| Placebo – Kings of Medicine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Prior to the recording of Battle For The Sun, the band would enter the studio with nine or ten songs; this time, they went in with over 20. Molko even wrote two of the new songs whilst off-shore in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. “I was living on a river boat in Paris for a little while, a sort of small break from the Meds tour and I’ve always wanted to do that,” Molko relates, gleefully. “It’s a very romantic and kind of Bohemian existence, and I’ve never slept so well in my life, so I recommend that experience for all insomniacs. It’s quite wonderful and I had my guitar and wrote a bunch of songs, two of which ended up on the record, which are Happy You’re Gone and Kings Of Medicine. “All the fanfare like the horns on Kings Of Medicine was really us tapping into mine and Stefan’s Beatles obsession,” he says of the brilliant closing track on Battle For The Sun, “and we wanted to do something that was reminiscent of All You Need Is Love, really. And I didn’t want to sort of bury the song in classic Placebo-isms in terms of choices of sound. I wanted it to be quite new for us and timeless, and something that really sort of broke free of our conceived identity.” |
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| Placebo – Ashtray Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have composed this song with two friends during my vacations in Nicaragua. It came to me because I was always asking for an ashtray (laughs). We began to sing the word in Spanish, which gave the title to the song. Initially it was not intended for Placebo, but I was so pleased with the result that I decided to include it." this song is .... It was never intended to be used for Placebo, I wrote it with two friends of mine, we write songs together for fun and this one ... But why didn't you want to use it? because, because of this connection to Ashtray Heart etc., we had wrotten it, we would sell it to someone. And we wrote in Nicaragua, because there is Spanish in it Cenicero cenicero mi corazon, and I was the only smoker, I was on vacation in Nicaragua and I was always asking in every restaurant, in every coffee an cenicero cenicero . We had the demo for this song, we listened to it while driving across Nicaragua and it's how the song was written. And this is the first song which is on a Placebo album that I didn't write with Stefan. |
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| Placebo – English Summer Rain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "As Taste In Men (on the album Black Market Music, released in 2001), I wanted to write something repetitive. A sort of mantra which speaks about leaving… My lover leaves me to travel, I watch the planes in the sky, I tell myself she is perhaps into one of them. I'm still in London, it's summertime, it's raining, it's boring and I miss her terribly." | |
| Placebo – Hang On To Your IQ Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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About the song: "Elsewhere, on the deceptively sublime "Hang On To Your IQ'" Molko sings: "I'm a fool whose tool is small / it's so minuscule it's no tool at all", which is a candid confession for any man, nevermind a blossoming rock star. "Well," he explains, "my lyrics reveal the truth about how I feel, and experiences I've had. I don't see why I should be shy and coy and hide behind macho rock posturing. That's not what I'm about." |
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| Placebo – 36 Degrees Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It´s easy ¡¡¡ Someone tried to do me ache (It's what I'm afraid of) It's called that because "36 degrees" is close to body temperature," explains Brian. "I guess it's all body metaphors. The sleeve has an arm and a leg wrapped in clingfilm, like they're being preserved. And you can put something in clingfilm and stick it in the refrigerator, or stick it in a microwave and warm it up or cool it down." "The person concerned is a little cold bloodied. If someone gets too close, they have to push the person away. This is what the song means to me, but now it's public property, and people can interpret it in their own way." About the numbers, they have told in many occasions that are the phone number of their fauvorite indian restaurant ¡ |
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| Placebo – Plasticine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Brian: The one song that doesn’t fit into the relationships theme. A classic Placebo song with a classic Placebo theme — individuality | |
| Placebo – Sleeping With Ghosts Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Brian: Inspired by a crazy American psychologist who believes in the cliché of eternal love. He thought two of his patients were soulmates who’d been reincarnated through many previous lives. | |
| Placebo – Pierrot The Clown Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about a broken relationship "I really enjoyed the songwriting on "Pierrot The Clown." Is there a history behind that song?" "That track has been kicking around for a few years. It's basically about a broken love affair that drags for years. One person is reaching for the stars while the other is doing smack in a back alley. It is a beautiful song, so it lent itself to be more of a ballad with a subtle drum machine." |
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| Placebo – Song To Say Goodbye Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"All I try to do is connect emotionaly". To illustrate this, Molko points to Song To Say Goodbye. Perhaps the darkest song on Meds, it opens with the line "You are one of God's mistakes. You crying, tragic waste of skin". "It's a story. I write small fictions, or short stories, now, based on something real." "I guess the story (in Song To Say Goodbye) is one musician speaking to another, and all the emotions that arise when you're seeing someone throw their life away." Molko must not think much of that musician - who was it ? - "I wrote it for myself - I just put myself in the shoes of both people in that song." |
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| Placebo – Centerfolds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Brian: "Someone telling a washed-up celebrity “I’m the best you can get now so you’d better be mine.” It’s about obsession, questions of status and self-degradation" |
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| Placebo – Bionic Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It´s about sex There is only one song from the first album that we are playing and that happens to be ‘Bionic’. Strangely enough, because we went back and played quite a bit of the first album and we act on instinct and ‘Bionic’ was the only one that felt right. It’s true, it’s screaming sexual energy. You know, it’s absolutely belting out desire. I was desperately so. That’s kind of a reflection of the person I was at the age of 20, you know, 10 years ago, 11 years ago. I don’t know, maybe I’ve come full circle. Maybe that’s why we are playing it again." |
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| Placebo – I Know Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Brian explained the meaning of this song. Do you know the story behind 'I know'? Brian Molko : I was living in New York, thinking about moving there instead of living somewhere in France where I had been living and where I was feeling very down. I don't talk a lot of my private life, but it's very well known and very 'public domain' that I was in a relationship during that time but it didn't work. We really needed to take some time off. So I was in that big city and didn't know anybody. I lost my home, my family and I fell into a very deep depression. We had decided not to talk to each other but I couldn't bear it anymore. I remember I picked up a phone in some phonebooth in Broadway and called this person and said "see, I know I'm not supposed to be calling you right now, but I really need to talk to you". The song is part of the conversation we had over the phone, there's a lot of guilt in that song. Blind, included in Meds, is a somewhat alike song. The end of a relationship is kind like death. You have a life with someone and just suddendly, everything stops. The saddest part is that the world goes on and people go on minding their own business, without knowing the paint you feel. It's very interesting for an author to write about that. |
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| Placebo – Blind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Your eyes forever glued to mine is the clue If she leaves, he will go blind I love this song ¡¡ |
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