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Sara Bareilles – Come Round Soon Lyrics 15 years ago
I think it's about the 'other woman' knowing that it's wrong to like this guy and feels bad but she can't help it; he's leading her on, breaking hearts, no good for her but regardless he's stolen her heart

LOVE this song

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Placebo – Devil In The Details Lyrics 15 years ago
*and embrace the consequences

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Placebo – Devil In The Details Lyrics 15 years ago
well the idiom 'devil in the detail' mean that a small things that are ignored can cause serious problems later on....

so keeping that in mind, i think it's about him accepting his errors and dealing with the consequences as he deserved it but also, to 'dance with him tonight' can suggest he's going to be positive and not feel sorry for himself, and instead say 'bring it on!'

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Placebo – Fuck U Lyrics 16 years ago
it's a cover of Archive's fuck you
so no way could it be abotu steve...unless they've been plainning this departure with archive... O;

yeah, i think it's about them person who's singing it

'when you look at yourself do you see what i see, if you do why the fuck are you looking at me'
is a big indication of that

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Placebo – Smile Lyrics 16 years ago
sounds so bittersweet, gorgeous- and if you see the photos on youtube videos, gorgeous indeed!

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Placebo – Eyesight To The Blind Lyrics 16 years ago
i've just thought of 'eyesight to the blind' and how in the bible, when jesus restored someone's eyesight
and his brian's mum got baptized? i can't remember but yeah, reference in that

he's not benefitting from his mother's change

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Placebo – Eyesight To The Blind Lyrics 16 years ago
or he could be saying that to his sibling, and feels kinda jealous how this guy who is all happy is bringing his parents happiness, eyesight to the blind, whereas he doesn't himself

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Placebo – Eyesight To The Blind Lyrics 16 years ago
'you're never lonely, when you're laughing all the time' - faking confidence, happiness etc, to the naked eye he's pretty happy, but he's not

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Placebo – Eyesight To The Blind Lyrics 16 years ago
for me, it's when someone feels out of place in a family and less important compared to a sibling
eyesight to the blind- to achieve something pretty spectacular, he's too much for the family maybe?
sad song, brilliant though

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Placebo – 2468 Lyrics 16 years ago
strange feeling, pain feeling, wretched oh my soul

i think of an orgasm lol, and it's strange cos you've been with both sexes i suppose, pain cos you're cheating but 'oh my soul' it's what he likes.

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Placebo – 2468 Lyrics 16 years ago
or "who do we appreciate" could be confusion of what are you attracted to, what's acceptable in society, question question questions about sexuality and so on

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Placebo – 2468 Lyrics 16 years ago
it's like what could happen when you're with a bisexual- atm it's two guys together, but bri seems to have got off with the girls too

who do we appreciate?- what sex do you like best

2468 diet is when you eat 200 calories one day, 400 the next, 600 the next, and 800 the next, then repeat
and what many people think of bisexuals is 'greedy' so that could be what's represented by 2468

no pain no gain, well he had to please his craving (diet reference as well as "jimmy dean" which are these sausages) and go with the girls, and though he then got kicked out, well "no pain no gain"


definitely one of the best placebo songs :D

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Placebo – Unisex Lyrics 16 years ago
mann! damn not being able to afford it!

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Placebo – Unisex Lyrics 16 years ago
what CD are these bonus tracks on !??

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Placebo – Come Undone Lyrics 16 years ago
veryyy powerful! on the helpless thing, when he starts really going for it it's like he's attacking himself! it's great ha

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Placebo – Come Undone Lyrics 16 years ago
probably, it was written as a B-side for Meds (right??)
so the time period is close too, lazarus had more of that placebo quirkiness compared to this song, but it's still a great song

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Placebo – Breathe Underwater Lyrics 16 years ago
ahah i hope i'm not the onyl one that thinks something naughty when he says "i'm coming"
then "up for air"

quite steamy if you're as dirty minded as i'm OBVIOUSLY not ;D

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Placebo – Come Undone Lyrics 16 years ago
yeah that's what i thought! especially the 'some kind of cross' bit
maybe this song's referring to himself- that's what i thought lazarus was about anyway.

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Placebo – Breathe Underwater Lyrics 16 years ago
same!

