| The Kinks – Young Conservatives Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's pretty obvious what this is about, really. What's interesting is: what exactly does Ray Davies want us to think about the rise of youthful conservatism? The whole song has a mournful sense to it, but there are some lines which seem pretty double-edged: 'All the urgency and energy have turned into complacency' - is he singing about the younger generation or the formerly radical politicians who have aligned themselves to a 'complacent' post-war consensus? |
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| Grandaddy – Kim, You Bore Me to Death Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| There's a lot of humour here. 'Her roommate behind her playing bongos' always makes me imagine the narrator looking on in horror at what he'd got himself into. | |
| Okkervil River – A Glow Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it's about heroin. That's certainly my interpretation of the song preceding it ('So Come Back, I'm Waiting'), and in the end heroin killed Tim Hardin, who was an inspiration for the entire album and wrote the title track. This is the end, I think, or at least the beginning of the end. "No heart that was mine/ No hand that i'd hold." Is this about how drugs can kill people's actual human relationships? |
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