| The Smiths – Suffer Little Children Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| For those who keep wondering where the title comes from, it's from the Bible. It's a well known phrase that has been used in art, music, and literature for quite some time. | |
| Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Personally, I don't see how anyone can say its about a girl. It's a play on the idea of finding a needle in a haystack, that needle happens to be a syringe. So yeah, it's about heroin. I disagree with everyone though who keeps saying the line about getting good marks is about "needle marks." First, they're rarely referred to as that; the usual term is track marks, and when shortened that becomes tracks. Second, they're not something to show off, aside from validity that you use. I think marks refers to say, grades, or reviews, or just outside recognition, which the author is saying doesn't really matter, it's the veneer he puts up to the outside world. I can see an alternate idea that would work a girl that includes other ideas presented by others here though... the author is the "he" referred to earlier. She is the "you" and his is scheming to get money, getting her friends to pass bad checks, while he play dumb. She pulls him through the eye of the needle (a third use of this word) and made him a junkie. The second half of the song is him looking to score with "the man" (oldschool term for dealer, ex: Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For The Man"). Cure usually means a treatment to kick the habit, so that's odd though, but a fix is a cure for the sickness for awhile, so perhaps thats as far ahead as he's looking. |
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| Nirvana – The Other Improv Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Your blood does not turn white when you shoot up heroin, that's incredibly silly. Personally, I think those parts of the song are about love, oddly enough. That the singer loves someone else so much, that they can survive on just the bile and excrement of the other person. Milk is nourishment, shit is discarded waste. The singer loves the other person so much, that even that will sustain them. The rest of the song is mainly scraps of themes and ideas, I'm guessing. Kurt wrote songs in a haphazard manner, taking lines from various scraps he had written, and putting them together. He also enjoyed themes of bodily fluids and uncomfortable aspects of human biology (see Drain You, most of In Utero.) |
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