| Crass – If There Was No Government Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I fully agree. It's the DIY attitude of punk loud and clear. "Do it yourself, stop being reliant on a system we need to dismantle." It's been three decades since I first heard this and I'm still down with it... As the USA burns it's more relevant than before... | |
| The Books – All You Need Is A Wall Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[CoastalBrake:17780] Yeah, this is basically the same thing I get from it too. I came here interested to see if anyone had interpreted it in this way, so was very happy to find this. Like a shared belief... ;) |
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| Great Lake Swimmers – Song for the Angels Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| To me this song is also largely about accepting and coming to peace with our mortality. | |
| Honey Is Cool – Twinkle Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Is this Karin Andersson's version of love song by chance? I'm not really sure but I do know I love this song. | |
| Tom Waits – (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Sorry dude. It's about the heart of Saturday Night, the unobtainable certain something that's not really there yet feels so tangible when you're young and just got paid and you're going out to party with your girl and your friends. Not about prostitution. Tom Waits definitely has written lots of down and dirty, gritty in the city lyrics, but this ain't one of them. This is one of his beautiful melancholic bittersweet ballads about how life can be so beautifully ephemeral with so much meaning that comes to nothing in the end... | |
| Tunng – code breaker Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I concur fully. I find your interpretation to be spot on, succinct, and eloquently put. Nice. | |
| New Order – The Him Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I have little idea what this song is really about, if anything. One thing I know for sure is that this song was made for days of heavy rain with no wind. | |
| Low – Tomorrow One Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Like so much of the music of this band, I can't begin to imagine what this song means to the writer, but I find the song beautiful so I'll gladly listen to it anyway. :) | |
| Great Lake Swimmers – Song for the Angels Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I always thought it was: "We were charged with the pounding pulse of a million years and millions before us have trembled in their fears" Could be wrong though. Anyway, as others have said, I get that this is a song about spirituality and our connection with nature. I don't think the writer is so much relegious as they are spiritual and I think the use of the word angels in the title is more figurative than anything else. That seems obvious to me from the context of the song as a whole. I also agree that this can be a song about love for one person as much as a song about being in love with the universe, and how those things overlap or interweave. My partner played this song to me the first time I ever heard it, even though I had introduced her to the band, and I the chorus always reminds me of her. |
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| Great Lake Swimmers – Song for the Angels Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I always thought it was: "We were charged with the pounding pulse of a million years and millions before us have trembled in their fears" Could be wrong though. Anyway, as others have said, I get that this is a song about spirituality and our connection with nature. I don't think the writer is so much relegious as they are spiritual and I think the use of the word angels in the title is more figurative than anything else. That seems obvious to me from the context of the song as a whole. I also agree that this can be a song about love for one person as much as a song about being in love with the universe, and how those things overlap or interweave. My partner played this song to me the first time I ever heard it, even though I had introduced her to the band, and I the chorus always reminds me of her. |
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| Modest Mouse – Ocean Breathes Salty Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is bang on how I interpret this song as well. And it's exactly the dynamic between me and my mother who died a few years ago. | |
| Cloud Cult – The Deaf Girl's Song Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Exactly what I was just thinking as I was relistening to it for Nth time. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Hand That Feeds Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This has to be one of the most concise and logical explanations of what this song is about. Everyone else that thinks it's about being a "real" christian, or anal sex, or sucking cock, or whatever, are just children not yet mature enough to stop projecting their own fears or desires onto other people's expression. But yeah, even though this is one of the most repetitive and pop-accessible songs he's produced, the lyrics are pretty frickin' awesome and just nailed what was going on politically in the US at the time. So while the music lacks subtlety, i'ts actually poetic how it's targeted at the audience that needed/needs to hear it the most. |
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| Nomeansno – Ghosts Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Mortality, Death. An effort to make one face and accept the things that so many people run and hide from. An effort to break through the elaborate belief systems people build up around death in their fearful attempts to shield themselves from its emotional impact. As the saying goes, art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. This does a damn fine job of that IMHO. | |
| Low – Coattails Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think this is a song about a person who rides on other people's coattails. I could be wrong though. | |
