| Girls Under Glass – Down in the Park Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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- Machmen are obviously transhumans, humans with machine implants etc. The line "I was in a car crash or was it a war but I've never been quite the same" seems to refer to being mortally wounded in some horrible acident, and then harvested and turned into a machman. - On the foofighters cover page, Carlstroem said: ""kill-by-numbers" obviously refers to "paint-by-numbers", so it's some kind of twisted game." I agree with that. Painting by numbers, killing by numbers, making the decision of whom to kill based on a flippant, shallow criteria that doesn't consider the value of life at all. - "With a friend called five". One of the numbers? His name is Five, an impersonal, assigned name. I wonder too, if "five" is a reference to humankind, man. Five is the number of man, Six of the devil, Seven of God and heaven. Could be something there... - "Like it was built in one day". Rome wasn't built in a day. So it's like this distopian civilisation is so new, built so quickly, came from nowhere. Alien. ALSO, not sure if this works but before Jesus died, he predicted his death in metaphor when he said Jerusalem would be destroyed but rebuilt in 3 days, referring to his resurrection. I'm sure I've read literature where this has been changed to 1 day, or people get it mixed up to be 1 day. So this could be a reference to resurrection into a Machman. - I would like to mention the other poster who found all the references to the William S Bourroughs story. "Death death death", "white lies" etc. That gives some big clues on what some of the lyrics mean. - I think the lyrics here are wrong "We are but lovers, we are but romantics, we are here to serve you". It should be "We are not lovers, we are not romantics, we are here to serve you". |
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| Paul Kelly – Love Is The Law Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is heavily based on 1st Corinthians, Chapter 13, particularly verses 1 to 5. | |
| Paul Kelly – If I Could Start Today Again Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's a song of despair, but somehow it's also constructive, it's not just wallowing around in depressing regret. This song is particularly meaningful to me because once when I was a teenager, with some depression and also Christian beliefs, I realised the same thing, that no one in the bible had ever been able to turn back time to make up for the things they wish they didn't do. |
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