| Elliott Smith – Angeles Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Winner winner, chicken dinner. | |
| Iron & Wine – Waiting for a Superman (Flaming Lips cover) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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For me, this song is not so much about personal weakness as it is personal limitation (in terms of power), you do your best but you can't always lift everyone else up. In the end, its not always about lifting others up as it is so much about doing your part to convince others to lift themselves up, making others share your vision. As a person that did occupy (and I'm sure anyone who has done activism in America can agree to a certain extent) you feel like you have the responsibility to save the world and won't settle for anything less than total victory but end up discovering your own limitations to affect change. Awesome Awesome Awesome song. |
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| The Clash – Clampdown Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Though there are certainly allusions being made to Marxist-leninist styles of mass oppression this song to me is about the indoctrination of youth into general systems of power... whether they be national governments or work and consume business cultures. So often we see those that wear suits and think of them as having some kind of extra legitimacy for their success but it's a self-depraving lie. There's nothing incredibly wrong with a business lifestyle but there's equally nothing wrong with a free spirited one, especially when you're younger. So live and enjoy things. |
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| Pearl Jam – Tremor Christ Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I have no idea how you got that out of that but I agree with you. | |
| Pearl Jam – Spin the Black Circle Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I definitely see euphoria (via heroin) as a metaphor for the enjoyment of just zoning out to some tunes on vinyl. Whether it's implied or not, I guess it's up to your own interpretation. | |
| Wilco – War On War Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| For me this song is about learning that you are powerless over death... nobody gets out a live. Often we are so afraid of death or other negative outcomes that we forget how to live. A pretty wise outlook with awesomely playful lyrics, almost like a tone of acknowledging a simple truth. | |
| Animal Collective – Lion in a Coma Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I really really like your take on this. For me this song is about an identity crisis and the depth of the lyrics put it at second for me on the album behind "my girls." His allusions to "China town" and this line: "My nervous tick has got to quit my cheeks are chewed down to the bit" says to me that the singer has experienced pure ecstasy but that his joy is experienced in a place foreign to who he is... a place resembling China Town or a haunted house. I personally think that the "cheeks chewed down to the bit" line is a direct reference to someone who has taken ecstasy and chewed the inside of their gum line off while rolling (Trust me, it doesn't feel good... afterwards). "This wilderness needs to get right out of my clothes and get into my bedroom" indicates to me that the person having the identity crisis enjoys who they are when they are happy (A state wild and free similar to the metaphor of a wilderness) and is unable to find peace in their more natural state/identity, aka, they don't experience the wilderness in "[their] bedroom." The line, "Im blooming but my roots remind me not the leave them back in time" really makes me think this is about the singer's identity being in question. They really enjoy who they are becoming and love that state but are concerned about becoming a hollowed and disconnected person from who they are and where they've been. The main lyric in the song, "Lion in a coma, lyin' in a coma" comes across to me as brilliance, is the person in crisis a Person lying in a coma or a Lion in a coma? Are they just a sad version of who they've always been or are they just a repressed albeit potentially passionate new person... a lion in the wilderness. Cool stuff to ponder on, hope this helps folks. |
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