| Mad Season – X-Ray Mind Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think the first part is about rehab and escaping from rehab to do drugs: "do the laughs die when etc" Lyne questions whether the docs in rehab are on his side or not: "when convincing me that you're on my team" etc Then it's about the media circus and fame, he thought they, whom ever they were, had been fair, also because it was the only way he could feed his habit, but in the end the price was very high. The song is very much about himself in the end: he's life was also filled with false friend & people he didn't know if he could trust. The x-rey mind thing I guess it's about him reading people and seeing thing clearer while being high. |
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| Mark Lanegan – Bombed Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The song seems like a follow up to "when your number isn't up": this man is in a small hotel or motel room wasting in bed, doing drugs feeling sorry for him self. He has an imaginary conversation with his lover, telling her what he sees through the window,- the flowers as symbol of the fallen grace and the lost romance-, then he states that he has to do drugs, to beare reality (the reality of their break up "a brocken valentine"), the western ambient of the song makes the shooting reference a sort of fill up to describe the character and his indifference. Then we've got the description of being stoned (the mind that streatches). When he comes back to himself and thinks of his loved one as the thing that coursed him and at the same time, his only possible saviour (she is "fire and fire escape". | |
| Mark Lanegan – Wedding Dress Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think this song is about a man who is very conscious of his limits: he does drugs and is wreck, but he also "wants the gal" (if you know what I mean). He is also wanted by the girl, who is clearly attracted to him. So in approaching her he forsees what their relationship might be: he detoxing or going into withdrowal, "when I shake like I'm dyng"- note the "when" it implies that that event is going to happe, surely. Making her miserable and making her ashamed. The grave reference is a bitter irony: he wants to imply that he is going to die before her. So basiclly he tells her: "cut the crap and sleep with me, makes much more sense, since we like each other". | |
| PJ Harvey – The Piano Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| As it often happens with poetry, these song plays on double meanings and abiguity: one one side PJ describes home abuses, the hit, the blood, the broken teeth are what they mean, the image that follows is the X-ray (a look inside the skeleton). It also happens a lot that the "Stockolm syndrome" is experienced by those who suffer home abuse, so the "oh god I miss you" verse is about that distance from the father, perpetrator of the abuse. The family is broken the father just want to fix the problem he caused, he rattles the keys because either he just used 'em as a wepon or he wants to take her to the hospital to fix his sins. The mother tries to escape (maybe the father locked the door, and that's why he rattles the keys as a display of power over the family). Nobody listens because everybody is so self centered. Nevertheless the abused kid misses his/her family, because he/she misses the love that it should imply not the actual family he/she lives in. Misses (in other words) the abstract idea of family love by missing his/her broken home. At the same time it might be (as suggested) the smashing of a piano and that she misses the instrument. I don't recommand this interpretation beacause some of the songs titles of that record where born in strange ways: this is the only song not based on piano but on guitar of the whola record, PJ stated that she wanted a piano centred album and wrote the recond on it, despite the fact she didn't actually know how to play it. As for "broken harp" the song title might come just from stuff happened during the recording sessions. | |
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