| Owl City – Galaxies Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I feel the first part is clearly about war, and possibly alluding to a either a literal clash of civilazations from different galaxies or the physical collision of galaxies that occur in nature that great new galaxies and sometimes universes it is postulated. The song is set some time in the far future where human technology is far more sophisticated is how the lyrics seem to pain a picture and seems to be saying humans will need to travel to the stars/thru wormholes to find a safe part of the galaxy for the human race to continue to exist. Part 2 is more complex so I will go thru it in detail "Fight back the flight deck, Bring on the breakneck, Cue the solar eclipse Summit the sunset, Dovetail the dragnet And blow your backbone to bits" Is about keeping control of a flight deck from a hostile civilization in a literal sense in one of the apocalyptic versions of this song that make sense, in another sense the bit about "blowing your back bone to bits" is the g-forces one would experince in a spaceshit/rocket leaving earth or travelling thru a hypothetical worm hole. "Dear God, I was terribly lost When the galaxies crossed And the Sun went dark But dear God, You're the only North Star I would follow this far" Lends more to the physical collision between galaxies apocolyptic vision which occur that give birth to new galaxies and many have compared it to the galaxy equivalent of copulation with 2 galaxies producing more galaxies than themselves orignially existing. It saying even though the sun has no longer shinning on earth because of the coming destruction as the two or more galaxies crash into each other and all life is being destroyed to be reborn again that the only thing keeping him and others going is faith and hope, hope that their will be more to this world than the mere physical body and a life after death, that the possibility that this is maybe not the end even though it is the end of civilization in the physical sense. "Oh telescope Keep an eye on my only hope Lest I blink and be swept off the narrow road Hercules, you've got nothing to say to me 'Cause you're not the blinding light that I need" This is both about how humans will keep trying to survive as individuals and a species even if the odds are absolutely stacked against us, and how possibly the telescope showing a worm hole as a portal to another part of the universe or a different universe is humanities literal last hope of escape. The line "Lest I blink and be swept off the narrow road" and the narrow road can both mean in a literal sense that in order to go through the wormhole he sees through the telescope succesfully you have to get every thing just right in piloting and physics. In a spiritual sense it is refering to the verse in the bible "Enter through the narrow gate". For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Note this is not overly religious to mention this as many artists Christians, non Christians, deists and atheists alike find inspiration in bible verses or other holy texts either to dismiss a point or sometimes say an atheist uses it to show at least a part of the bible that is relevant even if they dont think the text on mass is a particularly "enlightening" text. The line: "Hercules, you've got nothing to say to me 'Cause you're not the blinding light that I need" Is one of my favourite lines and is so interesting is because a lot of owls city songs to my mind have very coded references to conspiracy theorists, some of which I believe to be mocking (such as alligator sky be an illusion to lizard conspiracy theorists) and others to be just references of "Fact" as comes to conspiracy theorists which are value neutral in judgement. This line I believe is a reference to the oft quoted by mis interpreted part of Albert Pikes book Morals and dogma " “Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not" which is actually saying Lucifer blinds people rather than saying he is worthy of his title light-bearer but their is another layer to that quote that I best not go into here for issues of pertinance. Any way back to hercules, hercules is zeuses son and zeus was known as Jupiter in Roman culture some how in esoteric theology Jupiter, hercules father is some how related to saturn and saturn is believed to be Lucifer the star (we know know saturn and jupitar are not suns but planets). Any way by saying hercules is not his north star he is rejecting false gods and particulary he is rejecting lucifer in much the same way pike is apparently saying that lucifer blinds feeble and foolish men (note though pike was actually quoting another occultist in this quote and as with all esotercisim the true meaning is never as it appears their are layers upon layers of meaning and to understand the quote you have to understand the mindset of whom pike was quoting for it is actually somewhat sinster but not as black and white as saying pick was saying lucifer is good, quite the contray as the words initially appear to say the exact opposite but the truth is actually a shade of gray") For He is the saving grace Of the Galaxies He is the saving grace Of the Galaxies Dear God, I was terribly lost When the galaxies crossed And the Sun went dark But dear God, You're the only North Star I would follow this far |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Hmm I also think its partly an admitance that some elements of marxism are wrong... like not liking families or not liking human emotions. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Hmm I also think its partly an admitance that some elements of marxism are wrong... like not liking families or not liking human emotions. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Indian Summer Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Mabye its about how people accept stuff like abortion nspite of claiming to be muslims or catholics etc i.e. they are not following their own holly book, mabye its saying that things like abortion should not be so easy... | |
