| Eddie Vedder – Society Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"there's those thinking more or less less is more but if less is more how you're keeping score? Means for every point you make your level drops kinda like its starting from the top you can't do that..." I believe this part is about how the society is designed to prevent people from going against it. Since a person's worth is based on their material possesions and how many people willing to brown-nose them to get a part in their possesions, a person disagreeing with this societal concept will lose his status in the society. That is what he means with the lines "for every point you make your level drops". For every argument against the society a person presents, the society defends itself by denouncing that person as something bad and of low value, so the people within the society thinks badly of the person, and that prevents them from logically understanding and actually listen to the arguments. Instead they'll react in the opposite direction and go back to their 500 TV channels of nonsense entertainment and comfortably reinforce this massive lie that is their lives. So in the essence, the more you argue against the society the less people will listen to you, and like the song says, you can't do that. |
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| Pixies – The Holiday Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I have to agree with mr.v about the meaning being a, as mr.v writes, "very well written reflection about growing up feeling weird about your sexuality vs your religious upbringing". I would like to add my thoughts to this. Well sit right down my wicked son And let me tell you a story About the boy who fell from glory And how he was a wicked son - A father is telling his son about a person acting in a way he doesn't approve of. He doesn't want his son to be like this. He tells his son that he will become worthless if behaves like the boy in the story. Since his son is wicked, his son must have done something similiar to what happens in the story. This ain't no holiday But it always turns out this way Here I am with my hand - The father doesn't like to have to have to teach you discipline the hard way. "Here I am with my hand" refers to the father telling his son that he is ready to hit him if he doesn't behave correctly. He took his sister from his head And then painted her on the sheets - Story about some boy who takes his fantasies about a girl (sister meaning female of the same age in general) out of his head and impregnates her, most likely outside of marriage. Something the father wouldn't want to happen with his son. And then rolled her up in grass and trees And they kissed 'till they were dead - Then he rolls a joint, another thing the father doesn't approve of, and smokes it. The death means the joint is finished, his lust for females is satisfied and because he will die in the sense that he becomes worthless / loses his glory. This ain't no holiday But it always turns out this way Here I am, with my hand Well sit right down my evil son And let me tell you a story About the boy who fell from glory And how he was a wicked son - The father now refers to his son as being evil instead of being wicked. Perhaps because the son defends himself or disagrees with his father. This ain't no holiday But it always turns out this way Here I am, with my hand This ain't no holiday But it always turns out this way Here I am, with my hand - The father beats up his son to make him agree with him. The chorus is repeated twice, so the son resists the beatings and the father continous until the son has been silenced. Silenced in a way that he doesn't openly argue his case anymore - but the son is not convinced to follow his fathers ideals. |
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