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| R.E.M. – Supernatural Superserious Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Akakuro, you're right, but it's a little irrelevant here.
LA Rounder, that's entirely possible, but I think it's more a therapist. If it's the speaker saying, "Call safe" then it's more likely to be an experienced, cautious professional trying to be careful with a touchy problem |
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| Bloc Party – Signs Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It's really interesting how Kele ties in all the aspects of a crisis of faith-I mean, that last line "I believe in anything that brings you home to me" can't be coincidental. To me, it means that he's desperately searching any faith in grief. |
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| Bloc Party – Your Visits Are Getting Shorter Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think the lines "You're pulling the trigger and the gun is in my mouth/A subtle annoyance laced with disgust" talk about how he can't bear to see her getting over him. Every time she gets further from him-annoyance at petty things from a growing disgust of forcing herself to be with him-he feels worse, as is that behavior is slowly killing him. Later, he refers to trying to get her love back by repeating good times and clinging to when they're happiest. Sometimes love just fades-the same way it can develop-one sided. |
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| Bloc Party – Like Eating Glass Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think it's mostly about a frozen marriage (pardon the pun), but there is definitely religious undertone. "Eating poison, drinking glass" and "crosses." Maybe it wasn't even intentional, but especially considering the heavy religious doubt in "Intimacy" later, and considering that Kele went to a Catholic school before then, I think it was on his mind. |
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| Bloc Party – Letter to My Son Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I'm pretty sure he's saying "You looked so handsome in the back of the car."
I think it's about a fellow too afraid of commitment getting too far in. He tries, but ends up giving in to his doubts and leaving and feeling ashamed about it. |
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| Bloc Party – Zephyrus Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is just taking an idea an running with it, but...
I think this song is about a forced relationship. Perhaps the narrator started going out with his s.o. (significant other) out of sympathy or kindness, but in the end it isn't what's best because he still has a "distant heart" and gets hung up on small grievances like smoking, resenting them. He still feels bad and wants to keep trying, though, starting over and trying to make it work. Maybe they had been close before the relationship and he doesn't want to lose the friendship?
In the end, though, because he doesn't feel the same, all he can do is acknowledge his hurting them and feel ashamed for it.
I think this especially because the lines about not liking what he sees come after his lines about starting over-in the end, it just can't work and his s.o. still suffers.
This would fit into the mythology, too, because if Zephyrus was forcing a love onto Hyacinth, it only ended up hurting them both.
Again, just running with an idea. |
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