| Tool – Rosetta Stoned Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"10 to 2 am, X, yogi DMT, and a box of krispy kreme's" "It's gotta be The dead head Chemistry The blotter got right on top o' me" "Lost Keys (Blame Hoffman)" is the name of the track prior to this on the album which is an obvious intro in a blatant narrative fashion. Albert Hoffman is the scientist credited with creating LSD. Conspiracy theorists can argue all day about whether or not this chronicles an actual alien abduction Regardless of that, this is definitely a story of a recreational hallucinogenic drug trip. Anyone who has had much experience with these kinds of drugs will just laugh at the whole premise of being given all the answers by some alien creature. "I forgot my pen. Typical." It's essentially a joke. As me and my friends used to say "I got real high and figured out the answers to life the universe and everything, then I forgot." There is no other interpretation for this song. ;) |
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| Carla Bozulich – Pissing Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is a badly executed cover of the Low song. Doesn't even come close to the original. It's like a drunken jug band trying to cover Stairway to Heaven. | |
| Low – Pissing Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Alan Sparhawk writes some of the most cryptic lyrics I have ever heard. I can rarely make any sense out them at all but I often get the feeling he has a lot of anger in him. I'm just really glad he has found a way to turn that anger into something profoundly beautiful. | |
| Faded Paper Figures – I Fell Off My Name Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Wow. I was raised a JW and have had much the similar experience. Loved what you said about "wash the lies out from the real". Took me a while to learn that lesson but oh so true. I no longer have any faith but I always strive to live my life according to the "law of love". | |
| Nouvelle Vague – Bela Lugosi's Dead Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Nouvelle Vague is kinda cool and all but there are some songs they should just leave alone. | |
| Brian Eno – The True Wheel Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It has been pointed out before that "Eight Naught One" acrostically spells out E-n-o. | |
| Dawn Landes – Dig Me A Hole Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Of course I could be completely off the artists intended message but this feels quite clear to me. So many will leave a childhood home in the country for a life in a city so that they can try to "make it" in whatever pursuit or passion they may have. Once they have become ensconced in the life of a city dweller they often will adopt a ritual of socialization that almost always involves parties and drinking. The city life. I think this is a song of an artist who has left her childhood home in the "green fields" to pursue her career but has now become aware of many things that she has sacrificed to do so. Perhaps she is also alluding to the loss of innocence and the purity and simplicity of childhood. Regardless, I think this is song mourning that loss and acknowledging how one can become buried or lost in this life of the city and the drive to achieve. A statement that in order to pursue one's dreams one must give something up and that often those whose dreams remain unfulfilled dig a hole which they fall into and may never get back out of. That may be too specific and perhaps she means to symbolize our path as a species. How we have come to build and dwell in cities, losing a purer and simpler life where we understood the "way the land feels". Either way, I think the overall gist is the same and that these two ideas are closely related parallels. A beautiful and sad, bittersweet and haunting song. Every time I hear it I feel compelled to get out of the city for a while and reconnect with nature. |
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| Low – Especially Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Rejection of faith. | |
| Nine Horses – The librarian Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I also thought I heard it as "our love". A beautiful song from an amazing album. I agree that this is a warning to not let the machinery of society grind you down. I also see it as an encouragement to keep looking for benevolence and joy and wonder even though it gets hard. "Turn their lights out, change the channel, before we lose the heart to fight against belief in what they're saying." That has to be one of the most loving and beautiful sentiments I have ever heard in a song. I like to believe that he wrote this for his daughter and anyone else who cared to listen. |
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| Xiu Xiu – I Luv the Valley OH! Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Dysfunctional family. Depression. Growing past this. | |
| Great Lake Swimmers – Your Rocky Spine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I like your interperatation as well and it immediatley brought to mind another lyric from this artists: "Stop, listen and feel" I recently saw them live and he introduced the song "She Comes to Me in Dreams" by saying "This is a song about an ex-lover visiting me in a dream. Whis is convenient for me seeing as I don't have a facebook account." |
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| Tunng – code breaker Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree that this is a love song. It's extremely romantic but with very modern symbolism which is how I interpret Tunng as a band in general. Both musically and lyrics-wise. I interpret the last verse as if he is saying he has spent much of his life soul searching, struggling to understand himself, as I believe we all do, but even though he cannot find that key, his lover breaks the code and understands him better than he himself can. The understanding, or the breaking of the code, cannot be achieved through science. It is a spiritual, or non logical, understanding. Even though all of our technology (scopes) are unable to see hydrogen bursts in a star billions of miles away, the understanding his lover has of him goes much further and deeper than that. Beautiful, beautiful song. |
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