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| Radiohead – Paranoid Android Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Pig-skin definitely isn't a reference to a handegg, as Radiohead are all British, and we really don't use the term to refer to a football either. Some of your interpretation looks pretty supported though. It's important to bear in mind when analysing any British text that where Americans have things like jocks, British people have class-castes, so think of this as a class difference and someone being excluded as a result (fits with him used the line 'that's it sir').
For my part, i think the final paragraph is more ideation than it is something actually happening. Fits with the sense of impotent and subdued rage throughout the album. |
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| Lou Reed – Perfect Day Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It is definitely about heroin. The point is that he is describing the blissed out high and how he enjoyed his day up. This is probably best alluded to in "you made me forget myself, I thought I was someone else, someone good" - a common feature of heroin use that sees users shedding their self-loathing while high. The coda is a rumination on both long term effects and withdrawal. |
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