| Bright Eyes – First Day of My Life Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This is about the love at first sight experience. Whereas you always thought you need to slowly get acquainted to even have a chance of falling in love with someone. This time is different. You barely know the person but it invokes sensations in your mind and stomach that you've never felt with anyone, let alone so quickly without really knowing the person in question. It's obvious these two people aren't together yet. It's in the chorus words. He has this crush but is "especially slow" at communicating his love. The only odd thing is the "I'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery" line. Sounds like he makes do with whatever acceptable partner comes along, while meeting that special someone in your life is more analogous to actually winning a lottery. |
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| Tool – Schism Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Anyone who thinks this song is about religion, rather than relationships, is seriously trying too hard. It's the "Schism" title, which has more of a religious connotation, that throws you off. But a schism is really just a separation of any kind. Furthermore, this is basically a love song, but it uses unconventional, rather technical and bare, terminology, for a love song. Sort of borrowed from other spheres of interest so as to avoid the typical love song cliches. Also because Tool / Maynard would never write a regular love song. |
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| Interpol – Safe Without Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Seems to me he's "safe without" the comfort zone of the relationship he just got out of. Not afraid of the loneliness ahead, having a positive outlook: "So much to feel, so much to gain" (time to fall in love again) "I'll be ok, I've got my shapes" (he's still looking good) "We're not alone, we share our stake" (they both gotta find someone new) "I think the winter will be wonderful" (beautiful analogy imo) "Go alone, we'll skip the chase" (no more strings attached) "It's go the road or drop the weight" (start socializing, improve looks) "No allegiance left to take" (no more blaming each other) "Great big sheets disintegrate" (marriage / family life just fell apart) "I steal, I heal, I do it again" (he'll steal someone else's heart, which will heal him, not inhibited by past romantic failures) |
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| Interpol – A Time to Be So Small Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I primarily like these lyrics for their "linguistic" quality, so like, the rhyme and rhythm and just the general flow. It sounds so wonderful even when I have no clue what it's about. Sometimes those lyrics are the best and I wonder whether lyricists in general make use of this "technique." However, trying to interpret these words -- yeah, I think it's about a potential love but one person being too scared to act upon it and the other being oblivious to the whole attraction to start with. Which leads to a stalemate, of course. And to a potential waste of what could be these people's love of their lives. I really like the line "a creature is a creature though you wish you were the wind." I think it's about how people sometimes flirt in vain, by transmitting all kinds of vague signals that get misinterpreted or are missed altogether. As a physical creature you should provide tangible proof of your romantic interest in someone else, and not act like love is some mysterious force of nature that reveals itself without effort. |
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| Interpol – Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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That whole underwater theme simply signifies "going down" on a guy. "Fell down a manhole", "crevices caressed by fingers", "fat blue serpent swells" -- come on, the list goes on. It doesn't get more obvious. And while the first half of the song might be a matter of interpretation, as with all metaphors -- the words in the coda leave little to the imagination. Spell it out for you. Not entirely sure it's about a prostitute either. Might be about an insecure girl that seeks the wrong kind of attention and allows men to take advantage of her, sexually. The singer is one of those guys, but is like half-guilt-ridden, so this song is part confession, part ode to the girl in question. Like, he really loved her for who she was, even if she shouldn't be proud of herself and neither should he. I really like how this song is so... honest. About stuff. In a way, it's more of a love song than what you generally get to hear. I think he sings "was just like her scuba days" by the way. Makes a lot more sense anyway than "was just like her stupid gaze - days - daze", I mean WTF? |
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| Al Stewart – Year Of The Cat Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is about how only a man could fall in love. Like struck by lightning, at the sheer sight of her, without knowing her up front. That moment when the woman in question realizes she holds all the cards. She can take him anywhere she desires. He knows he's being a fool but he does it anyway. Willingly loses himself in her mystique. Intuition over reason. Which shows us that falling in love is the oldest and most fundamental part of all of human behavior, superseding everything else if need be. Especially tourist buses. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – The Universe Expanded Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Which made me think, perhaps this song is not about turning back time at all, to get rid of the pain or whatever. It's about a friendship-turned romance-turned back into friendship. A common chain of events for many relationships. Which reminded him of the ultimate fate of the universe. Which got him thinking and gave him an apt metaphor for the entire song. |
