| Tim Buckley – So Lonely Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this is a comedic song, something about someone moving to a new city, a new, mean and ugly city. It's pretty straightfoward. | |
| The Kinks – Wonderboy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think this is about a sad person who doesn't see himself as a wonderful person so one of his friend tries to convince him that he's wonderful. | |
| Skyhooks – Why doncha all get fucked? Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is probably the best song from Skyhooks, which is certainly one of the funniest hard-rocking bands from all time. | |
| Alice Cooper – Desperado Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't know much about Jim Morrison or The Doors, but besides the voice, I don't see much Jim Morrison there to support the hypothesis that the lyric talks about him, not a gunslinger. So I support the interpretation that the song is about a gunslinger. The first and second stanzas is the gunslinger telling to the whore his persona, that he is a wanted and dangerous man (I know, it's almost the same thing in the western) and also that he is a "picture of ugly stories" and a "clown", so he thinks that he is also a loser. The whore doesn't care and sleep with him anyway, maybe because this is her living, so it doesn't matter with who she have to sleep, because she HAVE to sleep with strangers to survive. The third stanza is comparing the act of making love with a western duel. "Twenty dollars will make you die" refers to the reward of his "target", but in reality is how much the gunslinger is paying to the whore to lay down and kill her after the sex (She knows about that, like it was said in the first stanza). The fourth and fifth stanzas continue the "duel / sex" double meaning. "I wear lace / And I wear black leather" is just about his costume. "My hands are lighting up / On my gun" is about he jerking off to ejaculate and also is about he taking his gun to kill the whore. The "shots" part is both about his orgasm and when he is killing the whore. The sixth stanza is the gunslinger talking about her dead body, she is just a whore, just a "notch" and he is a killer, a wanted man, a "legend". He gave her "peace", so she'll never have to lay down with another strange man (She's dead, no necrophilia here). I think that this "peace" part can show us that the whore wanted to be killed, but it's not clear in the song, so it's just a guess. Anyway, now the gunslinger have to run away after another killing. The seventh stanza is about the gunslinger running away, probably in a desert, because he doesn't know where he is and there is all that dust who makes his Colt rust. Also, I think this where the gunslinger starts to regret his actions, he fall in the desert while he runs away, and the ghost (Actually, the Holy Ghost) is calling him for redemption, so he left his Colt rusting in the desert. OR maybe the "ghost" is the ghost of the people who the gunslinger killed, which now is tormenting him and he starts his redemption. OR he is just being tormented and drop his gun. I support the first one, about the Holy Ghost, because Alice talks a lot about redemption. The last stanza remembers the first one. The gunslinger tell who he is: "A killer", the wanted man, the legend; "A clown", the loser, a picture of ugly stories; and "a priest", the man after his redemption, the new man. He is all these three personas AT THE SAME TIME. He didn't forget his past, but he is different now, he is one more person, the "priest", and he is in a new town, where he can start shooting like a killer, drinking like a clown or "preaching" like a priest (I think it's more like telling his story than preaching). The town isn't necessarily a new one, so going to town can mean that he is facing his past that he ran away (The gunslinger tell us that he was a runner in the first stanza) maybe as a new person or maybe the "priest" is just a disguise, cuz he is a wanted man. Maybe if I listen more to Jim Morrison I can change my whole interpretation, or maybe Jim Morrison is really the gunslinger in the story, or maybe whatever. Anyway, this is one of the greatest songs of Alice Cooper, it could be easily the title-track (Not underestimating "Killer", which is also a great song). |
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| Alice Cooper – Man Of The Year Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Even if you got what other people would call a "perfect life" that doesn't mean that you live a "happy life". | |
| Alice Cooper – Fresh Blood Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think the protagonist have a double personality because of the lyrics "He gets hungry, I go hunting" and also that the chorus change from the third person to the first person. Also, the lyrics shows us that the serial killer maybe is a vampire, since "Fresh blood, a sanguinary feast / Is all he's living for" and that the fresh blood flows through him. One of his victims, Doloris, has been "drained on the spot" (the vampire's bite mark) and she "died of some anemia". In my opinion this is one of the greatest "killer" songs from Alice Cooper. Very unusual, even for him. |
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| Alice Cooper – Alma Mater Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is so cool. Totally McCartney-esque. | |
