| Mark Lanegan – When Your Number Isn't Up Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| In his memoir, Mark says ‘Night Porter’ was a nickname Kurt Cobain once used to describe Mark’s ability to deliver him heroin late into the night.\n\nBeyond that this song seems to be about surviving through addiction while many of your friends have died, and how close to death he felt. Some of Mark’s closest friends were Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, and Jeffrey Lee Pierce, all lost to addiction. | |
| Clutch – Cyborg Bette Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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These are some of my favorite lyrics of Neil's. It's about gender expectations, particularly those on women. Cyborg is, in one way, a term that often is used when discussing gender studies. The idea being women (as well as men, but more prominently women) are expected to behave and appear in ways that are not humanly possible. The Barbie doll problem, so to speak. Neil addresses the fact that when women don't behave/appear in ways that are congruent with societal standards they are shunned ("I've got a new girl, the latest model"). And asks, sarcastically, why they aren't behaving to these standards ("Why you gotta run so hot?") using a term that is often used to describe a car or other piece of technology (cyborg) not running properly. |
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| Clutch – Open Up The Border Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Here's my interpretation. It's about free trade, capitalism, globalization, etc. He talks about people in Wichita, Liverpool, Santa Fe, Bombay, in an attempt to put the song in a global context, and talks about trading various goods across borders, oceans, etc.He talks about trading culture for mass production ('wives of windsor for spam') and mixing of cultures ("while sipping fine Darjeeling with an English man") Neil likes to wear many hats in his lyrics, and often he leaves his lyrics completely open, so it's hard to know exactly what statement he is trying to make. However, I'm sensing a kind of tongue in cheek sarcasm in the "open it up... living for the trade" parts of the song. My personal interpretation of these lyrics would be that of a criticism of globalist free trade, but there could be many other interpretations. |
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