| Arcade Fire – Supersymmetry Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Kind of follow up of the Eurydice and Orpheus-myth, which plays a huge role on the whole album (they are for a reason on the cover, remember). They end up dead, both ('I know you're living in my mind / But it's not the same as being alive). The 'super particle' (reference to supersymmetry) is in this song the person who is living in your mind, but is not really alive. |
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| Radiohead – Exit Music (For a Film) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Thom : "We wrote this for Romeo and Juliet. I saw the Franco Zeffirelli version when I was 13 and I cried my eyes out, because I couldn't understand why, the morning after they shagged, they didn't just run away. It's a song written for two people who should run away before all the bad stuff starts. A personal song." | |
| PJ Harvey – Is This Desire? Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| For me, it sounds more like a desperate shout, like: what can still do to make you love me? | |
| Arctic Monkeys – 505 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree with you, Priscila, on most things. First, I think that 505 is not just a number, and that it could not be, by the same token, 439. The surprise he spoiled is just that he loves her. Same theme as Cardinal Song of The National http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858530174/ |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The reference to Robert Johnson is much deeper. The legend is that he sold his soul to the devil and got guitar skills for it instead. However: 'He got the real killer groove Robert Johnson and the devil, man Don't know who is gonna rip off who' Johnson is so skilled that he can beat the devil. Like people that found the god particle and could (once) surpass god. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| There are a lot of references to the 'God particle' (Higgs Boson) and death. Reminds me in some way to The Discovery Of Heaven, by the Dutch author Harry Mulisch. When one of the main characters discovers heaven, an angel sends a meteoroid to kill him. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Hallelujah Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is about leaving behind your bad habits, like drugs or alcohol abuse. First, the narrator - alone for the first time in a long time - sees what he has done: 'My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb / And my piano crouched in the corner of my room / With all its teeth bared'. Then he went for a walk, where he meets old temptations, the 'house' and the 'woman' - which are maybe a pub or something, where he met his old 'friends'. They are very tempting ('Now, you might think it wise to risk it all / Throw caution to the reckless wind'), but he thinks of someone he loves, the nurse, who had saved him ('But with her hot cocoa and her medication / My nurse had been my one salvation'). He knows he would dissapoint her when he falls back into his old habbits, so he turned home. Then he cries because he knows he has vanquished his habits, which had to 'buried' with a lot of trouble. |
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