| Radiohead – Life in a Glasshouse Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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So I've listened to this song a lot, and I think I've finally nailed the general meaning, at least for me. I think the song is about being famous and wanting to talk about open-ended problems. Things like the starving, the homeless, asylum seekers, political issues and all that. I get this feeling that Thom really badly wants to just talk openly about these issues and express his opinion on them. However, because he's famous now, he knows that as soon as he opens his mouth, he's open to all sorts of criticism and prejudice towards himself. It's almost as if the glass house, in this case, is not one that you are already in, but one that others have put you in. "Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat. But someone's listening in..." It's like he'd love to just sit there and talk about all his opinions on all the worldly problems, but he knows that if it was going to mean anything at all, people are listening, and he knows he can't "throw stones living in a glass house". He's saying "think of all the starving millions", yet people tell him "don't talk politics and don't throw stones". I feel this a lot myself, particularly where friends and those around you are concerned. A lot of the time I find myself judging others and the way they run their lives, the decisions they make and such and such. However, it occurs to me that as soon as I voice those opinions, I'm liable for someone to use that against me at some point in the future, when I may inevitably become a hypocrite and find myself doing that as well. It's useful, I guess, to think of things this way because it makes you a lot less judgmental. But in Thom's case, he's just frustrated that he can't just solve some of the awful problems in the world, I guess... |
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| Tame Impala – Mind Mischief Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't actually think they were romantically involved. I think it fits better with the theme of the album is the poor guy is just lonely and pulls every little thing he sees from the girl out of proportion. "She remembers my name" means "that's it. It's official. She loves me. From here on we're just gonna take it slow. I'm gonna love her like no man has ever loved a woman before." In reality though, she's probably just being nice, and when he starts to realise that maybe he was mistaken, he's heart-broken. She's just living her life as she normally would, but being the guy so desperately in love, he yet again pulls it out of proportion and thinks she's doing it deliberately, I guess because he still thinks she might love him. Finally, he lets loose about his feelings, and everything he's said up to that point. Of course, this is a mistake, because it's not only a complete shock to her that he's feeling this way, but most likely very weird for her because she's never seen or felt the things he's mentioning. "But you remembered my name, and you gave me signals! I could tell you were looking for love. Don't you know I'm Mr Right for you?" Aaaaaaand the guy gets ditched and is left feeling rather sorrowful about himself. This song is then followed by Music To Walk Home By, which is about him dreaming about the one he loves, and then Why Won't They Talk To Me, which is rather self-explanatory. I think it's much better in keeping with the theme of loneliness in the album if the two people never actually got together and have hanky-panky, as some people are suggesting, but simply had a lovely relationship in his head. |
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| The National – Graceless Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Here's what I think. This song appears to me to be about hiding the inner emotions you feel when someone has left you or broken your heart. You don't want to let on that you're feeling this way because you know it only brings people down, so you have to find a way to keep it inside. "Is there a powder to erase this?/Is it dissolvable and tasteless?", he cynically treats it like an illness. He goes on about his feelings, that while he doesn't "have the sunny side to face this", he reminds himself to be "invisible and weightless", showing nothing to those around him. I think eventually he tries so hard to remove his feelings that he ends up feeling cold and dead inside. "I'm trying, but I'm gone.", as though he slips into this other world, where emotions have no meaning. He's "gone through the glass again", he "took the medicine and I went missing". He appears to just want someone to find him and listen to him drain his emotions out on the table, whilst at the same time wanting the one he loves and misses: "just let me hear your voice, just let me listen". Finally, as though he found someone to tell all his problems to, he lets out in chorus: "all my thoughts of you, bullets through rotten fruit. Come apart at the seams. Now I know what dying means." All the while he is reassuring the one he's talking to that he's not normally this way, this isn't his "rosy self", but reveling in his own self-pity: "Left my roses on my shelf. Take the white ones they're my favourites." During the bridge he's clearly trying to explain to this guy what he's learned from this experience he's had: "there's a science to walking through windows", slipping into that state where you feel cold and remorseless, because after all, "if you're dead in the mind it will brighten the place." |
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| Coldplay – High Speed Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I personally think this is about a relationship where neither person knows what the other is doing at any given time and the result is that the relationship is kinda crazy. I see it as him saying: "We come this far inside our own little bubbles, and look where we are. Nobody's steering this relationship and if we carry on too much longer like this, I swear my head's going to explode. So have confidence in me, and I'll have confidence in you, and together we'll take this relationship to a new level." Perhaps even him suggesting their relationship needs to be faster, because at this rate it's too slow and not going anywhere. Main point - if the two in the couple trust each other and have confidence in the other person, a relationship works and can go much faster. |
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| Daft Punk – Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Wow. I never realised just how much I can relate to this song. Take my situation. I'm Matt, Jen is the girl I like, and James is her boyfriend who I'm not best friends with but has a very similar role in this scenario. So right from the moment Matt met Jen they hit it off great, and felt a real connection. She was still with James though, and over a fairly extended period of time Matt was pushing for a relationship between him and Jen, and she didn't want to do that because she was already with James. He could tell that James was not the guy she knew him to be, yet she still chose him over Matt. Eventually it all came to a close when she said "don't be upset. I'm with him, have always been with him, and I told you right from the start that the timing is bad and that we can't have a relationship". This ate him up inside, that things would go this way, but they had to be friends and hide what they felt so things could go back to normal. Things were never quite the same though, and nothing ever really went back to normal. His feelings were messed with and it hurt. The difference between Julian's story and mine is that after a while of doing this, she came back to Matt and wanted a relationship. She broke up with James in the end and wanted to be with Matt. The thing is though, Matt just can't go back to the way he felt about Jen at the start, because he taught himself to lose those feelings for her, and treat everything like friends. It's a messed up world, this. |
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| Eskimo Joe – New York Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Nobody thought it was about 9/11? "I should have stayed in bed" is about the people who I can only imagine were wishing they didn't come to work that day. |
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