugely to his writing, and by some accounts even drove him to become gay as he could no longer stand to be with women who reminded him of the woman he killed. If not this particular story, I definitely think this song is about a person getting drunk and killing their lover. The references to alcohol and the narrator dieing internally as the other is "picked up" as by paramedics or the coroner. Powerful song, one of my favorites by Placebo. |
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| Placebo – Kings of Medicine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Personally this song always evokes the story of William Burroughs and his wife. They got drunk one night and decided to do a "william tell act". She put an apple on her head and he shot at it but missed, hitting her in the head and killing her. His subsequent struggle with the guilt over killing her contributed hugely to his writing, and by some accounts even drove him to become gay as he could no longer stand to be with women who reminded him of the woman he killed. If not this particular story, I definitely think this song is about a person getting drunk and killing their lover. The references to alcohol and the narrator dieing internally as the other is "picked up" as by paramedics or the coroner. Powerful song, one of my favorites by Placebo. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Hmmm, just an interesting note, Jimi said in one live performance (link below) that this song was about 1833. This is interesting because that was the year British Parliament abolished slavery in the UK. Any thoughts? Was he just talking nonsense or is there some connection between the year and the song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEe0xwSEEB0&feature=fvw |
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| Deadsy – The Key to Gramercy Park Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| RyknowSpag, P. Exeter Blue founded and has always been the lead singer for Deadsy, Jay Gordon was brought in to play bass and yes, he contributed to the band's style, but Elijah (P. Exeter's real name is Elijah Blue Allman, son of Cher and Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers) has always been the architect of Deadsy's image and style. The fact that the two bands are similar is because they both came out of the same scene and were influenced by the same musicians, including each other. | |
| Deadsy – The Key to Gramercy Park Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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GOD, I got so pissed off at all the bullshit comments on this song I decided to make an account just to put down some ACTUAL INTERPRETATIONS of the song. This is songMEANINGS.net people, take your bs trash-talk elsewhere. This song is actually surprisingly multilayered, despite what most people on this site seem to think. First there are the literal pieces: a person who is a member of the underground NYC culture of violence (gangs, bare-knuckle boxing, bar brawls, street fighting, underground MMA) has acquired a key to the prestigious private park Gramercy Park and can now access the bastion of peacefullness that was formerly only accessible to him (or her) via breaking and entering. What is not said is whether he has grown up and out of the culture and is now one of the elite group that has legitimate access to the park, or if the key was gained through some illicit manner. As Deadsy had gained acclaimed by the time this song was released I suspect Elijah Blue Allman (Aka Phillips Exitor Blue I, itself a play on upper-class elitism) is commenting on how it feels to come from the underground (though whether Deadsy ever was part of the underground is debatable) into musical popularity. The lyric about "The other side of the under scene/across the boulevard of broken dreams" shows he (the narrator) has crossed from the gutter-scum grit of the deep underground scene where no one has money to the high-renown ranks of fame where money demands respect from the outside(of the culture) world. The other side of the boulevard of broken dreams is success. Now that the narrator has the key to Gramercy Park he is going to stay with his old ways and bring violence into the sanctuary. He is bringing his band of "Hittites" with him, Hittites may refer to either the fertile-crescent empire at the dawn of the Iron Age who were known to have been powerful military people who were never conquered but rather broke apart from the inside (this is why I prefer the second possibility) or a biblical people known to be "impure" and violent who bordered Israel and were conquered by King David and his descendants. In the second case the reference emphasizes the counter-culture and culture of violence as being "repressed" in their own minds by the dominant culture. Because the access to the sanctuary is now so easy it has taken some of the savor out of the act of defiling it by bringing violence and sex into the park. Even the private nature of the park takes some of the adrenaline out of it for the narrator because it is "safe to be afraid of the dark" there, meaning that the darkness is actually not a threat and so the adrenaline rush of fighting or fucking within the gates of the park would be partly empty. The lines "when you're inside and you thought to take a walk in the park think someone's about to be carved" and "And never look at the other place Stay with what's pristine that touches you Where the peril accentuates Something that could mean so much to you Try save a seat in the golden cage The media mass has yet to still say To simply pass, or rise from the grave" are a bit more cryptic and hard to decipher, but I believe they are referring to an innocent bystander about to be killed who values the "pristine" condition of the park and so never looks at or pays attention to the dangers of the other public parks. The first two lines are a warning to him that he should be afraid, even in the park, because the violence now has a way in. Because he does not actually get this warning he is going to be even more shocked and value/beg for his life more within the confines of the sanctuary. Trying to save a seat in the golden cage might refer to trying to stay alive after the attack, as the Golden Cage was the metaphor for the body-image used by Hilde Bruch who was a pioneer in the psychiatry of Anorexia Nervosa. It could also be referring to threats of disfigurement by the narrator, and the victim's value of their image (common in the wealthy). The mass media then cover the attack and say the victim might die or have a miraculous recovery. That is my interpretation. |
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