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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's definitely not an easy song to understand right off the bat. First off, the song finds its roots in lust for a girl, as many of Keidis' songs do. While on tour promoting the record "Mother's Milk" Keidis supposedly fell in love with a girl from Kentucky (in his autobiography he even admits he is still "in love" with her). Some of the other parts aren't as easy to get without some surrounding context, and really serve as a compilation of characteristics from past relationships that suffered because of his heroin/cocaine abuse. |
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| Drake – Best I Ever Had Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Trying to interpret this song as anything other than the superficial is a hard task. A large part of it is about sex, the other Drake's ego, and a little about his album and his sexual past.
What I will say I like about this song is the line "When I get right I promise that we gon' live it up." Under the guise of Drake - the soon-to-be top selling rap artist - he interestingly implies that he still has accumulated the wealth or success necessary to truly support and give the best he's ever had to the woman the song is directed to. I love this line because it's not cocky; it assumes the role of the majority of male listeners, and not with their desire to fuck every girl that walks, but his desire to take care of and give all that he can to his woman. Many who listen to rap music have a hard time actually identifying with the money, fame and glory that rappers boast about - but this is usually not a flaw in rap music, as in this genre's case, money, fame and glory are things to work toward, a twist on the American dream. However, in this verse, Drake doesn't front or pretend to have all his shit figured out, but instead acknowledges that he hasn't accomplished what he has set out to yet, but that when he does, he is gonna bring his lady to the top with him. It's cute. |
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| Something Corporate – I Want To Save You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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What truly separates McMahon from the heard is his honesty...it's just so goddamn refreshing. Take the girl he wants to save. She's not complex, she's not painted to be something she's not. She works, she sleeps around to fuel her craving for attention, and she just wants someone to tell her she's beautiful. McMahon doesn't have to act like he's better than that, like some other pussy artists would do. He just wants to save her, to be the one to tell her she's beautiful. Though this seems like just a case of adolescent infatuation on McMahon's part, the song is direct and powerful, as it speaks to that strange compulsion that men have to save or "fix" his female counter-part. Though some may argue its to feel empowered, I just think in McMahon's case he really believes that no one has treated her the way he could treat her if they were together, if she would notice him. |
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| Something Corporate – Down Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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To say this song is purely about "shattered dreams" is to generalize carefully crafted verses into some overall angsty and cliche recognition of pain in song. "Down" shouldn't be treated like some Dashboard lament. Why? Because McMahon is more versatile than that. The song takes us through the last night of a couple's relationship all the way though the brutal realization of its inevitable disintegration. He starts off: "let's get drunk, you can drive us to the harbor..." only to admit that they can only "get crazy, talk about our big plans" after some courage from the bottle. This forced seperation is apparent even before the the physical distance. McMahon is keeping his kingdom free of hassle, taking oncoming heartache and emotion and chucking it over his walls. He urges her to get crazy, talking "about their big plans," but its a farce...and he knows it. The scene is contrastive, with his girlfriend's anxiousness for the mysertious future met with his detachment and nostalgia. There's something special in his description of stars: his imagery is a feast, trying not-so-subtely to quickly allow the listeneer to relate to his feelings of love for the girl. Over-the-top? Yeah. But its mean't to be, as McMahon stealthy acknowledgers how younger relationship are dominated by infatuation and grandiose emotions.
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