| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Dear Prudence (The Beatles cover) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Wow, that's cool! I read your post and found it interesting about the passages that you used to describe wisdom and how you connected this song to the concept of wisdom. | |
| KMFDM – Tohuvabohu Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It mean "let us hear". | |
| The Sisters of Mercy – Afterhours Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This, like so many songs by The Sisters of Mercy, is another very sensual one. It deals with the whole idea of love being over in the morning -- "2 o'clock in the morning" -- something also expressed in 'Some Kind Of Stranger'. This also is a precursor to 'Some Kind Of Stranger' with the use of the endearment "angel", in reference, of course, to the girl with whom the singer has eloped with. The concept of dying sexual emotions is furthered by how the singer commands the girl to "Get up off the floor", meaning that she was being sexual submissive to him, and to put her clothes on, since the so called "love" is over. Then again, like so many of their songs, this song contains deeper meaning than just the rather obvious sexual ones. "One more night spent on your mirror" refers to how the singers "lover" is shallow, concerned more about her appearance than personality. "Black Maria" is a British term referring to the police van that transports criminals to jail; here, the way the singer uses it could be interpreted in multiple ways, but I think it's meaning is that the girl is like a Black Maria, carrying the singer away to some sort of psychological prison. "This stuff so strange and lonely England fades away/In your eyes" -- the singer acknowledges that what they had what empty and shallow, yet the outside world seems to disappear in the moment of such intimacy, regardless of how fake and temporary it is in the end. "Ninety-four degrees through the stillness, through the heat/The cars go by on Fifth" -- 94 degrees Fahrenheit is the average internal temperature of the human body, so the singer is essentially referencing the heat emanating from the other person, yet life is still going on outside of this elopement, since while time is frozen to "stillness" for the singer, cars are still moving and people are still going about. And since the love is over and there's nothing left "It's time for us to go/Let's take a ride". |
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| The Sisters of Mercy – Fix Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Haha, I indirectly was hinting at that, because in the nineteenth century there was a huge shift to nationalism backed by socialism that was opposing the established conservative capitalist system; this song definitely hints at that idea. I guess I just forgot to mention that with everything else....oops.. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD |
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| The Sisters of Mercy – Fix Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Wow, not one comment yet. I think I shall change that.... In brief, I believe that this song is about complete government/oligarchy control. "Love for the party, love for the nation" - Party is short for political party, which makes sense with the next love being 'for the nation' which means that it's a nationalistic political party; these tend to be very liberal and have socialistic tendencies. "Love for the fix for the fabrication" - The fix seems to have a double meaning. The obvious one is related to having the high one gets from drugs. The second one is being hypnotized by government propaganda and being another one of the controlled sheep, which then really seems supported by 'fabrication'; fabrication here means the half truths and the lies that the government tells in order to appease the masses and keep them under control. "Love for the corpse, for the corporation" - The corpse could be a metaphor for the remains of what was a free(r) nation, which has been over taken by a corporation that now rules as an oligarchy that works to instill love and strong support from the masses for itself while controlling them. "Love for the death and defecation" - 'Death' is analogical for the death of the older nation (that I mentioned earlier); defecation has two meanings, to have a bowl movement or to become clear of impurities. I believe it is used here in the second meaning, which means that the narrator supports the eradication of the old system. "Romance and assassination" - "Romance" is analogical for the patriotic nationalistic love a revolutionary would have. Assassination would be a mode of obtaining such a person's end; this could be reminiscent of something like the unification of Italy, where assassinations and gorilla warfare help to expelled Austria and other foreign powers from Italy in order to unite it under democratic Italian control. "Give me the love of genocide" - While we usually associate the word 'genocide' with something like the Holocaust (the deliberate and systematic extermination of a racial group), it also can deal with nations or political groups. I have a feeling that here genocide is used for the latter, especially in the idea of destroying an old political group and system in favor of another. "Give me love" - While Eldritch normally sings about carnal love, here it's a metaphor for patriotism and, perhaps, national support. |
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| The Sisters of Mercy – Floorshow Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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When I first heard this song, I only understood bits and parts, and from what I gathered, it appeared to me like another sex-song, particularly focused on exotic dancers. Upon actually looking up the lyrics, I find that I was wrong. Please allow me to recant and give a more suitable "translation" In brief, this song is describing a club scene, similar to "Body Electric" as The Knave pointed out. "The bodies on the naked on the low damp ground" - This notes how the clubbers are scantily clad, and in a rather unclean area...perhaps damp refers to spilled drinks. "In the violent hour to the violent sound" - Here Eldritch describes the dancing, how they are sporadically moshing or grinding to the harsh techno-gothic whatever-you-call-it music that the club is playing. It's rather dark in the club, because you can only see the whites of people's eyes - "And the darkenss the blinding, the eyes that shine". The people are having a good time, listening to the music, even singing along and clapping to the songs, thus creating quite a ruckus - "And the voices and the singing and the line on line", and sweating - "And the animal flow from the animal glands". "Going round, and around, and.." I think that part is very straight foward.... Anyways, Andrew then really gives us a personal experience of what he sees on the stage, seeing such a scene - "I feel the bite I feel the beat I see the dancing feet/I feel the light I feel the heat I see the new elite/I see the final floorshow I see the western dream/I see the faces glow and I see the bodies steam". Here, he describes feeling the rhythm and beat of the music that the Sisters are playing - brutal, wild, savage. On stage, he also sees the people dancing, using the synecdoche of 'feet' for the people; also, he feels the direct heat of the lights and strobes that flash around the club, and shine on the stage. The elite is, perhaps, a sarcastic term towards the proud lounge lizards who haunt clubs, accusing people of being wannabes and stereotypes, when they themselves are the greatest offenders. Then, Andrew refocuses on the crowd, seeing their faces and sweaty bodies, via strobe lights and other forms of illumination. With final 'floorshow', he means the last song they are going to perform; Western dream: hedonism, or indulging oneself completely in physical and material occupations...starting back in the 60s, the world took on a more materialistic edge that has grown ever since, and Eldritch does have some hedonistic tendencies. "See them shimmy see them go/See their painted faces glow/Slow slow quick quick slow/See those pagans go go go go go" - Basically, straight-forward, describing the dancing he sees. 