| Everything Everything – Weights Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Looking at this 4 years later, I have changed my mind again. Maybe diamond matter is vodka or tears. Maybe this is about the hardship of life and there are references to alcohol use (blind by daybreak, bottle on the fire), perhaps used as a coping mechanism. But the main reason why I have changed my mind about the meaning, is because of that line 'a tiny part remains'. What does that mean? Perhaps Jon is referring to 'the big crunch', this idea that the universe will eventually collapse into itself, a reversal of the apparent expansion of the universe. It is theorised that this 'tiny part' will then explode again, another big bang, and the cycle repeats. |
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| Owl City – Fireflies Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[SGITU:5518] yea I see what you mean, but then how do you explain the 'cause everything is never as it seems' line? I think there's more to it than a song about lucid dreaming. I think there's also this idea that while you sleep, there might be incredible things happening around you. I think the imagery of many fireflies doing their thing while you sleep might have some metaphorical meaning - perhaps that there are complexities in the world that we don't know. We can only imagine, or dream about them. | |
| Dutch Uncles – Fragrant Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I always feel like I don't fully get what Dutch Uncles songs mean... The lyrics are really vague. Perhaps this is about sex, but deliberately vague? | |
| Everything Everything – Schoolin Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Interesting ideas, that's made me rethink my own analysis. This song does seem to be about lots of things, and I think the beginning of the song seems to only set a scene or create a mood rather than say something specific. | |
| Dutch Uncles – Sting Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this song is about bereavement. Duncan's lyrics are always so abstract, I can never be certain of where he's going with them. But I think he's attempting to describe the pain of someone close to you dying. It's like a bee sting, a 'fading sting, of dealing'. Perhaps it's suggesting that being reminded of the pain, is like remembering the person who has died. You try to forget, but perhaps 'I had to see you again' suggests it's impossible to forget. | |
| Everything Everything – NASA is on your side Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| John said in an interview that the song also imagines the use of human remains in the future as fossil fuel. Interesting eh? but makes sense. | |
| Everything Everything – NASA is on your side Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Oh yes, of course, that's what it means, thanks. | |
| Gorillaz – Demon Days Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I completely agree with all you're saying, this and don't get lost in heaven are like a conclusion to the album. And "Sun" does have a double meaning, I agree. | |
| Gorillaz – Demon Days Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Don't Get Lost In Heaven" and this track, "Demon Days" are the last 2 tracks on the album, and sum up the whole album, ending on a high note. It's like coming out of the bad things, you've finished experiencing and understanding the problems in the world, but you are convinced that you can still enjoy the good out of life and Earth. The song is about righteous people struggling to get through a corrupt world, trying to find the right path - themes carried through the album. If you look at DGLIH, there are quotes to a number of songs in the album (like the "holes" in Fire out of the Monkeys head, "crack on the corner" a reference to White Light or other songs you might think are linked to drugs perhaps). The album, cleverly, is given a sort of storyline. The writers detach themselves from the music and write in the shoes of the characters. |
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| Clare Maguire – The Shield and the Sword Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Yep this is one of my favourites on the album. The video is a little too Lady Gaga for my liking, although the costumes are really good. I would have liked it if the video was more about the themes in this song. Anyway about the song meaning, it's very self-explanatory, it's about falling out of love with your partner. "adverts in between" could suggest it's more specific, and that it's about someone who works in TV a lot and so does not spend enough time with the narrator any more. But yeah I love the imagery that comes with this song; the idea that the couple breaking up is a shield and a sword is a good idea. Clare's got some skill, although most of the songs on Light After Dark can be too vague lyrically, this shows she's a promising artist, and musically, I love the album. The songs are full on alternative pop, and her voice is unyielding yet beautiful. |
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| Everything Everything – Tin (The Manhole) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Those are really interesting ideas. That makes sense too. | |
