| Placebo – English Summer Rain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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rian Molko is a hard drug user, and has admitted to trying every drug "on the table". So this song has strong drug influences, this I'll try to explain. He is singing about how he is metaphorically in the basement of society, while a white collar rich man would be prettymuch "in the sky" raining down on Brian's life. He has been forced to the underground by society and is barely seen compared to the industry and success in the world. He is telling the world much above him that they are free to "Drop on by" any time they like to visit him and see how what they do dampens his life. I love the basement and rain imagery, really puts to mind somebody using drugs in a basement on a rainy day in a drab English city. I see Brian so easily in this situation. Towards the end of the song he begins to repeat "Hold your breath and count to ten" this could be seen as some form of drug using game, holding a hit of something in. This could be implying that the world above him is doing just what he is doing in the basement, but too high up for the general people(at ground level to see). He is saying that their cycle never ends and they just continue to force him into the basement, away from the rain they leave in their wake. By the way. I am REALLY high. |
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| Okkervil River – Red Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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...Is it just me or does he say "Not yet" at the end. It will be depressing if he does. |
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| Okkervil River – (Shannon Wilsey on the) Starry Stairs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The meaning of this song isn't really relevant. I just LOVE the parts when he says: "They dreamt a long low line to be crossed and I crossed it" And "And if you don't love me, I'm sorry" The arrogance in his voice in those two lines, I just love. I listen to this song for an uplifting experience. As I am such an arrogant git myself. :D |
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| Lights – Quiet Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm a complete metal head, but I love this song, and the entire album. To me it's about a girl (Obviously) and her best friend. The first few lines (I don't know the muso term for this) makes it clear that they're not a couple. Then the next Paragraph(Stanza?) makes it clear that she is happy with it how it is, and doesn't want it to change. It's a real sweet song, reminds me of a little girl and a boy, or teenage best friends, couldn't picture it with adults. The person she's with in this song is obviously one of those people you find every once in a while where you can be quiet with and the silence won't be awkward, because you don't need to talk when together anymore. She thinks she has stronger feelings for the boy in the story, made clear with the "I'm right here.." part. He knows this and she thinks he's more ready than she is, to possibly take it to the next level. In my opinion, in this situation as the guy. I would rather keep it how it was, so you wouldn't have to live with any fighting wars or anything. Ehh, that was an epic rant Saren |
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| VNV Nation – Illusion Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Heh, first time talking about song lyrics. To me, this song is about a friendship I'm in. It's with a friend who has a physical 'disadvantage' similar to spina bifida, she was supposed to have died when she was five and has lived through more operations than she has years, being seventeen and having eighteen, I think, operations done to her. Most people that know us, seem to think we're in a relationship, but we're not, and I doubt we ever will be. We're more of a team, like Wallace and gromit. But onto the point. Then I started listening to this song, I couldn't stop. I found a connection between that song and the deeper conversations I've had with her. To me, it's not about love, it's about friendship and facing the aspect of losing it. The singer is clearly pleading with somebody, who may be considering taking their life (Yes, I'm stating the obvious) or maybe he is seeing a distance growing between them that he cannot make up for. This song, to me, feels like the conversations I've had with this friend. Just the pure emotion in the wording, it doesn't make me want to cry, it gives me an overwhelming sense of kinship and it's almost like watching somebody cry and trying your best to restore them to their prior state and to keep them there. I'm scared, constantly, that I'm going to lose my friend, but not in some dramatic way like suicide or anything. I'm scared that over time she'll replace me with somebody else, somebody better, so when I hear the line "Please don't go" it always brings thoughts about how I would live if she did decide to go. Anyway, enough ranting. If you read that, thanks. |
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