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Placebo – Speak in Tongues Lyrics 16 years ago
http://www.einslive.de/medien/html/1live/2009/06/03/radiokonzert-placebo.xml

scroll down to the video that's titled "Brian Molko im 1LIVE Interview" and he says it in that :)
it's a very recent interview, couple of nights ago

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Placebo – Wouldn't It Be Good Lyrics 16 years ago
erm well you can buy it for 99p in the site, or youtube - those are the legal options anyway lol

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Placebo – Passive Aggressive Lyrics 16 years ago
or it could be how he's so much of a handful, "find me space" could have quite a sarcastic tone as he knows that they can't find him space; he's too much for this "bleeding heart" and will only add to it and he knows it

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Placebo – Speak in Tongues Lyrics 16 years ago
omg they DID break up!
if you just watched that interview he just had Live, he said he's a "single father"
good news for horny fans, not so much for helena...

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Placebo – Speak in Tongues Lyrics 16 years ago
omg they DID break up!
if you just watched that interview he just had Live, he said he's a "single father"
good news for horny fans, not so much for helena...

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Placebo – Wouldn't It Be Good Lyrics 16 years ago
yeahh it's on the 'for what it's worth' single

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Placebo – Come Undone Lyrics 16 years ago
i love this song, i love all the new songs! heard them first live and i thought WOW straight away
i can relate with this album as all the others so i'm really fond of it

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Placebo – Kings of Medicine Lyrics 16 years ago
totally agree, maybe the new Steve's just REALLY excited so that's why it sounds so much more heavier, can't blame him really!
imo, this album is brilliant in a different, fresh way
loveeeeeeee it nonetheless

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Placebo – Kings of Medicine Lyrics 16 years ago
just some little corrections (:

"While you're looking for somewhere to be"
should be:
"were you looking...."

sounds more like 'best made plans'



it's an odd one this, though he's saying 'don't leave me here', the music sounds quite triumphant by the end, makes me think that you may not know the answer now, but you will; it's normal to doubt yourself and to sulk

i'm probably wrong, but hey

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Placebo – Happy You're Gone Lyrics 16 years ago
oh yeah, taking it a bit far to say every single song is about steve, obviously they aren't
but it's almost expected to have a few songs about him, he was a big part of their lives after all, gotta let him have some songs lol

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Placebo – Julien Lyrics 16 years ago
his voice in this is so sinister, i love it! the sound for the first part reminds me of their cover of 'the ballad for melody nelson', that's probably just me

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Placebo – The Never-Ending Why Lyrics 16 years ago
for me, it feels like when you've lost someone and you're grieving you can't ever really have closure cos there's no answer for it, that's just life and you've gotta accept it and get n with things, but then you ask yourself why that is and so on

questions about life can't be answered

yeah...i love placebo (Y)

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Placebo – The Never-Ending Why Lyrics 16 years ago
yeah, sounds like "As spiders kissing lay"

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Placebo – Speak in Tongues Lyrics 16 years ago
running off with your lover you've fought for and with, i guess

it's a beautiful song, and it's probably about Helena sooo no wonder it's Brian's favourite song ha, lucky gal

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Placebo – Bright Lights Lyrics 16 years ago
just a little correction (:
it sounded more like "but all my choices, my good luck"

i'm mesmerized by this song!

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Placebo – Song To Say Goodbye Lyrics 16 years ago
i think it's about how brian's son, Cody, helped him with "a voice that made me cry"
realisation i guess, and saying goodbye to the old him as he now has this new found purpose and hope to start over

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Placebo – Passive Aggressive Lyrics 16 years ago
and the "can you find me space, find me space"
looking for someone to help him work with his behaviour, he's not being stubborn
he wants room to breathe and escape, as passive aggressive is a behaviour you can't run away from yourself, but he wants to, but he's stuck with a bleeding heart - this 'disorder' - and "falls apart" as it contributes to problems in his life

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Placebo – Passive Aggressive Lyrics 16 years ago
i agree with PLAS that he could be talking to himself

when he says "It's in your reach, concentrate" it makes me think of when someone tries to motivate themselves

"that god's in crisis, he's over" god being his loved ones who want him to get past passive aggressive behaviour, he being brain, doesn't want to - being stubborn is part of passive aggressive - though there's a part of him that does, or it could be him turning it to God and saying God is over is a trait of passive aggressive (Victimization response - instead of recognizing one's own weaknesses, tendency to blame others for own failures) but he "falls apart" anyway cause the charateristics are who he is and can't be anything else - "can you find me space inside your bleeding heart", denying himself of help

