| Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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p.s. In a sense, most of these interpretations are correct. She is a hooker and a junkie. She is living a lie. She wants meaning in her life. She is, in her own mind, a metaphorical "demonic creature" (so the vampire suggestion is sort of right) - as she "lives in hell", metaphorically speaking. The hell metaphor bleeds into the want for death. To be free of this world (it's not the sex and drugs that make her want to crave death, but the emptiness and meaninglessness of the world around her, as she sees it - she actually welcomes "falling from grace"). It's not any one of these things - it's all these things merged together. It's a portrait of a broken and self-destructive life, spiralling downwards to the grave and, in a twisted way, that's the way she wants to go, because she's wallowing in that misery. |
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| Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the lyrics are deliberately full of double-meaning, in order to link death, hell, sex and drugs altogether, to create a portrait of a junkie / hooker living in their own personal hell and wanting to die. "Laid out low" both alludes to being buried and to getting laid. "Fall from grace" alludes to both "a fallen woman" - that is, a hooker - and to "the fallen angel" or, in other words, the devil. She talks from "down here" (which is "underground") to those "overground", as if she's dead and in Hell, talking to the living on the surface. A metaphor that her life is a living hell and that she feels dead inside. The fact that she feels dead inside is also reflected in other lyrics too. "In me, you're better than I wannabe" could be literally someone inside her, because she's a hooker, or it could be drugs. Many junkies end up as hookers, in order to afford their drug habits. Such a life would be a living hell and she welcomes her walking death - her non-existent life. These metaphors of death, hell, sex and drugs are deliberately merged together. The double-meanings are there purposefully to suggest that all these things are all bound together - that it's a cycle of having sex to buy drugs to get high to feel like shit to need more drugs to have more sex to buy more drugs to... Metaphorically, she's in her own personal hell and she's talking to the "overground" - the rest of us living normal lives - and the most twisted thing about the song is that she WANTS to be there, because she wants those drugs to kill her, as her life has become empty and meaningless. She's wallowing in the misery of her personal hell - a cycle of sex and drugs, which is to be, as it were, "the walking dead" - craving to be taken away from it all by the grave. It's a mixture of all these things together, I believe. Which is why it's so lyrically powerful and an amazing song. |
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