| Tilly and the Wall – Nights of the Living Dead Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is about being a teenager, it's about realizing that real life is coming. That soon, you have to choose who you're going to be and how you're going to live independent from your parents. "Well the high school kids they're all fucked up. Touching each other, oh my god. Yeah and forty ounces was never enough. We want to pass out in your yard, we want to pass out. Dressing in drag your best friend's clothes, while boys kissed boys in hotel rooms. Oh and just when we thought we were no longer lost they kicked us out into the dirty streets of Atlanta." When you're in high school, you have virtually no real responsibilities, so high school kids live to have fun - to get fucked up, to explore their sexuality, to have fun. But eventually, you can't go on doing this and you are thrust into adulthood. "So it's Friday night down on North Avenue, where the gas station parking lot prostitutes tried to fix their hair in our rearview mirrors. You know we're just trying to get to the club and shake our asses. A caravan of kids, some big old mess, on an old wooden dock, oh we're bored to death. We've got a bottle of wine, a fresh pack of smokes. We're going to end up screaming about some midnight garage sale." This reminds me of weekends in high school where you go out and get drunk in cars on the way to the party. Every Friday after school, my friends and I would all get our cigarettes, alcohol, and whatever drugs we wanted for the weekend and we'd just get fucked up until we found a party, then we'd proceed to get even more fucked up. "God, put down your gun can't you see we're dead? God, put down your hand we're not listening." I thought these lines were just BRILLIANT. This doesn't specifically refer to 'God' or any religious/spiritual figures. 'God" is refering to any authoritarian figure. It's like the kids are saying "yeah, we aren't supposed to do any of this, but we don't really care what happens so stop telling us no. "We are born so fresh, a golden prize, until you scrape that knee and quickly realize that you're lost in a fog on your way to death. Oh a thick black line, a thick black line. So you better speak up, better raise that voice. Come on, scream loud all you girls and boys. Let's get wild, wild, wild. Let's rejoice. C'mon, c'mon. I want to hear that fucking noise." This is refering to the period of time when you realize that it isn't much longer until you have to stop having fun, until you aren't going to be taken care of anymore, until there are actually consequenses for your actions. So instead of doing what we're supposed to (doing well in school, working hard) it's better to actually have fun before you can't anymore. "Oh the push and pull of everything, oh this nightmare of electricity. We are the living dead, yeah the living dead. That's the way it is. That's the way it's always been. Oh that snake slithered past my house today. Oh I heard he caught you on a dark highway. No the clouds didn't part they just grew into a storm. I can still hear the sound of the rolling thunder." Real life approaches, and you realize that life isn't just fun. This is the realization that to suceed in the real world, you must conform and fit into society. The snake is this realization. The first time I heard this song I was going from grocery store to grocery store with two of my best friends stealing bottles and boxes of wine. It was the winter of my senior year in high school and we were bored and broke, so we had to restort to this. My friend put this song on when we were between grocery stores and we all got silent and realized what we were doing. This is probably one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, even now that I'm not one of those high school kids. That winter we all thought this was the most fantastic song we'd ever heard and it was amazing how well it correlated to our lives. I remember one night, we were all fucked up and had this conversation about wehre we were all going after high school - this was kind of the realization that our entire lives wouldn't be spent together getting wasted and going on adventures and we listened to this song and we all practically screamed all of the words and we cried and cried and cried. I love this song. |
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| MGMT – Weekend Wars Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me, this song and a lot of MGMT songs sound like the trials of being a teenager with no REAL problems, like a teenager from the suburbs who would be grouped with the outcasts. I always felt like "weekend wars" refers to the NEED to fight boredom, especially during that time in life when you're at the end of your teenage years and you're almost independent, but you aren't quite to the point where you take life seriously or have serious responsibilities. "Where we could crush some plants to paint my walls And I won't try to fight in the weekend wars" This is about drug use. Crushing up plants is a reference to breaking apart marijuana. It is saying that fighting for an awesome weekend is no longer necessary, so why not smoke a bowl and chill out. This reminds me of when drugs stopped being exciting and started to become necesary. "Was I? I was to lazy to bathe Or paint or write or try to make a change Now I can shoot a gun to kill my lunch And I don't have to love or think too much" This verse is talking about the point when doing drugs or living a certain way just becomes so routine. When you become a prisoner to your own life. You stop caring or thinking about what is actually going on, you just act mindlessly and go about life without a thought. "I'm a curse and I'm a sound When I open up my mouth There's a reason I don't win I don't know how to begin" This person has realized that "fighting the weekend wars" is a miserable way of life. But they don't know how to get out of it. This is a fantastic song, it always reminds me of high school. |
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