| Manic Street Preachers – There By The Grace Of God Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yes the others are wrong, its about the human condition, tha we all have to die, that medicine cant perpeptually stave of the inveitable. Its also saying that its not the end, saying that the ir is life after death. If you personally disagree it means you have grasped the crux of the actual agrument about "why are we here" the answer is not "science" its either " their is no meaning", "random chance", " we are not really real" or " god" or " that we have existed before and will do again", its a philosophical question and any science fact can be used to support one view or the other its down to perspective and how the individual sees things, the answer to this question cant be answered without faith, faith in a god or faith in the meaningless of life or faith in a metaphysical existnce of life! | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Only one is you that is patronising. The artist scorned the people who could or didnt want to understand a simple metaphor, this relativism stuff is nonsense, it means any one can have any crap interpretation they like that isn't even logical far less intelligent and you award them points for it. If I right a song about the sky being blue and someone thinks the sky is green they are in short an idiot. Failing to know what a metaphor is, when it is a very simple one is nuts. Glad you think you know more than the artists himself, I think thats the arrogance of you relativists. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Actually I said the same as many others, and no that one line is not open to interpretation, look at page 4 someone writes out a quote by the artist himself, I think I will take his words over your "Relatvisim" nonsense which says we are all equal in opinion, with the end point of that philosophy meaning that a murder could hold the opinon they did nothing wrong and we should not judge them, relativists can never answers this one, they just claim it isn't relevant or flat out dodge the issue. Relatvisimm sucks and the only one that is patronising is you for taking the side of people who cant even see a simple metaphor. Its like this if someone is a million miles away from the meaning of a song then don't reward them for their effort. However if someone is fairly close to a multifaceted line then that is where your "open to inerpretation comes in", the artist himself said they were wrong, so who is narrow minded now, who thinks they know more than the artist? Yourself. Ps someone much brighter than you made a much more valid criticism of my argument and that is this page dosent specify if its the artists intent or what you get from the song, but personally the ONLY thing that matters is what the artist was talking about. And occasionally then extrapolating from that for modern times. Missing the more straightfoward lines does not class as that. SO spit out your dummy, because your relativism sucks. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Basically Nicky is criticising what would now be known as the undreclass as well as the upper class, basically I was spot on in other words, thanks a lot mate, you sound like a hardcore fan, well done. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| And your intellectual relativism proves your a right wing, moron, who is backing up not very bright people, well done, read little baby nothings comments. Your not a hardcore fan. I am a midcore fan, I would love to become hardcore. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Yawn yet another intellectual relativist and social relativist with no defined boundaries and no absolute wrong answers, well your wrong that all views are equal and that its a purely alcohol song. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| "Work Came and made us free" is what it said above Auschwitz you intellectual toad, really a lot of you morons should stay at home, I only care about what you think the author was trying to say (not so much what he actually wanted to say nor so much what you want the song to be about). Al brei Mach Frei, jeez what did they teach you in school? Obviously not interpretative skills.... | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Yeah but all there best songs are on the greatest hits album all 44 of them lol. Except one... And its not the one they told me at the concert was the one they thought was going to be their big hit (she says?) something like that. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I dont mean the manics, I mean the fans, the manics where superb, need to see them somewhere less stuffy next time!!!! | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Thank god you and Little baby nothing, hard core fans I assume, pumped that goose in the head. He deserved it for righting such tosh about a crap theme beating a cool theme, cant even be arsed to use my full intellect on him right now I am so annoyed, I seen them at the O2 with a bunch of middle class no knothings who cant fucking rock at all.... | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Little englander do u like my views? I agree Nicky Wire is correct, and Wilco is not, hes not even a Manics fan by the sound of things, pah NME readers are beyond daft. Thinking that alcholism is better because its more universal, what is more universal than the theme of the 99%? | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| But your wrong, can't believe you think talking about alcohol exclusively is superior to the working class identity. I believe they are both wrong Roger Wilco more so than mytwojokes way, the real meaning is about how for those who dont have much money lack other avenues to enjoy themselves other than drink and also how that attitude has actually transcended wealth and social status and became a british cultural norm. And its actually meant to be your interpretation of what the song really means not the bonefide fact nor what the song means to you personally but what you think the writer was trying to describe when writing it. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Plastic hero is barley a softcore fan, lol but the guy saying its only about alcohol is BEYOND hilarious. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Lost the plot whilst you speak some sense, your assuming ever-bodies opinion is equally valid and that hardcore vs softcore fan or interpretative ability of the individual user matter not a jot, is in itself flawed, the author mentions drinking what he is really meaning is alluded to many times by others to say its just about alcohol displays such a lack of interpretative ability it boggles the mind, just saying like. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| simply put your not to clever then because it mentions alchol the real meanings,plural, of the song are quite clear, with other deeper meanings being way beyond your grasp, read other peoples views for once. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think Let Robeson sing, Little Baby nothing and the everlasting are up there too, so many great songs. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Hmm good guess but I thought it meant to war in general and the industrial-Milatary complex crap where bombs = dollars and death = profit for the 1%???? | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| My god between this insight, the association of the song with CHE guevaras Motor Cycle Diaries, and the simple history of the band living in an area where they couldn't afford motorcycles its a fukin brilliant song and then the guitar riffs. