| Moby – Porcelain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In his dreams, he's dying. When he awakes, he has a kaleidoscopic (Continually shifting or rapidly changing) mind and he's going mad. He's going to kill himself. |
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| Damien Jurado – Sheets Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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His lover is lying to him by claiming to be sexually faithful. "sheets he's been in" "swallow him whole like a pill that makes you choke and stills your soul" "still you take him" He's giving her a chance to "send him back", though. |
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| VNV Nation – Legion Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Lines 1-8 are so varied and erratic that they lead me to believe that the speaker is going mad. Lines 9-15 are about his concerns about an imminent sleep (perhaps death). I think this song is the ramblings of a dying man who is losing his sanity and is apprehensive about death. |
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| VNV Nation – Further Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This entire song is an existential conversation with an important person (alive or dead) in the speaker's life. ("I will remember you") Lines 1-8 are likely rhetorical questions. It seems like the speaker is "deep" enough to have contemplated these questions already. He/She likely believes that no-one will remember us (Line 3) and that we are in no position to make moral judgments (Line 5-6), though we enforce morality upon ourselves (Line 7). I think he also believes that his consciousness will survive the end of the world ("so only shadows comfort me"..."I will see") and he will "find" the person he is addressing (either literally, or in memories). That he will "forget" that we were just "dust from heaven's fire" (and possibly "forget" himself and the person he is speaking to [Last line]). metzler000 made an excellent point regarding the punctuation of the last two lines. It's a deconstructionist's dream! The speaker is either certain that "as we were forged we shall return" or that "I will remember you and wonder who we were". This ambiguity is great. |
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