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| Nine Inch Nails – Zero-Sum Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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This is a way older song and an old post sequence, but just for the sake of any newbie NIN fans stopping by nowadays....PLEASE note that when you actually LISTEN to the song, it absolutely does NOT say "doomed", but in fact says "WE KNEW from the start" Doomed does not even make sense with the rest of the song which is a commentary on how our apathy and indifference have brought about our own inevitable demise. "Doomed" carries with it the sense of something being predetermined and unavoidable. Trent is saying "WE KNEW" and chose to look the other way- not that we had no choice in the matter as "doom" would infer. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think both TheToner and Audiophile are correct- all you have to do is replace "alchohol addiction" with just "addiction", and you guys have really made the same interperatation. So the song is about his addiction either to alchohol, or to a woman/love/relationship, or even drugs if that's what makes the listener relate to the song. A good songwriter or poet writes something with the expectation that thier listeners will make their own assertions. So the song was most probably written from lightfoot's own point of view about his relationship- but he chose to use language that allowed more people to relate to it by likening that situation to any other addicts situation. So in short- i think you're BOTH completely right at the same time!! If anyone has heard nine inch nails "with teeth" its pretty similar but a little more obvious- he uses a woman as a personification of his drug addiction |
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