| Neutral Milk Hotel – April 8th Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| To me it seems like this song is about a lonely, depressed woman who wants to be taken in by somebody and comforted. However, it sounds like this person has given up hope that it will ever happen and wants to die because of it. That dying for her is the greatest comfort that she could receive. When I listen to the song I imagine that she is addressing Death and that at the end of the song she receives him with the metaphor of the blankets. Kind of a morbid interpretation, but it is Neutral Milk Hotel after all. | |
| The Alan Parsons Project – Some Other Time Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It seems to me that this song is about some person who is looking up at the night sky and contemplating a star that is fading out of existence or that may have gone supernova. I think the lyrics are saying that the star will be gone and that the viewer is only seeing the left over light from the star due to distance (even though the star is no longer physically present) and because of this it is making him wonder whether someone in the future could be looking at his own light so to speak, even though in that scenario he would no longer exist. | |
| Justin Bieber – Baby Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is about seducing millions of stupid teenage girls into buying horrible music: courtesy some writer, a kid with no balls, a washed up rapper and lots of studio technicians. | |
| Radiohead – Reckoner Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Like ReckonerInRainbow's interpretation I also think the song is about death, but more specifically the beauty of death. During the bridge when Thom is talking about separating in rainbows from blank shores and all that, it sounds like he's describing a transition from a bleak place (blank shore) to somewhere better (the vastness of water) and since it's occurring in rainbows there is a hint of beauty there. I think these lyrics are a metaphor for death and the beauty of the transition one experiences when they die (at least according to Thom Yorke). Also, when he is asking the reckoner to take him and then dedicates it to "all human beings" it seems like he's taking a shot at humanity, like they are responsible for the bleakness. So all wrapped up, this song could be a message that the separation from humanity is beautiful (more specifically humanity as a whole) and that death is also beautiful in relation to this, as it is the ultimate separation (compared to bittersweet distractors: which could be artistic escapes or pleasures or something). Kind of a downer, but it is Radiohead after all. What do you guys think? |
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| Radiohead – Bloom Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the song could possibly be about the oceans rising as a result of globing warming, eventually flooding the continents. This is what he may mean about the oceans blooming, but I also think there could be an intended double meaning to the bloom as the ocean provides a lot of food and other resources that helps sustain humanity (or even perhaps a reference to the microscopic, photosynthetic algae of the oceans that supply a majority of the earth's oxygen). This double meaning would then be ironic in my interpretation as the ocean is both bolstering and killing us at the same time (paradoxical: "don't blow your mind with why"). "Diving into those eyes" could also be some obscure reference to fate, as though there's a higher power that is responsible. I also know Yorke has a bit of an environmental bent politically, which is the foundation for what leads me to think that this is what the song is about. I'm probably over analyzing though. Anyway, that's my two cents. I also like Reedy's interpretation, that the song is about someone committing suicide. |
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