| The Cranberries – I Don't Need Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It seems to be about someone realizing how shallow, stupid, frustrating, unfulfilling and wasteful her social life is. She sees how her so-called friends act stupid and are always drinking too much and their judgmental attitude towards her. And she still feels stupid herself because in spite of these perceptions, she stiil feels somehow attracted to these people, therefore she says to herself "I don't need to see you". This part, "And maybe no work done today" is her regret and guilt for not making better use of her time and instead spending time with those people, being stupid and childish with them. Or maybe it means she's so sad today that she can't get any work done that day. | |
| Cocteau Twins – Ivo Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| What I can't help laughing at is you guys trying to make out lyrics that are not even in English, at least not totally. Of course there are those songs from Garlands, Milk And Kisses, Heaven Or Las Vegas etc which are indeed in English but as for other ones such as these from Treasure, it has been said so many times that these are words from different languages put together and people still force English lyrics upon them just because they want to make some sense of them. They may have some subjective meaning but this doesn't help, unless you are just joking about making out their lyrics. | |
| Dead Can Dance – In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think it deals with how, as we grow into society, are forced into ambition, greed, ritualistic empty religion and other forms of artificiality which ultimately cause rage and go far away from what love inspires us to do. | |
| Garbage – Bad Boyfriend Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This specific part: "Say what, sugar, you wanna get what? I want to give you 110" Does it mean like he wants to get a 69 with her but she says she wants to do it even better, i.e. 110 and not just 69...hehehe does it make sense? |
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| Alanis Morissette – Death Of Cinderella Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This used to seem like her most bitter song. Today, although it still sounds a bit sad, the lyrics seem more like a an ironic-yet sad-yet humourous comment on how she no longer believed in the sweet tales of girls being made happy by enchanted princes and then whoring herself out sort of. | |
| Cocteau Twins – Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Ok, both the band themselves and critics say that their lyrics are not designed to mean something specific, at least not consciously. However, after reading about how Heaven Or Las Vegas seemed to have lyrics dealing with Elisabeth Fraser's feelings on her (back then) newly achieved motherhood, now the lyrics to this song, although still coming from a relatively "unconscious place", seem to be about her waiting for her daughter's birth and being excited about motherhood and the angelical qualities of babies, the devotion and freedom from becoming a mother somehow and also breastfeeding and etc. Well, these are just my guessings. Could be, could not be. I have recently discovered their music and this one is my favourite. It's so magical, so unexplainable, the chorus is just so freedom-oriented and intellectual at the same time, so "summer". |
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| Alanis Morissette – Madness Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Not sarcastic at all. It's all about calling herself on her shit instead of pointing the finger and getting to the root of her suffering in relationships. I think it has a lot to do with some sort of emotional manipulation that she does that she hadn't even noticed until that man rubbed it on her face and made her see how she fools herself and tricks herself and tries to trick her partner too. | |
| Garbage – Afterglow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Didn't think about prostitution but simply about someone getting old and still trapped in the same illusions they've had all life regarding external things and expecattions of affection...then Shirley comes and tries to makes them see, as friend would. | |
| Garbage – Girl Don't Come Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Not necessarily a rival, but instead a good friend who could be a potential rival who wants the same man, but for whatever reasons Shirley thinks she has the right to get with him first so she says to her friend: "If we are to remain friends please stay away". But there are some lines without a clear meaning. The man they want seems like a son of a bitch somehow but Shirley still wants him... | |
| Garbage – Alien Sex Fiend Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| To me it is a tribute to the band Alien Sex Fiend mixed with a little cynical finger-pointing towards an imaginary someone who is a repulsive sex addict. | |
| Garbage – April Tenth Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well I am UnprodigalBrother, above. Changed my username. I had never thought of it as it was about suicide. And it makes sense indeed. But hows do the lines below fit in that meaning? "Great nations and governments Sweet lies and victories Eager and keen to please Those good keys are everywhere With their thousand-yard stare" This part sounds political. I'm just not sure what "good keys" (still keys maybe?) could mean but "thousand-yard stare" makes me think of cops or guards or detectives, something like that, someone always watching other people... That makes the song even sadder now, the suicide thing |
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| Roxette – Church Of Your Heart Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It is simply a metaphor for the girl's feelings/soul etc. He is a believer of the "church" of her heart. Heer heart is a church and he loves her, so it's like a religion to him. That's all. | |
| Alanis Morissette – Norwegian Wood (The Beatles cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| These lyrics sound like a description of a dream. John Lennon talking to a tree describing this dream. When he woke up sad that the girl was not interested he lit up a fucking cigarette. | |
| Alanis Morissette – The Guy Who Leaves Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I do agree that it is about a pattern of people leaving her that started from her nuclear family, but hey I don't think her father ever left the family. I think it is more about how she interprets the external reality of people leaving her and how her fears of having people abandoning her, as well as some annoying sick traits of her personality eventually cause people to leave. It is mostly men leaving her but she mentions female friends too: "Sweet girl..."... "Until I get what I'm to get" is about her constant illusions, projections and expectations on those people and their role in her life, which she knows are impossible to be played up to, so she knows that she will never get what she is to get and once again gets sarcastic about herself. "Until I out this false story" means her lies "to herself and thereby to everyone else", her constantly justyfying her sick behavior. |
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| Alanis Morissette – London Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The other day I was in the shower and it dawned on me that the "how I do love London" sentence could be a sadly sarcastic one, in the sense that Alanis is admittedly used to pretending she's fine and/or nice. In the lyrics she describes, mostly, tense or sad situations...and then she finishes each verse with "I do love London". It's like she feels like shit for several reasons but pretends, in front of audiences or the media, that everything's fine and makes false compliments and says she loves the city or the country she is in, etc. And it's kind of a cliché to say that one loves London. And there are a few lines in which she says pleasant or not-so-bad things like "I love speaking French..."...Maybe with these few lines she means that she is seldom having fun and relaxed and is most of the time tense or sad...and keeps pretending that everything is fine anyway. It could otherwise be about unexpected things as someone else once said. But then I'm not sure what "loving London" would mean...maybe ONE expectedly thing among all the rest. |
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| Alanis Morissette – London Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think these lyrics are more accurate: Bounganvillas fall into the pool The hard shell bugs bite my forearm My right index fingernail chewed to the quick My cervix is a long one My sprinklers go off at 6pm each day And sometimes they spray unsuspecting visitors My pimples are goosehairs all over my legs My brow is furrowed and my vision is blurred And how I do love London And how I do love London The birds make guttural sounds and protect me My friends come to visit and love me a lot I don't have the energy to fill them in I am lagged by the jet and a 12 hour flight And how I do love London And how I do love London I am intrigued by the boy with the androginous songs sometimes they rhyme sometimes they rhyme not The steam will smell of eucalyptus in the shower The hug will feel forced upon you, inconsolable thing And how I do love London And how I do love London Deep breaths will not make my brain stand still To be loved and swallowed are single and depraved I love speaking French to the taxi drivers We slept and were cold on the train out of France And how I do love London And how I do love London |
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| Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Ok, I didn't want to read all the ten pages. I only read 3 and ok, maybe the lyrics mean nothing specific but i'll just say what it makes me think of generally: Someone confessing his own dishonesty, unfriendliness and hidden disgraces and maybe feeling a bit guilty about it asking for some kind of punishment, maybe with a bit of irony toward himself. Alanis Morissette covered that song live in Germany once in 2000. You might find a poor quality mp3. |
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