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| Interpol – Leif Erikson Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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And additionally, that line I originally commented on, that's about having to actually make an arrangement with each other to have sex. "Let's get up earlier before work because we really should fuck more often. Since we're so fucking tired in the evening, maybe this will work instead." Again, overthinking sex will only make it more difficult. This couple's life has probably become a rut and their sex life suffers accordingly. |
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| Interpol – Leif Erikson Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Yeah, okay, that response three years ago might've been a little edgy... But this particular song, Leif Erikson, is all about his sexual difficulties and insecurities. Brought on by modern life (because "I picture you and me together in the jungle it will be okay.") The message is, sex should be like a natural, native language to anyone. It's primitive, really. But he's a "slave to the details". He wonders why he has trouble opening up and why doesn't just go with the flow between the sheets. Preoccupied as he is with thoughts that shouldn't matter for the oldest act of mankind. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – What She Came For Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[BrokenDick:3144] No, this song is part of a concept record, lyrically. This part relates to the preceding line "Where will your life be gone in five minutes' time?" Like, when you say something stupid now, you'll remain single. It's about fear of commitment. That's what the whole album is all about. The bachelor's life vs. being in a relationship. And the on-again, off-again dynamic. | |
| Franz Ferdinand – What You Meant Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I feel these lyrics are really about nothing at all. He's just using rhyme patterns that sound smooth, and only focusing on the words, not the meaning behind them. E.g. the somewhat forced / random recurrence of a "-ment" noun in every verse (tenement, filament, ligament, sentiment). So this song may be about songwriters that pass off as deep lyricists but are basically clueless and pretentious. Like he just don't know what these guys sing about. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – The Universe Expanded Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Yeah, I forgot -- that last part is cool because just as the universe will revert to its original state, this relationship has ended how it began: as a friendship. It also shows how there might be no point in giving it another try. What's done is done, and you shouldn't take second chances with ex-lovers because it's doomed to fail. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – The Universe Expanded Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I like how these lyrics trivialize the hurt of a break-up (I recently went through one). The crux is, of course, he won't feel hurt this second time, because everything goes backwards, so they'll break up as they once met: happy. ("I don't mind losing you this time.") But there's more going on here. "I'll meet you coming backwards" means he originally walked away from her, so when the universe expands he won't even look her in the eye when he meets her again. This could indicate he still holds a grudge or blames her for something. As if he WANTS to turn his back on her this time around. Not make the same mistake again. The last part, "We'll part as happy strangers from a long friendship that grew from such a love" might not be about this hypothetical expanded universe, but about what actually happened. A lot of relationships end because people have become friends rather than lovers. That strong friendship did originally grow from an enormous love, however. |
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| Interpol – Leif Erikson Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"The clock is set for nine but you know you're gonna make it eight so that you two can take some time to teach each other to reciprocate" simply means having early morning sex. Hilarious how some of you guys try to insert a "deeper" meaning into a line like that. This whole lyric is about the psychosexual aspects of a relationship, as is Banks' trademark. I mean Stella, NARC, Say Hello to the Angels, Rest my Chemistry, No I in Threesome... Just sex. Nothing more. Which is cool with me. |
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| Tool – Bottom (feat. Henry Rollins) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I agree that this song is not specifically about overcoming an addiction, but about the more general experience of confronting yourself with your most intense fears and climbing out a stronger person, more at ease with who are. Let me give you an example of how this lyric can have such a huge personal meaning. I'm a life-long stutterer, however, I'm mostly stuttering just because I'm afraid to stutter, you see? It's uncalled for, really. So there's a stuttering me and a non-stuttering me, if you get the idea. In this song the latter is confronting the former. It's motivating me to let go of my speech anxiety and just be shameless about it, you know? I mean, what else can you do? That spoken part, especially "my soul must be iron, I'm naked and fearless, and my fear is naked" gives me strength whenever I feel like relapsing into my old habits of not speaking up or remaining aloof in conversation. I'm not that into tattoos but if I was these words would be the first to appear on my body. |
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