| Placebo – Black-Eyed Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Kinda reminds me of my girlfriend's fall-back "I NEED YOU!" tactic. "Please stay with me! I'm messed up! I need your help!" The song is whiney and pathetic in a mocking tone. one of my favorites. |
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| Placebo – Black-Eyed Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Correction: the lyrics are "I'm borderline AND schizo" He's trying to say 'I have borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia' And it's also "Borderline, bipolar" |
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| Placebo – Come Home Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A lot of placebo's songs deal with sexuality and gender identity. Maybe I'm biased by personal experiences, but to me this song is about coming out to your family. You can't prevent it, you know you've disappointed your family by being a fag, so eventually you just stop caring about the person you used to be. You can get lost in alcohol, drugs, clubs, new friends an entire new identity for yourself. In away, you become estranged from the very people you live with. I think the song's point of view swings from the estranged child to the somewhat disappointed, but mostly concerned, family. "Stuck between the do or die, I feel emaciated. Hard to breathe I try and try, I'll get asphyxiated. Swinging from the tallest height, with nothing left to hold on to." ~teen weighing his/her options, being crushed under the pressure. "Every sky is blue, but not for me and you." ~teen feels angst and indignity, most kids never have to go through this, it isn't fair. "Come home..." ~Parents just want him back the way he was: straight. "Glass and petrol vodka gin, it feels like breathing methane. Throw yourself from skin to skin, and still it doesn't dull the pain. Vanish like a lipstick trace, it always blows me away." ~teen tries to invent an entirely new identity for himself, just vanish completely. "Every cloud is grey, with dreams of yesterday." ~now the entire family has a completely new layer of dysfunction "Come home..." ~Parents just want their son back to who he was before. "Always goes against the grain, and I can try and deny it Give a monkey half a brain, and still he's bound to fry it." ~Parents think he's making mistakes because he is young and rebellious "Now the happening scene is dead, I used to want to be there too." ~Most teens who come out feel suicidal at one point, I know I did. "Every sky is blue, but not for me and you. come home..." Acceptance on the parents part, now they just want their son back in the family. Come home... |
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| Placebo – I'll Be Yours Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Ever fallen in love with someone whom you've known is messed up? You've seen her/him suffer, cry for days and days. You get some sort of self-esteem boost knowing that YOU could be the one to fix or save her/him, the water that bathes her clean. You want to be the goodness that she missed out on. You want to be her protector her father her mother? You want to rapture them away from the cruel life God dealt them. But this song is about more that just tender compassion and devotion. Because for as much as your little basket case needs you, you need him or her right back. In fact, you're so afraid of abandonment that part of the reason you fell in love with her is because she'll "never leave" you- she can't leave, she needs you. You're her anchor, her ether, she "won't release". "I'll Be Yours" expresses the same desire as "The Fragile" by Nine Inch Nails. You love her. You'd do anything for her. You hate seeing her suffer and would love to block out reality for her. But you know his/her suffering and dependence is precisely what drew you towards him/her in the first place. Because ultimately your feelings are not about his/her needs, but your fears of abandonment. |
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