| The Deadlights – Sweet Oblivion Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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you guys aint even close. Another one of the songs by the Deadlights is called "junk", another word for dope (heroin.) And this song, if you 'get' it is clearly about heroin. Sweet oblivion is a term that lots of people have used to describe the rush and high from heroin and the life of bein addicted in general, but that aint the only reason im saying this. Any heroin junkie will tell you that you spend most of your time in the bathroom. dopeheads are constantly sneaking off to do a shot/get high in the bathroom. The first thing you look for when you enter a house, restaurant/etc, is wheres the bathroom and does it have a good lock. When he sings "meet me in the bathroom, and ill show you everything, and ill give you somethin that you can believe in" its about the moment of total alone-ness when its just you and the rush. For addicts heroin is the one thing that matters in a meaningless world, its somethin to believe in, the one thing that keeps you goin. "Cuz when I lost my mind You're the only one I could turn to" self explanatory here. When you cant handle life and everything is crazy heroin is the only thing that matters, the only thing that will soothe your pain away. And the part that probably 'locks in' the meaning the most and really makes it clear is the lyrics at the end : "All this filth and disease that brought us all to our knees, but the faithful will keep holding on When all that they're living for is gone " the life of addiction is a dirty, shitty, sad, hopeless, lotta times diseased existence, just a real scrapin-the-bottom way to live. All the filth and disease that brought us all to our knees is the downsides of the addicts life, all the negatives, the sickness, withdrawal, diseases, filth surrounding you, etc--but the "faithful" (the true addicts) keep holding on, keep using, they dont quit, they dont stop, they never will, they just keep goin, shootin dope til they die--even when they lose their families, friends, jobs, children, husband/wife, money, homes, cars, their dreams, hopes--everything that makes a life a life--all that theyre living for is gone--but they keep holdin on, keep using, never see the sun, just livin that waste of a life til they die. With lyrics like that its not even something that you "could" interpret that way--its very obviously about heroin and addiction. |
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| Patti Smith – Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer(de) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| also when good heroin is mixed up with water in a shot, its the exact color of ice tea. i always imagined the glass of tea to be the needle full of dope, and the boy coming down from the other end of the hallway is the plunger as its pushed down, the movie moving as planned -- once you do that first IV, and yuo wait for it to hit you freeze for a second in a way almost like "oh shit, i did it...i just shot HEROIN...uh oh..." but before you can do anything, it hits you, it crashes into you like 10 million tons of bricks and the "smashin his head against the locker" part reminds me of that feeling, you really cant "get" these lyrics if you dont know how it feels to shoot dope but once you do the song makes perfect absolute sense. | |
| Patti Smith – Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer(de) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| also when good heroin is mixed up with water in a shot, its the exact color of ice tea. i always imagined the glass of tea to be the needle full of dope, and the boy coming down from the other end of the hallway is the plunger as its pushed down, the movie moving as planned -- once you do that first IV, and yuo wait for it to hit you freeze for a second in a way almost like "oh shit, i did it...i just shot HEROIN...uh oh..." but before you can do anything, it hits you, it crashes into you like 10 million tons of bricks and the "smashin his head against the locker" part reminds me of that feeling, you really cant "get" these lyrics if you dont know how it feels to shoot dope but once you do the song makes perfect absolute sense. | |
| Patti Smith – Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer(de) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Man, you guys clearly aint done too many drugs. The song is about heroin and the rush and the way you feel when you first shoot up for the first time. Nobody caught on to the "the spoon....the veins" part near the end? As a ex dope shooter its easy for me to spot those references, trust me...i do remember my first experience with it and thinkin about this song, you sure do open up the sea of possibilities. the shit it does to you when you first experience that feeling is more than you could ever put into words and the song does a good job of describing it. the feeling that you just landed on another planet and suddenly your world is completely changed, thats the shit shes expressing here. "he pushes it deep in"...its the needle going into the vein, slamming dope, sendin the shot home. the whole black tube part, i always saw that to be about him overdosing and the feeling of using so much you fall out and go unconscious and the things you see in that state. i been there and its like a whole new world. you wake up and you lay there in your bed and its just a big bed of jelly, and its just you there on that bed , floating thru space, melting into the mattress. at the end , when the rush fades, when you end up hooked on it, when all the mystery and excitement and all that stuff that people feel at first is gone, all you got left is just you and yourself, layin in bed doped out not feeling, just a regular old mess and you see that it aint all that special, it aint all those amazing things in the song, all that incredible artistic kind of crazy shit. you just see it for what it is, and instead of the experience of the song washing over you, turning the song into an event, some kind of brain orgasm, its just nothing but a song--all the power and mystique stripped away, youre just another junkie strung out laying on your bed and that sea of possibilities is just a dream thats long gone. |
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