| Psychic TV – Just Like Arcadia Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[kaplan:17174] this is true but could be expanded a bit: From wikipedia, "After the collapse of the Roman power in the west, Arcadia became part of the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire. Arcadia remained a beautiful, secluded area, and its inhabitants became proverbial as herdsmen leading simple pastoral unsophisticated yet happy lives, to the point that Arcadia may refer to some imaginary idyllic paradise". Look up Poussin's "The Shepherds of Arcadia" as an example of it's use in art. | |
| Tori Amos – Horses Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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"But will you find me if Neil makes me a tree" is a reference to Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic books. In Sandman#4 the protagonis, Dream of the Endless is escorted by Etrigan to the city of Dis. Suicides are depicted as trees, rooted and stuck in their suffering. |
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| Fela Kuti – Lady Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't disagree that it's not against equality, but I think it's more of a mockery of African women trying to be "lady-like", like European women, ignoring their more passionate selves in order to seem more gentrified. "if you call a woman 'african woman', she's not going to agree, she's says 'I be lady, not woman'..." Fela's mother was a very outspoken and well known women's rights activist and I believe part of the reason he was so politically outspoken in his music. |
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| Biffy Clyro – Different People Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's about growing up and changing -- you can't go home again, after you've changed by growing up. You're a different person and all those old things you used to talk and worry about happened to a different person, they're different arguments. | |
| Moby – God Moving Over the Face of the Waters Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's from the bible, in Genesis 1:1-3 "1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. 3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." | |
| Fela Kuti – Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| pigdin translation: palaver means trouble, waka means walking | |
| Shudder to Think – The Ballad Of Maxwell Demon Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| They were very deliberately aping Bowie's early glam period; Maxwell Demon is a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon (which also features prominently in Thomas Pynchon's "The crying of lot 49"). | |
| Animal Collective – Working Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't mind from where I came but I'd rather be on the hills of Saturn but then I would get thirsty to feel I need to leave my friends to always be the kind of man to try and love those kinds of hands I hope to not stick to my plan and never bleed the pains of red if I tried to love simple things if I tried to love simple things sometimes sometimes I... sometime where are the back roads that goes to the garden you run from the rest of the city that ends at the banks of the river and sends it back to me and holds it back up back up when i'm looking ?????? |
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| Animal Collective – Mr. Fingers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I hear "is perfection placed or just to use it out of shame (???)" as "is perfection placer or just a glimpse of harbored shame", the second "reach for what i've done" I hear as "reach for then I'm done"; the line right after "weather is mild" i'm hearing "when i used to run my way" but after that it phases too much for me to make out. |
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| Living Colour – 17 Days Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Prince cover | |
| Living Colour – Bi Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| it's based on the singer's personal experience when his girlfriend told him she was bi and he freaked out about it | |
| Living Colour – Hemp Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| A song about a noose. | |
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