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| Rancid – I Am The One Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song to me sounds like it is about suicide from a religious perspective. Those who attempt it better be ready for what's coming, as in, if they fail, it's an issue that will not escape the attention of those around for suicide is deemed as a sin by Christianity. Gun to your dome is shooting yourself in the head, dome is a known slang word for head. Bleeding at the gates = not getting into heaven, however I think in this context instead of it being because the protagonist has been denied, it is because he is staying alive in order to 'abate [his] life of sin', because in Christianity, or at least Catholicism, you will be more likely to get into heaven sinning through life than killing yourself at the end. 'The lies of the brave' and 'the kid don't matter' line is I think saying how those who can bear to live can afford to enforce such rules, for they don't suffer like the protagonist who is a kid. Religious views are imposing the need to stay alive and not commit suicide, for fear of these religious repercussions. At least that's how this song makes sense to me. |
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| The Riverboat Gamblers – True Crime Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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To me the true crime was always suicide. Like the meds he's taking aren't doing the trick, and 'the thoughts keep coming' seems to me to imply the thought of suicide. |
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| Rise Against – Wait For Me Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think it's just a soldier either coming back from a tour in a warzone or a soldier who has deserted. He promised to come home safely but is finding that it's taking much longer than he had hoped. The locks having changed when he has returned meaning that he is too late and who he was returning to has moved on because of the time he has taken to get back there. |
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| The Used – Say Days Ago Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Drugs, comparing how he felt going through his straight edge phase and how he's surprised by his own reaction to drugs and how much he likes them and perhaps that he was told by his Mormon upbringing that they would change him but he thinks he's just the same. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Vancouver Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I don't know much about his personal life, but I thought it sounded like Jeff was with someone who in part was attached to someone he knew: 'gifts of mine to the woman... his eyes shined on my back as I slept and knew you... You didn't leave... made an even call... it should end here... failed husband contender... beg for purity'. Seems like some kind of sin has been committed that has to be stopped, and she thought she could go on for as long as she liked 'dream you've ridden on turns your world into explosions'. Perhaps the other person has found out and given an ultimatum or something. And either she or Jeff has been hurt 'heal this bleeding stone' which it seems neither anticipated.
It also seems like he has guilt for distracting her from whoever the other 'contender' was with 'I'm your loan shark of bliss'. And of course again the asking for purity part, Jeff saying 'as if I can think of this no more'.
Like I say I know little about his personal life but I think guilt and sex are themes. I also really love this song both musically and lyrically, I don't feel like the lyrics were shoved in as some have suggested above, I think they are perfect for the music. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Catholic Knees Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Just not being able to be Catholic and then realising it's ok. I don't think doctoring clean is supposed to be a good thing, I think it's supposed to be flippant or something how maybe he was punished by a religious person in charge or a family figure. It's against the catholic order, but not against God. He later gets back into his own religion when he felt like it was right for him, but Catholocism wasn't right, it just brought him told and told him no good would come out of life. Just 'good enough'. He's asking God instead of a religious figure for help.
A conscious decision 'believin' in nothin'', leaving the faith before he found his own again elsewhere. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Bonus Mosh Pt. II Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It makes more sense when you add the line after 'if that's what you wanted to hear'. It's sarcasm. Like, why would he want her to hate her for what she is? She's making absurd accusations. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Swing Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think there could be a cheating theme. But foremost it's about his feeling that the relationship is about to end, and the woman just hasn't told him yet, but he can feel it is going to happen. And his reservations being dropped is him coming to terms with it and edging the girl to finally decide whether to end it or not, so for her to ball a fist and swing, and his forcing her being him climbing the fence she's on (obviously about indecision). As he is so certain it is about to end, he is wondering how little he will soon mean to her as in being a memory or not even that, her not being able to remember him anymore soon after the split. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Swing Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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On those New Again songs though he is talking about someone else, such as Where My Mouth is being about Fred's departure from the band, so it seems more like Adam is saying how Fred mucked up with drugs and being arrogant etc, not Adam himself. And the other references you mentioned are still talking about someone else, usually a woman it seems or a love interest rather, and some of the references you took don't seem like they are about drugs, and some a little too ambiguous to tell anyway.
Blue also means porn, the Blue Channel meaning porn channel, which is what I always took these references to mean especially as My Blue Heaven sounds like getting himself off in the title also.
For this song in particular I think drugs seem to be a bigger stretch than just a relationship as to me, it reminds me of that feeling you get when you know something's over but it just hasn't been confirmed out loud yet, hence the sitting on the fence. The girl is going to end it (so he'll be a memory) but she's sitting on the fence not taking the swing yet, avoiding the issue.
I actually took the most obvious weakness in Makedamnsure to be sex, but I admit I know nothing about drugs so I could be missing some references, but I don't think it's such an obvious interpretation and especially not for every song you mentioned, and especially not this one or some of the Makedamnsure lyrics that you mentioned as they seem a bit thin to drugs in my opinion. Someone can be made dependant on someone through many different ways, most commonly just through someone being overbearing 'you won't ever get too far from me'. And many of their songs especially on WYWTB have overbearingness as a theme in their relationship songs. I also find it unlikely that anyone would reference one thing quite so often without just coming out with being drug users. Perhaps you can just relate to it on your own level, but I think a lot of these songs are definitely about relationships and Fred's departure. |
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