| Alice Cooper – Muscle of Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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First, I have a question: is the boy who sings the song Joey? Or the protagonist learns about sexuality seeing Joey making love? I support the latter. The lyric "My heart's a muscle" is cuz the protagonist saw Joey having sex with a naughty girl and get a erection at the same time his heart beat faster. I think that the protagonist always knew about romantic love, that thing that you love with your heart and etc, but he always questioned himself how can someone love with his heart. Then he saw Joey and the naughty girl and learned that the penis, not the heart, is the real muscle love. Also, romantic love is thought as sacred-like, so after he learns that boys love with their penis he refer to his dick as "holy". The protagonist masturbates because he is young, in that age he "makes love" by himself, but he will get older and something like what happen to Joey will happen to him eventually. I have also another interpretation that when he says "Holy muscle of love / My heart's a muscle" is more like "The penis is the holy muscle of love, the heart isn't the muscle of love, it's just a muscle". Anyway, jerk off, this song is too damn cool! |
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| Alice Cooper – I Gotta Get Outta Here Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Steven is hating his nightmares and want to get out of them. He tells us about what he passed through the album. He thinks he is dreaming and wants to wake up, but the choir tells him that this is no nightmare, because he is dead, so this is problably hell. Steven does not believe the choir, although he mentioned earlier "I don`t know why I'm here, why I've fallen from grace / I can't explain the burns, or the scars on my face" so he probably died and don't accept it or he died and didn't knew about it. When Steven died? Certainly at "A Runaway Train", in the end of the song he mentioned that his body hurt and that he is "sleepin' in the graveyard" and you can clearly hear a huge crash in the coda. Also, in this song he starts to tell his journey by the episode of the train, saying: "Well first I finally passed out, then I woke up in pain / Tangled in the wreckage of a runaway train". IMO, he thinks that the runaway train was a nightmare, since he start to complain about his nightmares by this point of his journey, but it really happened and he died at that point, even though he did not notice this or didn't accept it (If he didn't accept it, maybe it's because death is a "eternal sleep" which would mean that he is going to a "eternal nightmare") The last song of the album, an instrumental named "The Underture", shows the themes of songs from both the first and second Nightmare albums (A lot like the Quadrophenia instrumentals), which could serve as a credit scene song (I can imagine that) or that the nightmare continues (I hope for that). I think that this album is really good, not as the first one, of course, but good anyways. My biggest complain is that it takes three songs just to Steven get in the nightmares, not like the 1975 which starts in the nightmare and we have to listen / discover how Steven got stuck up there. |
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| Alice Cooper – A Runaway Train Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Anyway, this is a key moment in "Welcome 2 My Nightmare". In the previous song ("The Nightmare Returns") Steven fallen asleep, despite his effort to stay awake ("Caffeine"), when he woke up he was kidnapped ("I woke up in a box car / I wasn't in my bed") but he thinks it's part of a new nightmare ("I'm in someone else's dream"). Why Steven was kidnapped? Maybe because he is someone famous ("But I'm a big celebrity / Known all 'round the land") but the kidnappers seems to doesn't care about it (Well buddy, you ain't no one here / Man, you ain't in demand") Anyway, Steven is going to die cuz he is in a high-speed vehicle, the "runaway train" , although he thinks it's only a nightmare (Speedin' towards a flamin' wall / like a screamin' sonic boom / I really gotta wake up now / Or I may meet my doom"). I was thinking that the "runaway train" was a car, but how Steven and "thirteen angry men" could be together in any car? Clowns kidnapped him? In the end, he died, and it hurt a lot ("So all that I remember / Is how much my body hurt"). Also, now that Steven is "dead" he knows that something bad awaits for him (Now I'm sleepin' in the graveyard / On the wrong side of the dirt"). Oh, there is also another important point about this song. When Steven dies he still thinks that it's only a nightmare and that he is not really dead, only sleeping (You can check this statement in "I Gotta Get Outta Here"). |
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| Alice Cooper – Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| And this is happening in hell, right? Cuz i always knew that hell is like a disco party | |
| Alice Cooper – The Congregation Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Funny song about Steven going to hell (Again?) At least people there like newcomers |
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| Alice Cooper – A Runaway Train Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Is just me or this sounds a little like Bob Dylan? Listen when Alice sings "I'm in someone else's dream" | |
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