| Moby – Study War Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Does anybody know where this voice clip is from? It sounds like some kindof civil rights speech sample clip, does it not? | |
| Kings of Leon – Pickup Truck Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think anyone who's ever fought over love can relate to this song. One of my favourite Kings songs. They've really nailed how to end an album. To be fair Arizona, Cold Desert and Pickup truck are pretty similar, but they're all so powerful. Awesome. | |
| Everything Everything – Suffragette Suffragette Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I heard the exact same thing :| It disturbed me. Now when I sing along I find it hard to not sing that line, haha. | |
| Foals – 2 Trees Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I adore this album, this is possibly my favourite song of it. Not only is it a beautiful, swooning and mezmerising song, it's also a song that has effected me in life. I've been in a massive slump, possibly the most depressed I've ever been in my life. I found this record around the time I'd started running, and put Blue Blood at the start of my running playlist, spanish sahara at the end and 2 Trees as a song to listen to as I recover. This beautiful record has actually lifted my spirits, and the uplifting sound and message of this song is one I won't forget :) | |
| Foals – Black Gold Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hmm, I think this song may be about a country or culture that is totally alienated and displaced by western, industrial influence. The song starts with "top of the world, bottom of the ocean", the song also has the word "pacific", "forest", all quite natural non-urban themes. The personna tells the individual to "drive through the forest and into the night, away from the city away from the light". There's also the line "they gouge you out, they dug you in" the individuality of the country being taken out, then fixed into an economically stable and linear lifestyle. "They took the name right out of your mouth"- the loss of a native tongue, general cultural identity and what not. And the whole "they buried the gold your ancestry sold and left just a residue", perhaps the foreign economic force industrially colonised this country, and once its natural resources, the black gold, was gone, they left, leaving nothing but hollowness in their wake. The song could be a more personal metaphorical type of thing. But there is a big black gold industry in the pacific islands. With Spanish Sahara the Foals are referncing a geo political situation while weaving in personal themes. Perhaps that is what they've done here. I'm not really sure about any of this, it's just some thoughts. But I think it's a brilliant song :D |
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| Biffy Clyro – The Atrocity Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Whoops, didn't realised this song was under the title "atrocity", I posted this under "the atrocity" "I think this song is a pretty moving one, surprised no-one's commented. Well the bonus track on Pause it and turn it up, and machines, I think are both about the death of Simon's mother. I think this song is also on the same thing, but more about a denial of death, the "I don't want to die" line being especially obvious, but also the "we can live forever" being a further denial of the finitude of death. "we dream of nothing or so we say we dream of discovering a perfect trail" Perhaps my favourite lyric of the song, I think he doesn't truly believes in an afterlife as he "dream[s] of nothing", but dreams of finding a belief. "Will we meet again? I hope somehow." Really moves me from that point onwards. Great emotional song, and if you think about it a bit has a moving meaning. |
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| Biffy Clyro – Diary of Always Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Damn good interpretation. | |
| Biffy Clyro – Pause It and Turn It Up Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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the bonus track bit is definitely about his mother. I think the first bit could be about the state of mind her death may have put him in. Maybe the personna is a counsellor talking to him? "Wounds take time to heal", "all I ask is for you to stick around", "explain your pain and sadness"- all quite reasonable and reassuring comments. And then we have the more serious, psychological elements. I have an idea About the voices i hear They're audible to evreyone Everyone but me Turn it off Obviously a contradiction, the voices he hears are audible to everyone but him. Either an expression of his insanity or maybe the fact that people are assuming that the negative symptoms he's displaying are ones of insanity. The voices (signs of insanity) are obvious to everyone but him. A stigma or an assumption that he's having a break down that is making it harder for him to deal with. |
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| Biffy Clyro – A Day of... Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it's about God, and how religion is a medication taken by some people who can't cope with the "vaccuum of ideas" that exists without a belief in a God. The drugs is a metaphor. "I get my drugs from God oh yeah (oh yeah), you should see the shit he's got oh yeah (oh yeah) And then it starts, a trip of a lifetime, our spaceship up against yours" I think that's about those religious people who are arrogant and tries to big up God's existance and the benefits of being in a religion. The second line being about once someone's in a religion they'll seek conflict with others "a trip of a lifetime, our spaceship up against yours". I imagine Biffy are speaking from an atheist's point of view, using a spaceship as a metaphor for what they see as the ridiculous beliefs of religious people, and using the drug trip thing as a metaphor for getting caught up in extremist religion. I'm sure it says "A day of no religion". But that might be me misshearing it to back up my claim of it's meaning :P That's my view anyway. |
