| TV on the Radio – New Cannonball Blues Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's a song about people getting up and trying to fix what's wrong against all odds. The only way the world can change for the better is through hard work and inspiration, don't be afraid to fight for what you believe, because what we take as the norm was written in blood before it was written in stone. Someone fought for what you take for granted every day. It reminds me of the revolutions going on right now, people being inspired to make wide scale change for the better, putting their lives on the line for what they believe is a brighter future. Very inspiring. |
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| TV on the Radio – No Future Shock Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is an anthem dedicated to our unsustainable future and political unrest wrapped in a beat that can be listened to mindlessly as if it was a simple dance song. Brilliant if you ask me. "you burned up all your credit on a family of kids who pop your pills and smoke your pipe and after the war broke your piggy bank the bastards broke the world this time" The wars in the middle-east coupled with multiple bad economic decisions put the US into debt. "so we sleep with our guns and no jive won't get done but we're heavy-hand high oh stuck in the middle of a silly little riddle control your dam, control till it blows your mind" Some Americans just don't trust the government anymore, to the point that even the political officials don't trust each other enough to get anything productive done. "oh mother dear, did they really cop a feel before they robbed you blind? we're all lacking nourishment we searched around the world looks like a man's gonna drop" The economic crisis robbed many people of their retirement benefits and investments. "tell tell tell me, baby girl born into this burning world are you ready?" The current generation is expected to clean up the mess that we inherited, the question is if we're ready to finally fix things instead of messing things up further. "here come the cops to lock us up for smoking crunk while mining corps blow mountain tops I mean, really?" Mountaintop removal mining is a serious environmental concern, miners blow the tops off of mountains to strip what resources they can from the area as fast as possible, polluting the surrounding areas with toxic mining byproducts and dust in ways that can't be mitigated easily. It's considered an almost criminal act that mining corporations are allowed to get away with. This is an obvious comparison to how the individual is arrested for using drugs while corporations can rape the environment and get away scot-free. |
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| TV on the Radio – Lover's Day Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is the only song on Dear Science that has an easily recognizable meaning: It's about raunchy, passionate sex. |
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| TV on the Radio – Golden Age Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| My interpretation is that we're so wrapped up in the ideas of freedom and fun that we forget to ask ourselves if our concepts really make us happy. | |
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