| The Dresden Dolls – Shores of California Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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In some ways I also view this in relation to same-sex relationships. But the sarcasm factor counted in, along with traditional roles of a relationship. |
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| Metric – Blindness Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It has to deal with addiction. Two logical ways to prove this: One: why would ANY song writer write a song about a book, tv series, or philosophical concept? 99/100 times a song will be about an experience that many humans have or something they share in common. Love, hate, bad days, etc. Two: a trap door and plane refer to an escape or leave. Simple, planes lead to other places and trap doors were used as escapes for prominent figures. I wanna leave but the world won't let me go. Clearly an addiction. Blindfold, never complained is about the blindness that you are addicted, then it goes into where she wants to deal with an addiction on her own- not by someone else's help. While those arguments can be applied to fame, that's easily shot down, because how many people do you know know of her? Yeah, no. It's addiction plain and clear. |
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| Metric – Poster of a Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There are many ideas of the doppelganger. The one you mentioned is more known, but the existence of the doppelganger taking on your appearance is a statement of bad luck. If seen by relatives it's supposed to create excessive confusion, an omen of death, and so forth. Not always are you supposed to die immediately, however. Some cultures like to believe you die shortly after. And for this, I think is where the idea comes from that if you kill your doppelganger, you can avoid your own death from it. Some cultures believe that the doppelganger gives you advice so you'll end up leading to your own death, and then it can take your place. |
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| Lostprophets – Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Sex Changes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's an ambiguous song, people. Hell, I could write a novel about this song. But really, who wants to wade through that stuff? This song is quite very much so about sex reassignment, teen pregnancy, teen sex, and jumping into choices without thinking about it. (the latter of the three already being explained) In the first verse, you get the feeling that it's about a sex change, as the letter for the sender's application to a surgeon. If anyone isn't too well versed on male-to-female sex changes, vaginoplasty is a life-long process. But to keep from graphic imaging, we'll keep it at this: the patient has to dilate for the rest of their life, so the hole doesn't heal over. However, for some transsexuals, it's not like what they expected. Some think it will just magically cure all their problems in life, and some are fakers who really aren't transsexual and shouldn't be getting the surgery. That's where the rip off comes in. It can also be about the hormone treatments they receive. Again, some will think it's a magic cure, and fakers will find out that all that wasted time in therapy and spending their money on it will be a rip off. In the second verse, today being a special day refers to the letter. When many transsexuals get the letter from their surgeon or approved for hormone treatment, it is a rather special day (looking forward to that day myself =D ) for them. At least, one would expect it to be. Where the boy murdering for it, it's about the guy just being hot, and them wanting after it. What will the neighbours say? Oh my, what do people say about such a taboo thing as transsexualism? As for feeling hollow, nice too look at, and being stuck with it tomorrow and so forth? It should be a rather obvious part of the song, but for you slower people, I'll elaborate. Female genitalia can be partially described as having a hollowed out tube in the pelvic region of the body. Pretty empty, eh? And while you might like to look at it and be happy about your changed body parts, it is reminded that if you do happen to get sick of it, don't forget you're stuck with it tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and so forth. Paragraph three: I am semi-confused about this paragraph, but it seems as if it's talking about some transsexual teens who manage to get their hands on hormones without psychiatric or doctor prescription, and the effects of the hormones will start to show with a week or two. And when people notice and ask about it, there really isn't any way to avoid the answers. And the teens aren't usually ready to deal with such things, so emotionally, they aren't equipped to handle it. So, without the proper handling for such events, they're getting more than they're asking for. Number four! Pretty much a different way of wording paragraph two. Five; Yeah, sometimes transsexuals who come out will catch others off guard and it does seem to some as if they will change sexes without any warning. After this, it gets really really confusing. It looks as if it's talking about how the subject of the song has sex, and then they begin to despise their body parts and start self-harming. Maybe some help clarifying would be good? The sixth paragraph is talking about the person's partner, and when they're getting closer to the surgery, the partner is telling them that they do love and accept them, but is hoping to use the fact that they won't be able to have children afterwards, and is attempting to use that as a regret. And it's true, some post-operative transsexuals do regret the whole process because they can't have children. And some transsexuals, while they want children, will get caught up in the hormones, wanting so desperately to change their body, that they forget they wont' be able to have children. So for the last paragraph, they accept it, but want the whole process to get done and over with. |
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| Lady & Bird – La Ballade of Lady & Bird Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's definitely a suicide song. However, I think it is a story about child neglect (where parents ignore their children, and is considered a form of child abuse). Now, I'm not at all familiar with the any of the band members' lives, but I'll definitely say that in this case, the children both felt ignored and to get attention, they hurt themselves. And while they felt neglected and ended up killing themselves, they didn't realize that they weren't alone, and that someone cared for them. Which is why it was in their heads, being alone and cold. |
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