| Tapes N Tapes – Freak Out Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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(I love this kind of vague lyrics, but with excellent energetic music!) I think this is a song about general chasm between being wild and being civilized. Between one side which longs for freedom, honesty, simple and straight talk and acts, and other which complies to general social norms and rules. I think the official video is pretty straightforward - it shows a homemade video of New Year's party in 1994, crazy excesses of a girl, her dancing, eating and drinking, the main singer appears and she ends up hugging him and throwing up at him. The vid ends with lead singer watching the video with her, who is revealed to be his newlywed wife. So the song sings about change from the evening with partying and booze, into "the one you'll never know", so a person different than in that carefree party time. She is a wild man, free from others, isn't concerned what will others say about her and he likes that. But he can't stay that way and he'll retain his civilized daily manners and "go to places she'll never know". He likes her, a lot, and is worried how will she react to his daily "normal" behaviour and he wants her to stay with him, even though he can't be that free/wild as they were at the party. |
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| Milky Chance – Stolen Dance Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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All of this can very well be about drug addiction. Now I propose two possible interpretations: First the dark one; The author metaphorically sings about the stuff he craves. HE is stoned and he shouldn't talk about how great it is. He actually succumbed to his addiction and every moment without it he feels cold and alone. "They" are the people who want to help him and take the drugs away from him, but he doesn't care, he found them anyways and enjoys them. So pretty dark all in all. Now for the bit nicer one, he's clean, but his girlfriend has the addiction and when she was away doing drugs, or on a rehab, he was lonely. "They" were first kind, and offered her something to help her a bit, get her going, help her study, but then the addiction got out of hand and "they" have took her away from him. He hopes it didn't cause greater problems, but he thinks her heart is still strong enough. So he knows she's doing the wrong thing, but still, when she's high she dances (or "dances") with him and it's even better than normal. SHE is stoned in paradise, he's happy she's with him at least during that time. So not so dark, but really melancholic. |
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| Churchill – Change Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think she's talking about somebody wanting her to... change... maybe.. Seriously though, pretty straightforward to anyone who was in a relationship which one time or another had a rough patch, so every relationship ever - sometimes there comes a time a partner feels the other one has much too much power over her/him, takes her only for granted and has stopped understanding her and and has made a completely fabricated image of her in his head which doesn't correspond to the real person at all any more. |
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| The Jakes – Cough Syrup Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I agree that there's double meaning here, but not solely in the words. Yeah, there are the words of someone who's depressed, feels disconnected from people and doesn't have hope in the world - the people are all zombies, or emotionless fish that just stare at him with blank eyes and they actually all long for the Sun. But wen I hear the music, another layer of interpretation emerges: The music in the chorus is so much up-beat, full of energy, optimistic, in the total contrast to the first line of strophes "life's too short to care at all". I think it's about someone who's very cynical, and can see many of advises people say, give, and, yes, sell, are just full of crap; fictional constructs which don't help him at all, cause IF everything that should help him, that should show the truth, the right way to live/ deal with depression/ deal with problems IS true, that he should have found that fortune ages ago! But he didn't loose all of the hope, cause of the sudden energy surge he puts in the line "If I could find a way to see this straight I'd run away". He wants it so bad, he repeats it many times and emphasizes it specifically after the guitar solo with just the words, without the music... But that moment still didn't come, he still is lost and sad and all he can do ISN'T to kill himself, though he does feel the urge sometimes - the wet world calls him to jump into the water - but to soldier on; to keep on hurting, but keep on searching, keep on hoping. And so he goes back to the best thing available, the "cough syrup", weak substitute for the real cure, which will probably in the long run do more harm than good, but that's all he has right now. All the self-help get-better-in-a-day, find-the-Truth-for-59.99$, join-our-religion-our-deity-loves-you-more-than-any-other,-no-really! schemes are false ("So I run to the things they said could restore me"), but they are all he's got right now. So he goes on one spoon of the cough syrup at a time. |
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| TV on the Radio – DLZ Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I read all the comments and there's a connection with some of them. I think it's, like the band himself stated, critique on the corruption of science in general. I found out about the song and also the band through Breaking Bad which I only recently started watching, so my thoughts are necessarily colored by the series' premise, and.. honestly, it's incredible how much of the lyrics directly connect with the story in that episode. If I didn't knew better, I'd say the song was made for Breaking Bad specifically. But there are some things that make me think it's about science in general. 100 years ago (consecutively, steampunk "setting") people were convinced science would give them near godlike powers, and Earth would be transformed into paradise. Optimism was great - the "modern" period. Then everything bad in 20. cent. happened - two WW's, economic crises, pollution... Science didn't solve problems, it just made new ones, great suffering and disparity still remain a problem for many people. Ours are the post-modern times. And stance on science changed. It became almost corporate entity, almost everything is for the money. Profitable researchers and projects acquire funds, those that don't make money, just "academic" ones don't, wither and die out. How deep have we fallen from one Tesla, Galilei, or Aristotles to falsifying research data to bring a drug on market quicker than competition, how many researches work on petty aesthetic surgeries vs. obscure disease research/NASA, how much resources does military research devour, etc, etc, etc.. tl;dr: So after that long rant, here are my clues for corruption of science theory: First two strophes have many verses with the same structure - first a broad scientific term (trying to reconstruct the air, oxidation, forcing a fire, methods, vacuum..) and directly opposed to them something negative ( trying to reconstruct something, forced compromises, falsifying deeds, disconnection from all creeds, fortune (opposed to scientific certainty).. Also the whole this strophe: Eternalised. Objectified. (scientist's job) You set your sights so high. (see e.g. A.C. Clarke's scientific optimism, or general stence to science on the beginning of century, or in the 60.) But this is beginning to feel like the bolt busted loose from the lever (overuse, Oppenheimer's "I have become death, destroyer of worlds", our scientific knowledge expanded, but our ethics, psychology and empathy remained the same caveman-like) Never you mind Death professor Your structure's fine My dust is better Your victim flies so high All to catch a bird's eye view of who's next (reference on drugs maybe. Many of today's illegal drugs emanated from common medical drugs - cocaine (from south American coca plant which natives chewed and used as anesthetic and for blood-clothing), opium for antidepressant, LSD, meths, and not to forget medical weed) Never you mind Death professor. Your shocks are fine, My struts are better. Your fiction flies so high, Y'all could use a doctor Who's sick, who's next? (psychology maybe; unnecessary shock treatments in 50. and 60., self-help/10-step industry which offers quick solutions to great psychological problems and so in the long run doesn't help a lot if at all.. and earns tons of money in the process, reality ruled by political correctness, politeness and similar buzzwords, but actually inhumane, distant, cold and somewhat crazy - movie American beauty comes to mind - you/we all could use a doctor) |
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