| Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| this song is about depression ^ the speaker is stuck in a deep depression while trying to get someone to listen ^ the listener's advice is that ~tomorrow will be a new day ie it will pass ^ the speaker says that this isn't going to just pass ^ the speaker can see all their hopes/dreams passing while stuck in depression ^ the horses relate to the speakers literal hopes/dreams or is a metaphor for them... quintessential epic goth...!!! | |
| U2 – Running To Stand Still Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I would argue that this song is specifically about a boyfriend (at the end of his rope with the bitter cycle of heroin addiction in this relationship) and coming to the ultimate conclusion that he (and more importantly his girlfriend who seems to be dangerously addicted) must detox NOW and suffer the painful chills of detox... The setting and inspiration is Dublin's Seven Towers... Bono (Vertigo 2005 tour / Chicago) dedicates this song to our US troops and adding (at the end of the song) a prayer "Alleluia" for anyone WHO KNOWS SOMEONE WHO IS IN DANGER (including our US troops or say someone who is dangerously addicted to heroin...)... **watching his girlfriend wake up - the boyfriend realizes that this addictive cycle cannot go on **he gets up and out - takes the train - to get away from his hell hole - to think **this heroin trip has been bitter sweet **he concludes there is only one thing to do - sober up - they must both detox **he knows that she is going to resist detox because she is in deep (dangerously addicted) **his responses to her will need to be measured **he will have to minimize the crying, talking, & screaming at her - or she will run away to the heroin **eventually he returns to their residence waiting for her to return home **it has been a cloudy/rainy day **she arrives home with more heroin (poppy straw) for another dark night floating on heroin trips **she has obtained/stolen the heroin from the sea of the drug trade in/around the Seven Towers area **the drug trade is raging outside and he can see in her eyes that she is desperately addicted **and at this moment he realizes that she must endure detox or die (knowing full well that he will not leave her but will suffer the same fate if necessary)... |
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