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Eh I am western and don't like lazziez faire captalism, I want reform not pure commmunism but something more just and fair. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Probably yes. Just like the simple I truly believe the manics songs are like onions with layers of subtly complexity underneath below the face value meaning of their songs, great songs for the intelligent lol. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I thought he said I'm driving on lonliness, a deliberate monde green? No? | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I fukin love London, so sad he didn't eh? | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I saw them in O2 in DEC THIS YEAR, they were great, audience stuffy didnt even know this one or "little baby nothing" or the everlasting or the brilliant " Let Robeson Sing" all their best work IMO (excluding the obvious design for life and if you tolerate this) | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Yes but Am I the only one to notice the deliberate mondegreen? "Under Neon Loneliness" Sounds a lot like "driving on Loneliness, motorcycle emptiness". | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think Thats spot on. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This is the best variation of the same theme yet (the more deep theme of class struggle as the central theme rather than bloody alcoholism). I give this the title of best meaning. Its much on a par with my own views with added knowledge of the coal mines and the manics I did not posses. I think the bottle is referring to scarring of the face from violence and some said its about pride in your background sadly I think its a little darker than that in a way. I think its about someone saying "feck it they expect me to be violent and look like a drunk because of where I was from, who my parents where and what my job is, I am not any of these things but nothing I can ever do will be enough.So I may as well look like the stereotype so the aristocracy can sit in their big houses and snigger at how savage I am. Although I will have the last laugh as I know I am non of the things and that they know nothing about what I really am like" | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| mannic boy said it. I thought that was a nazi, its kind of obvious to the half intelligent person that their is at least a hint of irony about the line "work made us free" even without that knowledge as I knew that prior to learning about the meaning of albert frie. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It could be about misrepresentation and indeed thats what I take the bottle line to mean as in someone who thinks "feck it they think I am a violent drug, I might as well look like one just to confrom to their pathetic stereotypes and they can snigger thinking they know what I am really like" However I take the rest of the song to be referring to the constant problem of binge drinking and clubbing etc because of limited oppertunities, I am not conforming to the sterotype by the way, I am blaiming society for the lack of other forms of expression. It has also transcended social classes etc even back then, the only difference is the rich can do that and then have "culture" as well. And also that ultimately the rich think the poor drink etc but ultimately every one just wants to drink and dance and skrew... I think its a better song than the similar common people where it is assumed someone rich would not do these things, we know better... | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I did a similar exercise with his nuts statment. I am not saying their isnt some truth but that their is more falsehood and potential for nonsense in his statment. He should work hard in coming up with a philosophy that isnt so easy to ridicule. Its like people saying age is nothing that may be ok for a 17 year old with an 80 year old but if its a 12 year old with a 19 year old it is clearly very illegal and immoral and sick. The former being merely weird as feck but legal... | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I prefer to take the "we only wanna get drunk" as literal as in the underclass and working class only wanted to drink and this attitude spread out and became prevasive in all elements of society however whilst the wealthy can drink and have "culture" the working class are only left with clubbing etc. I personally felt the line about hitting himself with a bottle is a disparaging remark aimed at the so called upper middle classes and upper clases who look down on those with less money, position and power than themselves who judge a man only by the worldy goods they posses, their apperance and accent rather than the deeper soul of the person. They expect poor people to look like tramps and be violent so the person or people this song is about feel they might as well go in with scars to conform to narrow minded prejudices against the working class Finally I thought the line about work making us free was ironic too as in it actually is an emprisonment born out of a capitalist society where some are allowed to have everything so others must work like rodents on a treadmill just to get by, I never knew about the "albrecht macht frei" thing. I though that was the name of a nazi lol as the libertines have a song by that name. You have done very well as the whole song could well be about people looking down their noses and not just that bit I decided was unquestioanably about people looking down on people (the bits about we only one to get drunk I take as literal I know the other meaning is entirely reasonable too but I just think it makes more sense i.e literal before metaphors) |
