| The Black Keys – Gold on the Ceiling Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Your description makes sense to me. Having only listened to the album piecemeal, and prior to reading the lyrics, I read this song very differently, but your interpretation makes more sense from an album perspective. My original read suggested he was taking on the perspective of a paranoid millionaire looking at undeserving poor or the government, wondering when they were going to weasel his money away from him. If what he says is "Ain't no God in my heart", I could just as well take that as suggesting that either A. money truly wasn't the 'God of his heart', a common metaphor, among people who even just grew up in semi-religious communities, or B. He figured that as a godless heathen or somesuch, he deserved to be wrung dry. But, again, I think your (eaterofcats) description makes more sense. Also, please lets not turn this into a "I SAY THEY'RE CHRISTIANS" "WELL,I SAY THEY'RE ATHEISTS" thread. In America, nearly everyone is steeped in either the culture of, or at least the language of religion. That they would cite Biblical lines of judgement or religious metaphors shouldn't be surprising, regardless of their religious stripe. They're rockers. That's how they define themselves. The rest is conjecture. |
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| The Black Keys – Gold on the Ceiling Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Explain this "its only a matter of time before they just take it forcefully." I don't know of any church that forces tithes, and the Catholic church isn't exactly known for guilting people out of their last buck. I tend to agree with eaterofcats, below, as he gets at the essential themes of the CD which do not seem very concerned with religion - only women. |
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| Arcade Fire – Deep Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This whole exchange seems weird to me. Deep Blue beat Kasparov when I was 9, and I remember it being a big deal. So, it seems weird to me when people who I don't think are much younger than me have never HEARD of Deep Blue vs. Kasparov. Not that you'd be faulted for not knowing, as it appears that many people in this thread were too young to have heard about this. | |
| Arcade Fire – Sprawl I (Flatland) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I agree with most of your analysis, but I would differ at the overall meaning. I don't think he's saying that "home is where the heart is", or that home is well defined at all. It's a song that is more about searching for who you are, realizing that even things that once were important to you cannot retain their meaning. It's a song of loss and of lost. | |
| Ke$ha – We R Who We R Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Watching the video with the song, I came to the conclusion that this song was a heavily sarcastic statement about club culture - being proud of all the trashy things mentioned in this song. But, after reading a couple of interviews, I'm fairly certain she's serious - girls should dress how they want, dance how they want, and just let people envy them for the attention they get. This song, more than others I've heard, appears to address her critics and say "No, really, this really is what I'm all about." As a fellow-23-year-old, I think she acts out and encourages incredibly naive and immature behaviour. But, that's what her song's saying. |
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| Ke$ha – We R Who We R Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Her intentions may have been to encourage gay teens to just 'be themselves.' But, this reading of the lyrics is just one of a host of vague interpretations that simply praise trashy dance-floor partying. Whatever she meant by it, the video doesn't support this interpretation, and I don't believe that this interpretation is well supported by the lyrics. "Hot and dangerous" is placed in the context of her and her crew "rollin'". It does not explicitly refer to teen suicide as "hot and dangerous" unless the song is otherwise assumed to refer to teen suicide. Nothing in the song mentions bullying or suicidal thoughts. "hotpants" are no more a gay fashion taste than they are an 80s-throwback fashion item for pop-obsessed teens. "Got Jesus on my necklace" is the only interesting piece of imagery in the song. Clearly, Christians have historically been linked with bullying of homosexuals, so if the song is about bullying, it would appear that she is opposing that tendency, either saying that she's a Christian and cool with it or that gay Christians can still be proud of both. I just don't think the evidence clearly supports the OP's conclusion, though a homosexual could easily take that positive message from the song. |
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| Mumford & Sons – Timshel Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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At Lolla 2010, Marcus prefaced this song with "We're going to sing a slow song, about our home." I thought the word was "home", anyways. Completely separate of that, since I really can't reconcile that with what I'm reading in the lyrics, here is my interpretation: A woman is chronically ill, or has the great burden of raising a child alone. She is plagued by depression, as per the first verse, and though she may have dark thoughts and may speak dark words, her (brothers or sons) know that she is still truly strong inside. Her (brothers or sons) support her with love all the while. I can't decide whether the narrator is a son or a brother to the woman. As a brother, he is appealing to her strength of character and her desire to raise her child on her own. I don't think it's about an abortion, because he refers to her as the mother of a baby child, as if it is already born. He pledges all of his brothers' support for her, even though she may be too proud to ask or accept. Alternately, as a son, he would still be appealing to her strength of character, but in this case encouraging her not to give up hope in life. "I will tell the night..." Says that they are there for the woman, but they can't change what has happened, or that there are some hurdles that only she herself can face. |
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