| Dutch Uncles – Face In Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the music video for this song helps to explain what it means. In the video the lead singer's fiancée packs her bags and deserts him. He sees the wedding dress she was meant to wear hung up on the door. Turns up to the wedding wearing the dress, marriage takes place without her, makes for a very funny video. So maybe this song is about why the girl left him, or why she's deciding whether to. She's scared of marriage, the groom-to-be needs her "to be seen" so as a trophy wife/fashion accessory. He says "it's easy, and he sees, what she feels," trying to sympathise with her. The girl realises that as soon as she puts that wedding dress on and wears her make-up (does her "face right") to go to the wedding, her life will never be the same, they are tied together. So she's arguing with herself, the last chorus, is changed from "so I get my dress on" to "till I guess my dress on" emphasising her dilemma, and suggesting she's prolonging the decision. |
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| Everything Everything – Luddites & Lambs Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"lovers I know you're out of your element joking aside I've never been anything" that's a reference to digger vehicles, the phrase: "lovers on landfill" are those big vehicles in landfill sites. You're out of your element has more than one meaning, which is where the joke is. |
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| Elbow – Lippy Kids Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Guy remembers when he was a teenager. Kids are looked down on, outlawed. He remembers being a rebellious teenager, drink, girls, smoking, walking (boppin we say nowadays). But he says "build a rocket boys!" What does that mean? That's the difficult part of this song. It could mean, make something that'll get you away from this all. Be free. Put effort into something, work hard, and you can be free. "Do they know those days are golden?" Teens don't have much time before they become adults. Make the most of your childhood. -softmint |
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| Elbow – Lippy Kids Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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| HURTS – All I Want For Christmas Is New Year's Day Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Just a great pop song. I think it's written by someone who's looked at the terrible year he's had, and everybody celebrating as it's Christmas, but just wants to start over. For new year to come, so he can leave the year behind and he seems hopeful too. | |
| Everything Everything – Leave the Engine Room Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Ahh Jonathan said in an interview the song is generally about guilt, so I guess it's not all in the eyes of a child. | |
| Everything Everything – Weights Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Looking at this, it's so well written I just have to make a stab at what it could mean. I think it's about God and angels, and a human who's been allowed to see the heavens and come back to Earth. This might be a biblical reference as the bible says God has only revealed the heavens to one man, St John of Patmos, I'm pretty sure his name's called. God sends him back down to earth, telling him to help his friends to change the way they behave ("Tell, your, friends not, to live, like, they are). I think there's a description of a figurative bridge made by angels, between Earth and heaven, and God tells his angels to hold up the bridge with rope. Very powerful figurative images to describe a way for a human to see heaven. I think that the song is about oppression and hardship that each human has to go through. I think when Jonathan was writing this song, I think he was playing with the idea that God looks down from heaven increasing the "weights" or hardships and life difficulties we have when we get over them. You see he says "add the burden, up the weights / double the weights..." In the first verse: (Blind by daybreak...) St John (notice the actual writer, Jonathan has the same name as St John. Interesting, maybe coincidental, maybe not.) is on earth, and it's raining, and he's back on Earth with hardships, and he knows God is "upping" the weights, it's a necessity, and he's frustrated. Why do you have to double my weights? Why do you make it harder for me? "Diamond matter will you / make me lucid" this phrase is very ambiguous, it could be directly talking to the rain, saying diamond matter (rain) make me invisible, so God won't be able to see me, and double my weights. It could also mean angels, clear my mind of all this hardship and pain. "Travel over nothing boy" sounds like what angels can do, a play on words perhaps it means fly. Ambiguity again, great writing. Living alone? house burning down? living in poverty? lots of images of pain and hardship in the chorus and second verse, and God seems to be controlling it, and St John asks why? why are you doing this? Now the bridge-sort-of section, that single sort of sudden angelic cherub-like sung line: "Friend, don't break the code, a tiny part, a tiny part remains." I think that's God telling him the reason why life is how it is, and he's not allowed to share this. The song is ended with this overwhelming climax, as he finally understands how it ends, he knows how the world began, and he knows how it'll end. There's an ambiguity behind these last phrases: "I, know how it starts, and now I know, I know how it ends, I know how it all ends, I know how it ends" It symbolises knowing how to finish the song, which is hugely complicated, one of the reasons why it's a great climax to an album. But it also symbolises understanding the reasons why God has put him through so much pain, why the world is how it is, the meaning of life. He's not able to finish what he's saying though, the song actually ends chanting gloriously "I know how it all..." symbolising finally being overwhelmed perhaps with elation, perhaps by the way the world ends. Brilliant. -SoftMint |
