| The Ting Tings – That's Not My Name Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think, the Ting Tings are fun. About this song, I esp. love the part where she chirps "are you calling me baby" ... at the same time sweet as sugar and still making me feel like somebody is going to get his eyes scratched out in 3 ... 2... 1 |
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| The Verve – The Drugs Don't Work Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| And I'd like to add that his overdose show how ambiguous the thing about the drugs not working and making things worse is. Not only did no drugs help his wife, but they also did not help _him_ trying to cope and they didn't just make her worse (if they did), but they generally make you (as in people) worse. | |
| The Offspring – The Kids Aren't Alright Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think, it's about the hypocrisy of US politicians claiming and your middle-class believing that the kids are alright and no kid will be left behind, plain and simple. | |
| The Bravery – Time Won't Let Me Go Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| esp. love how it goes against what people often claim about how they would do it all over again, if they could go back ... that's mostly rubbish for most people ... me, I'm sure, if I could go back in time, I'd do lots of stuff very differently ... but time won't let me go ;) | |
| Die Krupps – Fatherland Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Actually it is not about some fuzzy sense of guilt for WWII. I feel like most Germans who haven't even lived at the time feel not as much guilt as responsibility to oppose racism, fascism, discrimination (if they are good.) The song has to be seen in the context of the very real attacks on temporary homes for immigrants and refugees in the early nineties, such as arson in Hoyerswerda and others. At the time, it's been a very obvious retort to nationalists touting their pride of their Vaterland, showing that those base, criminal and cowardly attacks made some Germans ashamed of their country rather than proud. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Hmm, I'd take a less literal, Christian view, the lyrical "we" of the song, presumably a couple, struggle with their inner demons to find some sort of meaning in their lives. Eventually, they come to one conclusion "Dread the passage of Jesus, for he does not return." This I'd interpret as (Jesus = love): Take care you don't let love (in all forms) pass you by, for when it is gone, it is gone. Having realized that this is the key thing in life, they return to their lives, their hearts singing with all the knowledge of love. But then, in their everyday-life, this realization gets lost or buried. The couple occupies itself with mundane things like buying a house, a car, rather than tending to love. They arrive at a point where they have nothing left to say to each other. Everything has gone wrong and is a mess, and the lyrical "I" realizes that he has neglected the message and has, in fact, let love pass him by, and now it will not return. My 2 cents |
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