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| King Diamond – Welcome Home Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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If I'm not mistaken, the album "Them" which this song is from is a kind of a concept album about a ghost story. I remember reading an interview with him and I think as a kid, King Diamond believed this his grandmother's house was haunted. "Them" and "they" are the "invisible guests" referenced later in the album, and that probably means ghosts. Perhaps, his grandma had some kind of dementia and as a kid, he didn't really understand that and equated it to ghosts instead of her talking to nothing. I think this song is just him recalling his strange childhood memories and turning them into a ghost story. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Death Song Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think that this is the flip side to "Target Audience" from the beginning of the album. The image of the priest being beaten comes back, now one-upped by the priest killing the cop. Where "Target Audience" was slightly more mournful, "The Death Song" finds the same flaws in society and attacks and satirizes them with more bile. The "We wanna be just like you" is the defeated "Target Audience" looking up to and admiring the violence that they're subjected to on a nightly basis on TV. "The Death Song" is probably called so because of its extreme fatalism. Manson just sees the world as headed straight to its end at the rate we're going. The media, religion, and society's dependence on these institutions will be our undoing. |
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| Morrissey – The National Front Disco Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is a lot like some of Elvis Costello's early tracks like "Less Than Zero" and "Oliver's Army," in that it seems to examine what drives working class citizens to join nationalist, right-wing groups. Morrissey's take is a little bit less biting and a little more ironic. The subject of the song is a misguided youth, whose family seems to wonder if he's been "lost." Even Morrissey seems to be trying to reassure him that sometimes the wind simply blows your dreams away. "David" sees the National Front as a fun escape from his hardships, which the title of the song seems to hint at. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Oh My Lord Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I kind of think this song is about his growth as a person and performer versus the way his fans perceive him, or want to perceive him. Nick is an artist who gradually become more and more confessional and personal in his writing, culminating with 'The Boatman's Call' and I think this song was a bit of a response to those who started writing him off.
Listen to 'Saint Huck' then listen to 'Into My Arms', without Nick singing them, you'd hardly know they were written by the same person.
There is a part of him as a performer that wants to challenge his audience and take them along for the ride, but I'm sure there's also a part of him who is sensitive to the critcism (songs like 'A Box For Black Paul' and 'Scum' seem to even indicate this). |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Do You Love Me? Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This seems to be the song about a relationship between a man and a woman where the man seems co-dependent (apologising because he can't be perfect, and wondering if she even loves him back) and someone who may possibly be borderline ("a heart full of love and devotion, a mind full of tyranny and terror"). People with BPD often view friends and partners in extremes, either finding them to be perfect or entirely flawed and those perceptions can change and flip-flop. His co-dependent tendencies make him want to fix all of her problems and be everything to her and her borderline tendencies cause her to be constantly needy, unstable, controlling and manipulative.
I think the imagery used in the song lends itself to rape and violence, but I think that it's more meant to reflect the feelings and loss of restraint and control in this relationship. By the end he feels guilty for resenting her ("I swear I made every effort to be good to her..."). It's a stretch but perhaps the "crazy bracelets" line could refer to a hospital bracelets. In extreme cases of BPD, the person can use self-harm to control the actions or emotions of his/her partner.
Nobody is being killed or raped in this song in the literal sense and I wouldn't quite call this a "love song." |
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