| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Oh My Lord Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I belive that this song is about the difficulty of seeing God's immage in yourself. Seaching for a purpose dispite having it all. That eksplains the sudden hate from his loving wife and the people telling him that he have lost the plot and even belives it himself. (Someone cries "What are you looking for?" I Scream "The plot! The plot!"). And the chorus speaks for itself; "Oh my lord, have i offended thee? Wrap your tender arms around me", meaning that he is seaching for a higher power to save his godless soul. In general I get the story of a man in accelerating decay and dispair. Taken the wrong road again and again, that not even his friend know him anymore. Maybe it is Cave's own feeling of being chased by his fame, dispite seaching for a subtle life with a wife and kids. Maybe is just a story about a good friend he ones knew. Whatever it might be, it is one of his best songs. Alot of feeling and passion. It's really a great piece of art. :) |
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| Joy Division – New Dawn Fades Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I totally agree. However, I do have an addition to your interpretation. The line; "It was me, waiting for me, Hoping for something more, Me, seeing me this time, hoping for something else." I think, has something to do with the feeling that everyone else was waiting for him to see a brighter day (or make him see the light), and for ones he actually does "hopes for something else". |
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| White Lies – Bigger Than Us Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Well.. The thing about "I don't want you to pray" is actually correct. Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Bs09twUmg You can hear it clearer on this cover. And if you listen carefully to the original, it is not that difficult to hear. |
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| White Lies – Bigger Than Us Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Well, I've read some of the comments here and I don't think that the song itself has anything to do with consumerism. The video might in a sense. I think it's about being "addicted" to another person and the force of that feeling can be "bigger than ourselves". In any relation we'll meet tryouts that tests our devotion to each other. That eksplains; "You took the tunnel route home, you've never taken that way with me before. Did you feel the need for change? Apologies on your fingernails, love flickered in the city of lights, Like good singers on radio waves." She maybe have cheated him or done something bad. That's takes them down a "road" (or path) they haven't been before in their relationship. That eksplains her guilt. City of Lights is of cause another term for City of Love (Paris). And the singers in the radio, I belive, has something to do with the clichés of multiple love songs in the radio. The chorus sums up the bigger picture as usual. He feels betrayed, but he wants to stay anyway. He does not want this problem to go any further ("Headlights on the hillside, don't take me this way"), and he can't forgive her for what she have done, but thier feelings for eachother are "bigger than them". "Guilt smeared accross your lips" can easily be from the man she had been cheating with. And the chocolate in the video can be a metaphor for the addiction to another person, like some are addicted to chocolate. The whole accident scene seems to me like a metaphor for the damage done and the kids a metaphor for childish innocence. |
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| Kaizers Orchestra – Maestro Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Kaizers Orchestra always follows a line of events that is combined in to a story. This album is about a guy (Maestro) who willingly gets locked up in an asylum. I think this song is Meastro who looks back at his life with pride and regrets. He has been tough to his class mates and broken some bones but kept his head high. And i think he wants everybody to just loose it and do whatever they please. Swing your hammer untill your dad drags you in. Great album by the way. |
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| Interpol – Success Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Okay, I think I've got a good idea of what this song is about. I think it's a guy who's affraid of ending his relationship because of a big mistake he has made (maybe an affair). "Dreams of long life What safety can you find" - He dreams of being with the girl for a lifetime and he desperately tries to find "safty" from his mistake. "See the great unknown That's shade for miles" - The life he wants to continue the relationship, but it's a shady and unknown future that threatens thier relationship. He keeps telling himself that he is basically "a good guy" and I think that "it was a good try" means that he have done his best to keep her from telling about the mistake. And the "good eye", I belive, is the fear that she already know or suspects him, that she might have a "good eye" for those things. If the sea was that strong Maybe we had Maybe we had to fly - He thinks that he could have done better in the relationship or that they could have done something different in it. ("fly over the sea" instead of "swimming against the waves") "As high as the day I read the papers Before crime will pay I'll learn to bury most beliefs" - I don't know about the first two lines so I will skip those. Before he could get away with his "crime" towards her, he had to belief his own lies "I have succeeded I won't compete for long I'm not supposed to show you I've got two secrets But I only told you one" - He succeded his "cover-up" by telling half the truth and he doesn't have to be careful about it for a long time to come. It can also mean that he told her the truth and she left him and now it is of no burden anymore, BUT there's still something he haven't told her yet that he is keeping for himself. "Somebody make me say no no no YES" - It can be some of his friends telling him to shut up about it, but he urges to be honest with her. Hope that covers everything. I really love reading Paul's lyrics. You can always find drifferent meanings in them and even though you are not quite sure what the meaning is, you always find them meaningful :) |
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