| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Opium Tea Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| A truly great song, so relaxing and serene but at the same time so poignant. I don't think he is saying he is a prisoner in the physical sense, this song seems to be quite clearly about drug addiction so the prison is the use of the drug. To me this song is about the absolutism that drug taking provides, when ones life choices can suddenly be confined to 'where is the next hit coming from' and there are no other choices to be made. The need for an absolute truth in life is something all humans seek and drug taking can be an easy way to find a form of serenity without any effort. The same is true for religion (or any doctrine/belief) where many people rather than seek true knowledge would rather surrender to a series of absolutes that they don't need to question in order to make them comfortable with their existence. Drug taking just happens to be one of the easiest ways of eliminating uncertainty in life, which is what the person in this song seems to have achieved when he can acknowledge the prisoner he is but at the same time quite happily maintain the status quo. | |
| Jehst – Weed Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| 'Sky-high kids from the happy high rise' its from 'Hackney High Risers' not happy high rise and 'Cannabis Cup' not Club. | |
| The Smiths – I Don't Owe You Anything Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well I seem to have taken something rather different out of this song so I'll try and analyze it. The song begins with the narrator getting drunk and making a move (probably not the first time) on a girl. After the move is made the girl replies "Oh, I don't want to go out tonight" but the narrator knows she is just letting him down gently as he knows she always goes out ('But you will for you must'). The narrator then gets quite angry presumably from putting the effort in pursuing this girl only to be let down and feels he is owed something (but you owe me) after the time spent pursuing. This is punctuated by the 'you should never go to them, let them come to you' implying this woman is someone who is often pursued but doesn't do the chasing, the narrator ironically states 'just like I do' as if to say he lets woman come to him but realistically they don't come to him and he hates getting hurt having to make the move. After the repeated verse we are then presented with the lines 'too freely on your lips' implying she often lets guys down quite freely as she knows she has a lot of options. The narrator then states 'Oh, but I know what will make you smile tonight' implying that she will be going out tonight (even though she said she wouldn't) and finding another guy that isn't him to make 'her smile'. Well anyone just my interpretation I can see how the lyrics might be considered to be about an alcoholic girl the narrator is taking advantage of etc. but I just don't see enough allusions in the song to alcohol use other than the narrator 'being bought on stolen wine' at the start leading me to believe this is an unrequited love song about a desirable girl that goes out nightly to find guys but will never accept the narrator. |
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