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| Biffy Clyro – The Atrocity Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is a pretty moving one, surprised no-one's commented. Well the bonus track on Pause it and turn it up, and machines, I think are both about the death of Simon's mother. I think this song is also on the same thing, but more about a denial of death, the "I don't want to die" line being especially obvious, but also the "we can live forever" being a further denial of the finitude of death. "we dream of nothing or so we say we dream of discovering a perfect trail" Perhaps my favourite lyric of the song, I think he doesn't truly believes in an afterlife as he "dream[s] of nothing", but dreams of finding a believe. "Will we meet again? I hope somehow." Really moves me from that point onwards. Great emotional song, and if you think about it a bit has a moving meaning. |
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| Biffy Clyro – Now the Action Is on Fire! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Also the first line could be from a rock star who just wants to live in the moment, in their own hype. They want to ignore what their life style is doing to them and just embrace the energy and passion of their gigs. I could be wrong again, but Biffy are precariously vague in their lyrics, sometimes even nonsensical XD | |
| Biffy Clyro – Now the Action Is on Fire! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is about the feelings a rock band front man may feel. "When the inner energy pollutes my soul with selfish needs" - Maybe a star taking themselves a bit too seriously, getting caught up in their own hype. "We'll change the world how we want to, we'll change the world inside you You changed the world, you changed the world," - The arrogance of a rock star, thinking they can change the world alone, that feeling of importance. The whole "burn the action" may be some sort of description of the craziness and din of some gigs, especially being such a high energy and aggressive band as Biffy are. I think they're kindof saying that it bands need to be down to earth about their status, but also expressing how empowering being a rock band is to an individual. More of an amused observation than an attack on rock bands I think. Plus I'm sure performed live the fans love it and go crazy, mirroring the topic the song's based on. I might be wrong, but that's the general impression I get from the lyrics + mood of it. |
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| Regina Spektor – The Calculation Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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musicgal121, you stole the words from my mouth... well, fingers. :P I also think it's about the envy of seeing tabloid couples and seeing their "perfect love". They learn the strangers in the pages mathematically until they can make their own calculation of perfect love. The first part about not knowing love is bigger refers to them doing things via computer, using science and reasoning to try and understand love. However, when they make an incision and go past the physical and logical side of things they find the true meaning inside. And by striking their hearts together they enrich each other and the spark is made. This song could be saying that forcing love by trying too hard and trying to come up with methods isn't the way to go. Love is such an unpredictable and natural (or maybe supernatural) thing that it cannot be calculated or fathomed, it'll happen or it won't, you can't force it. |
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| Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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What I'm gonna say here has probably already been said in the nine pages of comments, but ah well XD Well this song clearly takes inspiration and actual quotes from George Orwell's 1984, where the government has such utter power over the lives of the entire population that they control thoughts. When the main character is being tortured he is influenced to a point where he actually believes 2+2=5 and january has april showers because he's told by authority. If you're a dreamer and just stay home then what the media tells you you'll believe, and by living your life under the influence of the news and the government you will too believe things like Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and two plus two equals five. Also I think that Hail to the Thief was a reference to America's stolen election, where the concience of an entire nation had to accept the results of a rigged election. American politicians can't preech for shit about democracy when there's only two real parties in America, there's been a rigged election and it's winner was a massive idiot who just so happened to be the son of another rich white guy who decided to bomb the middle east. (sorry, just been listening to Rage Against the Machine.) At the time there was a real anger in America and in the international community that Bush was in power. Radiohead subtly put this in their song by pairing it with the reference to 1984. Two plus two equals five could also be a satire on the vote count where Bush ended up winning the final state after Fox witheld the results for excessive time. The votes didn't add up but the connected and rich man got into power. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Wake Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is obviously one of the best Rage songs, and perhaps the most meaningful. Like many of you have said, this song's about the U.S goverment's countering of the black nationalist movement. My favourite line of the whole thing is "How long? Not long, cus what you reap is what you sow." It reminds me strongly of when Malcolm X said that Kennedy's assassination was the white man's chickens coming back home to roost (representing the violent receiving violence in return). Maybe the chickens came back to the wrong man in the end. I think Zack was saying that the world needed to wake up to the scheming governments of the past and present, wake up to all the coincidence and hazy historical events. Malcolm X was a bold visionary, and so is Zack. He thinks where others would get on with things, he speaks when others keep their mouths shut, and he shouts when other people chew the fat and waste time- And Rage's music was so much better because of it. | |
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