| OK Go – In The Glass Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think the above have already got it in one, so I'm just going to mention — this song reminds me SO MUCH of the BBC's ASHES TO ASHES, and needs to be played over the Season 2 finale. | |
| OK Go – C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The song functions on two levels, which is integral to its meaning. On the one level, as magicsheep and meet4breakfast mentioned, it's just about a fun and playful relationship with a more serious undertone. Look in deeper, though, and you'll realize it's about the effects of drug use on relationships. As the song starts, they are using drugs to, let's say, make things more fun. He realizes amidst all the pleasure, though, that "tears [can't] come from those eyes" — the drug is messing up their emotions. As fun as it is, he realizes that it's turning their relationship into a purely superficial one, all about drugs and sex and no longer about a deeper emotion. He tries to convince her not to use drugs so much, because it's messing them up - he doesn't even know who she is anymore, because the person she used to be is lost underneath the haze of drugs. ("I'm tired of looking up into those starry eyes... does it rain where you are?") He tells her that it's messing them up ("the weather affects my knee"), but she gets angry and dumps him for a boyfriend who's fine with her addiction. "Powder your cheeks" refers to her getting high again, and "new beau" is the new boyfriend. The tragic thing is that when this happens, the grief does what the girlfriend couldn't — he withdraws back into the land of drugs. He wishes she was back with him, and says that she will, someday, wish she hadn't dumped him. In the end, the emotions brought on by her dumping him, and his love for her, and those from the drugs, all overwhelm him. |
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| OK Go – All Is Not Lost Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It is, of course, partly a relational song; all of OK Go's songs are. That said, it also contains quite a lot of obvious commentary about Global Warming. "It's coming down" refers to the warmth from the sun, "Could be as bad as they talked about" refers to the doom-and-gloom prophecies of Global Warming zealots, and "Could be before we can make it out" is clearly a reference to the apparent need to escape Earth's trap and settle on other planets. In a purely relational context, these lines don't make the slightest sense, which is why this second meaning must be introduced. Then cue more fire-and-water imagery, reinforcing the symbolism. I don't think I need to clarify how tides and fire relate to global warming. Finish with an uplifting "all is not lost" — in other words, Damian is saying that despite all of these prophecies of destruction and doom, and despite all of the things we may or may not have done to our environment, it literally isn't the end of the world. |
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