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Moderat – Let in the Light Lyrics 11 years ago
I cannot interpret the beginning of this song all that well. This is what I have so far:

To the space
Where she waits

She speaks a language
Distilled by time
...

I like the way...
Let in the light
but obstruct my view
Obstruct my view

(Clear voice)
Let in the light that obstruct my view
Let in the light that obstruct my view

Obstruct my view
Obstruct my view

I could be wrong but doesn't it sound like they are singing "Let in the light (that) I'm struck by you" then they return to the next lyric "Obstruct my view." I left it at "that obstruct my view"

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Zero 7 – If I Can't Have You Lyrics 15 years ago
I think the first verse is:

"Have you ever wondered
If it smarts when your heart is ignored"


Also the part:
"I even did the research
Went to work, learned to flirt
Wore a skirt and faced dirt
And, ah, still you didn't notice"

I think theres an extra line:

"I even did the research
Went to work, learned to flirt
Wore a skirt and faced dirt
And it hurt
still you didn't notice"


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Calabrese – Saturday Night Of The Living Dead Lyrics 16 years ago
She still smoked the cigarettes
I know she can't take them there

is actually...

She still smoked the cigarettes
I know she can't taste them there.



Saturday of the living dead
and I'm so glad to ------ ------ (??)
We are ----- for you baby
Your god swore ------- (?)
Saturday night of the living dead

is

Saturday night of the living dead
Tonight I'm so bad, deep inside the
We are playing for you baby
Your god swore -----?
------ night of the living dead


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All India Radio – Persist Lyrics 16 years ago
I think the lyrics

This is no longer a city
Desperation upon my face

is actually...

This is no longer a sunny disposition upon my face.

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The Notwist – Sleep Lyrics 16 years ago
"I would stay for the wrong reasons...

and I put my arms around you to hold you tight."

So it sounds like he's slept with someone but is staying with this person for the wrong reasons. Then he says

"Someone has [to have] sleep for me or is it all just letters and poems"

I feel like I can relate to this song because my ex and I would lie in bed and be happy just sleeping or lieing. It sounds like he dwells on the content feeling when you're in love which can be related to relaxation/sleep. So he asks, someone has to have sleep for me (love or provide me that feeling) or is it all just paper and words but nothing there.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hysteric Lyrics 16 years ago
I felt at first it was more than a love connection but I'm still not certain.

No longer, no longer
What you ask
(Something that is happening that you didn't ask for)

Strange steps
Heels turn black
(walking through something strange -- heels turn black like walking through woods, coals, back into nature)

The cinders, the cinders
They light the path
(Something burning like torches or a fire or it could even be a love that died and became ash being relight or fires lighting the new path)

And these strange steps
Take us back, take us back
(Taking these strange steps into the woods or on coal take the two people back to a past happiness or honorary witnessing)

Flow sweetly, hang heavy
You suddenly complete me
You suddenly complete me
(The feeling flows sweetly and hangs heavy)

This song could be about lovers coming together in nature with a fire/ashes lit somewhere lighting their path back to romance. Other interpretation is the firewalking seen as a hard task ahead of you to get over. Some people have used firewalking as a means to assume power over their lives, giving the feeling of being complete.

Either one creating a feeling of hysteria creating a release of strong emotions.

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Metric – White Gold Lyrics 16 years ago
This song is definitely social commentary, the question is how to read it.

Here's my interpretation, but I could be viewing this differently.

The lyrics:

Piss poor, riding high, sunbathing fireside
We're here for the porn or the sirloin
Get your T-bone, let your backbone slide
Tunnel and sky collide
Lose friends to the airwaves and the airlines

Doesn't this mean that the poor are riding on the idea of commercialism and hollywood? For example, "Get Rich or Die Trying." Here for the sex and meat- flesh. Losing friends to the airwaves and the airlines -- to commercialism.

Then the next lyric:

"I want to make it right
Some future in my eyes, bright
Hush don't explain
When you water down my name
I'll be up too late
Call me when you get
Better at your game
You haven't beat me yet
Though my vision is strained"

In other words, the person doesn't want the future to be completely consumed by commercialism, hoping for a brighter future and resisting to be consumed by commercialism her/himself.

"The waitress, the actress
Has got the skin and the bones
With the hairbrush and an air brush
She'd be white gold
She asked the piss poor
'Why are you looking for that party in the sky
It's just a movie about a movie, too old to die'"

The actress - the one in hollywood is just telling "the piss poor" that movies and hollywood is not all its cracked up to be. Its just hairbrush/airbrush, fake gold?

Also the poor could be a social comment on those coming up from a poor background into the entertainment industry. See that those in the party of the sky are those that have "got the skin and the bones, with the hairbrush and an air brush - white gold?"

just another thought on what this song could mean.

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