| The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Great line: "I'll shut my mouth for you, anything you want me to." Nothing pleases us more than listening to our own voice. We all just wait for everyone else to stop talking so we can say something. This dude willingly sacrifices his speeches to listen to this girl. That is love. |
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| The Radio Dept. – Bus Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is about moving away from home and family for the first time. | |
| Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Like many of the previous posts, I would agree that the song's about loving someone who does not love you back. This is a very cool song with a very cool music video. After hearing it I have realized that I need to get into Gorillaz. It's a task that has become long overdue. |
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| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is a commentary on the evils of collectivism; it is about how wrong it is for people to suppress individualism. The first verse portrays an educated man who is condemned by the narrator for his intelligence. The man "talks in maths" which cannot be understood by the weaker-minded narrator. For this, the narrator demands that the Karma Police arrest the man and knock him down a peg or two so that his mental capabilities more closely match those of the general population. The second verse portrays a girl with unique fashion choices that differ from popular trends. She is also condemned by the narrator for her individualism. The third verse is about the narrator himself. He fancies himself as an altruist devoted to protecting the "collective soul" of the general public. He tries to give all he can because that is what he believes is the right thing to do. The last line of this verse, however, outs the narrator as a phony. No matter how he sees himself, he is "still on the payroll" and presumably spends his salary on luxuries that benefit him and only him. In the end, he is ruled by his self-interest just like everybody else. The last few repeated lines are an expression of relief by the narrator at having "lost [him]self" for just a minute somehow. As an anti-individualist, he is happy because he believes that he has successfully completed his goal of squashing his own ego. That is what the song means to me. It is very much a reflection of the main themes presented in the works of Ayn Rand. I hardly believe that that was what Radiohead was going for though. |
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