| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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And two more years later: moasis09 gives a good broad description but the example is all wrong. That's just extortion, not scaremongering. "Monger" means seller, (a fishmonger is a person who sells fish). A scaremonger is a person who profits by promoting fear. A better example for an election would be people raising the idea of their opponent having a "hidden agenda" or even making specific allegations that their opponent was going to implement an unpopular or destructive policy when elected. Similarly, many environmentalist are criticized as being scaremongers when they say that our current practices will lead to an disaster. Home alarm system manufacturers might be called scaremongers if they run commercials showing break-ins and suggesting that this is what will happen to you if you don't have an alarm. A scaremonger is someone who tries to make people buy their product, vote for them, or support their cause by planting the suggestion that there will be dire consequences if they don't. |
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| Sun Kil Moon – Neverending Math Equation Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Probably the majority of Modest Mouse lyrics are about being very small and temporary parts of the universe with no clear purpose or meaning. It makes them a very good band for Mark Kozilek to cover. | |
| Sun Kil Moon – Last Tide Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's not just a link to Carry Me Ohio, the entire album is linked together as one complete portrait of the singer. It's a character study. | |
| Sun Kil Moon – Floating Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm fairly certain it's not about someone who is dead. In Duk Koo Kim the lyric is repeated but changed from "Come to me my love" to "Come to my once more my love." It makes me think that both songs are about the same person (as well as Carry Me Ohio) and that the person is still in an out of his life because he is deeply in love with her but feels that he is just too distant and cold of a person to give her what she really deserves. | |
| Sun Kil Moon – Carry Me Ohio Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think to understand any of the songs on this album you have to pay attention to all of them, since it's one consistent story being told throughout. The most important lyrics to understanding this song, to me, are in Glenn Tipton. "I stay up late watching cable / I like old movies with Clark Gable / Just like my dad does / Just like my dad did / When he was home / Staying up late, / Staying up alone / Just like my dad did / When he was thinking / Oh, how fast the years fly" A lot is said about his character in this. He finds himself to be just like his father: a very distant man who never made real connections to anyone and spent his entire life contemplating death instead of living. Even "when he was home" (suggesting this was not often) his father spent his time isolated by himself, rather than with his mother. He feels the same way, that he is trapped by his inevitable death and he can't subject others to his misery; he can't put someone he loves in the position that his father put his mother in. When he says that his is sorry he can't love her back, he is not saying that he doesn't love her. He actually does love her and he constantly longs for her, but he felt the best thing he could do for her is leave her. TL;DR - He's really, really depressed. |
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