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| Peter Bjorn and John – Big Black Coffin Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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To, me the singer is not recently broken up. I think what he is describing is a feeling that all of his relationships are doomed from the start. He wants someone to be "closer closer close to me" but he knows that "someone might come over me". Or that once he brings someone close they have the opportunity to criticize him and he finds that nobody will love him because he doesn't love himself. So this man who feels that "it will never work for me" is barhopping with a friend as the wingman. "best friend so full of pretense" describes his friend who is still fooling himself into believing that the pain of breakup is worth the pleasure of unity. So when the chorus says "it's clear and bright... from the big black coffin, to the black under your eyes" means that every time he looks a girl in the eyes he can imagine the possibility of their relationship already dead and in the coffin before he even learns her name. "life is complex so why present a thing?" words fall short. He wants to explain it to someone, have someone understand and love him anyway, but if he tried he would just sound like a fool. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Slow Cheetah Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I always thought it was "slow cheetah coming for my forest" and it kind of reminded me of the Sopranos episodes where Tony had dreams of the mother duck taking his penis. Like this "slow cheetah" is coming to take his power away. I think Lahdeefrigginda and tsortore are both right. I think it has to do with a feeling of displacement from society, whether it be from a drug addiction or a general feeling of not belonging in society. Or maybe a feeling of not belonging from an early age that led to trying to fit in to the kind of society his father and popular culture thought of as glamourous and eventually leading to a question of identity that could have spawned an addictive personality, or maybe Heroin just has that effect on people. Whether the song is a reflection of the songwriter's psyche or a representation of humanity as a whole I believe that the song is just as true and beautiful as the first time I heard it. Thank you Red Hot Chili Peppers for being an amazing band from beginning to present. |
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