| Eagles – Peaceful Easy Feeling Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think it's about a moment early in the relationship (first date, prior to any official date, or even a one night stand) where he feels a connection to the person. He knows it could end badly but has accepted that and decided to just let go in the moment and try to enjoy every second. | |
| Pink Floyd – In the Flesh II Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Pretty sure this In The Flesh Part I. | |
| Men at Work – Overkill Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Zach Braff that's the guy's name. | |
| Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Thank you. I had the general gist of the meaning before (about the family of a soldier that died) but I never understood the meaning of the "boxer or the bag" until you explained it. Thank you a lot. | |
| Eric Clapton – Tears In Heaven Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This is coming from someone who is not a big Eric Clapton fan so I hope that registers with people here. I love this song. It's moving and to me I think it is a great song. I am currently learning to play the guitar and I hope that one day I will be a good enough guitar player to do this song justice. | |
| Soundgarden – Burden in My Hand Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I see a couple different possible interpretations: 1. He's an alcoholic and in a fit of rage he shot his girlfriend or wife. "I shot my love today" "Drown in alcohol" "I lost my head again". And no regrets it "would you cry for me". It also seems like in a moment of panic he hid the body somewhere in the desert. This could very well be his confession to the police after they bring him in to question him. In the end he's talking about all the morals he has abandoned through alcohol. "Moon glued to...heaven" "All the little pigs have god" Implies that he is not like the "little pigs" he is now godless. 2. this is possibly less likely but more interesting. this song is based on Charles Whitman. "I shot my love today" Before Whitman went on his rampage he killed his girlfriend and mother. "So kill your health". Whitman at the time had been on various drugs that contributed a deteriorated mental state and physical health. I don't know if he was alcoholic so I'm not sure if "Drown in alcohol" fits here. "Kill everything you love" Again, he killed his mother and girlfriend but this line could also mean that he intends to continue killing (this song being his thought process leading up to the shooting). "And if you live..." again possibly means he intends to kill more. "Suffer with my ghost" as I understand it. Whitman left a note basically explaining that he hoped he would be killed. the person in this song appears to also want to be killed. Finally the lyric "Just a tumor in my head" after Whitman's autopsy it was revealed that he had an aggressive brain tumor that may have contributed to his rampage. as I said 2 is more interesting but I'm not sure if all of the lyrics would really be accurate for that example. |
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| Melissa Etheridge – Come To My Window Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I get it now I think. It's not about love or drug addiction. It's about feeling trapped. She's stuck inside this cage (symbolic of how she had to suppress her lesbian stature from the media and outside world) and "the come to my window" line is her hope that someone comes to keep her company not necessarily love but just someone she can open up to so she doesn't feel so alone. "Nothing fills the blackness that has seeped inside my chest" this represents the doubt and loneliness she feels. She wants to come out but society's perspective of her sexuality has made her question herself and doubt if she should and she feels lonely for reasons already stated. "Promises that I can't keep" Probably relationships she's had in the past where she just hasn't been able to fulfill something that was necessary in the relationship for it to work. Probably a lesbian relationship where not coming out into the open destroyed the bond between them. | |
| Pink Floyd – Echoes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This may seem like a far shot but what are the chances that this song is about at least in part The Beatles and their break up? I can't say about all the lyrics but look at some of the lyrics from the last verse in this song and compare to the lyrics in Across The Universe by The Beatles. there are some similarities. | |
| Melissa Etheridge – Come To My Window Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I guess it could be a song about addiction but has Melissa Etheridge ever dealt with Drug addiction? She's a supporter of medicinal marijuana but that seems to have come up when she got cancer. Other than that I had been under the impression for the last two years that it was her "coming out" song where she expresses her struggles in lesbian romance. Anyways, until maybe three years ago I honestly did not even know that Melissa Etheridge was a lesbian (super conservative parents, sheltered life, etc. etc.) but I had heard this song and to me it is and always has been about forbidden love. Apparently she claims that it's not but the verse "I don't care what they think. I don't care what they say. What do they know about this love anyway?" Always struck me as she was in love with someone that was frowned upon. This does not necessarily mean a lesbian relationship (though in this scenario with Melissa Etheridge I suppose that is the case) or a male-male relationship but any relationship that may be considered taboo (Depending on who's watching and where in the country mixed race, mixed economic background, I think there are still places where you can find families that are feuding with children in Romeo and Juliet type scenarios, etc). |
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| Pearl Jam – Black Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Beautiful song though one question. towards the end it says: All the love gone bad turned my world to black tattooed all I see, all that I am, all that I'll be...yeah isn't is actually "all that I'll ever be"? |
