| Billy Bragg – Cindy Of A Thousand Lives Lyrics | 11 months ago |
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Cindy Sherman, for sure, but only after the bridge. It's as if Billy had seen an exhibition of Sherman's photos just before re-watching David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet. Think back on the film (if you dare) while reading the lyrics. Blue Velvet America: a punctured beauty, headlights revealing the dark underbelly of the town, nightmares, an ear waiting for worms to claim it, a corrupted clown on a sofa, a voyeur who dares not come near. Near the end, Bragg mentions another film about America stopping at nothing to present a spotless image — The Stepford Wives. All in all, the song is more about the film and might easily have been titled David of a Thousand Lives. Then again, Sherman (who listed Lynch as an inspiration in a New York Times article) is perhaps even more interested than Lynch in how the truly ugly is easily masked and called wholesome and beautiful. She is also known for using blue velvet in her pictures. In the end, Bragg is asking America, when he asks Cindy: "Which one of them is you?" |
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| Tears for Fears – Sorry Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song explores the confusion associated with infidelity. When guilt over the act competes with the measure of satisfaction infideility brings (else why do it?), the mind goes back and forth with lines like these: Set aside these vacant rules then Sorry...How many times must I say and back to Shoot it now to seal your own fate Roland makes the little discussed point that getting caught cheating, and even being sorry for it, does not immediately erase all feelings for the new lover. And the mind struggles with the idea of just going back to the old relationship. When Roland sings these lines "When you look into these eyes Do you see civilized Or son of Sam" I wonder if he is looking in the mirror trying to determine just what sort of person he is at heart. |
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| The New Pornographers – Stacked Crooked Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The last lines are a sad plea as the relationship breaks up. "Do no deny me..." The "clicking of the heels" means she wants to be able to go back home, either to the way things were during better times in the relationship, or, Like Dorothy, just to go home and pretend none of this had ever happened. |
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