| Rage Against the Machine – Killing In The Name Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Almost 25 years and nothing has changed. | |
| The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?? Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[cicommeca:7437] Glad you're still here. | |
| Modest Mouse – Missed the Boat Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Totally subjective, of course, but if you have ever worked on a losing political campaign, this sounds a lot like the morning after election night. | |
| Florence + the Machine – Shake It Out Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Oh, VJ, I'm right there with you. This is exactly what it is to me. Even after the abuse ends, it's our "graceless hearts" that continue to punish us. Comfort to you. | |
| Mumford & Sons – Timshel Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I know someone who is currently suicidal. I am doing everything I can to help her through it. I make myself available around the clock should she need to call. I offer whatever encouragement I can. But in the end, there's nothing I can do to stop it if she decides to go through with it. All I can do is tell her again and again that she is not alone and that her life as worth. But I can't move the mountain for her. She has to do that herself. It is her choice. She mayst. It's such a difficult thing. |
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| Rusted Root – Send Me On My Way Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's a very personal meaning, but I associate this song with the cat I grew up with, Whiskers. He was 20 years old (!) when this song came out, and he was in failing health. Finally, it was clear he was in pain from kidney failure. I was with him when we put him to sleep and I helped bury him under his favorite tree. I guess - it was the best thing I could do at the time, to send him on his way, to release him from the agony he was in. And that it sounded so joyful in spite of it, I don't know. Because he had a full life, and he deserved to feel joy again. | |
| Cloud Cult – Transistor Radio Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't know if I can listen to this song without crying, and I don't know if I'd want to. I've come to associate this song with the time in my life where I was diagnosed with infertility and came to realize that the treatments for it were out of reach for me. Being a parent was all I had wanted to do with my life. I had fully expected parenthood to become the center of my life, the place from where meaningfulness would flow. And suddenly, that was gone. I was lost. "Let me tell you about rage when the signal died that day, there's nothing out there and I don't care if they take my life away." And I didn't care. I wanted to die. I wanted to die because I couldn't imagine a life without a child in it. I twas impossible. I couldn't imagine existing another 50 or 60 years without having a child and grandchildren. Life had become utterly meaningless. Utterly pointless. "I'm not ready, and I don't want to see, nope." It took me so much work to be able to imagine a new life. Because, for a long time, I didn't want to imagine it. I wasn't ready to let go of all that I had hoped for. But slowly, over time, I became able to envision a life that didn't have a child in it, no, but a life that was meaningful nonetheless. It was a sheer act of will to get through that. It was agony. It was five years ago this weekend that I tried to kill myself. Five years of reinventing who it is I am and what I'm supposed to be. And I can say now, without a doubt, that I will have a life that matters no matter what. I look back on what I've done in the past five years, the people I've loved, returning to grad school to enter a new profession so that I can help people, becoming true to myself again after years of trying to be something else, the beauty in the world that I've seen, the autumn leaves and the sparking water, the flashes of lightning, the shooting stars in the sky - all that I would have missed out on if I had succeeded in giving up. And I've still got a long way to go. Where I've been, and where I am, is the show. |
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| Arcade Fire – Half Light II (No Celebration) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The line "one day they will see it's long gone" haunts me. That, with the line about watching the markets crash. I wish I could comment on what it means, but it strikes me more as how it feels - like we are a nation or a generation of people cut off from our moorings and set adrift, and even though we knew it all going to happen, we weren't ready for it when it did. | |
| Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The meaning's been covered well already, I think. It just makes my heart ache with the desire to run away from it all and have a meaningful life. | |
| Insane Clown Posse – Miracles Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Best damned song ever. I laughed so hard I woke up the neighbors. |
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| The Dead Weather – I Cut Like a Buffalo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What it is, is, he's saying he's a badass. He knows he's a badass. It don't matter if you think he looks girly, in fact, that's cool. Go on, underestimate him. Cuz he's a badass and if you mess with him, he's gonna cut you up. Except, wait. Maybe it's just an act. | |
| The Dead Weather – I Cut Like a Buffalo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| And "you're dead" if you mess with him. | |
| Sunset Rubdown – Us Ones in Between Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Gah. So that's why it felt like I had posted on this song before... *sigh* | |
| Sunset Rubdown – Us Ones in Between Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Gah. So that's why it felt like I had posted on this song before... *sigh* | |
| Sunset Rubdown – Us Ones in Between Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Ever gone through divorce? This is what it's like. | |
| Rotersand – Yes, We Care Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This has got to be a throw-back to Pink Floyd, doesn't it? The instrumentation, the voice. The theme, even. It could have been in "The Wall." It's so eerily creepy. I love it. | |
| Sunset Rubdown – Us Ones in Between Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I don't know what he meant it to be, but going through divorce was a hell of a lot like this. | |
| Draco and the Malfoys – Potions Yesterday Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it is about heroin. OK OK kidding. Man's inhumanity to man. |
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| Sunset Rubdown – The Empty Threats of Little Lord Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I always thought this had something to do with a teacher. A bad one. References to podiums and the bit about being self-professed (professor)and the power disparity between the narrator and the person he's speaking of. Then last night, when I was listening to it with headphones on, it really sounded as though the very last "you snake" in the song is actually "you Snape." A definite aspirated "p" sound, not a hard "k." And there's snakes in the song. Everywhere. On the other hand, this just seems too geeky to be possible. Maybe I was just tired. Dunno. Give it another listen. At any rate - love it. Whatever the details, it reeks of someone in a position of little power imagining telling off an oppressor. And who hasn't done that? |
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