| Morrissey – Alma Matters Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Definitely a pun on "alma mater" being used to describe the educational institution one's affiliated to - he may be satirically attacking the way there's an idiotic perception that these people (graduates) are the only success stories that really are deserved. | |
| Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The music says a lot more than the lyrics, it's just about being comfortable for a moment in life | |
| R.E.M. – Losing My Religion Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've been listening to this non stop for 2 days and I'm leading myself to believe that it's about gay rights/ lack of rights or the difficulty to come out in modern society. The "religion" is his patience with the world and the pressure to be attracted to women. The song is a statement displaying how hard it is and his pains in the process. "The lengths that I will go to" - he'll do anything to make this all equal and stop the discrimination "The distance in your eyes"- Stipe could be talking about how he can't connect with certain people who don't know his story and don't understand "him" "That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losing my religion" - everyone's scrutinising him so much as a celebrity and questioning his judgement, so he wants to be with himself (corner) and forget this has all happened. "Trying to keep up with you" - he wants to be on the same level as everyone else but feels so restricted by everyones opinions "I'm choosing my confessions" - he shouldn't have to choose them, they should just happen. this insinuates that Stipe is hiding a lot form people "Consider this Consider this, the hint of the century Consider this, the slip That brought me to my knees, failed" - I'm not sure but i reckon this could be him seeing how many react to the lyrics and his coming out |
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| R.E.M. – Losing My Religion Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Such a beautiful song. I think there is no backstory to it, simply about his despair and regret of doing certain things so he goes and kicks back at himself | |
| Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Personally I think this was written when Byrne was perhaps unlucky in love and couldn't quite find anything real but he knows and has the comfort (home) that he can go back to knowing that he will eventually find something genuine. Such a nostalgic and comforting song. | |
| Joy Division – No Love Lost Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Directly refers to the book "The House Of Dolls" and experiences of female exploits in concentration camps "In the hand of one of the assistants she saw the same instrument Which they had that morning inserted deep into her body. She shuddered Instinctively. No life at all in the house of dolls." Sadly, I think this is referring to a man who had raped the protagonist earlier brandishing his penis to rape her or another women in the "Joy Division" Nazi whorehouse. |
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| Joy Division – Digital Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Personally I think this track is referring to Curtis' early experiences before his epilepsy and severe depression. It was documented in both Touching From A Distance and Peter Hook's Unknown Pleasures that Ian wasn't in as much of a terrible mental state as some cynics suggest. What I get from this track is a feeling of monotony and dead-endness in Curtis' life, you have to remember he was a married man with very little money. Ian and the rest of the band were not ever celebrities while writing Unknown Pleasures, he struggled often to pay heating bills so all of the UP tracks are very much written by a man struggling with the everyday burdens and troubles of life in working class England and this is why so many can empathise with his lyrics I don't want to hyper-analyse this as I want to leave the song open to interpretation as nobody on this website will all believe the same thing. But this section did stand out and backs up my idea that the track is referring to Curtis' struggles at home... "And then it's fade away. I see you fade away. Don't ever fade away. I need you here today. Don't ever fade away." I feel this section of the lyric describes his problem between childhood/youth and the real idea that he may just have to except life for it's mundane nature. Joy Division had very low expectations of what they would become after all ( an all time classic band ) so it's imperative to understand that Curtis was writing from within a struggle. When Curtis refers to "you" I feel he is referring to the past Ian that was living life as it came but he can see that now real life pressures are clashing with his aspirations of being a content and youthful individual. Yet again it's open to interpretation so don't point the finger and say "that's wrong", this is just the narrative and essence of what Ian's lyrics convey to me |
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