| Rodríguez – Crucify Your Mind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I can't believe someone as vapid as Lady Gaga or Britney Spears or whoever, has more comments on one song than Rodriguez has with all his songs combined. It's mindboggling to me. This is one of my all-time favourite songs, it's beautiful. I'm pretty sure that this song isn't directed at any one specific person, but to society as a whole. How we all think we're so unique, and our thoughts are so original, but they are not our thoughts at all, just drummed into us by countless religions, governments and organisations. |
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| Nick Drake – From The Morning Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me, this song is a song from someone posthumously, telling people to enjoy their lives. Morning = life/birth Night = Death "So look see the days The endless coloured ways Go play the game that you learnt From the morning" Basically telling someone to appreciate life and all it has, but he knows that life is just a repetitive game, which you learned to play when you were born The next few lines, are almost like the dead rising - their energy still lives. I think the "she" he is referring to is nature, how she is everywhere, how death is a part of nature Such a beautiful song |
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| Modest Mouse – Bankrupt on Selling Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about deception; deceiving yourself and others, and about how deception is universal. The thing each verse has in common, is that people are giving up what's really important (Apostles - saviour for anything gold; angels - your soul; businessmen - their own soul for money; using a college education to seem important rather than actually learning), and deceiving themselves in the process- Believing what they are getting is better than what they gave in exchange. The business men, selling their trash. In order to sell something, you need to highlight it's good aspects and brush over (if not completely ignore) it's bad aspects. To be emotionally bankrupt, is to have nothing left to give, yet they are still selling. They're selling useless things, and making money yet their soul is in shambles and they're left feeling empty. Angels, something that everyone looks up to as holy, sacred and all-good yet they are just as corrupted as everyone else and would give something truly important yet intangible in exchange for something material All the people you knew were the actors is pretty self explanatory - Everyone you knew, and everything you thought you knew about them was just an act they put up. College is somewhere you go to learn, yet it is being used in a shallow self-serving way to make people believe you are more than you are, and more important. Some people have mentioned that the last line doesn't really fit, but I think it fits perfectly. It becomes more personal, instead Isaac pointing fingers at others, he admits that he too is guilty of deception. I think this is one of Modest Mouse's most emotionally in depth song - I absolutely love it |
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