| alt-J – Taro Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Given the band's obsession with Ancient Greek maths and geometry, I wouldn't put it past them to be making some reference to Pythagorean spiritual beliefs, particularly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism#.22Wheel_of_Birth.22_and_scientific_contemplation From Wikipedia: "The Pythagoreans believed that a release from the "wheel of birth" was possible. ... Pythagoreans distinguished three kinds of lives: Theoretic, Practical and Apolaustic. Pythagoras is said to have used the example of Olympic games to distinguish between these three kind of lives. Pythagoras suggests that the lowest class of people who come to the games are the people who come to buy or sell. The next higher class comprises people who come to participate in the games. And the highest class contains people who simply come to look on. " In other words, as photographers, documenting and observing the world, they were both living apolaustic lives and destined to break free of the cycle of reincarnation and meet again after death. |
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| Skinny Puppy – Cullorblind Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| They live in California now, and have since the 90s. | |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms – MOS 6581 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Well the MOS 6581 was the sound chip for the Commodore 64 and related personal computers, so obviously has a special place for electronic musicians. How it relates to Mongol horse racing, I'm not too sure. Maybe the fact that the C64 had the first dedicated sound chip on a home PC made it the "winning horse", and now CBL consider it to somehow have magical powers? |
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| Skinny Puppy – Cullorblind Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this is one of the more political ones off the album, veering heavily towards the OhGr side of things. A lot of it seems to be about the future, particularly of the United States, but also of the rest of the world. "Aside from writing walls up Put on as if facts to see" "The writing is on the wall", though the writing is missing (but the facts are there if you look). The warnings have been made re: global warming, a corrupt financial system, the loss of the US' position of global dominance to China, etc, etc "Reactions cause deferral From a passed on future's needs" Reactions to those warnings are strong and emotional (e.g. climate change denialists, apologists for the bankers, advocates of sabre-rattling at China). These reactions divert political debate from what matters, deferring discussion about the needs of the future world for our selfish immediate needs. All our generation cares about is that it continues "forever getting, forever hating, forever taking, taking..." "They change(d) the world for certain Bringing in false profits made We're spending all the future Future's never ours to see" Fairly blunt, this. We're spending the wealth and resources of future generations now. The standard cop-out is "I don't care, I won't be alive anyway." "Fade out in one act Overturning neverending dream All coming caught up in The moments we can never see" Could be about the economic crisis of 2008 -- fading out quickly (in one act), overturning the "never ending dream", which might be infinite growth economics, or even the American Dream. "The party's lost a lot of cash and forest for the trees" Political party? Which one? Both? (They both seem complicit in the financial crisis.) Or maybe the "party" of lavish lifestyles lived on credit... Forest for the trees is pretty blatant too, coming back to the image of divisive emotional reactions to smaller issues distracting from the larger ones. "Eyes gonna hate that Wanna wanna wake up" Wake up from what? I would suggest the American Dream... |
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| Fever Ray – Keep the Streets Empty For Me Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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As for meaning, there's an interesting interpretation in the music video, which features two Sámi girls wandering through an empty urban landscape, possibly homeless and dispossessed. This ties in with the "stream up North", and "people like us", as well as the "one man tent". In this reading, you can feel the loneliness and isolation of homeless, dispossessed people wandering the streets of a big city in the quiet hours of the early morning. |
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| Fever Ray – Keep the Streets Empty For Me Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure the second verse goes: "I'm lying down, eating snow My fur is hot, my tongue is cold On a bed of a spider web I think of how to change myself." This makes more sense in terms of the first two lines hanging together, and the last line being grammatical y correct. |
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