"bleeding heart" as passive aggressive stops him getting intimate, fear of dependency, not wanting to be helped and have to be support, sulking, etc, it gets in the way of things for him, so part of him wants him to stop behaving like he does and change, but he can't, that's who he is

"everytime i rise i see you falling" if he did change, he might be happier but someone else won't cos it won't be the man they new (a lover possibly)



that's how I interpretate it anyway. Brilliant song

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Placebo – Happy You're Gone Lyrics 16 years ago
anyway, i remember being in tears almost when they played this, the new album is going to be truly amazing

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Placebo – Happy You're Gone Lyrics 16 years ago
not to mention his use of imagery

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Placebo – Happy You're Gone Lyrics 16 years ago
well when i saw them in shepherds bush just under two weeks ago, after brian was announcing all the band members, then went on to say "this is a song about nobody in particular", it's pretty obvious who he was talking about.
Brian writes some pretty sarcastic lyrics, so i don't think you can take it so literal all the time

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Placebo – Black-Eyed Lyrics 16 years ago
i agree with 'black eyed' - haha
i've had an awful family life growing up, and still as a teenager
and i see things in a totally different way compared to most people, with many issues
but if it wasn't for my experiences, i wouldn't be the person i am today, so i see it as a good thing to be "a product of a broken home"


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Placebo – Blue American Lyrics 16 years ago
after reading what AFIinside said, it may seem like he's just opening up to his mother - feels closer to her I assume as he says Scotland is his real home, where his mother is from - about his father and his disgust of that heritage and the shame he has, "i don't care for myself", but never mentions his dad though he's the American as he doesn't want to hurt him directly, and "Uncle Tom" is used as he doesn't want to lose his dad, just that culture

I agree with reanimation also, I don't think Brian is trying to hide behind his words or make it so complicated; he's straight to the point with sarcasm.

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Placebo – For What It's Worth Lyrics 16 years ago
but trying to keep the music video in mind, people themselves don't care about personal issues, so why should he care for others

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Placebo – For What It's Worth Lyrics 16 years ago
"filled a cavity
your god shaped hole tonight"
maybe meaning that creating happiness "god", and taking someone's pain "cavity" meant he'd sacrificed and grew unhappy, empty "hole" and gained pain.
but tht's him trying to find a positive i guess, "for what it's worth"
and then repeating it along with "got no lover", he sees that as a positive too

but yeah, great songs
really excited for the new album

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Placebo – Battle For The Sun Lyrics 16 years ago
and like, he may talk so badly cos when you in a fight or breaking up with someone, you often say things you don't realy mean, or say it but still feeling love

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Placebo – Battle For The Sun Lyrics 16 years ago
yeah i found that a bit too far too
but it could just mean like, breaking loyalty? not as up to it as he thought he was
if you know what i mean

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Placebo – Battle For The Sun Lyrics 16 years ago
yeah i found that a bit too far too
but it could just mean like, breaking loyalty? not as up to it as he thought he was
if you know what i mean

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Placebo – Battle For The Sun Lyrics 16 years ago
the beginning screams determination, as well as desperation and disappointment. great intro i think

i've also noticed how the repeated "weight" some how, to me, comes off as 'wait', directed towards steve perhaps, emphasizing desperation.
but then it's back to control and selfishness but the repeated "pate" from participate, a contrast from working with others to becoming the leader/staying strong to his own ideas and dreams (pate - poetic word for the top of the head)

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Placebo – Battle For The Sun Lyrics 16 years ago
and when he shouts "break" after repeating it again and again, it's like showing that he's actually broken, after trying to cover it up with all the trash talk, but he's willing to keep going, or it could just be frustration and more anger

watch me just get proven wrong after all this ha

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Placebo – Battle For The Sun Lyrics 16 years ago
anddddddd "dream brother, my killer, my lover"
could have a relationship like a brother, they knew each other so ell, close bond
but because it is conditional love and not really brothers (dream, not real) he could either be his killer or lover, can let him down or support him
or it could be even though he's angry and bitter, he'll still care for him and carry to push forwards




also, even though it's a different drummer, the songs i've heard from the new album i love, it's still placebo for me

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