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| Chase and Status – Blind Faith Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is just great dubstep. Great tune. The lyrics are quite vague though, doesn't go specific with why the narrator is heavy-hearted. And why you'd need to "dance with the devil". That could mean so many things... But one thing's for sure is that the solution to feeling sad in this song is to dance your burdens away. Lol, clever that... |
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| Everything Everything – MY KZ. UR BF Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is just so well written. Such clever ambiguity: "the kitchen was a dust bowl and tossing me the keys" "I guess you're separated ooh" "we're the epicentre" "it's a real spanner into my works I think I kicked the bucket" |
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| Elbow – One Day Like This Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Great song. | |
| Magnetic Man – I Need Air Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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nobody has commented on this song? wow... Ok well look, I really like how the song sounds, just great dubstep. But when you read the lyrics up here, you can tell straight away it sounds like a description of a blowjob, or similar highly sexual experience (lol). "Everything you do is making me / Blow, blow, blow" "And you're making it hard for me / I need air" "Making my body so erotic" I'm like - come on? so much better things to write about. Perhaps it wasn't written about a blowjob. Surely though they would realise what it sounds like and alter the lyrics a little. What a shame. |
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| Everything Everything – Suffragette Suffragette Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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^ I meant: "Whose gonna sit on your FACE when I'm gone. Whose gonna sit on your FACE when I'm not there." I think it's said at least twice in the song. |
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| Everything Everything – Suffragette Suffragette Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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You see the line: "Whose gonna sit on your fence when I'm gone. Whose gonna sit on your fence when I'm not there." The first time this is sung, it's actually "Whose gonna sit on your fence when I'm gone. Whose gonna sit on your FACE when I'm not there." They haven't posted the lyrics to the chorus on the website, but listen to any live version of the song. Pretty sure face is said at least once. |
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| Everything Everything – Weights Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Only the writers know what all the lyrics in this song are talking about but I get the impression it's about leaving your parents to live by yourself: "Time, to live alone yeah, time, to live alone" | |
| Everything Everything – Final Form Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Everything Everything – Final Form Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Jonathan Higgs (writer) said this at Union Chapel performance 15 Dec 2010: "I wrote it about a friend of mine who, he couldn't really move for much of his short life. But hge always had a smile for everybody. This is for him, his name's Greg" |
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| Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's certainly worth noting what the band says about the song's lyrics. Off their youtube channel: " "Our new single Photoshop Handsome looks at the world of digital image manipulation and computer game re-incarnation. What would it feel like to come back to life as one of the 'perfected', false, immortal beings that adorn magazine covers, adverts and games? We took the idea of photoshopping and digital re-imagining of the self to its most extreme conclusion with our new video. We laid out loose guidelines for a huge number of creative digital artists and let them run free with their imaginations, each editing literally only a few seconds of video in total. The result is a very colourful and diverse explosion of ideas, the image of ourselves re-imagined hundreds of times in 3 minutes. We hope to open the imagination and raise some thoughts about what it means to change our perceptions of ourselves to the extent we do." Jonathan Everything " |
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| Gorillaz – El Mañana Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Reminder of the actual lyrics. Summer don't know me no more Even my tired song Summer don't know me Just let me low In myself Cause I too know love From you down Just dyin' I saw that day Lost my mind Lord I'm fine Maybe In time You'll want to be mine Don't stop the bud when it comes It's the dawn, you'll see Money won't get there 10 years past and now, you'll flee If you do that I'll be soon To find you I saw that day Lost my mind Lord I'm fine Maybe In time You'll want to be mine Analyse those lyrics, not the ones above... |
