| Freur – Doot Doot Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The lyrics, as posted above and in the comments, are incorrect. Here in the dark Watching the screen Look at them fall <--- this line should be "The curtain falls" The final scene Watch any live English-language version of this song and it is very clear what that third line says. As for the meaning: it is a bit... simplistic, perhaps, to take these cinematic allusions at face value. It's not a deep mysterious song, it's just about seeing someone and being attracted to them, feeling like they have taken center-stage in your life (or your mind, or your heart), and then they are gone and you're wondering: was any of that real? Were they ever that shining, beautiful person I thought they were? Or was that just another dream? |
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| Wolfsheim – Once In A Lifetime Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"This song means, That even though god has taken his life from him(wife and child) he does not hate or feel anger towards god or those who have done wrong to him." Ummm, no. If you look at the actual lyrics, the narrator is standing defiantly before god on the shore, almost taunting, "while all the others are praying". I.e. praying isn't going to cut it, he wants a reckoning. And he says that god has given him so much pain and doubt and fear that he has "nothing left to lose" by his defiance, and he's not even going to pretend he has love for a god that would kill his wife and child. And he sends out this challenge, this taunt, but only "silence comes back" to him. And he says: god, you really messed this one up... I could have been an ally but now "don't you know that you're losing so much this time?" And he rejects what has happened, rejects god, decides that if it comes down to living in such a god's world he'd rather die "beyond the waves"... he's rejecting everything that has anything to do with god, even his life. This is actually sort of central to the whole song... if you think about it, "just once in a lifetime" might be related to "live each day like it was your last", which is a nice sentiment but in reality things have consequences and the only time you can really live a day like it was your last, and not have to deal with even more consequences, is if it is actually your last day. He then taunts god, saying that "there is no lesson you can learn", the implication being that a god who would kill his wife and child must not really understand human love and experience. He finishes by saying that isn't even going to pretend that he loves god, because "I'm not scared of you". He's not scared because he doesn't care - he rejects such a god and all of the things that might come from such a god, including his life. So, I'm going to have to disagree on the "no anger or hate towards god" idea. Though I suppose it is possible that he doesn't feel hate or anger because he has just had enough and won't even give god the pleasure of him reacting to the things that god has done... he's just got cold certainty, and a racing heart because even though he is determined, he knows (more than god knows, he says) that his life COULD have meaning, COULD have value, but god messed up and he simply doesn't care anymore and isn't going to continue playing the game, or even pretending to play the game. But I've got a feeling that isn't what you meant. If one were so inclined there is a wonderful opportunity here, an important lesson that could be learned: that when it comes to religion people will twist whatever they hear to support their beliefs. But people capable of learning that lesson usually don't have that problem to begin with. |
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| David Bowie – Time Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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> Bowie himself, in an interview once said in regards to this song something like "Oh my god! I've written a GAY song!" To be fair, this is the entire quote: "I've written a new song on the new album called 'Time', and I thought it was about time, and I wrote very heavily about time, and the way I felt about time - at times! - and I played it back after we recorded it and, my God, it was a gay song! And I'd no intention of writing anything at all gay. When I listened to it back I just couldn't believe it." - Bowie, Jan 1973. It's apparent that in terms of content and intent, this is merely a song about time, but even Bowie himself realized that people were going to take the general impression from the words (whore, wanking, boy) and declare it to be a gay song. Recall that years later the gay community dropped him like a hot rock for having the audacity to write songs about, for, and with women, many of whom he was also sleeping with. And a very large percentage of "gay icons" aren't gay themselves, just seen as accessible to the gay community. Not all of them are very happy about that, but whatever, it's pretty graceless to slam one's fans when they are supporting you. In recent years this has become a very polarizing issue. Ani DiFranco, who says she is bisexual, has stopped a number of shows right in the middle and flat-out asked the lesbians in the crowd to be more respective of the straight people (and men) in the crowd - she said the music is for everyone, she's glad it makes people feel, but doesn't want the feelings of one part of the crowd to drown out, prevent, or invalidate the feelings of others in the crowd - something the gay people in the crowd should have already thought about, since they're always upset about being on the other side of that equation. Later Ani married a man and at our local dyke bar the now ex-fans burned Ani's records, Cds, and t-shirts. The point? This isn't a gay song, if there even is such a thing. It's a song, about time, but even Bowie realized it would be taken by the gay community to be one of 'their' songs. But all of that "us & them" "ours & theirs" stuff is after the fact, completely irrelevant, and missing the point. It's a song. It's a very, very good song. Listen to it. Enjoy it. |
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