| Frank Turner – Glory Hallelujah Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The middle verse bit should be "I know you're scared of dying man, and I am too But just pretending it's not happening isn't gonna see us through If we accept that there's an end game and we haven't got much time Then in the here and now then we can try and do things right We'd be our own Salvation Army and together we'd believe In all the wondrous things that mere mortals can achieve" Such a brilliant song. So upbeat and happy about there NOT being a god, usually people are the opposite. Fantastic. And sums up how I feel about god etc. |
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| Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it's about how society is so fucked up and treats anyone who can see it for what it is as an outcast. Anyone who doesn't follow social conventions and norms because they can see how pointless or stupid they are is seen as paranoid or insane or delusional. The person in the song feels like there's something wrong with him because our unthinking, conformist society treats him that way, and he just wants to escape from it all. That's basically how I interpret it anyway. Maybe I'm biased cause it's how I feel about society. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – The History of Everything Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it's "it will pause and start to go the other way" instead of "it will cause the stars to go the other way" And "it won't be heard" instead of "it won't be hurt" (hurt doesn't even make sense there). I'm such a science nerd so I love this song :) |
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| Erasure – Always Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is clearly about a rainbow unicorn that frolicks through the purple mountains with his gay dolphin friends, occasionally headbutting a big shiny star into oblivion along his way. | |
| Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I like the idea that it's about the difference between education and intelligence. Like, no matter how educated someone is, even if they know and care about the oxford comma, that doesn't make them intelligent. Just because someone can't articulate their ideas well (like me right now, lol), or doesn't have a "proper" accent, doesn't mean they're not intelligent. | |
| The Enemy – You're Not Alone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Don't let the sun go down/On an Empire/It's too much to waste" The empire = Britain? Nice reference there. |
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| The Enemy – We'll Live And Die In These Towns Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The Enemy are very underrated, they remind me of The Jam and The Specials lyrics-wise. I think this is about the sort of bleakness around working-class areas in Britain where it feels like there's no control and no hope. |
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| The Airborne Toxic Event – Missy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Well I'd follow you even if it was wrong" This always seemed to me like a reference to people who are so deep in their religion that they're blinkered to anything that might be wrong with it. With this line being Missy saying to God that she'd follow him even if it was wrong. Idk if that fits in with the rest of the song though. |
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| Pulp – Common People Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "Especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh *SNIFF* yeah..." | |
| Pulp – Common People Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| lmao, I always do it when I'm singing along like the loser I am. | |
| The Libertines – Arbeit Macht Frei Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Like others have said, "Arbeit Macht Frei" was written above the gates of the Auschwitz, roughly translated as "work sets you free", which put false hope into the prisoners that if they worked they would be set free (I think, I went there a long time ago and I think that's what the guide said). "The guard said he could stay alive if he shovelled and burned his friends to die" - that's what the line sounds like to me, could be wrong :/ Reference to the selection process in Auschwitz I think, either you were killed straight away, or you had to do labour if you were fit enough. And this guy will be kept alive if he does the job of shovelling the dead bodies into the furnaces. The rest of the song is talking about how some people (like the BNP) in Britain are so proud that we beat the Nazis in WW2, but forget that those soldiers were fighting AGAINST the kind of people the BNP are (racist, homophobic etc) |
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| The Specials – Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Hello, I'm Terry, and I'm going to enjoy myself first!" The way he says that makes me laugh every time XD |
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| Madness – House Of Fun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love that two of my favourite ska songs are about contraception (this and Too Much Too Young by The Specials). | |
| Madness – Cardiac Arrest Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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WHY HAS NO ONE COMMENTED? This is a brilliant song. About a bloke having stress-induced myocardial infarction. |
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| Madness – Bed And Breakfast Man Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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He was, he was the bed and breakfast ma-a-an, he was, he was the bed and breakfast ma-a-an, he was, he was... It just goes round and round and round my head. Don't mind though, I bloody love this song. |
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| Muse – Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well I for one couldn't give a shit if other Muse fans hate this song. I'm a Muse fan and I love it. And for the record, I've read Twilight and couldn't stand it, so I just choose to completely dissociate this song from Twilight and listen to it in it's own right. Although this song is obviously a love song, in true Muse fashion I think it's saying more about standing together to overthrow injustice etc etc. The second verse is my favourite. |
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| The Specials – Rat Race Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I got one art O level, it did nothing for me" Story of my fucking life. Although technically it's an art GCSE. Still utterly useless either way. |
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| The Specials – Too Much, Too Young Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Obviously about teenage pregnancy. Blunt but strong lyrics, brilliant song. | |
| Muse – Take a Bow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Everyone's interpretation of the details are different, but the fundamental theme of the song is obviously about the corruption in world leadership. You can apply it to Blair and Bush, you can apply it to Hitler, you can apply it to the Freemasons and the Bilderberg group. Any way you look it at, it's coming from someone who's sick of the endless string of corrupt, warmongering, power-hungry scumbags who always end up running the world in one way or another, be it actually in government or puppeteering it. | |
| Muse – City of Delusion Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think like many others have said that this song is basically about governmental control of the masses, and the lies and manipulation they use to keep everyone under the thumb. "Can I believe/When I don't trust/All your theories turn to dust" - about having no faith in what our leaders tell us, government lies and propaganda, like the alleged WMDs in Iraq and the justification of war. "I choose to hide/From the All Seeing Eye" - allusions again to government control and the police state, also I would say a pretty obvious reference to the Illuminati "You will not rest/Or settle for less/Until you guzzle and squander whats left" - could be about using up all the world's resources with no regard for the future or the effect it's having now, "guzzle and squander" sounds like a specific reference to oil consumption "Do not deny/That you live and let die" - talking about the global elite taking what they want and leaving nothing for the rest of us That's how I interpret it anyway. It's a very good song. |
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