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| Fightstar – Waitin' For Superman Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Fightstar didn't write this song, you douche. It's a cover of a Flaming lips song. You could say that the song is about God. Perhaps the member of the Flaming lips that wrote this felt let down by God, but it's not originally from fightstar. Perhaps however Charlie wanted to cover the song because he feels the same way, maybe he just likes the song. Who knows. But besides from that God is real, from a Christian's point of view, people like you just have no idea. There is a feeling you have when you know God is near. The holy spirit is a lot deeper than a little conscience thing you feel, perhaps to make you feel better about death at the end of life. He's here, and you can't argue against that, because you don't know the feeling. You can ask any Christian and you'll get the same response, when you have the holy spirit, there's no doubt in your mind that there's a God here. -softmint |
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| Everything Everything – Tin (The Manhole) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Some things I wanted to say about this song. There's a fox next to the road, covered in oil and it made a oily trail in the snow to get there. The fox attempts to cross to the "median" or the middle of the road. (Banshee - dictionary definition: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death) So the fox experiences a near-death experience, getting hit by a car. "And everything is light and it's noise and I reach the grass" the fox then pulls itself off the road to the grass. As shane says, there is then a description of the mullered body (excuse my slang lol :D). "I am as lithe as a vine" lithe is to be floppy or flexible. as I Whisper up the verge" Silently moves up along the border between the road and the grass. NOW THIS IS THE DIFFICULT PART :D "And I am almost up to the shoulders of a horse." I think the fox pulls itself towards a horse, but it's pulling itself along the ground, it can only see up to the horse's shoulders. The person on the horse notices the fox and describes it as a "Little Sea Anemone, pool of rocks" Sea anemones are different to coral because they have no skeleton. They have jellyfish like tentacles, so the person looks at the wreck of the fox and describes it as a sea anemone. "Why'd you see, an enemy I cannot?" the person speaks to the fox, wondering how this happened to it. "Could there be, a more heavenly artefact? As pure as that?" the person is intrigued by the fox, how beautiful it is to him/her. Then as shane also says, the fox is taken to a warehouse by the sea. It is basically made into a coat or quilt, or something similar that a family buy to protect themselves from the cold. Now it's the last lines of lyric that I'm finding very difficult to understand. "I can not imagine the things they did to you. I cannot imagine the way it feels for you. I can feel the gravity rushing into me. I am but a hole in the fabric of the scene. I was but a drop in the ocean all along." Who is speaking? Is it the fox still? If so does it feel sorry for itself? Maybe the fox sees other dead animals in the factory and realises that it's not the only animal that is killed and used for it's fabric. That's why it says, "I am but a hole in the fabric of the scene." and "I was but a drop in the ocean all along." He realises that there are many animals who like him are used for their fur. That's what I've got on this song. So well written I must say, very interesting. -softmint |
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| Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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^ Not one interpretation of the song's meaning... How can you sing it's praises, this song is lame. It has no real meaning, it's random, and worthy of no credit. Just a repetitive riff and catchy chorus: worthy of no credit, it took no skill to write, stop blowing this out of proportion. Songs that show great writing skill musically and lingually are what should be appreciated, instead of this rubbish... |
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| Fightstar – Amaze us Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this is definitely inspired by the Bible. It's saying Jesus is the one who can save us from the spiritual warfare between good and evil. The Shinji Ikari explanation might make sense, but I don't know anything about that. | |
| Fightstar – 28k Resolution Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The song is calling for people to stay true to themselves, and to what they believe in. It's important to stay true to promises. | |
| Everything Everything – NASA is on your side Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Oh actually, I've forgotten the essential part of this song. At the beginning of the song, the narrator says he awakes in the future. This is in the present tense. Yet he uses a past pluperfect tense to say "I had turned to stone with fear, laid on petrified trees" meaning he's explaining why he woke up in the future. He had been unconscious (physically or of time at least) for some time. The Earth is personified as being scared: "laid on petrified trees" , early in the song to show that it's going under some sort of oppression. It's at the mercy of something/someone, and it's scared of it's fate. In fact this whole verse uses the present to explain what's happening now, but what happened in the past before he blacked out (or whatever he did to lose track of time) is in the past tense. Notice: "In a high school massacre I'm fossilized