| Everything Everything – MY KZ. UR BF Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the clue to this song is the line: 'It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine.' Let's say the guillotine is the cutting off of the relationship, and the A4 paper is the people in it. Suddenly the reality of the people's lives becomes more important than what happens between them. Why 'A4'? This seems to deepen the contrast. 'Paper' has several possible meanings - newspaper, wallpaper, paperwork etc., but 'A4 paper' is just an everyday commodity, so a passive thing (peoples' lives) suddenly takes over from an active thing (the separation). 'It's like I'm watching...' shows the speaker overwhelmed by the experience, unable to describe it without sounding contradictory. I like jhibley's 'Cover up their mouths' explanation, but the last verse seems to take us into a wider world ('Now they say the Army's on fire) which suggests that the 'munitions rain' is one terrorist incident in a campaign that gets worse for everybody ('I haven't seen the body count lately' etc.). 'sitting with our parachutes on when the airport's gone' relates to its choral partner 'sitting in a Faraday cage when the lights all failed' - an illusion of safety (a Faraday cage protects you from lightning/wearing a parachute) in a disaster (the lights all failed/the airport's gone) though I still can't tie either directly to the rest of the song. |
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| Everything Everything – Come Alive Diana Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Ever since the death of Lady Diana, tabloid newspapers have used her picture on the front page to attract readers. The thin stories they are attached to are mostly about conspiracy theories over her death, particularly Dodi Fayed's father's claim that she was deliberately killed, amongst other reasons to stop her marrying an Egyptian Moslem. Come alive Diana, I don't have time, to dig a grave, but I know, it's the only option left to me now summer has sucked the stone, and burst your tyres. An unwillingness to accept her death. On the shore you found him, warped and wild were his eyes, and they shook and they quivered in their sockets like a bullet they ricocheted between your thighs. After the bloodless charade of the marriage to Charles, Dodi woke her physical passion. Her phantom head! Is thinking for all mankind I saw her portrait in the Mail All you now see of Diana is her portrait on newspaper posters, a phantom head Her phantom head was directing the holiest of hunts The hunt for her supposed killers, holy from its crusading nature I made mistakes! I lost an author, ooh, and then I lost a daughter's awe Reported friction between Diana and her biographer, and with her father Line the streets Diana, with armoured cars, Contrasting people on the streets for her funeral and to protest oh column inch, timeless inch - can you inch another centimetre closer to hearts and minds? You'll win them yet. Newspapers exploiting her memory, as if feelings for someone now long dead could somehow grow. They're ringing and ringing the Liberty Bell Always talking about freedom to disract us from their control and I can feel the heat, I can hear the heat, rising for That Aryan Aryan Aryan knell A white establishment using Diana populism to fuel a fascist resurgence, making the death of Dodi irrelevant or even desirable [And her phantom head,] is rolling around some yard, while simultaneously wired We view the world through her eyes, like a victim of the guillotine, seeing the ugly truth only in the last moments of life. A wonderful song, dealing with the perversity of the media and the use of iconic characters to manipulate public emotions. At this late stage, as the song suggests, 'the only option left' is to 'dig a grave' and let her memory rest in peace. But 'I don't have time'... so Diana must 'come alive', or rather stay 'alive' as a phantom. |
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| Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Nice interpretations! Also: You've become a smithereen - a tiny broken piece, alienation, fragmentation, dissolution (RD Laing) Up in heaven its symettrical - 'As above, so below' Heraclitus How do I live in the present? - Zen: if you have to ask, you won't understand the answer Can I change my own density - pun/Malapropism on destiny What have you done to my father? - maybe connected to 'Where is the country you died for? (Lots of father references on this album) why does he look like a carving - effects of ageing, deeply lined face? Rainforest in a Oxo cube - deforestation for beef farming in S America Struck by lighning if I take the Tube - impressed (struck) by sparking rails (lighning)? A landmark in songwriting! |
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