| The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I would have to say I disagree. It's a rather dark song- it's using happy celesta instrumentals and seemingly happy lyrics to convey an extremely sarcastic, dark outlook- As many songs are, it's told both by and at the narrator, and it represents someone so far down the gutter that they're telling themselves off while laughing at it in a dark fashion, in the way that someone whom positively despises themselves would. The 'it's okay' part of the having someone beside you is meant as a self-criticism. The narrator presumably goes to large parties, does either so many drugs or drinks so much alcohol that he blacks out- along with half the partygoers. In the morning, he relies on someone else that is not quite as destroyed as he is to either call for a ride or call and ambulance. When he says the line about it being alright, he's criticizing himself for being so lazy and carelessly reliant on others, because one day that other person is not going to be there to save him. But the narrator knows that he is never going to change his habits, and hates himself for it. The 'wasted years' refers to the fact that he has done nothing with his life for a long time; he's been out getting wasted instead. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It's not necessarily psychedelic, and psychedelic-sounding music isn't necessarily used just for drug references. I would argue that it's largely surrealistic instead, especially considering some of the more bizarre lyrics. Now, with the references to whips, leather, love, sin and violence, it's fairly obvious that the song covers BDSM. If he were using BDSM as a metaphor for drugs, he would have stated the BDSM part more plainly to allow correct interpretation of the drug half. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Leather is pretty common in BDSM practices. The song isn't necessarily confined to just being a summary of the book. | |
| Bob Dylan – Lay Down Your Weary Tune Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Bob didn't use drugs to write songs. He said so himself many times. It's an insult to his work to say that the wonderful imagery coming from this song was simply a result of drugs. | |
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