| Tune-Yards – Bizness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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While the author of the verses might have had one meaning in mind, we all have only our own subjective lenses to interpret from, and we're all going to interpret in different ways. And yes, I, for one, like being thorough. I wish I could supplant YOUR life into this to make it more relevant to you, dear internet person, but I don't know you. It'd be nice, if, instead, you contribute your own argument. |
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| Two Door Cinema Club – Do You Want It All? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Ooooh I neglected to recognize the tense changes between "you" and "we" So I'm guessing that the song is more of a conversation, then, between those who are struggling, and the singer who (using the plural 'you') is telling those who are struggling that maybe they are full of fantasies. I mean, I get overwhelmed when I don't know what I'm doing with my life, when my dreams are vague and I just know that I want to be good at everything. But the truth is that I can't be good at everything. I'm one person. Trying to be good at everything will just make me feel lost, like the people in this song. Like the people in this song, I say "all in good time," I'll work it out, but then I don't take charge, and slip back into a mediocre misery. And so, I think that the singer is pointing out that maybe they who are feeling 'low' are feeling overwhelmed from wanting too much. |
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| Two Door Cinema Club – Do You Want It All? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The song is pretty self-explanatory. It's an anthem for those who are struggling in their lives, and aren't quite up to their potential ("We're low in our hearts / We're low in our heads") but they expect to (or at least, say that they expect to) eventually succeed ("all in good time"). Even if they say it's all in good time, they still feel like they're left wanting and crave for everything that they think is missing in their lives ("Do you want it / Do you want it / Do you want it all?") They struggle with being proactive ("We'll take charge / We'll all take our chances / All in good times") Finally, the last verse is heard as: "All because you want to be / All because you want to be" or "All because you want to be All / because you want to be all" I think this is a really interesting ending, and can mean many things depending on who's interpreting it. It can refer to someone looking for self-realization, or to someone who is over-reaching in their search for identity, and other possibilities, I'm sure. The song is very open to much more personal interpretations since the lyrics are vague, but, hey, it's great music, and that's the gist of it. |
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| Tune-Yards – Bizness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| damn, that was a lot longer than I meant it to be. sorry kids. like I said, the summary's the last paragraph. | |
| Tune-Yards – Bizness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I had such a hard time interpreting this for some reason but now that I've worked it out (I think), here's the analysis (with summary below): This is about a woman trying to get back together with her former lover. First, she says to him that though she left him and scarred him, he should really just get over it. She says he'll be okay if he just toughs it out. She has changed into a better person, supposedly: "If I represent the one that did this to you Then can away the part that represents the thing that scarred you I say, Get up, stand up, get up, stand up, get on it Yessir, I am no longer who you thought this one would be" She left him before but is now back to talking with him, saying that they can still work. They can still do 'the business' which is either the act of having sex or of settling in a relationship (the word 'business' threw me for a loop, but it's actually, cleverly, describing the transactional nature of their relationship; i.e. she's a user and so sees relationships as a user): "We end up around the mountain that I climb to lose you I said, I said give me the business that business could work through" But when he confronts her on her reasoning, she falters because she doesn't really know why she wants him back (she doesn't know what she wants, or doesn't want to admit it): "I say, Ask me but all my wisdom departed" And she doesn't listen to him, either. So they have communication problems. "Tell me but all my wisdom departed" The chorus is the narrator's demand that they still maintain the relationship. Within this demand, she is 1) guilt-tripping him by telling him that 'you're the reason I'm living', 2) claiming that anything that went wrong is not her fault, and 3) revealing that she's addicted to something (sex? him? Is she just plain needy? or maybe she's literally a drug fiend.): "But help please at least answer me