| Squeeze – Christmas Day Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Isn't it "Morecame & Wise" and "Laurel & Hardy" instead of "walk of the wise" and "laurel and holly"? | |
| Justin Bieber – Love Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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just to say, the "oh how you do me" bit isn't from the cardigans' lovefool. the lovefool lyrics go: Love me, love me Say that you love me Fool me, fool me Go on and fool me so, no idea where that comes from or what it implies. great song though. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| that's one interpretation i guess. 'do you love me? part 2' from the same album is about a paedophile. however, i think this one is more about the dangerous allure of any powerful corrupting figure. a paedophile would fit, but so would many other interpretations. | |
| Leonard Cohen – Dance Me to the End of Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Yes, like 'The Guests', I believe, the meaning behind this song comes from the Nazi death camps. I find both songs rather harrowing to listen - though 'The Guests' affects me more that this one as I think its meaning is more stark (while still an allegory). | |
| Leonard Cohen – The Guests Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song, like 'Dance Me to the End of Love', is about the Holocaust and people entering the gas chambers. It becomes particularly harrowing when read in this way. All at one the torches flare, The inner door flies open, One by one, they enter there, In every style of passion, And no-one knows where the night is going, And no-one knows why the wine is flowing, Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you, oh, I need you now It speaks of horror, fear and confusion, of love and loss and of dull, aching acceptance as it starts to happen over again. An astonishing piece of writing - a haunting allegory of humanity's darkest hour. And here they take their sweet repast, While house and grounds dissolve, And one by one the guests are cast, Beyond the garden wall, And no-one knows where the night is going, And no-one knows why the wine is flowing, Oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you, oh, I need you now |
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| Blur – No Distance Left to Run Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| while i agree with most and think this is kind of about his ex-girlfriend justine, i think it is also a lament to his friendship with graham coxon (blur guitarist), which by this time was completely fraught and practically disintegrated. graham was an alcoholic and increasingly withdrawn and damon was obsessed with playing the music business game (or that's how graham saw it anyway, and i suppose he had a point), and this is about how damon knew it was pretty much over and wouldn't go back, and how he didn't feel he could continue in this way any longer. | |
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