and clear, the teenage terrorists freeze" is in the present tense, so he's describing what he sees, perhaps this is a large group of school kids lying dead, or perhaps scared, just like the earth is at what has been happening, but they are described as "teenage terrorists" so perhaps they are the ones that have caused the destruction, details of which aren't clear yet. In the past tense is: "We began dismantling the stadia and schools, singing save our simian souls!" meaning the narrator had destroyed stadiums and schools in the past. "Simian" means ape-like or of primate origin, so the idea that the narrator dislikes the way humans are becoming less natural beings, as we were designed, trying to become different to what we are originally. Then there are images of bullets hanging static in the air, suggesting the narrator isn't in running time, but time is static. Also the bullets are warm and polished so we can tell they've just been shot. It's striking however that it is raining: "droplets glittering home." References to fossil fuels and steel production are used throughout the song: "you're the crudest oil" "they're gonna dig a coal-face out of you" "Isambard I'm all steel" (I think Isambard was a famous british engineer involved in the production of steel) "pushing flame scorched limos to the oil rig." "mother all about the coal and the lava and the gas that we are" "digging me up to fuel rockets and risk" So we can now understand that the song is about the way humans consume fossil fuels. It's set in the future, so the song-writer is basically saying the world will be a wasteland in the future, because of the way we greedily consume the Earth's resources now. But the most difficult part of the song is why "NASA is on your side." It's difficult to understand who "you" is. At the moment I think it's the human race. I think NASA is on our side, as it's going to rescue us and take us away from the Earth when we have destroyed it because of our greed. The last verse is very striking as it says children climbed over fridges to see the death of the sun. I don't think these were physical fridges, but figuratively, they were climbing over things on the Earth when all it's resources and fuel had been milked. The narrator laughs when people said the Sun was a "treasure in the sky" which is very difficult to understand. I think it might mean that in the future they won't need the Sun. Humans will leave the Earth and won't need the Sun as they will have been rescued by NASA. They would actually enjoy the new life somewhere else. It's an interesting, imaginative idea if that is the real meaning, but this is very ambiguous, and is open to various interpretations, which is why I like this song. |
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| Everything Everything – MY KZ. UR BF Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That's interesting zombies and jarvey, because both of those make sense and both messages overlap. It's about humans moaning over petty things when serious issues are going on, that deserve the most attention. | |
| Everything Everything – NASA is on your side Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"It's happening, the sky is shattering, and they're gonna make a Death Star, out of you, but NASA is on your side" Firstly "the Death Star" is a fictional massive space-station in the Star Wars movies that is capable of destroying the earth with one beam. I think the statement is saying that people will use the earth's resources to destroy it. However "Everyone, is gonna end, up there, you're overcome, but NASA is on your side" means that people are going to end up moving from Earth, leaving it as a dump, but somehow NASA is on a particular person's side, or something's side. That's what I don't understand. I can't work out who this is speaking to. Maybe the earth, maybe the narrator's partner, maybe humans in general. Might be something else, I haven't got any concrete ideas, I'm stumped on this one. Reference might be made to the Columbian high school massacre: "In a high school massacre I'm fossilized and clear, the teenage terrorists freeze" All I got :D |
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| Everything Everything – Schoolin Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it's written in the shoes of a rebellious pupil in a school, who questions the way he is taught at school. He thinks he isn't taught about the big issues, and the things that matter in the world like trying to protect the earth. He thinks academic subjects are supported a lot more than more arts subjects like "music" and "drama" ("The cerebellum get schoolin', and no schoolin' - the drummer goes on, the drama goes on) and he doesn't agree with this. "But infinite and joyless little high fives are singing "praise the lord" talks about religious subjects. "And is it, the flogging of the Flintstone - that I'm supposed to be?" I think this is about the past (history subjects). These are all critical statements, and I think the narrator thinks these subjects are taught and supported but he thinks other things aren't considered important in society, so the "drummer" can't get far in his favourite subject. There's loads here in just one song, not just one topic, and I couldn't sit here and talk about em all, but it's generally a range of critical views towards the way kids are taught at school. |
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| Everything Everything – Schoolin Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The name of the song is a clue of what it's about. | |
