| Radiohead – Videotape Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I was about to write my interpretation but you've just done it for me. | |
| The National – Slipped Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It is a "I'll be a friend and a fuck-up" not "I'll be her friend and I'll fuck her". | |
| Vampire Weekend – Ya Hey Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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My interpretations are quite similar to wassim's, but I have different ideas on some particular lyrics, so these are my interpretations of these lyrics. Read wassim's interpretation before reading this. "Through the fire and through the flames, you won't even say your name" is asking "if God exists, why won't he just show himself?". It does indeed refer to the Exodus story of "I am that I am". The "though the fire/flames" bit refers to suffering and evil, so the line says "in this evil world you won't even show yourself". "Paranoid styles" refers more to the secret fear some (perhaps most) believers feel that God is always watching you, like a Big Brother kind of thing. "The tension and fear of a secret career" is referring to a double-life some believers live, the life they don't live in Church or at home or wherever. They see it as a kind of act of hiding from God, a bit like the Jonah story. "And I can't help but feel, That you see the mistakes, But you let it go" refers to the mistakes of this world, the war, pollution, corrupt governments etc. This line questions God's caring of the world, saying that he sees these horrible things but just lets them go. It is asking "if you exist, then how can there be evil and suffering?". This line is a bit like the "through the fire and through the flames" line. |
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| James Blake – I Never Learnt to Share Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I could be wrong here, but I think his brother and his sister doesn't speak to them. He doesn't, however, blame them. (Just joking around, I love this song.) |
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| Tame Impala – Solitude Is Bliss Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yep, introvert anthem IMO. I don't think it is a song about drugs this time, just because a couple of the lyrics might hint at that doesn't mean the entire song is about it. I think the introvert interpretation works better with the majority of the lyrics. The video backs that up I think, watch the way the guy is trying to move away from the crowd and when his "alone time" is interfered he gets pretty angry (like punching a dog and human and shooting down someone). | |
| The National – Sorrow Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is one of my favourite tracks by The National for sure. I think this is quite obviously about depression, probably clinical depression ("Sorrow they put me on the pills"). I've always heard it as "don't leave my HYPER heart alone, on the water", possibly refering ADHD or something simialr? "Rag and bone sympathy" to me means sympathy with no real depth to it, like when you say "My dog died" or something and people always answer with "I'm so sorry", when they don't really know what you're going through or what they really should be saying... When I'm feeling sad I just want to be left alone... Just my thoughts on some of these lyrics. | |
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