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| Tal Bachman – She's So High Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Agreed | |
| Tal Bachman – She's So High Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I disagree. It's pretty straight forward and more or less the same as Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby". To him she's the prettiest girl, smartest, most all around amazing girl he's ever even heard of. He wants to talk to her but he thinks she's way out of his league and convinces himself that she's out of his reach ("High above me"). Just like at the end of Jackson Browne's song there's a glimmer of hope where in this case the girl actually comes to talk to him and she appears interested in him. | |
| Neil Young – My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I agree I think that Neil is referring to how Elvis did fade towards the end. I believe he is saying it would have been better if he had burnt out in his prime than to go out the way he did. | |
| The Cranberries – Ode To My Family Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think I have a bit of a better understanding of the song now. "Understand the things I say Don't turn away from me." She's appealing to her family to listen to what she wants to say. it suggests that she and her family have suffered a rift in their relationship and she's trying to reach out to them and hope to make them understand. The song is really aimed at them not us. "cause I spend half my life out there You wouldn't disagree" "Out there" refers to the music industry. She's referring to how it is a prominent part of her life and hints that it's the reason for the rift and how both sides are aware of that. "D'you see me? D'you see? D'you like me? D'you like me standing there? D'you notice me? D'you know? D'you see me? D'you see me? Does anyone care?" She wants to know if her family still watches what she does in life. If they still care enough to support her even if they don't express it directly. She still thinks about them and she wants to believe that they care about her. "Unhappiness, where's when I was young and we didn't give a damn?" This line is a personal reflection she's having of herself. She wants to be able to go back to when things were more simple, back to before this rift formed in their family. It's also probably a reference to her siblings when they were growing up while the opening chorus was more a general focus on her whole family. "caused we were raised to see life as fun and take it if we can." more reflection on how they were at this time. She is trying to get them to remember with her the better times when they got along better. "My mother, my mother she holds me Did she hold me, when i was out there?" She switches her attention to her parents. She reflects with her mother back to when she was young and her mother nurtured her and cared for her. Then she asks "Did she hold me when I was out there?" Think about the image of a mother holding onto the picture and weeping over a distant child. She wants to know if her mother misses her because she misses her family. "My father, my father he liked me He liked me. Does anyone care?" Again reflecting back on when they got along better this time specifically with her father at first. She's going directly to how her father liked her (cared for her) and then she asks to her family and less directly to anyone listening to this song if they care. It's the only line in this song that really is for not only her family but to all of us to reflect upon to understand how things have become difficult in her life. "Understand what I've become" Here we see she's appealing to her family that they may not like it but this is who she is now and she wants them to accept it despite their disagreements with how it happened. "It wasn't my design" She stresses this first part. SHe is saying she wouldn't have chosen this path if she had her own choice but that this is still who she is and that she can't change that. THat it wasn't a conscious choice she could make to "betray" her family as they see it. "and people everywhere think Something better than I am" Here it is different. We see a direct evidence of regret of where she is. She's becoming famous and we as fans like her music but she feels that she is not worthy of this praise she gets. "but I missed it, I missed it cause I liked it, I liked it When I was out there" I think this is a double ended one. She misses her family and she still likes her family but it's also referring to how she misses the music when she's away from it and she can't go away from it now. She wants both her family's approval and the music. "d'you know this, D'you know Did you not find me, you did not find Does anyone care?" She is asking her family if they realize that this is what makes her happy if they can understand this. but in the end she realizes that they do not understand "You did not find" and falls back into regret as she repeats the line from the first verse and goes back into the chorus. there's really a lot of evidence of post-decision dissonance in this song and some evidence of the justification effect. It's really powerfully emotional and psychological and I love it. I really hope her family listened because it's obvious that she cares for them and wanted to be able to share her life with them. |
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| The Cranberries – Ode To My Family Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I've heard a lot about her parents not liking her. but I'm not really convinced...she mentions her mother holding her and her father liking her. These aren't usual terminology used for neglectful parents. They are there for her at least in that manner. There is something off. Meaning the past tense of liked me. And the did she hold me when I was out there...it really suggests thatthere was something polarizing that happened in her life that caused a divide between her in her family (I believe leaving school to become a rock star was mentioned somewhere). I think this song is in large part about the difficulty of pursuing a music career against what her parents wanted from her and how it was hard for her and her family. | |