| Everything Everything – Leave the Engine Room Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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First of all I want to say that these are incredible lyrics. I love their ambiguity, and the way they tell a story. Very thought-provoking, and in true everything everything style, uncompromising and unafraid to tackle big sensitive topics. Credit to them. What I'll say is this. I think it's about a young pregnant girl who is having an abortion, but in the shoes of the child, speaking to the doctor carrying out the abortion. I think firstly the doctor imagines what would happen if the child was born at the beginning of the song, "Baby gets born, rolls on his back, opens his eyes and hears a voice a-saying oh...I'll tell you a secret about yourself...Your father was bad." People would bad-mouth the child's father and also he would grow up wondering about him. So perhaps he thinks abortion is the better option. But the narrator/baby so-to-speak doesn't and questions the doctor carrying out the abortion. He describes the process saying "Cos even now, there's a bone snapping, doughy embryo, bloody hands clapping, the blood is clapping" which is very pejorative and accusing. The child points the finger of blame further at the doctor, saying "if all the boys say you did it, and all the girls say you did it. Then man, you're as guilty as the ones that came before," that last bit perhaps suggesting he feels the doctor is as guilty as the pregnant girl, or the man that impregnated the girl or maybe other doctors? Reference is also made to a type of abortion where the doctor uses a sort of vacuum to suck the embryo out of the womb (I've forgotten the name of this however). Lots of references to destroyed embryos, suggesting abortion is wrong in the narrator's eyes. "Leave me lounging, with my nerves butchered," and the girl's uterus damaged "and the ceiling torched, in the birth canal" The baby is saying that abortion is old-fashioned and that the doctor, instead of staying in the same position people were in the past (the times when "drawbridges" were used was in medieval times), should stop aborting children, and "build a road" meaning to move on and pioneer a change, which roads were in the medieval times. Finally the song ends with the baby saying that people blame him for something? not sure about the end. difficult stuff... |
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| Everything Everything – Suffragette Suffragette Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| that is so true lol :D | |
| Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What a track this is man, what a track. This is pure genius... | |
| Everything Everything – NASA is on your side Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It is beautiful, and it gets better the further into the song. I'm a lil stumped on the meaning atm, although there's talk about a high school massacre. I don't have time to concentrate on working out this song's meaning today... | |
| Sleigh Bells – Infinity Guitars Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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^ Yes ok, but guys, any ideas on the actual song meaning, cos you guys sound like you haven't a clue. I'm stabbing in the dark here, but here's what I've come up with. It's definitely an angry song. Ideas of conflict between the Indians and the European settlers are all over the lyrics, "Cowboys, Indians" "Red souls, red friends" "Sling set can't meet their demands." I think it might be about people never being satisfied with what they have, human greed. The writer uses the case with the "cowboys and Indians" in the past to compare with what's going on now, perhaps also in the music industry, "Deaf chords, dead ends, Sling set can't meet their demands..." I think it's about people stabbing each other in the back "devil horns, best friends", and at the end of the day, the writer is angry about the situation and so wants the "infinity guitars" to go ahead and bring judgement. I don't really know what infinity guitars are, but I suggest it might be linked to the music industry also, and might symbolise a group of musicians who feel the same way and might team up to bring an end to this all. It's far fetched but that's what comes to mind when "infinity guitars" is said. |
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| Gorillaz – Doncamatic (All Played Out) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is awesome. If Damon's vocals played a bigger role in the song, it would have been even better. I love the messages in this song too. I think the song talks about the way songs no longer require skill to be made to be successful. The industry has become so mass-produced, and there seems to be a formula to every successful pop song, but the writer(s) are calling for people to write music from the heart. Song-wirtinf should be a lot more spontaneous ("unplug the brain from the game") than it is these days. I think it also talks about how artists mime a lot of their music, and have their voices auto-tuned to hide their lack of talent, contradicting the whole point of singing live and the live-performance experience. (The song is not the same when we're all played out...talk to me, talk to me...) With shows like the X-factor, and the decline of pop and alternative music in the UK, I've been thinking about the same things too, and I love this. |
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