| Butthole Surfers – Pepper Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It seams to me that this song is taking a deffensive stance on drugs as opposed to showing their horrors. It's making a point that there are a lot of ways that a person can die, and that just because the speaker is a herroin addict does not mean that it will be herroin that ends his life. The speaker reflects upon the people he knows who have died or come close to death. He notes that many who came close to death would have been better off dying. The chorus is the heart of the song, saying that the speaker doesn't mind that he will one day die and that he chooses to live his life indulging in drugs. He knows that other people will react to this in different ways, but that they will never say just what they truely think of him. If they do, he won't know that they are telling the trueth. The line "some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain" reffers to the intense, fast, and short lives that drug addicts live. |
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| Macklemore – Thrift Shop Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I believe this song mocks the mentality of todays youth; that the value of their cloths refelects the value of their person. The speaker is saying that you don't need to spend a lot of money to find cloths that look nice. You shouldn't spend money for the sake of spending money and give in to greedy bussinesses that trick you into thinking that you need a product. The song also implies that no matter how gawdy the cloths he wears are, people will always complement him because he is a famous rapper and he makes weird styles cool. The speaker is mocking impressionable people. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I feel that many people in the comments are trying to add to many specifics to the meaning of this song. There is no textual evidence to support that this song is about the Vietnam War. The lyrics imply that this song is about not being able to find joy in the world after the death of a loved one, as well as not being able to accept that life goes on when those we love die. The color of a door in literature represents the feelings that the room or building behind it contains. A "red door" could signify the household of two people who are in love. The speaker wants the door painted black because he wants the couple to know the pain that is in his heart after losing his own lover. The speaker cannot handle seeing the happiness of others after his own happiness has vanished. Watching others enjoy the "colors" of the world, "wearing summer cloths" only serves to remind the speaker that there is no more color in his world, and he must "turn his head" to forget. The second stanza makes it clear that the speaker has lost his lover with the line "both flowers and my love both never to come back." "I see people turn their heads and quickly look away, like a new born baby it just happens every day." The people around the speaker can see the sadness on his face. They know that he has lost a loved one, but they can't be bothered by it. Death is as common as birth and people cannot be bothered by common things, no matter how horrible. The speaker turns his gaze inward in the third stanza, mourning the loss of his ability to love, which left with his lover. He paints his own "red door" black, removing love from his life and from his heart. The line "it's not easy facing up when you're whole world is black" means that the speaker has a difficult time keeping himself from fleeing to denial and clinging to thoughts that are untrue just because they make him feel better. It's difficult for him to face life and it's cruetlies after he has been so hurt by it. The fourth stanza brings a feeling of hope as the decides not to "let his green sea turn a deeper blue" and wallow in sorrow. He accepts that there is nothing he could have done to prevent the death of his lover. "I could not foresee this thing happening to you." He feels the presense of his lost lover as he looks into the future, "the setting sun" knowing that he,himself will eventually die. He is comforted by the thought of peace after death "the morning" and keeps the thought of his lover close so he may" laugh" and enjoy the rest of his life. The song shifts back into hopelessness in the fifth and sixth stanza, signifying how the process of mourning often repeats itself many times over. What the speaker wants, more than anything, is not to be reminded of the happiness that he has lost. He wants others to feel his pain. |
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