| Kishi Bashi – I Am the Antichrist to You Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I think the song isn't literally about Lucifer's fall from Heaven, but uses it as a metaphor for a relationship that has reversed polarity. An intense love can become an awful hate. Lovers regularly murder each other. I think it's a lament by someone whose partner has gone from loving them to hating them. The speaker was in their partner's good graces, a "state of grace", flying high-- then fell from grace and is now "the antichrist to [them]". Maybe the speaker is willing to forgive, but the partner never will, and the pain and sadness lasts for life. Fighting with the partner or fighting FOR the relationship-- the speaker puts on a brave face, but they are quaking with fear, cut to the quick by emotional vulnerability. |
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| Coldplay – Charlie Brown Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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A good-hearted but troubled youth steals the keys to the car and goes downtown. There he meets the delinquents who lead a life he finds intriguing and exciting. They offer him a hallucinogenic drug (probably Ecstacy). He takes it and has a vision that gives him deep insight. The "lights go down", as though a play is starting, and sees himself as if on a stage. He sees he has been a passive victim ( a "scarecrow") to the bullying and abuse of others (like Charlie Brown, always the object of cruel ridicule). They "smashed his heart into smithereens", breaking his spirit and self-respect. Suddenly he perceives his survival as a triumph, that he has overcome his obstacles like a flower bursting out of concrete. He feels a euphoric rush of hope and joy, his heart a "cartoon heart", intense with vibrant color and expression. With a new confidence that transcends self-awareness, he exuberantly rushes into the experiences he was too timid to try before, including pursuing the girls he was too shy to approach. The experiences of the night are heightened by the drug-- he senses "madness", feels the "room a-spinning", feels "luminous and wired", while everything is "glowing in the dark". |
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| They Might Be Giants – The Statue Got Me High Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think y'all are thinking too hard. Some TMBG songs are hard to understand (Everybody Wants a Rock, Someone Keeps Moving My Chair) and some are easier (Birdhouse in Your Soul) but I think this one requires no interpretation. This one should be taken at face value. It's just a narrative of a spooky/goofy science fiction/fantasy story. Particle Man could be interpreted at face value too, but it has some more mysterious bits that crave explaining (Universe Man, Person Man). This doesn't have anything like that. | |
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