'Painted faces' is an older way of saying "wearing make-up"; the word 'paint' denotes heavy or thick, a reference to gothic make-up (also associated with prostitutes in older times....). Pagans, which Andrew uses frequently in this song, he means hedonists (as many ancient pagans were), people with out much morals, or faith, simply living life for pleasure, and currently receiving such pleasure from clubbing and being part of the 'floorshow'. "This is the floorshow the last ideal/It's populist got mass appeal/The old religion redefined/For the facile futile totally blind" - Eldritch compares this show to religion, how it's the faith of those who have, perhaps, lost faith in almost all religious and philosophical teaching, the last resort - "the last ideal". The 'mass appeal" means that it attracts everybody's base sense of pleasure and sensory feeling, so anybody, regardless of all qualifications, could find much enjoyment in a vibrant and social activity. Once again, he hints at paganism, "the old religion", that is very much interwoven with hedonism, and living for the now and this contingent world. Now, he seems to insult the crowd, calling them, basically, hopeless people who easily lose their anima and are foiled, thus easily give up, blind and ignorant of reality, because they give up to easily to try. "Mundane by day inane at night/Pagan playing in the flashing light" - Eldritch further insults the crowd, calling them tiresome and dull when outside the club scene, like another ordinary person, and at night, in the clubs, the same thing, lacking of sense and substance. He once again calls the crowd "pagan", short for hedonistic people who have a religious dedication to clubbing, "playing in the flashing light", or simply dancing in the club while strobe lights flash around them. Well, that's that. Just a disclaimer: this is a personal interpretation, and honestly the real meaning lies with the poet. I could have either read it too deep, or not deep enough, or if I am lucky, I have gotten the song. That's all from me now! I am mentally out of breath from all that dissecting... |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cities In Dust Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Exactly! You typed all that I had no energy to type. The destruction of Pompeii was a indeed a microcosm for the destruction of Rome. In fact, I almost sense a warning from Siouxsie about history repeating itself with they way the world is becoming, espeically in America. | |
| Fall Out Boy – My Heart Is the Worst Kind of Weapon Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Yikes! This song is definately a warning to not cheat on any member of FOB. So I always thought this song was about cheating, but when i truly scrutenized it, I realized that the cheater was having sexual relations with multiple guys behind the writer's back, and he knows and is upset about the fact that he had a relationship with a slut who desired sexual excitement WAY too much. Moral: don't ever cheat, especially if his name is Andy, Joe, Pat, or Pete, mmkay? |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Rawhead And Bloodybones Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is the retelling of the myth of Rawhead and Bloodybones, a folklore creature who is rumored to reward good children and punish bad ones: Bloody-Bones is said to live near water (in older tellings) and under sink pipes (in newer tellings). Rawhead/Bloodybones rewards very good children, but will punish naughty children by dragging them down the drainpipes or into the water and drowning them. In addition to drowning naughty children, he is said to be able to turn them into objects such as pieces of trash or spots of jam, which are inadvertently cleaned-up and thrown out by unwitting parents. [quote:www.monstropedia.org] Rawhead and Bloodybones is also said to have big pop-eyes, a scrunched and crouching form, horns, claws, scabs, and a gremlin form. There is also a rhyme associated with it: Rawhead and Bloody Bones Steals naughty children from their homes, Takes them to his dirty den, And they are never seen again. |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Dear Prudence (The Beatles cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Agreeing with everyong above, this is definately a beautiful song, a great cover of a Beatles song. This song is about a girl with depression who is too upset and hopeless to see thegood and beauty around her. The singer, in this case Siouxsie, is trying to cheer up Prudence and show her that there is hope, beauty, and goodness in the world, no matter the other unpleasent things one will find. |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Ornaments Of Gold Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Like what Jimmy2345 said, this whole song references the passage he quoted from the Koran. This song is the opposite of what it seems, because it shows the emptiness of materialism and how for materialistic people, their true love lies within 'precious' material goods rather than anything of human or philosophical value: "And ornaments of gold Warm my soul from the growing cold" Like here, she indicates that gold gives her more comfort and love than the actual and real love of another (human) also, I am not inferring by 'she' that Siouxsie is materialistic.). Like a lot of her other works, this song is sarcastic and satirical. |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cities In Dust Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is not only about the destruction of Pompeii by Vesuvius, but also the deterioration of the Roman society. "Under the mountain, a golden fountain Were you praying at the Lares shrine?" It's seen here that Siouxsie is talking about how avaricious and greedy they were as well as how dependent they were on their pagan gods (the Lares is actually the gods of the household who protected the family, property and farms. They also gaurded entire cities. Shrines to the Lares were found in peoples homes and often at crossroads). Due to their self-absorbtion, the empire collapsed and was easily taken down by unkindly enemies. Siouxsie was inspired by this song with a visit she had to the remains of Pompeii, and we can see her thoughts on the way the archaeologists treat the site: "Dragged and washed with eager hands" Siouxsie is quite the historian and intelligent woman! =] |
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