| Suede – W.S.D. Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is about being awesomely wasted and the loneliness and connection that comes with it. The cowboy on a hill, a mythic loner whose self-destruction is glamorous (he gets lovely the more he's ill). Who cares if he's licking the bag? It's not rubbish yet, there's still drugs stuck in there! Suede was always so good at the dark songs and this is one of their darkest. |
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| IAMX – Bernadette Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That is quite wonderful then, I am happy Chris found someone real who can inspire him to create such incredible music! | |
| Interpol – Summer Well Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The fevered plastics that seal your body They wont stop this rain, hey, hey This has multiple simultaneous meanings. The "fevered plastics" refer to items of clothing (e.g. a rain jacket), credit cards, and more broadly to the artificiality she embraces ("seal your body" with, i.e. separate your self from external reality). The plastic is what she protects herself with but he knows it doesn't work. She is someone whom he shares a romantic but traumatic past with, "this rain" is the truth that she can't stop. I was your eye in the night when the profits fell I said it looks like you summer well This is a bitter reference to how he accepted her perspective when things went bad. Profits/prophets, a dual reference to their dual perspectives. For her it's profits, the selfish and plastic world of greed. For him it's prophets, the spiritual world of love. To her the relationship failed like a business, to him it failed like a religion. Note how he doesn't say "you summer well", instead he says "it looks like...". This is a kind of sarcastic challenge to her, he wants her to prove that she feels pain. I want to stay magical, I want to stay yearning... (Nobody told you, nobody told you) I want to feel up on your life, (someday) I miss you but it looks like you summered well. He wants her back, he wants them to "stay magical" like before the prophets fell. He wants them to "stay yearning", or is it "stay earning"? It's a bitter play on words. |
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| IAMX – Cold Red Light Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Whoever is in charge of managing IAMX lyrics is clearly not much of a fan. The lyrics are included with the album, and on most IAMX songs are well articulated and logically coherent. | |
| IAMX – Bernadette Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't know if Bernadette is a real woman but I suspect not. I think the carnivalesque swirl of this song is intended to convey her illusory status. She's the dreamgirl Chris hopes will make him whole, an imaginary being in the unhinged circus of these volatile times. Or, Chris Corner's ideal bearded lady. With her comes a new history of perpetual "nowness"; freedom and the abolition of his own loneliness through their shared loneliness. "Together as one, against all others" |
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| The White Stripes – The Union Forever Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Citizen Fucking Kane. There is no true love. Except that fucking sled I vaguely remember from my childhood... | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Survivalism Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| There are so many awesome NIN songs yet this one really stands out with such a direct and incisive commentary. Even more-so than Headike a Hole, Survivalism is like the distillation of modernist American revolutionary idealism, fully detached from patriotism and neo-feudal/nationalistic sensibilities. Sorry Alec Empire, but if you grew up in a shit-hole like Cleveland Trent Reznor would of made you happy as an assistant. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sad Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It wasn't until the early 21st century before I realized what a lyrical and musical genius Lou Reed and crew were. I had always known of their existence and the various profundities they have creation but seriously:, Fucking Brit royalism and postmodern pop-deconstruction re-assembled into timeless rock 'n roll?! Pass the dope, I've lost all hope. There can only be equals to this high. |
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| Massive Attack – Pray for Rain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is a very interesting and insightful interpretation. I think there is a parallel between your analysis and my own assessment of the song as being about the psychedelic experience: Transcendence. Ultimately, whether you interpret the song as being about individual subjective experience, or humanity as a whole, it still comes back to the same fundamental concept. "Woods unseen with all believing" - I think this is a reference to the rhetorical question of whether a tree makes an unobserved sound. |
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| Massive Attack – False Flags Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Heroin is a reference to the Marx quote: "Religion is the opiate of the masses". He is saying religion has "cut these fuses short", i.e. religion makes people more prone to becoming destructive. "Ghetto stones instead of chains" is referring to black pop culture in the West. It's a sort of double play on the Rolling Stones (the band) and the phrase "rolling stone" as slang for a rootless person (from the proverb, "a rolling stone gathers no moss"). It's essentially a comparison of hip hop and slavery; children don't grow up in chains now, instead they all want to become Lil Wayne. |
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| Massive Attack – Pray for Rain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is about the beginning of a psychedelic experience and trying to recapture the magic after it seems to have gone. | |
| The White Stripes – Little Cream Soda Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The old man is him. This song is about recognizing that childhood is over, boyhood is gone. Every highway longer. Every girl less real than the last girl. Every chance for radical change lost. He just ends up doing the same thing. He lost the simple days when pleasure was a favorite drink and worry was finishing your icecream. He lost his sense of place, his box and rock filled alley are long gone. Now he sees the horrors of the world, the horrors of the self (am I a liar?), and the horrors of the self in the world. This is where God gives up screaming: There is nothing left. I can only show you the world, the self, and the self in the world. TO God's horror Jack can only say, "oh well" |
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| Marilyn Manson – I Want To Disappear Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is about abandoning the innocence of youth and embracing the self-destruction of adulthood. | |
| IAMX – Bring Me Back A Dog Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Dogs have a reputation for loyalty; "man's best friend" loves faithfully and without reservation. I think one of the things he is referencing here is this reputation, it's a sort of double inversion: 1) All women will say, "men are dogs" after they've fucked a lot of them. But dogs are loyal, any man fucked by a woman is still loved by his dog. A man's dog will never betray him. If woman is the opposite of man, and men are dogs, what does that make women? 2) Dog, bring me back a god in the next life. Submission and dominance, god is love and a dog loves its master unconditionally. Backwards and forwards, love. If you've ever cheated on someone or been cheated on by someone then this song is for you. |
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| Sneaker Pimps – Blue Movie Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's about being in a world of empty sex, finding love and realizing that you're the only one who feels it. I can see how Jesus felt. | |
| Kasabian – Ladies and Gentleman (Roll the Dice) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't think this song is about a relationship. It makes more sense if the something that isn't right from the first line is a reference to society. He's deeply bothered by what is wrong and self-medicates with alcohol, drugs, and TV. Rolling the dice is a reference to his attempts at finding a way to live in the world despite everything wrong. | |
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