| Ganglians – Lost Words Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| A little twee but the images are fresh and it gives me a little boost every time I hear the last line, like a glass of orange juice after an hour or two lying in the sun. | |
| Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| On an interesting note, I understood the "satin jazzman" as being the same "satin beaus" who earlier in the song were striking late night bargains with "their belles". I believe it is in fact the belles who have stopped blowing cabdrivinhog's angels' horns. Or perhaps God conceived them without ribs. | |
| Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's not nice to straight out say someone's interpretation is blatantly wrong but I wonder if you decided that this song was going to be about God before you'd even heard it. And I hope you won't mind me balancing out the positive rating you awarded your own interpretation with a big fat minus. |
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| Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Haha. Chicks for fees... | |
| Lightspeed Champion – Let The Bitches Die Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I hear lills. "Naked lils". http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lils And I agree with eddygspot or whatever; day light breaks not "day by day", which it doesn't sound like at all. |
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| Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yeah, I also read that into the "good marks" line. If that was what was intended, it's quite eloquent word play and bloody dark humour, unveiling a new dimension to Smith's writing. How exciting! If an accident in interpretation, I still like it. |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Winning Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Infertility. There was a moment of what I considered at the time to be blissfull lucidity when the line: "All our songs will be lullabies in no time" took a clear meaning. It seems she wants to sing lullabies. But none of her songs are currently lullabies. Maybe the subject has no one to sing a lullaby for. I was suddenly very sure that the song was written about infertility. I was also, however, quite baked at the time. "What's a wolf without a pack?" could be interpreted as societal pressure, where the family unit is idealised as a perfect natural bond. More generally "What's bad? We'll fix it." could then reflect medical intervention to promote fertility, which could be read as intimidating and forceful. She's a broken woman, she needs to be fixed. Or sympathising I suppose, reassuring the supposed woman that "she has all the time" - in other words she's not too old to conceive. But ultimately "this part of you, too small to lose" is gone "so long". There however still people there to "make it all right", they, not the knives, have your back. Although, with such a dour conclusion, having "all the time" to spend alone could suggest a long life of misery... It's not so much as stepping outside the box, as getting lost in a foggy haze somewhere inside the box. What does anyone think? Am I reading my own sub-conscious envy as an inconceivable male into the song? What the fuck has conception to do with Winning? Oh dear... |
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