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| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The people are thick lol thats why. However u sound torrish to me that is fine but I think he is remarking on people looking down on the working class and also how society has imitated the working class and how unrestrained capitalism has limited the opportunities of the working class. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Well u obviously didnt read the person who expalined the artists intended aim with said song.... from the horses mouth no less. Ur interpretation says nothing about the not hard to get the genneral gist of metaphors of this song. One can argue about the precise point the metaphors kicks in, and whether its about pride in being working class or dejection but to miss them out altogether.... | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Actually I do believe their is some objective meaning to songs and that only so much deviation from the intended meaning is allowed, such that if an interpreation is close to the original but subtley different but still makes logical sense (or sometimes even fits the words better than the exact way the artist thought of them) then that is ok but if some one wants to intrepret a song like " Shoot Nazis dont be racist" as " Hitler was a great man and thats what the song means" then I draw the line. This example is extreme but u get the drift, their is only so far ones interpretation can stretch before people think ur thick, biased or crazy. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Spot on all these observations are mine too although I prefer to take the "we only wanna get drunk" as literal as in the underclass and working class only wanted to drink and this attitude spread out and became prevasive in all elements of society however whilst the wealthy can drink and have "culture" the working class are only left with clubbing etc. Then ur interetaon of wanting to show he is working class and proud of it is not exactly how I take it. I personally felt this line is a disparaging remark aimed at the so called upper middle classes and upper clases who look down on those with less money, position and power than themselves who judge a man only by the worldy goods they posses, their apperance and accent rather than the deeper soul of the person. They expect poor people to look like tramps and be violent so the person or people this song is about feel they might as well go in with scars to conform to narrow minded prejudices against the working class Finally I thought the line about work making us free was ironic too as in it actually is an emprisonment born out of a capitalist society where some are allowed to have everything so others must work like rodents on a treadmill just to get by, I never knew about the "albrecht macht frei" thing. I though that was the name of a nazi lol as the libertines have a song by that name. You have done very well as the whole song could well be about people looking down their noses and not just that bit I decided was unquestioanably about people looking down on people. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I personally felt this line is a disparaging remark aimed at the so called upper middle classes and upper clases who look down on those with less money, position and power than themselves who judge a man only by the worldy goods they posses, their apperance and accent rather than the deeper soul of the person. They expect poor people to look like tramps and be violent so the person or people this song is about feel they might as well go in with scars to conform to narrow minded prejudices against the working class | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| see this may be plaussible but as mentioned above its NOT about alcholism other than the use of alchol as the only way to enjoy ones self socially (social drinkers aint alcholics) so u see u havent read any of the learned comments above or u would not of posted this logical but ultimately shit peace of crap post lol. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I personally felt this line is a disparaging remark aimed at the so called upper middle classes and upper clases who look down on those with less money, position and power than themselves who judge a man only by the worldy goods they posses, their apperance and accent rather than the deeper soul of the person. They expect poor people to look like tramps and be violent so the person or people this song is about feel they might as well go in with scars to conform to narrow minded prejudices against the working class. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Thats what I am saying but also that the whole of society have been influence by supposedly working class or I would say the underclass values, if society had really been influence by working class values it would be in a hell of a better state than it is now. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Actually I believe your slightly wrong. Its about how for those without much money they dont have any other avenues to enjoy themseleves other than drink,sex etc and also how that attitude has actually transcended wealth and social status and became a british cultural norm. But thanks for calling the above person out, u dont have to be out and out working class to identify more strongly with that, but I would say at the moment I am but with aspirations of something more.... | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| champodi it makes u look thick as you are obviously just a drone for the other user because its impossible for two people to be equally thick right? | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Actually I believe your both wrong. Its about how the for those without much money they dont have any other avenues to enjoy themseleves other than drink and also how that attitude has actually transcended wealth and social status and became a british cultural norm. And its actually meant to be your interpretation of what the song really means not the bonefide fact nor what the song means to you personally but what you think the writer was trying to describe when writing it. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Faster Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Disagree with you mate, the song "the everlasting" fits that bill much more as I outline on that page. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Faster Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| the song "the everlasting" could well be about the nazis or possibly some other far left wing totalitarian regime instead of the far right nazis. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Thats cos ur not a bright child........... Jesus marry at 12 I knew exactly what this song was about other than the spanish civil war which I just learned just now but I knew it was something to do with nationalism and needing to take a stand to prevent your children tolerating said nationalism, even at 12. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Let Robeson Sing Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The song is about aparthied and also socialist aspirations. One day our day will come. Burn all racists (this is metaphorical of course wouldn't want any scumbag, I mean human, to be burnt lol). | |
| Manic Street Preachers – The Love Of Richard Nixon Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| again impressed with both your reasons but as ever with the manics is it possible they refer to both? | |
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