| Florence + the Machine – My Boy Builds Coffins Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| As someone posted under 'Girl With One Eye', this is most likely a song about Florence's ex who was in the band that wrote and performed (but never recorded) the original 'Girl With One Eye'. | |
| Chumbawamba – The Good Ship Lifestyle Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is - as many other Chumbawamba texts - about not doing as society orders you to, but do what YOU think is right. About how socially appraised lifestyles are not always right. It's also a bash towards the people just doing what their surrounding people or societies do. I don't see it to be about bashing mainstream society as such, but more about trying to get people to act according to their own believes. The teller is "the captain of his ship", "without a crew" and are "repelling all boarders". He's doing what he think is right even though society is trying to steer him away from it (board his ship and force him to change course). This quote, which King Nothing 2 posted from the cover texts needs a comment as well: "In our fear to make an effort to tear ourselves away from the conditions which ruin us, only because the future is not quite certain to us, we resemble the passengers of a sinking ship, who, for fear of stepping into a boat which is to take them to the shore, retreat to their cabins and refuse to come out from them..." --Leo Tolstoy This is such an important quote in today's society; especially in Europe where fear of change and hatred towards foreiners are growing rapidly. The majority does not dare to do what's right and instead they lock themselves in their houses with their flat screen TVs. Instead of taking political responsability, people vote for parties (BNP? I'm from Denmark, where we have an equivelant to BNP in Danish folk Party - those pricks) who tries to fight the globalization and ignore the global responsabilties we all have. The latest law is the new Bill in UK posing that the government have the right to disconnect households from the internet if they are accused (accused, not sentenced) to be breaking copyright laws. This damned course towards the edge of the world will only change, if people dare to do what they think is right instead of living with their heads up their ... and ignore global problems; be it hunger, environment, war, religous conlicts etc. It will only change, if we elect ourselves as captains. |
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| Dope – Easier Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Honostly, I think it's just about two people ruining each others' chance of happiness by having a long, unhealthy. But since that's really too orring and would make the lyrics kinda trivial, I'm gonna be a bit more farfetched and suggest that it's about the leationship between a person and drugs. "Would it make things easier if I were gone Would it make things right if I was never wrong Would it make things easier if I were gone Would it make things easier" Would it make life easier, if the option to "drug" them away wan't there? Would it make life easier if drugs weren't the wrong choice? "All the times you took for granted that I waited here for you I was on another planet, I was waiting there for you" Speaking of the time, where life was good without drugs. They were lurking and waiting for him, while his good life turns grey and crumbles. Waiting to take him away to that "other planet". "She said" "He said" No idea how this would fit into my far fetched analysis ;o) "I was blind and I was faded and I didn't have a clue I was always into something that I always had to do" He was living a busy life and didn't see what was happening around him. "All the awful things we say, all the stupid games we play Every night and everyday, I don't know what else to say" He starts, tries to stop. "Playing games every night and everyday" being the battle with the addiction and the choice of either getting control or melting away. I know it's very far fetched, but listening to the song the first times, this is what I thought it was about. The "he/she said" parts kinda ruins my theory, though. If it was about a guy/girl getting a relationship and his life destroyed and then taking the easy choice by turning to drugs and bad habbits, it would make sense :o) |
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