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| Billy Bragg – Tank Park Salute Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Spose this song is about a kid having that horrible realisation of ones own mortality and then experiencing the death we have without dying which is the death of our mum or dad. I only came here to work out what Tank Park Salute meant, but if it is something personal between Billy and his dad then that just makes the song more beautiful. |
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| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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its about coming of age and struggling to come to terms with the harsh realities and pain of falling in love and, I believe the role of alcohol in young men's lives. Imagine that a young man has been unleashed from his childhood (safe but with no freedom) and enters adulthood ("coming out of my cage") with the opinion of himself that his life has been on track and he's "been dong just fine". He gets drunk and kisses a girl, maybe for the first time ever. He drinks too much, is incapacitated by alcohol and lies in a bed at a party, knowing that she is still out there among other guys and he cant help but imagine that she is going home with one of them. The whole point is that his thoughts about her being unfaithful are irrational ("and its all in my head") this is fueled by alcohol. The effect that this alcohol induced jealousy has on him is profound. "Turning saints into the sea" i.e he has till now, been young, innocent and pure (saintly) in the safe and familiar world of childhood. Suddenly his life's direction has been changed and he faces the vast unknown of the sea. OR he saw the girl as a saint ( perfect and good) and now she has become something frightening and unknown and treacherous "Swimming through sick lullabies" i.e the disorientation of being drunk, head spinning and music playing. "Choking on her alibi" i.e She left because he got too drunk, her excuse for leaving, her alibi is alcohol which he is now choking on, i.e vomiting. "this is just the price i pay, destiny is calling me" he is just becoming a man in the tried and tested way, through the haze of alcohol, men get drunk and mess up their relationships. They start drinking to open doors and break down barriers, but then often use alcohol to escape from reality and the associated anxieties of reality "open up my eager eyes, cause i'm mr brightside" He is asking to be shown a better way. He doesn't want to be Mr Brightside. He doesn't want to have to be. |
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| The Killers – Human Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I imagine that the Lyrics are personal for the singer in that he is talking about how he has laid his soul bare for all to see as a performer and been generous in sharing all his inner feelings with dancers as opposed to humans ( on the platform of surrender I was brought but I was kind) . Dancers move in synch to the same tune whereas humans are thinking individuals. He is enduring the pain of laying his soul bare to people who don't understand him. Time and time again he has had to part with the comfort of solitude to perform ( nervously walks through the open door, closes his eyes, clears his heart and cuts the chord. he clears his heart of disappointment and disconnects himself by cutting the chord, from his real self ) He is pained therefore by his own creative abilities and asks to be "let go" by grace, virtue, good, soul, romance and devotion because these are the foundations on which all art is created. He refers to the robotic nature of the dancer when he asks "will your "system" be alright when you dream of home tonight?" Remembering home is an emotional thing, he is challenging the robot / dancer to feel that emotion but, unfortunately "there is no message we're receiving" so asks "is your heart still beating HELLO! are we human or are we dancer???!!!! just a thought. Good song though. |
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