| Dr. Dog – Livin' a Dream Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is so honest. The spoken section is so profound that when I first heard it, I thought they'd taken an excerpt from a famous speech or something. It's so true, though, the decline in society. It vaguely reminds me of the book Fahrenheit 451. | |
| The Cranberries – Zombie Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I always thought this song was about someone with PSD (Post-traumatic stress syndrome). Like, 'in their head' it's always war, always fighting, always death. This would be further justified with lyrics like 'they're still fighting'...'they're still dying'. Now I'm not sure if this is what the artist intended, but it still works. | |
| Streetlight Manifesto – Would You Be Impressed? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song is about society's general attitude. People see things that are wrong, but refuse to believe that they had any part in contributing. Worldwide things, like Global Warming, and war, and inflation; everybody is responsible. People walk around, however, assuring themselves that they hold no blame, and live their lives without doing anything to help. "We wine, we dine, and everything is fine because it's not my fault." Me? Nah, it's the next guy. This sort of disposition is the real problem with the world, and until people can look up and see that, yeah, it's their fault, nothing can be solved. At the end of the song, he has the sudden epiphany that he's been in denial of all these wrongs, and pleads guilty before it's too late. "I said it's all my fault." That's my interpretation. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – A Moment of Silence Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It could be about Catch-22, but I knew this song before I knew who Catch-22 was, so I never really thought of it that way. I feel like the general theme to this song is empathy for those that are generally neglected and disliked. ("I never met a loser that I didn't see eye to eye with I declare") Somebody in the story is in their own fantasy world away from reality ("What's it like, to stand in your shoes? To have never felt the belt of somebody's abuse?" "How long do you think you can go before you lose it all? Before they call your bluff and watch you fall?") and afraid to face the truth, that nobody really likes them. Things are starting to crumble for this person, their facade starting to die ("our days were numbered and the reaper tipped the hour glass, the final mayday of our sinking ship had come and passed."). "to the west you don't know what it is you're running from"--'the west' has been used a lot as a metaphor for death, since the sun sets there. Whether he means the death of a person or a concept such as this person's warped reality, I don't know. That's just my two cents. |
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