| Ride – Leave Them All Behind Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song, at least to me, is clearly about an acid trip. | |
| Meat Puppets – Scum Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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These lyrics of the verses are probably visions experienced on an acid trip, and I think it's unlikely that they have any hidden or deeper meaning. However the lyrics of the bridge and chorus could describe corporate greed. "Hand over all water" (describing a monopoly) "You know that means business, scum" double meaning: 1. literally there is good profit made from the monopoly 2. a challenge to the corporation "Under the stone we find the scum Under the stars we find the scum" (the corporation is everywhere) |
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| Meat Puppets – Backwater Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is about Curt Kirkwood's heroin use and addiction. A backwater is a body of water on a river which is kept from flowing forwards by the force of a current. The imagery of "the backwater swirling" is a metaphor Curt uses to describe how his drug abuse affects him; the river represents his life's path, the current holding back the river represents heroin, and the backwater that the current creates represents how heroin has his life in a repetitive, "swirling" cycle (At the height of his addiction, Curt would only leave his house to obtain more drugs). Thus, the lines "in the backwater swirling, there is something that'll never change" is Curt's enigmatic way of admitting his heroin addiction. The lyrics in the bridge describe how he feels about his drug abuse: "Hey, I'm blind, good, fine" describes how he feels about heroin when he's high, as if to say "I'm high now, everything's OK." "Roll the time, on who's dime?" describes how he feels about heroin when he's sober. The words "on who's dime?" refers to the financial burden he suffers from his abuse. The first verse mentions a "knife to open up the sky's veins", also a possible heroin reference. This is an amazing song with beautiful lyrics, but people overlook the fact that its about heroin abuse. |
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| Alkaline Trio – Emma Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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the line "one silver bullet and two vicodin" has nothing to do with vampires... vicodin is a strong painkiller and its effects are greatly increased by the consumption of alcohol a silver bullet in this case is a coors light can; he's drinking the beer with the vicodin to get fucked up fucking sick line... |
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