| Elliott Smith – We're All Friends Now Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Ever been to a dive bar where the band's lead singer's lyrics "defy authority" when you know damn well they want to make it big and blow money on blow and decadence? This song is the recount of a typical bar experience, to the T. People get drunk and all of a sudden it's One Love. They wake up and'll be the guy that cuts you off in traffic and yells at you, or the boss that couldn't help but hurt you. Heh. |
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| Elliott Smith – A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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If you don't alter your perception, notably through drug use, you're fucked; the fact that he has to resort to substance use to feel free is probably the biggest message in this song. It doesn't even have to be interpreted, it's sort of staring you in the face in the title. The contrast of them is quite well done here: black balloon/virgin white Sun/Rain He's looking at how his black hole existence compares to those who're trying to help him to get better. That ultimately, they're just as fucked as he is; either on a similar substance, their own need to hide whatever bullshit they've done in virgin white, or through their capitalistic ventures that exploit the world's beauty. Classic nihilist. Classic addict. Thank You, Elliot. |
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| Busdriver – Sun Shower Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The song is terribly sad. In actuality, it's in reference to a relationship where both people have similar interests, but for different reasons. The person he's talking to is looking for themselves in that high fashion/hipster society; slumming to try and find some sort of truth, involving themselves in an ostensible art community, listening to trend before sound, etc. "Taxidermy for the nouveau riche"--I've always loved this line. Think of the dancing bear on stage dead and stuffed for the new rich to admire as a statement against Old Money. This line illustrates the hypocrisy in the "change the world" heart of the yuppie M.O. They all fall into the bourgeois mentality and become counterrevolutionary, spending their money on frivolous bullshit they'd like to call artistic, and "saving" communities by gentrifying them. Busdriver doesn't want to associate himself with that movement, he doesn't need it. Sunshowers. Natural. That's the only place left he can think of where they'll be compatible. For now, she returns to the soiree with the showy Warhol clones, and he'll stay looking for his truth in what's left of honest passion. |
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| Placebo – The Bitter End Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To be completely honest, I think the song is a bit more ambiguous then a he/she situation. The lyrics "We're running out of alibis/Since the second of May" and "Followed you home," the way that Brian use them, make it sound less like stalking and more like a tryst or secret rendezvous between two lovers (perhaps an affair.) Words like "intercepted" don't really describe a steady relationship as much as they do a sorted affair. A married or involved man or woman. Of course, the imagery from "broken bone," "killing time," etc. are much more violent and show where passion can transform violently. It's definitely about the murder of a lover following rejection for whatever reason. That's spelled out in the imagery. |
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