| PJ Harvey – This Mess We're In Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's about lovers, but only for one night. He probably went on some kind of a business trip to New York and saw her in a bar. Their eyes met. They felt passion that is surreal, the kind of passion that haunts you, lingers on you. I don't think they are in love, but it was destiny, or whatever that brought them together, because he keeps thinking about it. And they (or perhaps just he) are married or engaged, so what happened to them is sin and mess. I love this song because it's so sensual, sexy, perverse in a way but not vulgar, it gives me goosebumps, pins and needles and a dirty sensation on my skin, as if I've witnessed something I shouldn't have. And the feeling of passion you just can't escape, the one that asphyxiates and overpowrs you, is immense. What a song! *faints* |
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| Pulp – Acrylic Afternoons Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think it's about being a lover to a married woman. He wants to stay longer, he's imagining them being together, having kids, being happy. It's more than just lust, it might be love. There's something really sad about this song, and I think that it's called Acrylic afternoons because they're not real, they end, but for a moment, when they lie together under the table, they seem like a fairytale. | |
| Radiohead – Fog Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well, I can only share the story that occurs to me when I listen to the song. An adult enters his old house/flat and in empty rooms and hallways he sees the child (the child is him when he was young) running through the house, laughing, playing. It's raining and he can't go out to play, but he's still so happy. (Rain somehow always gets me thinking, and puts me in a sentimental mood, so that's how the adult feels too) No matter of how old we are, there is always this child inside us. And then the fog comes up, glowing in a spooky shade of green, like those star-shaped stickers do, possibly representing memories overwhelming us when we least expect them to. Going bad and the baby alligators are innocence turning to forgetful neurotic arrogant adults. And it happens so fast. That's the mistake. Forgetting we were kids once, growing up completely. I don't know why so many people think of this song as sad. I might agree with those who found it haunting, but only if it's in a melancholic, nostalgic way. I love listening to this song before sleep, it makes me feel like a child again, the rain and the coins in child's trousers while he's running and playing. Makes me reminisce, and smile in the end. |
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| Radiohead – I Can't Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yeah, that was my first thought when I heard the song too. | |
| U2 – The Unforgettable Fire Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me this song is about love, perhaps adultery. The person telling the story felt that "unforgetable fire" with someone who might not have felt the same way or maybe someone who actually did but knew it wouldn't work out. (that's the running and not looking back part). I think both of them are in a relationship of some sort with someone else but they still have something special, something that saves them in a way, "takes them home". They wish they could relight the old fire, stay in that time and save their love, but they have to resist it. "Don't push me too far", because they might not have the strenght to stop. This song had been shown to me by a very close friend and it really has an immense meaning for me. I adore the lyrics but feel sort of pain when I listen to them. |
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| Radiohead – House of Cards Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think that this song is about love, it's about adultery. First two lines make it quite obvious, when you love someone you want to share everything with that person, be his friend. I think that next two lines are about passion and not heeding about the consequences. LAter on a lover says to a married woman to forget about everything, again not paying attention to the counsequence. Her lover will do what's expected from him, please her, if she succumbs to him. Sweeping under probably means hiding. And if her husband finds out, she denials. Than the spikes might stand for tingling sensation an adrenalin rush such as cheating must be, but also being painful. And the first thing I thought of when hearing the keys in the bowl part made me think of a woman coming back home, unlocking the door, entering and putting them in the bowl - cause that's where many people keep them. And then she gives her husband a goodnight kiss to calm him, in a way she says everything's alright. Although she tries to hide and deny what she does, there are probably gossip about her - that's why her ears should be burning. She's being talked about. I might be off, but that's what I think it's about. |
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