| Nick Lowe – 36 Inches High Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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As good as lyrics get IMO. Actually not wrtten by Lowe... Thought about it a lot. Here's the distilled rundown of my interpretation. He's saying this: ... somewhere back there, maybe in my blood, my imagination, or maybe reincarnation, I was a soldier. A pretty gnarly one too, like an American or British cavalry officer, or something. I was "in the shit" and it's really stuck with me eternally... then at some other point back there I was a tax collector. Again, I was good at it and oversaw some pretty bad stuff that seems pointless and has also really stayed a part of me. Then, in 27 words he says this... then I got to be ruler once, and I also died countless times as an innocent child. But also lighten up, this has all just been a joke. |
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| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm sure it's coincidence, but has anyone else noticed that the two "big" dance songs on the YYY's last album use the same two main themes from Paranoid Android by Radiohead? Namely , not remembering someones name and "Off with heads". I guess their just cool things to rock about. BTW, I agree with lu77 about the most direct meaning of this song. Sometimes I think there's even a hint of feminism in there and she's talking about how being a "girl" (a "0" as opposed to a "1" - if you catch my drift) in society is analogous to having to "whore" yourself out in any business/music. I'm a big hairy man, so I think it would be weird if I picked up on that and it wasn't really there. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Seems So Long Ago, Nancy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I haven't read much about Leonard Cohen's life. Even before I knew that he was depressed or knew that he did know a Nancy that killed herself, I thought that this song must have been about a specific event that occured. However, I also interpreted it as having a double meaning- with Nancy representing a collective vision of idyllic, innocent pre-1960's womankind- and here "self destruction" during the cultural revolution. Her "father on trial" representing the counterculture's disdain for the previous generation. House of mystery = love. No one would actually love her- just sleep with her... and now, much later, he see's some of that in every woman he see's. Anyway, maybe I'm way too young or read into things too deeply ;0) Interesting stuff though. Peace | |
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