| Bayside – Killing Time Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it is about feeling stuck where you are in life. Especially the line "I'm halfway to happy now And I always mistake it for progress". Because being half way to happy is no different than being halfway from unhappy, thus it is not progress. Other lines throughout the song point to feeling small, insignificant, and stuck in place. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Bad Habit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's about her nail biting addiction. Someone wrote her a hate mail letter about this song and she responded to it. This is the forum post: "hello. i have just read the lyrics to your song 'bad habit'. i would just like to ask you how you can justify writing a song that glorifies self harm like this? do you have any idea how many impressionable children your music will have an impact on? yes, children...do you want to be responsible for a load of CHILDREN getting into the vicious cycle of self harm because of a song that YOU wrote? lyrics like "when i open a familiar scar, pain goes shooting like a star, comfort hasn't failed to follow so far..." tell kids that if they want comfort they should cut themselves, how can you tell kids that?!? i can't express how fucking disgusted i am that you think this is a good song to put out there when people look to music to help them. i know that after saying all this, you probably won't reply but i would really like to know how you can sleep at night. amanda responds: You may find it enlightening and amusing to know that this song was actually not inspired by the idea of cutting oneself. I have this terrible habit of picking off the skin around my fingernails...with my teeth, with my nails, and occasionally with a sharp object lying around. I can see how you would interpret the lyrics that way, and I'm glad the song provoked you enough to write to us. There are plenty of people out there, many of them children, practicing real self harm that may actually find comfort in an artist expressing the anguish that accompanies any sort of self-destructive bad habit, and knowing that I may provide that comfort means that I sleep very well at night, indeed. p.s. "censorship is to art as lynching is to justice" - henry louis gates" |
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| The Dresden Dolls – The Kill (Album Version) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Interesting take on this song. I have never thought of it that way before, but it is a very good interpretation | |
| Lady GaGa – Bad Romance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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AWESOME! Ha, I have not heard that before! I'm sick of everyone saying the typical "ooooh its aboutt heer bffff that has a gffff" |
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| Lady GaGa – Bad Romance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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You are so right! I'm glad you understand! Haha. So many people take it at face value. |
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| Lady GaGa – Bad Romance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with the people who say it is about fame. Lady GaGa is mocking pop culture. She exploiting the music industry for all it is worth. She is obsessed with fame, the fact that culture worships famous people and she admits that her songs are nothing more than souless pop. Lady GaGa has an image she wants to portray. I think she is an outstanding artist, not so much for her music, but for what her message is outside of her songs and the fact that she is on top of the charts. This song is about her wanting a bad romance with fame, and the music industry. She wants everything about it, the paparazzi, the money, the tabloids... The music video is her being sold off to a group of men, who I believe represent the music industry. She is a Fame Monster, and I love it. |
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| Fall Out Boy – I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Maybe, all of these "coincidences" are happening because emo bands all sing about the same things. I like all those bands (Boys Night Out, Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, and Underoath) but they aren't always that creative and after so many bands singing about the same thing they kind of start to run out of things to say and end up, unintentionally, regurgitating things that other bands have already said. Just a consideration for the group. ... good song though. Pete Wentz writes some really good lyrics. And the record won't stop skipping And the lies just won't stop slipping And besides my reputation's on the line We can fake it for the airwaves Force our smiles, baby, half dead From comparing myself to everyone else around me That seems to me to be in reference to making it in the music industry. They have made it big, and so many kids are listening to there record (The record won't stop skipping) and the person in the song is realizing that he is fabricating this personality in his songs in order to be played on the radio (the lies just keep on slipping), but he needs to keep lying because his (reputations on the line). Then it goes on to say exactly what I have been saying about faking it for the radio. He is comparing himself to everyone else around him in the music industry and it his killing him inside because that is not what he wanted from his music career, so he forces a smile and acts like he loves being famous. |
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