| Cursed – Nineteen Seventy Four Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| yup i agree I think 1974 is the year of the singers birth, so the song can be taken as a telling of his coming to existence. I thought at one time it was about the jonestown massacre but I think that happened in 1978 | |
| The Jezabels – City Girl Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Another fantastic song, this reinforces my interpretation of Nobody Nowhere, this is the story of the same unluckly poor farm gal/servant/slave. I love when the singer hides and lightly pronounces "shit" and speaks it in a first person, like she's really cursing her situation, as if she is actually speaking this in a position of servitude where her boss, or superiors or peers if hearing her will be for ill, meaning our poor fair lady is in a real shit position where saying shit can mean consequences which are highly undesirable. Basically its the story of our "cinderella" the poor provincial/farm/poor girl, who runs away to the big city, for a better life. There is a clapping effect in the middle of the song, and a change of tone, like the welcoming and congradulatory praise of the crowd/audience/city folk, brilliant song, and album, it is an epic musical as an album. | |
| The Jezabels – Nobody Nowhere Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| A tall claim maybe but this song song is a newly emancipated young girls anthem and siren song, and the poetry of a prostitute. This is supported by the content of "city girl" which I'm not certain the meaning of. The song has an ominous tone, there are bells-a countdown, setting the atmosphere of the importance of time, the time is high, sink or swim, zero hour, make you mind up and act now, time is of importance etc, "make up room for the night" a person prepping with make up, a performer, entertainer, or I believe a young prostitute. "Make up room for the night" if you remove the "up" has another meaning, to make it through the night, to afford to rent a room for a night, for the first night in a new town, (this would be the experience of a young girl runaway or one looking to emancipate themselves from a former life, or moving to a new city, or a sailor which has been the subject of other jezebels songs) for another night, etc. "knowing my part" to me means having a new strong sense of conviction and responsibility brought by a new sense freedom, gotta make money, cause I just escaped to life in a big city, which is great but I gotta hustle to keep hanging here. "Fearless" is sung with such youth and vigor, and emotion of 'freedom' to me this is supposed to indicate the perspective of a young person, surprised and ecstatic by they're recent success or achievement this is the tone of a young person who achieved a great escape to a new city with opportunity, or something. This is supported by "nobody nowhere holding me down" I am free, and unstoppable, but I also have just came from being held down. Great song. | |
| The Jezabels – Trycolour Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I love this song. I think most, if not all of the Jezebels lyrics are written in a vicarious 1st person, so an individual not the same as the singer, but spoken 1st person. The lead singer, and I imagine she writes most of the song, has admitted this, I think?... This song to me is very sexual/romantic, and the lyrics are connect the physical with the mental/emotional nicely. Part of the song to me feels like its the sexual ruminations of a (horny man?) at a bar or someplace, other parts I can't figure out so much, maybe told from the point of view of another person, (the Jezebels do this too). This song is reminescent to Bruce Springsteens "I'm on fire" somewhat; "in my dreams I've been a stranger" someone who is beside him/herself with ones own desires (aren't we all though) "dont know why I wanna go inside her" so maybe uncomfortable with they're sexuality or confused, (a pedafile maybe like in I'm on fire). There is much words mentioning a "burning desire" and longing, "hey liar called desire" reveals perhaps a disbelief or confusion with ones desires, "why do I have these desires, am I being 'lied to' by my own desires" or maybe this line is meta physical maybe the speaker is calling one he/she is attracted to a liar, but the same concept and emotion still. "How can you syphon my typhoon" an excellent rhyme and word play, just like the line "can you cool my fire oohh I'm on fire", but more clever, can you control my raging longing/desires? I do think this song is about the confusion that accompanies attraction/sex/love, and does so from "alternative" perspectives, I know a number of Jezebels songs are about this so it would be a good bet. | |
| The Jezabels – Trycolour Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Hey fsckak, It is a figure of speach. In english, to rub salt on, "to salt to wound" is to "add insult to injury" salt in a open wound stings, therefore making a bad, or painful incident even a bit more sour or painful. Take all my heartache, meaning all painful memories and increase the severity. |
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