| The Cranberries – Zombie Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's probably been said before but I think this song is about Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This person has been through war and now (s)he is being haunted by the memories of the people who have died (zombie). To him even though the war is over, it is still happening (They're still fighting) in his head (In your head). I believe the 1916 comment refers to an Irish independence movement in England. The video itself is freaky. The black dogs I know symbolize hellhounds but there is still a lot of imagery that I haven't absorbed. |
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| Men at Work – Who Can It Be Now? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I like this analogy. I think this song in part has to do with something I mentioned in another song about him. He's paranoid. He's afraid that someone's out to get him and he doesn't want to answer the door for fear he'll be taken away for something he did or because they are going to lock him away. "nothing wrong with my state of mental health...Is it the man come to take me away" the man in this case could be workers from a psychiatric clinic coming to take him away because they may believe him to be unstable. | |
| Men at Work – Overkill Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Regardless of the reason whether it's due to them about to hit it big around the world or not...it illustrates something that comes up a few times in Men At Work's music. Paranoia. It's not necessarily to the level of Paranoid schizophrenia but the restlessness is about the insomnia caused by him overthinking everything (I think about the implication of diving in too deep). He's paranoid that something will go wrong. You'll see the same thing in Who Can It Be Now", "It's a Mistake" (this one may take a bit more looking at the root cause of why he would write a song about that and at least parts of "Down Under". | |
| Men at Work – Overkill Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The guy who plays J.D. (I can't remember his name off the top of my head) who also helped create Scrubs is always a big Colin Hays fan. THat's another reason eh was on the show. | |
| Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Wow I really got myself mixed up...I'm not sure what I was thinking for part of this...The Mystery tramp isn't folk music. The Mystery tramp I believe represents pop music. The Diplomat is folk music. | |
| Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I stick to my feeling that this song is his way of breaking away from folk. I think this song really is as he says himself an introspective look at himself. The character wanders through life like a rolling stone (Dylan himself has wandered through music from folk to rock to blues to just about any kind of music you could name that's been popular in the last 60 years). I can't speak for the whole song but I do get the feeling at times he is also addressing how he is leaving folk music behind and is venturing out into the world of rock and roll and he knows the impact it will have on him (...you'd better lift your diamond ring you'd better pawn it babe. you used to be so amused at Napoleon and rags and the language that used. Go to him now, he calls you. you can't refuse. when you got nothing you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal). I used to think this verse related in part to Woody Guthrie as Napoleon in Rags but now I think Napoleon in Rags refers to rock and roll and how it's calling to him. before Bob Dylan became a folk star he also was enchanted by rock and roll in school (you used to be so amused) and now that he's become disillusioned with the ideals of folkies (the Mystery tramp...aint selling any alibis) he's returning to his love of rock and essentially leaving folk behind (pawning the diamond ring). You could probably also make this fit into being about the folkies but whether that was intentional or not is a different question. | |
| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I can see how that may be true. I think it is a different aspect personally but I could see this interpretation being true as well. I personally think it is about a girl who had an affair that her parents didn't approve of so she left home only for the relationship to not work out and so she's depressed and trying to find solace somewhere in the world. I think the line "Law man beating up the wrong guy. Oh man! wonder if he'll ever know...he's in the best selling show". Refers to witnessing a crime (or hearing about it on the news) where a crime was committed but the cops targeted the wrong person and beat him up. It would be a theme common in movies and a situation that does happen in real life. | |
| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| There's rarely an artist who wasn't on drugs back then but that doesn't mean there's absolutely no meaning (well it might mean that the meaning's more scrambled but it should still be there) | |
| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think the Life on Mars line itself refers to wondering about if there is other intelligent life out there and if maybe they have a society different than this one where she hopes to escape to because she has become disillusioned about how the world works. | |
| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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From what I can make out from the first verse, the girl with the mousy hair is having an affair with some guy and she tells her parents about it (she may be pregnant? not sure) and they disapprove. The mother doesn't approve and when she fails to break it off the father tells her to leave. She does leave only to find that the man she's having an affair with leaves her. (but her friend is nowhere to be seen") From there she is depressed and she tries to liven her spirits but the problem is that everything just seems the same to "For she's lived it ten times or more" and her view on it has turned cynical. From there Bowie breaks it down into common movie themes and situations to demonstrate the point. I get a little lost on the second part but I'm pretty sure that it's set some time in the future and that "Mickey Mouse" is still referring to the girl with the mousey hair. |
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