| Entrance – I'm So Glad Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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| Regina Spektor – Blue Lips Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I believe this song is very much about the debunking of religion as it was known for a long time and perhaps the origin of Atheism or other new and ever-evolving religions (this doesn't explain it very well so just read below). "He stumbled into faith and thought," This line talks of a person who was born into a religion (the rest of the song hints of the said religion being none other than Christianity) "God this is all there is" This line indicates that he simply wasn't satisfied with the answers religion had to offer. There's a lovely irony in this line as the character of the story denies the existence of God (by saying challenging God and saying "you don't exist and this," as he looks around him, "is all there is!") and at the same time, because he was raised in such a society, instinctively talks to him as if he were a living being. Ingenious. "The pictures in his mind arose And began to breathe" These two lines, in contrast to their length, tell a big story. That of which is how the character, being unsatisfied with the ways of religion, challenged it on a fundamentally logical level --> "The pictures is in his mind". The next chapter of the story is of how he voiced and made people aware of the plot-holes (for lack of a better term) of religion --> "arose". The third chapter is of how they weren't instantaneously thrown out of the window by closed-minded people but were, rather, slowly and steadily accepted by the masses --> "And began to breathe". "And all the gods in all the worlds Began colliding on a backdrop of blue" Then these lines talk of how once the character's ideas spread in his local region, they also began spreading in other sectors of the world where they struck down other religions as well as the one he was raised in. I'm not sure what the backdrop of blue symbolizes, though it is obviously a symbolization of something. "Blue lips Blue veins" These two lines are beautiful. In four words Regina makes the vast distinction between life and death yet she portrays them in such a light that makes them seem very similar; as both being of the same color. Trying to interpret these lines seems pointless to me as there is such a vast array of different ways in which you can interpret this. I'm going to skip a few lines before stopping and point out how, keeping this context of Atheism in mind, the lines, "They started off beneath the knowledge tree Then they chopped it down to make white picket fences They marched along the railroad tracks And smiled real wide for the camera lenses They made it past the enemy lines Just to become enslaved in the assembly lines" could be talking of how Atheism started off with a pure heart full of knowledge and understanding, but was quickly (the "quickly" part being hinted at by the speed in which Regina sings this part of the song) turned into an abomination as (humans tend to do with immaterial things) and the line, "Just to become enslaved in the assembly lines" could very well be hinting towards sheer and utter irony of that idea. Lastly my thought of how, according to the song, Atheism became an abomination is supported by the lines, "The pictures in his mind awoke, And began to breed". The thinking behind that being of how Regina correlates incest (which creates genetic abominations) with the ideas in the character's mind and how they keep breeding but only within themselves until they were no longer what they used to represent. I'd love it if you guys attempted to write a continuation of my interpretation of the song. |
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| UNKLE – Burn My Shadow (feat. Ian Astbury) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Here's what I think this is about: "I have burned my tomorrow" this means that he has lived a life of crime, you could say, and has wasted his whole life. As a few verses down it states "And I stand inside today, At the edge of the future, and my dreams all fade away" I think that means that he is about to be executed for what he's done, but don't get this wrong - it's not that depressing; by burning his shadow away he means that he is repenting. He is repenting all his sins and wrongdoings. I think that the verse "Fate's my destroyer" means that sooner or later he was going to get caught because it was fate - it was bound to happen. "I was ambushed by a lie" I think that this means how the devil told him all sorts of lies and made him do evil things while giving him the hope that something good would happen to him (by "to him" i mean the one who the lyrics are about), but it was all a lie. Therefore he was ambushed by a lie. "And you judged me once for falling" I sense this line is about how someone he cares about judged him for doing something very small (like stealing) and now he has done something much worse than that... many much worse things, in fact. "This wounded heart will rise" here we have, once again, the part that makes me think he's repenting. He thinks that he will rise to heaven because he has repented his sins and (possibly) found Jesus. "When I see the light true love forever" I think this means that he started loving God when he found out what he was all about through Jesus. Therefore seeing the light. "Oh, how I loved you" this last verse is great. it's very simply about how he loved to sin until he saw the light. Write back with any improvements on my answer or anything you think I've made a mistake on, but I have to tell you. All of the songs from Unkle that I've heard have something to do with God. |
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| Radiohead – Reckoner Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The lyrics posted here are wrong. "Reckoner You can't take it with you Dancing for your pleasure You are not to blame for Bittersweet distracter Dare not speak his name Dedicated to all you'll ever be, yes Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore Reckoner Take me with you Dedicated to all you, all you'll ever be, yeah" These, I believe, are the correct lyrics to this song. Taken from a live performance. |
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