this, Answer me, answer me What's the business, yeah Don't take my life away / From a distance, yeah / I'm a victim, yeah / I'm addicted, yeah / Don't take my life away" She says to look at everything from her perspective, but knows that doing so would 'lift up' and 'dig up' the past and doing so would hurt him: "If you just press your fingers down under my skin (Go on and do it) Lift up, dig up, lift up, dig up and bleed for me" And she says she'll try to see things his way too but waits for him to ask. This tells me that she cares little for him and won't take the initiative to soothe him. "I say, I'll bleed if you ask me I'll bleed if you ask me" That's when he says no to everything she offered. It's all bullshit and he's had enough, "That's when, that's when, he said no" TL;DR The narrator tries to convince her former lover to take her back (either to bed or into a relationship). He was hurt when she left him but she tries to convince him anyway. She's a user who clearly hasn't changed from before, and so he says no. |
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| Tune-Yards – Powa Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's about sex as a way to fight -- not in order to be a rebel like in many songs about sex -- but to fight loneliness and insecurity. ["I can never get to sleep I'm a rebel, rebel, no Hold me til I get to sleep"] It's about taking abusive relationships/flings for the attention, and more than that, it's about feeling like she NEEDS the abuse to feel whole. ["Cause you bomb me with lies, humiliations everyday You bomb me so many times I never find my way Come on and bomb me"] They have a violent relationship, but she feels empowered because of it because she's still a part of it, no matter the violence. It sounds like the result of stockholm syndrome. She identifies with his power over her. ["Your power In mine It gives me thrills I can't describe Your face in mine Oh baby, I just don't know why"] It's quite the twisted-relationship type of song. It feels very intimate, really risque, and so very beautifully real. PLUS the music is fantastic! Gotta love it. |
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| Tune-Yards – Powa Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| oh well hello. I did not mean to reply there. I'm still getting the hang of this site and it looks like I can't delete it. sorry for any confusion! | |
| Tune-Yards – Powa Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's about sex as a way to fight -- not in order to be a rebel like in many songs about sex -- but to fight loneliness and insecurity. ["I can never get to sleep I'm a rebel, rebel, no Hold me til I get to sleep"] It's about taking abusive relationships/flings for the attention, and more than that, it's about feeling like she NEEDS the abuse to feel whole. ["Cause you bomb me with lies, humiliations everyday You bomb me so many times I never find my way Come on and bomb me"] They have a violent relationship, but she feels empowered because of it because she's still a part of it, no matter the violence. It sounds like the result of stockholm syndrome. She identifies with his power over her. ["Your power In mine It gives me thrills I can't describe Your face in mine Oh baby, I just don't know why"] It's quite the twisted-relationship type of song. It feels very intimate, really risque, and so very beautifully real. PLUS the music is fantastic! Gotta love it. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I imagine that Thom is writing about a man who gets frustrated with reading the paper and so drowns any worries about world issues with what amounts to work and beer. He switches between the two modes of 'caring' and 'not giving a fuck' Here's my breakdown: 1) The song is about a man who's looking for safety ["who's in a bunker?"] 2) but either has to keep taking care of family or (from a male viewpoint) feels safety is for women and children. ["women and children first"] 3) He is overwhelmed by the amount of information that is coming in about the world and feels isolated in knowing so much about world issues, ["I have seen too much / I haven't seen enough / You haven't seen it"] ["I'll swallow until I burst"] 4) and keeps hearing so much that even though he tries to care, he gets really sick of it and throws the issues out of his head (burning the newspaper/book, etc). ["Ice age coming / Let me hear both sides ... Ice age coming / Throw it on the fire / Throw it on the fire"] ["We're not scaremongering / This is really happening"] 4) Instead he seeks fun, even if it's stupid and pointless fun, so he can feel like he's his own master ["I'll laugh until my head comes off"] ["Here I'm allowed / Everything all of the time"] 5) and focuses on making money, no matter the consequences. ["Mobiles skwerking / Mobiles chirping / Take the money and run"] I'm framing it linearly but really it is all a jumbled mess in this person's head, as internal conflicts tend to be in real life. Brilliant song! |
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